Most over-rated rock group from your teen years...

[Archae]

Any rock singer or group who made it big, even though they had just about zero talent, when you were a teenager.

For me, it was the Steve Miller Band.

From the time I was 16 on, I kept hearing them on the radio, even though they sucked.

[camero]

1. Rick Springfield

Guy couldn't act either :gag:

[Mad_Dem_X]

98. Aw, I loved Rick!

He was the love of my life when I was a teenager. LOL

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Traffic and John BarleyCorn

We played the LP a
lot while tripping, and really, Steve Winwood was way over rated!

[Joe Fields]

22. Traffic kicked ass, and holds up well to this day!

John Barleycorn is probably one of the most underrated albums in rock. It's as solid as they come.

[Redneck Socialist]

60. Bite your tounge

Traffic was, and is, great.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

71. Yes, slander Steve Winwood at your peril!

ANY of the many bands he was in, slander at your peril.

[WCGreen]

91. You should have been listening to Low Sparks instead....

One of the best Fushion albums to come out of the 70's...

[SPKrazy]

112. slander!

booo booo

they are great!

great i tell you!

[ms liberty]

121. Should have listened to their first LP instead...

It's my personal favorite, although I'm pretty fond of Low Spark too. But the first LP has "Here's a Little Song" and "Feelin' Alright" and "Pearly Queen." A truly great album.

[kwassa]

161. Winwood is one of the best rock has ever seen.

Incredible talent in many areas.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

171. His voice is awesome.

So distinctive.

[hellbound-liberal]

3. I always thought the Rolling Stones were overrated

I think they were good entertainers but not above average musicians.

[Deja Q]

4. Motley Crue.

With solid album titles and lyrics that Satan or Lynndie England would love - such as "Theatre of Pain", playing loud obnoxious noise rather than music, and just like Boy George, Pete Burns, and others, they did the glam thing too. Except they looked more like girls than setting a stylized new wave trend... now that's good make-up...

[Archae]

70. We call them "Muttley Crud."

:-)

[Guava Jelly]

Bon Jovi

I actually didn't mind the first two albums

[geardaddy]

147. Yecchh...Bon Jovi

Rembember "oooh she's a little runaway...?"

[Guava Jelly]

5. dupe

..

[GenDem]

6. I may get flamed

.....but for me it was Rush. I never got it, but everyone else seemed to. :shrug:

[Guava Jelly]

8. I despise Rush

I hate Geddy lee's voice.
And the only song i can stomach from them is "closer to the heart"

[GenDem]

10. Kindred spirits

:pals: The only song I could tolerate was the one about the trees, and I don't think that was in heavy rotation.

I hated Geddy's voice, too. High and screechy.:banghead:

[av8rdave]

145. I think it's a testament to Rush that they sound as good as they do

in spite of Lee's voice. Also, great songwriting, lyrics, and one of the best percussionists in history.

[JuniperLea]

177. Lee never had a very good voice to begin with!

And he is as homely as a mud fence, but boy did he get the groupies back in the day!

I think Rush are pretty damn good. And the fact they've been around so long, and STILL filling arenas, is huge!

Name one other band, other than the Stones, and Rush, who have been playing that long and still doing arenas instead of casinos and county fairs!

[Maestro]

119. Heresy Damn You!

I love Rush, but at least you're a dem! ;)

[Joe Fields]

21. I can understand if you say you don't like Rush, but to say they

have no talent is, well, definitely incorrect.

[GenDem]

38. I guess I answered the OP's question wrong.

They probably have plenty of talent....just not the kind of talent that I preferred to listen to.
I had plenty of friends that loved them.
It just sounded different in my ears.
Don't forget, I said I liked the song about the trees. :pals:

[BlueIris]

54. Pearl Jam.

Especially WRT the whole "Ten" obsession. It wasn't exactly "Abby Road," people.

[Mad_Dem_X]

99. Sacriledge!

Get behind me, Satan!

[jobycom]

152. Not my favorite. Not as bad as Steely Dan, but still way overhyped.

Their lyrics always reminded me of the pretentious poetry junior high students write when they mix bad metaphors with Dungeons and Dragons.

And the elad singer's voice... :scared:

Great drummer, though.

[billyskank]

7. Nirvana

:hide:

[BulletproofLandshark]

12. Seconded

[jakefrep]

13. Thirded

[dropkickpa]

16. Fourthed

Hated them. There were a LOT better groups out of Seattle that got much less attention. Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, etc etc were far and away better.

[flvegan]

17. Fifthed

[MnFats]

24. an enthusiastic, adamant sixth!

'spokesman for his generation?"

'I feel stupid and contagious?"

wow. stupendous.
stupifying.
stupic.

[momophile]

39. Seventhed!

I never thought they were good. Boring.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

48. poor Nirvana.

You guys are mean. MKJ

[shawmut]

50. Eighthed!

First band that came to mind when I saw this thread.

[Skittles]

78. wasn't a teenager during their day but never understood their appeal

I mean, really

[HughBeaumont]

85. NINTHED!

Don't hide. I thought they were nothing more than a marketable Husker Du/Melvins ripoff. "Come as you Are" = slowed down "Living in the 80s" by Killing Joke.

[Maestro]

120. They were from my early adult years but I agree.

Completely overrated!

[ms liberty]

122. Major agreement here! Nirvana was really quite horrid...n/t

[chknltl]

128. Well I liked 'em

I knew the bully who beat up Kurt Cobain for being a pompous ass at a VERY VERY small local venue prior to the band getting big.... I still liked their music though. I would say that from that genre I liked Alice In Chains a bit better.

[Writer]

132. Nirvana and all its spawn...

I was not a fan of grunge.

[jobycom]

155. That's popular to say, but I disagree. They were the last great gasp of rock and roll.

One of the rare times a "back to basics" movement actually captured the passion of the original while still pushing in a new direction.

[graywarrior]

9. The Doors

Of course, we all hated them back then. (Most of us, anyhow)

[jobycom]

153. They were okay when they weren't wasted.

Of course, they were always wasted.

[kwassa]

163. Jim Morrison is probably the best rock vocalist EVER.

The Doors were excellent, had a unique sound, songs, and poetic lyrics.

Ruined by success and too much drugs.

[JuniperLea]

179. Oh my!

I sneaked off to see them with my older cousin when I was... hmmm... 12? Anyway, Gazzari's was still there. I have loved them ever since!

[Burma Jones]

11. KISS

and the BeeGees

yecch

[wildhorses]

46. i agree with you about kiss

they were over rated

[SPKrazy]

113. wayyyyyyyyyyyyy overrated

and boring

and too pop-ish for my tastes

:hi:

[chknltl]

130. I had the great misfortune to be forced to hear KISS live....

...in Vancouver B.C. on New Years Eve 2000. The well endowed lass who I went with did not put out either...How tragic is THAT?????


:hide:

[catmandu57]

166. Kiss sucked big green ones

No talent, they enthralled the weak brained by dressing up in those horrid outfits, it didn't help that the kiss loving brother of a guy I knew was after the same girl I was, but, all the same they sucked big time.

[ccinamon]

14. The Beatles

I would love to find a radio station that didn't play one of their songs at least once every other hour! Instead, I've stopped listening to the radio.

[Joe Fields]

23. The Beatles? Now THAT'S funny. They could never be overrated!

[MnFats]

26. Amen. Beatles, together, Gods. Apart not so much. but together..

...they transcended rock music.

[Bombtrack]

30. Take your head out of your Yellow submarass

Of course they could be and are overrated. They're the most overrated band in history. They aren't from my teen years particularly but they've been forced down everyones throat from the WORSTEST generation, the Baby Boomers because of course their taste trumps all.

They've got like a dozen great songs, many bands have more and greater great songs, but it's a legal requirement in the mainstream and establishment music press to fill a Beatles quota in every "greatest" list.

Anyone who says Sargent Peppers in the greatest album ever is a balless hack.

[acmavm]

34. Too bad no one ever taught you how do disagree without being

profane and classless.

[MnFats]

35. nice. thanks. your tone adds so much to the discussion

may golden slumbers fill your eyes.

seriously, we're just goofin around here.

do you have anger management issues?

almost every major city has free mental health programs.

[Ishoutandscream2]

40. They can't help it. Beatle haters are usually pathelogical

[Joe Fields]

41. I think I like your response better than the one I would have given.

I'm just going to consider the source and leave it alone.

[Dukkha]

110. Sgt. Pepper's is the greatest album ever

and that is proclaimed by a very long list of distinguished balless hacks in the music industry. Not just your run of the mill Oasis bashers.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

143. Wowzza!

Can't tell if you are serious or not...........if so, I'll say it again, Wowzaa! So you have issues with the 'generation' thing. Welcome to the club. :shrug:

[jmowreader]

165. Did you ever see Frank Zappa's parody of the Sgt Pepper cover?

It's called "We're Only In It For The Money."

Has a big group shot like the Sgt Pepper album, but Zappa's consists of every acid dealer in San Francisco. Which is strange because Zappa didn't actually DO acid.

Also contains songs like "Who Needs the Peace Corps" and "Let's Make the Water Turn Black."

[Joe Chi Minh]

36. All of them, but particularly the Stones and the Beatles. Some of the

Beatles songs were good, and they sang them well enough. We had occasional songs that were good, but usually one-offs. A few that stand out are Wild Thing, Engerland Swings, Winchester Cathedral, Keep On Running. The singer who stands out is Donovan.

But compared to what your country produced just in the fifties and sixties, they don't amount to an awful lot.

[Joe Fields]

51. Okay, then....Which group would you consider to have talent?

You haven't left much to choose from.

[Joe Chi Minh]

104. I can't speak concerning their flair and skills as musicians. Just a very, very simple

matter of what I rate highly on the score of my enjoyment of the songs and the singing. So, as I believe I intimated, The Trogs would be my favourite British group, just on the basis of a couple of their songs. I prefer singers with a more or less anonymous back-up group, rather than rock groups.

I absolutely loathe what I believe is called Heavy Metal, but the odd thing is that, on the basis of what I have heard on the radio and read in newspapers, some of those blokes, real working-class lads, are absolute stars. Very grounded and wouldn't be in the least interested in knighthoods, etc.

But also extremely, extremely comical. I remember one lad being interviewed on the radio answering a question about how he'd stopped taking drugs, cold-turkey. "Oh, yes", he said, "I'm very impetuous like that"!!!! Normally, the word "impetuous" has overtones of recklessness, doesn't it? I think "impulsive" might have been the word he wanted.

Then I read about a crazy group called Def Leppard doing a gig in Germany, and it mentioned that the drummer lost his arm in accident. But he stayed on as drummer, and they reckon he's better now than he was with both arms! I believe the drums have electronic and acoustic devices to enhance the effect.

[Joe Fields]

151. you need to re-read the OP's statement. He said, "no talent..."

Let's not confuse who you don't like with those having no talent.

[Joe Chi Minh]

172. I'll take your word for it. It doesn't bother me too much. But it does me no harm

having the matter clarified.

On reflection, though, I wouldn't get steamed up about my going off at a tangent. It's quite common on forums and does no great harm, imo. Some of us feel reasonably free to use a thread more or less associated with something we wish to to sound off on, as a peg for such associated ramblings.

Whatever music turns me on, I interpret as the product of talented musicians, singers. My criteria are obviously much less technically demanding than that of anyone technically familiar with music-making. But in a broader sense, providing enjoyment would be the ultimate criterion of talent and indeed technique, imo. Sorry about that, but it's the way it is.

[Mad_Dem_X]

100. Okay, you are going to Hell for that one

:wow:

[trof]

107. ABSOLUTELY!

If they had had flatop haircuts they'd be NOTHING!

[Arkansas Granny]

118. Yes, the Beatles. The first songs we heard that hit the airways

when I was in high school were just awful and they played at least three times an hour. We were force fed the Beatles. I was one of the very few at school that didn't swoon over them. They did get better over the years, but their first records were sold on their looks and difference of sound, not on talent.

[geardaddy]

148. Try this station:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/the_current/

[carly denise pt deux]

15. The Bay City Rollers

They sucked eggs
Carly

[MissMillie]

18. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

I know he's a good democrat, but I just can't stand to listen to him.

[Joe Fields]

19. Disagree on Steve Miller. He may have been overplayed on the radio,

but he has put out plenty of good music. I would definitely not rank him up with the greats, but he is solid.

My pick? Rick Nelson.

[WCGreen]

92. No shit, Living in the USA is a great song....

[kwassa]

156. that is my favorite Steve Miller song from his better early oevre ...

[dajoki]

167. Ditto!!

His early stuff was great, I particularly like "Kow Kow Calculator". The album I would reccomend is "Anthology", all of his best is on it. But he eventually was over played.

[hippiechick]

20. Duran Duran

:wtf:

[Flaxbee]

27. yeah, I never liked Duran Duran, either

never, ever understood their appeal.

[Bombtrack]

31. I read that Duran Duran recieved pretty horrible reviews when they were first big

again I hate how different people interpret "rated" in this arguments.

[flamingyouth]

33. Totally agree

Bleah.

[lizerdbits]

90. That was the first concert I ever went to

when I was about 11. My best friend and I were in love with them in elementary school. After that, not so much.

[swag]

25. Styx, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Jefferson Starship, Journey,

and some others, memories of whom I may not have successfully suppressed, but whom I don't feel like making the effort of recalling this morning.

Great question.

[swag]

28. This music wasn't even rock, really. Wanky pseudo-rock.

[Joe Fields]

42. Starship was an abomination of what was once a gloriously talented band.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

57. Oh, so true.

And Rolling Stone magazine fell all over themselves annointing them, and Boston, as releasing the greatest albums of 1976.

But, I'm not bitter, or anything. :-) MKJ

[Manifestor_of_Light]

72. Do you know who founded Boston?

The main guy was an Engineering graduate at MIT who had his own basement recording studio. They were so good that basically, CBS records just took his master tapes and didn't do anything to them to tweak them for release. They were that good, and this is from the days of magnetic tape and few-track (4 or 8track) recording machines.

There are several recording engineers who started making their own music and were quite good at it. Alan Parsons, for one. He worked on Abbey Road (the album at the famous studio). Jeff Lynne of ELO.

[B3Nut]

94. Tom Scholz's tape machine

was a 1" 8-track Scully that had been retrofitted with 12-track headstacks and four more record/reproduce amplifiers. Those old Scullys had a HUGE tone, smooth and fat. Most major rooms were running 2" 16 and 24 track machines by 1976, though smaller studios still ran 1" 8-track machines among other smaller formats.

Alan Parsons is a legend...his work on Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon stands as some of the best-sounding rock recording work ever. It just sounds so huge...

Analog tape is hideously expensive nowadays, though Quantegy (formerly Ampex) is back in business making their most popular formulations. Still, nothing sounds like analog for tracking if you can swing it...

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

[Joe Fields]

80. I'm not bitter. REALLY, I'm not bitter. THE HELL I'M NOT!!!! lol

I feel your pain and share in your suffering.

[gollygee]

49. Words can not express how much I hate REO Speedwagon

I agree with the rest of your list too. But REO Speedwagon is especially bad. Chicago after Peter Cetera or whatever his name was started singing sucked too.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

55. Styx has perhaps one acceptable song. Foreigner is tolerable in small doses.

Jefferson Starship in its innumerable incarnations just makes me scratch my head. Journey is bland but tolerable.

REO Speedwagon, however, is a shitstain with absolutely no redeemable qualities.

[njdemocrat106]

126. No offense, but I kind of like those bands

Yeah, I know they're bad. I just can't help but like them.

[DBoon]

140. Now I remember why the Ramones sounded so good back then

nt

[geardaddy]

150. Yes, Chicago, Eagles, Loverboy

[Bombtrack]

29. I don't conflate something having strong airplay with being highly rated

these "overrated" arguments are always pretty bullshit because who are you getting ratings from?

If you're going by, say Rolling Stone then both U2 and their heir apparent Coldplay are both disgustingly overrated.

If you're going by, say Pitchfork then I can't even begin to rattle off all the pretentious lofi horseshit they've called the next musical Messiah.

But I think I'll just split the difference and say any of the bands Mike Patton and Maynard James Keenan have been involved with: Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, and Tool and A Perfect Circle respectively.

[Bombtrack]

32. Any given generation is the LEAST objective authority on what music was new during their teens

The rose colored glasses of nostalgia are maybe the most foggy then.

[asthmaticeog]

37. My teen years were the '80s. If it wasn't on Dischord, Homestead or SST, it was ALL overrated.

Harrumph.

[SoxFan]

43. IRS, 415 and Restless!

[slj0101]

44. Or Metal Blade, Combat, Alternative Tentacles, Plan 9,

ROIR, Sub Pop, C/Z, damn, I could go on.

For a shitty decade, underground music was the bomb in the 80's.

[asthmaticeog]

45. Yeah, I didn't feel like trying to think of all the labels.

You and BlueDogDemocratNH obviously get it, though. It was a brilliant decade for rock - rock that nobody heard because their empty little heads were too far up Madonna's ass.

[Throd]

106. If it wasn't from OC on Posh Boy it was shit

Or so went the thinking in Fullerton at the time.

[asthmaticeog]

108. I've heard lore about the devotion Agent Orange inspired among their local fans.

Kinda scary, for a buncha fuckin' richies. ;)

[bbernardini]

58. "Corporate SST Still Sucks Rock."

Negativland, yay! SST, boo!

[asthmaticeog]

59. LOL!

Somewhere in a box at my mom's house I still have my "Car Bomb" sticker from what was it, '88? Never did have the grapes to actually put it on my car. :D

[johnnie]

47. I would say Zeppelin

But Bonham ended that when I was 16.

I would have to say Journey, REO Speedwagon and 80s Genesis. It was non-stop sappy crap.

[Joe Fields]

63. You're saying Led Zeppelin had no talent? Bwahahahaha.......

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah......

[johnnie]

65. What's a bwahaha?

:shrug:

[Esra Star]

75. It's a big fat ol' laugh, which usually indicates that the poster doesn't agree, emphatically. nt

[meegbear]

83. Me too ...

You had to worship Zep back in those days - but it was OK to say 'Led Zeppelin III' sucked because it didn't rock enough. Go figure.

[johnnie]

84. It was almost required to worship them or get shit from people

Even now people give you shit if you say you weren't impressed. I answered with them more for the "over-rated" thing than having zero talent. They obviously had some talent, like almost everyone mentioned in this thread. Jones and Bonham had talent, I will admit that much.

[meegbear]

93. They did BUT ...

I don't buy the Bonham was the greatest drummer shit. VH1 had a "Legends" documentary on them and they brought up the Bonham being the greatest drummer question and had it answered by, of all people, his son.

There's a "fair and balanced" person to pose it to.

[bunkerbuster1]

97. But as to "over-rated..."

I think to be over-rated, a band has to have received critical accolades, and I remember very well that Led Zep had a very antagonistic relationship with the rock press. So I don't know if they qualify.

[begin_within]

109. I don't think Zeppelin was highly rated by critics when they were together.

If I remember correctly, critics routinely lambasted them each time they came out with an album, and only years later have rock critics finally come around to appreciating what they did. Meanwhile they sold zillions of records and packed concert halls, but the critics were generally lukewarm to them at best during their active period. So I would argue that for that reason, they were not overrated at that time.

[johnnie]

136. The OP asked about when I was a teen

I was a teen in the late 70s early 80s and Zeppelin wasn't in their pissing contest with Rolling Stone anymore. They released "In through the out door" and the critics liked it and so did the radio. My peers loved them and played their records all the time. During my teen years they were rated pretty high by radio, Cream magazine, Hit Parader and people I knew. I thought "In the the out door" wasn't a very good record and I wasn't impressed by much of what they did previous to that.

I tried to like them but Robert Plant has a voice that needed studio tricks to come across as passable on record, live he was even worse. Jimmy Page was ok, but many of his peers were much better. Page's playing on the first album was pretty sloppy. And the live cuts I have heard on bootleg albums did him no favors.

They had a handful of cool licks, but for the most part, not enough to keep me interested. The OP asked who we thought was over-rated and I answered, but I mentioned two other bands and the only one that was commented on was the one I said I was going to say, but didn't. So even after all these years, Zeppelin is still over-rated it seems.

I'm not saying they "sucked" or were the worst band ever, just that I personally didn't think they were all that great.

[begin_within]

141. I think their lyrics are pretty lame for the most part. To me, their sound (especially

the big, booming drum sound) was their main appeal. The drums seem far more dominant than on any other rock records I had heard up to that point. Their lyrics are disposable, for the most part. It's odd to me that critics liked "In Through the Out Door" which I think is one of their weaker albums. I still have my original copy of it which I bought when it first came out. I have the original brown wrapper, and the original inner sleeve with the watercolor pigments that appear when you get it wet. I never got it wet, although my idiot roommate at the time spilled a drop on it so there is one blue spot.

[zanne]

52. Chicago nt

[rurallib]

53. Oddly I always thought Elvis was way overrated.

I know I am probably alone out here, but after he hit it big, he basically just sang. His early stuff was much better. Had some oomph.

[Esra Star]

76. You're right. No one would agree with you. The King delivered. nt

[Joe Fields]

87. long live the King! And he does, in our hearts.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

56. I've got the right now to go upon.

What ISN'T overrated?

:puke:

[argyl]

61. Grand Funk Railroad. Not merely overrated, they flat out sucked. n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

62. Alan Parsons Project.

MKJ

on edit, took out n/t, bad posting habit.

[Gatchaman]

64. I was a teen in the 1980's, so I'd say U2

Bono as christ just doesn't cut it for me, and none of the other guys can play worth a damn.

[fizzgig]

66. pearl jam

i couldn't stand them then and i can't stand them now

[Broken_Hero]

67. Skid Row....nt

[Zomby Woof]

68. Queen

Or David Bowie.

[Initech]

69. Nirvana

I never was a big Kurt Cobain fan in high school and I'm still not a big fan today. However, Dave Grohl rocks, I will say that.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

73. Led Zep.

Didn't like the screaming and the way overdistorted guitars back then, don't like it now.

Saw a dab of live concert video of Page recently playing competent, interesting acoustic guitar. This was on the PBS show re: Ahmet Ertegun. Never heard that on their albums.

Any 1970s big hair powerchord arena rock band--all overplayed on the radio. Don't even remember their names much. Aerosmith, Foreigner, Styx, Journey.

Never could get into Pink Floyd. They were talented but I was ABSOLUTELY SICK AND TIRED of "Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall". Way overplayed.

Same thing with Fleetwood Mac, Carole King, Cat Stevens. All Waaay overplayed. The era of the multimegaplatinum record.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

74. Oasis

Can't stand them..

[donheld]

77. The Eagles

:puke:

[gr8dane_daddy]

79. Winger...

they were so bleeach!

[Deep13]

81. Van Headache

[NewJeffCT]

82. Van Hagar (Van Halen with Sammy Hagar); Journey

Duran Duran
Motley Crue

[bertha katzenengel]

86. Styx n/t

[Beausoleil]

88. Aerosmith

I think they peaked in 1975, when I turned 20.

[Mojambo]

115. Fucking Aerosmith.

God, I hate Aerosmith.

[SteppingRazor]

89. New Kids on the Block n/t

[SoxFan]

95. self-delete

[SoxFan]

96. This is like shooting fish in a barrel

Any band named after a geographic location, ie, Kansas, Boston, Chicago.

Steely Dan. Pretentious, cold, and flat out boring.

The Dead and their silly bastard child, Phish.

Sonic Youth. Heresy, I know, but a thousand other bands did the same thing better.

Talking Heads. I actually like them and own a vinyl copy of Speaking in Tongues, but I never thought they lived up to some of the hype.

Red Hot Chili Peppers. See above.

Any REM album produced by Scott Litt. REM was arguably the best American act of the early 1990s, but they were an act that depended heavily on the producer's vision.

[njdemocrat106]

127. Steely Dan? Blasphemy!

I love the Dan. I understand they're not yours or everybody's cup of tea, though, and that's OK.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

170. Hoorah for the 'Dan!

Babs and Clean Willie were in love, they said
So in love the preacher's face turned red
Soon everybody knew the thing was dead
He shouts, she bites, they wrangle through the night
She go crazy
Got to make a getaway...

[jobycom]

159. Bingo on Steely Dan. Juvenile pop lyrics with a sound like a sleep machine.

:toast: to someone else who gets it!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

169. Burn in hell for that first comment.

:P

Donald Fagen could sneer you into an early grave while Walter Becker whoops your ass with a six-string. I never got the boring part, either. What is so fucking boring about "Bodhisattva," for instance?

:P

[bamacrat]

101. Dave Matthews, he just whines all the damn time.

[mark414]

124. yes...dave matthews is god awful

i was in middle school when they first broke...my entire adolescence i had to put up with him! B-)

[geardaddy]

158. I totally agree.

:puke:

[Dukkha]

102. Def Leppard

total crap. nothing but thoroughly overproduced studio trickery to mask the total absence of talent. they were a boy band with instruments.

[politicat]

103. Great White Lion Snake.

That was one band, right?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

105. They didn't have rock when I was a teen.

And therefore, I'm an impartial observer, and I'm going to have to say, out of all of them, it's The Doors.

[MAGICBULLET]

111. the Spin Doctors

Tool (I know people love them- they just bore me)

Phish (ugh, jam bands make me sleepy)

[EstimatedProphet]

114. Foreigner

[Decruiter]

116. The California Raisins

[Kat45]

131. I know a guy who was in the California Raisins.

No, I'm not kidding.

[RevolutionaryActs]

117. N*SYNC.. wait, you said "rock group".. nvm....

:P

[judaspriestess]

123. Boston

their singer (RIP) had the screechiest voice. I hate, hate, hate their music.

[chknltl]

125. Iron Butterfly

I still wonder what all the bruha is over "In The Garden Of Eden" as sung by someone so high or drunk to be unintelligible. (I'll bet some here actually thought "Inagodadavida" or however it is spelled was about a Hindu Goddess)

I won't say they sucked as musicians...I'll even give them cred for pulling that title off BUT they were never my cup of tea then or now.

To be fair, back then was into: Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Spooky Tooth, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple and Ten Years After. If any fans of Iron Butterfly feel the need to flame me here...well take yer pik from those bands and have at it!

[last_texas_dem]

175. I actually think Iron Butterfly is underrated now

Keep in mind I wasn't even born until fifteen years after In-a-Gadda...'s release, so I wasn't around to see all the hype that may have surrounded them at the time. It might have gotten on my nerves, too. But now, their critical reputation is something along the lines of "They never recorded anything worth noting except for the album version of "In-A-Gadda..." and that's only for how over the top it is." Which, from what I've heard of their catalog, really misses the mark. Other than the fact that their music is definitely dated (but very little popular music doesn't end up sounding dated in some way) and they could be overly self-indulgent (the last two or three minutes of their other overly long song "Butterfly Bleu" is more "unnecessary" than any portion of the entire album version of "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida"!) they did some pretty cool psychedelic music. Their albums could swing effectively from short pop songs to proto-metal stuff, all driven by a lot of organ and bass. I guess part of what surprised me is that Iron Butterfly has this reputation as this sludgy, thudding, over-the-top, only-worth-listening-to-if-you're-stoned hard rock band, probably mostly due to "Vida", but when I actually dug into their catalog I discovered that very little of their material fits that bill. I'd recommend checking out their "best of" compilation CD on Rhino Records if anyone wants to get a general idea of what some of their stuff sounds like. It's an enjoyable compilation- and, besides, it only includes the 45 RPM version of "In-a-Gadda..." so, unless you're like me and actually miss hearing that five minute drum solo, you get to hear more of their other material. It showcases that they were a more diverse and interesting band than their general reputation these days would indicate. Well, that's just my take on them, anyway.

[njdemocrat106]

129. I echo the Nirvana votes.

Certainly not terrible; I just think they fit the "overrated" tag to a tee.

[The_Casual_Observer]

133. Jethro Tull

[sakabatou]

134. Dunno, wasn't really into rock

Mostly it was pop that was everywhere.

[chknltl]

135. Ted Nugent

Well maybe not his band...no they weren't the over-rated ones.

[Guitarman]

137. Pink Floyd

The Wall to be specific.

[jpgray]

138. Nirvana--not as good or innovative as people say

[DBoon]

139. Emerson Lake and Palmer

pretentious rock based on pretentious classical music

They lacked the artistry of Yes and the craftsmaship of Jethro Tull

[geardaddy]

164. And Crosby Stills and Nash

:puke:

[Zavulon]

142. Kiss

They put out all of one album I thought was good, and that was years after their peak. There is almost nothing in the Kiss catalogue that can't be played to perfection by anyone with so much as a year's experience on a stringed instrument.

[no name no slogan]

144. Led Zeppelin

[geardaddy]

146. Reo Chuckwagon

[NMDemDist2]

149. I gotta say Credence Clearwater Revival

I mean "Jeremiah was a bullfrog" what kinda chit is that??

[geardaddy]

160. That wasn't CCR that sang it in my recollection

it was Three-Dog Night

[NMDemDist2]

174. ok Them too, "Lodi" was no prize and

'look look look looking out my backdoor' was pretty lame

[dajoki]

168. That was Three Dog Night

:hi:

[SKKY]

154. I never got Aerosmith...

And still don't. IMHO, they pretty much suck.

[ceile]

157. Guns N Roses

[kwassa]

162. Gary Lewis and the Playboys

I don't care what the critics said, I thought they really sucked.

[geardaddy]

173. Let's not forget Air Supply

Yechhhh!

[Taverner]

176. Bon Jovi

Man, I forgot how much they sucked until just recently

[last_texas_dem]

178. Korn

Yeah, pity me, when I was in high school (1997-2001) the whole "mainstream alternative" era was almost dead and being replaced by "nu metal." Most of my friends were hardcore Korn and Limp Bizkit fans. What's funny is that I'd bet just a few years later most of them would claim that they never liked them. But I remember... Although I've always been more into sixties and seventies music, there are a number of '90's and early '00's bands I liked, but I never even tried to like those bands (Korn, Limp Bizkit, and co.) to be "cool." I don't think I could have even faked liking that stuff.

[Adsos Letter]

180. BTO

their stuff all sounded the same to me...Bad Company was another one...