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Overrated Albums?

  • 16-01-2009 1:33pm
    #1
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,206 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Going through my CDs recently and I came across Carlos Santana- Supernatural so I threw into the car and have been listening to it..

    Now this album was hailed as the greatest thing since slice pan when it came out and received all sorts of awards...8 Grammys!!

    I had to turn it off towards the end as I was falling asleep and hence a danger to myself and other road users...

    I thought this album was utterly boring and uninspiring...it put me to sleep..

    Anyone else have any albums they thought were totally overrated?


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  • #2
    ni4979
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭ni4979


    Every u2 album is overrated


  • #3
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,206 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    ni4979 wrote: »
    Every u2 album is overrated


    Fair enough..but IMO...the Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are quiet good..no comments on anything else


  • #4
    Mario007
    Registered Users Posts: 877 ✭✭✭Mario007


    ni4979 wrote: »
    Every u2 album is overrated

    along with coldplay albums to be honest:D


  • #5
    todolist
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭todolist


    Odelay-Beck
    White album-Beatles
    Actung baby-U2
    Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
    What's going on-Marvin Gaye
    Critics love them but it's a case of the emperors new cloths-they're average but nobody wants to admit it.


  • #6
    Tawfee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Tawfee


    Pet Sounds definitely
    anything by the Whites Stripes imo (though some individual songs are alright)


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  • #7
    GazPat
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭GazPat


    I think it's the case with being overplayed, for me anyway, when I hear a song and like it then all of a sudden you can't get away from it,"Every bar,radio station,and even in tv programmes".

    It gets to stage where you hear it and go for Fu*ks sake if I hear that again I'll go f-in mad.


  • #8
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    The vast majority of double albums, as already mentioned The White Album. Add to that the Use Your Illusions, Mellon Collie..., The Wall.


  • #9
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Never Mind The B*llocks is very overrated... Sounds way too clean for a punk record.

    Nirvana 'Nevermind', Pearl Jam 'Ten', Def Leppard 'Pyromania', Judas Priest 'British Steel', Motley Crue 'Dr. Feelgood', Queens Of The Stone Age in general. (QOTSA are, according to a friend of mine's cousin ''The Greatest Rock Band in the world''... I did not laugh too loud; they are good but f*ck....)


  • #10
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Every U2 album.
    Every coldplay album.
    Everything Beatles album.
    Every Radiohead album.
    That will do for the moment.


  • #11
    JaneyMc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭JaneyMc


    Both albums by Republic of Loose, seriously they are the most over rated, watery, run down band 'to make it big' in Ireland ever. You can but the Blizzards in there too.
    Compared to the amazing talent out there, I wonder how these are the bands that end up with a record deal!

    U2 Anything after 1990.

    The Kooks - Inside in Inside out your man is so nasal and most of their music is so bland.

    Any album from The Killers after Hot Fuss.


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  • #12
    highlight100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭highlight100


    I think the new U2 album is the most overrated album in history. A very poor offering indeed,possibly their worst album to date.


  • #13
    Lollerskater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Lollerskater


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Everything Beatles album.

    Now let's not go crazy...


  • #14
    whiterob81
    Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭whiterob81


    todolist wrote: »
    Odelay-Beck
    White album-Beatles
    Actung baby-U2
    Pet Sounds-Beach Boys
    What's going on-Marvin Gaye
    Critics love them but it's a case of the emperors new cloths-they're average but nobody wants to admit it.

    I'd have to disagree with you on most of them (never been asred listening to the white album). Most of those albums are great, especially what's going on. that's one of my favourite ever albums. Let's get it on is also fantastic

    but there are a lot of albums that appear in Q magazines seemingly twice yearly run down of greatest ever albums that bore the bejaysus out of me, such as anything by smashing pumpkins, strokes, oasis or ocean colour scene


  • #15
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,206 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    I know it not fashionable to like U2 at the moment and I am certainly not their biggest fan but I cannot regard "Achtung Baby" as overrated:eek:


  • #16
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Every U2 album.
    Every coldplay album.
    Everything Beatles album.
    Every Radiohead album.
    That will do for the moment.

    I agree on Coldplay and most of U2 albums but Every Beatles and Radiohead album? Thats madness. I'm curious to know what you like. Not because I love radiohead and the beatles....I'm genuinely curious to know what someone who doesn't like these would listen to.

    I think Use your illusion (both) are overrated. I'm not saying they are sh*t, just that they are overrated. Also, The Who.........no album in particular, just in general. I'll admit I've only listened to greatest hits and the live leeds gig but I don't get it. Anyone recommend an album to convert me?


  • #17
    pierrot
    Registered Users Posts: 634 ✭✭✭pierrot


    highlight100 wrote: »
    I think the new U2 album is the most overrated album in history. A very poor offering indeed,possibly their worst album to date.

    Did anybody actually rate it though?

    Never saw what the big deal was about Jeff Buckley's grace.


  • #18
    whiterob81
    Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭whiterob81


    misty floyd wrote: »
    I agree on Coldplay and most of U2 albums but Every Beatles and Radiohead album? Thats madness. I'm curious to know what you like. Not because I love radiohead and the beatles....I'm genuinely curious to know what someone who doesn't like these would listen to.

    I think Use your illusion (both) are overrated. I'm not saying they are sh*t, just that they are overrated. Also, The Who.........no album in particular, just in general. I'll admit I've only listened to greatest hits and the live leeds gig but I don't get it. Anyone recommend an album to convert me?

    i'm not a major fan of the who either but I do think Who's next is a deadly album. got some great tunes: behind blue eyes, baba o'riley, won't get fooled again. and going mobile is good fun


  • #19
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    highlight100 wrote: »
    I think the new U2 album is the most overrated album in history. A very poor offering indeed,possibly their worst album to date.

    It's not overrated. Majority of reviews say it isn't very good at all.


  • #20
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    partyguinness wrote: »
    I know it not fashionable to like U2 at the moment

    It never was mate.


  • #21
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    misty floyd wrote: »
    The Who.........no album in particular, just in general. I'll admit I've only listened to greatest hits and the live leeds gig but I don't get it. Anyone recommend an album to convert me?

    Who's next.

    1. "Baba O'Riley"
    2. "Bargain"
    3. "Love Ain't for Keeping"
    4. "My Wife" (John Entwistle)
    5. "The Song Is Over"
    6. "Getting in Tune"
    7. "Going Mobile"
    8. "Behind Blue Eyes"
    9. "Won't Get Fooled Again"


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  • #22
    RAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭RAMAN


    The last three U2 albums.


  • #23
    ADTR
    Registered Users Posts: 340 ✭✭ADTR


    Coldplay
    The Killers
    Arctic Monkey's


  • #24
    97i9y3941
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭97i9y3941


    loved gnrs use your illusion albums,actung baby is brillant too,way i see it,if theres anything thats advertised as "critically acclaimed" i know its going to be ****


  • #25
    tayto2009
    Closed Accounts Posts: 45 ✭tayto2009


    radiohead overated tripe........coldplay more tripe......u2 pure class sorry thats fact....no arguments please


  • #26
    97i9y3941
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭97i9y3941


    found radiohead/coldplay depressing too


  • #27
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    Who's next.

    1. "Baba O'Riley"
    2. "Bargain"
    3. "Love Ain't for Keeping"
    4. "My Wife" (John Entwistle)
    5. "The Song Is Over"
    6. "Getting in Tune"
    7. "Going Mobile"
    8. "Behind Blue Eyes"
    9. "Won't Get Fooled Again"

    Whoa! How's that for an opening and closing track? Those tunes are awesome. Thought tbh, Baba O riley is way too sad to be track 1.
    Album ends on a high I guess.


  • #28
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    I hate Coldplay and think most of their songs are ****, but they are like U2 only moreso in that the band/singer has a presence you can't really deny. It's not so much talent, as a grudging respect - they have the 'big' feel.


  • #29
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Fair enough..but IMO...the Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are quiet good..no comments on anything else

    Maybe I'm a philistine, but Joshua Tree only seemed to have the major singles. The rest of it seemed really boring.


  • #30
    Affable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Affable


    Pink Floyd? I never really got the fuss about them. Joni Mitchell and Blue.
    Led Zep album, can't recall the name. Marvin Gaye What's goin on?


    Many would say Urban Hymns too but I like The Verve.


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  • #31
    nige_jude
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭nige_jude


    Damien Rice - O

    Couldn't dig this album at all. Sounded like one long song the whole way through, and the tempo doesn't seem to exceed 10 bpm on any song.


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