Overrated Bands (Opininonated!)

Keltic wrote: Drew wrote: I like Floyd a lot- but never understood why DTOTM was so huge- I bet a big part of its success has to do with the album cover.    I'll bet it isn't. The music is sublime and has stood the test of... TIME !   I agree with Raff ( page 1 ) who says that it is not really about bands being over-rated; it is more to do with who you don't like.   If one person really likes the music of Iron Maiden, for example ( I don't ! ) and another can't stand it -   well, who is right and who is wrong ? Exactly - no one ! It is all subjective and whatever floats one particular boat is always liable to sink another. Viva la difference, I say.

Thank you for acknowledging my post. Unfortunately, it seems to be something of a fashion here to ignore what I say... I don't really think it is useful to have a thread where people make a list of the bands they don't like by calling them 'overrated', but then, what do I know?

I agree with Keltic, everything is very much a matter of perception, people only don't like to concede this because then, what do you tell the guy who thinks Phil singing, "In The Air Tonight" is sheer genius?    Actually, you don't, you just let him be...it's OK.   I said earlier that overrating is really about people not feeling comfortable with a certain band enjoying popularity, ESPECIALLY in circles where they find people with common interests,  we love to scoff off popularity and say it doesn't have much to do with the quality of a band's music but somewhere, we feel a little jealous and resentful at the sight of a lot of people praising a band crazy and one that you don't like at all, is it not?  Which is why I made sure to post only popular bands in my list , nobody calls obscure bands overrated, if they aren't as good as they are supposed to be, nobody cares anyway. 

I think any rating over 5/5 is over-rating.
I think most over-raters & under-raters are truly grating in their pretense when they pretend that they know more than they do.
I think I went through this phase when I was 21. I think I'm over it.
I think that the best thing is simply to say how much you like or dislike something.
I think it would be nicer to just say that you don't share the opinion that is contrary to yours.
But then I think that some people have too much time on their hands and not enough good manners in their minds.

Having a bad day ? Take it out on someone in the electronic hinterlands. It's cheaper than psychotherapy. And hopefully , it can tide you over until you find a girlfriend. Or have your meds adjusted ...

debrewguy wrote: And hopefully , it can tide you over until you find a girlfriend.

Why is the answer for nerd rage always to find a girlfriend? It seems lazy to me.

could go all day on overrated bands but I'll just go with prog's biggest:

manofmystery wrote: could go all day on overrated bands but I'll just go with prog's biggest: Genesis - unless you like playing dress up I don't see what makes them worthy of such fawning praise and such high ratings.

1. Genesis was part of an unpopular genre.
2. Genesis was more unpopular than most of the pioneer Prog bands until they became Pop
3. Genesis started as schoolboys, when all the members of all the other big bands were altready proffesionals, in some cases former members of other big groups
4. Suffered the stigma of the worst POP era.
5. Two of the three most important members left the band in the 70's to never return
6. They don't release a Prog album since 1977
7. They don't exist anymore
8. Are accused of lack of virtuosism by the ones who don't like them.
9. Are the Prog pioneers with less epics and one with the smallest number of conceptual albums.
10. Genesis is the only one of the big 5 or 6 Prog bands with no official Prog Betamax, VHS or DVD
11. The Lamb is consider one of the most important tiours and there's no fiilmof it, not even the band members have one.
12. Their fiorst two Prog albums are top 100 here, despte the technical production is probably the worst in a big band.

They had everything against them, but still after that and instead of being a bunch of nobodies:

1. They are by far the most popular prog band in most of the important Prog sites.
2. The two Prog members who left, are icons of the genre
3. Are mentioned in every piece of Prog literature as fundamental.
4. Are by far in Prog Archives the band with best average in comparison with any other Prog band.
5. Are one of the bands more mentioned as influence by later bands.

So why call them overrated? Because they are more respected than most of the bands you love?

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - March 20 2009 at 02:50

debrewguy wrote: Unless you're a Montreal Canadiens fan. Then your anger is understandable.

1. Nirvana

The T wrote: The Mars Volta can't be more overrated. They've released one decent album, one mediocre one and two atrocities... yet they're heralded as the second coming....

debrewguy wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: debrewguy wrote: And hopefully , it can tide you over until you find a girlfriend. Why is the answer for nerd rage always to find a girlfriend? It seems lazy to me. Why would it be a nerd that needs to find a girlfriend ?