re: Most overrated Band in history? The correct answer is Nirvana.

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The Beatles

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- 20 #1"s in roughly 8 years
- sold more records than The Stones & Led Zeppelin combined
- Lennon/McCartney considered best songwriting duo of all
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- impressive progression of their music from 1964 to 1967
- extremely versatile. Could play rock, ballads, heavy
metal( Helter Skelter), blues ( Yer Blues ,I Want You (She's So Heavy))
- Lennon, McCartney & Harrison All had #1 albums & singles in their solo careers. Even Ringo has had (2) #1 singles. What other band can claim that?

Maybe you just don't like their music and that's fine, everyone has their opinion and musical taste. But according to Most polls, The Beatles are the Greatest band of All Time.

Top 10 Best Bands of All Time.

The Greatest rock and roll bands of all time

Avid rock fans top 10 bands

Rolling Stone Top 100 Artist of All Time

Guitar Junky 10 Greatest Rock Bands Ever

I was just starting college when Nirvana got big. My memory of that time was Pearl Jam was the more popular of the 2. I know I saw Nirvana a few months before Cobain's death in a smallish venue, while Pearl Jam tickets a few months later were very hard to come by and they were at a larger arena. Some of Nirvana's mystique that has grown over the years was fueled by Cobain's death. While I agree they are overrated, not sure I'd label them the most overrated in history. I'd probably give that to The Eagles, or maybe The Beatles. That latter is a more difficult argument though.

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I don't know much about Eddie Vedder and his bandmates. Have they steered clear of the drug issues that plagued Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots' frontmen?

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Not to the extent those other guys did. I believe Stone Gossard did an interview years ago where he said they dabbled a little in heroin in their early days because all the bands around them were, but none of them ever had lingering addiction issues. And I know Eddie liked his nose candy over the years, as most rock artists do.

One of their early drummers was "kicked" out of the band for drinking too much.

Respectfully, I don't believe anyone "rates" The Offspring or Nickelback. Not many folks remember The Offspring by now and I'd argue that few bands are shat upon more than Nickelback.

I can go along with Rage Against the Machine being overrated. Their entire body of work consists of a mere three albums and their initial run didn't last a decade.

I've softened a bit on Limp Bizkit, recently. As a middle-aged father of two, it's hard not to dig their new single, "Dad Vibes."

Wes Moreland is a decent guitar player but they are more style than substance . As for RATM , their first album was probably my favorite album to pop in and play for 1-2 yrs ..but after that they kind of just rinsed and repeated . Plus, their BS political flag waving turned me off of them
But like i said , their drummer has played with Black Sabbath i believe so thats the ultimate tip o the cap

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Melt by Peter Gabriel where he and Phil Collins accidentally invented gated reverb

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2. REM

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4.The Offspring

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Bwahahaha

It's interesting to note that Nirvana's "Nevermind" record was preceded by Metallica's "Black Album" by roughly six weeks.

Is there a chance that it was actually Metallica, with their black t-shirts, black jeans, and less-than-stellar looks, nudged glam rock out of spotlight, not Nirvana?

Nirvana should be appreciated for what they were - the face of a seismic shift in popular culture. They really cannot be separated from that particular place and time, and if you weren't there then you can't appreciate it. I still enjoy their music, and I do believe Cobain was a truly gifted songwriter. But I also agree that anyone hyping them as one of the best bands of all time is incorrect. Most impactful? Definitely yes, they're in the top 2 or 3. But best? No, sorry.

What really chaps my arse, and it did back then too, are people who trumpet Cobain as some sort of rock poet laureate. Anyone who reads his lyrics should understand almost immediately that he had very little interesting to say. I heard Dave Grohl say once that Cobain would often wait until he was in the studio to hastily come up with lyrics to songs immediately prior to recording them. But, to listen to some people, he was the grunge equivalent of Jim Morrison. It is past time to admit that emperor has no clothes. Although, admittedly, it would make a cosmic kind of sense for the voice of my generation to be a man who had nothing to say beyond aimless anger and vague, vacuous complaining.