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8 Most Overrated Bands

5. Maroon 5

These guys were warranted a spot at the top when their debut album Songs about Jane hit. It was genuinely a good album filled with good and original songs. But what the actual fries happened after that, no one knows. It seems like every song they bring out now is even blander than the one before, where they’re trying to sell you hot garbage by putting a funky guitar riff underneath it and making Adam Levine not wear a shirt. Sixty percent of the time, it works all the time.

6. AC/DC

Let’s be honest: AC/DC did things for the history of rock music and music in general that few bands have achieved. That said, has anything they’ve made since Back in Black not sounded like it could’ve been on Back in Black? Their songwriting has been stuck on repeat since the late eighties, and it’s a shame to see them being pretty much okay with that.

7. Coldplay

Another sad example of a band that was just way better before they became world famous. Their first few albums were good. Not great, but good. But their last few albums are just the same blatantly boring pop garbage that most other artists seem to be putting out. And they’re not even bad musicians, which is probably the most frustrating part.

8. Nirvana

I’m sorry but I have to. Nirvana is not as good a band as everyone thinks they are, and I’m 90% sure they wouldn’t have reached their legendary status if Kurt Cobain was still alive. It seems like most of their appeal comes from the murder mystery and not from the music itself.