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Really donât dig âAnti-War Dubâ and âMidnight Request Lineâ.
They ainât bad tunes, but when you hear them get dropped at every rave, shit gets annoying.
Mate not even Cactus, Iddy, Inna Daze/rest of the Pangeezy stuff?
cactus blawan, raw code all pretty ill ye
but the vibe of the label rarely makes me wanna get up and shake ma butt
You just listed like all of my favourite tunes.
How is Tic an overrated tune? LAS is among the best producers IMO.
Before we start, overrated doesnât mean the tune is necessarily bad so stop cryingâŚor cry for all I care, I love it when people get butthurt over something so petty 
Some of these tunes may not be as overrated now, but Iâm taking into account when people used overrated them.
â˘Benga - Blood - Tune sounds very similar to Skank and Star Warz, nothing extremely special about it.
â˘Loefah - Midnight - Prefer 28g over Midnight. Donât get why people view it as a special tune when it sounds similar to Mud and 28g. Happy it got released, but no way is it Loefahâs best tune.
â˘Skream - Midnight Request Line, Mala - Anti War Dub, Benga & Coki - Night and Loefah - The Goat Stare - Anthems that get played over and over get very annoyingâŚitâs the same when you listen to a song constantly and you get fed up with it. I am guilty of overrating The Goat Stare.
â˘Coki - Spongebob, Horrid Henry, Goblin, Red Eye, Haunted and All Of A Sudden - Like one of the earlier posts said, Tunes are overrated as fuck. I used to be guilty of overrating Red Eye and Haunted. I never understood why people like All Of A Sudden, Bloodthirst is a much better tune.
â˘James Blake remix of Changes is horrible and overrated.
â˘Clouds - Under The Dancing Feet is one of the most overrated tunes I have ever heard. Tes La Rok remix is better.
â˘Mala is very overrated. Yeah most of his tunes are great - I Wait, Hunter, Learn and Tombstone are among some of my favourite tunes butâŚpeople claiming heâs like some sort of god is ridiculous, when there are producers like L-Wiz and D1 who can make tunes just as good as Mala, and no one puts them on a pedestal.
â˘Not sure if people overrate Malleus remix of Mutations, but Joe Nice always plays that one. Not feeling that one. Kahn and Compa are also quite overrated.
â˘Canât remember if Loefah - Horror Show used to be that overrated, but I heard people fainted when they heard it, so for that reason itâs going on the list 
Woman sounded a lot better in a mix for some reason, probably because it was mixed at a higher bpm.
â˘Now for the big one - even more overrated than anti war dub, because itâs a âspecial occasion tuneâ and that is the DMZ vs MZN - Justice Day tune. Yeah this one is going to make some of you cry or get butt hurt or start raging; but might I add, I donât give a fuck. This tune is good yes, but no way is it like the best or most prestigious tune ever. Jah Power Dub, Save Me, Creepah and Tombstone are easily better Mala dubs than this one.
Swear mala was referring to the amount of bassweight it had rather than people fainting because the half step blew their mind or whatever.
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mh this is a overrated dubstep tunes thread, so dont put âoverrated artistsâ in here if you feel the urge to do so. also may i ask if you never said âthatâs the best tune everâ and were OBVIOUSLY talking about âthe best tune, until the next best tuneâ ? also what are actually tunes you like then?
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wasnât really towards you i know where youâre at.
i should say that (imo) every overrated tune is overrated for an artificial reason (ie a reason not related to the tune itself). a good example is Dread. there are so many better Kahn tunes, but why did that tune become like his big name tune? imo itâs because it was his medi debut, not necessarily because of the tune itself.
so of the ones you mentionedâŚ
Tic - itâs just a pretty basic tune for Las imo, who is known for complexity. I have this record and prefer Backyard by a mile. The bassline is a pretty basic 1/6 lfo or midi pattern with some filter automation and a 1/6 hihat on top, pretty simple compared to Backyard. And the drums are also relatively simple imo compared to other Las tunes. The artificial reason for Tic being overrated imo is because it was talked about for so long after being in Malaâs essential mix.
Dread - tbh, the intro sounds real distorted and i donât really like that. i like the remix and late night blues way more. and there are other better kahn tunes out there (Over Deh So, Got My Ting, etc).
Space Cash - Iâve never been bothered about not having this one because I have Fuck Mountain, which is basically a better version of SC imo. The only thing itâs missing is those eerie atmospheric blips but that doesnât really make up for it imo. Space Cash routinely goes for like $70+ on discogs, while FM is like $10. Represses def have something to do with it (and so does Wish) but FM is vinyl only while SC is digi! Should be the other way around imo. It wasnât Commodoâs debut but it was kinda his first really big banger, so itâs similar to Dread in that way.
28g - Like all the others, itâs not like I dislike the tune. I would have expected a lot more from Skream & Loefah tbh though. Itâs a bit too âstart and stoppyâ for me. The artificial reason here as nevalo pointed out is that it has Loefahâs name on it.
If I want to talk about an overrated artist, I will. I wonât do what you dictate me to do thanks.
If Iâm making any sense of what you are sayingâŚwell you need to reword thatâŚbut âthe best tune everâ is all subjective. There is no âbest tune everââŚitâs all personal opinion.
I think weâd be here forever if I listed every tune I likeâŚbut I like most of the tunes on the listâŚtheyâre just overrated/over-hyped/overplayed.
Tunes I do not like on the list I made: James Blake - Changes, Coki - All Of A Sudden and Malleus - Mutations
Interesting how a lot of you have talked about Coki tunes.
Yeah but itâs the sort of Coki tunes that heâs been making since around 2006/2007ish that kind of âpost-dubstepâ âbrosteppyâ like sound that he hasnât really evolved since.
Yeah I feel that perspective, but I still have a soft spot for a lot of the tunes mentioned, and similar ones. I was just playing The End last night, not sure why but never gets old for me
Madman and Satanic Attack are 2 of my favourite of them type of Coki tracks
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n type dropped madman at dmz the other week
love that tune
fuck the coki hate spongebob is dank, the way that bass swings around you canât help but go mental
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Appreciate your response Gatino
Again the context(s) are interesting to me regarding our different experiences.
The things you pick up as disliking are arguably what made these tunes stand out for me/others hearing them out.
The intro of Dread was like nothing else youâd hear in a set & would get wheels on its own. (also its distorted cus its cut from that Toyan @ Volcano Skateland youtube vid btw not intentionally) Bear in mind this tune came about at the peak of dungeon saturation, even Mala was playing Sleeper/Biome bits & Dread was pushing things a v. different way (weâre feeling its aftereffects now with ppl complaining of the jah-step or w/e oversaturation)
Tic just had that mixdown pressure/rawness that was missing from a lot of tunes. The simplicity of arrangement aided that, the fact it was just a 16th note sub smacking you in the face for 2 minutes was pretty distinctive. Agreed about the overhype a tune can get after a Mala/Radio 1 airing tho. Same thing happened to Dread i spose that put ppl off.
Yeah iâd agree with the above comments about Mala being a bit overrated, wouldnât say its his tunes per-say but the general âcan-do-no-wrongâ âholy dubplatesâ aura is a bit much nowadays espesh after the DMZ 10 logistic rinse out
Bit off track but iâd say the Hessle boys are overrated right now as DJâs, theyâve lost that eclectic/unpredictable mixed bag feel of their set, its pretty much just a 4x4 tru-head off now, doesnt even really showcase Hessle much. Never hear Ben UFO drawing for grime/funky or Pearson Sound rolling out the percussive agg anymore
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Donât hate Coki tunes, except for All Of A Sudden, Macca, The Shizbiz and Duppy Soursop, just think some of Cokiâs tracks are overrated.
Been looking for this sick Coki dub for agesâŚforgot the name of it until now.
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ur buggin fam
Nope, Iâll be the first to say itâs shit in my opinion.
ha ha, really? the dubstep bubble bursting seemed to hit brosteppahs much harder than the truheds, thought Doctor P and them would be signing on by now.
back to topic, anything Burialâs released post-Archangel tbh. prime case of self-perpetuating hype fuelled by the name, as opposed to how good the tunes are.