[Closed] Most Over Rated Band In History.

Wet Wet Wet

Stone Roses

beatles

Wrong..

Westlife.

beatles

This

edit: or queen

Or the "What band do a lot of people like but I just don't?" thread.

Beatles

Oasis. that is all.

Radiohead

Vengaboys

U2

Oasis - and you van tell Liam I said so.

Oasis, utter utter shite...

Arcticdan - Member

U2

Coldplay

Oasis - to be fair, one good album, then each one was slightly worse. Sorta like a Nightmare or Elm Street, Halloween, or Friday the 13th of the music world.

beatles or u2 (one of the worst bands to come out of the Netherlands)

Florence and her w@nk machine

Never find 'em when you need them. Never up to the job as they always break. No longevity as they become brittle and break after time. Buy a box, lose a box, buy another box, lose another box.
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Or the "What band do a lot of people like but I just don't?" thread.

No, the 'most hyped up way beyond their true musical worth and genuine talent' thread.

Beatles is a pretty good shout. People forget they were a semi-'manufactured' boy band doing commercial pop music to begin with. Then were 'influenced by (copied, basically) other bands and musicians of the time. If you actually analyse their work critically, they weren't as good as many artists throughout the period they were active for. Loads more talented, inventive and original stuff out there, the Beatles enjoyed success cos they were relatively 'safe' and undemanding. Not unlike many of today's pop stars really.

Yeah, they had some good stuff, granted, couple of good albums, but tbh there's loads of better stuff out there really. They were never really inventive or original; they helped popularise a lot of other music, but weren't 'pioneers' in any real sense. And some of John Lennon's stuff is absolutely dire; wishy washy hypocritical sentimental tosh. Goddam Hippy.. George Harrison did some interesting stuff with Indian music for a bit, worked with the likes of Ravi Shankhar, but again, a bit insipid really. And as for McCartney; ye Gods where to begin? 😯

Yeah, Beatles for me too I think.

Oh, and for individual artist; Madonna. Yeah she's bin a round a very very long time, but what has she ever done where you can stand back and truly say 'that's great'?

oasis,oasis,oasis.oasis

Oh, and for individual artist; Madonna. Yeah she's bin a round a very very long time, but what has she ever done where you can stand back and truly say 'that's great'?

Beatles

Yeah we know that, Don, it's all 'pop' music of some sort really, in't it? No matter how seriously it takes itself.

I used Madonna cos she's always the 'most whatever' artist blah blah blah without ever having really produced anything genuinely outstanding.

What method are we using to rate, apart from personal opinion?

The [b]Elfinscale[/b] on the [b]Elfinometer[/b]; that tried and trusted barometer of what is good and what isn't.

There is no better evaluative mechanism.

MUSE

Beatles

coldplay +1

the smiths

There's a few!

The Beatles
Radiohead
Oasis
The Clash
The Rolling Stones

Pointless thread of course as music is quite possibly the most subjective thing in the world.

I'll go for Beatles, U2 and Coldplay. Seen Muse live and they were awesome, albeit some of their later stuff is a bit poo

Pink Floyd

Yeah we know that, Don, it's all 'pop' music of some sort really, in't it? No matter how seriously it takes itself.

Beatles...right place, right time but that is it...

i thought my suggestion for Beatles would be controversial but obviously not

Beatles; complete rip off of the Rutles imo

Another addition on mine:

Elbow "I'm a boring man, who sings sond like a child sitting in a pram"..yadda..whine....moan

Artic Monkeys "You look good, sitting on someone elses face.." yadda yadda"

The Doors I reckon are the most over-rated.

One of the most under-rated I think is the Kinks. Every time I hear one of their songs I am extremely impressed, and yet most people just think of 'you really got me'.

For me the hair metal stuff Bon Jovi that sort of thing. Nothing to say, tedious by the numbers dad rock. Awful

AC DC

There's Pop music where it's done simply for the money and I believe there are genuine artists out there who do it for the love of music and not popular acclaim.

So you're saying the VengaBoys [i]din't[/i] do it for the money, then? 😯

Plenty of people who 'do it for the love of music and not popular acclaim' are crap though. Which is why they never have much 'success'.

And I personally know some very talented musicians, who [i]only[/i] do it for the money.

And you can't accuse Timmy Mallet of ever believing his music would make him an incredibly wealthy world-renowned megastar....

One of the most under-rated I think is the Kinks

I agree and I prefer them way more than the Beatles - always thought Davis was a far better wordsmith than he ever got credit for. I bloody hate "You really got me" though 😮

hair metal

what is the genre of metal I appear to have missed it?

Ohhh another..

Status Quo "a boring song, dinky, dink, dinky dinky"

So you're saying the VengaBoys din't do it for the money, then?

And I personally know some very talented musicians, who only do it for the money.

And you can't accuse Timmy Mallet of ever believing his music would make him an incredibly wealthy world-renowned megastar....