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well we already have one of these for movies, might as well have one for music too.and of course i posted this way too early, i'll add my picks and stuff in a secondEDIT: okay you guys don't have to just do bands, just imagine it says "musical artists" or something

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Hmm...Overrated: I'm going to have to say Metallica. While their stuff up to the late 80's was good, the 80's are dead, and, to a certain extent, so is Metallica. They've already released their own version of Monopoly, so I suppose the only place for them to sink now is James Hetfield singing a duet with Lil John.Underrated: Jethro Tull. More than 40 continuous years of making music, and yet many people are firmly convinced that Jethro Tull is the name of one of the members of the band, and can name, at most, five songs of theirs. I rather suspect part of it is because of the flute.

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alright, well i guess i should probably contributefor overrated, i'll go with the obvious and also slightly controversial choice of The Beatles. don't get me wrong here, they definitely had a major impact on rock music as a whole, and i do enjoy listening to them every once in a while. but for whatever reason it's a death wish if you ever criticize them or mention that you don't like them that much. just because something was influential doesn't mean i have to love it unconditionally.an underrated band that really needs more recognition is Naked City. John Zorn's always been a great musician, but i think his work with Naked City was the best. mixing Jazz and Grindcore worked surprisingly well, and their other experimental works were great as well. they managed to encompass tons of different emotions in their work. all around great stuff.

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I agree with the vote for the Beatles, actually. I enjoy listening to a lot of their stuff, but they were men, not gods, and their work should be treated as such.

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For underrated I have to yell at the top of my lungs that Unwritten Law is too underrated. Nobody knows them in my school really. But they have the same roots and origin (not genre) as the most overrated band here, Blink-182.Blink is overrated but they're not bad, people here are just too excited and don't know 5 songs more than the singles..And I feel like those "stepping stone" bands that kids get into when they first listen to rock, like LP, Evanescense, Three Days Grace, etc, are overrated. Not overrrated meaning they suck, but that people don't grow out of them, obsess over them, and really defend and get offended when people say they suck.And in my school, metal/screamo/post-hardcore/whatever is completely overrated. I mean the fans there worship those bands and claim to be better than you if you like hip hop or rap. I mean really, all of them say listen to X band or you're lame, but never specify any songs or anything ever and leave me clueless.I really shouldn't have started replying here I think. I though this would be a two sentence response but then I just started ranting. xD

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Overrated: Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles. They're good, but both are highly overrated.Underrated: Most rock bands nowadays. I mean REAL rock bands. Not ones like My Chemical Romance or Daughtry. No offense to Daughtry or MCR fans... but they're more pop than they will ever be rock. I'm talking about rock like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton.Just my opinion.

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Lumping metal and screamo together is a mistake. One has the ability to be awesome, while the other has the ability to appeal to people who think their life is the most depressing thing ever because their parents wouldn't buy them a PS3.

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^Precisely why I gave up a long long long long long time ago on even caring about Genres, let alone trying to understand them and their 'boundries'.I can't really speak much for over-rated, since I rarely socialise at all, let alone to the point where I can make a concise list of all bands people like more than they deserve.Under-rated....Well, I can only judge by the ones that people say "Who/What/Huh?" when I name them.Caprice, a Russian band that does bizarrely lovely orchestral music mixed with lyrics in their own language (Laoris), as well as Russian, Elvish, and even English.Ataraxia, an Italian band that does lovely music with a blend of orchestral, folk, etc. The vocals are extremely odd and lovely simultaneously.Perhaps this topic should have been named "Over-rated/under-rated MUSIC" because now I have an urge to make seperate topics for Groups, Male solo-artists, and female solo-artists.

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Lumping metal and screamo together is a mistake. One has the ability to be awesome, while the other has the ability to appeal to people who think their life is the most depressing thing ever because their parents wouldn't buy them a PS3.

I don't listen to that music. I wouldn't know the difference. All of the fans I know dress the same, act the same, and listen to the same bands so I just call it how people say it is. Sorry man, I just don't know that music. I agree with Malevolence with how genres are sort of bad. Anyone can get the wrong idea with genres and ignore perfectly good artists all together if they're even associated with a certain genre. Edited by Icicle

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Overrated: Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles. They're good, but both are highly overrated.Underrated: Most rock bands nowadays. I mean REAL rock bands. Not ones like My Chemical Romance or Daughtry. No offense to Daughtry or MCR fans... but they're more pop than they will ever be rock. I'm talking about rock like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton.Just my opinion.

The Beatles and Hendrix are overrated but Zeppelin and Clapton are underrated?lolwutAs for me, I don't really listen to too much music to make a judgment on what is overrated but bands like Dead Can Dance, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Irfan are, in my opinion, heavily underrated.EDIT: fixed typo Edited by Emkay

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while the other has the ability to appeal to people who think their life is the most depressing thing ever because their parents wouldn't buy them a PS3.

I'm assuming you're referring to screamo, in which case you don't know what you're talking about; it's not "I'M SAD AND WANNA DIE RAWR RAWR."I'd say that some of the best lyricists are in screamo bands
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It could be that some screamo bands have good lyricists, but all of the screamo I've heard was pretty bleeding ridiculous.

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I've never been a fan of the Beatles, and I agree that they're overrated (though I'm into the heavier metal.)As for underrated, probably Crush 40. Their work is awesome, but aside from Sonic fans (or people who have played Sonic games,) not many people know about them. Oh, and they so need to release either a rockband addon disk or a DLC pack.

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Lumping metal and screamo together is a mistake. One has the ability to be awesome, while the other has the ability to appeal to people who think their life is the most depressing thing ever because their parents wouldn't buy them a PS3.

people who assume all screamo (which is actually post-hardcore/metalcore/deathcore) sucks make me laughwho needs to be open minded when we can be ignorant instead!i love that kind of stuff and people just love to make silly assumptions about it.i mean i'll totally agree that some bands have truly awful lyrics and are whiny (hey there Suicide Silence!) but there are some true lyrical geniuses in the genre too. Guy Kozowyk for example Edited by Idunnolol
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Overrated: Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles. They're good, but both are highly overrated.Underrated: Most rock bands nowadays. I mean REAL rock bands. Not ones like My Chemical Romance or Daughtry. No offense to Daughtry or MCR fans... but they're more pop than they will ever be rock. I'm talking about rock like Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton.Just my opinion.

The Beatles and Hendrix are overrated but Zeppelin and Clapton are underrated?lolwutAs for me, I don't really listen to too much music to make a judgment on what is overrated but bands like Dead Can Dance, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Irfan are, in my opinion, heavily underrated.EDIT: fixed typo
These days, yes. Clapton is an underrated guitarist, and Zeppelin is quite under-appreciated these days.

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These days, yes. Clapton is an underrated guitarist, and Zeppelin is quite under-appreciated these days.

that's the funniest thing i've read all daythey're both very overrated, especially zeppelin. zeppelin's almost up there with the beatles in terms of "we'll lynch you if you insult them"
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Clapton and Zeppelin are both pretty overrated. Great musicians, but, just like the Beatles, not gods.

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i honestly don't think Nickelback is overrated. they get a fair amount of hate (for good reason). they did get rocks thrown at them and were booed off stage when they played in Portugal. i'd say that counts as being fairly hatedalso guys don't just do bands, i just worded that a little specifically. if you think any sort of musical artist is overrated or underrated, tell us!

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Lumping metal and screamo together is a mistake. One has the ability to be awesome, while the other has the ability to appeal to people who think their life is the most depressing thing ever because their parents wouldn't buy them a PS3.

I have to disagree here.Listen to "King Park" by La Dispute.Overrated: Gonna say Nickelback. Horrible, horrible band. Rise Against, too. Siren Song of the Counterculture was one of my favorite albums of all time, but their last two albums failed.Underrated: La Dispute, Pianos Become the Teeth, Touche Amore. Edited by Tyler Durden

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On the screamo issue: Yes, we've been over that. Several times already. I made an incorrect generalization, yes, but I think three is enough as far as responses go.

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Guys without The Beatles most rock groups wouldn't exist. They are the most influential band ever. I'm not really a Beatles fan and I don't listen to them but you got to think of the time period they came out in and their influence. Anyways I I don't know whats overrated but for underrated I'll say King Kobra.

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Guys without The Beatles most rock groups wouldn't exist. They are the most influential band ever. I'm not really a Beatles fan and I don't listen to them but you got to think of the time period they came out in and their influence. Anyways I I don't know whats overrated but for underrated I'll say King Kobra.

no one's saying they're not extremely influential. they're just saying that the beatles are overrated. that's pretty much a fact.
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I wouldn't really say that. Sure, they influenced a lot of stuff, but they themselves were a conglomeration of influences - the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds, Ravi Shankar, and a host of other things. It's hardly like there was nothing one moment, and then the Beatles came and rock magically started existing.

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the thing is they're really not 'the most important band ever"people say things like "if the beatles didn't exist your favorite band probably wouldn't" but who's to say that another band wouldn't have stepped in and done the same thing the beatles did? it's not like they're the only musical geniuses ever. and there are tons of bands that are around that level of influence. the velvet underground, the beach boys, etc. they are not gods among men. treat them as humans.

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For a couple of reasons. Good marketing, a loyal fan-base, and, yes, some good music.Also, I feel the need to inform you that periods are not the only form of punctuation out there. Apostrophes and commas do wonders for sprucing up a sentence.

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sales don't mean as much as people think.yes the beatles sold a ton of albums, but there are artists that have gotten close to their amount of sales. Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson come pretty close. not bands, technically, but still.the velvet underground & nico didn't sell all that much, but it is still regarded as one of the most influential albums of all time.

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Just want to clarify for everyone - The Beatles, Zeppelin, Clapton, Hendrix, et al are revered the way they are both for the music and the impact they had.Beatles: Some of the earliest successful multi-track recording experimentation, first recorded instance of intentional guitar feedback(This is monumental if you think about the fact people have songs made of just feedback now, and expensive guitar equipment made just to make the sound), classical accompaniment in pop/rock(There was pop classical, but not pop/rock with classical accompaniment. It was segregated to the point there was literally a switch in studios labeled "Classical/pop", to be switched to one or the other depending on the recording), invention of artificial double-tracking, favoring of close micing for tone rather than ambient micing for volume, I can go on for a long time. Modern recording studios owe their roots to two acts: Les Paul and The Beatles. It's also worth noting that rock was on its death bed as another pop fad before the Ed Sullivan Show performance. And this isn't counting their influence on popular culture and the western world in-general. Off the top of my head, they essentially brought sandals mainstream in the west.Zeppelin: I haven't studied them as well as The Beatles, so I can't really comment here.Clapton: Without Clapton, guitar doesn't exist as it does today. In the early/mid-60's in rock music, there were basically two schools of thought as far as lead guitar - the Chuck Berry-esque school that Keith Richards came from, and the country-tinged one of George Harrison. Obviously Clapton didn't bring the blues to England, and he wasn't the only one influenced by it. But any book you read about early rock in England, it's obvious that Blues was filed away in the very back of the bargain bins of record stores. It should also say something about how well Blues did in charts at the time that Clapton left his first band, The Yardbirds, after they started getting successful and decided they weren't going to go in a Blues direction anymore.Fast forward to July, 1966, and The Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton is #6 in the UK charts. There were other guys doing what Eric was doing, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page coming to mind, but Slowhand was the guy that brought that British flavour of amped-up, over-energized Blues that hit home with guys like Hendrix into the limelight. Speaking of Hendrix,Hendrix: Jimi took what Clapton did, clumped in his experience playing funk and R&B, packed his bags to England, and ran with it. Before Hendrix, heavy-handed playing, frameless improvisation outside of Jazz, heavily-distorted electric guitars, wah-wah pedals and hundreds of other guitar effects, heavy use of the tremolo system in guitars(Virtually all guitars other than the stratocaster didn't have one at the time), and sound effects in pop were typically seen as signs of unskilled musicians. The entirety of The Experience were skilled musicians doing those very things, which are now staples of dozens of modern popular genres. Mix them all together, and you get the tasty brew known as heavy metal. I can tell you as a guitarist, guitar wouldn't be what it is today without Clapton and Hendrix.I'm not saying any of them aren't overrated. Fact is they are very definitely overrated. But not as much in my mind as people think. Very much so if you just look at the music. If you look at the music and the influence, not so much.

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Well, of course. They're all very good musicians, and important ones as well. Some people just cross the line when they start regarding them as gods instead of men.

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Well, of course. They're all very good musicians, and important ones as well. Some people just cross the line when they start regarding them as gods instead of men.

Alright, I can agree with that. John Lennon's one of my heroes, but I hate when people worship him like a deity.
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