Truth! Are used to think the other way until I listened to all six albums back to back on YouTube. Seriously underrated band.
OT / Overrated Bands
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Well, sometimes its the producers who ruin it. Bob Rock anyone? Some bands do manage to stick around and make music for people who will always love them...sometimes it just takes a while for the stink to wear off.
If you went from playing arenas to county/state fairs you sucked major *** and only held on to medioric success, ie. Kansas, Boston, 70's and 80's hair/glam, Steve Miller, bad company ect. Ect.
The album (TEN) keeps them off the overrated list for me.... There's quite a few good songs off of that album but they do taper off a lot after (TEN) for sure.
Janis and Bob aren't bands. The dead is still selling out football/baseball stadiums and setting attendance records. And they've been filling them longer than anyone
I disagree with the OP on The Beatles as well. Yes they were full of themselves (especially John and Paul) but no band makes it big without ego. The Beatles embodied the 60’s spirit and influenced many bands of the era. They had great influences, had a great sense of melody and harmony, were experimental, had a great producer in George Martin, they were the perfect band for the times.
Ten was a great album. I'm not a huge fan of the Seattle grunge movement but between pearl jam, STP, and chris Cornell there was a lot of good music that came out in a short period of time. They all fizzled out other than Cornell and Dave Grohl though.
Eddie Vedder:
Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey, hey, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive, yeah oh.
I agree with many on Nickelback. They are so bad they rip themselves off.
Mine...
#1 Rush
#2 Boston
#3 Grateful Dead
I should add Alice In Chains to that list. Their first album was really good.
Man, the early 90s was weird for how much change there was in music. Metal and punk went away and became grunge. Country/western went away and became pop-country. The beastie boys/public enemy style rap went away and gangsta rap took over.
Thank God for pavarotti, otherwise we might have lost opera too.
Agree, but you don't have Dark Side and the Wall and say they are over rated. Blasphemy!!!
Boston
Foreigner - ALthough I love Dirty White Boy
Blue Oyster Cult
Sex Pistols
Bon Jovi - Like Richie on guitar but that's about it
Foreigner - ALthough I love Dirty White Boy
Blue Oyster Cult
Sex Pistols
Bon Jovi - Like Richie on guitar but that's about it
one-hit wonders are the best.
they came, we saw, and then they left.
no more wearing out their welcome.
no one mentioned 'the beach boys'...i mean get outta here already.
they came, we saw, and then they left.
no more wearing out their welcome.
no one mentioned 'the beach boys'...i mean get outta here already.
Its funny you mention those two albums specifically, because I agree, they are actually good. They are also, and this is an important point, the most "normal" albums they made, i.e., the least jam-bandy where the songs just go on and on and on. So, good point, but those are very particular cases.
Yeah dude, Jim Brewer really knows how to nail that Brian Johnson voice. And that's why AC/DC rules; they know they're stupid and borderline weird with those vocals, but they don't give a fuuuuuuuuuck. That's why they are actually pretty ok.
Some people have some good taste in this thread.
Some really really really ****** taste.
Only thing that keeps this thread from being a nightmare is not one person said Hendrix. Good job people.
Some really really really ****** taste.
Only thing that keeps this thread from being a nightmare is not one person said Hendrix. Good job people.
Or thank God for Segovia, otherwise classical guitar might be in the dump or totally mangled by the busy fingers of the flamenco players!
The studio cuts dont go on and on. They jammed the songs out extensively at shows for the sake of collective improvisation, to not grow stale on the material and to feed off of the energy on a given night. Mars Hotel is fairly "normal" as well. Europe 72 is a live album with the clarity of a studio album, really good introduction to the concept of collective improvisation over a known progression.
Green Day sucks, but Kiss and Aerosmith??? That's blasphemy!! Granted, Kiss was only good early, but their 1st album, Dressed to Kill, Hotter Than Hell, and Destroyer were great, IMO.
And 70s music doesn't get much better than Aerosmith "Rocks" and "Toys in the Attic."
The Doors I completely agree with. But the Stones have written some of the most amazing songs in the history of music. Gimmee Shelter, Wild Horses, As Tears Go By, Can't Always Get What You Want, Dead Flowers, Beast of Burden, Waiting on a Friend, Angie, etc.. Just phenomenal!