stanfree – Member
I thought they were great live but like most big rock bands have turned a bit bland over the years maybe not as bad as Green day though. I doubt anyone could dislike Dave Grohl as he seems like a decent guy though. For really overrated though see Pink Floyd and Led Zep…
And you were doing so well… 🙄
Overrated by whoexactly? I keep reading this in connection to successful bands/artists, and it just seems to be saying “well, they’re hugely successful, millions have bought their albums, been to their concerts, but I don’t personally like them so they therefore must, by definition, be crap, and because millions of ordinary people like them, be overrated”
Get over yerselves, your opinion counts for bugger-all in the face of global album sales and tickets sold, because we’re not talking about some jackass being paid to have an opinion in some crappy newspaper, we’re talking about the individual opinion of millions of individuals all over the world
I, personally, really have a deep-rooted dislike of the Manic Bloody Street Bloody Preachers, but overrated? They’ve been going for donks and have an enormously enthusiastic fanbase, so no, and they do have a way with a choon, but I wouldnt piss in their collective ears if their brains were on fire.
And to say Zeppellin and Floyd are ‘overrated’ is conveniently ignoring the fact that both bands were groundbreaking in their respective forms of music, where they had no peers, and their success was built purely through playing live and albums sales through word of mouth. There was no internet, and, in the case of Zeppellin, no music played on the radio either, because they refused to release singles, at least in the UK.
The only publicity for years came through the music press, which was often hostile to ‘rock dinosaurs’ anyway.
Overrated, by the people who actually bought the records, having been loaned a copy, or a tape, from a mate?
Certainly not, and they’re the only people who actually matter, because the opinions of anyone else are meaningless.
I’m old enough to have lived through pretty much the whole modern rock era, and nobody cared about these bands at the time, other than those who liked them, nobody else cared, nobody else knew anything about them, it’s only with the luxury of hindsight, and huge global success, that anyone is now giving an opinion based on history that’s built up via a media that’s become hungry for anything to gain an advantage by promoting the successful.
There are bands around now, that most here will have never heard of, who I absolutely adore, and who I rate very, very highly, and never miss an opportunity to try to get others to like them, but that’s just my life-long enthusiasm, love of music wanting them to be successful in what they’re doing; there’s no guarantee any of my friends would like them, though there’s a very good chance they would, shared music history with contemporaries and all that.
And the Foos? I like them, Grohl is a lovely bloke, they play music that I enjoy and having seen them live, get a tingle from quite a few of their songs, but there are plenty of others who are more original, and who I listen to much more.
Such is the way with music.
And always has been. 😀
