Most overrated/underrated bands since 1970's

[JudgeWapner]

"Underrated: SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES"
Excellent choice.
2 more underated:
Traffic
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[bakinbaconwithMacon]

Blind Melon - underrated

If your bands singer dies young, you become instantly overrated.

Nirvana-overrated

 

[slapshot]

underrated Aerosmith drug years :toast:


overrated Aerosmith sober hno:

 

[blueedwards]

This is so much a matter of taste so over/underrated really means nothing. With sports, you have results and stats to play with. Music is just a preference. That said:

Overrated: Aerosmith
Underrated: Depeche Mode

you and your depeche mode...:nopityA:

 

[blueedwards]

no can could ever convince me in a million years that the rolling stones are overrated. in fact, i believe them to be underrated because they were better than the beatles. that's right...better.

:realtongu

 

[blueedwards]

Underated- B52s, Cowboy Junkies.

 

[MinnesotaEconMajor]

Underrated - Devo
Overrated - Everybody else.

 

[Bourn]

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Now if you want to know what a REALLY Over rated band was, more so at the time than right now, you need no better example than CREED.<o></o>

very ture. thats because 90% of the poplulation are cows. they all follow each other in herds and have never had an original opinion in their life.

Creed is definatley at the top of the list along with most of the other diarhea they shove through the airwaves

Underrated: Radiohead and The White Stripes

 

[ButI'mTedBell]

Overrated- ACDC, Metallica

Underrated- Corrosion of Conformity

I love COC.

And from a different style, I always thought Little Feat with Lowell George were a great band that was under the radar.

King's X is one of my favorites, but not sure of how many people have heard them.

 

[ButI'mTedBell]

Underrated:

Deftones
UFO
Blue Oyster Cult
Jefferson Starship (not Starship)
White Stripes
War


Overrated:

Jimmy Buffett
Grateful Dead
Nickelback
Kid Rock
Guns N Roses

Can't believe I left out UFO. Best lineup they've had in years now.

 

[REDEYE]

If your bands singer dies young, you become instantly overrated.

Nirvana-overrated

Couldn't disagree more, best band of our generation

 

[REDEYE]

Overrated- Oasis- i will turn the dial everytime one of their tunes come on
Overrated- Pearl Jam- never saw anything about them that moved me

Underrated- Live
Underrated -Garbage
Underrated- Def leppard- freaking songs still rock

 

[nimue77]

Depeche Mode. Best band ever. :thumbsup2:

 

[FairWarning]

Depeche Mode is for fags and 200+ women, same as The Cure.

Blue Edwards - Want to know why the Stones are overrated? They have how many good songs, but continue to play the same 18 staples at their concerts and nothing else. They must think their fans are dumb.

I agree with Sport Savant on Aerosmith.

Others underrated:

Traffic
Replacements
April Wine
Pretenders
Smithereens
Social Distortion

Overrated:

Red Hot Chili Peppers (have played basically the same songs for 15 years now)
All country for the last 15 years.

 

[Journeyman]

Couldn't disagree more, best band of our generation

I am surprised it took this long for a Nirvana fan to appear..:scared:

 

[fivestarjake]

havent really checked through all the posts but...
foo fighters are underrated

 

[Journeyman]

Depeche Mode is for fags and 200+ women, same as The Cure.

Blue Edwards - Want to know why the Stones are overrated? They have how many good songs, but continue to play the same 18 staples at their concerts and nothing else. They must think their fans are dumb.

I agree with Sport Savant on Aerosmith.

Others underrated:

Traffic
Replacements
April Wine
Pretenders
Smithereens
Social Distortion

Overrated:

Red Hot Chili Peppers (have played basically the same songs for 15 years now)
All country for the last 15 years.

:lolBIG: Stones have had how many hits since 1980? I believe we could count them on one hand.

I bought a greatest hits disc of Chilli Peppers and didn't realize how little really good songs they have.

Areeosmith is somewhat overrated , give them some credit though, they have produced in several different eras and haven't just lived off their early success...after breaking in in the 70's they were hot back in the mid to late 80's and again in the mid 90's...not much in the 2000's but still had a few hits...jjjaded and the movie soundtrack hit song.


How about KISS for overrated? Who writes those songs ?

 

[Journeyman]

Rush hasn't had a hit song in a good 15 years, maybe longer....still a great concert playing Tom Sawyer., Spirit of Radio, Limelight, Red Barchetta and the same 20 songs they played in 1983 and 1994.

 

[Arodd]

anyone that thinks journey and ACDC are overrated have never played the drinking game Thunderstruck and have never taken advantage of an innocent horny young white female getting wet listening to journey hits.

 

[Journeyman]

anyone that thinks journey and ACDC are overrated have never played the drinking game Thunderstruck and have never taken advantage of an innocent horny young white female getting wet listening to journey hits.

Very true...not a woman alive who doesn't melt to their songs...now you see why I.....