What is the most overrated album of all time?

Smallman1

A slow start to this thread but I tell you what, it is all guns blazing now!

alistair

Nevermind is not overrated but it does somewhat suffer from its first half being so much better than its second. The first six tracks from Teen spirit to Polly are as good as any. As a whole album, I prefer In Utero which is brilliant and in All Apologies has one of the best album closers

carmani

alistair Drain You & Lounge Act the best songs on the album imo

ScottBailey

bosstrabs Meat Puppets should get talked about more in this vein too

rhouses

ScottBailey I have no joke on cd.

Cankles-McJeggings

bosstrabs

Haha that’s exactly what you do. Delusion personified.

Cankles-McJeggings

whatever Anything by The Who.

Tell you what is or at least was overrated by these. Tommy. ‘The first rock opera’. You don’t hear much about it nowadays but it always used to appear in the top 50 albums of all time. It’s absolutely fucking shite. Some of the song are just puerile nonsense. Plus Townsend is almost certainly in need of the nonce hammer but somehow escaped.

bosstrabs

‘Nonce hammer’ gets a lol though.

Also overrated: Cheap Trick. One truly great song and a good live album (Live at Budokan), but it’s not that good (some Yanks seem to think it’s amazing).

Sugar - Copper Blue, another quite boring supposed ‘gem’ of the same hideously named genre, ‘power-pop’.

Dan

bosstrabs Love their Dream Police album.

Way of the World & Gonna raise Hell are great tracks.

strummer

bosstrabs

Along_the_Wire
Rubbish.

mono-stereo

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds. Well produced and some catchy pop, but never understood how it consistantly ranks so high in “best albums of all time” lists.

alistair

mono-stereo ooh no Mono!

Dan

mono-stereo Palestine

Dry-Tinder

U2 - War
REM - Out of Time

Both albums sold on a couple of great tracks

bosstrabs

Dry-Tinder Both albums sold on a couple of great tracks

In the case of Out of Time, the singles (Radio Song, Shiny Happy People, Losing My Religion) all give me a fucking headache.

I want to change my vote, Out of Time is an absolutely dogshit album.

New Adventures in Hi-fi and Document are REM’s best.

hugopal

bosstrabs New Adventures in Hi-fi and Document are REM’s best.

alistair Not sure its overrated. It sold millions but I don’t know any REM fan who places it among their best. Murmur however…

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’.

Dry-Tinder

zackster Isn’t this the title of Ed and Zack’s big night in.

alistair

Not sure its overrated. It sold millions but I don’t know any REM fan who places it among their best. Murmur however…

bosstrabs

alistair Not sure its overrated. It sold millions but I don’t know any REM fan who places it among their best.

Fair point.

In the 90s, I seem to remember everyone had it in their Ikea Benno CD racks, from your alternative university slags right up to your Def Leppard-loving uncle.

alistair

bosstrabs yup, I’d consider Automatic for the People to be far superior. Famously got a then record $80m multi album deal from Warner off the back of it and sales of subsequently went through the floor.

bosstrabs

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.

alistair

bosstrabs Kind of agree with that. Still love Drive and Man on the moon

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