The Ten Most Overrated Bands of All Time

---Broken Brain---

Your favorite band isn't as good as you think it is.  This is a fact.  It doesn't matter who you are, it's true.  My favorite band isn't as good as I imagine, either.  Everyone.  Some bands, for whatever reason, tend to garner lots and lots of people feeling this way about them.  It kind of collects until there's some sort of general (at least within a social class) consensus that this band is way, way better than they really are.  If it keeps up, it eventually gets to the point where this overrating is a living, breathing thing, a monster feeding on our lesser urges and undeserved acclaim via those terrible invasive radio waves.  Here are the ten worst cases.

11.)  KISS

There's this weird thing that everyone seems to forget about KISS: their music isn't very good at all.  On the scale of music greatness, they're somewhere below Boston, right around Kansas.  A few good songs, but nothing worth getting too excited about.  Yet, for some reason, there are a whole lot of people who think that KISS is the end-all fuck-all of Rock and Roll.  That's just stupid.

10.)  Radiohead

I like the Bends pretty well, I guess.  The rest of it is kind of annoying.  I'll readily admit, though, that I suspect that there's something about Radiohead that I just don't get.  Still, people fucking worship this stuff to a creepy level.  No band is that good.  Except the Beatles.  And the Who.

9.)  U2

U2 has put out some really fucking good music over the years.  Any band that has an iPod dedicated to them, though, is overrated somethin' fierce.

8.)  The Dave Mathews Band

It's possible that, if it weren't for Dave Mathews' rabid fans, this stuff would be basically listenable, in a sort of worthless, unobtrusive Muzak sort of way.  Sadly, though, those asswads are pretty fucking hard to avoid, and they seem to have designed their entire lives around being a douchebag that listens to Dave a lot.  And there are millions of these guys.  If you need to find some (for whatever reason) just go to any American university, find a frat house, and yell "FREE HEMP ANKLETS!"

7.)  Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin is pretty awesome.  Way, way overrated, though.  No Stairway.  Denied.

6.)  The Sex Pistols

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, guys, but the Sex Pistols sucked.  Never good.  Not even a little.  I love punk rock, and that's exactly why I hate the Sex Pistols.  You people need to fucking quit talking about them like they invented Punk Rock.  They were a fucking boy band built to cash in on the movement, only without all the talent or artistic integrity of Menudo.

5.)  The Grateful Dead

The Dead are OK, I guess.  Not super-great.  The thing is, if you have to do drugs to really "get" why a band is so great, then they're not that great, you're just a dumb fucking stoner.  I am glad when people follow the Dead around (or whatever bullshit hippie band is standing in for them now, Phish or Oar or whatever [what's with the pseudo-aquatic imagery, hippies?] ), because when those people are busy smoking dope and driving their vans, they're not in my fucking face.  Also: Patchouli is not soap.

4.)  The Doors

The Doors are probably the most extreme case of a band that had a few really good songs that seem to have confused everyone into thinking that they're the best thing since fellatio.  They're not.  Great songs, really good band, but just because Morrison was really weird and died young that doesn't mean that we all have to spend the next hundred years smoking his corpse-dong.

3.)  Bob Dylan

You know what the best thing about Bob Dylan is?  When someone else sings his songs.  Absolutely brilliant songwriter.  Really, really shitty singer.  And I'm pretty sure he's a vampire.

2.)  Pink Floyd

I like most Pink Floyd songs.  Well, the first two minutes of them.  After that they lose me.  If they'd had a sense of when to end a song, Pink Floyd probably could have been a totally middling-good rock band.  As it is, though, they're crap.

1.)  The Beatles

The Beatles are, bar none, the single greatest rock band of all time.  Awesome.  Spectacular.  Mind-blowing.  Delicious.  No band could ever be half as good as people think the Beatles are, though, not even if you made a band out of Jesus, Muhammad, Beethoven, Bombay Sapphire, and Shakira's hips (which are the five best things I can think of).

Honorable Mentions:

The Rolling Stones/The Clash/Nirvana/Weezer - Also truly great bands that have developed a bizarre cult status that goes well beyond what they deserve (and all of these bands deserve quite a bit).

Oasis - While they were never actually bigger then the Beatles (or even Jesus), Oasis was way bigger than they ever should have been.

Tool - Every time I see a guy in a Tool shirt I think it's a label.

Elvis/Sinatra - Again, both are great, but not that great.  They probably would have made the list, but for the fact that both were basically solo acts (the Rat Pack?  Not overrated).

Pearl Jam - Made some good music.  Made some bad music.  Seriously, though: a live album for every single concert on a national tour?  Fuck you.

Guns 'n' Roses/Aerosmith/AC/DC/Def Leppard - All totally acceptable bands, in their way.  All way, way overrated.  The reason that these didn't make the list, I think, is that so many people hate them so much that it sort of balances out some of the love they get.

Pretty Much Everything Played on a ClearChannel Station in the Last 8 years - I don't think that I need to explain that.  And if you don't understand why this is, go play Halo and talk about how awesome drunk chicks and carbon-fiber hoods are and masturbate while watching Fox News and crying.

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This list is utter shit... Zeppelin is far from overrated... Because one song get over played doesn't mean theyre overrated...

The Doors only had a few good songs? Their entire first album was outstanding and that was just their first album... Light My Fire, Break On Through, The End (My favorite song of all time), Land Ho!, Peace Frog,Love Me Two Times, Crystal Ship, Love Her Madly, Riders On The Storm, Roadhouse Blues, need I go on? The fact that you didn't put Green Day on here (whom only had one good album "Dookie") or Metallica and that Tool and Def Leppard are only honorable mentions makes this list laughable... You got 7 right and 4 wrong buddy

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