Most Underrated/Overrated Artists

Zer0 · 10-31-2013, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by chris_mills

Underrated- The 1975, Arctic Monkeys new album, (everyone's hates it?), The blue collars, MMX, Dirty Green Vinyl

Overrated- One D, JB, Katy Perry, Rihanna, basically any pop artist.

What's funny here is that Arctic Monkeys are essentially pop artists, in that they've had lots of chart success, lots of radio play and they write some catchy songs.

Rjinn · 10-31-2013, 08:18 PM

I'm throwing in Nine Inch Nails. Whenever someone thinks about industrial, they think Nine Inch Nails. When there are many bands Like The Young Gods, Pigface who could kick Nine Inch Nails to the curb.

Key · 11-01-2013, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rjinn

I'm throwing in Nine Inch Nails. Whenever someone thinks about industrial, they think Nine Inch Nails. When there are many bands Like The Young Gods, Pigface who could kick Nine Inch Nails to the curb.

I'd agree. Especially since I saw close to nothing about their new album until I went to their wikipedia page a few weeks ago. Which is a pretty damn good album if I may throw that out there.

Zer0 · 11-02-2013, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Rjinn

I'm throwing in Nine Inch Nails. Whenever someone thinks about industrial, they think Nine Inch Nails. When there are many bands Like The Young Gods, Pigface who could kick Nine Inch Nails to the curb.

I like Nine Inch Nails but I agree that they're a bit on the overrated side. When you mention industrial to someone here they seem to immediately think of Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson. Some will even think that industrial started with Nine Inch Nails. Mention Throbbing Gristle to them and they'll think you're referring to a sex toy.

The Young Gods are amazing though.

Dash_Rendar · 11-16-2013, 06:04 PM

I have a ton of bands I really feel are overrated (mainly by pretentious rock elitist mags like Spin and Rolling Stone), but I will boil my list down to 5 I have TRIED so hard to like.

1. Sonic Youth: give me all the **** you want I've listened to Daydream Nation, Goo and Dirty numerous times and was not impressed.
2. Radiohead: I actually like a decent amount of their songs, but people seem to worship every piece of music they put out, even when it's IMO not great)
3. The Smiths: Like Radiohead I do like a handful of songs, but not quite as much. Morissey's voice and lyrics make me think he's an extremely self-centered douche.
4. Pavement: People rant and rave about Concrete and how it's the most "influential" album of the early 90's. I didn't hate the album, but again I feel it's highly overrated and can't honestly say I had any of the songs stuck in my head.
5. My Bloody Valentine: The only people who overrate this noise garbage is pretentious music journalists who love anything ambient. I'm sorry if you like them, but IMO it's just a bunch of off-key chords and distortion with reverb and layered sound.

Good Guy · 11-16-2013, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Dash_Rendar

I have a ton of bands I really feel are overrated (mainly by pretentious rock elitist mags like Spin and Rolling Stone), but I will boil my list down to 5 I have TRIED so hard to like.

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4. Pavement: People rant and rave about Concrete and how it's the most "influential" album of the early 90's. I didn't hate the album, but again I feel it's highly overrated and can't honestly say I had any of the songs stuck in my head.

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What?

I'm not sure if I'm misreading facetiousness.

Based off your little commentary it seems to me that you are incredibly dismissive and label anything that you don't understand as pretentious.

I mean if you can't understand or appreciate it, it must be stupid, right?

Neapolitan · 11-17-2013, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Dash_Rendar

I have a ton of bands I really feel are overrated (mainly by pretentious rock elitist mags like Spin and Rolling Stone), but I will boil my list down to 5 I have TRIED so hard to like.

1. Sonic Youth: give me all the **** you want I've listened to Daydream Nation, Goo and Dirty numerous times and was not impressed.
2. Radiohead: I actually like a decent amount of their songs, but people seem to worship every piece of music they put out, even when it's IMO not great)
3. The Smiths: Like Radiohead I do like a handful of songs, but not quite as much. Morissey's voice and lyrics make me think he's an extremely self-centered douche.
4. Pavement: People rant and rave about Concrete and how it's the most "influential" album of the early 90's. I didn't hate the album, but again I feel it's highly overrated and can't honestly say I had any of the songs stuck in my head.
5. My Bloody Valentine: The only people who overrate this noise garbage is pretentious music journalists who love anything ambient. I'm sorry if you like them, but IMO it's just a bunch of off-key chords and distortion with reverb and layered sound.

I like the top three bands, I don't think they are over-rated by any means. I mean by who's standards? Like fans or music review magazines? Because the Smiths are as revered as The Beatles are to most modern music critic and they are not to be disputed. Radiohead is awesome because Thome Yorke is awesome because he was born in 68 and that makes him great. Sonic Youth are bitchin' because they play noisy alternate tuned (as Sequoioideae puts it) "offset guitars." Pavement I don't know what to say but ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew. I don't listen to My Bloody Valentine because I have trouble listen to bands with some kind of gruesome imagery in their title like Death Cab for Cutie or Between the Buried Amy. So Bloody turned me off with their name, one thing I didn't think of before that I just realized right now is that I always interpreted at Bloody in the American connotation of the word, not the British, which I guess would be if translated into the normal American-English language My F@#%ing Valentine, if that is the case I might take a look into them.

GuD · 11-17-2013, 01:10 AM

MBV are named after some cult 70s horror film. They actually have a handful of songs that are great pop tunes, IE When You Sleep and Honey Power. I get bored by the more ambient ones too though.

Overrated: The Black Keys. Sorry, total snooze fest for me. Same goes for a lot of other alternative radio rock.

Underrated: Obits. I try and talk this band up whenever I can. They get good press but everyone I've met who has heard of them was indifferent. They're one of my favorite current bands, great musicianship, production, lyrics, everything. Their live set is a little stale but they're not really a rock-out kinda band anyways.

Having been that pretentious ******* that instinctively writes off any pop star I can definitely relate to finding that mentality irritating. I wouldn't say that all people who say things like that are pretentious though, I think a lot of them just think that's a "cool" thing to say or are just really closed-minded about music. What's funny is a lot of the time people who say stuff like that like music that contains a lot of the same characteristics as a pop song- basic structure, nice melodies, a hook. I think it's all just posturing. There are certain crowds that I would never admit it around but Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus is a great song. SUE ME.

Paul Smeenus · 11-17-2013, 01:29 AM

Over-rated, U2. I really like the War album, The Unforgettable Fire has moments, but then came The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby...... Nah

Taxman · 11-17-2013, 01:36 AM

Since the only music style I really know anything about is rock, these lists will only include rock artists.

5 Most Overrated Bands
1) Pink Floyd
The Piper at The Gates of The Dawn is good album, but when Barret had to leave, Floyd lost it all. Gilmour-Waters led Floyd is one of the most boring bands ever. Everybody seems to worship them and I don't know the reason why even now.
2) Guns And Roses
Stupidity. That's the right word. While Slash is talented guitarist with a good sound,Axl Rose spoils it all. They're songs seems to be just stupid pop songs that are disguised as a glam metal songs. Pure stupidity.
3) Bruce Springsteen
What has this guy ever done? His music is boring and generic,and his lyrics. Absolutely laughable little stories about normal people. He seems to become kind of working class hero and it annoys me a lot. His philosophy is completely awful. Plus he is so American that it's intolerance.
4) The Clash
Okay. I don't usually like punk that much at all, but what the hell everybody sees in these guys? Stupendous pseudo-rebellious lyrics with stupid experiments that did not usually succeed. They tried nearly everything, but they weren't good in anything.
5) The Who
This is a hard one because I really love The 'O. It's just that they are not on the same level with Beatles and Kinks and Stones. Cos after all, they recorded only three classic albums (Leeds, My Generation and Quadrophenia) while Kinks recorded five (Face To Face-Arthur plus Hillbillies, Beatles recorded 12 classic albums and Stones seven (Aftermath-Exile). So the Who is really lesser band than those another bands.

10-31-2013, 08:18 PM	#1872 (permalink)
Rjinn The Aerosol in your Soul Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: New South Wales, Australia Posts: 1,546	I'm throwing in Nine Inch Nails. Whenever someone thinks about industrial, they think Nine Inch Nails. When there are many bands Like The Young Gods, Pigface who could kick Nine Inch Nails to the curb. __________________ last.fm

11-16-2013, 06:04 PM	#1875 (permalink)
Dash_Rendar Groupie Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 1	I have a ton of bands I really feel are overrated (mainly by pretentious rock elitist mags like Spin and Rolling Stone), but I will boil my list down to 5 I have TRIED so hard to like. 1. Sonic Youth: give me all the ** you want I've listened to Daydream Nation, Goo and Dirty numerous times and was not impressed. 2. Radiohead: I actually like a decent amount of their songs, but people seem to worship every piece of music they put out, even when it's IMO not great) 3. The Smiths: Like Radiohead I do like a handful of songs, but not quite as much. Morissey's voice and lyrics make me think he's an extremely self-centered douche. 4. Pavement: People rant and rave about Concrete and how it's the most "influential" album of the early 90's. I didn't hate the album, but again I feel it's highly overrated and can't honestly say I had any of the songs stuck in my head. 5. My Bloody Valentine:** The only people who overrate this noise garbage is pretentious music journalists who love anything ambient. I'm sorry if you like them, but IMO it's just a bunch of off-key chords and distortion with reverb and layered sound.

11-17-2013, 01:10 AM	#1878 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	MBV are named after some cult 70s horror film. They actually have a handful of songs that are great pop tunes, IE When You Sleep and Honey Power. I get bored by the more ambient ones too though. Overrated: The Black Keys. Sorry, total snooze fest for me. Same goes for a lot of other alternative radio rock. Underrated: Obits. I try and talk this band up whenever I can. They get good press but everyone I've met who has heard of them was indifferent. They're one of my favorite current bands, great musicianship, production, lyrics, everything. Their live set is a little stale but they're not really a rock-out kinda band anyways. Having been that pretentious ******* that instinctively writes off any pop star I can definitely relate to finding that mentality irritating. I wouldn't say that all people who say things like that are pretentious though, I think a lot of them just think that's a "cool" thing to say or are just really closed-minded about music. What's funny is a lot of the time people who say stuff like that like music that contains a lot of the same characteristics as a pop song- basic structure, nice melodies, a hook. I think it's all just posturing. There are certain crowds that I would never admit it around but Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus is a great song. SUE ME.

11-17-2013, 01:36 AM	#1880 (permalink)
Taxman watching the wheels Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Finland Posts: 470	Since the only music style I really know anything about is rock, these lists will only include rock artists. 5 Most Overrated Bands 1) Pink Floyd The Piper at The Gates of The Dawn is good album, but when Barret had to leave, Floyd lost it all. Gilmour-Waters led Floyd is one of the most boring bands ever. Everybody seems to worship them and I don't know the reason why even now. 2) Guns And Roses Stupidity. That's the right word. While Slash is talented guitarist with a good sound,Axl Rose spoils it all. They're songs seems to be just stupid pop songs that are disguised as a glam metal songs. Pure stupidity. 3) Bruce Springsteen What has this guy ever done? His music is boring and generic,and his lyrics. Absolutely laughable little stories about normal people. He seems to become kind of working class hero and it annoys me a lot. His philosophy is completely awful. Plus he is so American that it's intolerance. 4) The Clash Okay. I don't usually like punk that much at all, but what the hell everybody sees in these guys? Stupendous pseudo-rebellious lyrics with stupid experiments that did not usually succeed. They tried nearly everything, but they weren't good in anything. 5) The Who This is a hard one because I really love The 'O. It's just that they are not on the same level with Beatles and Kinks and Stones. Cos after all, they recorded only three classic albums (Leeds, My Generation and Quadrophenia) while Kinks recorded five (Face To Face-Arthur plus Hillbillies, Beatles recorded 12 classic albums and Stones seven (Aftermath-Exile). So the Who is really lesser band than those another bands.