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Dr. Prunk
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Where the buffalo roam.
Posts: 12,137
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I disagree with most of your choices, but here are my thoughts.
21. Van Halen: For one thing, they are not as popular as they are solely because of EVH's technical abillity, because for one thing there were many guitarists more technically capable than him, especially when guys like Vai and Malmsteen came around. Say what you want about Van Halens music and how bad the Hagar and Cherone stuff was. EVH was one of the most innovative guitarists of all time, and if you don't like the David Lee Roth stuff then you just don't know what fun is.
20. Radiohead: Radiohead deserve all the credit they get, and if you think they are on a decline and that Amnesiac was mediocre then nigga you crazy, In Rainbows was an excellent album, and I think it's ridiculous that people are knocking because it's so accessible in comparison to everything else they have done, every evolution the band makes seem natural and they have had the best run of albums of any band in the past 15 years in my opinion.
19. The Grateful Dead: Nah, it's not like they ever had a great deal of media exposure, they just have a very loyal following. They have never been above criticism and from my experience deadheads don't take criticism of The Dead too seriously. They're an aquired taste for sure, but I think they were great.
18. Snoop Dogg: I can agree with this one, he hasn't really done anything notable since Doggystyle.
17. Coldplay: It depends, in terms of media hype yes. But they're one of those bands that have become so trendy to hate that I think it disqualifies them from being that overrated. I do think Rush of Blood to the Head was a very overrated, boring album. Though I liked Parachutes and I actually like the new direction they are taking.
16. The Doors: THEY are not overrated, Morrison? Sure, though I don't think he was a horrible lyricist, he wrote some bad lyrics but some really great ones too, and I love his voice, calling him a great American poet is certainly pushing it. But he was a great frontman, and your opinions of him dosen't make the whole band overrated. The Doors IMO were the most wildly inventive and original American band of the 60s.
15. The Eagles: Again we have another band that is just so trendy to hate, I wouldn't call them overrated at all, because they are not just a band that people hate, they are THE band that people hate. I thought Hotel California was an excellent album, Desperado too. Yeah they have a big following, but their following is mostly simple folk who don't even pay any attention to people that criticize them, and you don't hear them ranting about how superior to everyone else they are. I mean I could understand the distate for them because they made inoffensive soft rock music, but at least they were damn good at it. And if you hate that kinda music there are certainly more deserving bands to pick on. Journey anyone?
14. Garth Brooks: Hell yes. Everyone treats him as the new god of country and if thats true then it says a lot about the state of country music today.
13. John Lennon: A little, but he at least made 2 great almost perfect albums. Don't really care for anything he's done after that.
12. Eminem: Absolutely. Thats not to say he dosen't have some great material, but I'd certainly say he is the most overrated rapper of all time. Hearing him constantly whine about his mom and his ex, and how the media treats him just gets damned annoying, it's almost all he ever raps about.
11. Kayne West: Yeah he is. Some good stuff, but he's such an arrogant prick, even for a rapper. I don't really get all the hype about him.
10. The Rolling Stones: Certainly overrated, but they still had some excellent material in the 60s and early 70s. I just don't think they deserve the kinda sacred cow status that they have, they get way too much praise and lack of criticism for a band that has put out so much crap in the past 30 years. I would rank them much higher.
9. Nirvana: For one I don't agree with what you said, they wouldn't have just been forgotten, they were pretty much the biggest f*cking band in the world at one point, that dosen't just happen and then people completely forget about it. A little overrated, sure, but I wouldn't rank them this high, again because so many people hate them.
8. 2 Pac: I was always more of a Biggie fan. In fact I'd say west coast hip hop is pretty overrated as a whole. Yeah NWA and Dr. Dre were great, they didn't really have much beyond that, not to mention the west coast is mostly repsonsable for the negative direction hip hop has taken. 2 Pac was a real jerk, it was him that kept stirring the whole East Coast/West Coast rivalry thing up, he got killed because he was an irresponsable idiot and a prick, and now he's supposed to be some kind of great role model?
7. KISS: Hell yes, that is all I have to say.
6. Dave Matthews Band: Never really understood their appeal, then again their fanbase consists almost entirely of stoners and new age hippies.
5. The White Stripes: A little, but they get a lot of unfair criticism just because Jack is no Steve Vai and Meg is no Neal Peart, they're a great band, certainly one of the best bands around today, sometimes simple is good.
4. Prince: Yeah he is overrated, but he had some great pop stuff in the 80s. I do think his fans take him way too seriously.
3. Bruce Springsteen: Not a fan, but he made some truly great albums in the 70s. I can't stand Born in the USA though, and his new stuff is boring old fogey rock that I don't think would get as much praise if it wasn't Bruce Springsteen.
2. U2: Now, and I know this is gonna spark some crap, but no I don't think they deserve to be this high, yes they are overrated as far as media hype is concerned, but at the same time they have become such a dispised band that simply liking them (like I do) has become a mark of shame, I will say they haven't dont anything noteworthy since Atchung Baby and they get a lot of praise no matter how crappy their new album is, and even I can't really explain why they are as popular as they are, but they still had some great stuff and I hate the fact that they are so hated, which I really attribute to Bonos celebrity status and their popularity than to their actual music.
1. Mariah Carey: Why her of all people? Does she constantly get 5 star reviews? No. Do you see a lot of people talking about how great she is? Other than 12 year old girls, no. Is she considered beyond criticism? Absolutely not, everybody acknoledged Glitter as a piece of crap. Why did you pick her? Seriously.
If I were to make my own list it would be.
10. U2
9. Green Day
8. Oasis
7. 2 Pac
6. Aerosmith
5. The Smiths
4. Eminem
3. KISS
2. Rolling Stones
1. Bob Dylan
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