Overrated bands

From a very drunken discussion after the St Patrick's day parade, the topic of over rated bands came about, as it does with huge amounts of Guinness flowing, so name your top 5 bands that have been well over rated.

mine are

1 Rolling Stones (should have retired years ago)
2 Aerosmith (bunch of American tossers who wrote one song)
3 Cream (3 guys who argued all the time 30 years ago)
4 Spice Girls (yuck)
5 Back Street boys (male version of the Spice Girls)

I had to thinck hard about the 4th and 5th place as m&m and 50 cents and snoop dog being a close call

These comes to mind at the moment:

U2
Coldplay
Definitely Aerosmith, good call
The Who

1. Coldplay
2. Coldplay
3. Coldplay
4. U2
5. James Blunt (OK, not a band, but still)

The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths

Kin dreadful.

Michael Jackson

Aerosmith and Cream overrated?
Watchu talk'n bout Willis?

Robbie Williams

good point I forgot about him

1. Bon Jovi: As one critic put it (wish I were so clever), "the world's most successful bar band".
2. The Beach Boys: A few good songs, but mostly shite
3. Madonna: Can't sing, can't act. Can dance a little.

I could name others, but it's hard to separate bands which simply suck versus those which are overrated. Those three have some critical and popular support.

Pearl Jam
Pavement
Any of those bands that call themselves "indie" as a marketing ploy (theres been a few of them coming out of the UK recently), and sound the same as any rock/pop band.
Live
Creed

fuck off, pavement is one of the best bands. Stephen Malkmus is a god. And to use a sentence that he uses indie as a marketing ploy, think again. As soon as Pavement became famous he changed, broke his band up. Only Jane's Addiction holds the same reverence for indie

*crosses UpQuark irrevocably off the Christmas Card list*

Yeah KZA I got brokem's back on this Pavement kicks ass. Go put that Men at work lp on ...

I will classify all country and pop as shit (mainly because they don't write their own material-if you don't write it yourself you are just a coverband).

U2.

Apart from them, it's really too hard to narrow it down so I'll say if you get played on the radio you're probably overrated.

Now a god would be if the Rza, Dr Dre, Bob Marley and Prince Tui Teka all had a kid together.

1) Nirvana
2) Counting Crowes
3) Pearl Jam
4) Limp Bizkit
5) Still thinking on this one.

Pavement doesnt count as I have never heard of them

1: Sex Pistols
2: The Clash
3: Arctic Monkeys
4: Coldplay
5: Vevet Underground

U2
Coldplay
Beyonce
J-Lo (Though I think she is just pure talentless crap!)

yes indeed but I wouldn't kick her out of bed for farting

You would if it was after a night of beers and Krystals!

Krystal
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or

Cristal
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Although some aren't technically bands

U2
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Jackson
The Cure
Status Quo

How are The Cure, The Smiths, and the Sex Pistols over-rated? If anything, they are under-rated. Jimi Hendrix? You have to be kidding me...

Jimi Hendrix is God

What makes them so underrated?

The Cure - miserable whining rubbish. So bad live that even self confessed Cure lovers had to wander off when we saw them.

Hendrix. Amazing guitarist but don't like his songs. Too much showing off how brilliant a guitarist he was. Sadly for me, this does not a good song make. Best song he ever did was All Along the Watchtower which was written by Dylan I believe.

The ugly fat arsed bitch wouldnt get within 10 miles of my bed. I'd top myself before I slept with that!

HEATHENS

I agree with some of the choices. I can see why some people choose U2. However, the thing you have to remember about U2 is that they produce very listenable music which the average audience finds easy to go along with. This is the secret of their success. The Rolling Stones on the other hand should have disbanded 30 years ago with the departure of Mick Taylor. How can anybody say Cream? Obviously somebody who has never played any instrument in anger.

For what it's worth, here's mine:

1. Queen
2. Yes
3. Status Quo
4. Generation X (loved King Rocker - the rest was absolute tosh)
5. Culture Club

Where's me blood and cum stained Tokio Hotel T-shirt?

Wow this new 3 lions has a mouth on him...

5) The Shins
4) Elliott Smith
3) The Avalanches
2) Of Montreal
1) The Pixies

I will lend you the DVD of the reunion concert at the Albert Hall and you will see what I mean

I *heart* Tokio Hotel

Some of the early stuff from the Cure is class, though.
"A Forest" and "Primary" spring to mind.

Then do wot I does ER - git yerself an orfentik Tokio Hotel T-Shirt. Rip the arms off. Add oil, mud, cum, puke and blood stains, oh! and a few rips and holes, and then go scare the 16 year olds shitless.

I calls it 'sport'.

well yes... it was his idea for the thread

Killing an Arab?

Oh! Sorry. Wrong thread.

great song actually...

that was never one of my favourites, I have to admit

@ MrBrain - the B-side was better

The Smiths - I agree. However The Pistols were to music what Eddie the Eagle was to the Winter Olympics.

1) SHAKIRA. The wench cannot sing whatsoever.
2) Arctic Monkeys. Flavor of the week, they suck.
3) Franz Ferdinand. And I like them.
4) The Darkness. Good for a laugh but it wears off quick.
5) Coldplay, of course. Suck suck sucky-suck band who rips off old Kraftwerk songs. Criminal!

coldplay seem to be winning this hands down so far

Eddie the Eagle sucked.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Oasis or Bryan Adams yet.

Simple minds
Keith Harris and Orville
Madonna
Bon Jovi

Ozzi Osbourne, ELO, Duran Duran, UB40 are all great cos they are from Birmingham (or near enough)

IRMC

So nothing new in my list .. in no particular order:

Coldplay (no balls, no charisma no nothing)
Franz Ferdinand (saw them in Munich and they sucked)
Maddona (just retire - it's embarrassing)
50 f*ng cent

Couldn't belive someone mentioned Status Quo - does anybody rate them as anything but a 3rd rate pub band?

Also how can you not like Shakira

no way

I don 't agree with that, many of the Country stars write their own music, many songwritters are now Top stars- like Phil Vasar, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Matraca Berg, just to name a few.
Shania Twain writes all her own stuff- her old stuff was good, but now she is trying to be pop.

My list-
Davie Bowie
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Tokio Hotel
Die Arzt