Overrated bands

[Whisky Dog]

I'm 29 and was barely hitting that 11 to 12 yr old stage when Nirvana changed the stale hair metal rock scene that was so played out with everyone doing power ballads to cash in.

Someone 19 is about 10 years too young to have an appreciation at all. Of course you don't appreciate it - you weren't there.

[Elisha Cuthbert]

OMG liek my top 3 most overrated bands have definitely gotta be Metallica, the Black Eyed Peas and Linkin Park.

My fave band of all time is def Smashing Pumpkins. <3

[Whisky Dog]

Radiohead isn't my thing at all. You call Nirvana whiny but then rave on Radiohead? That makes no sense.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Nirvana did not change the hair metal rock scene

tv, a stale hair metal rock scene, and a load of other non-hair metal bands did that

[Frenzy]

i like almost any genre too

that's what makes my music taste selective right? because i don't care?

oh so you don't find the need to argue and push you style of music on anyone huh

What if I said something like Fallout boy > metallica

will that just a tad?

[Whisky Dog]

Nirvana was the 1st major Seattle scene band to break through and get major radio play. I think they're the worst of the big ones from that era with AIC being the best followed by Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, but Nirvana broke through first. That effectively ended major radio play for hair metal and stuff like Poison and Faster Pussycat.

[Many PackYao]

You see and hear a lot of people say Metallica is overrated, yet they still sellout arenas across the world.

[JMarkJohns]

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.

Wrong. It's that impact that is lasting and thus means they weren't overrated. Every album held prime significance at the time. Nobody ever said they were great musicians. Therefore nobody has ever rated their ability as highly as you seem to be assuming. In spite of this, fans flocked to them. Nobody would rate them very highly from a musical standpoint.

But when you start talking about the best rock bands and Nirvana is mentioned, it's done so justifiably because they are speaking to the significance/impact of the band.

That same Radiohead that's reinvented themselves first started out riding the same coattails you critique Nirvana on now.

[IronMexican]

Nirvana did not change the hair metal rock scene

tv, a stale hair metal rock scene, and a load of other non-hair metal bands did that

Are you telling me you didn't think Van Halen was a life-changing band?

[mookie_crew]

OMG liek my top 3 most overrated bands have definitely gotta be Metallica, the Black Eyed Peas and Linkin Park.

My fave band of all time is def Smashing Pumpkins. <3

cROFL smashing pumpkins

sp is what gay people listened to before coldplay became popular.

[Greg Oden]

Are you telling me you didn't think Van Halen was a life-changing band?

EVH was certainly life changing to a whole new flock of wanna be guitar shredders.

[J.T.]

What if I said something like Fallout boy > metallica

Then I'd call you a got.

[jcrod]

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.

You have no idea, your age is showing.

[IronMexican]

Wrong. It's that impact that is lasting and thus means they weren't overrated. Every album held prime significance at the time. Nobody ever said they were great musicians. Therefore nobody has ever rated their ability as highly as you seem to be assuming. In spite of this, fans flocked to them. Nobody would rate them very highly from a musical standpoint.

But when you start talking about the best rock bands and Nirvana is mentioned, it's justifiably because they are speaking to the significance/impact of the band.

That same Radiohead that's reinvented themselves first started out riding the same coattails you critique Nirvana on now.

They've grown from just that, though. They started out with one hit song and grew tired of it. They hated the fame, so they changed almost everything about them. They didn't just have one good album and two mediocre ones. Like i said, you are giving them credit for stuff outside of music. I get they helped get rid of glam-rock. They were good, not great. I'm not saying they were terrible. They have some songs that I like. I never go out of my way to listen to them, but they have some songs.

[JMarkJohns]

And that's exactly why they are overrated. They certainly didn't contribute the most when it came to music.

You also seem to be missing the significance of simplicity at a time when the talented artists in rock were all a part of the problem of overproduced schlock.

It wasn't entirely Nirvana, but they were the first bands to gain the attention and it wasn't because they were being rated higher than they should have been. It's because fans responded to their simplicity as it was exactly what the unspoken-for counter-culture needed.

The genius of Nirvana's sound was its simple origins.

As has been said, many say Nirvana was the least musically gifted of the Grunge era bands, yet they are still regarded by the masses as the most significant. Not talented, lest you think the fans buying their albums are clueless, but most impacting.

You fail to understand that simplicity is an art in and of itself.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Are you telling me you didn't think Van Halen was a life-changing band?

i dunno how you grabbed that from what i said

[Kenny Powers]

Randy Travis. If you listen to anything of his, you're a ing got.

[mardigan]

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sublime where always two bands I thought were over rated. I like Sublime too, but sometimes I hear people talk about them like they changed the musical landscape forever, which they didnt come close to.

[JMarkJohns]

They've grown from just that, though. They started out with one hit song and grew tired of it. They hated the fame, so they changed almost everything about them. They didn't just have one good album and two mediocre ones. Like i said, you are giving them credit for stuff outside of music. I get they helped get rid of glam-rock. They were good, not great. I'm not saying they were terrible. They have some songs that I like. I never go out of my way to listen to them, but they have some songs.

You really have no idea what you're talking about. You play Nirvana's first album Bleach and then listen to In Utero and tell me they are the same sound. You won't be able to because they simply aren't. Nirvana, in a very short period of time, mind you, went from being absolute raw angst rock to having a semblance to melody to creating orchestration accompaniments for their songs. They did this in just about four years. Had they continued, who knows the extent that their evolution would have gone...

I'm not taking anything away from Radiohead. I own just about every album and have been a fan since Pablo Honey and have enjoy (if not more) their own creative ventures like OK Computer, Kid A and The Bends.

[J.T.]

Eh I always figured Sublime was overrated in the same vein that The Dark Knight was. Sublime's popularity is bolstered by Brad Knowles death, just like Dark Knight banked mad cash cuz everyone wanted to see the movie that killed Heath Ledger. They're actually not bad but you can totally tell that Knowles was running that show. They've been trying to regroup for years now and it's not working out at all.

[tlongII]

It's all about The Stones. One of the greatest Rock and Roll bands of ALL TIME! There is no denying this despite the fact that most of you weren't born before most of their biggest hits. They were instrumental in shaping rock music into what it has become today.

[sook]

Nirvana isn't overrated, neither is NIN. Teen Spirit is the GREATEST rock song of all time so discussion should end there, and nobody has any thing on Reznor.

Overrated?

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Cold Play

Sublime

Radiohead (they suck)

U2

Greenday

New Metallica

Rage Against the Machine (lead singer sounds like , cornell kicks his ass)




Underrated:

Billy Talent

Chevelle

Deftones

Disturbed

A perfect circle

Soundgarden

Ozzy Osbourne (the band) Randy Rhoads is one of the greatest guitarists ever, surprised they don't get more credit

Deff Leopard

[baseline bum]

No way can Red Hot Chili Peppers be called overrated. I hate that funk almost died out, and I'm extremely grateful the Chili Peppers brought it back. And Nirvana? Rolling Stones? U2? Are you people ing kidding me? Especially the Stones. I think they're one of the most underrated groups right now; I mean, only old people like tlong even talk about them anymore, even though they practically created rock from blues.

[Spurminator]

Animal Collective

[JMarkJohns]

No way can Red Hot Chili Peppers be called overrated. I hate that funk almost died out, and I'm extremely grateful the Chili Peppers brought it back. And Nirvana? Rolling Stones? U2? Are you people ing kidding me? Especially the Stones. I think they're one of the most underrated groups right now; I mean, only old people like tlong even talk about them anymore, even though they practically created rock from blues.

Yep on all fronts but one. U2 was a great band, but their recent stuff is schlocky radio-friendly crap that's force fed to everyone through marketing. Don't know if their current stuff (from Discoteque on) has been hyped by the media as being as good as their past stuff, but it's not anywhere near as good, and if you played me Bullet In Blue Sky then played any song from their last two albums and told me it was the same band, I'd have punched you for lying to my face.

They are still talented musically, but that talent is not manifest in their last decade worth's of albums, and that their crap is still so mainstream may show aspects of being overrated (but without knowing comments from music critics, I can't say).