Overrated Albums of the 90s.

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Pretty sure Corgan was the only talented musician in the band to begin with. Remember reading he had to record most of the parts himself for the albums, either because the rest of his band sucked or were too strung out on H to do it.
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The drummer was/is excellent, and the rhythm guitarist was pretty good too. Billy was just an obsessive perfectionist, narcissistic, and very difficult to work with. Heroin didn't really hit the band hard until the Mellon Collie tour, and it claimed the life of the touring keyboardist and landed the drummer in rehab.

Oh, and I would disagree with listing the Flaming Lips as overrated. The average person has never heard a single song, and the Soft Bulletin is an all-time great album. They've been very hit or miss, and always weird, but I don't know who really acclaims them enough to call them overrated.
 
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Overrated: Rage Against the Machine, My Bloody Valentine, Radiohead, Flaming Lips

Underrated: Monster Magnet, Filter, Sneaker Pimps, Oasis, Kyuss
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I loved Rage until I got older and started hating commies.

100% agree on Monster Magnet and Kyuss though. Love both of them.
 
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Rage for me is still all about some of the best guitar riffs ever written. And Morello's wild effect use. Morello kicks ass.
 
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None of the bands mentioned are overrated because I have heard of them. All except My Bloody Valentine, I had never heard of them and checked out some of their music. I did not like it. I now consider them overrated because I wish I never heard of, and look forward to forgetting, that band.
 
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This thread is easy mode, cut and paste anything Synj Synj likes and its game over.

Also I think everything NIN is boring garage but it gives me a pavlovian boner because every stripper I pulled from a bar danced to Reznor being emo.
 
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This thread is easy mode, cut and paste anything Synj Synj likes and its game over.

Also I think everything NIN is boring garage but it gives me a pavlovian boner because every stripper I pulled from a bar danced to Reznor being emo.
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Deftones and Rob/White Zombie are the kings of stripper music.
 
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Rage for me is still all about some of the best guitar riffs ever written. And Morello's wild effect use. Morello kicks ass.
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I love Morello on guitar, but he's also a retarded commie.
 
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I love Morello on guitar, but he's also a retarded commie.
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That stuff doesn't really impact my opinion. Jack White is an enormous douchebag but the dude can rock out and Raconteurs have produced some of the best pure rock music in the past 15 years. The dudes in Led Zeppelin definitely got into some nefarious shit, but I still think they're the greatest rock band of all time.
 
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I don't hate them. I just am not nearly as big of a fan as when I was young and dumb.
 
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Overrated 90s albums? Anything by R.E.M.
 
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Use Your Illusion i and II were terrible records, the absolute worst. Anything past Gish for the Pumpkins is for suckers.

Both bands had one good album in them. But the music biz will milk your grannies tits if they thought a kid would buy the resulting pablum.
 
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Overrated: Green Day
Underrated: Gravity Kills
Rated correctly: Everclear
 
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I still think Tool aged the best out of the 90s. Still my favourite band. I’m ashamed I liked Limp Bizkit and Korn. God damn is Korn ever unlistenable and I religiously played their debut album in the mid 90s. Give them credit for creating a new gender but also credit them for the downfall of rock thanks to spawning all the garbage rock bands of the 00s.
 
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I still think Tool aged the best out of the 90s. Still my favourite band. I’m ashamed I liked Limp Bizkit and Korn. God damn is Korn ever unlistenable and I religiously played their debut album in the mid 90s. Give them credit for creating a new gender but also credit them for the downfall of rock thanks to spawning all the garbage rock bands of the 00s.
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Limp Bizkit's music has actually aged pretty well I would say. What Limp Bizkit was doing in 1999 isn't much different from what Post Malone is doing in 2020. Listen to "Circles" and "Re-arranged" back to back and tell me I'm wrong. Biggest difference is that Limp Bizkit played instruments and didn't rely on autotune. The thing is though Fred Durst was such a tool and their most popular songs were pretty cheesy (Nookie, Break Stuff) and that's the only thing that anybody remembers about them, so their music will never get the credit it deserves.

Korn on the other hand hasn't aged well at all but I guess that's expected when half of your songs are about being diddled as a child. In fact I'm not all that sure how they got so popular in the first place. "Blind" and "Freak on a Leash" are good songs though.

One thing I'll give Limp Bizkit / Korn and the rest of that genre credit for is the festivals they had were on another level compared to the shit today. When I went to my first Ozzfest I was like 13 and never seen a pair of tits in person before. I probably saw 20 pairs that day. In fact if you watch the Limp Bizkit performance from Woodstock 99 on YouTube you can see many pairs of tits and also many cases of what we would now call sexual assault.
 
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Alex said:
That stuff doesn't really impact my opinion. Jack White is an enormous douchebag but the dude can rock out and Raconteurs have produced some of the best pure rock music in the past 15 years. The dudes in Led Zeppelin definitely got into some nefarious shit, but I still think they're the greatest rock band of all time.
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Ac-dc shit all over led Zeppelin.
 
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AC/DC and Led Zeppelin weren't really in the same genre, it's pretty hard to make a comparison. AC/DC's musical was always fairly popish and accessible even from their early days. Zeppelin was more experimental and progressive. It's like comparing the Foo Fighters to the Mars Volta, or Guns N Roses to Dream Theater. Maybe not quite to that extreme but you get the point.
 
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I loved Rage until I got older and started hating commies.
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Pretty much this. I still love the riffs, but then I pay attention to the lyrics and I skip to something else.
 
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