Bands You Like But Will Admit Are Overrated

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Ok, everybody slams the popular bands they don't like as being overrated, but are there any bands you like, but will admit probably get more credit then they deserve? For example, Nirvana for me.

Linkin Park
Avenged sevenfold
Bullet for my valentine

Metallica... newer stuff anyway. lolz

Radiohead
Pixies
Opeth

Metallica
Opeth - Heritage especially
Meshuggah

Cradle of Filth

Uhm..... need I say more?

I love Mumford and Sons, and would never in a million years have predicted they'd blow up to become one of the biggest bands internationally when I first saw them in 2008 in a small venue supporting Laura Marling alongside a local act (as I recall Marcus was also a part of Laura's band at that time, on percussion). As much as I enjoy them I still don't understand how a facial hair sporting, plaid wearing folk rock band ended up having such mass appeal. I can think of numerous other similar sounding bands that came before them that haven't blown up to become major record sellers. I remember hoping they'd come back to perform their own shows in the small venues again. Never happened.

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Radiohead.

I love them to death, but of course they're overrated. They're the ultimate "name drop" band. Everyone wants to be a fan of Radiohead, or at least have some devastatingly hip negative opinion of Radiohead.

In the end, Radiohead is like fancy wine. It's tasty, but it can't possibly live up to the insane mythos surrounding it.

Skrillex.

I was comparatively early on the Skrillex wagon, I think I first heard him late in 2010. I did kinda predict he'd get huge, too. Taken on his own, his music can be fairly neat sometimes, but it's not like some revolutionary world changing sounds of super talent or anything.

Gorillaz.

OK, but not really revolutionary or great.

I don't think overrated would be the right word in my case, but I think many are fascinated by a band while they only know just one song, as you mentioned Nirvana with Smells Like Teen Spirit (while there are better songs in my opinion, like About A Girl, Negative Creep, Dive or Love Buzz). Another example would be Limp Bizkit, everybody knows Rollin' and Behind Blue Eyes and are fascinated by those but ignore the rest. Metallica has the obvious case of Nothing Else Matters.
There are more but I won't list them all.

That's what I see as overrated, to me it's overrating one or two of the songs of a band and only knowing those ignorin the rest, more like treating them like one-hit wonders rather than bands that produced much more than one good song.
I often see some peers (in my class) walking around with a Nirvana merchandise/fan shirt for example, yet when they are asked about it, they don't even know it's the Nirvana logo and/or only know Smells Like Teen Spirit (or Come As You Are)... That's... odd. Usually a mental facepalm follows.

Slightly agree, their first 3 albums and 1 EP are masterpieces, but they became overrated after peaking with Midian.

The Beatles.

Funny I just got into Heritage. Its pretty fine actually. The only really bad song being Slither. I especially like how it avoids repetition. Opeth usually does this thing were they repeat riffs by themselves for ages. If you repeat the same exact figure more than 3-4 times. I get really frustrated as a listener.
But for the OP question.
Metallica, The Beatles Opeth and Radiohead. I tend to avoid listening to overrated bands though.
Fan myopia runs rampant among fans of bands such as these. For some Opeth fans Opeth is THE most eruditious and original metal band bar none. Even though the idea of mixing jazzy elements in death metal dates back to when the genre first reared its head so to speak.
Metallica. There is tons of people who, when it comes to Metal listens to Metallica and it just ends there "I mean they are clearly the best Metal band ever. They even have soft tender acoustic bits in there and vocals that doesnt scream all the time unlike every other metal band"

I very much dislike when people make statements like Freddie Mercury is the greatest singer ever lived or Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist who has ever lived, Jim Morrison was the deepest poet in music and so on so forth.

Funnily enough the only song I know by Limp Bizkit is the one that features Serj, and I associate Behind Blue Eyes with The Who. Anyway, if a band really is only rated highly because of one song than the band is overrated, but they ARE a one hit wonder. If their other songs are as good than the band isn't overrated, it's just the song is.

I don't even like Queen, but I'm pretty sure from a technical standpoint Freddy Mercury is hard to beat among rock vocalists.

I think Robert Halford is more technically talented than Freddy, but I'm not sure.