ITT: Overrated artists
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ITT: Overrated artists
Ok. You start.
I'll get us started since OP's pic is unrelated
The Beatles
The Beach Boys
The Kinks
>>64522710
He's pointing at you.
>>64522697
good fucking luck topping OP
>>64522713
lol
Radiohead
Feminem. Ok look, he was good for about 2.5 albums, but he seriously has needed to go away since Bush's second term.
Neutral Milk Hotel.
>>64522777
agreed. he's trash. I mean have you even revisited that early stuff, it's really not that good compared to other stuff that was around at the same time.
Every last Springsteen hit has been covered 100x better by other people.
The Doors. You should read Conversations With The Dead where Jerry Garcia completely picks them apart.
Dave Matthews Band. Dear god, Dave Matthews Band. Here in Ohio, they're virtually deified but God knows why. A third-rate E Street Band copy. Watered-down midlife crisis jazz rock for the #ALLLIVESMATTER crowd.
>>64522885
He made it ok for white people to listen to rap.
New Kids On The Block. Seriously what the fuck.
>bunch of 40-something dudes can put on a tour in 2015 and still have Botoxed MILF groupies throwing their panties at them
These guys have aged as well as a carton of milk left in a hot car. I mean, come on. Hangin' Tough was an okay pop song in 1988, but cripes, it should be left in that era where it belongs.
NKOTB sucked in the 80s and they suck even more every time they have a nostalgia tour to get 40 year old women swooning over them.
AC/DC
>make the same album for 40 years
>>64523052
He was jealous of Jim's sexiness.
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. There is a LARGE talent gap between Neil and the other yucklucks but putting that aside these dudes represent practically everything disliked about baby boomers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXFGmjJtPi0
>>64523809
Oh god, you should read Christgau's reviews of them. Hilarious stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1x8q64NXxA
Grimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnovJpnhygI
The Doors are my first choice but I'm pretty sure the world knows this considering they get less and less popular as the boomers that were there for it die off.
DUDE HE SAID HIGH ON TV LMAO MIND BLIND LITERAL CULTURAL REVOLUTION THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME THIS IS OUR ENLIGHTENMENT
Fuck off. Morrison's a brain dead Chad off brand Lou Reed and his poetry is shit and his baritone is weak as fuck compared to Danzig and the post-punk dudes like Peter Murphy and Ian Curtis
>>64522697
If you don't like the Boss then you ain't shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqG6eGWo0I
>>64523131
Holy fucking shit this is spot on
Springsteen is absolutely marginal as a vocalist and guitarist (he needs one of the best backing groups in the world to make him sound remotely decent).
>>64523413
why did it need to be 'ok'? stop being such a cuck
>>64524123
I kind of agree. Hendrix will be relevant as long as electric guitars exist, but JM's mystique was more about his personality and imaghe so you had to be there to "get" it.
>>64524255
Nebraska says otherwise, bitchtits.
>>64524351
KEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEKKEK
>>>/pol/
Pink Floyd. Bunch of stoner lullabies and Piper At The Gates Of Dawn is the only decent thing they ever did.
>>64522697
Kevin spacey?
RHCP
If we're talking overrated by this board then Swans and Slint.
>>64524655
This.
Pearl Jam. They've seldom been awful, but they've seldom been good either.
>>64524558
Get out.
Them Crooked Vultures. absolute drek.
>>64524079
I really hope it's an accident you posted this here.
>>64524761
Pink Floyd after TW stopped existing. The Final Cut has good songwriting but not good songs. DSOTM and The Wall are horribly overplayed and we're all completely burned out on them.
On the other hand, their earlier albums are quite well-crafted and even a prog hater would have a hard time disliking them. And go back to the first album which is a very nice slab of hippie psychedelia.
Eminem has 7 major label releases and exactly two good albums among them.
>>64524903
not to mention a shit tonne of mediocre features
>>64524903
>Nas
>12 albums
>2 good albums
>Jay-Z
>12 albums
>3 good albums
>Tupac
>1,255,903 albums (if you count stuff released after his death)
>3 good albums
Argue all you want, but most rappers who didn't die prematurely put out mostly shit.
>>64524986
>who didn't die prematurely
>uses 2pac as an example
Hendrix's discography is meh at best if we're counting posthumous stuff.
>>64524986
Are there any really wtf Jay-Z albums except Kingdom Come? He's rarely been terrible while Eminem has at least 3 absolutely terrible albums.
The point is as >>64522885 said, that Em is far from the best rapper of his era.
>>64524764
Ha, youre a bitch
[spoiler]:^)[/spoiler]
>>64525127
Good point and no, Jay-Z has never made anything as mindbendingly awful as Em's post-2002 stuff. However, I don't really care for Vol 1, Dynasty, the Best of Both Worlds stuff if you feel like counting that, and I doubt Blueprint 3 or Magna Carta will in be considered anything better than “fair/mediocre” when they’ve had enough time to be properly evaluated. I prefer Slim Shady LP to any of those aforementioned Jay tracks. I guess I’d just argue that most rappers have their fair share of bad music, and even if only 25% of Eminem’s music is good, that 25% was still so good that he’s properly rated.
Gwen Stefani. Her voice grates me and somehow practically all of her songs manage to irritate me in some way.
>>64522697
I didn't care much at all for Springsteen, and then I saw him on his Born In The USA tour.
Changed everything.
The guy played an AMAZING concert.
>>64525301
How old are you?
>>64525330
What's that got to do with anything?
Is there an upper limit on being a /mu/tant?
Does my age invalidate my opinion of Springsteen?
No, and no.
Run along, my friend.
Beyonce
Foo Fighters
Billy Joel
Mannheim Steamroller
>>64525401
you leave Billy Joel out of this
>>64525401
Don't forget the Beatles and Queen.
>>64525362
Sometimes a question's a question m8. Just not used to seeing older /mu/tants is all.
>>64525485
I never said my age, you know.
>>64525362
you know posting under the age of 18 is forbidden right?
>>64525330
Fuck ageism.
I'll bite on Eminem. MMLP and TES are god-level albums, SSLP is pretty good and even Relapse has its moments, but like most rappers, he ran out of stuff to rap about and even said so himself. I mean, he's still had good songs and verses from time to time but he can't put together a good album anymore.
>>64525401
I've never heard of Mannheim Steamroller. Is that an American-only thing?
>>64525485
>>64525496
Apologies for my defensive response.
I am 49.
Surely at the upper edge of the age bell curve for /mu/, but there you are.
>>64525565
>I've never heard of Mannheim Steamroller.
And you are far better off because of it!
>>64524102
>overrated
>still no bad albums
>all members über talented and can easily carry a solo career by themselves
Coldplay
Foo Fighters from new album
Adele
Muse's new album
Catfish and the bottlemen
Kanye West
Metallica from St Anger onwards
Lil Wayne
Craig David
Royal Blood
Metal generally needs to have some new movement cause alot of it is stale as fuck
Pop Punk like Neck Deep etc
Alabama Shakes
Fuckin popcentric country music...just no
Pretty much all the people who are described as Pop/R&B singers
However respect for all artists who write their own stuff though. Regardless of how shite it is it's still a step above someone who doesn't
>>64525560
>>64525204
Well, some people could say that about Nas. I've heard it argued that Illmatic is his only truly great album and I think it's hard to argue that it's not the Led Zeppelin IV or Let It Bleed of hip-hop. I think Stillmatic is great as well and Life Is Good is also a gem. Otherwise, I would concur that most of his catalog is useless.
Biggie died before he could become the villain.
Pac has had so much posthumous material released that he's harder to judge, though I think MATW is the only true classic released in his lifetime. Then again, I don't know his catalog all that well so if you think he's 75% mediocre, I won't argue with you.
Jay-Z, lyl. If he retired with the Black Album then nah. But Kingdom Come, Blueprint 3, MCHG, Blueprint 2, Vol 1, half of Vol 2…just saying, Jigga’s got a fair bit of fluff. So you can make a case for him too.
Snoop Dogg? One album wonder.
Scarface and Ghostface are like the two most consistent rappers. They’re exceptions to the rule.
UGK/Outkast bowed out with pockets full of classics. I think maybe they each have one bad album (Dirty Money and Idlewild, which, while not amazing, weren’t terrible either)
I don’t really know KRS-One or Rakim outside of their classic albums.
Common. Eh, yeah, I think you could say 75% of his stuff is fair or below, but he’s not very modern. Dude’s been around forever.
Kanye. C’mon. That’s just asking for a shitstorm.
Drake and Nicki. Ugh. Nicki has one good verse (Monster) and I hate Drake, so I can’t say anything without being super biased. Drake’s the John Cusack of rap.
Recovery has some classic songs.
>>64522724
shit...
Springsteen is a brilliant songwriter
>>64525840
Snoop has at least 5 great albums to his name, most which are under appreciated, and have aged well. Eminem is awful post Recovery and his music is really dated.
>>64522697
David Bowie
Phish and Grateful Dead are missing from this thread.
>>64522713
>>64526110
Now that's just a bait post.
>>64526177
Everyone claims he's some legend when he was never anything more than an icon.
He was all image too.
His music is forgotten.
It's not bait, it's just seeing things as they are.
Second to Dylan, Springsteen is America’s poet laureate when it comes to RnR.
Pearl Jam (sorry Nirvana fans) was always the best grunge band and the only of the Seattle bands to still be touring with the original lineup.
The Doors…were a thing. A big thing. One of the best selling Greatest Hits of all time. They encapsulated counterculture-era Los Angeles. Nothing wrong with that.
CSNY were/are among the greatest harmony rock groups of all-time. Find me another band with the songwriting/vocal/guitar chops of Stills/Young/Crosby.
Pink Floyd are a genre by themselves.
>>64526144
YES!
I have some friens who really dig The Dead, and love listening to god awful tapes of shows.
I cringe every time they play one of those tapes.
I mean seriously, how many versions of Sugar Magnolia do you need to hear?
They have a near encyclopedic knowledge of this shit. "The 1982 show at such and such has the best version of Morning Dew."
It boggles my mind.
I rather assume there is a similar phenomenon with Phishheads.
I can't stand to listen to any Phish, either.
With the exception of a single tune, "Demand". Not quite sure why, but that one works for me.
>>64526216
>His music is forgotten.
If this is the reality you wish to live in, so be it. However, I assure you, his music is NOT forgotten.
>>64526296
>were always the best grunge band
oh I am laffin
Billy Joel, Eagles, and Aerosmith are my additions.
>>64525840
DOOM and Kool Keith both have solid discographies as well
>>64526331
I never heard a Bowie song on the radio before he died. In fact, the only songs of his I'd heard were Changes (cuz SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME movie), Space Oddity and Fame.
I’ve always found the Beatles to be an overrated boyband. None of them were that great vocally. Their songs always seem to be improved by artists that cover them.
>>64526352
If anything The Eagles are underrated since The Big Lebowski made them the cool band to hate.
>>64526373
McCartney has an incredible range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZFGcUU9pY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF4cWHNmSjM
>>64526347
NO! That's a Bad 64526347 !!
>>64526331
His music isn't forgotten by his fans and peers.
It is by everyone else.
>>64525643
>still no bad albums
Painting With is bad
The Ramones, Guns N’ Roses and Dave Matthews Band ( but I love Lilyhammer)
>>64524490
This
Kiss
>>64526540
I don't consider them really "overrated" because they haven't had 40+ years of critics and the music industry sucking down their cum like they have with Springsteen.
>>64526540
YES.
>>64526580
Springsteen also has a plant in Rolling Stone, as much as I hate to admit it. One of his former managers is a major editor there.
>>64522713
t. edgy youth
ITT: terrible opinions
>>64526296
>the best grunge band
what is Alice in Chains?
>>64525840
i see nobody mention Eminem - Infinite
i fkng love that album
>>64526540
They were all style and no substance, and they didn't even have style
>>64526580
ahahahaha are you for real dude? So much hype whenever Gene so much as takes a shit
>>64524884
>ignores WYWH and Animals
Hello pleb
>>64526308
The Dead are overrated for sure but they're still nice to listen to
>>64522713
>The Kinks
>>64525171
for sure
>>64522713
Beach Boys for sure. Pet Sounds is fantastic and Smile is okay. The rest of their discography ranges from bad to complete dogshit aside from a few good tracks sprinkled thinly throughout.
In fact the critics have consistently despised Kiss for 40+ years.
>>64523727
And I love it every time.
But if they record anything with Axl, I'll probably kill myself.
>>64526646
Agreed
>>64526759
Animals is my personal favorite, the harmonized solo on dogs was really cool. Also that relentless laid back groove on pigs, great example of natural 70s drums without obnoxious compression
>>64527381
They won't.
>Axl ever wanting to work in a band where he can't have complete control
>>64522724
he's pointing at all of us...
>>64522713
WHEN WILL SOMEONE START
>>64525444
These two are the only ones ITT that deserve the praise they get.
>>64522858
weak bait
>>64526634
commit urself to suicide
you're living all over me is GOAT
Green Gay
>>64523052
>conversations with the dead
>Is actually dead
What did he mean by this?
>>64522982
>the performance of this song aligns better with the musical styles I like
>someone performing a song in a way you prefer makes them better than the person who wrote it to begin with
get fucked m8
covers shouldn't even be factored into an artist's measure of worth
>>64524558
>>64524079
go listen to rammstein fag
>>64523806
jerry garcia is a total bear
fuckin sexy
>>64531434
BEAR
