You completely missed my point.
Your point is dumb. Itās like saying you canāt credit the Ford Model T for influencing the widespread development of affordable automobiles because someone before invented the internal combustion engine or the wheel.
80s music sucks? Early 90s was great? Ewwwwwā¦you have that completely backwards. 90s music was depressing, sarcastic and self-loathing. 80s music was largely energetic, exploratory and interesting.
And whatās the rage now? Synthwave. Based on 80s music.
Ehhh thatās mostly Nirvana, which is the other reason I couldnāt stand them.
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I donāt like melancholic music or songs with an overwhelmingly sad theme, I think grunge is the worst when expressing those elements.
Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino
Who are those people?
itās true and you should say it!
Eh, appreciation of music is subjective so I have all due respect for those that think the Beatles are overrated. You do you. Iād only hope - but certainly not insist - that the decision was made after giving their music (all phases) a fair chance. In other words, listen to their albums at least once. Itād be disappointing for people to ārateā them as this or that without giving them a chance at all.
I mean, like, if youāve only heard Meet the Beatles (āI Wanna Hold Your Hand,ā āI Saw Her Standing Thereā, etc.) itās a completely different style, feel, sound - hell, even a completely different genre than something like Magical Mystery Tour or Sgt. Pepperās, which are in turn different from the styles and sounds on late albums like Abbey Road or Let it Be.
Anyway, regarding artists that are overrated, I feel that way about Elvis. And I have given everything he ever recorded a chance to ādo that thingā in my head where I like something Iām listening to. Yet, the rest of the world considers him - well, at least early him - music royalty.
I could list out all the āpopular, influentialā artists I think are overrated, but to what end? We like what we like. In my life (no pun intended), the Beatles were huge. Though their bubblegum pop is alright and catchy, Iāll take their psychedelic and rock phases over that any day of the week. (Eight days a week?)
I think Abbey Road is one of the best rock albums ever recorded.
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No doubt. There were about two years during the 90ās that the only good music was Red Hot Chili Peppersā¦and they suck.
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Although I do dig some grunge and pop from the 90s, for me that was the time during which electronic music exploded, big beat was king, and breakbeat hardcore gave way to jungle, which was in turn giving way to drum and bass. Desert dance parties were all the rage. Groups like Underworld were changing the way people looked at progressive house music.
West coast rap was blowing up something fierce. On the other coast, ATCQ was still on fire.
Nine Inch Nails came out of the underground into the mainstream.
The 90s were about much more than just grunge. Or, what was that from someone else earlier? āDepressing, sarcastic and self-loathing,ā? Grunge was - sure. Thatās the point of that genre. But try applying those labels to 90s mega-giants like Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers. The whole idea of that kind of music, which had its heyday in the 90s, is to make you feel good. 
Letās not forget the 80s saw goth and emo music come to popularity. Robert Smith or Peter Murphy moaning and groaning over lost love, or Morrissey lamenting over animal rights or Irish politics - most of what the Smiths or Bauhaus or the Cure released could certainly be classed as self-loathing and depressing. And they had number ones, all of 'em.
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I think itās important to keep in mind that certain decadeās music (i.e. the 90s) is usually referencing stuff on heavy rotation. There was a lot of really interesting music being made that didnāt get big air time. 90s had some awesome prog stuff in the form of early Spockās Beard and Flower Kings, as well as fusion stuff by Chic Corea, Tony MacAlpine, Virgil Donati, etc.
Then you had postminimalism from the late 70s on, which was a form of classical music :
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