Most overrated bands/performers

The Smashing Pumpkins.

 

Nope, Pumpkins had a nice little heyday.

 

And I've always felt Clint Black was the superior talent between him and Garth Brooks. They came out about the same time, but Brooks had the better marketing team pushing him as the "new face of country music" it also helped that this push came when they changed to SoundScan and country music (and Brooks) were outselling the pop and rock acts of the day. Black actually writes and plays - Brooks stole his stage act from Kiss and Chris LeDoux.

 

I guess I'm too old to "get it" but a millennial attendee at our church told me I just had to listen to...

Bon Iver.

As I listened to an album - the self-titled one I think - I thought "so, what's he's saying?"

 

Maybe because Mellencamp and Seger (both of whom I like) each spent many years (in the early-to-late 80s) slavishly following after Springsteen?

It's OK. The Stones basically aped everything the Beatles did, until the band (the B's) broke up. That doesn't mean the Stones weren't great too.

(In a very weird/indirect way, the Original V.1 Rolling Stones broke up in early 1969 just like the Beatles, with the departure/death of Brian Jones. The "group" went on, of course, but the "band" was never the same.)

 

Nonsense.

 

Sorry, no; no part of it is nonsense. Mellencamp and Seger spent much of the 80s trying to be junior varsity Springsteens, just like the Stones spent much of the 60s as the JV Beatles.

 

Some of Seger's best shit predates some of Springsteen's best shit.

 

Absolutely. I was stomping my feet to "Heavy Music" in 1967, when Springsteen was still fucking around in high school.
However, that doesn't change the fact that for much of the 80s, Seger essentially tried to become the Midwestern Springsteen (and when he wasn't doing that, he was mimicking the Eagles).

 

Fair enough.

 

I kinda like The Eagles, but I'm surprised they haven't been mentioned. They seem to elicit a lot of negativity.

 

Duran Duran.
And Mariah Carey.