Overrated artists/albums

[Summertime Blooz]

I guess I'll never understand how Pink Floyd (post-Barrett) ever became so mega-popular making such quiet uninteresting music. Do you have to be stoned to "get" them? They would certainly be my pick as most overrated.

[Ovi]

I guess I'll never understand how Pink Floyd (post-Barrett) ever became so mega-popular making such quiet uninteresting music. Do you have to be stoned to "get" them? They would certainly be my pick as most overrated.

Nope, the music itself provides the high. 

[Julia]

Ive tried numerous times to like the 13th Floor Elevators with how highly regarded they are but just cant get the appeal.

I respect Bob Dylan and think he's a great lyricist but I don't enjoy his singing or overuse of the harmonica. (With some small exceptions I hate the harmonica in an ensemble arrangement.)

Procol Harum is alright but not earth shattering to me.

The Who are ok but a lot of their big albums dont do it for me.

I can't get into Janis Joplin's work after she left Big Brother.

Jefferson Airplane went off a cliff after Bathing at Baxter's and even that album isn't as good as Surrealistic Pillow, which was lightning in a bottle.

I think the Rolling Stones have some great songs but aren't "album artists." I don't care for some of their most acclaimed albums, like Exile on Main Street or the one with the bulge on the cover (Sticky Fingers?). I love Satanic Majesties which is the one actual Stones fans don't like and my favorite member was Brian Jones, whom everyone forgets about. Flowers and Let It Bleed are really good too.

I hate the Velvet Underground. Their albums sound very bland to me and I think without Andy Warhol they wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I tried to read the book about them "All Yesterday's Parties" and couldn't get past the preface/foreword or whatever, where the author just kept going ON AND ON about how they were "the only band besides the Beatles who saw God" or whatever, just putting down EVERY OTHER BAND who ever existed to prop up these guys. Brian Wilson's admirers never do that. And then Dorothy Moskowitz (lead singer of the USA) said they were very rude when they toured together, plus back in my stint on the PetSounds Forum, one of the rudest posters there (not Mikie) was a huge VU fan. I made a similar "acclaimed artists you dont like" thread and started the conversation off with these sentiments for the VU--well he didn't like that and spammed the thread for TWO PAGES to kill the discussion. Cant defend your precious "best band ever" who're so enlightened, can't handle anyone else criticizing them, so just act like a massive douche. Ironically just like the VU themselves, if Moskowitz is right, and I have no doubt she is.