What "popular" singer says or bands you think are overrated or terrible

#53
#53
MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
I'll throw one out there. I've never understood the appeal of Bruce Springsteen. His singing is more of a growl, and most of his songs are a cure for insomnia.
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Oh lord, yes. Absolutely overrated.
As a musician there are a lot of groups I respect even if I don't prefer their music. Not BS. Loath him.
 
#54
#54
Springsteen just discovered the formula for capturing middle America in his songwriting.
 
#56
#56
Overrated hipster bands:

Arcade Fire
Mumford & Sons
Grizzly Bear
War on Drugs
Of Monsters and Men
Arctic Monkeys
Fun
Wavves
Best Coast
 
#57
#57
bignewt said:
Overrated hipster bands:

Arcade Fire
Mumford & Sons
Grizzly Bear
War on Drugs
Of Monsters and Men
Arctic Monkeys
Fun
Wavves
Best Coast
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I have to disagree. I don't even know most the bands you named. Mumford & Sons is OK, just every song sounds the same.

But Arcade Fire is so good. Every album is different, they are great musicians, the lyrics are smart and interesting, and they put on a fantastic show. They are one of the few contemporary bands that I like.
 
#58
#58
You can't watch this and not feel something

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKinnMXuKg[/youtube]
 
#60
#60
n_huffhines said:
I have to disagree. I don't even know most the bands you named. Mumford & Sons is OK, just every song sounds the same.

But Arcade Fire is so good. Every album is different, they are great musicians, the lyrics are smart and interesting, and they put on a fantastic show. They are one of the few contemporary bands that I like.
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Arcade Fire was good untill The Suburbs, then blah.
 
#63
#63
bignewt said:
Arcade Fire was good untill The Suburbs, then blah.
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You're saying you don't like Suburbs or it's the last one you liked? It's my least favorite album of theirs. I love Reflektor, though. Probably my 2nd favorite.
 
#65
#65
Thunder Good-Oil said:
They're just showing their ignorance. They were peerless in their time. They were winding it down 50 years ago... it's dated. It was experimental. What they did in the studio was ground breaking. Only fools would consider the Beatles to be overrated. I'd challenge them to post a list of who they consider to be underrated.
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Some view Tupac as one of the greatest artists ever. I view his music as garbage but would never consider his fans fools. They like what they like, I like what I like.

I could probably name 30-40 bands I could listen to all day long, the beatles are not in that group for me.

I can remember back in the late seventies on the king biscuit flour hour, they were interviewing Greg Allman. They asked him why they started the band. His reply was " they just liked jammin and were tired of that beatles $hit.
 
#67
#67
n_huffhines said:
You're saying you don't like Suburbs or it's the last one you liked? It's my least favorite album of theirs. I love Reflektor, though. Probably my 2nd favorite.
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Didnt like Suburbs, that is where they lost it. Funeral is a great album.
 
#68
#68
bignewt said:
Didnt like Suburbs, that is where they lost it. Funeral is a great album.
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It's funny that Suburbs is the one that won the Grammy. It's the biggest crowd pleaser for sure. Then they went to their most bizarre place with Reflektor. Funeral is easily their best album. Named my dog Laika because of that album (which led me to read about the famous dog named Laika).
 
#71
#71
n_huffhines said:
It's funny that Suburbs is the one that won the Grammy. It's the biggest crowd pleaser for sure. Then they went to their most bizarre place with Reflektor. Funeral is easily their best album. Named my dog Laika because of that album (which led me to read about the famous dog named Laika).
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Yep good stuff. I pegged them overrated basically because the suburbs sucked and it got all the pub.
 
#73
#73
05_never_again said:
The most overrated artists of all time, IMO, are Jimmy Buffett, The Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan.

Much of popular music is sung by people with marginal talent, relatively speaking. Many of them are not musicians or songwriters, but rather performers relying on showmanship rather than musicianship. I like a good show as much as anyone else, but for me to really think you are good you have to be a true musician too.

Bieber is awful, but that goes without saying. Taylor Swift is incredibly overrated, not a good singer, and all her songs are about the same thing and written by someone else. Much of the fake country is laughable, although it is unfair to lump all modern country artists into that category (some people, like Chris Stapleton, actually are true country artists but with a modern/different sound).
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Stapleton sold out. I don't blame him, I would too
 
#74
#74
How can anyone say Jimmy Buffett is overrated? Nobody views him as some ingenious, groundbreaking force. He just makes music that's fun to sing along and drink to, especially if there is water around. Incidentally, this year marks the FORTIETH that basically every cover-artist and karaoke bar in America plays Margaritaville.
 
#75
#75
And Chris Cornell? Tool? DMB?

Apparently we need to define the term "overrated" for some people.
 
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