Most overrated band ever - The Stone Roses

AndyBoBandy

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Bingo.

It's why I can't abide people who slate the likes of Bieber. I can't stand his music but there's no doubt that he's a talented kid.

Terrible thing is a few songs off his last album were actually belters of tunes!!

Achasanai

Turtyturd wrote: »

Nirvana. Not great to begin with but would've been forgotten about by now if not for a shotgun.

Ah now, whatever about whether you like or dislike them, they had a fairly huge impact on what was in the charts at the time, defined numerous genres and subgenres, and their follow up - despite being quite difficult to listen to at times - went straight in at number one.

All that long before he killed himself.

Birneybau

I've just got here but can see it's already gone the 'Unusual people you fancy' thread-wise.

So many bands that were NEVER rated mentioned.

mrsoundie

Hermitage Green, can't understand the love there for them

dirtyden

Syphonax wrote: »

I can name a song from every other band listed here and could properly do so for most 'known' bands but serioulsy cant think of one for Stone Roses.


And btw

AC/ fooking /DC

most overrated band ever pure tripe

If you know nothing at all about them, why do you then think they are over rated. How can you have an opinion on something you know nothing about.

Resist ZOG

hcass wrote: »

What about when black people do it? That ok?

Possibly, but a bunch of middle class whites sitting in a circle singing about living in slums in Kingston? Ugh.

Birneybau

dirtyden wrote: »

If you know nothing at all about them, why do you then think they are over rated. How can you have an opinion on something you know nothing about.

That's the definition of modern online discourse.

mrsoundie

mrsoundie wrote: »

Hermitage Green, can't understand the love there for them

Wouldn't say they're rated at all. They played Eyeries Parish Hall last summer, and a nite club in Castletownbere this summer, so while they are growing they've still a bit to go to catch the Stone Roses, the Strokes, Coldplay, the Eagles and other acts mentioned here.

demanufactured

leonffrench wrote: »

Kings of Leon
Coldplay
The Killers


The middle of the road is overpopulated this last decade

Loved by chung wans and checkered shirt wearing lads from the sticks

xzanti

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Guns n Roses

I don't know how anyone could think that tbh. Although you are of course entitled to your opinion.

Have you ever actually listened to some of their older stuff? It really doesn't get much better, music wise, IMO.

Donald Trump

Bandana boy wrote: »

Syphonax wrote: »

Ive heard of the band, just none of there songs springs to mind which to me says a lot.

Says alot about you !

I am sure if you listen to Fools gold or Love Spreads you will remember the songs as they got a lot of airplay back in the day.

Didn't Eamonn Grumpy used to have it on his radio programme? Not sure whether Matt Looper still uses it on that show

Donald Trump

In fairness, some of their lyrics were excellent

The Stone Roses wrote:

Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd like

 

Donald Trump

How has nobody mentioned "spermdotcom"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_ZD_EsYU0

Rumple Stillson

As a band who are really highly rated here in Ireland, by many, I find The Frames are very overrated.

On the basis that I dislike them and the fuss that follows them around, Bruce Springstein and the E street band are very overrated.

Aongus Von Bismarck

There's a band here in Germany called Manowar, who are easily one of the most talentless groups to have decided to make and release an album. Now heavy metal is a musical genre that has almost no artistic or musical merit anyway, but these chancers take the biscuit. They are loved by small little fat men in denim jackets who hang around rock bars. The same sort of men who tend to work in the lower rungs of IT.

hcass

Resist ZOG wrote: »

Possibly, but a bunch of middle class whites sitting in a circle singing about living in slums in Kingston? Ugh.

DO you live on/near a hippy commune?

Rumple Stillson

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

There's a band here in Germany called Manowar, who are easily one of the most talentless groups to have decided to make and release an album. Now heavy metal is a musical genre that has almost no artistic or musical merit anyway, but these chancers take the biscuit. They are loved by small little fat men in denim jackets who hang around rock bars. The same sort of men who tend to work in the lower rungs of IT.

I like heavy metal There are some really good bands but there is a lot of horrendous stuff too. But in general, heavy metal isn't rated too highly.

PWEI

MUSE


Absolute Muck and the Radiohead comparisons were far too generous.

henryporter

Crystal Swing ftw!

Ulysses Gaze

Donald Trump wrote: »

How has nobody mentioned "spermdotcom"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_ZD_EsYU0

Who knew that Roose Bolton was also a Rapper.

After listening to that, no wonder his son murdered him. :P

Ulysses Gaze

Anything Paul Weller did after he left The Jam.

Resist ZOG

hcass wrote: »

DO you live on/near a hippy commune?

No but I've encountered enough wannabe rastas to hate them for a lifetime. They're as a bad as the wiggers.

Erik Shin

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Anything Paul Weller did after he left The Jam.

You do something to me, something deep inside!!!
:mad:

john.han

Blur, most of their early albums are just novelty/gimmicky songs. May as well be listening to the monster mash.

Resist ZOG

john.han wrote: »

Blur, most of their early albums are just novelty/gimmicky songs. May as well be listening to the monster mash.

Funnily enough Blur were a band I hated back in the day but now think are alright.

super_furry

Fleetwood Mac. I'm still astounded by the sudden revival of actual young people listening to them. They're like the cheapest, blandest vanilla ice-cream from Crazy Prices.

john.han

Resist ZOG wrote: »

Funnily enough Blur were a band I hated back in the day but now think are alright.

I do think Blur, 13 and Think Tank were decent albums but could never understood the hype around them before that (or the hype when the they reformed and toured... ) I always find it unusual when bands come back after a hiatus and people have re-imagined them in the meantime as a much bigger act then they ever were originally, nostalgia plays a big part.

Ulysses Gaze

Erik Shin wrote: »

You do something to me, something deep inside!!!
:mad:

Not saying it was all ****e, aside from The Style Council, but it was overrated compared to The Jam.

Den14

Arctic Monkeys. Could never get into them. And my unpopular opinion nomination; Leonard Cohen

Arghus

To be honest, I think The Stone Roses are as good an answer as I can think of to this hoary old question. But there's also Neutral Milk Hotel -

I don't hate them. How could I - I want to Be Adored, I Am The Resurrection, Waterfall - those are some bona fide indisputable classics; cracking tunes from a really great band. But, I'm sorry, they are simply not one of the greatest bands of all time - which was something that was and still is said frequently enough, especially around the time of their reformation. I had a friend that used to swear blind they were better than The Beatles. Jesus Christ - I know music is all about subjective taste and all that malarkey, but that's as close to an objective falsehood as you're ever likely to hear. They didn't leave a truly great legacy as far as I'm concerned: one classic album and another that honestly very, very few talk about today. I'm not saying that they are a bad band, but just they have no business being up in there in conversations about "the greatest", amongst the truly legendary bands of the sixties, seventies and onwards. They are overrated.

Neutral Milk Hotel released In The Aeroplane Over The Sea back in 1998 and it took 10 years for that album's reputation to balloon to a point of ludicrousness. I will concede that The Stone Roses - while being overrated - at least were good: NMH, on the other hand, are terrible. Jeff Magnum's excruciatingly loud, out of tune and corny bellowing makes me wish I was deaf whenever I have the misfortune to hear it. Christ, an absolute stinker of a band.

When it comes to more "modern" bands I'd have to put The National up there. They are widely beloved, but they do absolutely nothing for me. I find them boring, morose and slow.

But to get onto the real pressing issue of The Thread: favourite metal album. It's a tough choice between ...And Justice For All or Reign In Blood. I love how cold ...AJFA feels. It's, by far, Metallica's most genuinely angry album. But it's a cold, simmering anger. And when you mix that with their most ambitious musicianship ever, you get something terrifying, but also awe inspiring: love that album. I'd probably have to vote for RIB over it though, just. Evil never sounded like so much fun. And that opening screech that turns into a roar that Tom Araya does right at the beginning of Angel of Death get's me going each and every time.