Its easiest for something highly rated to be overrated.First two on your list are fine, but how can a band that has a song that's on virtually every Top 10 Greatest Songs list be "overrated"? In fact it's the #1 song on most lists and #2 on many more. Just don't understand how they can be overrated.
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I don’t deny the superb musicianship of Rush, I just couldn’t get into their music and Geddy Lee’s voice. I kinda felt the same way about Cream. Amazing virtuosos but once again just couldn’t get into their music.
Afterwards, I actually thought I should have put STYX instead of Rush. STYX was just so pompous and pretentious and lame.
Don’t get me started on pop country. It’s such a disappointment country music is in it current form. There is so much good non-radio played country music that people just don’t hear because they aren’t on major labels. Turnpike Troubadours, Chris Knight, Charlie and Bruce Robison, Whitey Morgan.
Even a little older stuff like Robert Earl Keen, The Great Divide and Reckless Kelly are relatively unknown and should be regarded as classics.
I was going to see Robert Earlier Keen at The Waiting Room, I believe it was, and had something going on. You would probably like American Aquarium, and I'm sure you like Jason Isbell, Justin Townes Earle, and John Hiatt. I heard a good band recently called Ruby Boots.
Will always be a pretty big fan of the Jayhawks and Wilco. Like older Wilco better though, when Jay Bennett was with them. Tift Merritt and Neko Case are also favorites. Alejandro Escovedo, The Derailers, and Lydia Loveless are also really good. Derailers are like Buck Owens (Bakersfield) country. And of course you can never go wrong with Lucinda Williams and Gram Parsons. Oh, and of course, Son Volt, and even though he has had some bad press recently, Ryan Adams is still one of the best song writers in the Americana genre. Whiskeytown (his old band) is always worth a listen too.
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styx was good when they started but the singer wanted to do opera, and the guitar guy hated it, he said it hard to play texas jam with drunk 18 year olds in the audience. and do oprah
seems crap music = money in the bank.
Fair enough.. If you get a chance to see them live you won't be dissapointed since you like some of their songs..
The last word of this post completely changed the meaning.
Siamese Dream has aged really well IMO. Better than most early 90s rock.
I couldn't stand them at the time, but now that album in particular is pretty darn good.
I really like Tool up through the Aenima album. After that their music got way overproduced IMO. Also got a bit too “metaphysical, holier than thou” in message but Maynard went that way as a person so I get it.
Danny Carey is a fun drummer to watch live. I try not to hold it against him that he’s from Lawrence, Kansas
Funny. That is exactly how I feel. I think it was the choice of the singles. I still hate both Today and Disarm. But Cherub Rock, Silverf***, Geek USA, etc... lot of good tracks on that album. Rocket in particular is now one of my favorite rock and roll songs from that era.
I really like James Iha’s guitar work on that album. Pretty unique at the time.
Stinkfist is still one of my favorite songs, but for all that is holy I don't understand why they decided that 5 minute long intros made for good music. I was excited for their album release this summer but it just wasn't worth the anticipation.
How do you not like Disarm? Maybe it's because I like orchestra but I love that song. Really well done IMO
Personally, I hate to be Disarmed!
KISS I agree is overrated and was always more of a circus show. Green Day maybe, but not Aerosmith. I look at the body of work and just about every rapper is overrated when you consider how few hits any of them actually ever have. Also I look at whether they are writing their own music or just rehashing someone else's hit song (Marilyn Manson) with a glam look. Singers and bands of today are a big step down from the best bands of the 60s-90s. Too much of today's music is truly manufactured with a Disney pop-star singer. It's just a joke to compare Beyonce or Nickelback to the Beatles or Rolling Stones or even Metallica.
Agree 100%. Dylan should have just stuck to songwriting and let others like Jimi Hendricks perform his songs (Along the Watchtower). Grateful Dead and Phish are both really drugged-out music that is hard to listen to beyond maybe one or two songs (Touch of Grey). The Beatles deserve all the accolades - endless hits over a decade. Not every one is great, but the range of styles and obvious talent of the group is undeniable.
Their lead singer and creative driving force is a pretentious A-hole. He does have a really nice voice for a “metal” band frontman though
Just way too melodramatic for me personally. Hate is too strong of a word. I choose not to listen to it when listening to songs off of that album though.
I take it that you agree that Today is a bit annoying?
I am not sure if I have ever seen Rush in an "overrated" category. They really have limited commercial success especially in comparison to most of the bands listed so far. The music they play is essentially girl repellant. They really don't do much in terms of annoying people with their views.
They only time I really see anything about them is if some tragedy has hit the band or when people mention how amazing they are as song writers and musicians, which I think most people agree they are.
If anything they might be underrated in some ways.
I think one band I sort of feel bad for is Queensryche. I feel like they should have been much bigger BUT I always felt that people thought they were a Pink Floyd ripoff band.
Oh, what about The Cure! If you grew up in the 80's...that band was THE BAND for depressed high school girls!
They only time I really see anything about them is if some tragedy has hit the band or when people mention how amazing they are as song writers and musicians, which I think most people agree they are.
If anything they might be underrated in some ways.
I think one band I sort of feel bad for is Queensryche. I feel like they should have been much bigger BUT I always felt that people thought they were a Pink Floyd ripoff band.
Oh, what about The Cure! If you grew up in the 80's...that band was THE BAND for depressed high school girls!
You do have a point about the amount of hits for Aerosmith making them (technically) not overrated... I've just never heard an Aerosmith song I can tolerate making them in my top 3.
It took me years to tolerate Teddy Lee on vocals for Rush... Instrumentally they are underrated but most people hate Lee's vocals...
Aerosmith also totally changed their sound. I mean, Dream On was so different from their later stuff.
I typed it in right.. Fricken spell corrector on my phone ha..
I love that song but man it doesn't sound like their stuff in the early 90's.
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