Underrated: The Kinks
Overrrated: Creed
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Underrated: The Kinks
Overrrated: Creed
:p
You really got me now.
The Kinks freaking r00l.
I just heard "Around the Dial" which reminded me how much the Kinks rock..Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Radios of the world are tuning in tonight,
Are you on the dial, are you tuned in right?
One of our d.j.s is missing.
Are you listening?
Are you listening to me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me clearly?
Around the dial.
Ive been around the dial so many times,
But youre not there.
Somebody tells me that youve been taken off the air.
Well, you were my favorite d.j.,
Since I cant remember when.
You always played the best records,
You never followed any trend.
F.m., a.m. where are you?
You gotta be out there somewhere on the dial.
On the dial.
(are you ready) were going round the dial,
(are you listening) around the dial,
(are you tuned in) around the dial,
(are you searchin) around the dial.
F.m., a.m. where are you?
You gotta be out there somewhere on the dial.
On the dial.
Where did you go mr. d.j.?
Did they take you off the air?
Was it something that you said to the corporation guys upstairs?
It wasnt the pressure,
You never sounded down.
It couldnt be the ratings,
You had the best in town.
Somehow Im gonna find ya, track you down.
Gonna keep on searchin,
Around and around and round and round...
(theyre searchin) around the dial,
(theyre listenin) around the dial,
(poor station) the best in town,
(poor d.j.) who never let us down.
While the critics kept on knocking you,
You just kept on rocking around the dial.
Around the dial.
Ive been searchin for you on my radio.
This time your station really must have gone underground
Somebody said you had a minor nervous breakdown.
Was it something that you heard,
Or something that you saw,
That made you lose your mind,
Did you lose control.
Did you step out of line?
If youre there, give us a sign.
I cant believe that youve been taken off the air.
Think Ill sell my radio now that youre not there.
You never gave in to fashion,
You never followed any trends,
All the record bums tried to hack you up,
But you were honest to the end.
Gonna keep my radio on,
till I know just what went wrong.
The answers out there somewhere on the dial.
On the dial.
Can you hear me (around the dial)
Are you listenin (around the dial)
Are you out there (around the dial)
Can you hear me?
Around the dial.
under - The Black Crowes
over - Staind
God bless strawberry jam, and all the different varieties.
Overrated: Whatever is on pop radio right now.
Underrated: Bad Religion, Clutch
under: The Clash
over: Steely Dan
Overrated: Grand Funk Railroad
Underrated: Queen, Roxy Music
underrated: pixies (at least in their prime they were)
overrated: U2
underrated: X
(I'm going with an alphabet name theme ;))
Overrated: Coldplay
Underrated: The Samples
Underrated: The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Nirvana
Overrated: The Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Nirvana
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Creed just plain sucks.:fmicon:Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveTV
under: ween, raq, & particle
over: I'll second the "anything on pop radio"
over - U2
under - John Butler Trio
CLUTCH!:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by SponsoredByDuctTape
Staind - Sucks
Creed - Really sucks
Metallica - Please just quit you whiny bitches
All "New Metal" acts must die - same MTV garbage as the 80's hair bands. Just this time they have Tattoos, and wear black.
Bumped into Daniel Higgs, the singer from Lungfish (warning iTunes link), in Baltimore the other day. Cool guy, good band.
over - PhishQuote:
Originally Posted by givethepigeye
Overrated - grunge
Underrated - 80's hair bands.
I'm sorry but 80's hair bands rule. I just bought divegirl Monster Ballads Platnium and it rules. Nirvana and grunge were the worst thing to ever happen to music. Took some perfectly good rockin shit about getting drunk, snorting coke, and banging chicks and turned it into useless angry crap. Now its hard to find happy rocking music. Anything hard is angry. No goddammit, I don't want to fuck my mother, kill my father, shoot up my school, wear black, or mope around solemly so take your skinny pale scruffy grunge ass out of my sight and go fuck yourself. I want to rock and roll all night, and party every day!!!
underrated: Patti Smith
Overrated: The Pretenders
Steely Dan overrated? Ouch!
underrated: Uncle John's Band
Overrated: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Maybe not)
overrated: Coldplay
underrated: Bad Brains
Over - Coldplay
Under (meaning: never really gather a mainstream following and stayed in a cult/college radio radio/etc niche) - The Replacements
Questionable - X ??? I can't get past their sound.
Overrated- Dave Mathews Band
Underrated- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Wha? Overrated by who? Did you just beam in from 1973?Quote:
Originally Posted by JuiceIsLoose!
Under: Velvet Underground
Over:Grateful Dead post American Beauty/Workingman's Dead
Underrated-Tears For Queers and the Back Street Boys.
Overrated-Led Zepplin sucks donkey balls.
The Deathset rules like no other.
overrated-
REM
U2
Kiss
PEARL JAM
Grateful Dead
Over-
2 live crew.
Under -
Wilco
Underrated:
Velvet Underground, XTC, Zappa/Mothers Of Invention, Kinks, Troggs, Byrds, Morphine, Country Joe and The Fish, Jefferson Airplane(w/Jorma and Jack)/Hot Tuna, Steve Miller Band, GONG/Soft Machine, Caravan, Bill Laswell/Material/Praxis, Ornette Coleman/Prime Time, Face Ditch, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow, Allan Holdsworth, King Crimson, Neil Young, Cream, Traffic, Peter Blegvad, Buckethead, Eric Dolphy, Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, The Meters, Screaming Trees, Hugh Hopper, George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes/Diana Ross, Dick Dale, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Residents, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Canned Heat, The Band.
Overrated:
Eagles, (s)Creed, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Doors, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Kiss, U2, Aerosmith.
Quote:
Originally Posted by cj001f
I had a friend back in the mid 90's who was into "alternative" music but did not like bands if they sounded like another band (ie, she liked original sounding alternative music). She had never heard VU, so I played a lot of it for her. She wasn't very into it because to her it sounded like music that had been done before. :nonono2: :nonono2: :nonono2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buster Highmen
Fixed it for her.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
Buster - you forgot Talking Heads on your list.
Another "underrated" for me; Indigenous
Over rated - REM
Bad Brains! :yourock: :yourock:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsB
For those Raggae fans H.R. from the Bad Brains put out an excellent, and underrated, raggae album CHARGE (iTunes Link) back in the day.
Here is an underrated: The Legendary Shack Shakers (iTunes Link).
Edit - Nice Shack Shakers Video at You Tube
Under – David Bowie (at least by my generation), Leftover Salmon, Cake
Over – Warren Haynes, Korn (Damn! Those guys suck soooo hard), Limp Bizkit (What a freakin’ joke)
possibly omitted the Yard Birds, Jim Croce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tippster
another under-rated a little more modern would be Ween, they absolutely blew the doors of the Beachcomber.
Buster, Steve Miller?
Most over-rated for me, The Eagles and Jimmy Buffett.
Underrated: Gillian Welch
Overrated: yeah all those bands everyone has heard of and have been overplayed on the radio :)
Especially Nirvana.
I saw the Bad Brains up in Portland. We knocked on their motor home so we could give them some weed (we gave weed to all the bands). Anyway, we light it up and they give us t-shirts and thank us. we leave... Well...the weed was super skunk and the cops driving by smelled it. Portland had already decriminalized but the problem was that HR didn't have any ID and the cops were going to haul him in.. Their manager use tour clippings and a lot of talking to keep them from being arrested but they still got citations..Quote:
Originally Posted by MarsB
So instead of "pay to cum" in the 2nd set we got "pay to leave".
HR was an intense dude. The rest of the band was cool.
Over: Pearl Jam
Under: Blondie, PIL, The Bangles
I'll second Pearl Jam as the most overrated band in existence (I'm not saying they totally suck, but kinda).Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
Underrated: Bionic Jive