What is the most overrated band or artist?
Every shitty hair metal band that only sings about misogyny and doing drugs lol
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To add to this list, every gaggle of crackers who stole delta blues, oftentimes giving subpar covers of what they stole and somehow getting mass adulation for it
Aside from Hotel California, I really dislike The Eagles. Also Led Zeppelin's music is good, but half their hits are basically covers. Also while I really like the music from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, their vocalist and lyrics seriously suck.
It would be a cover if they paid royalties. But they straight up stole a crapload of songs from known blues musicians without ever giving a cent back. Culture vulture shit. And yeah fuck RHCP, their lead singer is a know sex pest and its the dumbest band on earth.
Yeah exactly. Zepplin, and plenty of other rock musicians at the time, just stole from blues musicians and black musicians and artists without giving any credits. At least Dave Grohl was a lot better in this regard, he just took inspiration from disco and funk drummers (didn't directly copy or steal), and has even acknowledged it in interviews.
Oh no wonder the lead singer from RHCP gives me creepy vibes, didn't know that but it explains it now.
Dave Grohl is genuinely one of the only white rockers I like, at least one of the only ones who's still living.
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Is Bob Dylan considered classic rock? because if so, then I can't stand his god awful voice and music even in his album recording days. I also had to listen to him at a festival I was volunteering which made me question why he hasn't retired then and was looking around for a pair of ear plugs (this was like in 2005 or 6).
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My big problem with classic/dad rock is how much of it is about creepy men creeping on underage girls, both in the lyrics and sometimes in the song titles. 
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Ice cold take but I can't stand styx. I like prog a lot but they are garbage.
I'm listening to some August '24 tiktok popular songs and a lot of these, despite being current, are candidates for being terrible classic rock songs. Or maybe soft rock? Idk, I've never been able to distinguish rock genres apart.
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Overrated: Eric Clapton. Probably stole all his material, let his kid die while on cocaine and then made a weepy song and a lot of money from that. Also shit politics.
And all the creepy ass sweet 16 songs that were ever made by all rock/metal bands that might now be considered "classic".
Never got Springsteen, The Rolling Stones or Aerosmith either.
But songs like Carry on my wayward son and Stairway to heaven are the good stuff. The more prog stuff often is.
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Worst classic rock song: slow ride by foghat
Most overrated: zeppelin
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Everything by Jefferson Airplane sounds like they were trying to make music as repulsive as humanly possible.
You will take my Creedence Clearwater Revival from my cold, dead hands. You're welcome to do whatever you want with Dave Matthews Band and Aerosmith, but I want custody of ZZ-top every other weekend.
Once I listen to Van Halen I'm sure you can have it, but I gotta get around to it first. I'd say the same for Dave Matthews and Aerosmith, but their vibes are just awful.
Now I'd let you have the Stones, but they've been devoured by a pack of wild car commercials before I could get to them.
Guns and Roses though... Is there a way where we get rid of them but still keep Appetite for Destruction?
Also we are going to have to pretend that The Who isn't classic rock because I have fond memories of watching Tommy with my dad and I don't have a lot of those memories. Pinball Wizard is a bop.
Dire straits are completely non-negotiable especially Money for Nothing.
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Really early Grateful Dead is the shit. Like Live/Dead era when they were tripping balls and absolutely shredding every night.
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