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When it comes to "deserving", we could focus on products of the Disney machine. Spears, Cyrus, Bieber, Jonas? Of course, it's easier to pimp these products via a giant media empire than slug it out in the clubs five nights a week. I don't like Nickleback, and they have become a punch line, but nobody handed them a golden ticket.
CCR- never could get into "swamp rock".
That old saying of, perception is more important that reality, is alive and well in music of the past, and today. Marketing 101 has taken over the music industry.
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With today's technology, no one should settle for anything less that what moves them.
You might want to start looking harder.
Its music.
I fricken hate everything about that band.
Music is about emotion and memories. You get older and you are no longer twisting in the wind, it takes a desire to enjoy/find new music...but it's rare to have the same passion about music when you get older as you did when you were teens/20's.
jmar shows that passion.
Oh, I don't get the Foo Fighters, personally. I'm not a huge Zeppelin fan, but I understand their popularity because they truly were very innovative. Foo Fighters...they just seem like leftovers to me.
But as far as Foo Fighters being leftovers... my girlfriend might kill me if she knew I said this but, I think FF is a far better band than Nirvana, and I like Nirvana. Maybe if Dave Grohl had just made that first record on his own and just had a couple hits I could see how you could call FF leftovers, but they have several songs that I would consider legendary, and have been steadily cranking out classics since the mid 90s up til today, I am in love with the new album, lots of killer tunes.
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I find the first two Foo Fighters albums to be my favorite but songs like These Days and The Pretender just don't do it for me.
Dave Matthews I used to loathe until I went to one of their shows at The Gorge. I find his music fun to play and a bit different.
Most over rated today for me would be Nickleback and mostly any other generic sounding 'rock' on the radio. How metal evolution even acknowledged these guys is beyond me.
FF are far more important in the music of the last 20 years than Nirvana, Nirvana far more important than Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam far more important than Nickleback, Nickleback far more important than Creed, Creed far more important than.....................um?
Personally I used to love their early stuff, but some of their more recent albums have been too formulaic and over produced for me. I have the utmost respect for Dave Grohl, I think he's an incredible guy, but I didn't like the direction he seemed to be taking the band for a while. The latest album sounds better, a bit rawer which I guess is the result of just a few guys thrashing it out in a garage and not overlaying multiple guitars in a modern studio etc.
Case in point, Kashmir. What a dirge.
Foo Fighters have had a pretty good run. Obviously some of their albums have been stronger than others, that's the way things go for just about any band. But they keep trying to put out good stuff and that's really about all you can ask for in the end.
Grohl probably connects with an audience better than any musician I have seen, so that's one of the reasons I've been such a fan of the band.
I haven't heard much of Coldplay or Foo Fighters (other than MX vs ATV Unleashed, and I can't remember which one they did).
I disagree with Foreigner, Zeppelin, and Metallica. Each of these bands had at least one good album.
You may not like their sound personally, but damn....
The inclusion of The Who and Red Hot Chili Peppers completely ruins any credibility you may have had concerning your taste in music.
The fact that you put Cheap Trick on this list means that you and I are now sworn enemies.
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