The MOST "Over-Rated" band(s)..... EVER.

[foreverblue]

i like a few of their songs, expecially the post revolver stuff, but the beatles are more of a classic pop band pre 1966 - post 1966 [and post epstein , the suits, and the sillyness] they really became a classic rock band

 

[Lynch]

IMHO, the Beatles were a "boy band" prior to '66 or '67. Once they really got into the drugs, they really turned from the poppy stuff and became a true-blue classic rock band.

 

[foreverblue]

IMHO, the Beatles were a "boy band" prior to '66 or '67. Once they really got into the drugs, they really turned from the poppy stuff and became a true-blue classic rock band.

i agree totally,pre- 1966 they were for intents a harmless pop group. i'm not sure if it was epstein or mcartney or both. but you just have to look at their later solo material to see which member's were interested in pushing the boundaries .

 

[aeroplane]

Nirvana - I'm not even going to start,would take me hours to say why i think this group is overrated,allways top of my list of shit bands.
The Doors - I have several bootlegs of this group,shocking isn't the word,like listening to a very drunk man rambling complete nonsense in a pub,made up lyrical bullshit as he went along.
Sex Pistols - One good album,more an image thing than any lasting musical credibility
Oasis - A bad Manchester Beatles tribute band
Tom Petty - love him in the Traveling Wilburys,but his Best of album will do me for his solo work.Responsible for 5 or 6 of the best songs i've heard,but i find him a bit overrated

Agree with most of these except for Nirvana and Petty. Not because I like Petty either, but I don't ever hear anyone talking about him as a legend like you hear people say about Dylan, Neil Young or Springsteen. Most people who are considered rock and roll "experts" or "historians" seem to look at Petty as "good" but not much else. In fact, there has been very little buzz around him since the Wildflowers album, at least commercially.

One contemporary of Petty's who I find a little overrated is John Mellencamp actually. Bryan Adams (another contemporary) and Tom Petty have vanished from "popular culture" but Mellencamp is still getting into tv commercials, getting moderate coverage for new albums, etc.

 

[CREAM'd]

Agree with most of these except for Nirvana and Petty. Not because I like Petty either, but I don't ever hear anyone talking about him as a legend like you hear people say about Dylan, Neil Young or Springsteen. Most people who are considered rock and roll "experts" or "historians" seem to look at Petty as "good" but not much else. In fact, there has been very little buzz around him since the Wildflowers album, at least commercially.

One contemporary of Petty's who I find a little overrated is John Mellencamp actually. Bryan Adams (another contemporary) and Tom Petty have vanished from "popular culture" but Mellencamp is still getting into tv commercials, getting moderate coverage for new albums, etc.

When i read your reply,i have to say i agree,i take back my Tom Petty remarks.I stand corrected

 

[0000]

I like reading these types of thread, but not really discussing this subject.. But I would like to point out, that Petty has been mentioned in the "underrated" and the "overrated" thread.. I thought that was pretty cool, most of you know Tom and the heartbreakers are my favorite band of all time, so I am finding the views on him very interesting in these threads

We also have a, what I think, is an absolutely excellent Tom Petty thread

http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f6/official-tom-petty-thread-4574/

 

[snakes&ladders]

I don't wanna cause a sensation here, but in MY opinion, one of the most OVERRATED HM bands ever has gotta be MANOWAR....and their political leaning....ABSOLUTLEY REVOLTING

 

[WetWilly]

The Police & Sting solo, I've never got it.

 

[LG]

Manowar is a political band S&L?...I never considered them anything but a die hard heavy metal band concerned with keeping Metal music alive forever, singlehanded if necessary.

I like them and find them just plain old fashioned fun.

 

[0000]

The Police & Sting solo, I've never got it.

I finally get the Police, I really like those first 4 or 5 albums, but I hated them and couldn't listen to them at all for the longest time.. sometimes they are still a bit repetitive for me, though