Disgruntled Goat
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But you don't own any?
Most overrated band?
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Andy in Sig
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No because I don't particularly rate them although I've got nothing against them. I must have heard Abbey Road, Sgt Peppers and Revolver about 100 times each in my student days. Are you suggesting that only ownership can confer critical judgement?
Disgruntled Goat
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No, I'm saying knowing what you are talking about confers critical judgement.
Fab Foodie
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Not on this forum it doesn't.Disgruntled Goat said:
Andy in Sig
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Disgruntled Goat said:
Well how the hell else are you supposed to know what you're talking about when it comes to music other than by listening to it?
Dayvo
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Andy in Sig said:
You could read it!
Fab Foodie
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Andy in Sig said:
You read NME of course...
Oh and it's no good just listening, you have to own the recording to be able to comment.
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Rhythm Thief
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I'm just listening to McLusky. Now there's an underrated band.
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Foghat said:
I have no doubt that Zeppelin were a brilliant band just not the best band EVER, which is how they are viewed in certain circles, hence I feel they're over rated.
Plus the drugs were allegedly better in the day, so I wasn't best positioned in history to enjoy them in quite the same way the previous generation had.
I also had a stand up row with Robert Plant when I was 17 over a double booked rehursal suite which ruined all respect I had for the man.
simon l& and a half
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I watched the 'Heartbreaker' vid and thought it atrocious - but then I've never been a Led Zep fan. You can't compare their overating (sp?) with that of the Beatles and Oasis, though. Both were rubbish.
TwickenhamCyclist
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ivancarlos said:
Can't belive it took best part of tree pages for someone to nominate the most ovrrated band of all time!
Although I think The F*ing Pet Shop Boys come a very close second.
TwickenhamCyclist
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+1 as well!!Mr Pig said:
TwickenhamCyclist
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Noodley said:Surely to over-rate a band one must be in a position to imagine they have been in some way rated? Which involves one assimilating a degree of ratedness. So by over-rating one goes through the process of rating, which negates the over-ratedness...
Move over Plato - "rated" by others surley??
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Rumbled....Andy in Sig said:Hah! You just want a fight with Foggy.
But they are seriously overrated. Any band that inspires the kind of uncritical drooling dished out by Foggy and similar
Grumpy Goat - For many years I've been pissed off with the way that the Beatles have been elevated to untouchable godhood. When are you going to get over the idea that, more than 37 years after they finally buggered off, people might conceivably start judging them simply in terms of the music and not their (undeniable) historic importance? Music should touch and affect you, not be listened to as if it were A Very Important Exhibit in a museum. To me, they're just a band, and not one that I'd waste my time with. If you think that not liking the Beatles is just a fashion statement then you know nothing about what liking music means. FWIW I can't abide Sinatra either. His style of music means nothing to me and never will and he always seemed like a deeply nasty piece of work as a person. The alpha-male fan-toss that he inspires just adds an extra cherry to the knickerbocker glory of my disdain.
Citizen Kane? Never seen it and don't give a toss.
