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Most Overrated Musicians/Groups

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  • #152
    W123-80's
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    Dudess wrote: »
    Plenty of people know they're sh1t. This thread is about acts you hear nothing but praise for.
    If it was just about sh1t acts, it would be named as such.

    And plenty of people enjoy them. Which in my opinion makes them overrated.

    I haven't heard much praise in general for Cher Lloyd, yet she is mentioned on this thread. I would put her in the sh1t act category along with my two suggestions, but taste is subjective.

    But, to be fair, i'm being a dick.! I get your point.

    Kylie.


  • #153
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    The Stone Roses. Bo-ring.


  • #154
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    W123-80's wrote: »
    Dudess wrote: »
    Plenty of people know they're sh1t. This thread is about acts you hear nothing but praise for.
    If it was just about sh1t acts, it would be named as such.

    And plenty of people enjoy them. Which in my opinion makes them overrated.

    I haven't heard much praise in general for Cher Lloyd, yet she is mentioned on this thread. I would put her in the sh1t act category along with my two suggestions, but taste is subjective.

    But, to be fair, i'm being a dick.! I get your point.

    Kylie.
    Nah, don't know why Cher Lloyd is being mentioned either.


  • #155
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Arctic Monkeys. Average.


  • #156
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    parrai wrote: »
    :pac:

    Let me guess, to Arcade Fire fans the drummer is some kind of god?


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  • #157
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,290 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Leonard Cohen :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: etc


  • #158
    parrai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭parrai


    Logical Fallacy wrote: »
    Let me guess, to Arcade Fire fans the drummer is some kind of god?

    No just your description of (his) drumming being "normally pretty pedestrian", I thought it was funny, never heard of a drummer or drumming, more to the point, being described this way.


  • #159
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    parrai wrote: »
    No just your description of (his) drumming being "normally pretty pedestrian", I thought it was funny, never heard of a drummer or drumming, more to the point, being described this way.

    Ah right! Thank **** for that!!!

    Yeah i was using it in the below sense,

    "lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic or dull: a pedestrian commencement speech."


  • #160
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    The Who. They died with Keith Moon.


  • #161
    parrai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭parrai


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    The Who. They died with Keith Moon.

    Unreal drummer, along with John Bonham


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  • #162
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    parrai wrote: »
    Unreal drummer, along with John Bonham

    Would agree with Moon being a class drummer, I've never really rated Bonham myself to be honest, or Led Zeppelin for that matter.


  • #163
    parrai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭parrai


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Would agree with Moon being a class drummer, I've never really rated Bonham myself to be honest, or Led Zeppelin for that matter.

    I forgive you :D


  • #164
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    parrai wrote: »
    I forgive you :D

    Thanks:D To be fair I do like The Who's early stuff, but they haven't made a decent album in 40 years.


  • #165
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Would agree with Moon being a class drummer, I've never really rated Bonham myself to be honest, or Led Zeppelin for that matter.

    You sir, are mistaken. Bonzo was the greatest drummer ever to pick up a pair of sticks

    Edit: Just noticed what you said about Led Zeppelin, there is no hope for you


  • #166
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    You sir, are mistaken. Bonzo was the greatest drummer ever to pick up a pair of sticks

    Edit: Just noticed what you said about Led Zeppelin, there is no hope for you

    Rubbish, rubbish!

    Led Zeppelin are the biggest load of crap I've been inflicted to.


  • #167
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Rubbish, rubbish!

    Led Zeppelin are the biggest load of crap I've been inflicted to.

    I don't think you should be listening to music, it's just not your thing


  • #168
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I don't think you should be listening to music, it's just not your thing

    I would be insulted by that comment, but you listen to Led Zeppelin so I can quite easily laugh it off:)


  • #169
    brock92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭brock92


    U2


  • #170
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Van Morrisson.


  • #171
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    Lady Gaga.




    Or does anyone even care about her anymore?


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  • #172
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    The Flaming Lips are a genuinely over-rated band. One trick ponies of epic proportions.


  • #173
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    I am afraid to read this whole thread cos if somebody said The Stone Roses there will be trouble.....BIG trouble :mad:

    :P


  • #174
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I don't think you should be listening to music, it's just not your thing

    Led Zeppelin are a funny thing to me. I love bands who have channelled their style and their progressive musical stylings but I am not a fan of them. There is something so arsey about them. All amazing, jaw-droppingly brilliant musicians but I think the utter wankishness of Page and Plant infect the Led Zeppelin brand.

    Also (and this is absolutely not a dig at you, Kaiser, I don't know you) any Zeppelin fan I know is practically musically retarded and wouldn't know Black Sabbath from Black Box. It seems that some people get so entranced by Zeppelin (and perhaps not without good reason) that they become utterly, utterly myopic about the vast, expansive musical landscape that is out there. Zep is their alpha and Omega.

    Kaiser, I'd look forward to your opinion on this but let's not go down the road of 'your band is better than mine'. Your opinion is valid as is mine. That is the subjective nature of music.


  • #175
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Would agree with Moon being a class drummer, I've never really rated Bonham myself to be honest, or Led Zeppelin for that matter.

    Watch Zeppelin Live At The Albert Hall 1970 and tell me that's not a good drummer.


  • #176
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Wattle wrote: »
    Watch Zeppelin Live At The Albert Hall 1970 and tell me that's not a good drummer.

    Never said he was a bad drummer, I said I would never rank him up there with the likes of Keith Moon.


  • #177
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Orando Broom wrote: »
    Led Zeppelin are a funny thing to me. I love bands who have channelled their style and their progressive musical stylings but I am not a fan of them. There is something so arsey about them. All amazing, jaw-droppingly brilliant musicians but I think the utter wankishness of Page and Plant infect the Led Zeppelin brand.

    Also (and this is absolutely not a dig at you, Kaiser, I don't know you) any Zeppelin fan I know is practically musically retarded and wouldn't know Black Sabbath from Black Box. It seems that some people get so entranced by Zeppelin (and perhaps not without good reason) that they become utterly, utterly myopic about the vast, expansive musical landscape that is out there. Zep is their alpha and Omega.

    Kaiser, I'd look forward to your opinion on this but let's not go down the road of 'your band is better than mine'. Your opinion is valid as is mine. That is the subjective nature of music.

    Overblown,overwrought and prone to hysterics, I'll grant you. That sort of thing is bound to happen when you have such, as you put it 'jaw-dropping, brilliant musicians'. The thing about them is, for every Immigrant Song, there is Black Mountain Side, for every Whole Lotta Love there is a Going to California. What I always say to people who say that they don't like Zeppelin is that you haven't heard enough of them. It's easy to judge a band having only heard a few of their tracks

    All Zeppelin fans I know have a wide and eclectic taste in music. I'd certainly consider them my favourite band (just pipped ahead of The Beatles), but my taste in music ranges from classical through all types of guitar music (from folk to black metal) up to dance/electronic music, definitely not musically myopic


  • #178
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    To illustrate my point, some of Led Zep's less manic (and less well known) tracks
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OYZm4RhFE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJRCO5kTuM


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbQ0Cb6h3Ew


  • #179
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Led Zeppelin over rated???


    Ah hear..


    Led Zep IV was the greatest album of all time! OF ALL TIME!!!!


  • #180
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Edz87 wrote: »
    Led Zeppelin over rated???


    Ah hear..


    Led Zep IV was the greatest album of all time! OF ALL TIME!!!!

    Actually I think that's Led Zeppelin II is their best album, IV falls down with a couple of tracks (Four Sticks, Misty Mountain Top) whereas II is rock perfection from start to finish


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  • #181
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Actually I think that's Led Zeppelin II is their best album, IV falls down with a couple of tracks (Four Sticks, Misty Mountain Top) whereas II is rock perfection from start to finish


    IV is my personal favourite though, Battle of Evermore, Stairway, When the Levee Breaks, Black Dog....

    I agree with you about the other 2 though. But I think the rest warrant it to be the best album ever. IMO obviously.


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