Alex
King Of The Wasteland
So I had a conversation with a friend at work a few months ago and he said how Nirvana are one of the most overrated bands ever, he did stress that he likes Nirvana and they make good music (in his opinion) however.
It wasn't until recently that I finally understood where he was coming from, reading some comments on youtube some comments from some 'fans' who were making Nirvana (and more importantly Kurt Cobain) as some sort of godlike entity of music, I thought 'No they weren't, they experimented and eventually found their niche'. What they did had been done before in some capacity (see the Pixies, a band that influenced Cobain a lot)
Another one are musicians who seem to carry on doing the same style of music with no form of change or experimentation whatsover but continue to sell lots of records.
So what makes a band overrated, is it how the lack of change some bands go through but still manage to make money or is more to do with how the fans picture them???
Personally I think it's the fans, the 'marky' fans build these musicans up as people who can do no wrong and will hand them higher status that many 'critical' fans will not give them.
It wasn't until recently that I finally understood where he was coming from, reading some comments on youtube some comments from some 'fans' who were making Nirvana (and more importantly Kurt Cobain) as some sort of godlike entity of music, I thought 'No they weren't, they experimented and eventually found their niche'. What they did had been done before in some capacity (see the Pixies, a band that influenced Cobain a lot)
Another one are musicians who seem to carry on doing the same style of music with no form of change or experimentation whatsover but continue to sell lots of records.
So what makes a band overrated, is it how the lack of change some bands go through but still manage to make money or is more to do with how the fans picture them???
Personally I think it's the fans, the 'marky' fans build these musicans up as people who can do no wrong and will hand them higher status that many 'critical' fans will not give them.