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Originally Posted by Robbie
Hard to say. Music is all a matter of opinion. I look at the list of bands listed so far, and all I see are great rock bands who each were pioneers in their own way. Now if you want to really talk overrated bands I would go more with the "corporate" cookie cutter bands of recent years: Like Nickelback. I'm a member of a Pro Tools Studio discussion group and a guy took a song from two different nickelback albums and removed the vocals and put one song on the left side and one song on the right side of the balance. Guess what? It was the SAME exact track. Just with different lyrics and melody with the vocals! LOL!
Talk about corporate bullshit with no artistic value at all.
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Exactly, and this is the first real opinion to this topic posted here.
The rest are just subjective prefferences.
Even I hate Status quo for example and I think their music is not listenable unless you feel like a parody or had 10 beers already, they still at least toured and lived like rockers so one of the dudes actually lost a part of his nose one morning cause he snorted too much coke.
Not like the nowadays douchebags with trimmed D'Artagnan moustaches, leather trousers from Armani with an insurance on their ass for 1 mil. $ filling the gap for the young that want "pseudo rock" thing, trying to look "rough" in every lame music video they put up on MTV.
I know what these bands have in their contracts, been there before.
Kiss ? of course it was a great deal of show and promotion, the hairy chest of Paul Stanley and one feet long tongue of Gene Richards what made them, but try to put together as many catchy songs as they did. And another thing - listen to that music through the ears of the time they went big on the charts.
U2? I think they suck ass lately and that they are taking themselves too seriously after having their asses kissed for years, but show me companies with a more recognizable sound and universal impact on the audience as they did with their great 80's albums, especially Joshua Tree.
What band would win my tip for the lamest super popular act?
Linkin Park
Once I saw that video when the dude is screaming with his semi mutating semi pubescent voice of urgency and there are these shots how the world suffers, that made my choice clear - I would actually recommend them to move their equipment and recording fascilities to the Neverland, maybe if they put together their minds with Michael Jackson they'll find a way how to finally save the world.