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Overrated bands/artists (past & present)

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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    Will.I.Am (A TWAT)
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    Dazzler21 said:

    All of them.

    In fact I must be really boring when it comes to music.

    I like all different kinds of music... I don't love any particular style. I do however think all situations have a music that suits them.

    I like it when music that creates a dramatic atmosphere in movies... not so much away from them.

    I accept when music is playing in the background in life and quite enjoy that subtlety.

    I'd prefer a bar or a meal out over a nightclub because I like to converse with others and feel that Loud music is killing this skill... The skill of conversation is dissapearing.

    When I turn the PS4 it's an odd twist as that once 'unsociable habit' is now the one where we socialise and converse the most.
    We ask about one another, how each of us is, how the families are doing and of course... how to beat the next boss.

    But that's just me. I enjoy music in a subtle way in life that fills silences... it's something I undoubtedly would miss if it were gone, but at the same time don't blast it into my ear drums to a level where I can't hear you speak unless you're bellowing into my ear over the soundwaves of whatever seems to be blaring out of the speakers.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Algarveaddick said:

    colthe3rd said:

    Salad said:

    colthe3rd said:

    Salad said:

    Uboat said:

    colthe3rd said:

    Definitely agree with U2.

    I wouldn't go as far as the Stone Roses are overrated but I do find the hysteria around them quite weird.

    One okay album, one shit album and that's it. They were just in the right place at the right time, with the right look and a gobby twat for a singer.
    To be fair it was much more than that, they were perhaps the first indie band to make a huge breakthrough.

    That's not really true is it? The Smiths for one sold a lot more records well before the Stone Roses ever came along.
    Unfortunatley that is not true.
    The Stones Roses album went triple platinum in the UK, The Smiths (far superior band, it should go without saying) only ever had one single platinum album (The Queen is Dead), let alone a double or triple.

    Ok fair enough bad example to give but the Smiths did still breakthrough well before the Stone Roses. I do wonder how many of the Stone Roses albums have been sold way after it's release. And do re-releases and special editions count towards those platinum figures because they seem to release the album every couple of years.
    Does that not mean that the music endures and appeals to generation after generation of people discovering music for the first time though? So surely that means it has some worth? Although some may have bought it originally on vinyl and then later on CD, many are buying it for the first time twenty five years after it first came out. That will count towards the platinum figures, and rightly so.
    Don't get me wrong, I like the Stone Roses and that debut album is excellent. My original comment was I just don't understand the hysteria around them because of one album. The other point I was making was in response to Salad's comment that they were the first indie band to make it big but I'd argue that isn't the case.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,490
    JessieAddick said:

    Addick Addict said:

    JessieAddick said:

    My favourite band's name has appeared a few times on this thread already... :(

    Please rest assured that doesn't make you a bad person. Just one with a strange sense in music. And there's nothing wrong with that.
    Lol... Never thought being a fan of Elbow would be an indication of a strange musical taste. Anyway, whatever other people's opinions on them are, they will always be my favourite band. (although I was disappointed by their last album)
    I like Elbow too, though not as much as I used to. Agree about the last album.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    edited April 2015
    colthe3rd said:

    Bedsaddick said:

    Kanye West
    Fifty Cent
    Eminem

    In fact All rappers. Utter shite

    Yes your opinion on this is utter shite
    Thank you. you're probably right. Rap will still always be shite though ( in my shite opinion).
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    When Elbow are good, they're very very good. I do think they're overrated, though. Too much filler on every album unfortunately apart from 'Leaders Of The Free World' which is a brilliant record
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    Kanye West... I just don't get it at all.

    This is not to say all rap is bad (although its not my favourite) but his recent stuff is just absolute drivel
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Fish Sticks.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Disliking a genre is not the same thing as the bands in that genre being overrated. It is fair enough to say that Kanye West is an overrated rap artist because any rap enthusiast would say he is, but artists like Tupac, Biggie, Ice Cube etc. will never be considered overrated by the people who actually like the genre.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    REM
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  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    The_President said:

    REM

    Sacrilege.

  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    posting without reading but ....

    The Beatles
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,083
    Riviera said:

    Nick Drake.

    Poor Nick, the most inoffensive of people who only wanted to bring joy to people's lives, was told he was great, but struggled to cope with life. Five leaves is a wonderful album, but then his illness kicked in and he has become a tragic figure. His influence on people like Ashley Hutchings,(Fairport convention) Paul Weller,\Kate Bush and the wonderful John Martyn is well known to name but a few.
    Bryter later, has some wonderful songs with a couple of outstanding compositions, 'At the Chime of a city clock' and 'One of these things first' and the sublime 'Northern Sky'. It is not fun music, or pop music for sure. But it will be played as long as people have ears, and a heart.
    But then I like Frank Zappa, and all that type of strange music, that never get's played on mainstream, but what the hell has popularity got to do with quality?
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    The_President said:

    REM

    Just re-gurgitated gutless dirges.
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    The_President said:

    The_President said:

    REM

    Just re-gurgitated gutless dirges.
    I feel sorry for you.

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    The_President said:

    REM

    Probably the best band i have ever seen live.
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    The Vaccines. Couple of great tracks, but are just a generic indie band for me.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    PopIcon said:

    Macronate said:

    Arctic Monkeys
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    Chas & Dave

    Chas and Dave, underrated more like.
    let's leave it for the 'Arguments' thread :smile:
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    The Flowerpot Men
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    The_President said:

    The_President said:

    REM

    Just re-gurgitated gutless dirges.
    So why aren't they called RGD then? Just askin'....
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  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Elbow good songs

    Fugitive Motel
    Perfect Weather To Fly
    and One Better Day (but only if you ain't heard it in a while), the rest are shit.
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    Stick Tony Bennett down as shit too, on the grounds that none of his songs rhyme an all
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,490
    brogib said:

    Elbow good songs

    Fugitive Motel
    Perfect Weather To Fly
    and One Better Day (but only if you ain't heard it in a while), the rest are shit.

    Far more good songs than that but as has already been said they do make a lot of filler.
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Music is all about personal taste so I agree/disagree with quite a few that have been listed.

    I know I'll get pelters for this but Pink Floyd bore me to tears!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Dexy's Midnight Runners
    and (heresy on here) Madness
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,349
    The Smiths. I hate The Smiths
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,783
    Chunes said:

    The Smiths. I hate The Smiths

    The Joneses. I hate the Joneses.
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    edited April 2015
    So after 5 pages pretty much every solo artist/ band is over-rated.
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,490
    stonewallpenalty said:

    So after 5 pages pretty much every solo artist/ band is over-rated.

    Not the Backstreet Boys.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    Talal said:

    stonewallpenalty said:

    So after 5 pages pretty much every solo artist/ band is over-rated.

    Not the Backstreet Boys.
    Or the Wurzels...

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