overrated

[netty.m]

I think Radiohead are very overrated. i have listened to their music and do not understand why they are so popular. What artists do fellow bankers think are overrated.

[Headtime]

In a similar vein...'Muse'are the work of Satan. I cannot abide them with a passion. And have to turn the radio off whenever tey are on.

[handsome]

just about anyone who sings(?) rap. i am a musician. been one for about thirty six years and i don't like rap.

[WoWo]

Aerosmith.

[andy hughes]

Whitney Houston, Badly Drawn Boy, Blur, Morrissey, The Cure, The Thrills, Westlife, Britney, Christina, Blazin' Squad, I could go on, but I've got one of my heads coming on .....

[nicola_red]

*deep breath* Coldplay, Travis, Dido, Damien Rice, Badly Drawn Boy, the Strokes, the Hives, Keane, Snow Patrol, the Stereophonics...I'm aware that my tastes (ie heavy and extreme metal) are somewhat of a minority but even so I don't understand how people can like this sort of stuff. I don't mean to offend any fans of these people...I just don't get them at all.

[sft42]

I will one day hunt down and kill Busted and McFly....I think this will show that they are in fact the same band.

In actual fact I am thinking of pitching this as a new TV series to channel 4....viewers can vote by text which pi$$ poor chart act they want to see me chase down and shoot with crossbow bolts each week....I think it's a winner.

[Simonof17]

Don't understand how you cannot like Keane and all those bands. I hate rappers and r 'n' b. Can't understand why they are so popular.

[FP]

Radiohead overrated? - best band ever! Headtime, agree with you about Muse Andy Hughes, Agree with you except for Morrissey. Handsome, totally agree with you about rap. sft42 *WAB* In total agreement with you too. Please forgive this for being the same answer as in the Room 101 question but, I think Cliff Richard is the most overrated artist in the history of music.

[Rossyboy]

I totally agree that Radiohead are overrated, and I can't stand Coldplay - they need to cheer up a bit!

[WaldoMcFroog]

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce the world's most average band: The Strokes! Bored now.

[Insane Wally]

In my opinion, most of the artists listed above have had 1 half decent hit (apart from McFly & Blazin Squad), yes, even Cliff. I remember seeing him in concert in 1990 (thankfully it wasn't just him, Phil Collins, Macca, Status Quo, Pink Floyd (the list goes on) were there too), he was up there in his pink suit, & he had that crowd singing - but no-one was gonna rush out & but his album.
The way the media puts them up there on their pedalstools is beyond belief. They should need at least 5 No 1's before they are classed as 'great' (Westlife excluded)
Will anyone ever be 'up there' with the Beatles? Certainly not in my lifetime

[WaldoMcFroog]

Sorry, but the 5 number ones idea is silly. When the Beatles were getting number ones, it required sales of hundreds of thousands. It now takes about 20-30,000. It's simply not comparable.

Anyway, your method means Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin fail to qualify - they didn't really do singles (PF early on and laterly, but not during their most commercially successful period). Like 'em or loathe 'em, I think you'd agree they're amongst the greats!

[corganiser]

given that muse seem to have picked up the thread that radiohead dispensed with when they went arty, it is difficult to fathom how a radiohead fan can not like muse - unless they only like arty radiohead and not radiohead with real tunes (i.e. first 2 albums)

[littleoldme]

I'd agree with MOST of the answers given above (but poor old Badly Drawn Boy? Leave him alone, bless 'im), and I would like to add to the list Phil Collins, Bjork and *grits teeth* Craig ****ing David (those are my asterisks, not Answerbank's). In answer to sft42, I see I'm not the only one to believe that McFly and Busted are one and the same. Spooky. Of course, McFly could just be a tribute act, but I'm sure the short blond one with dark eyebrows from McFly is just the tall blond one with dark eyebrows from Busted crouching down a bit.

[netty.m]

sft 42 what a great idea for a tv show, but why just kill bands you could include any waste of space "celebrity" and Im sure you would be kept busy for a long time.