Bands that get more credit than they deserve

Roobish, you're giving these "great" bands "classics" more credit than they deserve.

You live in a taste free zone with laminate flooring.

Anything Dave Grohl and Josh Homme have ever been involved in should also be added to the list.

fack me morpteh depeche mode were brilliant

just didnt like them redbag, dreary , do like johnny cash's personal jesus though. everything counts isnt too bad too.

Depeche Mode are are superb band. Great back catalogue and more importantly, unlike a lot of bands that are mentioned here, are still vibrant live and don't just go through the motions.

brother you know nothing about music do you ??, your one of the idiots that brought susan boyles album aint you, go on admit it , your middle of the road rubbish bet you like the lighthouse famliy and james blunt to

Some brilliant bands on this thread imo! However...

Beatles = massively over-rated bunch of scousers who just happened to be around when people could start affording tellies (although tbf Lennon was a great songwriter)
Stones = see above, except**neys
AC/DC = simply an example of a heavy metal band that would actually sing/play their instruments properly more than owt else
Queen = no more than reasonable, but any bunch of session musician level fools would have looked good behind Mercury (let's face it, nothing they did ever came close to Bohemian Rhapsody)

(U2, while not favourites of mine, have at least evolved their sound/technique/song writing style & stood the test of time. REM, albeit to a much lesser & less successful degree, have done the same)

guns n roses

only made 4 good tracks in their entire career

most eighties music if truth be told.

forget to mention queen. quite disturbing how popular they are and also adults like them too. find it bizarre.

Now we've got people knocking Dave Grohl and even Guns N Roses ffs!

Black Sabbath
The Cure

Alex ,if it wasn't for the fact that you are a nice fella, i would rant at your despicable behaviour on this thread :D

BON JOVI...walofs
OASIS...overated carp
COLDPLAY...zzzzzzzzzzzzz
THE DOORS....see above
THE BEATLES...must be really hard writing lyrics like she loves you yeah yeah yeah

Can someone clear this up.
The yeah yeah bit on 'she loves you' is a sarcastic extra isn't it?

Agree about Queen, Stones post 60s and Blur.

I've never seen The Susan**Band or got their album yet but The Lighthouse Famliy and James Blunt are two of this greatest acts this great island has ever produced.

They're no more middle of the road than The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Arctic Monkeys, New Order etc and have better hair FACT.

:D Brodie

Blur
Pink Floyd
The (very aptly named) Charlatans

Depeche Mode are the absolute dogs, my favourite band of all time and do not belong in this thread. See them live mm and you will change your mind, they absolutely rock the place silly, trust me on that. I love them with a passion.

Lemme see, the beatles, led zeppelin, the stones, black sabbath, ac/dc, deep purple and guns and roses get more credit than they deserve according to chit chat, and I love all those bands!
Mind you at least you are not saying they are cr@p.

If someone sl@gs off CCR ,I'll go mental !

Arctic Monkeys, Oh GOD The Arctic Fking Monkeys

Coldplay

Slippy Blue 06 Dec 20:51


Depeche Mode are the absolute dogs, my favourite band of all time and do not belong in this thread. See them live mm and you will change your mind, they absolutely rock the place silly, trust me on that. I love them with a passion.

is the correct answer

Must admit Coldplay are effing terrible, like. Their sole redeeming feature is that they're Kraftwerk fans.

creedence clearwater revival for me, one trick pony.

CREEDANCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL ARE SH1TE ;)


for brodie

Genesis, post Gabriel. Springsteen and Muse have all shifted more units than their talents warrant.

farkin ada...........................wibble :D

Good man red, have seen them many times over the years.

yup me too slippy..one of the top three live bands ive seen along with

springsteen
manics

Good man Red! as Meatloaf said, 2 out of 3 ain't bad! :D

Manics and The Mode 2 of the best live acts I've seen too.(Also agree with you re The Prodigy live - fkin intense and LOUD!)

Would be a dull world if we all liked the same thing, as much as some peoples tastes make me scratch my head!

HRH - agree - I've seen the Manics live twice, DM once & the Prodge once - all excellent live

Blasphemous Rumours http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cngFtw6NveU

another band ive seen live (was in vegas) and they were surprisingly good were

travis

The Strokes

The most overrated act in history.

More tunes on a compilation of The Psychdelic Furs b sides imo.

Disagree with a lot in here....

Muse, Coldplay, Oasis, Green Day, Linkin Park, The Killers, Kings of**etc etc are my suggestions, more controversially I'd say Queen, AC/DC and Megadeth

stone roses and monkeys 1st albums are that much class that i couldnt even tell you what they are called

Im gonna end this thread right now

The Killers

redbag 06 Dec 20:13


Gene Hackman 06 Dec 20:11


Good call with Joy Division.

Not a band I know: Prince
The Prodigy

HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME

I concur Redbag...anyone who answers Joy Division should be publicly flogged...next the counts will be saying The Smiths...

Killers yes, but they are only copycats of the biggest pile of pretentious overrated drivel ever to be revered.

The fucxking SMITHS...UTTER **E.

And i say this as some one who's father was a professional classical musician, Mother a writer and poet. Having learnt several instruments from a young age, sent to a school specifically for it's music course, played in bands, worked in the music industry all my life, and most important of all....am not tone deaf.

p & e ...stand by for a deluge of abuse.... The Smiths were unbelievable...musically & lyrically superior in every way to then and now.

forget the 'to' at the end of my sentence..

Morrisey pitched between the same two notes on almost every song he ever sung., because basically...he couldn't sing. His lyrics were as about as interesting and profound as a venereal disease.

Dire Straits - end of thread.

P and A, Morrissey can be troubling but shirley you can appreciate Marr, Rourke and Joyce, some of the music was magnificent.

holy fk p & e...no-one said mozza could sing...but to say they weren't influential (and i know that's not what the thread says) is the most naive thing I ever heard...the man's a lyrical genius and to quote Noel Gallagher on Johnny Marr ' ..you can't be influenced by what Johnny Marr plays, because even he can't play what he plays..." basically he's saying that Johnny Marr is a one off.

U2 and REM

The Kooks

green day
keane
rem
b 52
blur
billy joel
bob dylan

Running - I'd agree with all of them bar REM & (especially) Blur - who are outstanding imo.

all of em. theyre all crap. crap ah tellz ta. bloody oasis with their bloody bloody bloody crap and the beatles with their similar crap before em. coldplay my arse. pink flloyd my jacksy. the ones with the bloody hair and the ones with the bloody think an dont even get me started on u2. music my arse.

now rolf harris...THATS a musician for ya.

The Jam
Glen Hoddle and Chris Waddle

mightymoyes 06 Dec 20:29


led zepellin defo



don't be silly !Greatest rock band ever.

Ed and Dave Miliband.

most of the bands on here are good!

HRH The Lager Khan 06 Dec 20:22


The Doors
Deep Purple



Are you mad?

Smiths, Artic Monkeys,Kings of** Muse, not to mention the mop-tops.....are you lot real?

absolutely clueless the lot of you, wouldn't recognise talent if it slapped you on the head, The Strokes ffs!!

may as well give Hard-Fi, The Coral & Florence a mention while your at it. These threads are pretty pointless (and a wind up) a lot of contributers seem to be stuck in their era's.

Those who dont recognise the incredible talent of Alex Turner are either stubborn or tone deaf, if you dont like the band fair enough but they have created a sound that is completely original which takes some doing nowadays, I would include him in a long line of great british songwriters along with Ray Davies, Morrissey, and Weller....

I dont get Coldplay though.......

paradox and equilibrium 07 Dec 00:53
Killers yes, but they are only copycats of the biggest pile of pretentious overrated drivel ever to be revered.

The fucxking SMITHS...UTTER *****.

And i say this as some one who's father was a professional classical musician, Mother a writer and poet. Having learnt several instruments from a young age, sent to a school specifically for it's music course, played in bands, worked in the music industry all my life, and most important of all....am not tone deaf.



Could not have put it better myself. Spot on paradox and equilibrium .

Rolling Stones
REM
Pink Floyd

paradox and equilibrium 07 Dec 00:53
Killers yes, but they are only copycats of the biggest pile of pretentious overrated drivel ever to be revered.

The fucxking SMITHS...UTTER *****.

And i say this as some one who's father was a professional classical musician, Mother a writer and poet. Having learnt several instruments from a young age, sent to a school specifically for it's music course, played in bands, worked in the music industry all my life, and most important of all....am not tone deaf.

The most stupid thing ive read all day , as if any of these supposed "attributes" would give one greater insight and understanding .

My father was Thor, God of Thunder. My mother, Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty. I eat planets for a laugh.

Beethoven was sh1t.

The Killers are brilliant.

U2 is a great shout

Sorry, am I missing something here?
Loads of people**ging off great bands, but I dont see a single mention of any reality show dross.
Surely any credit given to the likes of Girls Aloud is too much credit.

Who else?
Take That
Coldplay - good - but great? no
Springsteen was a good call
Prince
Nirvana

Nirvana don't get anywhere near the amount of credit they deserve imo, poss because they've become 'owned' latterly by teenage goths/emos.

someone rated lighthouse family - they are my musical equivalent of watching paint dry

Paulie Walnuts 07 Dec 11:45
The Jam
Glen Hoddle and Chris Waddle
ha ha

The Smiths, for me - walofs

Nirvana get immortalised because Cobain shot himself, imo

Alex69 07 Dec 15:49
Nirvana don't get anywhere near the amount of credit they deserve imo, poss because they've become 'owned' latterly by teenage goths/emos.

well no because goths are more into stuff like cradle of filth not grunge
and emos like stuff chemical romance and underoath.
not grunge

Far From Trouble 07 Dec 18:16
Nirvana get immortalised because Cobain shot himself, imo

possibly for a small few.
Always been a fan of nirvanas and nothing to do with him killing himself i just like the tunes, liked them before he was dead.

i'm not saying they aren't decent, I don't mind them tbh

I just think that the amount of credit they get is partly influenced by Kurt Cobain's troubled life and demise.

They were very big before he died though. I think that opinion has been media driven.

They were just becoming massive, esp in the UK, before Kurt Cobain died. I had tickets to go & see Nirvana at Manchester G-Mex - a gig at what was then Manchester's largest concert venue that had sold out in the days before everyone had internet access.

As for goths/emos I'm happy to be corrected but I'd imagine there's a fair few of them who like Nirvana (enough of them wear the t-shirts).

Probably, most people like more than 1 category of music.

But i still don't get your point. Im not being confrontational :)

Nor me! My point was that they don't get the credit they perhaps deserve because they're not seen as 'credible' by non-fans whose only exposure to Nirvana is seeing Kurt face or the Nirvana logo on a t-shirt worn by a youth.

Dunno if you saw my Top 100 Gamsty, but I'm into all sorts of different stuff myself - from robotic synthy stuff all the way through to, well, Nirvana for example!

Hows your chitchat band going? What name did you go with ;)

I almost want to start my own just so i can call it Detonation Of The Echo

just had a look though your 100, some good shouts, i probably listen fairly regularly to ten of them.

Ha ha! :) I knew we'd had a conversation somewhere before! It's called 'Floating Around Somewhere in Cyberspace' as that's where the thread ended

I reckon a band called DETONATION OF THE ECHO would be heavily influenced by Muse

the bankrupts

oh have i subconciously ripped them off? I don't listen to muse as i can't hack his voice.

The Pillock Aces.

Gamsty - I was at Leeds festival a few years back & was faced with the choice of watching Muse or Raconteurs as the last band. I chose the Raconteurs as Mr J White is a musical genius imo

Chilli Peppers deserve a mention, for despite Bloodsugarsexmagic, By The Way and Californication being very good albums in places, they have made some stinkers too. Main reason for inclusion is they have bored the arse off me live twice and have absolutely no on stage dynamic whatsoever.

Blood Sugar Sex Magik was excellent, I thought, yet I couldn't get into any of the others, either before or after!

Status quo - made a career out of the same 3 chords

HRH - I know what you're saying about the 'live' thing - I haven't seen them in the flesh as it were, but I always laugh at how they're all really 'going for it', sweating & popping their veins out, while playing a really humdrum tune!

i agree with you both, listened to bssm non stop when younger. Everything else hasn't been up to that standard.

Very similar to green day how the masses seemed to swarm out of nowhere when they finally released a more charty album. Both very good early on 'ish and pish now.

The Libertines.

Normally agree with you musically Gamsty, but not re Green Day. Become trendy to knock them as they have become 'mainstream' and 16 year olds go to their live shows - but so what. Saw them first on the Dookie tour and that must have been about 95! American Idiot is easily my most played album of the last ten years.

Disapointed to hear that HRH :(

I liked Green Day in the early days(who doesn't like their early stuff?), but anything American idiot or after is woeful imo, just can't get into it.

Agree a tad on RHCP though, despite liking them I can see your point.

I'm not following a trend of knocking them due to them becomeing "mainstream", i genuinely find their newer stuff shlt.
It just doesn't have the melody and edge that some of the older stuff did. I'd add offspring to that little category aswel. The albums smash and ignition are quality but just havn't got into the rest.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the abysmal Kasabian yet, almost as overrated as the awful Stereo MCs were when they were in vogue.

Joy Division was a top call but I'd like to add 'Queen'

Whoever said The Jam and AC/DC warrant being hung, drawn and quartered and that would be too good for them. They have no place on this thread, two of the greatest bands of all time.

AC/DC voter right here. Just not a fan, haven't heard that many of their songs but I was put off that despite listening to a sample from a number of albums they all seemed to just be slightly different versions of the same song.

Kiss have got away with murder.
Who the **k buys their records?

Chris Martin's band are fkn sh1te.