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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ggw on September 28, 2004, 02:43:00 pm
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-Radiohead
-Smashing Pumpkins
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hmm partly temped to close this thread before feelings get hurt... already enough pissing matches going on the board today.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
-Radiohead
-Smashing Pumpkins
ggw, you are so foolish
if i say who i pick, Kosmo will definitely close the thread.
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saying a band is overrated is not a personal attack
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tie...yeah yeah yeahs and the strokes
runner-up...the drive-by truckers (just kidding, rhett. how can a band be overrated when they hardly rate at all?)
i'm preparing myself for the wrath.
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A lot of bands that I hear a "buzz" about...stuff that I'm sure is probably pretty good and I would like, but somehow when I hear for the 100th time that they're so GREAT or AMAZING it just drives me nuts.
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I'm afraid to so much as breath too loudly in this thread.
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Originally posted by joz:
runner-up...the drive-by truckers (just kidding, rhett. how can a band be overrated when they hardly rate at all?)
i'm preparing myself for the wrath.
good point. a lot of people have to like them, before they are overrated.
i pick
the "N" band. (you know)
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some of these bands I even like, and I think they're overrated
Big Star
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed
Steve Earle
Smashing Pumpkins
U2
Elvis Costello
Radiohead
Pearl Jam
Kasey Chambers
that band that pitchfork was raving about the other day
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I take overrated to mean "as rated by critics."
Popularity doesn't rate a band, the media does.
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Originally posted by joz:
runner-up...the drive-by truckers (just kidding, rhett. how can a band be overrated when they hardly rate at all?)
i'm preparing myself for the wrath.
good point. a lot of people have to like them, before they are overrated.
i pick
the "N" band. (you know) [/b]
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n'sync
jessica simpson
backstreet boys
the used
ted nugent
bob segar
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I take overrated to mean "as rated by critics."
Popularity doesn't rate a band, the media does.
oh, well then i have no idea whos overrated.
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Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Dio
Ozzy Osbourne
Metallica
Deep Purple
Jefferson Airplane
The Cars
Van Halen
Motley Crue
Eric Clapton
Smashing Pumpkins
The Cure
The Smiths
Black Flag
BLOW ME! (http://asf.allwavs.com/wav01/For_Women/blowme2.wav)
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KISS
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Originally posted by distance:
KISS
Good choice.
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The White Stripes
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Journey
Rush
Heart
Peter Frampton
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Wilco
The Strokes
Eminem
Sigur Ros
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Megadeth
Bon Jovi
Poison
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where's the real markie anyway?
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David Bowie
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Originally posted by marquee smith:
Originally posted by distance:
KISS
Good choice. [/b]
I'd argue that KISS are actually underrated. At one time, they were a great band, but they never got taken seriously (for obvious reasons, which they brought on themselves). Good-time-party-rock-and-roll. They were great at it.
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actually, you know what. i have always though the Beach Boys were a bit overrated.
i know people think they are influential, but really, i think their music sucks and just dont hear anything like it in most of the music i like.
unless they trademarked the high pitch voice ala Ben Folds/ Ted Leo.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
actually, you know what. i have always though the Beach Boys were a bit overrated.
i know people think they are influential, but really, i think their music sucks and just dont hear anything like it in most of the music i like.
totally agree...
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I'm listening to track 8 on Pet Sounds right now (God Only Knows), and it's really hard to deny that song (among others on that album) ...
I agree though, they can start to grate on you, especially their early stuff and especially if you listen to them for an extended period of time ...
All that said, Pet Sounds really stands up as a classic album.
Anyone get SMiLE today?
Originally posted by sonickteam2:
actually, you know what. i have always though the Beach Boys were a bit overrated.
i know people think they are influential, but really, i think their music sucks and just dont hear anything like it in most of the music i like.
unless they trademarked the high pitch voice ala Ben Folds/ Ted Leo.
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
i know people think they are influential, but really, i think their music sucks and just dont hear anything like it in most of the music i like.
unless they trademarked the high pitch voice ala Ben Folds/ Ted Leo.
do you listen to indie pop? beulah? the thrills? apples in stereo? they're all direct descendents
they trademarked "california pop", plus their harmonies were really groundbreaking for rock music ... i think people did the falsetto before they did though ...
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i've often said i preferred beach boy/brian wilson influenced bands over the orginial.... no doubt brian wilson was geniuns in the studio and great arranger, however he wasn't the best songwriter in the world. and "god only knows" maybe to one of the few songs that dosen't make me cringe.
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I have to agree that Radiohead are one of the most overrated bands, ever.
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:
do you listen to indie pop? beulah? the thrills? apples in stereo? they're all direct descendents
i listen to VERY little indie pop. very little.
like, almost none actually. but i do know the Thrills sound like the Beach Boys. but the Thrills are also a "C average" band in my book.
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U2 is the most utterly uninteresting band ever created. And the most pompous. Nothing more annoying than a tired, unoriginal retard who thinks his lyrics are saving the world. The band's musical ability is painfully overrated and the last few records are radio-friendly, undemanding, overproduced crap. And all four of them should have been locked in a steel crate and launched into outer space for making that completely unbearable techno record a few years back.
Add to the list:
Dave Matthews Band
Morrissey
Radiohead
The 400,000 retro sound bands that sound shamelessly like the Stooges and other 70s bands - Jet, the Hives, etc.
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spiritualised..................
i've never been so bored at a show since the last time i saw spiritualised......................
ooh i'm a dumbass.................where are my flip flops?
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COLDPLAY
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somebody actually spent the time to rate coldplay?
borrrrrrrrrrrrrrring
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Originally posted by PigIron:
Add to the list:
Dave Matthews Band
I maintain that DMB got a bum rap among music buffs because of their popularity among people who generally don't care about music.
Sure, the lyrics generally suck and his vocals get annoying ... but their musicianship is really top-notch, almost virtuoustic, and they write great songs ...
then again, rush are great musicians. and they suck.
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i can't believe no one has mentioned them yet...
the strokes...
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Originally posted by lily1:
i can't believe no one has mentioned them yet...
the strokes...
As I mentioned above..
"The 400,000 retro sound bands that sound shamelessly like the Stooges and other 70s bands - Jet, the Hives, etc."
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Originally posted by lily1:
i can't believe no one has mentioned them yet...
the strokes...
they are actually quite good..............and pretty great live.........
maybe that's why they weren't mentioned..........
although drew barrymore is lowering their hipster status.........
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
although drew barrymore is lowering their hips
and raising their hips................... and repeat
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this thread should have been
Band One Doesn't Give A Monkey's About
Nothing against any of these bands, there are only so many hours in day and I don't need to listen to them.
DMB
Radiohead
etc....
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The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys