Overrated - Black-Eyed Peas
Underrated - QOTSA
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Overrated - Black-Eyed Peas
Underrated - QOTSA
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Originally Posted by tarkman1
Been there done that. Can I tell everyone which music sucks now?;)
Personally I don't see how that qualifies someone over the rest of the people who enjoy listening to, and bitching about, music.
Underrated:
Gang of Four
Bettie Servert
Another vote for Nada Surf
Mogwai
The Birthday Party
Rainer Maria
Caterwaul
The Afghan Whigs
Gang of Four
Overrated:
Most everything (but not all) that makes the charts
r.:cool:
The Fray
Underrated -
Rise Against
The Clarks(Pasucks will say i am obsessed)
Reckless Kelly
The Doves
Greenwheel
Unwritten Law
Citizen Cope
Blue Oyster Cult (godzilla!!!)
Big Wreck
The Fray
Overrated every manufactored pop act on clearchannel
Soooo right about the Kinks. Ray Davies is a genius
under: The Church
over : The Cure
Ho-leee SHIT, I thought I was the only one. From memory:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Suit
"We're talking about the good life,
In the food chain,
Love among the ruins
I guess you finally got to accept
That there's nothing you can do about it...
It's kind of like carving the turkey
It's kind of like mowing the lawn,
Everything gets to this certain dimension
Winds up on a customer's plate and then gone."
GOOD FUCKING SHIT
WTF?Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Sunny Day Real Estate
Jawbox
Fugazi
Rites of Spring
Husker Du
It's even possible to argue that the Violent Femmes were the first "emo" band, back in 1980. Who the fuck is Waxwing?
Overrated: QOTSA
Underrated: Kyuss
Overrated: Dashboard Confessional
Underrated: Any J. Robbins band (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, etc.)
Overrated: Aphex Twin
Underrated: Pan Sonic
Overrated: Godspeed You Black Emperor
Underrated: The For Carnation
Most overrated musician of all time: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Why don't you G-O-T-O-H-E double L.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
You tramp. You philandering bitch.
I'm going to K-I-L-L one of us baby.
Give me time and I'll decide on which.
Yay!Quote:
Originally Posted by flatlander420
under: Catherine Wheel, Straitjacket Fits, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Julian Cope, Echo and the Bunnymen, American Music Club, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon.
OR = U2 (my buddy made note I have always flipped the station when they play, shit, he's right..hmmm?)
UR = UFO (70's hard rock at it's best)
http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/band...lbums/lust.gif
Iggy looked a little like Ellen DeGeneres, didn't he? :D
Yeah, he liked dick though.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Hey the femmes certainly not.(im not a musician, but i guess the guitar chords do not sound a certain way. or else you could define brit pop as emo as well. im not saying that the femmes are brit pop eitrher ;), i just wanted to illustrate my chords example. i cannot explain it any better :( )Quote:
Originally Posted by Spats
the first "official" were Rites of spring in the 80s.
"when does a hardcore band become emo ? when they start singing about girls" ;)
well and i did say that waxwing are "underrated" because nobody in the "scene" gives them credit and they pretty much sum up the whole genre in the best way. I guess you got it the way that they defined the genre when it all began. which is not possible of course because they formed in the late 90s. I didn't say they influenced anyone or helped define the genre, i just wanted to say that for someone who never listened to emo they would sum the genre up. And while you are namedropping the bands who "started" the genre how can you forget "texas is the reason" or "far" ? minus 100 scene points. :p
edit: but your over and under list is exquisit. (and so right ! altthough i like godspeed you! black emperor and must confess i haven't heard the other band :( ) :)
btw. since im already here:
overrated:
bright eyes (yeah connor is soo sweet and such a great artist, but there are plenty of singer songwriters out there who are as good as him)
underrated:
the lemonheads (see nada surf. "hey didn't they do the mrs. robinsson cover ?" :rolleyes: )
Good list. I'll add that many consider Dag Nasty's "Can I Say?" the first emo album.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spats
edit:
More underrated (non-obscure) bands: The Misfits
Black Sabbath
Overrated: Pink Floyd
That is a steaming bag of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spats
I'm not saying he's the greatest guitarist of all time, but the most overrated is just plain silly.
Gotta side with Mr_G on this one.
"We've got to go out to Wyoming and conquer some fucking open spaces..."
Amen to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by cj001f
More recently-
over:Blink 182 and Green Day, edit: The Strokes
under:Spoon
:nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spats
Over: Nirvana
Under: Mint Royale
Over: Wide Spread Panic, actually they just plain suck!
Under: Any good bluegrass band.
C'mon,"Live At The Malcanbo"is a perfect example of why SRV is highley overrated.:rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Defining comes first, summing up comes at the end. If you hadn't used the word "defined", I would have been fine with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
Looking back, I think I can say Husker Du really defined "emo". You can trace just about every bittersweet punk/pop tune back to some combination of two songs: "In A Free Land" (early 1982) and "Everything Falls Apart" (mid-1982).
The Femmes might have blazed the lyrical trail, but no one could follow their musical direction -- including themselves.
Dag Nasty is definitely on the list, but they don't predate Rites of Spring. And I forgot Slint -- duh.
I like F#A#8, but their palette is so limited. Found sound recording, long slow dirge with strings, builds louder and louder, the guitar comes in, climax, next found recording, lather, rinse, repeat. It's brilliant -- for about one album. I have the same problem with Explosions In The Sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
The For Carnation made one great record: the self-titled one. There are a couple EPs that aren't worth your time.
You're all proving my point. If no one likes it, it can't be overrated.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr_gyptian
I met Dave Davies a couple of years ago. Really cool guy (his wife is a nut job though). Still no nearer fixing the bust up with Ray, unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Over:
Mariah Carey
Under:
Jill Scott
... in the UK anyway (I'm a soul lovin' girl)
I like Leftover and CVB but why not pay just go to see CVB? I did that back when I went to see Meat Puppets open for the Red Hot Chili Peppers during the Chili's Blood Sugar Sex Magic tour. Although I liked the Chili's, the real reason I went was to see Meat Puppets. It was awesome and the Chili's put on a good show too.Quote:
Originally Posted by fez
Under: Meat Puppets, Red Hot Chili Peppers (pre Blood Sugar Sex Magic)
Over: Red Hot Chili Peppers (post Blood Sugar Sex Magic)
So many overrated bands in the UK, most of them drive me insaneQuote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Roo
The Kooks (sing proper words you over-bited twat!)
The Libertines
Futureheads
Razorlight
Car BombQuote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
FKNA, thats good news indeed. Happy to hear Cris made it through his heroin induced hiatus. Meat Puppets seriously expanded my musical horizons. Thanks for the good news. You just brightened my day.Quote:
Originally Posted by buckethead
got no head
it's a bucket with teeth
it likes to dream
it likes to sleep
it knows hot
it knows cool
it knows what's what
it's no fool
fill up the bucket with
whatever you got
make sure it's something
that the bucket likes a lot
fly on a window
looking through
its tiny bucket
knows just what to do
it goes over here
it goes over there
it takes its tiny bucket
almost everywhere
I'm a buckethead
that's the truth
what I do
sure shines through
and what goes in
gets mixed around
and overflows
and makes this sound
Is her name Lola? She's a little manly ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Roo
What does this sentence mean? Speak English bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spats
Underrated: Cold Chisel.
Overrated: Jack Johnson.
See signature. I hate that feel good asshole.
heh, reminds me of Tonio K, who The Suit and I were discussing briefly earlier in this thread. He said:Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
I wish I could be as mellow
As for instance Jackson Browne
But "Fountain of Sorrow" my ass,
Motherfucker
I hope he winds up in the ground
But then I've been hating Jackson Browne longer than most of you have been alive.
Glad to be the bearer of good news. I caught onto the band at 'up on the sun' and must've seen them about 35 times by the time they split in '95. i'd pretty much given up on any kind of reunion till i heard the news. especially glad for cris after the rough luck he'd had for many years...Quote:
Originally posted by GheePupQuote:
Originally Posted by buckethead
...you must have heard about the coming meat puppets (curt+cris w/herb alexander from primus) reunion then?
the album's half done and they should be on tour by end of year!!
FKNA, thats good news indeed. Happy to hear Cris made it through his heroin induced hiatus. Meat Puppets seriously expanded my musical horizons. Thanks for the good news. You just brightened my day.
Got lost on the water
Wound up on the sand
Gaze out through the darkness
With the light in the palm of your hand
To the other side
Another time
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Originally Posted by Spats
ok. typical german mistake. define does not equal "definieren" as "definieren" means summing up the actual status or stating the main points of something :(
i meant it the german way and ate crap for using it ;)
Now i'll just have to finish my semester paper about "ultimate attainment in L2 acquisition". And I have just proven that ultimate attainment, ending in a near native way of speaking, is not possible. Damn, im gonna be a famous linguist :D
concerning the emo beginnings: i'd not say it really started before the 90s, because all (ok those 2or 3 ;) ) those proto-emo bands did sound very much punk rock or hard core and were still very deep in the genre they came from. they paved the way, but the first bands which really sounded a different way appeared in the 90s (sunny day real estate , texas is the reason) and i guess that's maybe due to the early 90s indie music which has definitely influenced emo i'd say. (just look which bands did contribute to the pixies cover album, it reads like a who is who of the genre bands.)
btw. more on the list:
under: urge overkill
I dont know if anyone else is doing this but I ahve been picking up alot of good bands from this, that either overlooked or never heard of thanks guy and gals:).
Overrrated: U2 inception-1989
Underrated: U2 1990-present
Am I the only person who thinks Achtung Baby is their best work?
that was the only U2 album i liked (or paid attention to) after unforgettable fire...it definitely holds up as the one of those 5 i'd most likely listen to, followed by the former...Quote:
Orignally posted by Plakespear
Am I the only person who thinks Achtung Baby is their best work?
I've got a scratchy 22 year old tape of some live U2 circa Under a Blood Red Sky that was played on the radio one day. 11 o'clock tick tock!!
They've covered some ground. Has there been a bigger band since?