Whether I agree or not. This guy is the man.

I don't know if Pearl Jam is overrated. People have basically forgotten about them after their third album.

Bon Jovi

That rant about Pearl Jam and Americana was so epic! 😂

Not a band, but the most overrated artist of all time has got to be Beyonce. The press treats her as the ultimate sacred cow, the most important artist of our era. Completely run of the mill commercial r&b with a shrill, unappealing voice and not even the charisma that you would expect from a major pop star. I just genuinely don't get why anyone rates her at all.

Hello! Thanks for the insight and the discussion you open up about music. I love the way you do videos, and I am happy to hear real opinions about about stuff. Lol, I am a big Grateful Dead fan as well. Over the course of a couple weeks and probably 8 videos you have given me several artists that are likely to remain in my playlists for a long time. I appreciate your perspective, you are doing a great job!

Excellent video as always Andy!! I sing Don't Look Back in Anger in a cover band and I've always laughed at how silly the lyrics are too 😂

My top 10 overrated bands are : 1. Coldplay 2. Coldplay 3. Coldplay etc. I can understand why people like most bands that aren't to my taste. There are very few bands I actually dislike, rather than don't like. I just can't see why Coldplay are so popular, other than they are popular.

"With or Without You" Bono's ode to a Norwegian pop group. Achtung, Baby and Zooropa was the cut off for me. I recently tried listening to Oasis' s Standing on the Shoulders album. Starts off alright with an instrumental ripping off Zeppelin, followed by two Beatles songs, I gave up halfway through Won't Get the Roadhouse Blues.

Green Day had better be on this list.

Good luck mate with your new job! I will be watching!

Dude, I love what you're doing, it's very much needed! Here's a thought, how about some of those underrated bands? I was checking out Marillion on the internet one day and a suggestion led me to a band called Illuvatar and their, heroically underrated, album called Children. So, just a thought, eh!

Green Day

I agree with you that moodiness is tiring. Even Nirvana would switch up the bad moods with joy. As you get older, it's harder to digest all the angst also, because you have real reasons to be angsty and don't need to be reminded of it.

Love it!!! Great vid!! Great entertainment!. Who cares what the opinion is!! It’s well stated and fun as hell to watch!!!

I have had the exact same experience with Tool as you did. Thought I d get one album, cause everybody was constantly referencing them, got Lateralus, and it did nothing for me neither.

Maybe check out the tracks Fear Inoculum, Pneuma and Invincible off the Fear Inoculum album. Those are great tracks.

Thanks Andy, not quite clear about your thoughts on Americana though!

Andy, do you like the Steve Hillage album Green? Fish Rising, L, Motivation Radio, and Green. Those albums. Green, produced by Nick Mason. But the whole album is, for me, a masterpiece. What about Gong, Arzachel, and Khan?

I had a similar experience with the Red Hot's in 1985. As a freshman studying percussion performance in Wichita, KS, a classmate demanded all of us drummers go check them out at the Coyote Club. There were about 100 people at the show and we were all completely blown away by the performance.

AC/DC would probably say they should be on it. They dont take themselves too seriously. Thats why I like them.

Oasis - entire career based on Slade’s ‘How Does It Feel?’ … which is fair enough.

Have you ever listened to Cliff Williams prior band Home? Especially with the late great Clive John (aka Clint Space) only on their first album! Their second album 'Home' is a gem, especially Dreamer!

Good change of approach! This thread is a lot funner.

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.” ― Frank Zappa,

Brilliant show! How about a show about the underrated bands and artists? I'll start with Deep Purple...I know they're a huge band, but I feel that, unlike their brothers Zep and Sabbath, they'll be forgotten in about one or two generations. Barely anybody mentions the incredible Ian Paice or the genius of Jon Lord... King Crimson maybe? Elp? I'd be curious to hear your take on those bands. Cheers.

I appreciate that you have the guts to have this much fun this day and age 🤘 many thanks!

You are so entertaining, don’t stop mate, carry on. Keep us laughing. Thank you.

I don’t much get The RHCP, I’ve tried tho. Maybe I should try again.

I couldn't agree more with every word you said about The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Great video Andy. Comparing Bruce to Bon Jovi wow! I had a long running argument with a friend that The Smiths were better than Bon Jovi. What do you think? The best concert I ever saw was Bruce live at Roundhay Park Leeds. Live better than studio definitely. Keep the podcasts coming, cheers.

Andy if you ever do a top 10 most underrated bands. May I suggest a little welsh band called “Budgie”. Sledgehammer riffs every bit as heavy as Sabbath. With some excellent albums throughout the 1970’s. Please check them out if you haven’t already

I tried to get into Oasis but couldn't find a way. I always thought they were trying to get off the council estates in Manchester with anything they could do. Attitude and drama.

There is a difference between popular and influential. Some people mix theses up sometimes ,when referring to bands

Nice one Andy, agree with all of those! Since you quite rightly had Prince in there please add David Bowie in for the next one :)

You know your stuff, man. Congratulations on a true great video. Keep up the good work!!!

As Brucie would say ´what a wonderful list Andy, so much better than last weeks´.

Andy,when you rant ,it hilarious 😂

Hey Andy great video and it is nice to get a differnt perspective on music. For Tool I find I like the bass and drums but the guitar and vocals are mid.

Another Brilliant Vid .. just shared it to a mate .. best channel I’ve found in the last 3 weeks .. on many topics 😎

I personally like Bruce Springsteen (Nils Lofgren fan from wayyy back) although, I just say "like." I always enjoyed the fact that Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album was conceived of as a parody album (of Bruce) by Todd Rundgren who produced it on his own dime & was shocked when he actually made money from it.

How about a list of underrated bands; in particular, FISHBONE? Mainly, their first 4 albums. If you dig RHCP, then check out Fishbone. They also have a number of live concert footage from their heyday in the mid- late 80s here on KZfaq.

what do yo think about suede

That Bruce picture made me laugh out loud. Well played sir !

Is there a video for underrated bands too?

You can’t win. You’ll get heat from people who voted for bands that you say are not overrated, and heat from people who didn’t pick the bands on the list that you agreed are overrated! Such is the nature of online discourse.

Barry over at Classic Album Review did vid on trolls (small T as befits their status) and he mentioned you'd had some hate on your channel.

I also remember when everyone was going "Tool are amazing", but everything I heard just made me go "Meh." I went to see King Crimson open for Tool 20 years ago. I felt like I was one of the few people there for KC, and it made me feel old. But I sat through the entire Tool show and still felt that KC was the better band. And thank you for calling out Pearl Jam (and the great Americana rant 😆). And yeah, Springsteen has done nothing for me ever since he first burst on the scene in the 70's. He was SUCH a critical darling, but he also championed a very specific east coast urban blue collar way of life that someone like me who grew up in Southern California could not relate to at all. But I felt like the industry was shoving it down my throat, going "THIS IS IMPORTANT -- YOU MUST LIKE THIS!" No thank you.

Your Americana rant was awesome.

A lot of people think " overated " means stuff I dont like.😂 Never really understood the term myself.

As for who penned the blues tunes, John Kays sang this in Steppenwolf's 'Tighten Up Your Wig'. "Just before we go we'd like to mention Junior Wells. We stole this thing from him, and him from someone else." That about sums it up. And as for AC/DC making simple music, yes, very true. But as noted, being able to play that music with the level of swing and groove that the lads do - particularly with Phil Rudd drumming - requires a gift that very few players possess.

Another very entertaining 👏 video ..i m really enjoying your takes ..even when they are not necessarily kind to some of my favourite bands .. ❤

Oh, I heard U2 play in SF on Joshua Tree. Their early albums up through Achtung Baby were fantastic. They should have retired after Zooropa.

The 10 (or more) most underrated too, please!

Yet another great video! Especially enjoyed the well communicated and explained love directed at Prince and Blur.

damn i do like some stones , and woah straight up were doing a black face mock up, cray and the lady having a mis carry after her rec. session. didnt know those things, lots of darkness follows that band. great vlog. good sir.

And Bruce Springsteen did a great job compering "Strictly".

Fripp has mentioned that the idea of an artist approaching what they know with naivete is key. Agee about ACDC. As a snobby jazz rocker of the 70s I was probably just jealous

Absolutely loved the Pearl Jam rant Andy😂😂😂. I do think it was Eddie Vedder's solo album that was Americana though. Did Planty Spanish Archer you because you expounded your views on it.... That would certainly do it. To be fair to The Stones it was only really Brian Jones who was proper middle class posh boy. Mick and Keef were born in Dartford like me, I mean have you ever been to Dartford? 😂. Absolutely love your vlogs and will bung you some dosh when my funds permit 👍😊.

I've never got Bruce, I love Dylan and don't need a blue collar version, although I appreciate he means a lot to some people and his lyrics do have a doomed romance about them. People saying Primce absolutely baffles me. I first became aware of him with When Doves Cry came out. Opens with an incendiary guitar break, then the rest of it is so sparse, yet funky. Then the brilliant Sign O' The Times and immediately went and bought the album. People say you have to see Springsteen and Prince live to really get them. I finally got to see Prince at the Hop Farm in 2011. Unbelievably it was originally a two day festival with Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Stooges, Eagles so already a stellar line up so I'd already bought my ticket before the sunday was added. I think the amount of money Vince Power the promoter spunked to get Prince nearly bankrupted him. But boy was it worth it. Hands down the best live performances I've ever seen. He came out and he started soundchecking while his (all female) band vamped through We Live 2 Get Funky. Shouting out instructions to the sound towers. Then he launched into Let's Go Crazy and didn't let up for nearly three hours. It was absolutely stunning, the ultimate showman. He ended the set proper with Purple Rain and then vame out for three encores which became mini sets in themselves ending the first one with a monstrously funky Play That Funky Music. For the 2nd encore he brought on Larry Graham who'd played earlier in the day. They did Everyday People, Come Together and a riotous Want To Take You Higher. By now I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. What a gig, I felt privileged to witness it. Concerning the Chilli Peppers, I love some songs. That intro that winds up to the guitar break on Can't Stop gets me everytime If you can't get into that I'd check your funky bone..

At this point, U2 may have swung back around to underrated. Young people just think of them as the band apple put on your phone without you asking for it, but never heard war or unforgettable fire. Springsteen I like as a songwriter, Nebraska is my favorite followed by darkness on the edge of town.

THANK YOU ANDY! Americana 🥶🥶🥶 your description is PERFECT! ❤

I was watching footage of the Some Girls tour on telly a little while ago and (at 13.50) the same thing occurred to me.

Totally get the "Chicken Tonight" ref 😂😂😂 We got those ads too, had forgotten about that hahaha. Gold.

Shout out to firehose. RIP D. Boon

Your take on not liking Tool is the same take I have on Rush. I SHOULD like them but I just can't get into them.

I am curious about the demographics of your sample. A lot of these bands are generation specific so you will get different opinions depending on the demographic groupings.

Andy, what do you think of Americana?

Andy is like Rick Beato without the mayo.

Hey Andy, can we have a vid ranking of the albums of Yoko Ono?

Mahavishnu Orchestra (Post Birds of Fire) Weather Report (Jaco line-up) Zappa (Flo and Eddie line-up) Kraftwerk (Post Kraftwerk II)

Went to see Mercury Rev once. They spent the first fifteen minutes yelling at each other (OK, they managed a couple of songs in that time, but a LOT of yelling, never found out what about). I cut my losses and went home. Didn't mind Deserters' Songs, to be fair, but stuff that for a game o' soldiers!

Pro tip; don’t have those ring lights directly facing you, place them to the side at a slight angle so we don’t feel as though we are staring at a car with its high beams on.

Now I like quite a bit of Pearl Jam, well the first two albums … those were enough for me. I like a lot of “Americana” tho. So now I’m confused. 😂

Andy, you're a very funny bloke, and very knowledgeable. I always agree with the majority of your opinions. I'm curious to know, however, why you don't hold Achtung Baby in higher esteem relative to Joshua Tree. I lost interest in U2 post Achtung, but hold that particular album as among my top 10 of all time. Why do you exclude that album from the band's "best" period, I'd like to know. And it's liberating to know you agree about Pearl Jam - a bunch of whiny, pathetic garbage (apart from Jeremy). PS: You should introduce yourself to Rick Beato and try to get involved with his channel.

Excellent stuff. So many things I’d want to comment on, but even I’m sick of my comments now lol However, the fact that I’m inspired to make such comments is evidence of the engaging nature of the content on the channel.

23:19 - I literally said that right before you did. Not a fan on AC/DC, But appreciate them for what they are.

Andy, I had the same reaction to Tool as you, until the latest album Fear Inoculum, which blew me away. I can't believe how much I love Pneuma. Amazing riffs. Speaking of the English aesthetic, I am surprised to hear you slag off Radiohead as 'moody.' I love the English melancholia explored in Pink Floyd, Mervyn Peake, Genesis, Zeppelin, Crimson, etc.

It might be a fun video for you to dissect what happened with Blur at Coachella. Are they just too old or was the crowd just too lame? Prob both! 😂 The algorithm will lap it up too! On another note, Aenima, the album before Lateralus is the one to listen to. It’s more raw and has a bit more humour.

I saw the Chili Peppers at the LA Sports arena on the Sex Magik tour, with Pearl Jam and Nirvana opening. I went to see Pearl Jam, because Ten was living in my CD player at the time. I came away absolutely floored by how freaking good the Peppers were. Became a fan for life. I absolutely LOVE the passion and reasoned argument that you used to defend Prince and AC/DC. I think you are brilliant.

I could listen to Andy's passionate rants all day, every day.

I had to prepare myself for Oasis, which I knew was coming at number 1. I LOVED Oasis when they came on the scene. Their debut album 'Definitely Maybe' was such a slap in the face, it was totally unlike anything else you could hear at the time, in sound, attitude. It's hard to appreciate what they represented for a lot of people at the time. It's an incredible album. Now are they overrated? Yes they are. By the second album 'What's the Story Morning Glory' (which had all the hits and made them one of the biggest bands in the world, if only for a short time), I was still very much a fan, but I started to see the other side, the boring self-indulgent side, the caricature of themselves. It's well documented that with the second album Noel had planned for a calculated shift towards more commercial songs, a much more sellable sound (far from the punk influence from the fist album,) which worked even better than expected in terms of commercial success. It's not often mentioned how much the band changed from the first to the second album. And it became completely apparent in the 3rd album which was a big let down (other people started to see it), and I lost interest from there. They had many other albums and maintained a decent level of success for so many years while being totally uninspired, so yeah they are overrated. But the first album alone keeps them at a special place for me.

Hey Andy. Whats with Bruce Forsyths picture up when discussing Bruce Springsteen ha ha.

Couldn't find a photo of AC/DC ?????????????????

I used to think Fleetwood Mac were overrated, but then I won free tickets to go see them, and seeing them live changed my mind. They were great live. Unfortunately, Chrissie McVie wasn't with them on that tour, but they were brilliant on stage.

Whilst I can see what you mean regarding Living on a Prayer sounding like a Springsteen lyric from The River or Born in the USA Bon Jovi have never made anything like Nebraska or The Ghost of Tom Joad.

Prince rant was spot on then you stuffed it all in a sock with the RHCP defence!!

I saw prince in the early 80s in a small venue and he was great!

I can listen to AC/DC (The band that allegedly only plays 4 chords) and in their prime I can recognize every song on the albums, and each song has it's own hook and IS distinguishable from every other song. Then I listen to most other popular bands, even bands of today, and most of their songs on any given album sound exactly the same. You tell me that isn't genius!

Led Zeppelin didn't give credits to the old days Blues musicians? So what - did Elmore James give credits to Robert Johnson for the Dust-My-Broom-Riff? Ripping off tunes was absolutely familiar in Blues music. at any times.

I feel like Chicken tonight!!! Lololol Andy! There was a television commercial in the late 70s in the United States for a product called Chicken Tonight; to hide the real taste of chicken. Hilarious. I’d have never remembered that had I not seen this video.

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day Andy ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Prince does not play 40 instruments. (unless you're counting bongos and maracas). He's a good guitar player who can play a little bass, a little piano, a little drums. That's it. But he knows how to sell it! THAT is his genius. He's the world's greatest musical con man. Then again, when you admit you can't tell the difference between Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi then you may need to fine tune your ears. I don't care for either band but I sure as hell can tell there's a MASSIVE difference in style, sound, song structure and musicianship between those two bands.

Noooo. The Stones can’t be on the list. Plus I would argue .. they’d be less “overrated” if they came from Kidderminster which is closer to Brian’s home town of Cheltenham. Nicely done in your response.

Whose picture were you showing when discussing Springsteen?

All those needed to be said, thank you

Thank you Andy for your Prince love, an in depth analysis of his early work would be wonderful

The thing with music is that it's so subjective. One man's pleasure is another man's pain.

Pearl Jam vs. holds it own against albums by Alice In Chains and soundgarden. Even has some funk influences

HEY ANDY !!!! TEN BEST SONGS AT GLASTONBURY....suggestions Nile Rodgers & CHIC - Good Times (Glastonbury 2017) and Groove Armada - Superstylin' - Glastonbury 2010 and maybe even an Amy Winehouse track?