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Overrated Albums?

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    #212
    thesultan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,672 ✭✭✭thesultan


    Wish you were here Pink Floyd. Don't get all the hype. 5 songs too


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    #213
    Littlehorny
    Registered Users Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    Had a couple of listens to R.E.M's greatest hits album last year and after 15 albums and 25 years of making music, everyone of their albums must be overated!


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    #214
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,840 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Littlehorny wrote: »
    Had a couple of listens to R.E.M's greatest hits album last year and after 15 albums and 25 years of making music, everyone of their albums must be overated!

    Did you actually listen to any of their albums or just the greatest hits?


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    #215
    Sully34
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    Am I the only one that doesnt get the whole OK Computer thing?


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    #216
    tommy2bad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭tommy2bad


    Sully34 wrote: »
    Am I the only one that doesnt get the whole OK Computer thing?

    No.


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    #217
    Sully34
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    tommy2bad wrote: »
    No.
    And dont get me started on that bloody Kid A


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    #218
    Lightbulb Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Sully34 wrote: »
    Am I the only one that doesnt get the whole OK Computer thing?

    I'd give it 8/10, In Rainbows is a better album.


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    #219
    Sully34
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Sully34


    Lightbulb Sun wrote: »
    I'd give it 8/10, In Rainbows is a better album.
    So what two songs are you docking 2 points for?


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    #220
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    Lightbulb Sun wrote: »
    I'd give it 8/10, In Rainbows is a better album.



    That statement is completely alien to me. I still can't get ANYTHING out of In Rainbows. Nothing. Not one tune, anywhere. I'd find it hard to give it 4 out of 10.

    Ok Computer is a 9.


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    #221
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    thesultan wrote: »
    Wish you were here Pink Floyd. Don't get all the hype. 5 songs too
    It wouldn't be my favourite Pink Floyd album but I think it gets hyped because of the title track, which does wear thin after many listens. However I think 'Welcome To The Machine' is a great track and the two 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' tracks that book-end the album are damn good too. What lets it down for me the the production, I don't think the album has aged well compared to their other albums. I don't see what having 5 songs has to do with anything, it's still a 44-minute album.


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    #222
    Lightbulb Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Sully34 wrote: »
    So what two songs are you docking 2 points for?

    Not rating it song by song really, just in general.
    column wrote: »
    That statement is completely alien to me. I still can't get ANYTHING out of In Rainbows. Nothing. Not one tune, anywhere. I'd find it hard to give it 4 out of 10.

    Ok Computer is a 9.

    Everyone's different I guess. I think In Rainbows is great.


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    #223
    Achtung Maybe
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭Achtung Maybe


    Overated - anything by Queen bar their Greatest Hits album
    They have some great individual songs off various albums, but their albums in totality are mediocre at best IMHO


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    #224
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Achtung Maybe wrote: »
    Overated - anything by Queen bar their Greatest Hits album
    They have some great individual songs off various albums, but their albums in totality are mediocre at best IMHO

    I don't think you can count Greatest Hits albums as real albums.


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    #225
    Misteree
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭Misteree


    Babel by Mumford and Sons

    I like the band, but zero progression made by them, and it ended up being disappointing.

    It's not bad, but I definitely believe El Camino by Black Keys deserved the Grammy for Best Album over it, by a country mile.


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    #226
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    Suede - Coming Up
    Now it's not **** but it's really not as good as it is reported to be. Maybe I'm biased as I was, and still am, a huge fan of Dog Man Star.


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    #227
    Deschain
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Deschain


    From reading through some of this thread a lot of you do not know what you are talking about.

    The Beatles are legends
    Pink Floyd are legends
    Led Zeppelin are legends
    Jimi Hednrix is a legend
    Bob Dylan is a legend
    The Who are legends



    All these artists made great music, lets see you do better.


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    #228
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    You're not really getting the point of this thread are you?


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    #229
    Deschain
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Deschain


    Oh I got the point of the thread, its the actual content of the thread I was commenting on. So do not assume to know what point I was getting from it.


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    #230
    Lightbulb Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Deschain wrote: »
    Oh I got the point of the thread, its the actual content of the thread I was commenting on. So do not assume to know what point I was getting from it.

    Do you understand the concept of a subjective opinion then?


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    #231
    Deschain
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Deschain


    Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

    Do you understand the concept of a subjective opinion then?
    do you? I was only stating mine. I do not need to justify it to you or anybody else. i made the comment because i wanted to, just like anyone else here. So please stop asking me questions like you are putting my intelligence on trial, i find it insulting.


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    #232
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Ok lads. Let's not start making it personal.


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    #233
    Lightbulb Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Deschain wrote: »
    do you? I was only stating mine. I do not need to justify it to you or anybody else. i made the comment because i wanted to, just like anyone else here. So please stop asking me questions like you are putting my intelligence on trial, i find it insulting.

    Not trying to be insulting at all. I'm just saying you can't expect everyone to like every artist you listed. Some will, some won't.


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    #234
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    On top of all that - even legendary artists can make over-rated albums.


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    #235
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Deschain wrote: »
    From reading through some of this thread a lot of you do not know what you are talking about.

    The Beatles are legends
    Pink Floyd are legends
    Led Zeppelin are legends
    Jimi Hednrix is a legend
    Bob Dylan is a legend
    The Who are legends



    All these artists made great music, lets see you do better.
    And I assume you do. As far as I'm concerned...

    The Replacements are legends
    Black Flag are legends
    The Smiths are legends
    Hüsker Dü are legends
    The Cure are legends
    The Velvet Underground are legends

    All these artists made great music. Neither of us is right or wrong here, I'll even accept that people will think the above artists released overrated albums.


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    #236
    column
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭column


    Nirvana - Nevermind. It's a very good album. And it had a huge impact. It's still not nearly as interesting as Bossanova or Doolittle from The Pixies. Nirvana made good songs. Pixies made exciting, enthralling music.


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    #237
    marrkarnell
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭marrkarnell


    Coldplay makes good music but their I hate their vocals. Dont know why.


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    #238
    pastorbarrett
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    I stuck The Wall on again recently. I think it's definitely a case of fur coat, no knickers. Albeit a nice coat on occasion.

    There's some really lame production aspects on that album that embody all that was wrong about 80's rock music-rubbish drum sound, digital chorus etc. And let's face it; Roger Waters can't sing. Often times it's somewhere between verging on tone deaf and a yelp like being caught unsuspectingly doing your thing on the jacks.

    The real genius of that album is the marketing and hoopla surrounding the concept etc. There's definitely a brand-like quality to the artwork and marketing.

    Good aspects of the album-'if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!', plane sounds, David Gilmour on occasion.

    But hey, what do I know- 23 million people can't be wrong, eh?


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    #239
    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    Don't know about you but i was very very disappointed with the new Daft Punk Album only 2 good songs on it and that's about it.


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    #240
    rebeve
    Registered Users Posts: 856 ✭✭✭rebeve


    Sully34 wrote: »
    Am I the only one that doesnt get the whole OK Computer thing?

    Ya


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    #241
    Violate_Me
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭Violate_Me


    OK Computer

    I liked Karma Police and a couple of others on it, but it's NOT the greatest album ever......


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