Top 3 Overrated/ Underrated Bands (In Your Opinion)

**Annapurna** · April 9th, 2009, 02:51 PM

This is tough, especially because I'm tired right now, but here are a few I can think of off the top of my head.

Overrated:
U2
DMB
Oasis

Underrated:
X
Captain Beefheart & Magic Band
Midnight Oil

**ianmonsta** · April 9th, 2009, 03:18 PM

too many to list on both sides.

gescom · April 9th, 2009, 03:39 PM

the Beatles

the Fall

props to those with the XTC and Lee Perry suggestions.

lunchbox · April 9th, 2009, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nayagamj

you bite you tongue about chris cornell! audioslave rocks. his solo stuff sucks though

by the time he formed/joined audioslave, his voice was not nearly the same both in power and range as it was back when he was in temple of the dog or soundgarden so that's what i'm basing it off of.

Kat19 · April 9th, 2009, 03:51 PM

I gotta think about narrowing down the overrateds...

underrated:
Elbow (in the U.S.)
Supergrass
Kraftwerk

Dave · April 9th, 2009, 04:12 PM

overrated:

Arcade Fire
Interpol
Rage Against the Machine

underrated:

Buzzcocks
Quicksand
Scream

TBrown33 · April 9th, 2009, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave

overrated:

Arcade Fire

Respectfully disagree. Watch Miroir Noir:

Pitchfork: TV

Overrated:
1. MGMT (great album, thanks to Dave Fridmann...terrible live)
2. Late of the Pier (AMAZING album, thanks to Errol Alkan...UNBELIEVABLY ****TY LIVE BAND. I want to beat them up when I watch them try to play music)
3. Throbbing Gristle

Underrated
1. Built to Spill
2. The National
3. Brian Jonestown Massacre

Let me add one more to "underrated." Phoenix. But that's only because the new album hasn't been released yet. It's...quite possibly the best...thing ever made (did I just make them "overrated?" Probably). And they played it to perfection on SNL. They were just an ok band before. But now...