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dac 02-04-2009 11:37 AM

Overrated-Underrated
 
In this thread post about one thing that you think is overrated and one thing that you think is underrated. It doesn't simply have to be bands, it can be any aspect of music.

*Example:

Overrated - Auto-Tuners in pop music
Underrated - Citay

Roygbiv 02-04-2009 11:56 AM

Overrated - "Blonde on Blonde"
Underrated - A Sunny Day In Glasgow

The Monkey 02-04-2009 01:19 PM

Overrated - Elvis
Underrated - The Great Escape (Blur album)

Janszoon 02-04-2009 01:47 PM

Overrated: Guitar

Underrated: Horns

johne 02-04-2009 01:54 PM

Overrated: vocals
Underrated: instrumentals

PartisanRanger 02-04-2009 02:03 PM

Overrated: Sgt. Pepper's
Underrated: Felix Mendelssohn

FaSho 02-04-2009 02:05 PM

overrated: high pitched whiney voices
underrated: monotone voies

Pornographie Nouveau 02-04-2009 02:06 PM

Overrated: Falsetto
Underrated: Baritone

Overrated: The natural voice
Underrated: The vocoder

Overrated: Synthesisers
Underrated: (That calypso instrument that sounds like a xylophone.... ****'s awesome)

Janszoon 02-04-2009 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pornographie Nouveau (Post 590641)
Overrated: Synthesisers
Underrated: (That calypso instrument that sounds like a xylophone.... ****'s awesome)

Marimba?

lucifer_sam 02-04-2009 02:32 PM

Overrated: music
Underrated: silence

Janszoon 02-04-2009 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 590663)
Overrated: music
Underrated: silence

Rebel.

khfreek 02-04-2009 02:41 PM

Overrated: MGMT
Underrated: MCR

Pornographie Nouveau 02-04-2009 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 590653)
Marimba?

probably.

Overrated: Psychedelic Synthpop (MGMT, Empire of the Sun)
Underrated: Krautrock inspired psychedelic crazy **** (Boredoms)

anticipation 02-04-2009 03:01 PM

underrated: know think


overrated things aren't worth talking about.

Comus 02-04-2009 03:02 PM

overrated: cowbell
underrated: cowbell

4ZZZ 02-04-2009 03:17 PM

Overrated: The vast majority of music criticism.
Underrated: The vast majority of music criticised.

skips 02-04-2009 04:01 PM

Overrated: Joy Division
Underrated: Cap'n Jazz

Pornographie Nouveau 02-04-2009 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skips (Post 590713)
Overrated: Joy Division

yes.

FaSho 02-04-2009 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 590663)
Overrated: music
Underrated: silence

Bitch you beat me to it.

gunnels 02-04-2009 06:38 PM

Overrated: Neutral Milk Hotel. Also Britpop in general

Underrated: AFI

Roygbiv 02-04-2009 07:19 PM

Overrated: "his the most hipster garabe i heard"

Underrated: The Olivia Tremor Control

Anteater 02-04-2009 07:28 PM

Overrated: Tom Waits
Underrated: Bob Dylan

Janszoon 02-04-2009 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 590862)
Overrated: Tom Waits
Underrated: Bob Dylan

^You have that backwards.

dac 02-04-2009 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roygbiv (Post 590860)
Underrated: The Olivia Tremor Control

This man spits the truf

khfreek 02-04-2009 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 590862)
Overrated: Tom Waits
Underrated: Bob Dylan

You really do have that backwards, and I don't even know that much about either.

Anteater 02-04-2009 08:18 PM

The sarcasm of my post there is obviously lost on you lot. :rolleyes:

lucifer_sam 02-04-2009 08:23 PM

Sure, "sarcasm." Riiiiiiiight.

Janszoon 02-04-2009 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 590892)
Sure, "sarcasm." Riiiiiiiight.

lol

Anteater 02-04-2009 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 590892)
Sure, "sarcasm." Riiiiiiiight.

Best way to hijack a thread I'd warrant. :rofl:

Terrible Lizard 02-04-2009 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 590894)
Best way to hijack a thread I'd warrant. :rofl:

You deceitful varmint!

http://me.meltingice.net/wp-content/...eater_duel.jpg

dac 02-05-2009 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Terrible Lizard (Post 590917)

Wait aren't you guys the same person?

Anteater 02-05-2009 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dac (Post 590958)
Wait aren't you guys the same person?

Close, but no cigar. We're related by blood and currently living in different places. :laughing:

johne 02-06-2009 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 4ZZZ (Post 590702)
Overrated: The vast majority of music criticism.
Underrated: The vast majority of music criticised.

agree!

sumguy 02-06-2009 02:50 PM

Music,
Overrated: Shreading Guitar Solos
Underrated: Shreading Bass Solos

Life,
Overrated: Sex
Underrated: Taking a S***

FaSho 02-06-2009 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sumguy (Post 591764)
Music,
Overrated: Shreading Guitar Solos
Underrated: Shreading Bass Solos

QFT

Double X 02-06-2009 06:03 PM

All bass solos suck, and I'm a bassist too.

gunnels 02-06-2009 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Double X (Post 591865)
All bass solos suck, and I'm a bassist too.

Traitor.

Guitar solos seem to bore me. I'm a bass man.

khfreek 02-06-2009 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Double X (Post 591865)
All bass solos suck, and I'm a bassist too.

That makes you an expert on the subject <_<


Double X 02-06-2009 06:10 PM

^slap bass is as boring as hell. There is not a shred of emotion in that 'solo'. That being said...

Overrated: Drum Fills
Underrated: Bass Fills

FaSho 02-06-2009 06:10 PM

I'm also a bass player.
Yes guitar solos sound cooler, but I love hearing a good bass solo in a RATM or Primus song, it ties everything together and sounds great IMO.


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