What is the most overrated album of all time?
Automatic for the People was an excellent album, pretty much start to finish, but I never listen to it, again because of the singles - the ubiquity of Everybody Hurts and the tweeness of Nightswimming.
As a Springsteen fan I’ve got to say that Born To Run is massively overrated! Only track I play off it is Tenth Avenue Freeze Out. He’s done so much better!
ScottBailey Are you mental? Jungleland?
bosstrabs Seen him play it live, twice. Not my bag
Bruce sucks. Great shout Scott.
zackster correction - Bruce doesn’t suck, but that album is defo overrated
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Happy confirm that the royalties received from all of Eternal’s album, meant he was able to retire at 49.
Cheers!
Smallman1 I never realised Pappa Small’s was black, Ed
I’m a huge Metallica-fan and I am quite happy to never listen to the Black Album again. Last time was when they released the remaster in 2021. It’s far too polished.
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This is a very good website for seeing which albums and songs are actually “rated” by music critics, and how highly, which many of you here could find interesting.
It uses a formula to aggregate the rankings of basically all the ‘best of’ lists from major music magazines and websites, eg from Rolling Stone’s ‘best albums of all time’, to Pitchfork’s ‘best songs of the 90s’ etc etc - and compiles them in to two comparable lists for most acclaimed songs of all time, and most acclaimed albums of all time.
I don’t listen to REM at all - but based on music critics ‘Automatic for the People’ is their most acclaimed album, followed by ‘Murmur’.
Homegrove I’m a huge Metallica-fan and I am quite happy to never listen to the Black Album again
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