Most Overrated Band of All Time ????

[Cantu]

Originally Posted by Harpozep

Bon Jovi, I used to dismiss them and turn them off . Now I like them Weird, eh? I guess it is because of the state of the music industry with no real talent being brought to mainstream attention, we have to dig for the new talent or rediscover older acts. For me Bon jovi is the latter. They do not live up to their old hype, but Richie Sambora can play well, and John's vocals are clear. A Much better group than GNR of the same era to me. Slash and Richie would be a fun team though.

With each progressing year, as the music being pushed at us becomes so much less musical and more insipid, I go back to music genres I dismissed when I was younger and find a wealth of material.

I'm into Miles Davis now, but could not bear to listen to him twenty years back. I find I cannot go forward with most newer music, so I reach into the past. Heck, I love Link Wray and Dick Dale , but never did back in the 60's or 70's........Next, I'm hoping to listen to more Swing and jazz with moving bass lines. Still can't get into far out Bebop like Joe Pass plays.

I feel the same way!
I think this comes with age!
I listen to everything now and never did before, I was kinda narrow.
I think anybody that plays an instrument has something to say, good or bad and I respect that!!!!!

[lp59aholicDon]

I used to NOT like AC DC, Now I really like AC/DC Bon Scotts voice drove me nuts at first

[coldsteal2]

Originally Posted by mojofilter

GREENDAY! they bite so bad and have nothing original to offer the listener to listen to the singer sounds like he has a nose full of snot someone needs to give him a tissue.

yes they irritate me to my soul

i guess they dindnt get the note from the Sex Pistols that punk
was suposed to be a joke,.....................

[lp59aholicDon]

Originally Posted by mojofilter

GREENDAY! they bite so bad and have nothing original to offer the listener to listen to the singer sounds like he has a nose full of snot someone needs to give him a tissue.

They Need to be nuked off a stage ! Not to mention they are VERY Un American to boot

[ledfree]

Bruce Springsteen, never could see what the fuss was about. Oh well each to there own I guess.

[Harpozep]

Originally Posted by ledfree

Bruce Springsteen, never could see what the fuss was about. Oh well each to there own I guess.

I never really cared for him, though I enjoyed hearing Clarence Clemens on sax.
Now I may be getting into him since there is so little new music that I care for. I've tried this new Country music and find it uninspiring and insipid, too formulaic. Modern rock , what can be found has too much baggage with it also. Older music is where I'm at I guess.

I will admit to finding Hannah Montana songs catchy though
And those Jonas Brothers, they have some fine Gibson axes
The things I watch with my eight year old daughter ( Where is that embarrassed emoticon? ...)

[hophead]

In a word... Genesis, the Phil Collins era at least was in my opinion the most over rated tripe...and The Police.

[coldsteal2]

The Beach Boys without Brian

[Roman Rist]

All I have to say is Thank God all the 80s hair-metal bands are Gone!
each and every one was overrated.

I think they appealed to 13 year old girls who didnt know if they liked girls or boys yet

[coldsteal2]

I played in alot of those bands, but before they
became Hair Bands that looked like chicks
I stoped playing in those bands in 82 and
joined the Nav

[Scooter2112]

Ritchie Sambora. The man is one of the most underrated guitarists/composers of our lifetime, and its all because he plays with Bon Jovi. If he were in a kick ass hard rock band, or even a bluesy or country outfit, the man would shine, and he's almost a better singer than Jon.

Ditto that. When the subject of underrated guitarists comes up, he's about the first one that comes to mind.

Zeppelin never really did it for me either, even to this day, and I haven't owned any of their stuff. I can respect them for their contribution in defining a genre and inspiring countless others, but it won't make me go out and buy their CD's.

Metallica is one of those big acts that I feel is very overrated. I saw them in about 1983 in the basement of the Cleveland Agora (The Pop Shop) when they were trying to outdrink each other and hawking their new EP between songs. Musically none of them seem very talented.

Yeah, U2 are bigger and more annoying than they should be.

Kurt Cobain could have done us all a favor and shot Eddy Vedder first. That whiny malcontent has been dead for years now anyway.

Add most of the 80's hair metal acts (except Queensryche), Dokken (does anyone have a more annoying guitar tone than George Lynch), Poison, Motley Crue, etc.

Never got the Grateful Dead.

The Rolling Stones and Springsteen never appealed to me either.

[shotgunlew]

Queensryche OWNS!

Originally Posted by Scooter2112

Ditto that. When the subject of underrated guitarists comes up, he's about the first one that comes to mind.

Zeppelin never really did it for me either, even to this day, and I haven't owned any of their stuff. I can respect them for their contribution in defining a genre and inspiring countless others, but it won't make me go out and buy their CD's.

Metallica is one of those big acts that I feel is very overrated. I saw them in about 1983 in the basement of the Cleveland Agora (The Pop Shop) when they were trying to outdrink each other and hawking their new EP between songs. Musically none of them seem very talented.

Yeah, U2 are bigger and more annoying than they should be.

Kurt Cobain could have done us all a favor and shot Eddy Vedder first. That whiny malcontent has been dead for years now anyway.

Add most of the 80's hair metal acts (except Queensryche), Dokken (does anyone have a more annoying guitar tone than George Lynch), Poison, Motley Crue, etc.

Never got the Grateful Dead.

The Rolling Stones and Springsteen never appealed to me either.

[coldsteal2]

I liked them to

[Scooter2112]

Queensryche OWNS!

Most definitely. Seen them many times and still listen to their stuff. Saw them at the House of Blues the last few times and their still tight as hell.

One of not many acts where 2 guitarists (Wilton and DeGarmo) played almost as one.

[ReverendJWblues]

I never got into the Police, Genisis, Fleetwood Mac, Bruce Springsteen, Doobies............Hell a bunch of bands. + when any band starts getting political I jump ship, just my opinion music is not politics.

[needlespauls]

I can't and don't ever know if i'll understand the appeal of the Rolling Stones. I just don't get it......

[needlespauls]

White Stripes? Strokes? don't get them either........

[needlespauls]

Originally Posted by Fixxxer

The dead sound like a bunch of p#&#&y's. I don't get the appeal. I guess if your higher than a kite anything will sound good.

The older U2 are total kill joys. I was watching their Chicago concert on HDnet, and it was freaking depressing. Save this and save that... just freaking play music I don't care what cause your pimping, jus tplay the music.

Nirvana, like it or not, are one of the more significant bands of the time. They single handedly changed the face of music for a number of years. I don't agree with what he did to himself, but the musically the catalog is solid. The unplugged show really showed his talents.

Talents?????????? WTF??????? I can kinda see the whole unplugged thing, thats when I first started playing guitar and didn't know what I was doing. I just started taking lessons and its like, first you learn popeye, three blind mice, and then any Nirvana song. Us kids would think it was cool just to be able to play a song from the radio. Well, lotsa dudes embraced the mediocrity and snobbed out real music, I kept an open mind and saw right thru it. Kurt Cobain was a horrible guitarist!!!!!!!!! Terrible!!! Embarrassing! I would not even bother if I was that limited. So many dudes would hang onto Nirvana because thats what their skills limited them to play, and then of course with that they'd say "Metallica sucks, Megadeth sucks, Pantera sucks, A in C sucks, none of these bands are good." or any other style band that can actually lights out, play. Not to go on a complete tangent, but Nirvana was an absolute mistake. Kinda like that William Hung dude from American Idol, but on a seriously taken level. At least Dave Grohl is pretty talented.........

[Liam]

If a band plays music and someone enjoys it, good luck to them. If they can make a few quid while they're doing it even better.

As far as I'm concerned the only ones that are genuinely overrated are the "boy bands" and "girl bands" that have no music in their soul, and can't actually hold a tune without heavy pitch correction.

I like Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, Strokes, don't get the Stripes, love a whole bunch of things that are sometimes just noise, never understood thrash and shredding, but if they're really playing it and someone's enjoying it, it's OK by me.

FWIW I don't get a lot of "modern" blues, but 50s Chicago and Delta blues gets me every time.

[RobertD]

Greenday
U2

[ledfree]

Yeah, U2 are bigger and more annoying than they should be.

Couldn't agree more.

[Rico]

BAY CITY ROLLERS.....

[treddingjr]

Boston. Never got it, never will, and what, ten years between albums??

As for the Beatles, no one compares. They made everything we are passionate about possible. The immeasurable impact of the first appearance on Ed Sullivan forty-four years reverberates to this day.

[Harpozep]

Originally Posted by treddingjr

Boston. Never got it, never will, and what, ten years between albums??

As for the Beatles, no one compares. They made everything we are passionate about possible. The immeasurable impact of the first appearance on Ed Sullivan forty-four years reverberates to this day.

Funny, Brad Delp was in an awesome Beatles cover band too!

Boston's first album gave me the same goosebumps I go when discovering the Beatles. Boston works well for me.
A friend of mine says the same thing you say about Boston about Queen . I get Both and the Beatles.


Bands I don't understand:
I'm not into the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Flea be interesting, but I don't get it..

[lp59aholicDon]

Not big on many major new bands, alot of newer bands are so bland . Any band who couldnt sound half as good live as they did from the studio I wasnt interested in either. I only liked a few songs from Queen
Bruce Springsteen and U2 are so over rated its pathetic , Ritchie Sambora sounds better solo than he does with Bon Jovi, and delivers well live too