Overrated music artists?

[Houdini]

The Pixies. I like them, but a lot of people treat them like they're gods or something.

[sans culottes]

No, there's simply something I hate about them that I just plain can't quite put my finger on.

Don't accuse me of hating bands just because they are hugely famous, some of my favorite bands are Radiohead, U2, and Muse

Most Stones haters I know of hate them for being popular, so I tend to make that asumption.

Popularity leads to backlash, which is why there's a lot of music elitists who don't wanna have a mainstream opinion. I know of someone from an internet land far away who will call AC/DC and the Stones, two very popular bands, absolute shit. However, he wouldn't dare insult the Beatles or Led Zeppelin because it'd make him seem like an idiot.

It's just awful when people hate everything popular, unless it's so popular that their hatred would be deemed idocy. Every band with at least a hundred thousand fans is overrated.

[Andrew1911]

If anyone says The Stooges, you get a fist up your fucking anus.

Aerosmith, for one. Guns 'N' Roses, for two. AC/DC, for three. something else here

[Houdini]

If anyone says The Stooges, you get a fist up your fucking anus.

MC5 is better 

[Samus Aran]

I hate these threads, because my favorite bands are always the ones that everyone else calls "overrated." I'm sure you all know by now that I really do think Led Zeppelin is the greatest band on Earth. That doesn't mean they are, but that's just my personal taste.

I can at least say that The Rolling Stones seem massively overrated to me, though. I was never a huge fan, but that's not to say that I don't like them. I really enjoy a lot of their work.

[Dullahan]

I'm sure you all know by now that I really do think Led Zeppelin is the greatest band on Earth. That doesn't mean they are, but that's just my personal taste.

I used to hate these threads. But then I decided "Hey, what the fuck. If these people hate the bands I like, then let 'em" and I'll listen to the music I like. I sarcastically get called a "gangster" for listening to artists like Cypress Hill, Dre, and Eminem. I get called a "fake fan" when I tell people how much I love Yes. And I get a mainstream insult for listening to artists like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses.

I find them to be compliments. It amuses me.

[Samus Aran]

I used to hate these threads. But then I decided "Hey, what the fuck. If these people hate the bands I like, then let 'em" and I'll listen to the music I like. I sarcastically get called a "gangster" for listening to artists like Cypress Hill, Dre, and Eminem. I get called a "fake fan" when I tell people how much I love Yes. And I get a mainstream insult for listening to artists like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses.

I find them to be compliments. It amuses me.

It doesn't really bother much that people think my favorite bands are overrated, it's just that I never really have an argument because they're probably right.

:'(

[Houdini]

It doesn't really bother much that people think my favorite bands are overrated, it's just that I never really have an argument because they're probably right.

:'(

There is no "right." This is all a matter of opinion, not fact.

[Dullahan]

It doesn't really bother much that people think my favorite bands are overrated, it's just that I never really have an argument because they're probably right.

:'(

Someone else's opinion is correct?

No.

[Samus Aran]

There is no "right." This is all a matter of opinion, not fact.

Yeah, true.

[C.Mongler]

Aerosmith, AC/DC, Muse, The Mars Volta, etc.

[Houdini]

Aerosmith, AC/DC, Muse, The Mars Volta, etc.

I agree about Muse, but they were good live.

[sans culottes]

I agree about Muse, but they were good live.

Were?

[FAMY2]

I used to hate these threads. But then I decided "Hey, what the fuck. If these people hate the bands I like, then let 'em" and I'll listen to the music I like. I sarcastically get called a "gangster" for listening to artists like Cypress Hill, Dre, and Eminem. I get called a "fake fan" when I tell people how much I love Yes. And I get a mainstream insult for listening to artists like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses.

I find them to be compliments. It amuses me.

I find I like certain songs more so than all of anyones work. I guess it's more the song has to say something to me and the music has to catch my imagination.

[Placebo Headwound]

Were?

When he saw them, probably.

And I agree, Muse is fucking awesome live.