Overrated bands/artists (past & present)

Greenie said:

Any ginger acoustic performer called Ed.

P O N Y

Lincsaddick said:

Dexy's Midnight Runners
and (heresy on here) Madness

How dare you!

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Weller is a legend to me

Bob Dylan

Blur

Prince - How the hell does a mincing fop with a couple of pretty tunes become a superstar?

Bruce Springsteen (ducks for cover)

Van Morrison - Already mentioned, thank God I'm not alone :-)

Manic Street Preachers

A lot of the bands mentioned have surely been nominated because of what they have become which has tainted what they were and why they became huge.

Early U2 was raw & angry and brought something different to the party.
Joshua Tree was an album revered worldwide and still one of my all time fave albums - yet I never listen to it because, like many folk, I think Bono has disappeared up his own backside and it has tarnished the original energy it gave off and the pleasure it gave to so many.

The Beatles were a revelation, we even studied their lyrics to Eleanor Rigby for O Level English.
McCartney turned into a knob, disappeared up his own backside and, again, tainted the magic and aura they so originally created.

Then came Radiohead - once described in one of the top music journals as, "The greatest band in history".
It was all hype and hysterics - Emperor's new clothes syndrome.
In reality they were absolutely underwhelming - and that is being kind.

So, there are bands who walked the walk, such as The Beatles, The Stones, U2 and Bowie - and they earned their stripes.
Then there are bands who talked the talk but succeeded on hype and heavy promotion such as Radiohead.

The difference in any walk of life between walking the walk and talking the talk is chalk & cheese.

Kanye West gets my vote - I have no problem with the genre - just that he has turned into a total knob. Someone needs to have an urgent word......

I have no Beatles music on my iPod, whatsoever but liked a lot of their stuff at the time.

My wife and I have seen The Killers three times, loved Kasabian live and Kings of Leon created one helluva'n atmosphere when we saw them at the NEC 2 years ago.
Even Duran Duran were good live.

So, we like what we like but pretentious bands always end up getting the thumbs down.

Covered End said:

Ok, as anticpated, most of my favourite bands were named.

I give you Bros, Kajagoogoo & Bucks Fizz.

No nead to just name my top 3 bands in retaliation though is there! ffs

Not going to mention genres I don't like or stuff that only aspires to be pop music but there's a couple of artists who I reckon are definitely over-rated, namely Paul Weller and Elvis Costello. They get enormous respect for their approach and not selling out, etc, but I think their music isn't that great - there are flashes of genius of course (The Jam, Olivers Army, Shipbuilding) but most of the rest I've heard does little for me. Fair play to them both for staying true to their artistic vision, but the good stuff was 35 years ago....

stonewallpenalty said:

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

Which is why threads like this are so pointless. They start off ok then people just get silly, start naming whole genres and confuse 'overrated' with 'I don't like'. Then before you know it every artist you can think of has been named.

JaShea99 said:

stonewallpenalty said:

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

Which is why threads like this are so pointless. They start off ok then people just get silly, start naming whole genres and confuse 'overrated' with 'I don't like'. Then before you know it every artist you can think of has been named.

people aint getting confused, people just think they are overrated

for example

No I dont like Sam Smith, and yet he has had number ones and I even heard him mentioned with the next Bond theme
so to me he is very overrated

A cross-city gift from me to you. A list of truly awful bands. Whether they were/are actually rated at all is another matter but, seeing as this thread veered away from overrated bands some time ago, I thought I'd give you these pearlers........

Pretty Ricky
Wings
Fleet Foxes
Rush
Pearl Jam
Animal Collective
LCD Soundsystem
Dave Matthews Band

Big_Bad_World said:

A cross-city gift from me to you. A list of truly awful bands. Whether they were/are actually rated at all is another matter but, seeing as this thread veered away from overrated bands some time ago, I thought I'd give you these pearlers........

Pretty Ricky
Wings
Fleet Foxes
Rush
Pearl Jam
Animal Collective
LCD Soundsystem
Dave Matthews Band

Wings......the band the Beatles could have been.

Bob Geldof
Myriam Faithful