Most overrated band ever?

[AlienCraft]

Kiss.

 

[Perknose]

My ex-girlfriend's three favourite bands were The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and The Beach Boys.

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...The Beatles; we went on a mini road trip and she played them over and over in an attempt to convert me...

That tactic never works. I hear she tried the same forced total immersion tactic on you with oral sex. What a harpy!

The Beatles were ground breaking and their entire corpus of work is blow-mind amazing in it's range and creativity.

There was a time back in the drug-haze day when I LOVED the raunchy energy of Led Zeppelin, especially the first two albums. I saw them live in said haze and it set my nipples on fire. Then the juice ran down my leg. I washed my pants, but the singe marks on my nips are still there!

Even though they're the weakest of the three for me, I also have fond boyhood memories of several Beach Boys songs. Cars, surf and babes -- to a teen, what's not to like?

Geezer Guru HP recently posted this. Check it out. If you can't see the unvarnished, straight-ahead cool that comes through even the Tammy Fay Baker's mascara-thick squareness of their striped Van Heusen button downs over beige peg pants look then you're probably one of those folks who won't watch Casablanca because it was shot in black and white.

You KNOW those boyz got to -- gasp -- second or third base later that evening!

However, Beatles, LZ and the Boyz as one's top three bands? None are in mine, and anyone for whom they were would probably annoy me as well, no matter how good the head was. :awe:

 

[ahenkel]

I'd like to amend my answer and say Phish.

 

[Fritzo]

Basically any band that you like, but I don't.

LOL...you summed up this thread perfectly.

 

[dwell]

AC/DC. WTF, all their songs sound exactly the same.

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same." -- Angus Young

 

[moshquerade]

Led Zeppelin

 

[KeithTalent]

That tactic never works. I hear she tried the same forced total immersion tactic on you with oral sex. What a harpy!

The Beatles were ground breaking and their entire corpus of work is blow-mind amazing in it's range and creativity.

There was a time back in the drug-haze day when I LOVED the raunchy energy of Led Zeppelin, especially the first two albums. I saw them live in said haze and it set my nipples on fire. Then the juice ran down my leg. I washed my pants, but the singe marks on my nips are still there!

Even though they're the weakest of the three for me, I also have fond boyhood memories of several Beach Boys songs. Cars, surf and babes -- to a teen, what's not to like?

Geezer Guru HP recently posted this. Check it out. If you can't see the unvarnished, straight-ahead cool that comes through even the Tammy Fay Baker's mascara-thick squareness of their striped Van Heusen button downs over beige peg pants look then you're probably one of those folks who won't watch Casablanca because it was shot in black and white.

You KNOW those boyz got to -- gasp -- second or third base later that evening!

However, Beatles, LZ and the Boyz as one's top three bands? None are in mine, and anyone for whom they were would probably annoy me as well, no matter how good the head was. :awe:

Well she was indeed a harpy, but that's neither here nor there. She did work to her strengths though, I'll give her that. :hmm:

Total immersion does work, haven't you seen A Clockwork Orange?

I grew up with my Mother listening to The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd, Stones, etc. The only one I ended up really liking was the Stones, plus a few of the more obscure bands.

I guess, as always with music, it just comes down to personal taste, but personal taste aside there are certain bands that are overrated. This does not mean they are bad bands or that I can't understand why people would listen to them, it's just that their place in, or impact on, history is overstated to a certain degree. The Doors would be another example.

KT

 

[KeithTalent]

Led Zeppelin

Thank you. :awe:

KT

 

[zerocool84]

Sublime

 

[GrumpyMan]

Josey and the Pussycats
The Partridge Family
The Monkeys
Bach

 

[KeypoX]

Grateful dead, i am grateful that suck ass band is dead.

LOL i kid. I think most popular bands are pretty good or have good qualities. Though I dont like many, IE Beatles.

 

[Chaotic42]

It's hard for you to find A SONG by the Beatles that you actually like?

My mind immediately floods with so many FINE FINE Beatles songs of radically different genres such that if you didn't like the first nine you'd surely have to like the tenth.

I am stunned. I feel like bitch slapping you with the double LP White Album and then denying you the bong on the next few passes. :awe:

Between working in radio and being surrounded by people who listen to them, I've probably listened to more oldies than many Baby Boomers. I respect the Beatles, but there are very few of their songs that I won't turn the radio off for. Lord knows I've tried. "Buy the White Album" friends told me, so I did. I knew the singles, but they said the deep cuts are where it's at (as it is with all great albums). There are a few songs on there that I like, but it's something I never break out to listen to.

I don't know, maybe you had to be there then, or maybe I'm just completely burned out on the genre. Hell, I tried to give it a listen while typing this and I made it about 1:20 before I turned it off. A lot of good music came out in 1968 and there's a lot of it that I'd rather listen to than the Beatles.

Again, I'm not discrediting their talent or their influence.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Anyone who mentions a band like the Beatles or U2 needs to be shot in the face with a deer rifle repeatedly because Coldplay is absolutely the most overrated band ever.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Between working in radio and being surrounded by people who listen to them, I've probably listened to more oldies than many Baby Boomers. I respect the Beatles, but there are very few of their songs that I won't turn the radio off for. Lord knows I've tried. "Buy the White Album" friends told me, so I did. I knew the singles, but they said the deep cuts are where it's at (as it is with all great albums). There are a few songs on there that I like, but it's something I never break out to listen to.

I don't know, maybe you had to be there then, or maybe I'm just completely burned out on the genre. Hell, I tried to give it a listen while typing this and I made it about 1:20 before I turned it off. A lot of good music came out in 1968 and there's a lot of it that I'd rather listen to than the Beatles.

Again, I'm not discrediting their talent or their influence.

The hell you're not. That's exactly what you're doing.

Just because you can't relate to it doesn't lessen the significance of their music.

 

[Crono]

"Groundbreaking" or "innovative" music does nothing to affect my appreciation for it. I listen to the music I like - whether or not it's historically the first of its kind or considered unique. I wasn't around during the time when the Beatles were the most popular, I didn't grow up listening to their music all the time (though I have heard most of theirs songs plenty enough, a result of their lasting fame).

As I said, it's not that I find their music bad, as I do like a couple of their songs. But I still don't see what is so special about the music itself that people today are citing it as some of the best of all time. One of the forerunners and innovators, sure, but not in terms of overall excellence on the sheer basis of the music alone they created versus everything created before and since then.

I'm guessing some of the true, early rock fans will find my opinion sacrilegious, but I actually enjoy Pink Floyd more than the Beatles. I'm not saying they were more talented technically speaking. I wouldn't even be a good judge of that. But for whatever reason, I can sit back and enjoy the intricacies of Pink Floyd more so than the Beatles. It's just my personal preference, and like has been said earlier, it's really a matter of taste and I can't fault anyone for liking or disliking any of the bands mentioned in the thread. "Overrated" really is an objective term when it comes to art or music, so to each his own.

 

[SAWYER]

Radiohead and tool are up there

 

[Crono]

Anyone who mentions a band like the Beatles or U2 needs to be shot in the face with a deer rifle repeatedly because Coldplay is absolutely the most overrated band ever.

Coldplay has one or two songs that I like. I very much like the lyrics to Viva La Vida. But Chris Martin can't sing. His voice is somewhat unique, but he has little talent. I don't know that many people that like the band that much, though, really only just a few 1 or 2 of their songs ("Clocks" is the only other I find to be decent, but not for the lyrics).

 

[SphinxnihpS]

History will judge Springsteen as being one of the greatest folk singers of the 20th century. His music is truly electric folk for the urban population.

I agree. If you don't like his music, just sit down and read his lyrics.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Led Zeppelin are pretty much thieves. Very talented thieves.

The Kinks invented Heavy Metal in case anyone cares. Not LZ, not BS. LZ may however have invented techno.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Kinks invented Heavy Metal in case anyone cares.

Proof or it didn't happen.

 

[Iron Woode]

Anyone who mentions a band like the Beatles or U2 needs to be shot in the face with a deer rifle repeatedly because Coldplay is absolutely the most overrated band ever.

coldplay blows.

U2 is the most overrated band ever. The Beatles are #2.

 

[WA261]

Nirvana

this shit band


oh, and U2...gag

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Proof or it didn't happen.

You Really Got Me

 

[Iron Woode]

You Really Got Me

LOL

heavy metal evolved out of psychedelic music. Bands like Vanilla Fudge, Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly started heavy metal.

 

[Perknose]

I don't know, maybe you had to be there then...

Well, yeah. Not to mention it's ultimately useless to argue personal preference.

My memories surrounding the White Album are unique. Freshman year in college. It came out in the States right before Christmas, and a guy who lived right below me in the dorms drove up to NYC to buy it because it was the only place you could first get it.

Then he and most everyone went home for Christmas vacation, including my dorm roommate. I stayed and so did my g/f, and I borrowed the White Album.

So there I was for those two weeks or however long it was, with my first truly serious g/f, my first "place" I'd ever had totally, if temporarily, to myself, the first really high class sound system I'd ever been around (my rommate's), no classes, no tests, and the White Album.

It was magical!

But, far beyond the White Album, which I possess in vinyl to this day but haven't listened to in years and years (and I NEVER listen to oldies stations, which truly suck), I'd be proud to stand with the entire musical catalog of the Beatles as repeatedly groundbreaking and truly majestic in scope.