What is the most overrated album of all time?

strummer

bosstrabs

Along_the_Wire
Rubbish.

Dan

bosstrabs Love their Dream Police album.

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

carmani

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

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

ScottBailey

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!

bosstrabs

ScottBailey Are you mental? Jungleland?

ScottBailey

bosstrabs Seen him play it live, twice. Not my bag

zackster

Bruce sucks. Great shout Scott.

ScottBailey

zackster correction - Bruce doesn’t suck, but that album is defo overrated

Smallman1

Happy confirm that the royalties received from all of Eternal’s album, meant he was able to retire at 49.

Cheers!

Dan

Smallman1 Respect

alistair

Smallman1 I don’t recall Eterna other than the Slam classic?

Dry-Tinder

Smallman1 I never realised Pappa Small’s was black, Ed🤣

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