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Overrated Albums?

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  • #182
    Due North
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭Due North


    Agree completely.And two Ivor Novello awards as well now......


  • #183
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Captain Beefheart is extremely hard to listen to . Sometimes I think he just got lucky by randomly hitting notes.


  • #184
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Just heard moonlight in Vermont though it blew my mind , Ill give the captain one last chance.


  • #185
    Table Top Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    I love the Captain!...but i cant stand most of "Trout Mask Replica",do yourself a favour and get "Safe As Milk",one of the bestest albums by anyone ever! he can be hard to get into but he has some great stuff,totally mad but great


  • #186
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Table Top Joe wrote: »
    I love the Captain!...but i cant stand most of "Trout Mask Replica",do yourself a favour and get "Safe As Milk",one of the bestest albums by anyone ever! he can be hard to get into but he has some great stuff,totally mad but great

    Got the safe as milk album today its alot better than trout mask , plastic factory is great , Ive only got halfway through it so far.


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  • #187
    Table Top Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    Great stuff! "Sure N Nuff Yes I Do" is my favourite song of his


    Check this out from "The Spotlight Kid",if you like "Safe As Milk" youll like that too id say,and "Shiny Beast"! thats a good un too.....


    "Im Gonna Booglarize Ya Baby"


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjTTuXwm2dQ&feature=related


  • #188
    Ulveren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Ulveren


    'Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)' is another album by the Captain I'd highly recommend!


  • #189
    Delightfully Pessimistic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Delightfully Pessimistic


    `Well quite basically anything by U2
    Muse: The Resistance. Don't get me wrong I absolutely LOVE their first four albums, but this was way to commercial poppy for my taste and I found Exogenesis Symphony majorly overrated, It's nothing we haven't heard on Origin of Symmetry or Absolution.

    Metallica: Death Magnetic. While it is an improvement on St. Anger (Well to be honest the band taking turns farting into a microphone for an hour would be an improvement over St. Anger) It just seems rehashed, it seems as though there's about 3 decent tracks and the rest is filler.


  • #190
    Prettyblack
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Prettyblack


    For me its OK Computer. I've listened to it (or at least tried to) many times, and I just don't get it. I find Thom Yorke very annoying, OK his voice is alright but he often lets the voice serve himself rather than the song. Like, just sing it right? I feel the same way about Jeff Buckley (which is a whole other thing).


  • #191
    bokmurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭bokmurphy


    Coldplay's latest offering seemed fairly over rated to me.


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  • #192
    TAlderson
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭TAlderson


    I second Jeff Buckley. Never understood the appeal, everything seems so overwrought vocally.

    -Tyler


  • #193
    CUPimus
    Site Banned Posts: 152 ✭✭CUPimus


    cant really understand all the hype around Bon Iver, won best alternative album at the grammys.


  • #194
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    TAlderson wrote: »
    I second Jeff Buckley. Never understood the appeal, everything seems so overwrought vocally.

    -Tyler
    I've always liked Jeff Buckley's vocals, I've heard vocals a lot more overwrought. But it's not just his vocals that appeal to me, it's more the combination of his vocal style and guitar style. It's a combination that works wonders.
    CUPimus wrote: »
    cant really understand all the hype around Bon Iver, won best alternative album at the grammys.
    Yeah I agree they are a bit overrated and certainly wouldn't be one of my favourite current artists. But I still think For Emma, Forever Ago and their self-titled are good albums.

    Anyway for overrated albums I think Pavement's debut Slanted & Enchanted is a bit overrated. Not that it's a bad album of course and it does have some really great songs like 'Summer Babe (Winter Version)', 'Here' and 'Perfume-V'. But it does have some really patchy half-baked moments that do little for the album as a whole. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was certainly an improvement for them.


  • #195
    Chazz Michael Michaels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Chazz Michael Michaels


    Anyone who mentions Pet Sounds is a musical Neanderthal. Go back to your three chord power rock albums...


  • #196
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »
    Anyone who mentions Pet Sounds is a musical Neanderthal. Go back to your three chord power rock albums...
    :D


  • #197
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    Anyway for overrated albums I think Pavement's debut Slanted & Enchanted is a bit overrated. Not that it's a bad album of course and it does have some really great songs like 'Summer Babe (Winter Version)', 'Here' and 'Perfume-V'. But it does have some really patchy half-baked moments that do little for the album as a whole. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain was certainly an improvement for them.

    Totally agree. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is definitely their best album.


  • #198
    frazzlerf92
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭frazzlerf92


    Lollerskater wrote: »
    Now let's not go crazy...

    agreed tad bit of an exaggeration there! entirely agree with the rest of the list though


  • #199
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    A few more albums I find overrated:
    The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
    Reign In Blood - Slayer
    Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
    21 - Adele
    What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
    There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
    Red - King Crimson
    We're Only In It For The Money - Frank Zappa
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison


  • #200
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Suas11 wrote: »
    A few more albums I find overrated:
    The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
    Reign In Blood - Slayer
    Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
    21 - Adele
    What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
    There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
    Red - King Crimson
    We're Only In It For The Money - Frank Zappa
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

    Dangerous territory....... :mad:


  • #201
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    Dangerous territory....... :mad:

    I'd tend to agree. For the most part, it sounds like a drunk getting up and singing in front of a jazz samba band at a wedding and constantly forgetting the words so he has to keep repeating them.


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  • #202
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I'd tend to agree. For the most part, it sounds like a drunk getting up and singing in front of a jazz samba band at a wedding and constantly forgetting the words so he has to keep repeating them.

    Ah no no no. It's perfection from start to finish.

    Quite simply the greatest Irish album ever recorded. :)


  • #203
    Reek_The_Meek
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Reek_The_Meek


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    Ah no no no. It's perfection from start to finish.

    Quite simply the greatest Irish album ever recorded. :)

    I must wholeheartedly agree with this. There is very little wrong with this album.


  • #204
    Colonel Kurtz
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Colonel Kurtz


    Suas11 wrote: »
    A few more albums I find overrated:
    The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
    Reign In Blood - Slayer
    Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
    21 - Adele
    What's Goin' On - Marvin Gaye
    There's A Riot Goin' On - Sly & The Family Stone
    Red - King Crimson
    We're Only In It For The Money - Frank Zappa
    Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

    Have to add my voice to the Astral weeks defence team. The "drunken wedding singer" comment is almost unbelievable! But it's one of those albums you need time to grow into. In my angrier grunge-dominated youth I would'nt have got it at all....but now it's one of those albums that freezes time for me, every time I play it. Pure magic.
    A word of support for Red - King Krimson too. Much prog-rock (deservedly) gets slated (yes, ELP I mean you!!) but Red is an astonishing album. It basically formed Nirvana's sound when Cobain was still in short-pants:) Kudos to Fripp and co.!


  • #205
    Geo10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭Geo10


    +1 on 21 by Adele. Totally overrated!


  • #206
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

    Metallica - Master of Puppets - There are some truly class songs like 'Battery,Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Disposable Heroes, Leper Messiah and of course Orion' which is an incredible closing track, and a fantastic instrumental. But songs like 'The Thing That Should Not Be and Damage, Inc which are boring compared to the other songs.

    6 out of 8 songs are truly class, yet the album is overrated? I'm confused.


  • #207
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    Geo10 wrote: »
    +1 on 21 by Adele. Totally overrated!

    Is it critically overrated though?


  • #208
    Geo10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭Geo10


    column wrote: »

    Is it critically overrated though?

    Well I was actually gearing towards it being commercially overrated which I think most people would accept but IMO it was also critically overrated to an extent. I mean I know it got some 5s and 6s out of 10 which is a perfectly fair score but the number of 9s out of 10 or 4 stars was way too high IMO. The album is okay but there were at least ten better albums released that year and it certainly isn't "incredible" or "fantastic" in any way... again in my opinion


  • #209
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    I totally agree. If someone is giving it 4 out of 5 I think they are over-rating it.


  • #210
    ImZara
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭ImZara


    Every album Rihanna releases.
    YAWWNN


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  • #211
    todolist
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭todolist


    Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »
    Anyone who mentions Pet Sounds is a musical Neanderthal. Go back to your three chord power rock albums...
    The first half of Pet Sounds is superb,then it all falls apart.It's an almost great album.


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