Most Overrated Band Of All Time

[Blue 1]

Kula shaker. Upper middle class gap year codswallop.

They were terrible. Went to see them on the back of hearing a remix of Tattva, which was actually half decent. Left halfway through. Struggling to remember being more disappointed by a band.

 

[Parker]

Had a think on the drive home and I'm gonna go with Aerosmith and Coldplay.

Aerosmith to me are a singles band and I dont like the singles.

And Coldplay are gash from start to finish.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Coldplay

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[Parker]

I got up to about page 4 before my neck gave in from the disapproving head shaking I was doing.

 

[Tigger]

Coldplay

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No

 

[Exeter_Gently]

No

Yes

 

[Tigger]

Yes

Never

 

[Efcjake]

I’d say the likes of Limp Bizkit and Korn. Huge levels of popularity in the late-90s but utter garbage

Korn do not deserve to be lumped in with Limp Bizkit.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Had a think on the drive home and I'm gonna go with Aerosmith and Coldplay.

Aerosmith to me are a singles band and I dont like the singles.

And Coldplay are gash from start to finish.

I actually think the first two Coldplay albums were decent. Was downhill after that though.

 

[Parker]

I actually think the first two Coldplay albums were decent. Was downhill after that though.

It's hard to pick a band that is genuinely overrated that has no redeeming quality. Coldplay is about as close as I could get. There are some proper wild shouts in this thread though.

The worst is comfortably Rage Against The Machine though. I just cant see a flaw in that band. One of the best rhythm sections, a genuine genius on guitar, a riot starter of a vocalist with great lyrics and songs for days. Absolute madness.

 

[Efcjake]

Controversial one this, because 1. They are my favourite band, and 2. They are, or were, very very fashionable after they went global 40 years ago.

Over rated because they have not really written a decent song for 35 years, they were going nowhere fast until they lucked out on a producer they hated, and hardly reinvented anything. One trick ponies and very very formulaic.

I give you, in the spirit of the thread title, AC/DC.

It's just power chords. Constant, constant power chords.

 

[longers]

The best thing Coldplay ever did was sample John Hopkins

 

[roydo]

It's just power chords. Constant, constant power chords.

And generally the same half dozen, just in a different order! Love em mind. Bless.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Blur. Bunch of cockney cheeky chappies with 3 half decent songs. Get worshiped like they wrote masterpieces

 

[TGW89]

Fine Young Cannibals, but still better than most garbage today like.