The ten most overrated bands in music history.

What about Nirvana?

Yeah, they're a really fucking overrated, terrible band as well.

any girl band ever

Also... The Rolling Stones.

I'll agree, and raise you a Green Day. Not too terrible, but overrated to all hell.

Creed,
Nickleback,
Boy bands,
Thug rappers,
and
GodSmack(or as I like to call them)-Metallica in Chains.

the beatles.. meh


plus they're a bunch of satanists

Oh, and I almost forgot about KID ROCK.

It still baffles the mind as to how a common thug from inner city Detroit is now a fucking rock/country star. He did a song with INSANE CLOWN POSSE for fuck's sake!

I'd also like to submit Werewolves of Sweet Home Alabama (aka "All Summer Long") as the one of the most overrated songs of all time.

U2
Nickelback
Staind
Dave Matthews
Grateful Dead
Pearl Jam


Actually almost everything played on the radio is overrated.

Yeah, I forgot about Kid Rock

Zeppelin Rulz!

I'd agree about Nirvana. I was in my early 20s when 'grunge' exploded onto the world. I thought there was nothing new or original about them at all there were tons of sh*tty bands around then that cranked up the distortion on their pedals to hide their utter lack of guitar-playing ability and had the same sort of gutteral (or whining) vocals in lieu of any singing ability.

They had one fairly catchy song that grabbed the zeitgeist at the time (Smells like Teen Spirit) that was tolerable, the rest was utter crap.

That cover of the Bowie song was horrible but it certainly revealed what a gawd-awful singer Cobain was - over-emoted, pronounced certain words strangely, cracked his voice too much etc.

That, and their lyrics are atrocious.

Having said that, I'd have to include Pearl Jam. Again, one tolerable song - Jeremy - and the rest were crap (though at least unlike Cobain the guy could sing).

Can I get a DEF LEPPARD up in here?

Or perhaps they should go under "Biggest Sellout Band" instead?

Last Edited by A Cynical Mind on 06/14/2009 05:47 PM

It only took 40 years for the Stones to get over rated!

+CREED

Sorry, I take that back... METALLICA is the biggest sellout band in history.

vanilla ice 1000%

Yeah, I also love how some of the biggest chart-topping singles ever are covers/rip-offs of older tunes.

It's like the music industry is trying to be unoriginal and turn out shitty music.

ACDC

OP is a bitter old man.

For that reason, you should like Nirvana, man! They're one of the best bands ever.

How about a MICHAEL JACKSON?

Any takers for that one?

Total bullshit.

Nope.

U2

Nirvana is up there with The Beatles and Zep.

If you don't understand Nirvana then you must not understand the punk rock ethic.

What do you think of The Clash?

Sorry, but I'm afraid that the answer is YES.

"Generation X" turned out some of the worst music I've ever heard, and "Generation Y" isn't doing much better.

The airwaves are now dominated by garbage like Nickelback and by one-hit-wonders like Soulja Boy... and so-called "classic rock" stations have the nerve to play bullshit like Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are.

Well if you're gonna write off all music made after 1980 then there's no talking to you anyway.

Don't you have a cloud to yell at or something?

U2


very average muscians...average songwriters, below average singing/ harmonies.

anyone that thinks the beatles are the most overated band in history, needs to try and write a song like Eleanor Rigby or A Day iN The Life, and then get back to me.