So many to choose from here. Here's a few of mine; Oasis The Beatles The Rolling Stones The Police U2 Morrissey Nirvana The Thompson Twins Howard Jones Paul Weller..............................
I agree with the most part of your list except The Beatles. Like I said earlier, Blink 182 are the most overrated in my opinion, I just can't understand why they're popular.
Get that man a pint. Really, really, really don't get them at all. Mind you Travis, Keane, Snow patrol and razor Light all do my nut in as well. oh and Mumford and sons
We should group all the Indie music of this Millennium as overrated. They're all crap bands. The Wombats being the worst.
a friend of mine who does some music journalism invented a phrase - at least Id never heard it until he wrote it - " Landfill Indie " says it all about some of those bands
The Beatles were the first manufactured boy band and their music has not stood the test of time. Banal songwriting and throwaway lyrics make them criminally overrated. The Kinks were by far the better band at the time with quirky original songwriting and intelligent thoughtful lyrics. Any band that comes out with "Yellow Submarine" are to be dismissed as not serious.
Aw c`mon...would you dismiss " obla di obla da " or " maxwells silver hammer " so.....dismissively ...you pop tart !
Deep Purple (in fact all loon panted talentless hairy buffoons) The Darkness (remember them) Blue (all manufactured bands) Wet wet wet (wet) Rhcp (do not understand this at all...dismal) Robbie Williams (Fat,tattoed,squint eyed,talentless drongo from Stoke...need I say more) proclaimers
The second half of that album is like lift muzak, I'll grant you. Can't just dismiss the Beatles out of hand, though - no-one else has ever been so influential and played a bigger part in shaping pop music along with LOADS of nigh-on perfect songs. This thread is dangerous ground - i reckon nearly every band ever is over-rated
And yet They've sold over a Billion records, 29 No.1 singles in the US/UK, revolutionized the way songs were recorded, were the first band to implement feedback in their work, completely changed Youth Culture of the 60's, manufactured the popular ideal of music videos amongst many other reasons. And this was all done within a decade...
F Applause Absolutely spot on ER - Kinks were vastly superior and had far more influence on some of the real greats of the alst 40 years than the other lot - the Beatles thought they were funny and original - the Kinks just were.
Just because they sell a lot of records means they are brilliant? Like Take That, Boyzone, Daniel O Donnel, The Spice Girls. The Beatles were vastly overrated and their two only decent songs were written by George Harrison - Something and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Lennon and McCartney were piss poor tunesmiths. Passable when they wrote together and ****in' hopeless on their own. Absolute drivel which the teenybopper girls lapped up.
