BF2S Forums NME's Most overrated bands

cl4u53w1t2 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

Haha, NME with music elitism and/or credibility

NME's entire ethos is based around celebrating the hyped up 'in' bands of the now - they're the biggest bunch of scene hipsters around.

Having said that, the Top 10 list is perplexing. Half of them don't even belong in the normal journalistic domain of NME (Lady Gaga? Madonna? Since when did NME ever write about or care for the mainstream pop-industry?) and the other half are all bands that NME, or some other alternative music publication, such as Kerrang! have all madly hyped and celebrated during their emergence and peak. Most of the people that voted in the shitty poll are probably the same; people that were going nuts for Fall Out Boy's debut album, dyeing their hair and wearing skinny jeans, only now a few years later denouncing it as the uncoolest thing to ever hit the airwaves... oh by the way, have you heard this new Hadouken! stuff? I hear it's pretty fresh.

list was created by nme's readers

ghettoperson wrote:

U2 should be #1, simply because they're the biggest bunch of cunts to ever walk the Earth. Other than that, I rather surprisingly find myself agreeing with all of the nominees, with the exception of Guns N' Roses and Metallica. Sure, both their new albums blew goats, but that doesn't mean they're not ridiculously talented bands who have influenced a huge number of musicians.