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What is the most overrated band of all time?

By YPB Team3 votes

Untouchable canon on one side, streaming juggernauts on the other, and a case against every one of them. Cast your vote.

  1. Coldplay — ranked #11
    Coldplay
    Stadium-filling melancholy that fans call universal and detractors call weightless.
    1000pts
  2. Nickelback — ranked #22
    Nickelback
    Commercially enormous, critically the internet's default punchline for bad rock.
    999pts
  3. Imagine Dragons — ranked #33
    Imagine Dragons
    Streaming numbers nobody disputes and a critical reception nobody defends.
    943pts
    DI
  4. Kiss — ranked #44
    Kiss
    The costumes, the merchandise and the pyrotechnics remembered far better than the songs.
    900pts
  5. Maroon 5 — ranked #55
    Maroon 5
    Started as a funk-rock band, ended as a chart-pop delivery system.
    771pts
  6. The Eagles — ranked #66
    The Eagles
    Best-selling American album of the century, and the band it is most fashionable to say you cannot stand.
    600pts
  7. Red Hot Chili Peppers — ranked #77
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Four decades of the same funk-rock formula, praised and dismissed for exactly that.
    600pts
  8. Green Day — ranked #88
    Green Day
    Pop-punk that sold 75 million records and got a Broadway musical, to the genre's lasting irritation.
    491pts
  9. The Beatles — ranked #99
    The Beatles
    Named the greatest band in almost every poll ever run, which is exactly why they head every argument about inflated reputations.
    360pts
  10. U2 — ranked #1010
    U2
    Four decades of being told they are important, which is its own kind of problem.
    360pts
  11. The Doors — ranked #1111
    The Doors
    Ray Manzarek's organ against Jim Morrison's poetry, and a mythology built mostly on dying young.
    360pts
  12. Nirvana — ranked #1212
    Nirvana
    Three albums that changed the decade, and a canonisation that treats every one of them as flawless.
    360pts
  13. Led Zeppelin — ranked #1313
    Led Zeppelin
    Monumental and uncredited in equal measure, given how much of the early catalogue came from blues records.
    360pts
  14. The Rolling Stones — ranked #1414
    The Rolling Stones
    Sixty-four years of touring, and a critical line that the last genuinely great album was a long time ago.
    0pts
  15. Oasis — ranked #1515
    Oasis
    Two great albums, a Beatles debt they never denied, and a legend far larger than the catalogue.
    0pts
  16. Radiohead — ranked #1616
    Radiohead
    Critics' perennial best-band-alive, which makes them the obvious target for anyone who finds them cold.
    0pts

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Comments

Winning everywhere else is the qualification, because a band named greatest on every other list has the largest gap to defend: https://youpick.best/articles/beatles-vs-rolling-stones-ranked

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