and obviously our opinions aren't nearly as important as those of the music press.
There is validity in this thread, although I agree that there needs to be more discussion about why a band is overrated as opposed to just a laundry list of bands we think are overrated.
Therefore:
The Arcade Fire: A friend of mine recommended Funeral to me before the indie press started their fapping circle jerk bukkake all over Win Butler's face, and I still didn't see the appeal. I mean, the album is okay, but on the whole it's not like they really did anything spectacular, and there are a number of tracks that they could've done without, particularly "Haiti" and "In The Backseat" (Basically, I don't think Regine should be allowed to do lead vocals. It's the sybillant S. really bothers me).
Slint: I'm basing this completely on Spiderland. For a six song album, I just wasn't really that impressed. It felt more like hardcore than anything else. While the movement that they spawned created some excellent music, it doesn't necessarily follow that the progenitors produced the same level of quality. They did provide a new way of thinking, and for that they deserve credit, but with so many better bands following the math-rock (shudder at the term) or post-rock (bigger shudder) formula I think Slint, with their whispered, pretentious storytelling followed by loud, heavy segments, isn't really worth exploring except as an interesting footnote to a bigger, better musical movement.
