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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
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based on that song. I would have to disagree. It was okay until the chorus.
garage band. A lynyrd skynryd wannabe before they wanted to be
This thread is too broad. I could make a list a mile long in 4 different ways.
The most overrated 'artist' both in popularity and critically, of all time?
Elvis Presley. The King of rock n roll. Never wrote a song in his life. Could barely strum three chords, and sang just well enough to give us a white rock n roll idol. He was pretty lily white. Sucked for canal water
I have to think on this. Bruce Springsteen overrated? Okay. not.
I saw a couple I agree on.
Wilco - way overrated
Frank Zappa - didn't care if he was underrated. But, he played a mean guitar.
How about AC/DC. Way overrated.
Critically Rush was underrated severely. Critics hated them.
And, Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger, Bee Gees, Hall and Oates, even the Stones, Jimi Hendrix IMHO, all overrated. That touches the late 60's -70's.
80's is just too long. It was the dark ages of music.
Every hair band of the 80's, excluding Guns n Roses, and possibly Bon Jovi, although they were way too popular for me, but, they weren't well received critically, and they were pretty strong.
The absolute most critically acclaimed band no one ever heard of in 1985 was REM. Rolling Stone Cover. The greatest rock band in America. And, no one but the college kids, and me knew who they were.
I thought the Clash were overrated in 1980, and Green Day was underrated in 1994.
I'll work on list of current bands that should or shouldn't be.
Here's a band severely underrated now.