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aerosmith sucks IMO
Is there a more overrated band than Nirvana? They have like 3 good songs and like the rest are ripoffs of their popular songs. Their okay, but they get way more love than they actually deserve.
aerosmith sucks IMO
Radiohead.
add coldplay to that list. arists -2pac
Mookie Crew troll in 5...
311
U2 and rolling stones. Old doesn't make it classic.
i dont know what it is but when i hear coldplay i want less. theyre so deep tho if you play them in your car on a date the girl with think your sensitive and cute. cbf called me a once for doing this. i dont think he really meant it tho.
on topic, i dont think ill make a list due to the fact that it would make conqueso's posts look like a tweet.
but this one time some boomer told me the flaming lips were good. i pointed out that they were from methlahoma/chokelahoma so there isn't a plausible way a band that is considered neo psychidelia, space rock, and experimental rock could be great. we know this.
Overrated, realy? Hold old are you? Only a few good songs, a lot has to do with someone called Kurt dying you know. They changed music during those of us who were growing up during that time.
Kiss...by far the most overrated band ever.
rage against the machine
You can listen to Smells like teen spirit, rape me and certain parts of Lithium and think they are all the same song. If playing the same guitar riffs over and over is your thing, Nirvana just might be your favorite band.
Brah, you're pretty re ed
Again how old are you?
That matters alot!
I'd rather the singer not sound like he's about to cry.
Last edited by Kyle Orton; 01-06-2010 at 10:31 PM.
Please tell me you're joking.
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oh i forget everyone is suppose to like the stones.
I've listen to "the hits"
yawn...
Let's hear some you like, little guy.oh i forget everyone is suppose to like the stones.
I've listen to "the hits"
yawn...
Every band mentioned thus far except NIN can be considered overrated from any legitimate angle.
You first have to define "overrated", with today's musical scene structure it's too nebulous of a term.
I think too many people confuse "overplayed" with "overrated". Nirvana is not overrated, but is certainly overplayed. I cannot remember the last time I heard a Nirvana song on the radio and did not change the station. It makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth when I hear a Nirvana song on the radio these days. Doesn't make them overrated, just makes it old .
Don't have a heart attack dude..it's an opinion....didn't say they suck. I think they are over rated. Yes I think korn has some good songs.
I like almost any genre. Only thing I'm not to fond of is Screamo and bublegum pop/rock. Besides any thing I name is gonna get "oh they suck" that's an automatic for my previous post. You can name some of your fav bands if you want pops.
Nirvana is considered great because...
It's not sell-out rock. It's not rock for the all-mighty dollar. It's not rock for fame. It's just rock. I think it's pretty obvious he didn't care about any of that.
It's not that it was so musically great. Alice in Chains is far superior. Soundgarden and Pearl Jam even... But the greatness is in the simplicity. They didn't try to overwork you. They just gave it to you, every song, 100%.
Cobain was an every man. He wasn't that gifted. He wasn't a great lyricist. He didn't have a great voice, but every fan could hear themselves through his music, because of this. He hit wrong notes on very simple chords, his voice squeaked and cracked... he was you and me on stage.
That's why he was a great frontman, because the only thing he cared about was that song at that moment. That's why Nirvana was great, because it was all about the songs, no matter how simple, how acceptable or how good.
Every song was played, sang with the same passion.
At a time when music was way too overproduced and the artists themselves were OK with it, Nirvana, for all their simplicity, breathed life back into the industry. I would venture to say that the Radiohead, a band you've voiced approval for in this thread, wouldn't have had the creative license to make some of that same music had Nirvana's simplicity not broke the mold of mediocrity of mainstream rock.
As others have said, after-the-fact opinions of their significance/importance are hard to make accurately if one wasn't there to experience it.
This post is going to make IronMexican shed a tear.
And that's exactly why they are overrated. They certainly didn't contribute the most when it came to music. It had more to do with their impact. Now we have to listen to their music which is very whiny almost 20 years later. Is it bad? No. Is it great? Definitely not.
And Radiohead would be doing what they want to do regardless of Nirvana or not. They probably get as much criticism from all news fronts and other artists for not trying to stick with the norm.
Radiohead is infinitely times better than Nirvana. Maybe not as an influence, but as music goes, they are much better. They re-invented themselves a lot and keep going. They also don't do it for the money.
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