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It'saDoneDeal

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Let's start off with Aerosmith. Their catalog mostly sucks, their career was derailed by drugs and was resurrected twice: once by Run DMC and the second time for that song from Armageddon that was actually written by some fat ***** that wrote for Christina Aguilera. And don't try and tell me that Steven Tyler hasn't slobbed a few knobs in his day. You'd have to pay me to sit down and listen to one of their albums all the way through.

And how about Eminem? Still held in high regard by many plebs but his best album featured a bunch of weak, wacky leftover beats from Dre's 2001. Dude never evolved and was never that hugely talented to begin with.
 
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I agree that Tyler's knob slobbing really played a big part in Aerosmith being a ****** band.

Eminem is top five and rated correctly as such based simply on Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers. He could have recorded audio of himself slobbing on (ppfffsh lol) some dude's knob for all of his next records and still be considered top five.
 
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It'saDoneDeal

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I'll stand by my take that the beats on the MM LP were whack. It's not like he's someone I go back and listen to either. Talented rapper, but f him. Eminem can dine on my butt hole.
 
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Madonna. She isn't a good singer, doesn't write her own stuff which is crap anyway. She is just famous for being controversial. Showed up 3 hours late to her concert at the Yum on Saturday and appeared to be drunk (according to the tabloids). She then went on to insult the audience with a fake hick accent. Yet, she is still a top grossing act and has been since the 1980's.
 
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Bon Jovi. Mediocre Band. Lucked out because they were in that no mans land of music. Early 80's music dying and right before the onset of grunge and its ilk. Not sure how they even have a following but somehow they do.
 
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mashburned

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It'saDoneDeal said:
I'll stand by my take that the beats on the MM LP were whack. It's not like he's someone I go back and listen to either. Talented rapper, but f him. Eminem can dine on my butt hole.
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Well is he talented or overrated. You seem conflicted, tbh, and you also seem confused by the beats/lyrics deal. Marshall didn't make all those beats. Dre mostly did. The best on the album was solely credited to Eminem - The Way I Am.
 
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Guns n' Roses. They had an incredible debut album. a decent follow up EP, an overrated double album filled with ballads and over-hyped cover songs. After that? Who the f*** really knew and cared? The band is in the RnRHoF over ONE amazing record. That's it. Axl Rose blew up a great thing all by himself, and they still suck to this day.
 
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Kurt Cobain / Nirvana - Kurt is mostly notable for having blown his brains out and joining the 27 club. They had one decent album. If he was still alive he'd be a footnote to the story of the Seattle grunge movement. But he's dead and most people think is WAS the Seattle grunge movement.

GnR - A couple good songs, I'll grant you. But soooo overrated as a band. And they should be docked major points for having issued the worst cover song in the history of cover songs when they butchered the hell out of Bob Dylan's "Knockin On Heaven's Door".

KISS - The first "Rock band" to appeal to pre-teens. Hundreds of flash pots and 4 dudes in halloween costumes. Really? Good lord! Just awful!
 
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Big_Blue79

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Mashburned said:
Well is he talented or overrated. You seem conflicted, tbh, and you also seem confused by the beats/lyrics deal. Marshall didn't make all those beats. Dre mostly did. The best on the album was solely credited to Eminem - The Way I Am.
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Yup. Beats by Dre, not Beats by Mathers.
 
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WildcatfaninOhio said:
Kurt Cobain / Nirvana - Kurt is mostly notable for having blown his brains out and joining the 27 club. They had one decent album. If he was still alive he'd be a footnote to the story of the Seattle grunge movement. But he's dead and most people think is WAS the Seattle grunge movement.

GnR - A couple good songs, I'll grant you. But soooo overrated as a band. And they should be docked major points for having issued the worst cover song in the history of cover songs when they butchered the hell out of Bob Dylan's "Knockin On Heaven's Door".

KISS - The first "Rock band" to appeal to pre-teens. Hundreds of flash pots and 4 dudes in halloween costumes. Really? Good lord! Just awful!
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Agree with all of the above.

Add Rush to the list.
 
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Canned Heat

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KISS - agree. I had to set through a 10 minute bass solo, in which Simmons plucked one string on his guitar. one ******* note solo?

Nirvana - one good album, and a few songs sound the same, good but the same.
 
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cantstandthecards

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Grunge bands led by Pearl Jam
I don't care about your angst!
My morning jacket
Bruce Springsteen
Pink Floyd All there songs sound like the last one
REM
Bro Country artists
I will also say the Beatlea
 
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crazyqx83_rivals88013

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WildcatfaninOhio said:
Kurt Cobain / Nirvana - Kurt is mostly notable for having blown his brains out and joining the 27 club. They had one decent album. If he was still alive he'd be a footnote to the story of the Seattle grunge movement. But he's dead and most people think is WAS the Seattle grunge movement.

GnR - A couple good songs, I'll grant you. But soooo overrated as a band. And they should be docked major points for having issued the worst cover song in the history of cover songs when they butchered the hell out of Bob Dylan's "Knockin On Heaven's Door".

KISS - The first "Rock band" to appeal to pre-teens. Hundreds of flash pots and 4 dudes in halloween costumes. Really? Good lord! Just awful!
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Totally false. For some reason people think it's cool to hate Bleach and In Utero. In Utero is great start to end and Bleach has 3 or 4 songs that would be the best song for 99.98% of bands tgat have come along since Kurt "blew his brains out."
 
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Crushgroove

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WildcatfaninOhio said:
Kurt Cobain / Nirvana - Kurt is mostly notable for having blown his brains out and joining the 27 club. They had one decent album. If he was still alive he'd be a footnote to the story of the Seattle grunge movement. But he's dead and most people think is WAS the Seattle grunge movement.
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You are very wrong about this. Their first album changed everything about rock at the time. Stories of a room full of rock artists standing around a boom box on a table just in silence as they heard Nevermind for the first time. I'm not a huge fan, but dude, they were a very impactful band.

Trying to find that story. Pretty sure it was on an episode of Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Can't remember the guest.
 
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Crushgroove

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Bush. They define generic rock. I'd sooner listen to Nickleback.

Neil Young. Rode Bob Dylan's coattails to fame. Can't sing, can't play. Just a hippie appealing to hippies.
 
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MojoYamamoto

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U2 (don't know if over-rated but I can't stand them), Coldplay, just about anything on the current country charts, The Who (to a degree), The Grateful Dead, Rush, Chicago.
 
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Crushgroove

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U2's best album was Achtung Baby. And I mean by a damned mile. Outside of that album, I can take them or leave them, but that album is a goldmine.

As far as The Beatles go, I'll take 1965 thru 1969 and you can have the rest.
 
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Supreme Lord Z

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Yeah, the only thing that would suck worse is for me to pretend to like them so as to be like everyone else. There is a guy at work that literally wants to fight if you say something bad about the Beatles. Sorry but I hate them. It mostly is due to Paul. I cannot stand the sight nor sound of him.
 
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KopiKat

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Supreme Lord Z said:
Yeah, the only thing that would suck worse is for me to pretend to like them so as to be like everyone else. There is a guy at work that literally wants to fight if you say something bad about the Beatles. Sorry but I hate them. It mostly is due to Paul. I cannot stand the sight nor sound of him.
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Nice of you to take my cynicism well. I adore the Beatles, and probably not "like everyone else." I own and know almost every piece of work they've ever produced. In vinyl. Can't say that I'm willing to fight over them though. lol.
 
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It'saDoneDeal

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Big_Blue79 said:
Yup. Beats by Dre, not Beats by Mathers.
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Yeah, but it's Eminem's album. If the beats are whack, they're whack. Doesn't matter who he used for them, all that matters is what plays on his album.

I mean, there are people still rocking out to his tired *** that have never heard of Vince Staples. Floors me.
 
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Big_Blue79

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Nickelback
Coldplay
Luke Bryan
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Nickelback is highly rated enough to be overrated?

It'saDoneDeal said:
Yeah, but it's Eminem's album. If the beats are whack, they're whack. Doesn't matter who he used for them, all that matters is what plays on his album.

I mean, there are people still rocking out to his tired *** that have never heard of Vince Staples. Floors me.
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They forgot about 'Dre:



(I'm just referring to Beats by Dre, the headphones that made all of the money. Not sure what you're talking about with albums.)
 
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For me it's Radiohead hands down - Few decent songs, but mostly pretentious emo BS.

Others:

Nirvana - Very influential, but average in every way (I like them)

Notorious B.I.G. - Good rapper, but only had 2 albums; one excellent, one bloated double disc that could be pared down to one really good album (I like him)

Jason Aldean and any other like him. (He's a country boy who wears skinny jeans and attempts to rap OMG!!!) (I hate him and his genre)

And finally, count me in as another for the Beatles. I get their influence, but that's my dad's tunes. Does nothing for me, especially the pop years.
 
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WildcatfaninOhio said:
GnR - A couple good songs, I'll grant you. But soooo overrated as a band. And they should be docked major points for having issued the worst cover song in the history of cover songs when they butchered the hell out of Bob Dylan's "Knockin On Heaven's Door"
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I always thought their cover was better than the original, but I'm biased because I'm an 80s kid whose first favorite band was Guns. I thought Slash's solos improved immensely on the original. I also will put the energy and sound of Appetite For Destruction, the best selling debut of all time (Kanye voice), up against any album ever. The Illusions, however, are what happens when a band goes from living in a rehearsal space to each member owning a mansion seemingly overnight. And Nu Guns is terrible.
 
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Kooky Kats_anon

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Eagles
Journey
Aerosmith
KISS
Elton John
Peter Frampton
Jackson Brown <~~~~ #1
GnR
Pearl Jam
REO
ELO
BTO
Queen
Cream <~~~~~ great, but overhyped
Bad Company
Van Halen
 
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