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Band with highest success/talent ratio?

Which bands do readers thinks have the highest success to quality ratio? In other words, which bands have been very successful yet deserve little success since their music is terrible?
I'll stir the pot right away with my #1 choice: Kiss. They were around for a while, made millions, dressed up in makeup because no one would've listened to them otherhwise, and maybe had one good song (but probably not).
My next choices would be Aerosmith and Dream Theater, although I'm not sure the latter were very successful. I hope not.
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Welp (i think this came up before), the hinge might be how "talent" is defined... could be:

-Ability to execute very complex and difficult stuff on an instrument, (making Yngwie, Dream Theater, EVH, Rush and a few others mentioned ineligible as targets for this thread).

-Ability to transport or emotionally impact an audience, (this gets a lot of otherwise pretty mediocre artists who were named off the hook ...R&R hall of fame (hack ... gag) provides many examples).

-Someone who has advanced an art form or expanded the vocabulary of an instrument, (probably puts Miles Davis, Beatles and EVH off limits).

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