The Most Overrated Rock Bands
Overrated bands suck. It's a fact of life. Once the trendy musical press get hold of a band it's only a matter of time before they commit suicide with douche-bullets. But what bands have suffered most at the hands of the hype machine? Let's find out.
Just The Facts
- Overrated bands start life as good, wholesome underground bands.
- The mainstream media will eventually take hold of them and will inject money and ghey into the band.
- Suddenly everyone in the world loves your favourite band, and they're already on their 8th album.
Objectivity Vs. Instinct
Regardless of personal opinion, an objective person can admit that at one point an overrated band was merely; a rated band. This gives the band a 2-3 year / 2-3 album window where they were devastatingly awesome as ten bears. It is at this mark approximately that things go awry. Either the band notices that album sales are good, or concert attendances have sky-rocketed or their record label informs them that they definetly need more lasers at their shows - that the transformation begins. Seemingly overnight they are the biggest thing on the planet they are doomed to be considered jeb-ends until the end of time.
Green Day
"Take THAT, the establishment!"
Green Day are a Californian pop-punk band from California. Their very moniker is derived from the days when they used to cut class and get baked, or some other thoroughly unimpressive teenage cliche. Their debut release 'Dookie' was released to great critical acclaim and was actually pretty good considering it's named after a piece of shit. Nowadays, within a mere decade and a half, they are now the baldy middle-aged perveyors of 'rebellious' pop. Since their 2004 release "American Idiot," they have become a bona-fide parent-approved punk band. That Mam and Dad will listen to in the car after they've dropped you off to school. They're latest album "21st Century Breakdown" has also demonstrated a classic overrated band trait, whereby it takes them 5 years to make the next record. When all the record contains is 3-chord tricks. Know Your Enemy? Yeah, it's everyone that bought Dookie before 2004.
Oasis
Meet The Beatl...? No, Meet Oasis obviously...
These Mancunian Britpop plagiarizers are best known for fierce inter-band fighting and no doubt, somewhere down the line, fierce inbreeding. Again, this band had a very strong debut and sophomore record but then succumbed to sucking. Drug addictions may have contributed to lengthy preiods between albums, and lengthy periods between albums may have contributed to them being basping. Or it could have been their filthy, shameless pilfering of entire songs (albums?) from The Beatles and T. Rex. One of the two. Dig Out Your Soul? No, just keep digging. And digging...
Rush
"We like rock, we do."
These Canadian Prog-Rock mouthbreathers have earned a place in the history books for humble conceptual retardation and for having the most prolific legion of apocolyptically prententious fans under the sun. This band grew into maturity and developed a fan base after having produced a number of records. The inclination of their fanbase seems to to tally with the period within which they began producing some of the most disappointing concept albums of all time. And singing about dragons or whatever. This just goes to prove that pot wasn't as unpopular in the 70's as you were led to believe. This band also excercise the right to gargantuan respite periods, due to band break-ups and so forth; much to the chargrin of their fans. In my experience (as Anglo-Canadian Prog Metal Ambassador and Correspondant), Rush fans are the jacket-and-jeans wearing, male equivalent of bagladies that are willing to kill in the name of Lee, Lifeson and Peart. Genuinely, this band started life with a great of potential. They went from "Funny/Peculiar" to "OHMYFUCKINGGODTHESEGUYSAREFUCKINGHILARIOUS!" within a few small steps.
The Smiths
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U2
"Hello! Helloo!! Oh, he's completely ignoring me..."
U2 began life in the late 70's as a promising post-punk that rose to fame in the 80's. Unfortunately, since thier inception, this band has been whining and activisming all over the world. I say the band, Bono. The other band are nameless, faceless drones that occasionally (like, really occasionally...) will make a record for Bono. The bands pro-active stance on many world issues, that we're all meant to stand in too, seemed to alienate many fans; which led to the band experimenting with any and every genre that was popular in an attempt to win said fans back. So they could tell them about this thing called AID's. Apparently it's a real drag.
(Dis)Honourable Mentions
Linkin Park, Avenged Sevenfold, Judas Priest, Kings of Leon, Razorlight, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Nickelback, The Killers, Dragonforce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Bullet For My Valentine, The Strokes, Tool...
Must remember it's satire...must remember it's satire...Rush is one of the greatest rock bands to walk the planet, and calling them overrated because of their fans is R...E...tarded.
ReplySeriously? Tool overrated?
ReplyAlso B4MV shouldn't be on this list either.
This had better be from a while ago. The only people who talk like this on the internet anymore are either trolls or misguided teenagers.
ReplyRush... overrated? Go f**k yourself.
ReplyI know, right?
The Beatles changed the world forever. They literally CHANGED THE WORLD, not only musically, but also culturally and socially. To say The Beatles are overrated is to be, at minimum, musically uneducated and misinformed.
ReplyThe most OVERRATED band of all time goes by the name of LED ZEPPELIN. Not even 1/3 as good and important as some people say they were.
Oasis and Rush but no Radiohead? Yeah ok
ReplyCome on, Rush are damn awesome. I've seen them live (twice) and I'd love to see a band half their age outplay them.
Replyhate to say this but metallica is so f*****g overrated , you may have heard this from anyone else but anything after 1991 is pure s**t .
ReplyAgree with all of them excepet Tool
ReplyI'm also guessing you're one of the shitfucks who share Rolling Stone's asinine opinion about Rush. It isn't for the knuckle-dragging, weak-minded masses whoc can't handle a lyrics that don't consist of any more than five words and refrain every 20 seconds.
ReplyEat a dick and choke. Ruch is amazing. I'm a proud admitted Rush fan. If that makes me a nerd, then I could give a shit. They're more successful than your favorite band.
ReplyWhat I hate about cracked topics is that any fuckhead can rant about anything thinking he's funny. Roughly 10 percent of the bands here might be overrated. How THE f**k is Oasis overrated? Oasis isn't even know to six eights of the people in america, and they have a record-breaking, award-winning carreer. How the f**k is that overrated?
ReplyFirst.....a great many bands are overrated. The difference between having a day job and a mansion can be as simple as an executive deciding to put your band on rotation on MTV or Clearchannel....
ReplySo many good bands wallow in obscurity. Just the way it is.
My personal most overrated band: Kiss. Do they even have a good song? Rock and Roll all Night...Yawn.
Most overrated riff: Smoke on the Water. Easy as s**t to play, was stolen from a jazz song (dude in the band played jazz)...and gets boring the 2nd time you hear it. And it shows up on 100 different greatest riffs of all time lists.
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Kiss got by on visual flair and pageantry. Their music is the secondary attraction with them. That's why everyone stopped paying attention when they took off the makeup.
Stopped reading when I saw Rush. Rush is probably the best band ever.
ReplyAVENGED SEVENFOLD?!?!?!????
ReplyWhy, HOQ COULD YOU DO THIS?
YOU ARE A MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE MY FAVOURITE f*****g BAND IN THE WHOLE m***********g WHIDE WORLD!!!
THEY DESERVE ALL THE ATTENTION THEY HAVE!!!!!!!!!!
They are very overrated. And their music is a very mediocre and generic kind of metal, it's simply "loudness wars" marketed at angsty teenage boys.
Out of all the bands listed, you choose Avenged Sevenfold to rant about.
Dude, none of the bands (excluding radio-whine-guitar-pop) on the article should be there.
Whoever wrote the article is an incompetent, narrow-minded f******d that should have never seen the light of day.
The article started well with greenday and oasis, but then it turned to s**t when considered overrated to Rush and The Smiths....I wish I knew which are your top ten bands....
ReplyI, personally, am a Green Day fan. Yes, they're overrated... now. I like them, though, because of the catchy old stuff. Kerplunk! and 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours are good CDs. So is Dookie, and, to a lesser extent, American Idiot.
Replyand also i may add that Rush's "gargantuan respite period" was caused because the drummers daughter and wife died. a*****e
ReplyI really dont think green day is talented, But they are great by their simplicity. American idiot was a great concept, 21st century breakdown sucked.
ReplyRush has always been crap, I cant stand geddy lee's voice.
Oasis is the most overrated band ever. Whats the story morning glory is probably their only good album, And their only popular one. And liam and noel think they are gods.
U2 would be ok if bono wasnt such a c**t and the edge wasnt a such a s****y guitarist. I mean really, A shitload of pedals and a beanie makes you awesome?
american idiot sounds fine, but green day is pretty dumb by default, and U2's really influential - what makes edge great is because of his simplicity, not full of 7min. solos that go unremembered and become soulless by a billion other bands out there
@Thatguytanner: So, you dislike Rush simply because of Geddy Lee's voice, but you enjoy Oasis and Green Day, that have singers that don't have the slightest clue about how to carry a tune? OK.
@chongzl: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Now people get praise for not having f*****g chops. Also, trust me, if there's someone out there writing 7 minutes solos [that would qualify them as Shredders or Progressive Rock/Metal artists], they are not doing them for the kinds of people that like U2, and the fans of the genre do remember.
IMO:
ReplyJudas Priest isn't THAT overrated, they just made a bunch of bad albums that got sandwiched between the good stuff, and unfortunately their early stuff isn't popular enough. Everything they made up to but not including "British Steel" is awesome; and "Defenders of the Faith" + "Screaming for Vengeance" + "Painkiller" + the song "Ram It Down" are great. I'll say it: I love them.
Everything Rush made up to 1982 is pretty awesome. They kind of lost their touch in later albums, but they never really sucked. I love them, too.
Tool isn't entirely bad. Overrated, sure, but not *terrible*. Don't really like them, though.
I really f*****g hate all the other bands you mentioned.
Anyway, if you like Green Day's first album, I can't take your opinion very seriously..... they have ALWAYS SUCKED.......