Most overrated band?

[SonicBloom]

Nirvana, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. The Beatles were alright, but get far too much credit for being innovative, the most important part of the Beatles music was Phil Spector's wall of sound. With Nirvana, they're always getting credit for Kurt Cobain being a brilliant song writer...but why is that? His songs are rarely anything more than random firings of generic lyrics that anyone would be able to relate to. There are no stories, morals, or visuals to be found. The Rolling Stones, well they're just shit. They might have made a catchy song here and there, but anyone can make a catchy song. They've rode the coat tails of their own fame, and all it took in their day to get some press was being British and playing American music.

[slipknotpsycho]

Nirvana, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. The Beatles were alright, but get far too much credit for being innovative, the most important part of the Beatles music was Phil Spector's wall of sound. With Nirvana, they're always getting credit for Kurt Cobain being a brilliant song writer...but why is that? His songs are rarely anything more than random firings of generic lyrics that anyone would be able to relate to. There are no stories, morals, or visuals to be found. The Rolling Stones, well they're just shit. They might have made a catchy song here and there, but anyone can make a catchy song. They've rode the coat tails of their own fame, and all it took in their day to get some press was being British and playing American music.

actually, you're wrong there.... as one example, polly... the songw as inspired and written for a particular event...

[Metaphor]

Dude, your like 16. You don't even know what floyd did for music as a whole. You cant overrate a band that is a legend. It'd be like saying the Doors are overrated or something.

First of all I'm not 16.

Secocndly i know quite well what pink floyd did for music, they started a new genre basicly. Showing people that not all rock has to be loud and full of profanity. Popularizing concept albums. However the question was, what is the most overrated band, and i gave my aneswer, from song to song its basicly the same. The music is so mundane and boring, i dont know how anyone would consider it trippy, let alone "good". They may have started a revouloution, but the music sucks.

If you think Pink Floyd isnt overrated you have to be totally ignorant when it comes to music. Most people that enjoy pink floyd & take my words for blasphamy probably dont know the first thing about rock music in general. (by this i mean you only know classic rock) Grow out of shell and get off the classic rock bandwagon. They might have been good at the time, but now there washed up.

Theres a ton of genres & subgenres in rock music. People like you make me sick when you confide yourself to one single genre and imediatley dismiss anything that wasnt written in the 70's or played with a bitchin guitar solo.
I could rattle off bands that would make any floyd fans drop a steamer in their pants, however not everyone should know about these bands, especially if you dont have a deep, passionate love for music as a whole.

But what the hell, why dont i spark up a bowl and go listen to Darkside of the Moon. Again. like omFG Da BellLZzz In Tyme R BuGgInnnNN...
pink floyds as mundane as the day is long

[slipknotpsycho]

First of all I'm not 16.

Secocndly i know quite well what pink floyd did for music, they started a new genre basicly. Showing people that not all rock has to be loud and full of profanity. Popularizing concept albums. However the question was, what is the most overrated band, and i gave my aneswer, from song to song its basicly the same. The music is so mundane and boring, i dont know how anyone would consider it trippy, let alone "good". They may have started a revouloution, but the music sucks.

If you think Pink Floyd isnt overrated you have to be totally ignorant when it comes to music. Most people that enjoy pink floyd & take my words for blasphamy probably dont know the first thing about rock music in general. (by this i mean you only know classic rock) Grow out of shell and get off the classic rock bandwagon. They might have been good at the time, but now there washed up.

Theres a ton of genres & subgenres in rock music. People like you make me sick when you confide yourself to one single genre and imediatley dismiss anything that wasnt written in the 70's or played with a bitchin guitar solo.
I could rattle off bands that would make any floyd fans drop a steamer in their pants, however not everyone should know about these bands, especially if you dont have a deep, passionate love for music as a whole.

But what the hell, why dont i spark up a bowl and go listen to Darkside of the Moon. Again. like omFG Da BellLZzz In Tyme R BuGgInnnNN...
pink floyds as mundane as the day is long

you know... o.0 even tho you think i'm a fuckin mongrel (lol) i agree with you on this... i wouldn't call them the most overated, but they are definately overrated... i like 2 songs by them (and believe me i've heard plenty) and that's it.... welcome to the machine and another brick in the wall (i believe it's part 2 i like)

to the general thread. i find it funny that we were asked our opinion and now there are people trying to debate an OPINION... it's a damn opinion! it's not a fact, it's opinion... and everyone is entitled to theirs... so why are you trying to debate it? you can't debate an opinion, becuase it's not fact... lol... maybe some of you should read up on the definition of opinion.

[Nochowderforyou]

The Beatles for sure.

As for today, Coldplay or U2 would be my choices. They are both very, very boring music where the lyrics seem to have no meaning.

[slipknotpsycho]

both those suck imo... i didn't even know they hard a large fan base?

[slipknotpsycho]

overrated - Definitions from Dictionary.com

o·ver·rate /ˌoʊvərˈreɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[oh-ver-reyt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), -rat·ed, -rat·ing. to rate or appraise too highly; overestimate: I think you overrate their political influence.


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[Origin: 1580–90; over- + rate1]


—Synonyms overpraise, overesteem, magnify.

opinion - Definitions from Dictionary.com

o·pin·ion /əˈpɪnyən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-pin-yuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
3. the formal expression of a professional judgment: to ask for a second medical opinion.
4. Law. the formal statement by a judge or court of the reasoning and the principles of law used in reaching a decision of a case.
5. a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc.: to forfeit someone's good opinion.
6. a favorable estimate; esteem: I haven't much of an opinion of him.

[Metaphor]

its true that a bag of shit weighs more than my (anyones) opinion, that dont make it any less fun to bash pink floyd though.

[slipknotpsycho]

lol you taught me a new saying... like

"hope in one hand, shit in the other see which one fills up faster" lol...

now i can say somethin like "it's true my opinion weighs less then a bag of shit, but that don't make it any less grounded or important (or fun)" lol.. btw o.0 i think you misunderstood what i was saying in that thread.... i have no hard feelings or anything just to let you know..

[afghooey]

Wolf Mother.

They got a grammy for that 'Woman' song, for best rock performance. (Which, IMO, is the worst fucking song in the history of rock.) Seriously, that's just wrong. Especially considering that Vicarious was nominated in that category. Tool > Wolf Mother x1000.