Overrated bands (musically speaking)

[Mick Dempsey]

Just a bit of Friday evening fun.

Give me a band or bands (ideally from the past) that in hindsight are really very poor and shouldn’t have been so popular, reasons are good as well.

 

3: Frankie goes to Hollywood. Totally overhyped and over produced, listening to them now makes me wonder how they got so big. In those days pure hype and radio play could keep a band current.

 

2: The Thompson Twins. Total rubbish, start to finish, you hardly ever hear their songs on the radio these days, you know why? Cos they are all crap ‘We Are Detectives’ one of the worst songs ever.

 

1: The Foo Fighters. I don’t get it, I’m not averse to a bit of post Nirvana thrash, but everything they do leaves me cold, maybe it’s because Dave Grohl is such a nice guy.

 

What bands have you furrowing your brow, thinking HOW?

Edited December 15, 2023 by Mick Dempsey

[Dan]

I've never liked the beatles.

[Steve Bullman]

Any manufacturered boy band ever. 

[Mick Dempsey]

7 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Any manufacturered boy band ever. 

Even The Monkees?

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by Mick Dempsey

[Steve Bullman]

Bit before my time, although do remember watching the show as a kid.

 

[Steve Bullman]

I think every kid used to re-enact the wave scene when they went to the beach!

[Mick Dempsey]

13 minutes ago, Dan said:

I've never liked the beatles.

That’s a big call.

[Mark Bolam]

It’s a fair one though Mick.

The Beatles did some amazing songs, but I think about 90% of their stuff is shite.

[Mick Dempsey]

Apart from ‘Imagine’ (which is so so) John Lennon as a solo artist did nothing of note.

 

Who would actually put a JL record on?

 

Goes down in the overrated column.

[Stubby]

59 minutes ago, Dan said:

I've never liked the beatles.

They said they liked you . 🙂