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I'm bored with arguing about football, so how about we argue about music instead?
I'm going with Oasis. I didn't get them at the time, and whenever I hear them now I just don't understand how they became so big. I was listening to a 90s indie compilation whilst decorating earlier and this came on. Its like a big checklist of 90s indie cliches all cobbled together in one song - dreadful and cheesy lyrics, token string section to make it sound anthemic, key changes to add emotion, about 4 minutes too long. It sounds like something that Robbie Williams rejected.
These chorus lyrics though....
All around the world You've gotta spread the word Tell them what you've heard You're gonna make a better day All around the world You've gotta spread the word Tell 'em what you've heard You know it's gonna be okay
Also, these lyrics...
Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na na Na na na Na Na Na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na Na na na na na na na na na na na na na
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I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
Most overrated band ever? on 14:44 - Oct 31 by Radlett_blue
Status Quo are 10th on the all time list of records sold in the UK. That surprises me.
They reinvented themselves with the OAPs somehow. Even my old fella had a Quo album and I suspect that’s the only popular music CD he’d ever bought. He went to see them too, as they toured all the tiny provincial theatres.
Most overrated band ever? on 14:51 - Oct 31 by Swansea_Blue
They reinvented themselves with the OAPs somehow. Even my old fella had a Quo album and I suspect that’s the only popular music CD he’d ever bought. He went to see them too, as they toured all the tiny provincial theatres.
I'll hold my hand up here - 70s era Quo get a lot of love from me.
80s onwards can get in the sea mind you.
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
Most overrated band ever? on 14:44 - Oct 31 by Radlett_blue
Status Quo are 10th on the all time list of records sold in the UK. That surprises me.
Some months ago I was going through a phase of using YouTube to listen to the early lbums of bands that I picked up on a bit later (the first Supertramp album is quite good but no 'Crime of the Century') or bands that I read about in the Melody Maker etc. but never got to see or even listen to on record (Help Yourself - should have been bigger) when I decided to give 'Dog of Two Head' a go as I remembered hearing a track or two on the radio as a sixteen year old and nodding along to the comment that Quo were successfully transitioning from pop to rock. It's just the usual heads down mindless boogie.
On the back of that and having seen and ridiculed (along with a couple of mates but to the annoyance of most others) Status Quo at a couple of Reading festivals if you are suggesting that they are the most overrated band ever I am with you one hundred per cent.
Immediately thought Oasis - saw them at Glastonbury 94 mid Sunday afternoon after hearing they were going to be the next big thing, thought they were sh1te and four weeks later Live Forever and Definitely Maybe were top of the charts. Never understood it, because I was 20, a complete indie kid and it should have been right up my street.
Never liked anything by Blur apart from their debut album Leisure either so the whole Brit Pop movement puzzled me hugely - but I guess by then I’d really regressed into early/mid-80s alternative music that I’d been too young for at the time (Joy Division, early Cure, early REM, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons).
I’d second Queen, Coldplay and U2 as well.
Never a fan of the Beatles, but you’ve only got to listen to what was popular in the 1950s to realise that what The Beatles did was change the face of music forever - and so I would never say they were overrated.
The Smiths, didn’t like them at the time, or during my late teens and twenties, but I listened to The Queen is Dead (album) when I was about 35 (so 2009) and it suddenly clicked for me - worked my way through their back catalogue and really like them (although Morrissey is a complete prick).
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Most overrated band ever? on 15:01 - Oct 31 with 1570 views
Any hip hop/grime/gangsta rap collectives. Along with people who are born and bred in Cornwall and have never been to a bigger city than Truro, and think they are sooooo gangster because they wear a baseball cap.
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Most overrated band ever? on 16:21 - Oct 31 with 1475 views
Most overrated band ever? on 16:34 - Oct 31 by footers
Jesus did try to tell us but obviously a fella in a beanie hat carries a bit more weight these days.
Coincidentally, Mr David tried to chat up a friend of mine im Greece once. His opening gambit?
"What's your meaning of life, girl?"
Tbh I expected better from him.
You know how it is... one day they're munching feta from Lidl and the next they think they built the Acropolis- when in actual fact they just shoved something together with a hot glue gun and uncooked spaghetti.
Miserable posers, the lot of em.
Personally, I think he looks a bit like a bloke in a costume -
Can I throw in a vote for "Hot Chocolate" as being vastly underrated - It started with a kiss actually took awful 80's synthesisers and made them sound good.
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