While it's easy to criticize bands and certain musicians, let's put things in their proper perspective. A lot of the people that took the most heat are the ones that started it all. Everyone here, me included, was influenced by them and, no matter how bad you trash them, don't try and bluff your way out of it and say you didn't listen to them, buy their music and gave up when you couldn't copy their riffs.

If anybody here is making a living with their music, writing songs that are getting airplay or, presently recording, then go ahead and tell us what your opinion is.

If the above doesn't apply, go back down to the cellar, or Guitar Center, and impress yourselves, or make some poor salesman's life miserable.

I'm not a fan of Nirvana, different path of heavy music...but to say they suck and talentless...hehehehe, get real. I'm with you on this one...the same mags that hail them are now turning around and going after them...sad really.

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i don't like to dump on the early guys because 'if you were there' you'd understand that they had limited resources to work with. No tab, no You tube, no 'nuthin'.

Kiss...not really because they are great at what they are...an act

A lot of bands do what they do well...Stones, Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Grateful Dead etc. They don't try to be what they aren't

I'd go more with a couple iof individuals...Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton. Imagine having the ability to pick up the phone and work with any songwriter, musician, producer, etc. and yet produce fluffy crap for the last 35 years.

Now I see what all the fuss is about,Anyone can sit there and hurl insults about who sucks and who's really better than who and this one made this genre' of music ETC.....
What have all the nays sayers here done to pave a new path in music?can you say your band or songs mean anything to people other than your friends and Parents at the bingo hall ?
I read some pretty lame comments here and I must say its disappointing,you call yourselves"musicians" remember there are on 12 notes in music along with sharps and flats every musicians takes what they hear and re-works it to their taste,can you take those same notes and write songs like: KASHMIR.? How about CROSS TOWN TRAFFIC.? Maybe HELTER SKELTER .? I am willing to bet NO WAY.
Insted of putting down the music of others and the music choices of other people go and practice your instrument,and judging by the comments and neg put-downs being thrown around here you can benefit from lessons in being able to voice your opinion about music without being abbrasive unless your immature&ignorant and dont know any better and if thats the case at least go and practice at least 1/2 as much time as you waste talking crap you just may end up in about 20 yrs actually being a decent player(though highly unlikely)and have an understanding of what a MUSICIAN is.
To me its sounds like you just enjoy talking junk that you know will offend someone negitively and thats more important than having a discussion,Do all of us a favor and get a personality that does'nt like flamming people and their likes/dis-likes or find somewhere else to post your stupid ignorant close-minded opinions,and I'm 100% sure I speak for many more people than you do. GET BENT! JACK-ASSES!

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So what did I do to you? Did I say "Hey care about what I have to say and take it as the definite list" no i did not, I simply voiced my opinion without saying anything that could hint my opinion to be greater or less than anyone else's as the whole subject of this thread has instructed, so please kindly go take a spoon and fornicate yourself with it before this escolade's and you recieve the attention you so deeply desire, and obviosuly you do care if your taking the time to completely move away from the point of this thread and begin to insult me.

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I have very valid reasons for why I picked who I did, lets hear your opinion so I can criticize you $@!&#*%, who are you to tell me im stupid, and instead of acting like you hold the keys to the universe and know everything, explain why my opinions insult you so badd, and how about you voice your own. Stop acting like you have a hint of knowledge about everything by simply insulting and defend yourself properly before this gets personal.

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I must say I voice my opinion on this thread and two immature bastards see it fit to attack me, this is gonna be interesting

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I considered Kiss at first but then i relized, theyre a Rock and Roll act, the larger than life guys that you dream of being, and in that they succeeded, thus they are overrated in that that is their whole point, but they arent overrated becuz they fill theyre roll perfectly

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Whats up with these guys attacking anyone that has a different opinion than theirs and just brushing it off as "lolz must b dum"...? Seriously? Grow the f*** up, people have opinions. Deal with it.


I'd also like to note that before these people began doing so, this topic was, for the most part, completely civil and was just people voicing their opinions on who they think got a bit more credit than they deserve. Stop trying to drag the topic into an idiotic pissing match.


Now, as for the actual topic.....

I think the Black Keys are pretty overrated (NOTE: I am basing this off of what littel I have heard of them, so I could be wrong)... I've heard a few of their songs and 1) It just doesn't do it for me 2) I really don't see why people consider them some sort of "garage" revival (same with the Strokes).... IMO it sounds more like poppy rock/R&B run through a cool vocal effect (again,based on what little I have heard).

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Okay you' may be right in some respects but I don't crave attention. The singer in my band does though. Insulting someone with the moniker you have-- well you leave yourself open to that one don't you Negative Creep?
So anyway , I'll leave you alone, sorry.

Dear Floyd- shut up. The reason I went off was becuase some lame dinkwheat started mouthing the greatest bands on Earth in the most worst way. Just trashing them like they are scum. I just can't let them get away with that. If it brought me down to thier level -- well I guess I did that to make them understand what was up. Fight fire with fire. Sometimes you just have to get down in the pit and have it out. I stand up for what those great bands were all about and for what the times were like in America. So when you bad mouth even English Bands of the early years that's un American.
I really wish some of the young guys on here were around back then. You may have a whole different viewpoint about putting the bad mouth on certain things and people. Take that to the bank and smoke it.

Or just man up, simmer down and keep your mouth shut instead of escalating things. These bands don't need you waging a war on their behalf because a few people don't rate them.

Yeah and what do you got?

Cause we're all waiting for your top notch material.