Most overrated - a thread about overrated things

Brighton

who rates boiled potatoes highly enough for them to be over-rated?
is that just an "i hate" list, BQ?

I thought that was called R&B.

@BRM - I quite like boiled potatoes. Especially new Jersey Royals with butter. But given the number of times I get served them when I should be served roasts someone is clearly talking them up too much.

I like many of the things on that list. But not all.

@The Seldom Killer - I am clearly insufficently "down" with the "kids" and bow to your superior knowledge of overrated pap masquerading as music.

On the subject, I have a rule of thumb which has stood me in good stead, music-wise: If it contains finger-clicking (real or not) it is likely to be crap.

Go check My Bloody Valentine anyway, they're loud...

Will do.

Oh, and sticking with the subject of "Oooh, I'm so gothic, yet whimsical":

Neil Gaiman

Morrissey. Why the fuck do people like him? Seems to have a cult following with a certain age group (mid 30's to late 40's).

Everything i've heard from him has been terrible.

Morrissey. Why the fuck do people like him? Seems to have a cult following with a certain age group (mid 30's to late 40's).

Everything i've heard from him has been terrible.

He was in a famous band called the Smiths, they were really good.

Skype

Yeah the Smiths were brilliant, but Morrissey as an independant artist is shit.

actors
actresses
"movies"

dancing, in general.

i just cannot understand why she is on the radio! so fucking irritating and such a bellpiece.

Amen to that. Jo Wiley, Chris Moyles and Tim Westwood - the unholy trinity. Or just wholly awful trinity. I hate Radio 1 with a passion, we used to be forced to endure it at work until I put my foot down and insisted that we wire a computer up to the stereo so we could use last.fm and itunes.

Each of the buggers is annoying in a different way, Westwood with his invented faux-street accent, Moyles just for living, ditto Wiley although my particular loathing for her stems primarily from the unparalleled horror that is "Changing Tracks".

For those of you lucky enough not to know what Changing Tracks is, it basically involves a 14 year old sending a letter to Ms. Wiley explaining why a certain musicial masterpiece is so special to them.

The track/masterpiece is normally by Coldplay or Keane, or an equally vapid band. The letter is normally several pages long, detailing a scenario in which said teenager went camping in Bordeaux for a week, got done in the ear by a French boy called Jean (who she assumed she would marry), but now he doesn't answer her emails and has deleted her from Facebook.

Wiley then reads the entire bloody tome of angst-ridden drivel in a serious voice, before finally playing said track. It's truly horrific to listen to, an aural slow-motion car crash that sucks the very life out of all those who hear it.

Who actually listens to Radio 1 anyway? When I was a teenager Radio 1 was considered mainstream and we listened to mind-destroyingly terrible happy hardcore, dnb and west-coast hip hop. At least we had some kind of vague taste for music that our elders would abhor.

Actually I still like westcoast hip hop and dnb, maybe not so much the happy hardcore.... Seriously though, if you're young then you should be listening to music that your parents hate and doing irresponsible things no? You should certainly not be writing to jo Wiley in order to tell her that a boy looked at you funny and now you think you might be pregnant.

In case you hadn't guessed, I really hate Radio 1.

andrew flintoff.

Ricky Ponting FFS

every Aus bowler since warne and mgrath retired.

He was in a famous band called the Smiths, they were really good.

They had a great guitarist called Johnny Marr, Morrisey was still a dreary whining twat even then.

They had a great guitarist called Johnny Marr, Morrisey was still a dreary whining twat even then.

Funny lyrics, funny hair, takes himself incredibly seriously. What's not to like?

In a similar vain,

Biffy Clyro

and of course the absolute zenith of the overrated world....

Oasis

I never understand why people who claim to like, dylan, the beatles, led zeppelin etc also often drop the 'O' bomb. They are dull dull dull droning pub rock with and attitude that smells. Why on earth are they so popular?

Dylan, The Beatles and Led Zep are also dull, droning and frankly dreary.

Sacrilege!

Morrissey. Why the fuck do people like him? Seems to have a cult following with a certain age group (mid 30's to late 40's).

Everything i've heard from him has been terrible.

He has a following in that age group, because The Smiths started before World of Warcraft was invented.

Dylan, The Beatles and Led Zep are also dull, droning and frankly dreary.

Your clearly missing something.

ill let you get away with dylan and led zep, alougth i like both i can see why people wouldnt. but the beatles?! how in any way can you call thier music dull/dreary, it couldnt be any more the oposit.

i dont trust people that dont like the beatles, they have some kind of agenda or are completely ignorant. much the same as i dont trust people who dont like star wars. or these wierdo people that only listen to one genre of music and refuse to let anything else in.

things i think are overated:
drum and bass
almost everything on tv
chinese food
brakeless
cocaine

Oh, and sticking with the subject of "Oooh, I'm so gothic, yet whimsical":

Neil Gaiman

Wash your fucking mouth out.

I was going to remove The Beatles from the quote but couldn't be arsed, though having downloaded their entire catalogue recently, there is an awful lot of dross in their stuff. Dylan is a great songwriter, but songs best done by other people.

Zep = prototype cock rockers.

Your clearly missing something.

as are you, i think you need the 're......

pedantry. that's over rated.

i dont trust people that dont like the beatles, they have some kind of agenda or are completely ignorant.

or maybe they just find lennon and mcartney's songwriting contrived, pretentious and lacking humility, and their voices and musicianship irritating?

The only Beatles songs I would say I liked seem to have been written by George Harrison..

i dont trust people that like the beatles, they have some kind of agenda or are completely ignorant.

hmmm..mmmmm

you see, beauty is in the eye (or ear) of the beholder, wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same things?

Zep = prototype cock rockers.

this is the sort of thing people who've only heard two songs would say.

Led Zeppelin, whilst not to everyone's tastes, and why should they be, were one of the finest blues and folk bands of their time.

Fuck the Beatles, they're dull.

Zep and Dylan are UNTOUCHABLE.
They're not even overrated. There isn't even a rating high enough for them.
I would put my other favourite 2 artists in there, but someone'll just post them...

normally i would agree that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to not like the beatles music is to have no soul, and is one of the few exceptions.

of course its contrived, they were craftsmen who spent hours in the studio tweaking, finding new sounds and collaborating. yes it may be pretentious, but who cares, why should we be afraid of being creative, it turned out good for them. i think they were pretty humble really, apart from lennon who was pretty hypocritical, but i think he had been toxified by fame towards the end.

normally im pretty open to whatever, but the beatles is an anomoly. i wouldnt bother arguing with me cuase it aint gonna make no diffrence. either you havnt listened to the music properly or you have no soul. ignore me if you dont agree.