1) Red Hot Chili Peppers
2) White Stripes
3) Linkin Park

Yeah, I said it. Come and get me.

5/31/2007 9:02:31 PM

the red hot chili peppers havent done anything worth listening to in forever, but it wasnt always like that

5/31/2007 9:07:40 PM

I don't think anyone with an ounce of merit has ever praised Linkin Park.

5/31/2007 9:08:30 PM

Wow. I like this thread. Well put.

5/31/2007 9:09:32 PM

5/31/2007 9:11:06 PM

Yeah U2 gets the fucking prize

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"1) Red Hot Chili Peppers 2) White Stripes 3) Linkin Park "

pretty decent list...though I think the White Stripes are ok.

5/31/2007 9:18:22 PM

I happen to like old U2, nonetheless I still would consider them techncially overrated.

5/31/2007 9:20:34 PM

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"Yeah U2 gets the fucking prize"

wrong

5/31/2007 9:24:11 PM

disagreement about music amongst a messageboard with a wide diversity of people? who would've thought!

5/31/2007 9:25:30 PM

If anything, the White Stripes will be remembered for their resurrection of forgotten classics as much as their original material. Their version of "Death Letter" stands up against anything in their catalog, and it's a pretty fucking strong catalog.

There are only a handful of bands doing anything interesting with basic rock instrumentation these days, but the White Stripes are one of those bands. In 1999, the last thing anyone wanted to hear was another guitar band (even Pavement was getting tiresome), and they basically forced people to accept that Zeppelin-esque combination of bombast and sloppiness, even at a time when super-tight shit like the Hives was becoming popular.

5/31/2007 9:30:41 PM

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"There are only a handful of bands doing anything interesting with basic rock instrumentation these days, but the White Stripes are one of those bands. In 1999, the last thing anyone wanted to hear was another guitar band (even Pavement was getting tiresome), and they basically forced people to accept that Zeppelin-esque combination of bombast and sloppiness, even at a time when super-tight shit like the Hives was becoming popular."

English, please?

5/31/2007 9:35:02 PM

jack johnson?

5/31/2007 9:35:51 PM

i think Dave Mathews Band is overrated too

But I'm wondering if the bands I'm listing are overrated, or if I just don't personally like them, cause a lot of this is about opinion

5/31/2007 9:56:45 PM

arctic monkeys

5/31/2007 9:57:47 PM

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"But I'm wondering if the bands I'm listing are overrated, or if I just don't personally like them, cause a lot of this is about opinion"

this is generally case

5/31/2007 9:58:49 PM

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"cause a lot all of this is about opinion"

fixed

5/31/2007 10:01:39 PM

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"English, please?"

umm, that rundown was written quite well. I suppose too well for this board. Good job, Brian!

5/31/2007 10:02:22 PM

dave matthews just sucks, nothing overrated about it

anything rap is overrated, i mean if you retards want to throw away money on cds, then ill make a synthesized drum beat on a keyboard, steal a piano riff from some classical music composer, and talk in rhyme over top of it...then you can pay me millions for this garbage

5/31/2007 10:09:34 PM

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"There are only a couple bands who rock out with their cock out these days, and the White Stripes is one of them. A few years ago, the last thing anyone wanted to hear was another kick-ass band (even [a band you've probably never heard of] was getting tiresome), and The White Stripes basically forced people to accept old school shit, even at a time when [another band you've probably never heard of] was becoming popular."

fixed for God

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 10:09 PM. Reason : ]

5/31/2007 10:09:42 PM

also I think Blood Sugar Sex Magik was a great album and Rattle and Hum and Joshua Tree are good albums...neither of those bands have done anything spectacular this century though

I dont think Linkin Park or Arctic Monkeys are rated high enough to be overrated but maybe thats just me

A lot of the stuff on the radio nowadays is overrated, but that pretty much spans all genres (as far as "bands of our time"

^^eh...i'll completely concede that most of the shit on the radio or mtv/bet as far as rap nowadays is garbage, but you cant just pigeonhole the entire hip hop genre like that...that would be like me saying all rock n roll sucked just because limp bizkit and kid rock are garbage

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 10:11 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2007 10:10:04 PM

I can damn well tell you who was underrated... the fucking Cult thats who

5/31/2007 10:16:01 PM

yea i guess, my main problem with rap is it seems too easy to make money off of it, like not as much talent as rock bands...but i guess i could say the same for a lot of female pop artists too

5/31/2007 10:16:08 PM

concerning the arctic monkeys:

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"Meanwhile, the UK's NME magazine declared the band's debut album the "5th greatest British album of all time"."

granted its just one shitty magazine, but still

5/31/2007 10:17:01 PM

^^ rap is where "metal" was in the late 80s... its really easy to do, really hard to do it really good

5/31/2007 10:18:48 PM

yeah basically...its the most popular niche/subsegment of mainstream music nowadays, if that makes any sense but because of that, its easy to get out there if you mold to the cookie cutter sound, even though the true fans realize its the commercial fluff that makes the radio sets

5/31/2007 10:22:02 PM

How bout Boston?

They weren't even really a band. Just Tom Scholtz's one man rocktron parade (with Brad Delp singing of course)

5/31/2007 10:27:13 PM

U2 is the biggest piece of shit band ever

Red Hot Chili Pepper are pretty good though

Definitely doesn't merit the most overrated bands

5/31/2007 10:28:10 PM

this is like arguing about abortion, or if racism still exist

5/31/2007 10:33:51 PM

^^^ Now that is just uncalled for

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 10:34 PM. Reason : ,]

5/31/2007 10:34:29 PM

nickelback - i doubt anyone here likes them, but enough people do in general to warrant air-time on rock stations. they should die.

radiohead - they're aight, but a lot of it is boring pseudo intellectual tripe

coldplay - they really really want to be U2.

5/31/2007 10:37:26 PM

^ um, yeah, I'm gonna need you to explain to me how Radiohead is "pseudo intellectual"

5/31/2007 10:39:11 PM

ummm yea radiohead is about the best band out there right now...please explain.

5/31/2007 10:44:51 PM

Radiohead is most certainly not the best band out there right now.

5/31/2007 10:54:47 PM

unless youre 40 boston is not of OUR time


i'm just gonna go ahead and say it

i like them and all but

nirvana

by far

5/31/2007 10:57:46 PM

I agree that DMB is pretty overrated.

5/31/2007 11:06:13 PM

another really underrated band is The Replacements


really really good

5/31/2007 11:13:46 PM

who out there is better than radiohead? i'd really like to know.

5/31/2007 11:26:49 PM

Prince

5/31/2007 11:38:49 PM

The Cult

5/31/2007 11:42:17 PM

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"anything rap is overrated, i mean if you retards want to throw away money on cds, then ill make a synthesized drum beat on a keyboard, steal a piano riff from some classical music composer, and talk in rhyme over top of it...then you can pay me millions for this garbage"

plz go ahead and do it then. i'd like to hear your best. then i'll pay u millions, promise.

5/31/2007 11:49:46 PM

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"radiohead - they're aight, but a lot of it is boring pseudo intellectual tripe"

Have to say I agree. Lots of weird synth noises with Thom Yorke making strange shrieking sounds all while dragging on for way too long. If they'd just fucking make music they'd be back up at the top of the world, but I'm really not sure what to call most of their weird shit.

5/31/2007 11:50:00 PM

^ listen seriously to Kid A, start to finish. Don't give up on it after track 2 just because you think it sounds "weird." Listen, uninterrupted, to the entire album and tell me that Radiohead is overrated.

5/31/2007 11:56:04 PM

5/31/2007 11:58:38 PM

Nickelback

all their songs sound the same

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"Prince"

you're fucking stupid, the man is a musical prodigy

if anything he's underrated

5/31/2007 11:59:18 PM

^i think he was saying Prince was better than Radiohead, if you look at the context

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 12:03 AM. Reason : .]

6/1/2007 12:03:13 AM

radiohead's collection of b-sides alone is to be reckoned with.

6/1/2007 12:03:49 AM

i love prince but better than radiohead as a band? not even close.

6/1/2007 12:04:21 AM

i'm gonna second radiohead

but solely cuz this assclown is riding their nuts so hard

6/1/2007 12:08:53 AM

Radiohead
Jack Johnson
Bright Eyes
Coldplay
Modest Mouse
White Stripes
Nirvana
Rick Astley

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 12:10 AM. Reason : ]

6/1/2007 12:09:01 AM

haha good reason man. i mean have you guys listened to all of radiohead's albums or are you just talking shit?

6/1/2007 12:14:30 AM