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The Who. They have a couple great tunes- but I find most of their stuff awful. They were prolific with mediocre at best albums IMO

I had similar thoughts about them for a while. But recently gave them another look and now I think they're deserving of their status. You have to put it in context of what the music scene was like during their most prolific periods. Some of their lesser known trackes like "The Seeker" just flat out kick butt like no one else ... whats cool is the louder you play them, the better they sound.

 

Enjoy!

 

The Who "The Seeker"

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Bob Seger - the king of the power ballad? Are you kidding me?!? He's got great ballads (Night Moves actually changed my life, Beautiful Loser, etc.), and he's got great straight ahead rock songs. Rock and Roll never Forgets, Katmandu, Get outta Denver, etc.

 

How can The Who have only a few good songs? Every single song on Quadrophenia (a double album) and Who's Next is incredible. No filler on either album.

 

Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Pretty much worthless without Neil.

 

I think Suite: Judy Blue Eyes is one of the best songs ever written.

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Bob Seger - the king of the power ballad? Are you kidding me?!? He's got great ballads (Night Moves actually changed my life, Beautiful Loser, etc.), and he's got great straight ahead rock songs. Rock and Roll never Forgets, Katmandu, Get outta Denver, etc.

 

Bob Seger...Dead to me.

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For me to consider someone overrated, they have to meet two criteria....

 

1) Their concerts are considered a "must see" by a majority of people, not fans, just people in general

 

2) If their songs come on the radio, I immediately turn to a different channel

 

So, based on that, here's my list...

 

Aerosmith

Rolling Stones

Genesis/Phil Collins

Eric Clapton

Billy Joel

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I very much agree with the people that said John Mayer. He's the Dane Cook of music.

Honestly, I love his jazz stuff that you'll never hear on radio.

 

Part of the problem is that the radio stations overkill so many bands as opposed to putting on a variety of bands from major and independent labels. Classic stations tend to rely on some hits on a daily basis while other songs just sit on their media library waiting to be played. Frankly the radio industry has faltered due to the lack of variety as a large enough portion of their base has either downloaded a mixed together what they want to hear, they frequent websites like Pandora, and/or they pay for stations that give much more variety on Sirius/XM

 

I will say that I find these to be overrated:

Phil Collins

Poison

Audioslave

post Black Album Metallica

Sublime (great hits, rest of catalog is terrible)

Creed

Eminem post 8-mile

Kanye West, especially after the college dropout (who is a gay fish)

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He can't - he'd miss out all that great Police music. What can possibly be wrong with the Cuervo Gold?

:lol: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.

 

I think Steely Dan's standing is just about right, more a cult band, if anything, they are underrated by the masses.

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:lol: De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.

 

I think Steely Dan's standing is just about right, more a cult band, if anything, they are underrated by the masses.

 

 

From how the story goes... The Police named that song that way on purpose... In order to eff with the person on the radio that has to say the name of the song on the air.

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Seriously, you should stop listening to music, then.

 

 

Really? No, really. Really?

 

I mean, rock is rock, man, and Steely Dan AIN'T rock. Please, let me get off the elveator now!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzfwtX2kgOA

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Hands down, it's Nirvana

I grew up in the "grunge" era and while I loved the music, I can't believe how dated some of it sounds especially Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

 

A couple that I forgot:

-Billy Joel: No denying his talent but his music blows...except for Captain Jack.

-The Sex Pistols: I never by in to buy into "contraversial" bands. Hardly what punk should sound like, more like the Limp Bizkit of their time.

-Iron Maiden: Maybe it's me but anything that sounds like it could be the soundtrack for a Dungeon and Dragons game, sucks.

-The Strokes: Is this It is the best album of the but what have they done since...sh*t!

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