Overrated Boomer Bands?

[JoeCumiawearsDIAPERS]

Credence Clearwater Revival - they have a few catchy songs but all their songs literally sound the same.

Bruce Springsteen - he sucks ass and can fuck right off. “I WAS… BORN IN THE USA-AAAAA!” Nice lyrics, stupid. There’s a reason Apollo Creed used Living in America by the chad James Brown as his entrance music.

John Mellencamp - he’s an exponentially worse knockoff of Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know who came first but I’d rather kiss Springsteen on the mouth then listen to a single note from Jack and Diane.

Black Sabbath - I’ve never sought out their stuff but the fact that Jim Norton is obsessed makes me despise them. Oh, you bit the head off a bat? Cool story bro. At least Ozzy mildly redeemed himself by leaving Jim’s birthday books.

The Beatles - I used to love their stuff when I was a college stoner but have grown to resent them over time. John had sex with a man, abandoned his son Julian, and was totally pussy whipped by Yoko Ono despite being the hippie Jesus. You know who wouldn’t have gotten shot to death? Ted Nugent. Paul was/is a simp and married a woman with one leg who would go on to make a public spectacle out of the divorce. I prefer my rockers to be angry woman abusers and whoremongers, personally. They also collectively became obsessed with a spiritual grifter because they thought they were enlightened.

Jimmy Buffett - I’ve gone to a couple of Buffett shows and I can respect him for connecting his shitty songs to the boomer dream of retiring to an island and sipping margaritas and daiquiris all day. Still, he stinks and I don’t like him.

 

[Dennyislife]

The Beatles are wildly overrated. The early stuff was lame AF.

At the time the acts writing their own stuff was as genre pushing as anything else. They are great pop songs.

 

[alkiefuck2]

Sounds like something a hipster douche would like.

I like his more "traditional" songs



That fucking riff, mahhhnnn

 

[Libby Son Of Loin]

Rock and Roll in general is one of the gayest genres of music on the planet.

Counterpoint

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

Black Sabbath - I’ve never sought out their stuff but the fact that Jim Norton is obsessed makes me despise them.

My first and sometimes only complaint with any and all boomer bands is that they remind me of people I despise.

 

[PogromStallone]

Genesis sucks but without them we'd never have gotten solo Peter Gabriel who is amazing.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

You cant fault them for overexposure and fm radio playing the same exact shit everyday for decades. When all of those bands were fresh, they were probably really good.
I believe the hype about Van Halen and how insane it mustve been to hear that for the first time in 1978.
I’ve never voluntarily listened to AC/DC in my life, but hearing Hells Bells in 1980 mustve been fucking electric.

 

[Cuphead]

Grateful Dead fucking blew

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Grateful Dead fucking blew

 

[Front 242]

Grateful Dead fucking blew

Quintessential insipid boring bullshit music.

 

[BoringFaggot]

Shit on me if you want, but 'RUSH' is beyond overrated...

 

[Dusty Dan]

The Beatles are wildly overrated. The early stuff was lame AF.

The Stones have maybe 3 good songs. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are obvious faggots.

Led Zeppelin plagiarized songs and fucked 13 year olds. Also, Coda stunk.

Roger Waters gets deep up his own ass hole about being the bass player of a beginners-guide-to-prog-rock band. Pink Floyd is like that guy who thinks his hamburgers are gourmet shit because he uses a little Lea and Perrins.

Zappa fucking rules even though most of his music is unlistenable.

I'm listening to Zappa right now. His stuff is fucking great. Even the weird Jazz From Hell era is amazing once you get used to the sound. Light years ahead of his time.

 

[Chive Turkey]

The Beatles are definitely overrated but that has more to do with the amount of praise than the lack of quality. Clever musicians and a cultural phenomenon but people behave like they're a bunch of Mozarts.

Most of those late 70s/80s rock bands do suck though. I hate the sappiness that's attached to their drab drawn-out anthems, and I hate how millenials and zoomers are reviving it just when we are about to be rid of the original generation. Living on a Prayer stinks, Africa stinks, Springsteen stinks. The only ones who're tolerable are guys like ACDC who're fully aware they're cornballs and play up to it.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

Africa stinks.

Yeah.

 

[Nigger John]

Pink Floyd. Not saying their music is horrible, but I never really saw the “magic” as people make it sound like they have. Their music is subpar at best.

Queen. I think I made a thread about them? They have been so fucking over played since Wayne’s world. I can’t stand their singles at all. I do really like the album “ kind of magic”. That seems hardly to ever get brought up thou.

 

[John Wayne Gacy]

Boomer music listen pretty good--though I can be considered biased because I grew up with it; it's miles above the idiotic clappity-clap electronic trap rap bullshit that zoomers (my generation) think is so fucking 'bussin'. It's just hard for me to get into music created by children who were raised on the internet. Thinking about it makes me want to put a bullet through my spic skull.

But to answer your question, I'll say that The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac have to be two of the most boring bands I've ever had the displeasure of listening to. Then again, I am a member of the KISS army, so that pretty much makes my opinion on anything worthless.

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

Paul was/is a simp and married a woman with one leg who would go on to make a public spectacle out of the divorce.

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

Yeah Springsteen sucks shit. He was great for exactly 7 minutes and 10 seconds

 

[DMAN]

"Overrated" is the lowest form of conversation.

Some things succeed more than they deserve to. Just tell us popular bands you think suck. You might think the Beatles don't deserve much praise. That doesn't mean the Beatles suck.

Tom Petty, AC/DC, Kiss, Guns n Roses, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, The Who, the Kinks, the Ramones, The Eagles, Boston, Aerosmith, Journey, Bruce Springsteen, U2, the Police, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Rush, Bon Jovi

Literally all so garbage its not even fucking funny

You must be trying to troll The DMAN. Can't tell since you put some actual garbage in there. Boston, Journey, Springsteen all belong on the Shit List. The others all have at least a few good hit songs. They're not worth seeing live. But they have their enjoyable little tunes.

The DMAN don't get the Beatles or Stones hate. Maybe it's just because The DMAN is too young, but them having many great songs cannot be argued. The DMAN's only beef with them is how they were recorded/released. The whole Stereo/Mono thing is confusing and they never seem to "remaster" them properly.

AC/DC is samey but that doesn't make them "overrated." Where we at with the November Rain? Pour Some Sugar Out... Dream On... Livin On a Thin Line... Mysterious Ways... Now we're getting into Sopranos Blasphemy and The DMAN won't have that.

 

[Bullhauler Bob]

Credence Clearwater Revival - they have a few catchy songs but all their songs literally sound the same.

Bruce Springsteen - he sucks ass and can fuck right off. “I WAS… BORN IN THE USA-AAAAA!” Nice lyrics, stupid. There’s a reason Apollo Creed used Living in America by the chad James Brown as his entrance music.

John Mellencamp - he’s an exponentially worse knockoff of Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know who came first but I’d rather kiss Springsteen on the mouth then listen to a single note from Jack and Diane.

Black Sabbath - I’ve never sought out their stuff but the fact that Jim Norton is obsessed makes me despise them. Oh, you bit the head off a bat? Cool story bro. At least Ozzy mildly redeemed himself by leaving Jim’s birthday books.

The Beatles - I used to love their stuff when I was a college stoner but have grown to resent them over time. John had sex with a man, abandoned his son Julian, and was totally pussy whipped by Yoko Ono despite being the hippie Jesus. You know who wouldn’t have gotten shot to death? Ted Nugent. Paul was/is a simp and married a woman with one leg who would go on to make a public spectacle out of the divorce. I prefer my rockers to be angry woman abusers and whoremongers, personally. They also collectively became obsessed with a spiritual grifter because they thought they were enlightened.

Jimmy Buffett - I’ve gone to a couple of Buffett shows and I can respect him for connecting his shitty songs to the boomer dream of retiring to an island and sipping margaritas and daiquiris all day. Still, he stinks and I don’t like him.

Jim liking Black Sabbath is probably his only redeeming quality. Sabbath's run up to, and including, Sabotage is flawless. Changes is the only stinker, and Solitude is middling.