Who is the most overrated band in your opinion?
For me it is Radiohead. Sorry fans, I just don't think they should be treated as gods of new music. Seems no matter what they put out, people just melt.
Not to say I don't like some of their stuff, I just think they are way overrated for what they do.
Who is yours?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I say the Beatles as well. I think they were ok, timing did the rest. Also the doors
Electro68
Level 7
Aug 20, 2018
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You have no idea of the Beatles impact on every facet of the music business. You don't have to like them, but they were the most influential band in the history of popular music. There is no close second.
@Electro68 You can't overrated the most influential band in the history of popular music. They changed the way people wrote and recorded. They changed what people put on albums. They changed touring and they changed the size of venues. They made all other bands have to step up their game, especially writing and recording. What you like is what you like. That is as it should be. That has absolutely nothing to do with their impact on the music business. Everyone who ever made it big, it was timing.
@Sticks48 I can give any answer I like. I saw someone post Zeppelin, Dylan, Joplin. What did I see from you, crickets.
The post wasn't uninfluencial bands who you think we're overrated. It's all subjective man so I take umbrage with you attacking my answer. Be cool. I get it, you love the Beatles...I love Zeppelin but I just let it slide, didn't call them uninformed, didn't pick a fight.
Way to start WWIII!!!! LMFAO!!!!!
KKGator
Level 9
Aug 20, 2018
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@Akfishlady Yeah, I can't stand Coldplay or ABBA either.
@JustLynnie ABBA is ABBAmonable!
Country music. I love this old joke:
What happens when you play a country song backward?
A guy gets his job back, his truck back, his dog back, his woman back and his trailer back.
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Aug 20, 2018
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The Hooties, so much so the the term hootie effect is used when a band is more popular than they deserve.
ArdentAtheist
Level 8
Aug 21, 2018
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REO Speedwagon gives me the urge to rip vocal chords out. To boil my eardrums in acid. To find the dullest knife to jab repeatedly into speakers...
Holysocks
Level 8
Aug 20, 2018
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Beyonce (I realize she is not "a band" )
GwenC
Level 7
Aug 20, 2018
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I know what you mean but she did a good Etta James in movie Cadillac records
SO over rated. Don't like her or her shallow vapid "music" at all. "Single Ladies" blech!
The Grateful Dead. That band is definitely less than the sum of its parts.
Coleman
Level 6
Aug 20, 2018
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@Akfishlady The irony is that I just made a ton of money playing a weekend in a GD cover band at a hippie fest in the hills of redwood country. I had a ton of fun, but I still am no fan of the Dead.
I always thought that if all of you guys are gonna follow a band around, why not follow a GOOD band.
REM. All their songs sound exactly the same, and it was pretty dull even when they started doing it.
Jnei
Level 8
Aug 22, 2018
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Jnei:
@Akfishlady I have The Pixies for that purpose 
Steve Miller Band
monotone drivel.
Mooolah
Level 8
Aug 20, 2018
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But some complex lyrics! I'm gonna fly like an eagle... So deep
@weelittleone So profound I am still pondering the meaning. =0}
@PalacinkyPDX That & "Yummy Yummy Yummy I've got love in my tummy"
1910 Fruit Gum Company. But they were not a band. They were a joke on anyone who bought that piece of vinyl unless it was for a beer coaster.
Greatfull Dead, REO, KISS, KC and the Sunshine Band, ABBA, Kansas
Gatovicolo
Level 8
Aug 25, 2018
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@Liberty I hated disco.
Christ on a bike, I forgot fucking Coldplay. How many variations on one tune can anyone get away with? They have the answer. And Ed ‘the looper’ Sheeran.
KevinTwining
Level 7
Aug 20, 2018
1
Gwenythe says he is a "genious". At plagiarism perhaps.
Van Halen! Ugh, especially when David Lee Roth was lead singer.
helionoftroy
Level 7
Aug 20, 2018
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I can't stand the screeching vocals!
@JustLynnie I do not dispute that at all. But, David Lee Roth sucks.
Anything involving Prince. The definition of quantity over quality. His whole image was a cheap polyester rip off of Little Richard, and he looked like a foetus dipped in pubic hair.
MrBeelzeebubbles
Level 7
Aug 20, 2018
3
Try listening to his album "true". No hype, only released to his fans, largely acoustic and no videos etc.
Oh wow, we really do need to get married. Here in the UK, Radiohead have been widely considered the Greatest Band Of All Time for many years; personally, I fail to see any point in them at all. People say, "Oh, but the lyrics tap into the melancholy of existence," and I say "Yeah, but Leonard Cohen and Joy Division did it far better decades ago".
I was now going to write a long list of all the other bands I view in a similar light, but to be honest there are so many I just can't be bothered. Abba would be high on that list, though.
Jnei
Level 8
Aug 20, 2018
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Jnei:
@Akfishlady The main reason I stopped going to gay bars was I just couldn't tolerate any more Abba! have you seen Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?
Jnei:
@Akfishlady Best line in any film ever:
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