Most overrated bands


What are some examples of seriously overrated bands? My candidates are

1. Led Zeppelin
2. Velvet Underground
3. U2
4. Ramones
5. The Who
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Showing 4 responses by simao

If you think a band is overrated, get over it.

Saying an artist is overrated is akin to saying you're somehow better and more discerning than that artist's fanbase and catalog.

Complete narcissistic bollux.
We agree to disagree. I mean, I find intellectual and musical satisfaction in Reich's Music for 18 Musicians just as much as I do in Debbie Gibson's "Only In My Dreams".

Crap is crap, but music is music. To set some arbitrary "absolute" is the same as saying the world has to reflect you, rather than vice versa.
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Again - to think that you or anyone has the hegemony on labeling an artist proves my point. I'm not deaf or dumb, but I know there's music I'd rather not listen to and decry as superficial crap to me, but not to the ones who appreciate it.
@andrei_nz-- you miss my point in an attempt to degrade it. I'm simply saying that musical opinions about something being "overrated" are about as worthless and self-centered as anything.

What does "overrated" mean? That a large segment of the general pop or a large chuck of music critics laud the particular artist while you feel they're not worthy of such applause?

That's narcissism. And that view has nothing to do with being PC ( I mean, why even bring that into the fray?), and everything to do with seeing music as a reflection of you.