Overrated in the sense that some people rate them, and that is too many.
Overrated bands
Super Furry Animals?
Reef?
Super Furry Animals were great. Particularly Gruff Ryhs’ techno sets in the middle of their gigs that bewildered all the indie kids.
I never got into the them, in that, i never listened to any of their stuff but I did work with lads who would book tickets to see them months in advance. Packing campers and off they’d go. They seemed to have a Grateful Dead like cult following.
John Digweed – Renaissance - The Mix Collection Part 2
Some decent albums here and there, but I never really got the Arctic Monkeys. Never understood The Killers too much either.
As LB said, the question itself is useless without first defining what overrated means.
To me it’s any band which slips into the popular consciousness without the musicianship to back it up. Usually it’s because said band got lucky - right place at the right time.
Often much worse when compared to the peer group but successfully marketed for a more mainstream audience.
The Chemical Brothers spring to mind.
Musicianship isn’t everything though, either.
Ocean Colour Scene were well-regarded in terms of musicianship (Weller picked loads of them as his backing band) but had absolutely zero creativity/imagination and were a turgid din.
bosstrabs True, musicianship is the wrong word. I’m thinking about a talented musician in broader terms (someone with those attributes you mention).
The who
Kings of lyon
The artic monkeys
Kasabian
Florence and the machine
Kings of Lyon are definitely my favourite medieval French band - awesome cover of Greensleeves.
-si- Agree with all those.
Kings of Leon’s 1st album is a bona-fide classic. Raw and original. Then the record label vampires got a hold of them and turned them into a lighters in the air festival band.
Any band that has made millions selling music are just shrewd business people in my view and some people obviously must rate them so its not worth the endless subjective arguments.
Some people must like Nic Fanciulli, I rest my case.
LT42 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.
Decent rant that tbf!