Overrated singers and bands

Who do you consider to be really overrated?

Mine has to be Oasis - loved their first single "Some might say" but always found their music too predictable and Liam Gallagher's voice really grates on my nerves!
Noel, the real talent, has a better voice IMO

Also never understood the fascination with U2 (can't stand Bono) or the Manic Street Preachers.

Adele. People love her, but I find her stuff a bit dull tbh.

I like the Manic Street Preachers - they've done some cracking stuff. U2 and Oasis are OK - I'm not wild about them, but they've done some quite good stuff.

That dull bird who sang about 5 million bicycles in fucking Bejing!

R.E.M. Tbh, I haven't heard much of their stuff, but that Shiny Happy People isn't that great IMO.

Michael boring as shit Buble

Bryan twice as boring as shit Adams

HoratioTarr wrote:That dull bird who sang about 5 million bicycles in fucking Bejing!

Katie Melua. I did have to Google though.

The Proclaimers...not only boring and unintelligible, but ginger!

HoratioTarr wrote:Bryan twice as boring as shit Adams

He's OK, apart from that ghastly Everything I do nonsense.

Raggamuffin wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:That dull bird who sang about 5 million bicycles in fucking Bejing!

Katie Melua. I did have to Google though.

That's the one.   Beige as cold porridge.

Raggamuffin wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:Bryan twice as boring as shit Adams

He's OK, apart from that ghastly Everything I do nonsense.

I had the misfortune to see him live.

eddie wrote:Who do you consider to be really overrated?

Mine has to be Oasis - loved their first single "Some might say" but always found their music too predictable and Liam Gallagher's voice really grates on my nerves!
Noel, the real talent, has a better voice IMO

Also never understood the fascination with U2 (can't stand Bono) or the Manic Street Preachers.

I thought Oasis' b-sides compilation was actually the best record they ever released:

Pink Floyd.

Raggamuffin wrote:Pink Floyd.

I've seen the live.  Fucking awesome.

I thought for the most part, Soundgarden was really overrated. This song was a huge hit and I have no idea why, it sounds like it hasn't had its coffee yet ...

Mariah Carey. What style is she supposed to be? I can't think of anything she did tbh, apart from that one she borrowed from Tom Tom Club.

Raggamuffin wrote:Mariah Carey. What style is she supposed to be? I can't think of anything she did tbh, apart from that one she borrowed from Tom Tom Club.

She has, or did have,  a 5 octave vocal range, so one has to appreciate that.  Not a huge fan but some of her stuff was ok.

Bob Dylan.   Music to commit suicide to.   That droning voice....

The Buzzcocks.  Twerpy wet lead singer and shit music.

Raggamuffin wrote:R.E.M. Tbh, I haven't heard much of their stuff, but that Shiny Happy People isn't that great IMO.

Shiny happy people isn't very indicative of what REM are about actually.
Some of their stuff is very deep and really melodic and his voice is fucking sexy....it drives me wild.

Something about a deep American singing voice just melts me.

Echo and the Bunnymen.   Double twerpy lead singer who smoked a fag even when he was singing.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Mariah Carey. What style is she supposed to be? I can't think of anything she did tbh, apart from that one she borrowed from Tom Tom Club.

She has, or did have,  a 5 octave vocal range, so one has to appreciate that.  Not a huge fan but some of her stuff was ok.

So did Linda Lewis, and her stuff was better IMO.

Raggamuffin wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

She has, or did have,  a 5 octave vocal range, so one has to appreciate that.  Not a huge fan but some of her stuff was ok.

So did Linda Lewis, and her stuff was better IMO.

Ah, I wanna rock widge yoooo, rockadoodledooooooo

HoratioTarr wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

So did Linda Lewis, and her stuff was better IMO.

Ah, I wanna rock widge yoooo, rockadoodledooooooo

Don't you just luuuuuurve that track? I loved it back then, and I still do.

Raggamuffin wrote:

HoratioTarr wrote:

Ah, I wanna rock widge yoooo, rockadoodledooooooo

Don't you just luuuuuurve that track? I loved it back then, and I still do.

Yes!

I saw Linda Lewis live, and she was really good - she really interacted with the audience.

Katie Melhua was booooring, as is Adele (great voice though) and so is Mariah Carey.
I am not a massive fan of female vocalists - I'd say Pink was one of my top favourite singers, Chaka Khan is massively underrated and the woman from the SOS band is fabulous (just the way you like it - very sexy song)

eddie wrote:Katie Melhua was booooring, as is Adele (great voice though) and so is Mariah Carey.
I am not a massive fan of female vocalists - I'd say Pink was one of my top favourite singers, Chaka Khan is massively underrated  and the woman from the SOS band is fabulous (just the way you like it - very sexy song)

Yeah, I'm not overly keen on female singers who rely on their voices a lot. I like a musical style rather than the voice. I don't generally like ballads or slow boring songs.

Me neither...though I have posted an REM song up in the "what are you listening to?" Thread

It's a slow one but it's haunting

Raggamuffin wrote:R.E.M. Tbh, I haven't heard much of their stuff, but that Shiny Happy People isn't that great IMO.

Their song "Everybody hurts" would make up for anything else they have done that's not so good....it's my favourite sad song of all time.

Syl wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:R.E.M. Tbh, I haven't heard much of their stuff, but that Shiny Happy People isn't that great IMO.

Their song "Everybody hurts" would make up for anything else they have done that's not so good....it's my favourite sad song of all time.

Ooooh no, that's even worse than Shiny Happy People IMO.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Syl wrote:
Their song "Everybody hurts" would make up for anything else they have done that's not so good....it's my favourite sad song of all time.

Ooooh no, that's even worse than Shiny Happy People IMO.

It's the best song to wallow in though....and everyone needs a good wallow now and again.

Syl wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ooooh no, that's even worse than Shiny Happy People IMO.

It's the best song to wallow in though....and everyone needs a good wallow now and again.

Not that song though - it's just so dirge-like.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Syl wrote:

It's the best song to wallow in though....and everyone needs a good wallow now and again.

Not that song though - it's just so dirge-like.

The video is good as well.....all that walking on top of cars, very original.

I just don't like slow songs, with a few exceptions - like Good year for the Roses by Elvis Costello, for example.

Raggamuffin wrote:I just don't like slow songs, with a few exceptions - like Good year for the Roses by Elvis Costello, for example.

That one is very C&W sounding...it's nice.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Syl wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ooooh no, that's even worse than Shiny Happy People IMO.

It's the best song to wallow in though....and everyone needs a good wallow now and again.

Not that song though - it's just so dirge-like.

I don't like it either as I'm not a fan of "obvious" songs

Syl wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:I just don't like slow songs, with a few exceptions - like Good year for the Roses by Elvis Costello, for example.

That one is very C&W sounding...it's nice.

Yes. It's strange really because I don't really like C&W.

I think Metallica is quite overrated.

HoratioTarr wrote:Echo and the Bunnymen.   Double twerpy lead singer who smoked a fag even when he was singing.

I have to disagree with that one - they did some great stuff!

The cutter
The back of love
The killing moon
Seven seas
Bring on the dancing horses
A nice cover of People are strange

eddie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:R.E.M. Tbh, I haven't heard much of their stuff, but that Shiny Happy People isn't that great IMO.

Shiny happy people isn't very indicative of what REM are about actually.
Some of their stuff is very deep and really melodic and his voice is fucking sexy....it drives me wild.

Something about a deep American singing voice just melts me.

I don't think he has a deep voice.

I will make an exception for Man on the moon, which has a nice chorus.

Raggamuffin wrote:Pink Floyd.

THEY DID three or four phenomanal albums in the 1970s (I have them on the original vinyl..).

SINCE THEN they have pretty well been "trading on their reputation..".


AND producing bigger and better concers for their live audiences.

eddie wrote:Who do you consider to be really overrated?

Mine has to be Oasis - loved their first single "Some might say" but always found their music too predictable and Liam Gallagher's voice really grates on my nerves!
Noel, the real talent, has a better voice IMO

Also never understood the fascination with U2 (can't stand Bono) or the Manic Street Preachers.

I AGREE about Oasis...

Noel Gallagher's last two albums are reputed to be his best work yet..

veya_victaous wrote:I think Metallica is quite overrated.

I SAW a  "Metallica unwired"  TV special back in the 1990s that was quite good...

HoratioTarr wrote:Bob Dylan.   Music to commit suicide to.   That droning voice....

BUT STILL one of the greatest songwriters of the 1960s and '70s...

AND named as one of the inspirations not only for the Beatles, but for many others to follow on..


IF ONE doesn't like his voice, there are thousands of covers out there.

Wow. I agree with every post wolf has made on this thread

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:Who do you consider to be really overrated?

Mine has to be Oasis - loved their first single "Some might say" but always found their music too predictable and Liam Gallagher's voice really grates on my nerves!
Noel, the real talent, has a better voice IMO

Also never understood the fascination with U2 (can't stand Bono) or the Manic Street Preachers.

I thought Oasis' b-sides compilation was actually the best record they ever released:

I was just about to say exactly that!!!


Their first 2 albums were ok at the time they were released... and they did have a distinctive sound... but there was a lot of better stuff around at the time and they were more 'fitting in' and capturing populist mainstream opportunity rather than being new/innovative/groundbreaking etc...

Coldplay... bunch of arse!


Wishy washy drivel!!!



Seen Metallica twice... both times quite by accident really... 1st time was at reading festival about 10-15 years ago (?)... they came on as the headline act after 'system of a down' (who i'd never heard of but were absolutely brilliant!!!)... and of course I had heard OF Metallica but i had not heard any of their music... so was well excited to think an even better band than 'system' was coming on next!!!... but... although they were loud and heavy rocky with loads of guitar etc and you couldn't fault their technical ability to play the instruments etc... what they were playing was absolute shit!!!


Was just a succession of noise followed by more noise... nothing seemed joined up into an actual overall coherent peice that could be construed as an actual 'song' or 'track' etc... it all seemed like a miss mash of completely separate small 4 bar parts that were then just played in a complete random order throughout!!!

Was terrible and extremely difficult/unpleasant to try to keep up listening to with any enjoyment as it jumped and skipped about so bizarrely...


But as they had announced they had a new bass player when they came on... I gave them the benefit of the doubt...


Until I saw them again at Glastonbury couple years ago...

SAME SHIT!!!

MORE NOISE AND JUMPY SKIPPY ARRANGEMENTS... GOT HEADACHE AND LEFT PROTO!!!



Adele... who...!?

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Pink Floyd.

THEY DID three or four phenomanal albums in the 1970s (I have them on the original vinyl..).

SINCE THEN they have pretty well been "trading on their reputation..".


AND producing bigger and better concers for their live audiences.

'Wish you were here'

And I love the 'live in pompeii' video... the original... not the directors cut or documentary versions...

Tommy Monk wrote:Coldplay... bunch of arse!


Wishy washy drivel!!!



Seen Metallica twice... both times quite by accident really... 1st time was at reading festival about 10-15 years ago (?)... they came on as the headline act after 'system of a down' (who i'd never heard of but were absolutely brilliant!!!)... and of course I had heard OF Metallica but i had not heard any of their music... so was well excited to think an even better band than 'system' was coming on next!!!... but... although they were loud and heavy rocky with loads of guitar etc and you couldn't fault their technical ability to play the instruments etc... what they were playing was absolute shit!!!


Was just a succession of noise followed by more noise... nothing seemed joined up into an actual overall coherent peice that could be construed as an actual 'song' or 'track' etc... it all seemed like a miss mash of completely separate small 4 bar parts that were then just played in a complete random order throughout!!!

Was terrible and extremely difficult/unpleasant to try to keep up listening to with any enjoyment as it jumped and skipped about so bizarrely...


But as they had announced they had a new bass player when they came on... I gave them the benefit of the doubt...


Until I saw them again at Glastonbury couple years ago...

SAME SHIT!!!

MORE NOISE AND JUMPY SKIPPY ARRANGEMENTS... GOT HEADACHE AND LEFT PROTO!!!



Adele... who...!?

I agree with all 3 bands
i wonder if they where touring with system as I saw them at a festival with system of the down too, around then