most overrated albums

Finder said:
Originally posted by SonOF
It's like when my dumb hipster NYU graduate friend told me, "The Libertines and/ or The Hives are saving rock."


LMFAO. I don't understand how anyone could say that about these crappy throwback cookie cutter bands.
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Absolutely. I actually like some of those bands, a little. I mean, they're harmless. The Strokes have got some decent tunes. But they're pretty damn far from being the saviours of anything. (And the Hives suck, and the Libertines probably do too). The idea of people being pretentious about how 'cool' that music is, is really funny (there isn't really a hipster scene like that in NZ - not about that sort of music, anyway, so I don't have to put up with their bullshit).
 
I'm with ebola! - Coldplay are over-rated. They're a competent indie-pop band with any interesting or threatening elements surgically removed. The 4th or 5th iteration of a process of dilution from good bands: Take the interesting parts out of The Stone Roses and you get Oasis. Take the rock out of Oasis and you get Travis. Castrate Travis and you get Coldplay. Alan McGee called them 'music for bedwetters', and, as he is a musical genius, that statement is irrefutably true. ;)
 
Originally posted by Sim0n
I'm with ebola! - Coldplay are over-rated. They're a competent indie-pop band with any interesting or threatening elements surgically removed. The 4th or 5th iteration of a process of dilution from good bands: Take the interesting parts out of The Stone Roses and you get Oasis. Take the rock out of Oasis and you get Travis. Castrate Travis and you get Coldplay. Alan McGee called them 'music for bedwetters', and, as he is a musical genius, that statement is irrefutably true. ;)


I do believe that to be the harshest review of a band in this forum to date.
 
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Hmmm....I don't even know why I posted that...I don't hate them that much, just find them really boring.

Also over-rated: Nirvana, 'Nevermind': for reasons given previously. Very good album, very influential album, but not a great album or a groundbreaking one. It should have been the Pixies or Husker Du that got the credit for that style of music.

Beatles "Sgt Pepper's' - is it just me, or is this not really a very good album, especially by the standards of the people involved?
 
thepodman said:
Anything by 50 Cent
His CD's sell like crazy even though his songs suck.
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Christ thank you!!! My god this thread is about over rated stuff aand you guys are bitching about radiohead??? God damn whether you like them or not, and i happen to love them, there must be worse out there. Now this will be controversial, but dare i say...the rolling stones were quite over rated them selves? Before telling me what they did for rock and roll and what a great performer jagger is go watch a james brown tape...

and i know i kinda contadicted myself but i think both needed to be said
 
michael said:
actually, that's exactly what happens every time i hate on the LotR movies. and i have a lot of hate for them.
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I hate on the LOTR movies and have never even seen them. I refuse to see them. This is all part of irrational hatred toward these movies. Fucking hobbits, give me break.

But black metal on the other hand, that makes sense. :)

Don't ask me why.
 
michael said:
pink floyd - the wall
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Exactly what I always thought, save for a few tracks their last good album was Animals. And while The Wall is way overrated, some of their songs are quite underrated. Childhood's End is probably one of their best songs and yet it was never widely appreciated.
 
Originally posted by michael
i've always thought sgt pepper was a weak throwaway album.


I agree!
 
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its disgusting how over-rated this guy is...fortunately even his own movie exposed this
 
I'd just like to say that I've started listening to the Libertines, and I quite like them. But they're not the saviours of rock. More like a missing link between Gene and the Arctic Monkeys. Only better than that.
 
I like The Libertines. Babyshambles was OK. I'm kind of curious to listen to Pete Doherty's latest solo project, but I'm not really expecting much from it. :\
 
Although, for someone like myself (tedious and shy of making definitive statements in concern of mostly arbitrary and heavily opinionated "polls") this did seem like a really good thread for discussion and debate, but it looks like it never made it very far from the OP's list. A few additions were made, but I am going to *bump* this in hopes of reading a more extensive, diversely opinionated list.

I think that it is important to distinguish between an album that has been over-hyped by the media for their own purpose or gain (I'm not so sure there is a difference between the two), and an album that is genuinely considered to be overrated due to a number of other logical reasons. To name a few: The bands preceding success, listeners unwillingness to let go of nostalgic feelings for the band (and thus not rightfully taking new listeners to the same level), and/or a severe lull or currently ebbing/transforming music scene. The latter is certainly fewer and farther apart (IMO), but I have felt that I experienced such a time just as recent as the years between 2000-2002. But still, the latter is a bit arbitrary.

Alas, my LIST (In no certain order)

1. Hotel California - The Eagles (This goes under my Nostalgia reference)
2. The Black Album - Metallica (This is unique, both the media ate-it-up, and the bands preceding, great efforts yielded their highest ever record sells, and made them a house-hold name). Still, the album sucked and developed an unfolding stigma the band never seemed able to shed).
3. Follow the Leader - Korn (I'm too tired to even explain myself here... The nostalgia thing, but to a lesser degree).

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To he or she who said Tom Waits album Rain Dogs is overrated - Sounds to me like a personal problem, rather than a discerning observation in regards to the OP's request. I really can not think of any other logical deduction to reach such a conclusion. As always, this is just my opinion...
 
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