It is very easy to be underrated, because all you need to do is nothing. Everyone wants to be underrated. It’s harder to become overrated, because that means someone has to think you were awesome before they thought you sucked. Nobody wants to be overrated, except for people who like to live in big houses. But I am not interested in overrated and underrated bands. That argument is too easy, and all it means is that somebody else was wrong. I’m far more interested in “rated” bands. I’m obsessed with bands who are rated as accurately as possible—in other words, nobody thinks they’re better than
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