Most Overrated Bands of the 1980's!

[Foxhound]

Your nominees please!



I'll start, Van Halen. Even Van Halen fans typically save their biggest kudos for the band's debut album, which was in the seventies! Unfortunately, this detail didn't stop Van Halen from continuing on in the same vein and stumbling through the eighties from one drunken excess to the next.

 

[jackory]

Jefferson Airplane, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, Crosby Stills & Nash.

A good start.

Although with most of these polls you can easily switch the terms "Most overrated band" with "bands most people seem to really like but I can't stand".

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Jefferson Airplane, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, Crosby Stills & Nash.

Um.....I think you're looking at the wrong decade, Jackory....

 

[Foxhound]

Although with most of these polls you can easily switch the terms "Most overrated band" with "bands most people seem to really like but I can't stand".

Yes. That's what makes it fun!

 

[jackory]

Oooops! I guess I was so eager to slag those 4 that I wasn't paying attention.

80s is a lot easier...PRINCE. Possibly the most overrated performer of all time.

Depeche Mode is on the list, but I can't think of anyone else at the moment.

 

[Flower]

Wham ...

 

[Flower]

 

[Soot and Stars]

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Flower! I think 80's the second those come up! How can they be overrated when they ingrained an image into peoples heads of an era! I don't think anyone defends them as Gods or anything but just iconic of a time!

I politely disagree with Flower!

 

[Flower]

Sooty!

While not one hit wonders, they were "flashes in the pan" so to speak ... and in my opinion (I'll have to wait to hear what Lynch has to say) neither band lived up to their hype.

 

[jackory]

Acch. What a worthless lot we've already amassed. Sad thing is, we've barely scratched the surface.

Wham...o good god in heaven why did you have to post that photo???