Creed
Limp Bizkit
N'Sync
Nirvana(sorry)
Eminem
Linkin Park
Papa Roach
Dave Mathews Band
Disturbed

This is all I can think of for now.

Indie

Oh, and The Who. Just because.

Most of the Nu-Metal acts (they're not overrated, just another example of lowest common denominator=most popular)
Take a bow Linkin Park et al......

I think they're so popular because they survived all the sex, drugs, rock and roll and drugs and did I say drugs?

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Originally posted by TrueBlueGolde:
The Rolling Stones

I think they're so popular because they survived all the sex, drugs, rock and roll and drugs and did I say drugs?

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Go with me on this theory please, Keith Richards is a vampire, or at least a zombie, some sort of un-dead creature. There is no way that man still has a pulse. I'm thinking deal with satan, bitten by Dracula, or something along those lines. I'm telling you, he sleeps in a cave hanging upside down.

Indie

Also an answer to the sorry of Nirvana IndieQueen posted. According to me Nirvana isn't overrated. Not for their own music, but they have a big influence on a lot of artists and groups after their time. Nirvana has put a lot of new groups on the music map that couldn't break through before they did.

Greetings,
Tom

I respect your opinion. Lots of people love Nirvana, I don't. I never did. What I hate more is the deification of Kurt Cobain. He simply did not speak to or for me. I understand that many people love him, that's great. I love John Lennon, lots of people don't. It's nice to be able to discuss it civily thought. Mostly I get cussed at for saying I don't like Nirvana.

Macy Gray is even worse. Rocks crashing down a corrugated metal tube sounds better.

*NSync and the Backstreet Boys and most other pop groups I like, because, again, I've heard them in concert; they actually sound quite nice when left to their own devices, unlike a lot of other groups. Certainly they sound better with computers... everyone does!

Any group of the rock persuasion whose motto is "louder is better" (NIN and Alien Ant Farm, &c.). I hate having songs shouted at me over the background music (which most of the time would be good if it weren't so damn loud!).

Any group that thinks putting in as much profanity and other offensive words/situations is "cool".

Eminem and his ilk. Well, rap in general.

Anything country and/or western. Ew.

Yes, definately Sarah. I despise her music so much, that I'm posting this separately rather than editing my previous post. It's like something is physically preventing me from contaminating the quasi-foulness of the other artists with McLaughlan's ultra-foulness.

We talk too much about music, movies and television in our culture and not enough about literature, history, science etc.!

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Britney had quite a range for a kid when she was on television as a young child. I suppose she's one of the media products who does fairly well. I'm not keen on the mixed sexual messages she gives to teens, kind of "come here come here, get away get away!"

I like Craig David's innovations, nasal though they may be.
My children turn me on to the current groups and I can usually tell which ones I like instantly.

I have to put Offspring on here. Have I put them on here before?

Joni Mitchell used to leave me kind of cold but if I hear some of them now I am happy to hear her still.

Macy Gray has an intriguing sound but it looks like a case of the companies finding someone with an intriguing sound and milking it to the max.

Im not going to mention that is's commertial pop nonsense, that contains less emotion, sentiment and meaning that sitting watching paint dry.

Im prepared to ignore the fact that if they were less asthetically pleasing (to the majority) then half their female fan base would shun them.

Im going to leave it all unsaid and calmly state that I think Westlife are overrated.

There not even a band!!!! They don't play instruments!!!! Im not saying they can't Im just saying they don't.

There a group a
pop group most usless group of anything that could ever posibly exist.

O.k Im done. I promise.

Thankyou for Listening

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In the same vien as Mariah Carey.

What's all that warbling and lip-quivering about? I'm sure you purist's will tell me she has a voice like a 'nightingale singing in Berkley Square'. But to me, it's the vocal equivalent of scraping your fingernail's down a blackboard!

That gal out of 'Steps' does it as well, but at least I can watch her with the volume off.

I don't even consider boy 'bands' and the like, real.
Surely using the name 'band' is a misnomer?

wez