Most Underrated/Overrated Bands

Gonna stay simple

Underrated: Incubus, Band of Horses, The Who (maybe not underrated but not mentioned with the likes of other bands), Umphrey's McGee, Boston, The Doors.

Overrated: Rolling Stones, Phish, Police, Metallica (past 10 or so years), Beatles (they have talent, don't get me wrong, but i've just never been into them like their cult following).

 

Under-rated: Sebastian Bach (still the best voice in metal), Dark New Day, Black Label Society

Over-rated: HIP-HOP

 

Underrated - the Kinks

Overrated - R.E.M.

 

I do like Bach but Ronnie James Dio always has and always will get my vote as best voice in metal

 

Roy Khan, Ronnie James Dio, Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Geoff Tate, Russell Allen, Michael Kiske, Jorn Lande....I could go on and on bro.

Underrated: Kamelot, Symphony X, Pagan's Mind, Edguy

Overrated: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, (pretty much that whole genre) Velvet Revolver, Oasis, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, The Doors. That's just a few.

 

Underrated- Sevendust

Overrated- Sublime, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Perl Jam, Nirvana, U2, Coldplay

 

Underrated -- Beck (ok, not a band, but still)
Overrated -- My Chemical Panic at the AFI Disco with Fall Out Boy

 

bastards!

 

Wow that band sounds super awesome.

Underrated: The Black Keys, Supergrass, Rise Against, Coheed and Cambria (yeah sort of stole that one but its true), the Raconteurs, and I would say even the White Stripes.

Overrated: U2, oh and did I say U2

 

Wow..I am just really dissapointed with this thread.

Sublime? Nirvana? THE ROLLING STONES? Overrated?

why don't you guys just burn Santa Claus in effigy?

 

Underrated: 311

20 years and still going strong

 

Are you referring to "I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love?"

 

someones always gotta go there...

over-rated: Kiss....these guys....ah man...cmon! they're the ben affleck of bands. talk about talentless mooks makin a deal with the devil.

under-rated: i dont know so ill give another over-rated one: kid-rock. man, that devil is busy.

 

i dont agree with everything here, but Bob Dylan and Kieth Richards are friends, and they had a funny/famous conversation/arguement once. Dylan tells Richards "I could've wrote satisfaction in my sleep, you guys never could've wrote like a rolling stone.

 

Underrated:

-Dream Theater. A very good progressive band that has extraordinary talent and probably one of the best drummers in the world. They know how to rock and how to hold back.

-Avenged Sevenfold. Some people may think they're overrated, but they never have the same sound for each CD they bring out. I really like that, they have a lot of influences that I enjoy including the band mentioned above: Dream Theater.

-Tenacious D. I really like their sound and style. Granted, Jack Black may make people think they're talentless, but Black has a great voice and their lyrics are pretty fun to listen to.

-Trivium. Great sound and musicianship. I love their leader singer's voice and their drummer has some talent as well. I'm really into bands with great drummers and that's why Portnoy's Dream Theater tops the list.

-Less Than Jake. I really like their style, not much more to say than this. I think these guys should be more well known, but they're not.

Overrated:

-Metallica. Great band, no doubt. But they're vastly overrated. They have many great songs, but they have many not so great songs.

-Nickelback. Man I really just don't like this band because they sound like everyone else... But they get so much more hype.

-Green Day. I never understood the obsession with Green Day and to this day I still don't. They just haven't shown much lately.

-The White Stripes. How are they selling records is beyond me...

 

Overrated doesn't mean their bad, it just means they're made out to be more than they really are.

 

yeah no ****. Nirvana was overrated? WTF? They totally changed the music world in the early 90s and came out with a whole different genre. There was nothing that sounded like Nirvana when they burst onto the scene, NOTHING!

How the hell are the Stones overrated? Why don't you just say the Beatles are on that list as well?


BTW here's an underrated band found on an avatar by a poster in this thread!
Great, great band!

 

There is too much wrong with this post IMO... LOL! I agree those are some heavy-hitters and I could add a few there too such as Tim "Ripper" Owens, Mike Patton (awesome voice), Phil Anselmo (the early days) etc.

 

And may I say....so what?

There was nothing that sounded like them can be applied to MANY bands. KISS, Alice Cooper, Van Halen, Queensryche, Pink Floyd...the list goes on and on.

But that has nothing to do with being overrated or not. Let's face facts here, if Cobain didn't eat a bullet they wouldn't be as big as they are. There might have been nothing that sounded like them at that time, but they did nothing that hasn't been done before.

You want to talk innovation, the list begins and ends with Jimi Hendrix.

 

Nirvana was nothing special, they were hyped up because Cobain shot himself. They were a talented group, I won't take that away from them. But they didn't revolutionize anything.

 

The only reason I don't say that Dream Theater is underrated is because they're HUGE overseas.

The only place they're underrated is in America, where we all know the music scene has been ******ed for at least the last 25 years.

 

Were you around in 1992?

 

I do think the beatles are overrated.

 

So I'm not knowledgeable because of my age?

 

You clearly know your stuff. A friend of Weezer is a friend of mine.

Also no Nirvana isn't overrated at least in the terms they killed the hair rock of the 80s and created grunge as a mainstream music genre. Now them being looked upon as rock gods I don't know about that but they deserve the credit they get for the most part.

Also I would like to add Metallica, Nickelback, and Kiss to my overrated list. Also GridIronKing how can you say the White Stripes are overrated, shame on you.

 

I would say living through it would give you a better perspective. That would be like me saying the Beatles didn't revolutionize anything. Well someone who lived through Beatlemania would have a different perspective as they remember the Beatles revolution.

I am just saying if you were around then, maybe you would have a different perspective. I remember Nirvana being the spearhead of the grundge. Even my favorite radio station at the time which generally did hits/hip hop started to do grundge.

 

no because youre from Iowa

 

oh, I guess being largely responsible for the death of hair bands has been done quite a few times by many bands.. Then again maybe that is your problem with them. Killing off hair bands alone should be enough of an argument to keep them off the overrated list. Whoever is responsible for that can not get enough praise from me! Thank god (or whoever you want to thank) that those bands went away. Poison, Dokken, Winger, Cinderella etc. All that ****ty music.

The fact that Kurt offed himself has nothing to do with their influence on music. Grunge was big and taking over the 90s before that. To say they haven't influenced anything is a joke. Alot of the emo music out now is definitely influenced by Nirvana. Bands like My Chemical Romance, Dashboard Confessionals, etc.

Rock and Roll was just about dead when Nirvana came out. Nirvana had alot to do with the revival of Rock, and ultimately the creation of what we now call alternative rock.

 

Underrated: I'll start with two of my favorites - Tool and Opeth.

Overrated: Can't think of two more hyped bands than Limp Bizkit and System of a Down. I completely loathe Nickelback as well, but I think everyone knows they suck.

 

I am not even a fan of Nirvana.

Saying they are over rated, fine, that is personal opinion.

Saying they didn't influence people or revolutionize anything is wrong. Their popularity openned doors to a lot of bands.

 

Underrated: Thin Lizzy-Phil Lynott is one of the most prolific song writers ever IMO...
UFO-Michael Schenker's Guitar work....'nuff said Megadeth--Dave Mustaine's music and lyrics are awesome..... Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers--You can just put on any of their albums and listen to it all the way through and not find any filler...

Overrated: Linkin Park, Nickelback, Nirvana, Coldplay, Oasis, Killers, Good Charlotte, Fall out boy, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, U2, to name a few

 

...And that's a good thing?

 

Underrated - Incubus, DMB, Our Lady Peace, Nonpoint

Overrated - Kid Rock, Kiss, System of a Down, Nickelback

That's just off the top of my head, to name a few.

 

Oh, one more.. Korn - OVERRATED. Those guys need to hang it up.

 

underrated - Judas Priest, Raconteurs, Avenged Sevenfold, Tom Petty

overrated - Linkin Park, Led Zeppelin (yeah, I went there!), U2

 

underrated - deep purple
overrated - nirvana

 

I am gonna try...

Underrated: Rage against the machine, Weezer, Staind (old AND new)

Overrated: Metallica, Green Day, Korn, System of the Down

 

why system of a down?