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Overrated Music Acts

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  • Sea sick Steve

  • Now, if you want to talk about real music shit, i give you...........Elbow.
    Elbow are shit n all, I'll give you that
  • cafctom said:
    Rolling Stones

    I’m a massive fan of guitar based music but I never understood the fuss around them besides the fact that they are still touring at a late age. 
    Agree. They are to me the most overrated band ever. Though Queen are close. 
  • Oasis. I quite like them, well the first two albums anyway. But they aren't original and have nicked a lot of stuff from other bands and yet a lot of people think they are the best band of all time. 
  • David Bowie
    Kate Bush
    Max Bygraves

    Self indulgent old tosh

  • Max Bygraves

    Self indulgent old tosh
    He lost it after Singalongamax Vol 22

    You Need Hands, was a classic
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  • U2 have been dull since 1985. Definition of overrated. And while I don't dislike the Beatles, the acclamation they get is way above the music they made.They caught the wave and rode it, but their music wasn't so original and different to take them to the levels of adoration they have today.

  • Max Bygraves

    Self indulgent old tosh
    He lost it after Singalongamax Vol 22
    Or...SwingalogatMax Vol22
  • U2 have been dull since 1985. Definition of overrated. And while I don't dislike the Beatles, the acclamation they get is way above the music they made.They caught the wave and rode it, but their music wasn't so original and different to take them to the levels of adoration they have today.
    I think Achtung Baby was their best album, everything since garbage
  • Rod Stewart....TRex....
  • I think the definition of "overrated" needs to be established before listing who is and who isn't. 
  • overrate
    /əʊvəˈreɪt/
    verb
    past tense: overrated; past participle: overrated
    1. have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved.

    Seeing some of the bands/artists who people class as overrated is making me very angry although I do appreciate it is only a matter of opinion.
  • Ludovico Einaudi.

    Probably not a name you're familiar with, but his "atmospheric" piano music is likely the sort of thing you've heard on all sorts of adverts, or in the background during a TV episode/film where there's some sort of conflict and character development or some rubbish like that. 

    This sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDY95J9aQbg 

    His stuff is all somewhat pleasant, but hangs around about three chord progressions (VI-bVII-I; or I-V-VI-III; or so on so forth), and it's all incredibly repetitive. He has made a career out of the musical equivalent of an amateur Instagram sunset photo, or email condolence, and it's all... the same.

    Yet people are mesmerised and I do not understand why. 
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  • People seem to think overrated and disliked are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of acts I’m a fan of but still think are overrated, because they get more attention than they deserve.
  • So a band or artist has to be quite successful to be overrated, otherwise they're punching about average, or underrated. 

    When I personally think of the other people around at the time, I do think The Beatles were overrated, although I don't mind most of their music 
  • JaShea99 said:
    People seem to think overrated and disliked are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of acts I’m a fan of but still think are overrated, because they get more attention than they deserve.
    Spot on
  • JaShea99 said:
    People seem to think overrated and disliked are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of acts I’m a fan of but still think are overrated, because they get more attention than they deserve.


    I put Oasis down as overrated - but I still listen to their music very often (especially the first two albums).

    So I agree with you 100%.

  • Taylor Swift........ugh!
  • Oasis.  1 decent album (Definitely Maybe), 1 ok album (WTSMG), the rest was absolute, utter cack.  Outshone at Knebworth by The Prodigy, OCS and the Manics.
    The Killers.
    ABBA.
    Ed f'ing Sheeran.  
  • edited October 2019
    U2 have been dull since 1985. Definition of overrated. And while I don't dislike the Beatles, the acclamation they get is way above the music they made.They caught the wave and rode it, but their music wasn't so original and different to take them to the levels of adoration they have today.
    The Beatles largely created the wave when you consider their progression and output within 8 years, and how much they influenced music
  • Saying the Beatles are "overrated" is like saying Windows is an overrated computer operating system!

    Or FaceBook is an overrated messaging system!
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