Most overrated band ever...

FlytoKavala said:
Not a "banned" but he should be, Neil Diamond.👇
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Also extending this to solo artists, for me it has to be Ed Sheehan. 2nd biggest selling recording artist 2010-2019 in the World he may be but I just can’t get him at all. All songs sound the same and are miserable...
 
One Direction, put together by people in the business and had most if not all their songs written for them🤬
 
The Beatles are probably the most overrated, my favorite band when I was a child. But they benefited from payola to launch the careers. They achieved success on the back of enormous investment by EMI, films, also the first of their type to have multiple lead singers. Also, most of their recording were supplemented by session musicians especially the drums. The Monkees achieved similar success on the back of the tv series.

But the real problem is that they never really played full concerts after the mid 60’s so it is difficult to compare them to other bands such as the Stones, or The Who, Queen, or U2 for their ability as a live band.

The real shame about John Lennon’s death is that we never got to see them play live together at Live Aid.

But their real genius was to split up when they were at their peak.
 
Did anyone else tune into the Sky Arts channel this evening?

An interesting interview with Joe Walsh, who is somewhat of an icon for me. His “Barnstorm” album was the 2nd LP I ever bought in 1972 and I still play it today. I did not know until now he was at Kent State University in 1970 on the day when the US National Guard shot four fellow students dead for protesting against the Vietnam War.

Followed by a 1980 concert in Germany by The Jam, which showed them at their very best.
 
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Wizaard said:
They started well but by the early 70s they'd jumped the shark and have done nothing for nigh on 50 years while continuing to coin it in.
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Keith Richards has got to be the greatest rock god of all, imho. Cool as fuck. Exile on Main Street is his, almost alone. He is also, apparently, if you overlook the heroin excess, a really decent guy who rescued Anita Pallenberg from the abusive Brian Jones in 1967. If Nils Lofgren worships him, who am I to disagree? But Jagger on the other hand... is a bit of a shit, for the way he treated Jerry Hall with his Bali beach pretend marriage.
 
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1966_and_all_that said:
I can take or leave a lot of Floyd but Dark Side...is simply a stupendously brilliant work of art.
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Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals.

The holy trinity of the Floyd. And Meddle is almost there too. After those three, they fell away with The Wall, imho. It has good parts, but it’s just that I did not get it, when popular music was in the process of changing forever.
 
Danny Ocean said:
The Beatles are probably the most overrated, my favorite band when I was a child. But they benefited from payola to launch the careers. They achieved success on the back of enormous investment by EMI, films, also the first of their type to have multiple lead singers. Also, most of their recording were supplemented by session musicians especially the drums. The Monkees achieved similar success on the back of the tv series.

But the real problem is that they never really played full concerts after the mid 60’s so it is difficult to compare them to other bands such as the Stones, or The Who, Queen, or U2 for their ability as a live band.

The real shame about John Lennon’s death is that we never got to see them play live together at Live Aid.

But their real genius was to split up when they were at their peak.
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None of the assertions in your first paragraph are true.
 
For me, all the “real” bands listed here, Beatles, queen, stones, Aerosmith, oasis etc. - none are overrated, they gigged, wrote music, and people liked it in sufficient numbers to be successful. I don’t like all of them, doesn’t make them overrated. As others have said, what people are saying is “I don’t like ...”

I think the overrated ones are the Cowell packaged cr&p that is pushed at the charts today. Would Girls Aloud have sold as many records if they started out on the gig scene, writing all their own music?? They’d have had to learn to play something first so I somewhat doubt it.

PS I was going to list packaged bands from x-idol and pop-factor etc but I have such contempt for them that I could only think of Girls Aloud! 🙂
 
Archibald Knox said:
Did anyone else tune into the Sky Arts channel this evening?

An interesting interview with Joe Walsh, who is somewhat of an icon for me. His “Barnstorm” album was the 2nd LP I ever bought in 1972 and I still play it today. I did not know until now he was at Kent State University in 1970 on the day when the US National Guard shot four fellow students dead for protesting against the Vietnam War.

Followed by a 1980 concert in Germany by The Jam, which showed them at their very best.
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Saw the on the road with BJ and JW last night.
Christ Joe Walsh hit it hard........made me laugh when he said scariest moment of his life was meeting Keith Moon who seemed to like him, and when in a hotel they were supposed to have adjoining rooms.There was no interconnecting door so Joe got a chain saw and cut one.
"It wasn't a very big door" he said.
 
Archibald Knox said:
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals.

The holy trinity of the Floyd. And Meddle is almost there too. After those three, they fell away with The Wall, imho. It has good parts, but it’s just that I did not get it, when popular music was in the process of changing forever.
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Yes, that’s how I see it. I love Atom Heart Mother though...very ambitious stuff and quite a trip if you listen to it all from front to back in the dark with quality headphones.
 
N Red Hot Chilli Peppers .... ** awful along with all that rap/metal stuff Limp Biscuit/Kid Rock/Linkin Park etc churned out
 
I commute for 2 hours per day and listen to a lot of radio in the car. There is one band that gets an inordinate amount of airplay on a certain independent multichannel franchise for which I cannot comprehend.

That band is Supertramp.
 
gjr69 said:
Along the same lines of I can understand why others like them, Queen!
Just not for me, I appreciate the spectacle of their live aid performance, and Bohemian Rapsody is strangely entertaining in small doses but I would never play one of their albums.
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You wouldn’t play one of their albums because you have mental problems
 
Ruperthoop said:
The Beatles overrated, SERIOUSLY, the whole world has loved their music for almost 60 years. Albums such as Sgt Pepper, Abbey road and the White album are considered amongst the best and all their albums take pride in my collection. The most overrated band to me are the Ramones-i know people who love them but to me they are crap.
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The Beatles were a pop group. If you like pop AND I DON'T , then you may have this view. The dross that Paul McCartney and the most overrated drummer ever have churned out over the years is laughable.
Carlos Santana once said " you can tell when the Beatles got into drugs. Don't get me wrong , I Liked my drugs. I just knew when to stop ! "
 
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1966_and_all_that said:
Yes The Beatles, I have to agree. I mean, apart from being the biggest selling recording artists ever, having the most No. 1s ever, cracking open the American market for British artists, being the only recording act ever to have the top 5 places in the Billboard top 100 chart, being the only act to have more than 3 Christmas No. 1s in the UK (4), being the only band in which every member has had a solo US No. 1 and which has had 3 members achieve a UK solo No. 1, being responsible for reinventing the way that recording studios are used, introducing the concept of holding concerts in sports stadiums (and rooftops), being the first artists to turn an LP into a distinct concept - as opposed to simply a collection of songs, being the only artists to date to have a number 1 single three times with the same song (I stand to be corrected on this one), and to have written and recorded the song most covered by other recording artists (apart from Happy Birthday) in the world.
Apart from that - yeah, crap.
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Yes, and now 60 years on Little Mix are the greatest. Get it in your head...... the Beatles were a pop band only !!!!
 
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