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Originally Posted by Signpost
And why should i be ashamed? They haven't released anything interesting since Standards which was from 2001 if i recall correctly. I know much more interesting and less popular bands than Tortoise.
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I agree wholeheartedly that there are better bands out there than Tortoise, and that they haven't done anything spectacular recently. However, this doesn't preclude what they HAVE done, which I think deserves them some praise. Incidentally, I don't think they're overrated in that I personally don't hear that much attention given to them these days anyhow.
I think this is where many of our disagreements with one another lie. How are we defining overrated? The way I took the question, I'm factoring my personal taste out of it, and trying to objectively take into consideration a band's/artist's 'contribution' to the scene.
I could say the Backstreet Boys were overrated, because they made me retch. However, if I try to see it objectively, they spearheaded the first significant resurgence of the boy band since the early 90s. So in that respect, I suppose they're not overrated.