Who do you think are overrated?

The darlings of the critics but inside you’re thinking ’they’re absolute shite.'

Here’s two to kick things off -

R.E.M.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

Rubbish.

    Saw REM on their Monster Tour. They are a superb live act, and while a lot of their prolific output was shite they do have at least one genuine classic album in their canon: Document (arguably a few others too).

    Doves - turgid shite.

      This could be a log thread!

      bosstrabs Document is a superb album - REM were ruined my middle-class cunts using them as evidence they loved indie music at dinner parties. REM are absolutely fucking brilliant - went to shit a bit after Automatic for the People in my view, but they’d done their jobs by then.

      The Doves are terrific too and brilliant live. The masters of the middle eight break an all.

        Gonna put Document on now for a blast. Not listened to it for about 10 years, brilliant album.

          All I can remember of REM was shiny happy people being played every time I went to a student club night in my first year at uni… dreadful

            bosstrabs Exhuming McCarthy, lightnin Hopkins, King of the Birds, Finest Worksong - fucking amazing tunes. It’s famous for End of the World and The One I Love too, which is ridiculous.

              Any band Dave starts a thread about.

              the eagles are easily the worst band to ever sell a record.

              Probably doesn’t fit under overrated but rather a personal distaste, but I cannot do Thom Yorke’s voice so fully out on Radiohead.

              But strictly overrated: U2. Bono is a self-absorbed twat who almost certainly repeats what world leaders say, but in a reverential whisper, when he meets them.

              • LT42 replied to this.

                I was brought listening to Pink Floyd & The Beatles. I still listen to Pink Floyd now.
                I’ll add Oasis & Blur as I just don’t get them.

                U2 are top of the tree here. Remember when they launched an album and it automatically when into everyone’s iTunes? Talk about getting it all wrong.

                jonattonyeah Bono a twat? Absolutely, but U2 overrated? That’s such a lazy cliche.

                  I still put the Joshua tree as one of my favourite albums of all time.

                  THE BEATLES??? Must stay away from this thread. People who say that usually never listened to a Beatles record from start to finish.

                  I’m not into Radiohead myself, depressing shite but I don’t think they’re a bad band, they’re brilliant musicians.

                  U2 have made some of the most iconic songs and albums of all time. Let’s be real here. You don’t have to like their music but overrated? Please.

                    Eagles are a great shout.

                    Try living in an expat bar bubble, where halfway through your night it will be ruined by a bunch of amateurs taking over the stage to play Mustang Sally (I know this isn’t the Eagles), Hotel California and Desperado.

                    “Now, any requests?” “Yes, please fuck off.”

                    Pulp were overrated for sure. Common People isn’t a bad song but the band had a weird following during the Brit Pop years. Manic Street Preachers, Muse, I’d even throw Oasis in there but you can’t deny they made some great songs, maybe they’re overrated in the sense they were lauded as the best band in the world at one point. The Proclaimers were voted Scotlands best ever band recently, now that’s OVERRATED.

                    These threads are bilge anyway because it brings out the retard in people. I’ve heard lads say The Cure were overrated. That’s what your dealing with. Maybe you’re not into their sound but overrated? Clueless. In fact, fuck this thread and fuck you, Ed.

                      LT42 Oh, we’re writing bands off for having a ‘weird’ following are we?

                      That’s pretty much every decent rock band since the 70s in the bin then.

                      • LT42 replied to this.

                          bosstrabs Weird following that stated they were better than Oasis and Blur and Cocker was a musical genius, so yes. Weird fucking cunts completely overrating one of the worst bands I’ve ever listened to.

                            I remember the Britpop wars actually. In our school, everyone was Oasis (being a northern school) except me and a few others who wanted to be contrarian and were Blur fans.

                            So, a bunch of parochial knuckle draggers who liked music for simpletons versus a smaller group of pretentious wankers.

                            I’d say the few Pulp fans were normal in comparison. (might have been different in Ireland, though)

                            Albarn is a genius and therefore Blur get a pass from me. To be honest, I steered clear of every band during the Britpop explosion and just stuck to Renaissance CDs and Essential Mixes. I hated pre-club bar music for that very reason, seeing cunts losing their shit to Park Life gives me the chills to this very day.

                            The whole brit pop era was fucking embarrassing.

                            I also vividly remember some absolute shamrag singing Chumbawumba’s only hit at the top of his lungs in a nightclub, popping like like Vanilla Ice during his “routine” and perpetrating this heinous crime right at the intersection of the dance floor and highway to the bar so everyone would see him. I wish I did something to stop it at the time.

                            Britpop was cringey. It wasn’t a particularly exciting time for indie music either

                            bosstrabs Popularity isn’t over-rating is it? Kyle Minogue isn’t over-rated and she’s had a load shitty hits.