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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Stig said:
    The most over rated band was Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
    Everything else is just a general dislike
    Did any one actually 'rate' SSS? Surely they were just a bit of fun for a couple of months.
    Apparently the  band's slogan was "Fleece the World"


  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Derek1952 said:
    Van Morrison and Johnny Cash.
    Interesting. I think Johnny Cash is superb especially his final few albums.  
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,002
    Michael Jackson … so boring 
  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    The Streets. Absolute rubbish. I still believe he knows it and it's all a big experiment to see what you can get people to buy. 
    Please write something as ‘rubbish’ as Weak Become Heroes, Too Late or make a rubbish concept album so we can see how easy it is. Or maybe just stick to your dull, repetitive 4 line hooks that are easy to sing along to. Yes, that one triggered me.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    stonemuse said:
    Michael Jackson … so boring 
    He’s great, beat it 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Michael Jackson … I'm getting one word ...... NONCE!
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Shania Twain - Nothing rhymes and sounds out of key.


  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Jessie said:
    ButtleJR said:
    Controversially... Queen
    I want to say this thread is full of controversial opinions.... I'm quite surprised. I get the impression that people just consider any well-known bands or solo musicians that they personally don't like as "overrated".😅
    It’s a bit like that yes, it should be named ‘bands you don’t like’ thread. 

    I’m not a fan of Led Zep but can appreciate their contribution to rock music for instance.

    The Darkness meanwhile have contributed nothing, zero, zilch and should never even have been enjoyed by anyone, let alone rated by them.
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,596
    Bloody Ed bloody Sheeran

    Makes Val Doonican sound edgy and relevant. 
  • up_the_valley
    up_the_valley Posts: 4,186
    edited May 2024
    MJ - Genius - Greatest entertainer of all time.
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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,229
    Bloody Ed bloody Sheeran

    Makes Val Doonican sound edgy and relevant. 
    Those satanic references in Delaneys Donkey are quite scary.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Gribbo said:
    Shania Twain - Nothing rhymes and sounds out of key.


    I can’t believe you kiss your cock at night. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,243
    Jessie said:
    ButtleJR said:
    Controversially... Queen
    I want to say this thread is full of controversial opinions.... I'm quite surprised. I get the impression that people just consider any well-known bands or solo musicians that they personally don't like as "overrated".😅
    It’s a bit like that yes, it should be named ‘bands you don’t like’ thread. 

    I’m not a fan of Led Zep but can appreciate their contribution to rock music for instance.

    The Darkness meanwhile have contributed nothing, zero, zilch and should never even have been enjoyed by anyone, let alone rated by them.
    Whooooah cowboy 

    Watching The Darkness perform live is about the maximum fun you can have with your clothes on! You get snarky, fun and honest lyrics, gebuine riffs, loudness and will come out of a show covered in sweat and having had a thoroughly good time. You need to give yourself in to it and embrace what they are and how good they are at being a great live act. 


  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    Gribbo said:
    Shania Twain - Nothing rhymes and sounds out of key.


    I can’t believe you kiss your cock at night. 
    If I could, I'd be more than giving it a kiss
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited May 2024
    MJ - Genius - Greatest white weirdo entertainer of all time.
    updated
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,243
    Jessie said:
    Jessie said:
    ButtleJR said:
    Controversially... Queen
    I want to say this thread is full of controversial opinions.... I'm quite surprised. I get the impression that people just consider any well-known bands or solo musicians that they personally don't like as "overrated".😅
    It’s a bit like that yes, it should be named ‘bands you don’t like’ thread. 

    I’m not a fan of Led Zep but can appreciate their contribution to rock music for instance.

    The Darkness meanwhile have contributed nothing, zero, zilch and should never even have been enjoyed by anyone, let alone rated by them.
    Seeing so many iconic bands mentioned in this thread really surprised me. A lot of them are/were British bands or solo musicians who went on to become worldwide successful acts yet are now considered overrated by their fellow countrymen? - I don't understand. Isn't it always extremely difficult to break America? Let alone the whole world. If a band does, it surely should be considered as a huge achievement instead of being overrated? 
    Think its a tricky rope to walk. The thread is always going to be subjective and turn into a bit of "I think XYZ are shit" to which someone, or millions of people will disagree like with the rolling stones or Zeppelin and thats where someone can truthfully think they are overrated 
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Opinions are good and I can understand why people may not like The Beatles, Britney, Joy Division or The Pogues and thats why the thread should be named Bands I don’t like.

    This thread though mostly lacks arguments about why people think said artists are overrated just because they don’t like them, without a thought of an artist’s wider contribution.

    It’s like me commenting of a thread about gaming and saying I don’t like Call Of Duty or horse racing and don’t like Frankie Dettori, when my knowledge of the history of both gaming and horse racing is minimal.



  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,348
    edited May 2024
    Bee Gees. Great songwriters but they sing weird. Pretty sure if one of them went on X Factor alone, they'd look like a lunatic. 
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Carter said:
    Jessie said:
    ButtleJR said:
    Controversially... Queen
    I want to say this thread is full of controversial opinions.... I'm quite surprised. I get the impression that people just consider any well-known bands or solo musicians that they personally don't like as "overrated".😅
    It’s a bit like that yes, it should be named ‘bands you don’t like’ thread. 

    I’m not a fan of Led Zep but can appreciate their contribution to rock music for instance.

    The Darkness meanwhile have contributed nothing, zero, zilch and should never even have been enjoyed by anyone, let alone rated by them.
    Whooooah cowboy 

    Watching The Darkness perform live is about the maximum fun you can have with your clothes on! You get snarky, fun and honest lyrics, gebuine riffs, loudness and will come out of a show covered in sweat and having had a thoroughly good time. You need to give yourself in to it and embrace what they are and how good they are at being a great live act. 


    Admittedly, they may be good live and be rated for that, but maybe not for being a pastiche of Queen without the good bit (Freddie). I’m unsure if I’m being whooshed or not 😂


  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,243
    Carter said:
    Jessie said:
    ButtleJR said:
    Controversially... Queen
    I want to say this thread is full of controversial opinions.... I'm quite surprised. I get the impression that people just consider any well-known bands or solo musicians that they personally don't like as "overrated".😅
    It’s a bit like that yes, it should be named ‘bands you don’t like’ thread. 

    I’m not a fan of Led Zep but can appreciate their contribution to rock music for instance.

    The Darkness meanwhile have contributed nothing, zero, zilch and should never even have been enjoyed by anyone, let alone rated by them.
    Whooooah cowboy 

    Watching The Darkness perform live is about the maximum fun you can have with your clothes on! You get snarky, fun and honest lyrics, gebuine riffs, loudness and will come out of a show covered in sweat and having had a thoroughly good time. You need to give yourself in to it and embrace what they are and how good they are at being a great live act. 


    Admittedly, they may be good live and be rated for that, but maybe not for being a pastiche of Queen without the good bit (Freddie). I’m unsure if I’m being whooshed or not 😂


    Not being whooshed at all mate, its all subjective not everything is for everyone. More people look at me weird when I say I am a big Darkness fan than say they are too. What I will say is don't judge them solely on the first album, they genuinely have some bangers on their last few albums. Like I say, loads of riffs and clever, funny lyrics 
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  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Muse, they play massive gigs, but i don't recall ever meeting a fan. I neither like or dislike, very meh! Overatted in my opinion.

    Eagles, making bang average music since 1971. Another band i neither like or dislike.
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,811
    PopIcon said:
    Muse, they play massive gigs, but i don't recall ever meeting a fan. I neither like or dislike, very meh! Overatted in my opinion.

    Eagles, making bang average music since 1971. Another band i neither like or dislike.
    Never met you but I absolutely love Muse!!
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 779
    Nick Cave
    Fighting talk
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 779
    Derek1952 said:
    Van Morrison and Johnny Cash.
    Derek1952 said:
    Van Morrison and Johnny Cash.
    Outside now!!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,479
    se9addick said:
    seth plum said:
    Millions love them but for me the singing voices in Oasis are grating, and the music is very dull.
    I think from a technical perspective that’s probably right. But so much of the music you like is linked to emotional connection. 

    I was born in 1985, so I was a bit young for the Stone Roses and that sort of stuff, but the mid-to-late ‘90’s was the time that this country came to life for me during my early formative years. Euro ‘96, New Labour coming to power (even though I didn’t really know what that meant - it felt exciting), pop-stars going to Downing Street and all of a sudden there was all this British music on the radio where previously American artists had dominated. Even Charlton started to do well! It seemed like, in the space of a few years, England went from grey and boring to technicolour. 

    Oasis were the centre of that universe musically, there were lots of good Britpop acts, but they were the giants. 

    It didn’t last, in my late teens Britpop died to be replaced by awful nu-metal rubbish before the Libertines and a new generation of English bands came to the rescue when I was at Uni. But through my rose tinted spectacles that time where Oasis ruled the waves seemed like a great time for music in this country and their songs are wrapped up in those memories. 

    Plus Liam is still cool AF.  
    “All of a sudden there was all this British music on the radio where American artists had dominated.”

    That’s nonsense……are you serious?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,479
    Kate Bush, David Bowie, Overblown old tosh!
    Both desparate to be relevant.
    Shame you’d say that…..as they are both from our part of the world. 😕
  • ValleyOfTears
    ValleyOfTears Posts: 1,067
    Virtually everything from 1990 onwards.