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Who is the most overrated band in your opinion?

For me it is Radiohead. Sorry fans, I just don't think they should be treated as gods of new music. Seems no matter what they put out, people just melt.
Not to say I don't like some of their stuff, I just think they are way overrated for what they do.

Who is yours?

Akfishlady 8 Aug 20
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The Beach Boys. Talent a mile wide and an inch deep.

I always thought they were a bit lightweight and "poppy" but I caught them at a festival in 1973 and I was very impressed. The studio version of good vibrations was brilliant although they could not produce that sound live.

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Way to start WWIII!!!! LMFAO!!!!!

😉

@Akfishlady Yeah, I can't stand Coldplay or ABBA either. 😉

@JustLynnie ABBA is ABBAmonable!

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Country music. I love this old joke:

What happens when you play a country song backward?

A guy gets his job back, his truck back, his dog back, his woman back and his trailer back.

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not sure about overrated, but NICKLEBACK gets more hate than they deserve....

no, wait - they really do suck.
Sorry

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The Hooties, so much so the the term hootie effect is used when a band is more popular than they deserve.

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KISS!

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REO Speedwagon gives me the urge to rip vocal chords out. To boil my eardrums in acid. To find the dullest knife to jab repeatedly into speakers...

Lol

@Byrdsfan
You typed it! Talk about giving one the urge to regurgitate.....

@JustLynnie
Some friend..... 😛

Whiny vocals, big hair, and Lycra pants. The worst.

@Sydland
Yep, that's it in a nutshell.

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Beyonce (I realize she is not "a band" )

GwenC Level 7 Aug 20, 2018

I know what you mean but she did a good Etta James in movie Cadillac records

SO over rated. Don't like her or her shallow vapid "music" at all. "Single Ladies" blech!

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Bon Jovi

And double agree to this too! I’m gonna have to update my list lol

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U2....hate'em

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REO Speedwagon. The bane of my existence during the 80s. Besides Reagan.

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The Grateful Dead. That band is definitely less than the sum of its parts.

@Akfishlady The irony is that I just made a ton of money playing a weekend in a GD cover band at a hippie fest in the hills of redwood country. I had a ton of fun, but I still am no fan of the Dead.

I always thought that if all of you guys are gonna follow a band around, why not follow a GOOD band.

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REM. All their songs sound exactly the same, and it was pretty dull even when they started doing it.

Jnei Level 8 Aug 22, 2018

@Akfishlady I have The Pixies for that purpose 🙂

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Steve Miller Band
monotone drivel.

But some complex lyrics! I'm gonna fly like an eagle... So deep

@weelittleone So profound I am still pondering the meaning. =0}

@PalacinkyPDX That & "Yummy Yummy Yummy I've got love in my tummy"
1910 Fruit Gum Company. But they were not a band. They were a joke on anyone who bought that piece of vinyl unless it was for a beer coaster.

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Radiohead. What tossers

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Guns and roses or bon jovi.

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Also can't stand the Beatles. Love love me do, you know I love you, I'll always be true... my 6 yr old nephew can rhyme better..

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I'm with you there.

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Greatfull Dead, REO, KISS, KC and the Sunshine Band, ABBA, Kansas

@Liberty I hated disco.

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Phish and Greatful Dead

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Any hair metal band. Especially Motley Crü.

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Christ on a bike, I forgot fucking Coldplay. How many variations on one tune can anyone get away with? They have the answer. And Ed ‘the looper’ Sheeran.

Gwenythe says he is a "genious". At plagiarism perhaps.

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Van Halen! Ugh, especially when David Lee Roth was lead singer.

I can't stand the screeching vocals!

@JustLynnie I do not dispute that at all. But, David Lee Roth sucks.

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Anything involving Prince. The definition of quantity over quality. His whole image was a cheap polyester rip off of Little Richard, and he looked like a foetus dipped in pubic hair.

Try listening to his album "true". No hype, only released to his fans, largely acoustic and no videos etc.

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Oh wow, we really do need to get married. Here in the UK, Radiohead have been widely considered the Greatest Band Of All Time for many years; personally, I fail to see any point in them at all. People say, "Oh, but the lyrics tap into the melancholy of existence," and I say "Yeah, but Leonard Cohen and Joy Division did it far better decades ago".

I was now going to write a long list of all the other bands I view in a similar light, but to be honest there are so many I just can't be bothered. Abba would be high on that list, though.

Jnei Level 8 Aug 20, 2018

@Akfishlady The main reason I stopped going to gay bars was I just couldn't tolerate any more Abba! have you seen Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?

@Akfishlady Best line in any film ever:

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