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Curly Bill

8/25/2009, 10:21 PM

Dave Matthews Band...discussion over.

They almost got my vote over Metallica.

If Dave Matthews stays on the scene long enough I think they'll take the top spot.

Dio

8/25/2009, 10:26 PM

Metallica

they still kill live, though

If I never ever hear some music-critic type jizz about REM again, it'll be too soon.

JohnnyMack

8/25/2009, 10:31 PM

U2. And I don't even think it's close.

JohnnyMack

8/25/2009, 10:31 PM

Wait. Is Madonna a band?

JohnnyMack

8/25/2009, 10:32 PM

Dave Matthews Band...discussion over.

Meh.

This is coming from an announced ABBA fan.

yermom

8/25/2009, 10:33 PM

U2 and DMB are solid choices

i will give U2 some props though. a couple of their songs are just incredible

pretty much nothing in over 10 years though

yermom

8/25/2009, 10:33 PM

Meh.

This is coming from an announced ABBA fan.

ABBA good.

DMB succ.

:O

JohnnyMack

8/25/2009, 10:40 PM

ABBA good.

DMB succ.

:O

DMB real musicians.

ABBA well marketed.

Petro-Sooner

8/25/2009, 10:43 PM

U2 is a good pick!

yermom

8/25/2009, 11:32 PM

DMB real musicians.

ABBA well marketed.

all i know is that i skip songs/change stations when one is on, the other not so much

OUAndy1807

8/25/2009, 11:59 PM

Zepplin.

JLEW1818

8/26/2009, 12:02 AM

Rascal Flats

Fraggle145

8/26/2009, 12:12 AM

Creed.

What do I win?

yermom

8/26/2009, 12:14 AM

speaking of Creed... how could i forget Nickelback?

def_lazer_fc

8/26/2009, 12:52 AM

speaking of Creed... how could i forget Nickelback?

nickleback would qualify as a big suck but were they ever really overrated? sure, they were/are still? popular, but so is miley cyrus. i dont know of any self respecting music fans ever gave them the time of day. i could be wrong on that front though. i, personally, would have to go with...jesus, i cant even think of just one.:D

Collier11

8/26/2009, 12:59 AM

Zepplin.

HOW THE F*CK DARE YOU!!!! BANE HIM!

Petro-Sooner

8/26/2009, 01:53 AM

Rascal Flats is up there as well. I sure hope they have run their course.

Mixer!

8/26/2009, 01:55 AM

Jesus, this thread again?

Green Day, YWIA.

Petro-Sooner

8/26/2009, 02:01 AM

Ahh true! How about Coldplay.....

Mixer!

8/26/2009, 02:03 AM

One has to be rated first before they can become over-rated.

tommieharris91

8/26/2009, 02:05 AM

Jonas Brothers.

How did they ever get famous?

def_lazer_fc

8/26/2009, 02:16 AM

actually i second green day here. theres my answer

yermom

8/26/2009, 08:39 AM

Green Day was cool before the guyliner

Collier11

8/26/2009, 08:41 AM

and before he decided that he would waste our time by singing about how much he hates war, now they just come off as whiney

Boomer Mooner

8/26/2009, 08:46 AM

HOW THE F*CK DARE YOU!!!! BANE HIM!

No ****! Zeppelin was the real deal.

Osce0la

8/26/2009, 08:47 AM

Jonas Brothers.

How did they ever get famous?

werd

oh, and Huey Lewis and the News - most overrated underrated band of all time :D

Mixer!

8/26/2009, 08:51 AM

Jonas Brothers.

How did they ever get famous?

werd

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uzU4-m_CMB8/SZG6vAfc5vI/AAAAAAAAEwk/9w6n36YY2mc/s320/071112_Disney_logo.jpg

SoonerAficionadOU

8/26/2009, 11:27 AM

Veritas

8/26/2009, 11:39 AM

The Beatles

<ducks>

yermom

8/26/2009, 11:41 AM

why do you hate America?

StoopTroup

8/26/2009, 11:42 AM

The Beatles

<ducks>

If any of you ever had a Beatles Song Book...I have always wondered who was straight enough to put the music down. I mean...they were really out there in the late 60's and 70's.

BillyBall

8/26/2009, 11:43 AM

U2
DMB
Coldplay

Great Choices... I would put DMB at number 1 though, they are ****ing painful to listen to the last 10 years.

picasso

8/26/2009, 11:46 AM

DMB is a good contender, but they have ties to an OU prof which gives them a tiny boost. Nope, my vote's gotta go to U2. I downloaded their discography a few months ago, and couldn't make it through after Joshua Tree. Like Coldplay, they're 1-2 good songs per album and a bunch of junk in between.

good as in what? commercial worthy?

How To Dismanlte An Atomic Bomb was one of their best efforts but it might not be kitschy enough for you dorks.:)

Xstnlsooner

8/26/2009, 01:58 PM

Opinions! Opinions! you know what they say about opinions...

WTF does it matter if someone likes some group you hate anyhow!

Jello Biafra

8/26/2009, 02:02 PM

U2. Yeah, The Joshua Tree was good. Since then...

bah all of their good music was a long time before joshua tree...

TMcGee86

8/26/2009, 02:02 PM

Aerosmith.

Boomer_Sooner_sax

8/26/2009, 02:03 PM

Veritas

8/26/2009, 02:06 PM

Oh, I would also add Rush. Today's Tom Sawyer would laugh his *** off at Geddy Lee's whiney voice.

<ducks again>

silverwheels

8/26/2009, 02:14 PM

Every band ever is overrated to someone...some bands more than others.

Collier11

8/26/2009, 02:22 PM

It would also appear that not only have we not established what overrated means in this discussion but also that everyone is just listing bands that they think shouldnt be as popular as they are so basically they just dont like them

sitzpinkler

8/26/2009, 02:35 PM

Aerosmith.

Agreed.

King Crimson

8/26/2009, 02:54 PM

clean Aerosmith has done nothing but write tunes that double as soundbytes for commercials, at best.

Collier11

8/26/2009, 03:01 PM

and fall off of stages

Frozen Sooner

8/26/2009, 03:02 PM

Rush. They knock this so far out of the park that listening to them should almost be ironic.

Crucifax Autumn

8/26/2009, 05:05 PM

Rush. They knock this so far out of the park that listening to them should almost be ironic.

Yeah, complex song structures and literary influence in lyrics is for friggin' smart people! Bunch dork MUSICIANS!

Frozen Sooner

8/26/2009, 05:20 PM

Yeah, complex song structures and literary influence in lyrics is for friggin' smart people! Bunch dork MUSICIANS!

It's fine and all to have that, but to actually have your songs not suck would be better.

I look on it much as I do authors who write unreadable crap and pass it off as high concept.

Seriously, I could write an impenetrable mess and drop references to Tolstoy, Twain, and Turow and it'd be indistinguishable from your standard screech-fest from Rush.

;)

Crucifax Autumn

8/26/2009, 05:27 PM

At least your retort makes sense...Even if I disagree. But I'm a huge prog-head, so I'm kinda biased. The more crazy time-signatures, changes, and untraditional crap that gets crammed into a song the better for me. That's what makes it listenable and more importantly, re-listenable. I DO realize that the vast majority of people find prog unlistenable for those same reasons though and it keeps me from getting sick of the bands since I don't hear them every 10 minutes on the radio like Nickelback or any of that shat.

Oldnslo

8/26/2009, 07:15 PM

Aerosmith haters? Y'all have your music cred herewith revoked. Joey Kramer is The Man on the kit. I can understand not necessarily digging power blues, but dissing Zep?

eek. Ears much?

You want to talk overrated? I mean over-rated (clap! clap! clapclapclap!) then there is only one clear choice:

1) fawning media
2)fluffing critics
3)famous more for humanitarian issues than for music

ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

U2

Crucifax Autumn

8/26/2009, 07:17 PM

Aerosmith hasn't been any good since about 1980. Before that they rocked.

sooner ngintunr

8/26/2009, 07:37 PM

^^^^yep

My vote goes to DMB.

I'm glad I'm not the only person that thinks they suck.

soonerinabilene

8/26/2009, 08:15 PM

My list would include Coldplay, Hinder, Creed, Nickelback, but IMHO, I don't get the love affair with Pearl Jam. I know I am in the minority possibly, but I think they are the most overrated band of all time.

since you are still green, i have to assume yermom hasnt read this yet, because when he does, the hammer is coming.

Breadburner

8/26/2009, 08:52 PM

Celine Dion.....

Jacie

8/27/2009, 11:01 AM

I never really understood the appeal of Supertramp . . .

King Crimson

8/27/2009, 11:20 AM

this may be unpopular but.....i like the Ramones, they are great. however i think they are a little overrated.

for instance Spin (the worst mag ever) ranks the Ramones as the #2 rock band of all-time. no way.

the uptempo doo-wop tunes with distortion and eventually formulaic melodies over a career do not equal #2 or even close. i give them their cred, but #2? too many post-baby boomer industry execs growing up on Long Island and in NY....who liked to have thought they were "punkers" inna day and emerge as industry opinion leaders, sounds like to me.

the Ramones make it in 1976....the Stooges were already long gone (when "The Stooges" comes out in 1969/70, the Beatles are still together)....and the MC5 are done too. so, the cherished and oft-repeated claim that the R's "started" punk rock is bit of a stretch. not to mention Brixton and the UK bands.

My Opinion Matters

8/27/2009, 11:28 AM

AC/DC. A very confusing band to me. A British rock group with an almost exclusively redneck fanbase.

sitzpinkler

8/27/2009, 11:33 AM

AC/DC. A very confusing band to me. A British rock group with an almost exclusively redneck fanbase.

They're not British. They're Australian.

Other than that, I agree. I like maybe two or three songs of theirs.

yermom

8/27/2009, 11:35 AM

they have 2 or 3 songs?

Collier11

8/27/2009, 11:41 AM

Thunderstruck and...???

My Opinion Matters

8/27/2009, 11:41 AM

They're not British. They're Australian.

You're right. How did I not know this until now? Anyway, that actually explains a lot.

TMcGee86

8/27/2009, 03:14 PM

clean Aerosmith has done nothing but write tunes that double as soundbytes for commercials, at best.

My thoughts exactly.

I put Aerosmith because to me "overrated" must imply that the band is highly rated. I dont think DMB or Creed, or Nickelback meets this criteria.

And I used to love Aerosmith, but when I look back at everything from Pump to today, it's awful.

They are regarded as a supergroup, but when I look at their discography, it's a big pile of meh. Everything since 1980 has been soundtrack fodder.

Ergo, vis a vis, Overrated.

SbOrOiNaEnR

8/27/2009, 03:44 PM

AC/DC. A very confusing band to me. A British rock group with an almost exclusively redneck fanbase.

Rednecks love them because AC/DC isn't much of a stretch from country. In mid-80s rural American locker rooms, half your teenage fanbase listened to country, and the other half listened to metal. AC/DC could appeal to both. They're the original "crossover" band.

yermom

8/27/2009, 03:50 PM

country? wha?

i'm not a huge fan of AC/DC's one song, but it doesn't sound like country to me :D

SbOrOiNaEnR

8/27/2009, 03:51 PM

Maybe not the sound, necessarily, but the sentiment.

I may just be talking out of my @$$, too ;)

King Crimson

8/27/2009, 03:56 PM

what is this about AC/DC's "one song"?

all the stuff with Bon Scott (Highway, Powerage, TNT, High Voltage): great stuff, Back in Black and i'll give you For Those About to Rock....but, after that they sort of peter out IMO. wander into formula-ville, soundtrack-fodder-ville, and later try and write a single-they-will-play-in-arenas-ville

but, there's lots of good tunes (and i'm not counting Thunderstruck) on those 70's LP's. all of Highway, especially.

yermom

8/27/2009, 04:07 PM

i'm mostly just talking about of my as5 ;)

their Back in Black and later stuff that all kinda sounds alike, at least the stuff on the radio. like the last song i heard of theirs sounds like it could have been on an album 20 years ago :)

it's not like i change the station (i'm looking at you DMB) but i've never really gotten that excited about their stuff

JohnnyMack

8/27/2009, 04:46 PM

it's not like i change the station (i'm looking at you DMB) but i've never really gotten that excited about their stuff

While I agree that some of DMBs mainstream stuff is sucky, how you could listen to Before These Crowded Streets or Crash (minus one or two radio hits) and not think they're good is beyond me.

silverwheels

8/27/2009, 04:57 PM

http://vimeo.com/3552386

Lott's Bandana

8/27/2009, 06:41 PM

My thoughts exactly.

I put Aerosmith because to me "overrated" must imply that the band is highly rated. I dont think DMB or Creed, or Nickelback meets this criteria.

And I used to love Aerosmith, but when I look back at everything from Pump to today, it's awful.

They are regarded as a supergroup, but when I look at their discography, it's a big pile of meh. Everything since 1980 has been soundtrack fodder.

Ergo, vis a vis, Overrated.

I could have written this.

Any group that 40-yo wimmens start to love, (Aerosmith, Nickleback, Creed) I throw elderberries at relentlessly.

tidalmouse

8/27/2009, 07:20 PM

Bruce Hornsby and the Range. :pop:

tidalmouse

8/27/2009, 07:24 PM

I agree about Dave Matthews,Creed,and some others mentioned.

I'm gonna throw The Eagles,minus Joe Walsh,under the Bus.

Crucifax Autumn

8/27/2009, 07:30 PM

Joe Walsh > Don Henley

King Crimson

8/27/2009, 07:35 PM

Joe Walsh > Don Henley

and pretty much anyone > Glen Frey.

Walsh's There Goes the Neighborhood has a great LP cover.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NldQwDmK_vc/R0LbDxliNbI/AAAAAAAACYk/NxdWZayFaLc/s320/1981+-+There+Goes+the+Neighborhood.jpg

However, Walsh gets a wtf? for Space Age Whiz Kids.

Eagles should pay royalties to the Gram Parsons estate. they are a kind of luke-warm Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo or Flying Burrito Brothers until they started doing a lot of blow then they became more LA than Bakersfield.

Crucifax Autumn

8/27/2009, 07:47 PM

James Gang FTW!

Breadburner

8/27/2009, 10:11 PM

Queen.....

KC//CRIMSON

8/27/2009, 10:19 PM

They're not British. They're Australian.

Actually, the only person in the band who is Australian is Phil Rudd. The rest are English and Scottish. However, they did form in Sydney.

goingoneight

8/27/2009, 10:23 PM

How about the white black guy who just had a multi-million dollar funeral funded by a bankrupt city?

SicEmBaylor

8/27/2009, 10:42 PM

Meh.

This is coming from an announced ABBA fan.

And they call me gay...

SicEmBaylor

8/27/2009, 10:43 PM

Ahh true! How about Coldplay.....

Shut your whore mouth.

GottaHavePride

8/27/2009, 10:47 PM

I'm gonna add The Flaming Lips to the "overrated" list.

Neg away, bitches.

stoopified

8/29/2009, 07:13 AM

I never really understood the appeal of Supertramp . . .That is kind of harsh isn't it,I mean Madoona has already been mentioned. Personalizing this issue is just petty.

Jacie

8/29/2009, 10:54 AM

That is kind of harsh isn't it,I mean Madoona has already been mentioned. Personalizing this issue is just petty.

While I'm at it I'll throw in two songs that I am not fond of at all.

Bohemian Rhapsody and American Pie.

Both of them too long and pretentious, one of them too gay, the other too pointless.

Kudos for Madonna = supertramp though . . .

MR2-Sooner86

8/29/2009, 11:55 AM

U2 is pretty overrated but there is one band that I think takes the cake and created the **** that we have on the radio today.

Nirvana

StoopTroup

8/29/2009, 12:03 PM

Although you could be right about Nivana...I think over looking the greatness that is Dave Grohl is a mistake. I think he carried Nirvana.

SanJoaquinSooner

8/29/2009, 12:19 PM

I'd say the Beach Boys. So the Beatles bought a copy of Pet Sounds and listened to it and the album becomes critically acclaimed. they're very nice fluff, not much more.

Next: Van Halen. they're kinda like a skilled version of grand funk railroad. really nothing memorable. no quality song-writing. they rode the coattails of early MTV.

MR2-Sooner86

8/29/2009, 01:22 PM

Although you could be right about Nivana...I think over looking the greatness that is Dave Grohl is a mistake. I think he carried Nirvana.

I've heard the same thing from a few people but what you hear from the mainstream is Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain. I've even heard that Dave Grohl had some songs he wanted to do but Kurt Cobain was such an egomaniac that he wouldn't allow it.

49r

8/29/2009, 01:41 PM

The Texas A&M Aggie Band

Seriously, those guys suck...I never understood why everyone makes such a big deal.

SicEmBaylor

8/29/2009, 03:06 PM

The Texas A&M Aggie Band

Seriously, those guys suck...I never understood why everyone makes such a big deal.

Spek.

Lott's Bandana

8/29/2009, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by JohnnyMack http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2672735#post2672735)
Meh.

This is coming from an announced ABBA fan.
Originally Posted by SicEmBaylor http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2675117#post2675117)
And they call me gay...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Petro-Sooner http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2673044#post2673044)
Ahh true! How about Coldplay.....
Shut your whore mouth.

That's why we call you gay.

Lott's Bandana

8/29/2009, 03:25 PM

Zeppelin isn't rated high enough!

Rush is far from overrated culturally, it is a niche band that is enjoying some recent pub but the core fans have been and always will be with them. I'm one of them.

Just about every other post in this thread I agree with.