The Most Overrated Bands

This is a post/threads for those that feel they should express which bands/groups/people they feel are OVERRATED.

My Nomination: LED ZEPPELIN

HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT BOO HOO WHY?!?!?

Well they did not start metal, a popular misconception and they're overplayed. I do think they're talented and they're good, I'm not saying they aren't. The thing is EVERYONE, most LOVE THEM and say they're the best. That is the definition of overrated= not as good as they're made out to be yet everyone loves them. get over it..they aren't "GODS", such a gay term, so lame. They're so overplayed it's unbelievable.

Bonham and JPJ are Gods for rock and roll.

I nominate:Nickelback, and Disturbed

Other great nominations!

I agree with Nickelback & Disturbed...

The Eagles
99% of Mainstream Hip-hop artists
Any band playing pop country
Tool (who I like, but their popularity has increased even though their musical output has been on a steady decline from what it once was)
Avenged Sevenfold
Green Day
Wilco
Metallica
Muse
Phoenix
Neon Indian
Lowest Common Denominator Soundsystem
Linkin Park
Lady Gaga
Weezer
Of Montreal
lots of other bands I hate that people inexplicably enjoy

And I still say Zep is accurately rated.

Muse? no way ahhh.

My other choices:

Disturbed, The Eagles, U2, The Beatles(even tho I love them), Linkin Park, Journey, Coldplay, Ac/DC, Aerosmith, Rage Against The Machine, Metallica. Those are my other tops. I'm sure there are others haha

If I'm honest, I don't truly know enough about music in general, or the history and evolution of all things music to confidently declare many artists "over-rated".

But that won't stop me from sharing who I just don't get or plain hate that a bunch of people adore. That list looks like this:

Coldplay
Pink Floyd
Dave Matthew's Band
3 Doors Grace Linkin Nickel
anything Weezer put out that's not Pinkerton
Cake
Kings of Leon
Smashing Pumpkins
probably every artist on the top ten list for most youtube views.

Awesome list/post I must say, I agree with all of those

Can't believe I'd missed Coldplay and Kings of Leon in my list. Heh.

And I agree on not seeing the appeal of Cake and any of the Pearl Jam clones (3 Doors Down, Creed, Nickelback, Eve 6, Our Lady Peace, and all the other bands that sound exactly like them).

I'll give you Journey too. Meh.

duhhhh how could i forget Cake

nu metal bands like limp bizkit, linkin park , etc...

^Heck to the yes

the doodlebops

I'm not going to quote bands like Linkin Park or Lady Gaga because they are the usual commercial trash that always was and will always be succesful.
Although I love The Beatles, I have to say they're overrated. But I think they are a pretty good band to be "the best band ever".

Now, I think all the 70s and 80s "hard rock" is REALLY overrated.
AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Guns 'n' Roses (THIS BAND, MAINLY) and all that but Led Zeppelin is nothing but trash.

Oh, I almost forgot one of the most overrated movements in history: GRUNGE.
God damn, I like some musics, okay, but Kurt Cobain was not "the last rocknroll heroe" or something like that, for god sake.

01. BON JOVI :(
02. 2Pac
03. U2
04. Green Day
05. Metallica
06. Guns 'N Roses
07. Aerosmith
08. The Notorious B.I.G
09. Nirvana
10. Coldplay

Guns N Roses for sure
U2
Greenday (anything after Dookie)
Slipknot
NICKLEBACK (omg)
Cradle Of Filth
Job For A Cowboy (good, but overrated)
Darkest Hour
The Academy Is... (I have love for William Beckett, but unfortunely his band sucks)
30 Seconds To Mars
Prince

Coldplay
Nickleback
U2
Katy Perry
and all the other little girls with the vocal-pitch enhancing microphones
Justin Beiber
any teen that has a Nickleodeon/Disney Channel show and thinks they can sing

Iron Maiden

No Doubt
White Stripes
Oasis
Muse
Arctic Monkeys
Skunk Anansie
Coldplay
Travis
Nickleback
Limp Bizkit, Blink 182...
Kings of Leon
Marylin Manson
Bush
Stone Temple Pilots
Wilco
Cream
Motley Crue
+ Take That and all boy bands

Unlistenable Simple Plan crap.

Green Day, The Beatles, Linkin Park, Smashing Pumpkins & Today's "Music".

The Rolling Stones - there is just something very lazy about them

Madonna - strip away the visuals and you are left with a few average pop/dance songs

but the most over rated of all time

Love - seriously I cannot see why people get excited about them - One hit wonders with Alone Again Or, which IS a brilliant song, but the rest is all foregttable

Eric Clapton' stuff...and Iron Maiden



PS
No Led Zep No Heavy Metal...

Nickelback
Guns n' Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Bon Jovi
Nickelback
The Doors
Madonna
Nirvana
Led Zepplin (Max, I respectfully disagree. MC5 debuted a year before Zep and were absolutely at the forefront of what would become Heavy Metal, with or without Zep's influence)

Katie Perry, Justin Bieber, Disney artists, etc. aren't overrated. They're not even rated. They're product, and not meant to be influential or regarded as anything more than tween music. They do their job and they do it well. I know, because I'm outside their target demographic and don't listen to them ever.

I respectfully disagree with you, Prefect, I've bought Kick Out the Jams back in 1977 but still sounds punk to me. I don't like punk rock so much, I don't hate it but I don't love it.

Oasis and Eric Clapton don't do much for me.

I hate to say this, but for me The Beatles is the most overrated band of all time.

U2
Slipknot
Metallica
Disturbed
Green Day
Beastie Boys
Marilyn Manson
Avenged Sevenfold
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Five Finger Death Punch