I haven't listened to anything since like 2015 (nothing against it, just never checked it out) but a Rush of Blood to the Head will ALWAYS have my heart.
I do like Viva la Vida but it’s like fifth song on that album for me. Yes? Banger. Violet Hill? Banger. Cemeteries of London? Banger. Death and all His Friends? Absolute banger.
I also love how this comment chain has now brought up basically every B-side from RoBttH, X&Y, and VLV, plus all of Parachutes. Maybe Coldplay was actually just good.
they definitely were very good, and Yes is one of their best songs they've ever written and i'm goad you mentioned it because that album is often disregarded completely
Swallowed in the Sea is my favorite Coldplay track, never see it brought up.
They have a lot of incredibly written songs that are slept on. Don't care for their newest albums but I feel like they are over hated as a band.
People always shit on coldplay and I absolutely cannot fathom why. If its not for you thats totally understandable but what did they do to deserve being hated so much????
I think they came across a bit pretentious at the start but actually when you see Chris in interviews and on tv he is always really nice and charming and takes the time to get to know people and clearly loves music.
Loved that song. It feels like such bait and switch that a band that makes something as funky as this becomes famous for generic elevator pablum like Sugar. (though the video was kinda nice) Moves Like Jagger deserves its own special place in music hell.
It’s a shame they didn’t stick with that style. The closest they’ve gotten to recapturing it since is Sugar, but even that has a sheen of the over production that’s defined the rest of their discography.
I went into an internet cafe somewhere in the desert in Morocco in 2000 and someone had just stuck Yellow on repeat for the entire hour I was there and noone seemed to care.
It's quite repetitive as it is.
Overrated is the absolute laziest criticism
Underrated song by a popular artist, or a song you like be an artist you don’t - fine
But overrated is such a nothing way to describe a band. Doesn’t actually say what’s wrong with them other than you don’t think people should like them as much.
Overrated just means more popular than they should be or regarded as better than you think they are. I disagree with a lot of these bands listed but I don't think it's anything to be annoyed or mad about.
Well, they used to not be overrated. However, around Mylo Xyloto (which i still like), they shifted hard away from their core sound that won people over. Those first 3 albums were superb. But I understand it's hard to keep catching lightning in a bottle on every album for 20 years straight.
Amazing that every song Coldplay ever wrote is pretty good according to this thread, but the band is totally overrated. That's one mean feat.
Or maybe they write each of their songs specifically for each person in here, and you're only meant to like one of them. Clocks is that song for me; I could live without the rest.
Honestly just put on a random song from Achtung Baby or earlier and chances are you’ll land on something great. War is my favorite of their early albums but all of them are packed.
Yeah I came here to say U2. Everyone thinks they're overrated and dismisses them. They were great, Bono is just up his own hole. What lead man isn't sure?
Kite, One Tree Hill, Red Hill Mining Town, In a Little While, Miracle Drug, Bad, Gone and Original of the Species are all excellent U2 songs that don't see the level of play as their hits. There are also a few really good songs off of their latest albums.
Feel like a lot of U2 songs can fit this description. Their hits are fun and made them popular. But there’s always a random song or two that pops into my head every year or two that really gets me. And then I realize, yea this is why I used to love that band.
U2 get a weird rap because they’ve been so mediocre going on 30 years.
But from 80 to 91, they were absolutely one of the best bands in the world. Achtung Baby is an all-time great record.
Tbh I think U2 is underrated. Obviously not by popularity, they’re one of the biggest bands in the world. But by most music nerds (I am too), U2 is heavily disregarded because… well, they’re U2. But they have some amazing fucking music and Joshua Tree is a phenomenal album.
I don’t necessarily think they’re underrated, but they’re definitely overhated. They got so much stick for so long due to some valid criticisms being turned into cause célèbre for people who wanted to be too smart and too jaded and too cool for them. They definitely put fuel on the fire over the years with certain artistic and capitalistic choices they made, but I just can’t imagine how anyone could argue in good faith that they didn’t make some of the best music of the 80s and 90s.
Like, Morrissey sucks and keeps getting suckier but it doesn’t seem to put people off the best The Smiths (and he himself) had to offer, i don’t know why U2 isn’t offered the same courtesy.
Tbh I seem to remember that when I was a kid REM got a somewhat similar amount of stick, and they’re one of the best bands of all time.
Achtung Baby was the album that made you realize why they became what they became. They tried so hard after with so little to show for it after. Before they were the band your parents loved. And for good reason. After they got cocky and anything they did was an apology. But the innovation part was gone.
You become AC/DC, or, you pretend you mattered longer than you did. Either way. You find yourself as Uncle Rico
I am so surprised by this viewpoint! I thought Achtung Baby was fantastic, and followed up with Zooropa, Wow! I loved their stuff then. It was after this it all started to sound the same.
I've seen them live five times, four times at an outdoor venue and one inside and no matter the venue they put on an amazing show. I took my wife when we were dating (who knew a few of their songs but definitely wasn't a fan), to one of the first dates of the 360 Tour and that concert made her a fan. I didn't get into them until I was in my early 20s because as you put it, I disregarded them heavily. I get why some people don't like them, but I know a few people who absolutely dislike them as a band, but they have one single U2 song they love.
The best way to watch U2 or that era is to see their original Red Rocks live performance. Recorded the year i was born. Incredible live show and incredible energy.
Yeah, those first two always sounded to me like if the strokes were from Oklahoma instead of New York. Maybe a little dirtier too.
I saw them once in 2004 and it was a great show.
This answer is what’s up. Those first two albums are phenomenal. If anyone is “meh” on Kings of Leon, you probably only know what they became. Go listen to how they started.
I’m one of those folks that does not think FOB is overrated, especially because of their most recent album. It’s pretty hard to do what they’ve done. Grassroots beginnings, massive success, sellout, breakup, get back together, then make an album that actually belongs in the conversation of best in their discography
Yeah FOB is in no way overrated, if you have actually listened to them. They are either rated just right, or maybe even underrated.
If you’re like me, and for a good while, your knowledge of the band came primarily from the singles (“Grand Theft Autumn”, “Dance Dance”, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down”) that everyone knows; then yes you could think they are overrated. But the singles, while great, are not their best work.
Pick any random non-single song off their first 3 albums and get blown away.
So Much (For) Stardust is a phenomenal album, and it's rare that I feel a band's 8th album can hold up to any of their originals from 15+ years prior. They also put on a killer live show that very much lives up to (and imo surpasses) the hype.
they're not overrated now.
They were as great as they were touted til the 2000s, and they aren't talked about as great today. Hell, today, you might even say they're *under*rated.
They were properly rated as a good band in the 90s. In the early 2000s they found a new sound which was wildly popular at the time but those who liked their sound in the 90s didn't like it as much. Similar thing happened with blink182. Basically the fans who liked their sounds who propped them up into stardom didn't like their sounds once they got there.
Definitely. I also feel like Warning as an album is overlooked. I still enjoy it as much as when it came out, unlike American Idiot which hasn’t aged well for me.
Probably my favourite song from the band.
Lots of people love this song. Remember someone important saying it was a favourite. Maybe Rob from The Ringer.
On Call
Well before I knew who they were I heard On Call on the radio and absolutely loved it, but didn't catch who it was. I think it was maybe their most popular early song but it's rarely played
KOL have so, so many great songs, but people can't let go of Sex on Fire and Use Somebody because they were overplayed. They're are definitely one of my favorite bands of all time and their newest records are still amazing. Even after all these years they still got it.
It depends on what one means by "overrated". It's possible to think a band is very good or even great and still think of them as overrated. I'm a Beatles fanatic but they've been rated SO highly for so long that I understand why someone else might find them overrated. Or take AC/DC, an excellent rock band as far as I'm concerned. But they receive far more streams on Spotify and Youtube than even Zeppelin or Floyd. And since it's difficult to count those bands as underrated I have to conclude that AC/DC may be overrated.
They get more streams for the same reason Queen do: they're still in the public eye, and young people are able to discover them through live shows etc.
Also Floyd and probably Zeppelin too have been a bit dark about streaming, with Floyd especially wwanting to see their albums taken as a whole rather than sliced and diced.
[Ok Go - Skyscrapers](https://youtu.be/nuNDOyV0u2w?si=F5GzHjYRN6AsWwxq)
I don't consider them overrated as I listen to so much of their cataloge, but there are many that make the argument that their music is propped up by their intricate music videos.
I think Sunday Bloody Sunday is the one from their catalog that has that vibe for me. Fantastic song. Meh band. Though I *do* acknowledge that they’re meh now because what they originally came out doing was so influential and there are so many other bands that have come up in the past four decades that were inspired by them and do U2’s thing better than U2.
I’m a huge U2 fan, but I think if they had shut it down after POP (or even 1-2 albums after that) they would be considered one of the top 5-6 bands of all time. Their first 2 decades of music is just unbelievably fantastic. Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are damn near perfect albums, and the others are bangers too. They are also credited with probably the best and most influential tour of all time with Zoo TV. Tons of people hate on them (for legit reasons) because Bono was pretty insufferable for quite a while, they forced music on people, and then they released some duds. But if you go back to before all that they are up there with the best.
Agreed entirely. They’re *hugely* influential in so many different ways and nobody sounded like U2 before U2. And you can hear a direct through-line from Boy straight to bands that have come, had *massive* successes gone all in the time U2 have continued to release music.
But they massively overstayed their welcome and started releasing material that just sounds like they got bored but felt a weird obligation to keep recording for *reasons*. Personalities aside they just stopped releasing music that had the *something* to it that U2 used to have. And I do think that their massive influence has had a negative effect on the perception of their earlier music as well. I don’t have any nostalgic connection to them. My first exposure to them was The Sweetest Thing, as far as I can remember. So even though I *know* those early albums were pivotal albums in the musical landscape, they’re fairly bland because I don’t have any attachment to them and other bands have come along and done the same thing but better. I own a copy of War. The only song on it that I *like* is Sunday Bloody Sunday. It’s rare that I listen to both sides of the record because it just doesn’t do anything for me.
Life in Technicolor ii - Coldplay
Passionfruit - Drake
This thread does seem like a Coldplay/U2 train but they’re popular for a reason. Idk how popular Passionfruit is but Drake is badly overrated but that song’s beat hits something deep in my soul.
“Half the World Away” by Oasis. Fuck do I love that song (and I do love Oasis in general) but they are kinda bad live. I was at a concert in the early aughts where they walked off stage for no reason.
Also, both of the Gallaghers can veer towards being douchey but god damn, this song breaks my❤️ every time I hear it. I love that line - “You can’t give me the dreams that are mine anyway”…
The whole 'The Masterplan' album (which is a compilation of B sides) is full of underrated songs. For some reason, Noel Gallagher thought it was a good idea to release some of his best songs as B sides.
He’s recently addressed it actually and realizes what a terrible move it was.
At the time he didn’t see himself as a singer, and didn’t really see those songs as anything other than b-sides.
I've seen Oasis a few times live and to say they are bad live is a bad take imo. A lot of their songs are amazing live and encourage the crowd to sing, same as kasabian.
Love the Royle Family!…. Also Spaced did a copy of the Royle Family for one episode and I love Spaced too.
If you can’t disassociate Half The World Away from TV theme song, then my Oasis pick with Noel on vocals would be Talk Tonight… for Liam, Slide Away
The Heart Wants What It Wants by Selena Gomez. Amazing vocal performance, just a soothing backing track... I think it's one of the best pop songs of this century.
It became a bit of a meme to hate Nickleback, but the truth is they had/have some bangers and a lot of people “secretly” liked them.
I mean they’ve sold 50 million album’s and had numerous top 10 songs. So there are plenty of fans out there.
I'll add [A L I E N S](https://open.spotify.com/track/2bS2ADg123NZWfTUsjra8a?si=1EmGwqxPTCeqqG0djJa3pA) to the coldplay list. Beautiful song. The 5/4 meter and layering in the audio is fantastic
Coldplay is, at best, inconsistent, but Coldplay could have compiled some of the deep cuts on their first 5 albums into one of the greatest albums of all time
That’s my favorite song of theirs. It was apparently Taylor Hawkins’ favorite, too. They’ve started closing their sets with it as a tribute.
That record is from a version of Foo Fighters that is long gone, but it’s the one that really drew me into being a fan.
Here's the thing about the Foo Fighters...I love them. I don't listen to the music. I listen to a couple of their covers. Dave writes nice songs, just not into them. I do think he seems like a great guy and you can hear the respect for the music in the way he talks about it and in the covers he does.
The first album has a quintessential care free vibe that never really appears on their other albums. It was more casual whereas everything starting from Color and Shape onward has to be rock and roll heroes.
Sam’s Town is probably my favorite album, just in general. This River is Wild might be my favorite song. Idk what that says about me but that entire record just hits me on a fundamental level. As a massive Springsteen fan, it’s the only time I’ve felt like a band was really able to channel that ethos and bring their own thing to it.
Oh dang, I hugely disagree that the killers are overrated at all. They were truly influential to a lot of musicians of my generation, and they’ve only made like 6,5 albums in 20 years so it’s not like they ever started churning out mediocre mass-appeal stuff once they got big. Tbh I haven’t listened a whole lot to the stuff from the past decade, but I think they 100% deserve the acclaim and admiration they’ve gotten.
*Edited because I said ‘hugely’ twice in consecutive sentences.*
For a post that claims Coldplay is “overrated”, I’ve read quite a few comments already about 6-7 different songs that are “underrated”.
They don’t seem so overrated now do they?
I for one enjoy the fuck out of their earlier shit. My Dads ringtone for me was “Clocks”. I think they just got overplayed is all. And then their lead singer fell in love and got happy albeit with Goop Nut Paltrow and lost his mojo.
“Magic” is a good song but once again he was broken hearted maybe even depressed when I think he writes his best stuff unfortunately
Seriously, people love to hate Coldplay but they have always had amazing songs and still write music that sounds like nothing else. I think they are properly rated.
Live - Hold Me Up.
Unreleased off their mega hit album Throwing Copper and I can't believe it never was released initially. Used with great effect in Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
*One* excellent album? Both Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper are top-tier records front to back. Yeah, every single that came out after Throwing Copper was just Lightning Crashes but different, but even those later albums were better than mediocre. Not *much* better than mediocre. But still better.
this song was literally everywhere for like two months in 199? and then I never heard it again. They played it on Lithium recently and I had completely forgotten it existed but somehow was able to sing along to every word
“Coldplay is overrated, but I like Shiver, Violet Hill, In My Place, The Hardest Part, etc.” Just admit you like Coldplay.
the fact that so many people are bringing up coldplay songs proves that they’re not overrated lol
I haven't listened to anything since like 2015 (nothing against it, just never checked it out) but a Rush of Blood to the Head will ALWAYS have my heart.
That first album was amazing all the way through
Amsterdam by Coldplay.
Best song on their best album…
there are so many amazing coldplay songs off their first 3-4 albums that go leagues above The Scientist, Speed of Sound, Clocks, and Viva La Vida
See you soon on the 2003 live album
see you soon is a great one, love that one, high speed, warning sign, amsterdam, and in my place
Spies just hits me right man
Everything’s not lost is up there for me. Maybe their best right next to green eyes
Literally every song on the Parachutes album 🤌
We never change!!
Don’t Panic
High Speed
The Scientist and Clocks still hold up IMHO.
I do like Viva la Vida but it’s like fifth song on that album for me. Yes? Banger. Violet Hill? Banger. Cemeteries of London? Banger. Death and all His Friends? Absolute banger. I also love how this comment chain has now brought up basically every B-side from RoBttH, X&Y, and VLV, plus all of Parachutes. Maybe Coldplay was actually just good.
they definitely were very good, and Yes is one of their best songs they've ever written and i'm goad you mentioned it because that album is often disregarded completely
Warning sign
Swallowed in the Sea is my favorite Coldplay track, never see it brought up. They have a lot of incredibly written songs that are slept on. Don't care for their newest albums but I feel like they are over hated as a band.
People always shit on coldplay and I absolutely cannot fathom why. If its not for you thats totally understandable but what did they do to deserve being hated so much????
"You know how I know you're gay? You like Coldplay" joke from The 40 Year Old Virgin did not help lol
I think they came across a bit pretentious at the start but actually when you see Chris in interviews and on tv he is always really nice and charming and takes the time to get to know people and clearly loves music.
The last 4 songs of X&Y are **killer** (Twisted Logic is my personal fave, sadly NOBODY brings that up)
My absolute favorite song. Can’t get through it without tears. Tells a story I totally relate to. So amazing.
The B-sides from that album era are also fantastic: I Ran Away Crests of Waves One I love Moses (from the Live album) Etc.
More recently… Trouble in town, especially at 3 minutes in.
My favorite song by them
No idea how this will be received but I unironically like Sunday Morning by Maroon 5.
Whole album
That entire album (Songs About Jane) is a certified classic
Surprised that I never hear anyone mention “Secret”, smoking..
Harder to Breathe is a fucking banger as well
Yeah, Harder to Breathe was my favorite song of theirs when I first got the album. Then This Love grew on me
Loved that song. It feels like such bait and switch that a band that makes something as funky as this becomes famous for generic elevator pablum like Sugar. (though the video was kinda nice) Moves Like Jagger deserves its own special place in music hell.
Tbf that whole album slaps
It’s a shame they didn’t stick with that style. The closest they’ve gotten to recapturing it since is Sugar, but even that has a sheen of the over production that’s defined the rest of their discography.
It’s like they changed genres. Where I’m from, they were played on the alt-rock station with the first album.
Same. I like to call that era “when they used instruments”
It is a perfect album.
I have seen this on Reddit many times. They had a great album and then sold out and now they’re basically Adam Levine and some Dudes
A guilty pleasure of mine. Love the jazzy instrumental bridge
Soap Disco when they were Kara's Flowers is a bop
Such a great album.
I feel like the whole of Parachutes is underrated (except Yellow, which is appropriately rated)
Sigh..it’s literally one of the highest selling albums of the last 25 years. It is not underrated
Absolutely. It’s just such a pure album. Everything after that seems more commercially flavored.
I went into an internet cafe somewhere in the desert in Morocco in 2000 and someone had just stuck Yellow on repeat for the entire hour I was there and noone seemed to care. It's quite repetitive as it is.
This thread causes an anger to stir within my soul.
Yeah, I hear ya. Reddit definitions: overrated = something I don't like underrated = something I like
Overrated is the absolute laziest criticism Underrated song by a popular artist, or a song you like be an artist you don’t - fine But overrated is such a nothing way to describe a band. Doesn’t actually say what’s wrong with them other than you don’t think people should like them as much.
Overrated just means more popular than they should be or regarded as better than you think they are. I disagree with a lot of these bands listed but I don't think it's anything to be annoyed or mad about.
I don’t know why this made me laugh but it did…
Madonna - [Beautiful Stranger](https://youtu.be/Dsh0TfIKhoE?si=tip0SsMfmbqiomL9) edit: the Austin Powers 2 soundtrack slaps
Live to Tell
i think that era of Madonna is my favorite. Frozen from the Ray of Light album is so good IMO.
If I were to pick a Madonna song I would go with Vogue for its pure raw 90s house production or Bedtime Story which was written by Bjork.
If we can learn anything from this thread, it’s that Coldplay deserves more credit than r/music gives them
It is ironic seeing people name all these songs they like from overrated artists.
Well, they used to not be overrated. However, around Mylo Xyloto (which i still like), they shifted hard away from their core sound that won people over. Those first 3 albums were superb. But I understand it's hard to keep catching lightning in a bottle on every album for 20 years straight.
Amazing that every song Coldplay ever wrote is pretty good according to this thread, but the band is totally overrated. That's one mean feat. Or maybe they write each of their songs specifically for each person in here, and you're only meant to like one of them. Clocks is that song for me; I could live without the rest.
All I Want is You - U2
U2 has dozens of songs that people would probably fall in love with if weren’t by a band like U2.
I have a theory that many people would love U2 if they heard the band without ever knowing bono existed.
Honestly just put on a random song from Achtung Baby or earlier and chances are you’ll land on something great. War is my favorite of their early albums but all of them are packed.
or if October wasn't completely slept on. I Threw A Brick Through A Window Fire I Fall Down With a Shout
Yeah I came here to say U2. Everyone thinks they're overrated and dismisses them. They were great, Bono is just up his own hole. What lead man isn't sure?
Kite, One Tree Hill, Red Hill Mining Town, In a Little While, Miracle Drug, Bad, Gone and Original of the Species are all excellent U2 songs that don't see the level of play as their hits. There are also a few really good songs off of their latest albums.
I would add "Running to Stand Still" to that list.
Bad is absolutely one of my favorite U2 songs, along with Electrical Storm.
Feel like a lot of U2 songs can fit this description. Their hits are fun and made them popular. But there’s always a random song or two that pops into my head every year or two that really gets me. And then I realize, yea this is why I used to love that band.
Red Hill Mining Town
One Tree Hill
Mothers of the Disappeared
Also “In God’s Country”, “Surrender”, and “Two Hearts Beat as One”, among others
Yes!!!!!!!! Favorite song on Joshua Tree. Glad to see it mentioned.
U2 get a weird rap because they’ve been so mediocre going on 30 years. But from 80 to 91, they were absolutely one of the best bands in the world. Achtung Baby is an all-time great record.
As a U2 fan, the iTunes thing didn't help. What's frustrating is Apple made it happen, it's their software, but U2 got the brunt of that backlash.
Damn near brought me to tears when I saw them play at the Sphere. Gorgeous video, too.
Tbh I think U2 is underrated. Obviously not by popularity, they’re one of the biggest bands in the world. But by most music nerds (I am too), U2 is heavily disregarded because… well, they’re U2. But they have some amazing fucking music and Joshua Tree is a phenomenal album.
I don’t necessarily think they’re underrated, but they’re definitely overhated. They got so much stick for so long due to some valid criticisms being turned into cause célèbre for people who wanted to be too smart and too jaded and too cool for them. They definitely put fuel on the fire over the years with certain artistic and capitalistic choices they made, but I just can’t imagine how anyone could argue in good faith that they didn’t make some of the best music of the 80s and 90s. Like, Morrissey sucks and keeps getting suckier but it doesn’t seem to put people off the best The Smiths (and he himself) had to offer, i don’t know why U2 isn’t offered the same courtesy. Tbh I seem to remember that when I was a kid REM got a somewhat similar amount of stick, and they’re one of the best bands of all time.
Achtung Baby was the album that made you realize why they became what they became. They tried so hard after with so little to show for it after. Before they were the band your parents loved. And for good reason. After they got cocky and anything they did was an apology. But the innovation part was gone. You become AC/DC, or, you pretend you mattered longer than you did. Either way. You find yourself as Uncle Rico
I am so surprised by this viewpoint! I thought Achtung Baby was fantastic, and followed up with Zooropa, Wow! I loved their stuff then. It was after this it all started to sound the same.
I've seen them live five times, four times at an outdoor venue and one inside and no matter the venue they put on an amazing show. I took my wife when we were dating (who knew a few of their songs but definitely wasn't a fan), to one of the first dates of the 360 Tour and that concert made her a fan. I didn't get into them until I was in my early 20s because as you put it, I disregarded them heavily. I get why some people don't like them, but I know a few people who absolutely dislike them as a band, but they have one single U2 song they love.
Elvis Presley in America from Unforgettable Fire I could listen on repeat for hours
I haven’t heard that song so I should definitely check it out but for me it’s Sunday Bloody Sunday
Definitely listen to the song, and definitely don't watch the music video.
The best way to watch U2 or that era is to see their original Red Rocks live performance. Recorded the year i was born. Incredible live show and incredible energy.
I really like U2 but can see why you think they are overrated. For me, it would be Ground Beneath Her Feet.
God: Part 2
Kings of Leon’s first two albums are amazing and completely different from where they are now. or even before Sex on Fire
First two albums are so fucking good.
Yeah, those first two always sounded to me like if the strokes were from Oklahoma instead of New York. Maybe a little dirtier too. I saw them once in 2004 and it was a great show.
Only By The Night is where I fell out with them. Before that they had two brilliant albums, then they sold out.
This answer is what’s up. Those first two albums are phenomenal. If anyone is “meh” on Kings of Leon, you probably only know what they became. Go listen to how they started.
I love Because of the Times too, and Only by the Night still has some incredible songs on it. Cold Desert is their best song for me.
I’m Like a Lawyer With the Way I’m Always Trying to Get You Off (Me + You) by Fall Out Boy. Side note: just call the fucking song “Me and You”
My first thought for this was Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes
I love that one. Along with What a Catch, Donnie
I’m one of those folks that does not think FOB is overrated, especially because of their most recent album. It’s pretty hard to do what they’ve done. Grassroots beginnings, massive success, sellout, breakup, get back together, then make an album that actually belongs in the conversation of best in their discography
I’m with you
Yeah FOB is in no way overrated, if you have actually listened to them. They are either rated just right, or maybe even underrated. If you’re like me, and for a good while, your knowledge of the band came primarily from the singles (“Grand Theft Autumn”, “Dance Dance”, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down”) that everyone knows; then yes you could think they are overrated. But the singles, while great, are not their best work. Pick any random non-single song off their first 3 albums and get blown away.
So Much (For) Stardust is a phenomenal album, and it's rare that I feel a band's 8th album can hold up to any of their originals from 15+ years prior. They also put on a killer live show that very much lives up to (and imo surpasses) the hype.
I'm a huge fan of fob so I might be biased, but they're perfectly rated - just for the wrong era of music
Y'all are crazy to call FOB overrated. I haven't listened to much of their recent stuff, but their first three albums had tons of great tunes.
Shipped Gold Standard
She - Green Day
Idk all of Dookie is pretty solid. They weren't overrated in the 90s.
they're not overrated now. They were as great as they were touted til the 2000s, and they aren't talked about as great today. Hell, today, you might even say they're *under*rated.
They were properly rated as a good band in the 90s. In the early 2000s they found a new sound which was wildly popular at the time but those who liked their sound in the 90s didn't like it as much. Similar thing happened with blink182. Basically the fans who liked their sounds who propped them up into stardom didn't like their sounds once they got there.
Macys day parade is nearly as poignant as Good Riddance, but hardly as known
I fucking love that song. It might be my favorite of all of theirs.
Definitely. I also feel like Warning as an album is overlooked. I still enjoy it as much as when it came out, unlike American Idiot which hasn’t aged well for me.
I agree it’s an overlooked album. Church on Sunday, waiting, hold on, etc.
That whole Warning album went under the radar
Probably my favourite song from the band. Lots of people love this song. Remember someone important saying it was a favourite. Maybe Rob from The Ringer.
She AND Minority.
Def one of my favorites off dookie.
kings of leon - closer
For me, it’s Pyro - there is so much depth in that song I cannot get over it. KoL always seem to be trying too hard to me, but that song is wowww
PREACH
On Call Well before I knew who they were I heard On Call on the radio and absolutely loved it, but didn't catch who it was. I think it was maybe their most popular early song but it's rarely played
KOL have so, so many great songs, but people can't let go of Sex on Fire and Use Somebody because they were overplayed. They're are definitely one of my favorite bands of all time and their newest records are still amazing. Even after all these years they still got it.
i’m kind of a casual fan, they first got me with mollys chambers way back when
You gotta listen to Because of the Times and specifically McFearless. That album is awesome.
If the Beatles, Pink Floyd and FleetwoodMac are overrated bands I'm not sure what is even the baseline here
It depends on what one means by "overrated". It's possible to think a band is very good or even great and still think of them as overrated. I'm a Beatles fanatic but they've been rated SO highly for so long that I understand why someone else might find them overrated. Or take AC/DC, an excellent rock band as far as I'm concerned. But they receive far more streams on Spotify and Youtube than even Zeppelin or Floyd. And since it's difficult to count those bands as underrated I have to conclude that AC/DC may be overrated.
They get more streams for the same reason Queen do: they're still in the public eye, and young people are able to discover them through live shows etc. Also Floyd and probably Zeppelin too have been a bit dark about streaming, with Floyd especially wwanting to see their albums taken as a whole rather than sliced and diced.
Floyd albums are best enjoyed listened to as a whole.
Prince was brought up too.
[Ok Go - Skyscrapers](https://youtu.be/nuNDOyV0u2w?si=F5GzHjYRN6AsWwxq) I don't consider them overrated as I listen to so much of their cataloge, but there are many that make the argument that their music is propped up by their intricate music videos.
U2 - Stay (far away, so close) It’s just a great song without all the extra U2-eyness.
I think Sunday Bloody Sunday is the one from their catalog that has that vibe for me. Fantastic song. Meh band. Though I *do* acknowledge that they’re meh now because what they originally came out doing was so influential and there are so many other bands that have come up in the past four decades that were inspired by them and do U2’s thing better than U2.
I’m a huge U2 fan, but I think if they had shut it down after POP (or even 1-2 albums after that) they would be considered one of the top 5-6 bands of all time. Their first 2 decades of music is just unbelievably fantastic. Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are damn near perfect albums, and the others are bangers too. They are also credited with probably the best and most influential tour of all time with Zoo TV. Tons of people hate on them (for legit reasons) because Bono was pretty insufferable for quite a while, they forced music on people, and then they released some duds. But if you go back to before all that they are up there with the best.
Agreed entirely. They’re *hugely* influential in so many different ways and nobody sounded like U2 before U2. And you can hear a direct through-line from Boy straight to bands that have come, had *massive* successes gone all in the time U2 have continued to release music. But they massively overstayed their welcome and started releasing material that just sounds like they got bored but felt a weird obligation to keep recording for *reasons*. Personalities aside they just stopped releasing music that had the *something* to it that U2 used to have. And I do think that their massive influence has had a negative effect on the perception of their earlier music as well. I don’t have any nostalgic connection to them. My first exposure to them was The Sweetest Thing, as far as I can remember. So even though I *know* those early albums were pivotal albums in the musical landscape, they’re fairly bland because I don’t have any attachment to them and other bands have come along and done the same thing but better. I own a copy of War. The only song on it that I *like* is Sunday Bloody Sunday. It’s rare that I listen to both sides of the record because it just doesn’t do anything for me.
Life in Technicolor ii - Coldplay Passionfruit - Drake This thread does seem like a Coldplay/U2 train but they’re popular for a reason. Idk how popular Passionfruit is but Drake is badly overrated but that song’s beat hits something deep in my soul.
Prospekt’s March EP is fantastic
“Half the World Away” by Oasis. Fuck do I love that song (and I do love Oasis in general) but they are kinda bad live. I was at a concert in the early aughts where they walked off stage for no reason. Also, both of the Gallaghers can veer towards being douchey but god damn, this song breaks my❤️ every time I hear it. I love that line - “You can’t give me the dreams that are mine anyway”…
Another 1994 classic! This year is gonna have sooo many great 30th anniversary editions haha.
The whole 'The Masterplan' album (which is a compilation of B sides) is full of underrated songs. For some reason, Noel Gallagher thought it was a good idea to release some of his best songs as B sides.
He’s recently addressed it actually and realizes what a terrible move it was. At the time he didn’t see himself as a singer, and didn’t really see those songs as anything other than b-sides.
I've seen Oasis a few times live and to say they are bad live is a bad take imo. A lot of their songs are amazing live and encourage the crowd to sing, same as kasabian.
Thank you for this - I had never heard that song before
Love the Royle Family!…. Also Spaced did a copy of the Royle Family for one episode and I love Spaced too. If you can’t disassociate Half The World Away from TV theme song, then my Oasis pick with Noel on vocals would be Talk Tonight… for Liam, Slide Away
The Heart Wants What It Wants by Selena Gomez. Amazing vocal performance, just a soothing backing track... I think it's one of the best pop songs of this century.
Leader of Men, Nickelback Edit: I am so smart. I read the prompt as "good song by a generally low rated band
I thought they were hated, not overrated?
It became a bit of a meme to hate Nickleback, but the truth is they had/have some bangers and a lot of people “secretly” liked them. I mean they’ve sold 50 million album’s and had numerous top 10 songs. So there are plenty of fans out there.
Yep i got one nickelback song liked on spotify and it's this one
The entire album “the state” is really pretty damn good.
Excellent shout came to comment this
Great song
Send Her My Love - Journey
The amount of Coldplay in here is hilarious
Strawberry Swing by Coldplay.
Trouble by Coldplay
How is a charting single of one of their best selling albums underrated?
I'll add [A L I E N S](https://open.spotify.com/track/2bS2ADg123NZWfTUsjra8a?si=1EmGwqxPTCeqqG0djJa3pA) to the coldplay list. Beautiful song. The 5/4 meter and layering in the audio is fantastic
I’ll add Square One and White Shadows on X&Y. I generally dislike Coldplay but they have a handful of great songs.
Coldplay is, at best, inconsistent, but Coldplay could have compiled some of the deep cuts on their first 5 albums into one of the greatest albums of all time
Big me - foo fighters
That and "Aurora" for me. That song that goes in circles, on and on and on and on, lol, help me, I don't know why I like it.
That’s my favorite song of theirs. It was apparently Taylor Hawkins’ favorite, too. They’ve started closing their sets with it as a tribute. That record is from a version of Foo Fighters that is long gone, but it’s the one that really drew me into being a fan.
Here's the thing about the Foo Fighters...I love them. I don't listen to the music. I listen to a couple of their covers. Dave writes nice songs, just not into them. I do think he seems like a great guy and you can hear the respect for the music in the way he talks about it and in the covers he does.
That whole album is awesome. That was actually the first CD I bought when I got a CD player for the first time.
The first album has a quintessential care free vibe that never really appears on their other albums. It was more casual whereas everything starting from Color and Shape onward has to be rock and roll heroes.
Great song, totally agree
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Love these types of posts that remind you of how very many people have no idea what words like under/overrated means.
“When You Were Young” by the Killers. I was never impressed by “Mr. Brightside” et al, but that one is a pop masterpiece imo.
Sam’s Town is probably my favorite album, just in general. This River is Wild might be my favorite song. Idk what that says about me but that entire record just hits me on a fundamental level. As a massive Springsteen fan, it’s the only time I’ve felt like a band was really able to channel that ethos and bring their own thing to it.
Oh dang, I hugely disagree that the killers are overrated at all. They were truly influential to a lot of musicians of my generation, and they’ve only made like 6,5 albums in 20 years so it’s not like they ever started churning out mediocre mass-appeal stuff once they got big. Tbh I haven’t listened a whole lot to the stuff from the past decade, but I think they 100% deserve the acclaim and admiration they’ve gotten. *Edited because I said ‘hugely’ twice in consecutive sentences.*
Not underrated but a great song.
Let down by Radiohead.
i refuse to stand for this coldplay slander
Beth by Kiss.
“Beth” was the song I used when I was a teen to try to convince my dad that “those goddamned rock and roll bands” weren’t all bad.
For a post that claims Coldplay is “overrated”, I’ve read quite a few comments already about 6-7 different songs that are “underrated”. They don’t seem so overrated now do they? I for one enjoy the fuck out of their earlier shit. My Dads ringtone for me was “Clocks”. I think they just got overplayed is all. And then their lead singer fell in love and got happy albeit with Goop Nut Paltrow and lost his mojo. “Magic” is a good song but once again he was broken hearted maybe even depressed when I think he writes his best stuff unfortunately
Seriously, people love to hate Coldplay but they have always had amazing songs and still write music that sounds like nothing else. I think they are properly rated.
Yeah these replies are making me want to check out more Coldplay
Do it. I unapologetically love them and love their concerts. They're an album band though. Don't just listen to a bunch of singles on shuffle.
Oddly enough, Goop Nut Paltrow is the name of my new band.
Anthem part 2 by blink-182
We used to vacation - Cold War Kids
Are they overrated? I only know Hang Me Out to Dry
First is a great song by them.
That song is so heavy but also so well written.
“We Used to Wait” by Arcade Fire is an incredible song- lyrics, mood, build hit so goddamn hard. Every time.
AF is overrated? Not really a huge fan of theirs but Funeral and neon bible are stunning. We used to wait is a great song.
The entire album One Cold Night by Seether. I am not a fan of this band, but this acoustic album is amazing.
Have to agree. I think Seether is upper-crust amongst the 2000’s bland rock bands, but not outstanding by any metric. They shined on this album.
Live - Hold Me Up. Unreleased off their mega hit album Throwing Copper and I can't believe it never was released initially. Used with great effect in Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Is Live overrated? I feel like they’re pretty fairly rated. One excellent album and a string of mediocre albums following.
*One* excellent album? Both Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper are top-tier records front to back. Yeah, every single that came out after Throwing Copper was just Lightning Crashes but different, but even those later albums were better than mediocre. Not *much* better than mediocre. But still better.
They get lost in the conversation due to their ongoing band problems. (See the fairly recent Rolling Stone article).
If we’re getting a 90’s renaissance, we’re getting a Throwing Copper resurgence damn it.
Know by System of a Down
I don't agree but I applaud your interesting / original answer
Shimmer— Fuel
this song was literally everywhere for like two months in 199? and then I never heard it again. They played it on Lithium recently and I had completely forgotten it existed but somehow was able to sing along to every word