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.

"HULKFish wrote:

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

Over-rated: HIP-HOP

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

"HULKFish wrote:

Under-rated: Sebastian Bach (still the 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

"Aqua4Ever04 wrote:

Over rated: Sublime, ugh, so sick of people singing along to one of their 50 songs that all sound the same at every party I go to.

"Stitches wrote:

Overrated- Sublime,

bastards! :pity:

"DrAstroZoom wrote:

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

Wow that band sounds super awesome. :up:

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 :D

"Aqua4Ever04 wrote:

Agree about Panic at the Disco and Fall Out Boy, they are boy bands.

But My Chemical Romnace and AFI have early stuff that is very good punk music.

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

"HULKFish wrote:

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

Over-rated: HIP-HOP

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.

"Dolphinsfan69 wrote:

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).

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...

"Section126 wrote:

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?

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

"Section126 wrote:

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?

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!

"Pagan wrote:

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.

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.

"Firesole wrote:

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!

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.

"GridIronKing34 wrote:

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...

im glad someone agrees with Dream Theater! Their Greatest hit cd is great...since they only had one greatest hit its called Greatest Hit (...and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) and they changed some of the ways they did their songs. Also i agree with Nickelback, i really can't stand nickelback

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 retarded for at least the last 25 years.

"GridIronKing34 wrote:

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.

Were you around in 1992?

"Firesole wrote:

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!

I do think the beatles are overrated.