Most overhyped "controversial" band in the history of popular music?

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By "controversial" i mean that the manager and/or band have decided that being anarchist, drug-peddling, pimping, satanist, sado-masochistic, anti-semitic and anti-american or communist, or just plain murderers and rapists of women is a good way to sell bad music.

The poll-list is subjective and probably not complete, so if your "favorite" band is not there simply choose 'other', and state your reason for doing so.

ups! forgot to post a poll so I will list them here.

1. Sex Pistols
2. Public Enemy
3. Guns'n'Roses
4. Rage against the Machine
5. Frankie goes to Hollywood
6. New York Dolls
7. The Doors
8. Pearl Jam
9. Other
 
The problem is sometimes it can be hard to tell if they are just doing it to sell or if they have a real point to make. For example I believe "The Doors" (my favorite bad) had a point to make. Where as someone like Marylin Manson I think it was a combination of making a point and selling records.

Aslo theres always the Key factor of expression. I mean don't you think it would be fun to dress up as Satan and piss a bunch of uptight christians off? I do!
 
Rage against the machine.

They just schlep out the same old "Society sucks, the man is oppresive" message that's been done so many times it's almost a jingle.

Sorry guys, we all know the world is screwed up, just deal with it the best you can like the rest of us and quit your whining.

"Got anything to say?" "No." "Then shut up"
-Hugh Cornwell
 
As a die-hard Pearl Jam fan, I find your willingness to catagorize them with those other blow hards... well, insulting. They've never been about image (ironically, that IS their image), and have never attempted to use contreversy to sell records. If anything, the contreversy they spurned (Ticketmaster war) hurt their success.

I know Eddie is a die-hard lefty, but that rarely comes through in the music and or in the image.

Uhm... don't have a comment on the rest. I don't follow music :D
 
sex pistol, public enemy, ratm, ny dolls and pearl jam did actually some really good music, so i wouldn't call them overhyped. limp bizkit on the other hand...
 
Milli Vanilli.
 
The Beatles
Elvis
Where are they?
Frank Zappa
Alice Cooper
Marylin Manson

The MC5(Nixon had them under surveilance)
and everybody's favorite bad boy OZZY

heck even Led Zep and the Who had their copntroversy
and remember the Plasmatics?
and Ice T' with that whole Body Count thing

I say the Beatles, with Elvis as a close second.

Ok they didnt do some of the stuff you said in your post, but they were the most controvercial.
 
Originally posted by Håkan Eriksson
I would say Run DMC.
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i'm just wondering how are they controversial :confused: because they certainly aren't over hyped i mean its hip hop, how can that be over hyped;)
 
Anyone rememeber that satanic band called the "Arhcie's"

"sugar... ahhh honey, honey"
"you are my candy girl"
:sleep:
 
Nirvana

Becuse they were just as depressing as everone else, teen spirit ensured another hundred copycat bands. And alot of whiny liberals establishing them as the most influencial 'rock band' ever gives me a reason to join Kurt Kobain.
 
Just because bands have opinions of their own, does not mean they invented them to sell music.

Does it ever occur to you that perhaps the music sells because the people buying it have similar opinions!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:
 
Originally posted by President Clark
Nirvana

Becuse they were just as depressing as everone else, teen spirit ensured another hundred copycat bands. And alot of whiny liberals establishing them as the most influencial 'rock band' ever gives me a reason to join Kurt Kobain.
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*sigh*

You obviously know nothing about Nirvana and the whole seatlle grunge scene. You can't even spell their frontmans name for a start.

Rage against the machine.

They just schlep out the same old "Society sucks, the man is oppresive" message that's been done so many times it's almost a jingle.

Sorry guys, we all know the world is screwed up, just deal with it the best you can like the rest of us and quit your whining.
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*sigh*

THEY ARE ****ING DEALING WITH IT!!!!!!!!!

Another misinformed post I see, does it not occur to you that they are highlighting the worlds problems as their way of saying 'hey this is wrong, and somethign must be done about it'.

Just becuase you don't want to listen to them saying this doesn't mean you have to slag them off.

As a die-hard Pearl Jam fan, I find your willingness to catagorize them with those other blow hards... well, insulting. They've never been about image (ironically, that IS their image), and have never attempted to use contreversy to sell records. If anything, the contreversy they spurned (Ticketmaster war) hurt their success.
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I actually agree with you for once Greadius, saying that Pearl Jam are controversial to sell records is ****ing ridiculus.

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I am fed up of people slagging off other people's music just becuase they don't like it. If you don't like the message a band is given, don't listen to them.
 
It's all about the music, man! :lol:

Idealism and rock music is like spaghetti with chocolate sauce.
 
Originally posted by rmsharpe
It's all about the music, man! :lol:

Idealism and rock music is like spaghetti with chocolate sauce.
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Maybe for you conservatives :p.

Personally I think that as rock music is mostly expression, it can suitably express political ideals, as opposed to pop and rap, which are usually about big booties or big boobies :blush:.
 
There is another way to marketing popular music. There is also the PC school where I suspect that bands subscribing to the vegetarian, homosexual, ethnic, environmentalist, pro-UN, humanist, feminst, liberal, "feed the hungry" agenda are actually doing so to hide the fact that they are crashing bores.

The bands that immediately comes to mind are:

1. U2
2. R.E.M
3. Fugees
4. Yoko Ono Plastic Band
5. Bruce Springsteen and the E street Band
6. Pearl Jam (again)
 
Originally posted by Toasty


Maybe for you conservatives :p.

Personally I think that as rock music is mostly expression, it can suitably express political ideals, as opposed to pop and rap, which are usually about big booties or big boobies :blush:.
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Yes and no.

I tend to prefer art that can have many interpretations, i.e. each time you hear it (in the case of music, see it in the case of visual or performance), you see something different. I.e. messages are fine, if they're subtle. If they're too blatant, the music itself becomes two-dimensional and boring, whether it's "preaching to the choir" or not.

Rant Against the Machine is an example of being two-dimensional like this. I mean, I actually AGREE with much of what they are saying--but that's not the point. I don't listen to music to affirm what I already believe or know. I listen to challenge myself mentally, or uplift my spirit. And a song that has only ONE thing to say quickly wears out its shelf life, in my mind anyway....

And Comrade Davo,
originally posted by Comrade Davo

I am fed up of people slagging off other people's music just becuase they don't like it. If you don't like the message a band is given, don't listen to them.
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I notice you like to "sigh" a lot. Oh well. Anyway, this thread is about stating our OPINIONS. Of course most of us know to not listen to music we don't like. But here, we can TALK about it! Gee, what else are forums for? :rolleyes:

*sigh*

You obviously know nothing about Nirvana and the whole seatlle grunge scene. You can't even spell their frontmans name for a start.
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Oh please DO bestow on us unwashed Philistines your Great Knowledge of the Seattle grunge scene, and thank You for pointing out the grave error of misspelling The Name of the Illiustrious Kurt Cobain!

:rolleyes:

Really, he obviously didn't think himself worth a damn, so why should we?
 
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