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Originally Posted by Batts
THis is one band i have never liked, i love all types of music, but there music really bored me, i purchased there greatest hits yesterday and i really did not like it.
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...which really has nothing to do with your thread title.
I wasn't a big fan either, particularly through their first 2 (UK) albums. There earliest own-material was as unexciting as music aimed at the Top 20 almost always is. When it came to updated recordings of old R&B songs, bands like the Stones, the Pretty Things and Manfred Mann did that stuff much better.
But calling them over-rated betrays a woeful lack of knowledge of the music industry back then, which had us listening to tired clones (from both sides of the Atlantic) of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochrane and others from the mid/late-fifties. There wasn't a single record I enjoyed enough to want to buy, until the bands came along that were let in through the gates that The Beatles opened.
Paul McCartney once said something about how "Yesterday" being their most popular song put their music in perspective. But whether you put their influence down to their music, clever marketing (by Brian Epstein), or lucky timing, how can the band which began a whole new era of pop/rock be "over-rated"?
It's simply foolish to knock any music which so many people, from kids to grandparents, are still enjoying 40-years on and counting. Only a tiny handful of the recording industry's output acheives anything close to that kind of longevity. And it is surely a better indicator of which tracks are in some way special, than any individual's personal taste.