Best Ever Albums

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Komorebi-D — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:55:38 GMT

Author: Komorebi-D

Posted: 03/25/2018 05:55

Thad wrote:

Modest Mouse
Overrated: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Underrated: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About

Now this is something I can wholeheartedly get behind. I mean I love both almost equally - I have a lot of attachments to the former - but This Is a Long Drive... gets nowhere as much attention as it deserves.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

RoundTheBend — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:40:52 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/25/2018 05:40

Michael1981 wrote:

Radiohead (everybody yawns)
Overrated: Kid A. Interesting but give me some more tunes!
Underrated: Amnesiac. Thanks for giving me some more tunes!

🤣

Best statement and reasoning so far!

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:51:10 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/24/2018 11:51

Thad wrote:

Porcupine Tree
Overrated: Fear of A Blank Planet
Underrated: Stupid Dream

Stupid Dream is definitely my most enjoyed album by them.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:49:05 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/24/2018 11:49

Stuck with several artists already posted for.

Pink Floyd
Overrated: Animals
Underrated: The Final Cut

David Bowie
Overrated: Hunky Dory - It is has great moments mind you.
Underrated: David Bowie (1967) - Very joyful and often amusing album

Bruce Springsteen
Overrated: Born To Run - When I listened to Springsteen so much more I would listen to half the tracks more often. Born In The USA , Darkness on The Edge of Town and The River have a higher percentage
of great songs (and more songs altogther) and would spend more time in CD player.
Underrated: The Rising - 10/10 album and very uplifiting music as well.

Kanye West
Overrated: Late Registration and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Underrated: The College Dropout - Although highly rated it seems to set the standard for everything after for me.

Kate Bush
Overrated: The Kick Inside
Underrated: The Sensual World

R.E.M.:
Overrated: Lifes Rich Pageant and Murmur
Underrated: Green

Underworld
Overrated: Second Toughest In The Infants
Underrated: Beaucoup Fish

The Clash
Overrated: London Calling
Underrated: Sandinista! - Both these Clash albums have a generous amount of 10/10 songs. While a few of the experiments fall flat on Sandinista! it is very near as good as London Calling if rated on the positives.

Rush
Overrated: Signals - Always felt this was the weakest link in an otherwise fantastic 80s output.
Underrated: Vapor Trails - There are great songs on here although the Remixed version is needed to get the most out of it. This entry might be cheating I suppose.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

CharlieBarley — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:17:02 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 03/23/2018 23:17

Rolling Stones

Overrated: Sticky Fingers (only has 4 or 5 good tracks on it. But the good ones are very good. The rest meh)

Underrated: Their Satanic Majesties Request/Steel Wheels

Beatles

Overrated: Rubber Soul/Abbey Road ( I like the latter but I don't see why AR is # one Beatles album on this site)

Underrated: A Hard Day's Night/ Magical Mystery Tour

Pink Floyd

Overrated: Dark Side (OK I love it but it's not their best album. Wish You Were Here is IMO)

Underrated: Piper At The Gates of Dawn/Meddle/The Division Bell

David Bowie

Overrated: Heroes (I love the title song, Bowie's best song IMO but the album is moderately good and too high on BEA Overall Chart compared to better Bowie albums)

Underrated: Scary Monsters (love it!)/ Man Who Sold The World

Bruce Springsteen

Overrated: Born To Run

Underrated: Born in The USA (his best album, should be number 1)

Led Zeppelin

Overrated: lV and ll

Underrated: lll (I love Led Zep 3 its criminally underrated. Their best album by a mile)

Stevie Wonder

Overrated: Songs In The Key Of Life (Overkill! Too long and sprawling. I get bored. His best is Innervisions)

Underrated: Hotter Than July/Fulfillingness' First Finale

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Thad — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:19:46 GMT

Author: Thad

Posted: 03/23/2018 05:19

Kanye West
Overrated: Late Registration
Underrated: 808s & Heartbreak, Yeezus

Radiohead
Overrated: The Bends, In Rainbows
Underrated: Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief

Pink Floyd
Overrated: The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon
Underrated: Meddle

Sufjan Stevens
Overrated: Illinois
Underrated: The Age of Adz

Can
Overrated: Tago Mago
Underrated: Ege Bamyasi
(This is their top 2 but Tago Mago has literally 2x the rank score on BEA and I like Ege so much more)

Bright Eyes
Overrated: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Underrated: Digital Ash In a Digital Urn

Modest Mouse
Overrated: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Underrated: This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About

Porcupine Tree
Overrated: Fear of A Blank Planet
Underrated: Stupid Dream

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

glynspsa — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 07:05:04 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 03/04/2018 12:05

bobbyb5 wrote:

AAL2014 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Fischman wrote:

glyn spsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Right on. Ha ha ha. Prince is the most repulsive star ever. Right down to his album covers.

I've seen you mention a displeasure for Prince in a few different threads. No big deal obviously, and I may have asked before, but just out of curiosity, what is it exactly you don't like about him?

As for the Lovesexy album cover, yeah that's not necessarily my cup of tea. But as for the Sign O The Times record cover, that's an amazing album cover. It's like a more detailed Blonde on Blonde cover.

Yeah, Sign of the Times is a good album cover.
I just think Prince's music was the most stilted and forced-sounding music there could be. And I think it's ugly music. Basically, to me, he falls into the category of "Tries Too Hard". Some of the major, really popular Stars make music that just hits me this way. Of course that's probably a major reason that they're popular. You can hear them stressing and straining to be important. And their music seems all hyped up and pumped up in order to sound better than it really is. I don't know, artist like that are just a complete turn-off to me. And usually a lot of the major artists that are praised as being "natural" talents are the worst offenders. And to me their music sounds stilted and forced and hyped up. And for some reason their music just strikes me as ugly and unmusical.

To me Prince is easily the greatest artist of the 1980's and one of the most important artists of all time. "Forced" i find that an odd choice as i see his music as anything but forced and with a vault containing hundreds of unreleased material i think that proves music was not forced out from him but flowed from him like a river. The man could play almost any instrument many at extremely high levels he had a voice with tremendous range and could do many different styles of music. I guess this is why we have sites like this because all of us don't think or hear the same way.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Anonymous — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 06:31:45 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/04/2018 11:31

bobbyb5 wrote:

AAL2014 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Fischman wrote:

glyn spsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Right on. Ha ha ha. Prince is the most repulsive star ever. Right down to his album covers.

That's interesting to me. For some reason I don't listen to Prince so much and how you describe it as trying too hard seems well observed. But I think he wrote some great songs and put in some pretty incredible vocal performances too. He was probably at his best at his most straightforward and melodic for me though. Just listened to Starfish and Coffee. Stuff like that is great.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

bobbyb5 — Sat, 3 Mar 2018 03:20:23 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/03/2018 08:20

AAL2014 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Fischman wrote:

glynspsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Right on. Ha ha ha. Prince is the most repulsive star ever. Right down to his album covers.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

AAL2014 — Sat, 3 Mar 2018 02:52:54 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 03/03/2018 07:52

bobbyb5 wrote:

Fischman wrote:

glynspsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Right on. Ha ha ha. Prince is the most repulsive star ever. Right down to his album covers.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

bobbyb5 — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 17:06:36 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/02/2018 22:06

Fischman wrote:

glynspsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Right on. Ha ha ha. Prince is the most repulsive star ever. Right down to his album covers.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Fischman — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 16:49:04 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 03/02/2018 21:49

glynspsa wrote:

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Well, so much for that George Harrison being the worst album cover ever!

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

JOSweetHeart — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 16:28:23 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 03/02/2018 21:28

I used to think that Little Big Town was good, but for the past few years they have become over rated in my opinion. Getting awards still even when they do not have the radio presence to back up them wins, to me, is not fair to those who have been able to maintain consistent radio play. They were just nominated again for ACM Group Of The Year and if they get it, what does that say to the other four nominated groups who have been all over the radio with their more recently released songs?

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

P.S. Little Big Town's last big song was "Better Man" which got released a year and a half ago. The two that have been released since then, "Happy People" and "When Someone Stops Loving You" that is, were barely able to crack the top 40.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

glynspsa — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:51:56 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 03/02/2018 18:51

Overrated:

Sign 'O' The Times by Prince

Underrated:

Lovesexy by Prince

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Luigii — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:26:28 GMT

Author: Luigii

Posted: 03/02/2018 18:26

Ok I need to do this as well.

Sade
Overrated: Diamond Life. Excellent record. One of the best albums of the 80's. But not there best.
Underrated: Either Love Deluxe or Lover's Rock. Honestly some of the best albums of 92 and 2000 respectfully. These two to me fell like they were cutting edge for there time and still are.

George Michael
Overrated: Faith. Fun pop record from the 80's. But feels very part of that time. And I don't if it is just my copy but the sound is a lot lower.
Underrated: Either Older or Patience. Older is his magnum opus as well as my personal top 10 of 1996 at this moment of time. While Patience is his most interesting work in his small catalog and one of the best albums of 2004.

Will post another comment on this thread after I come back from work. Or might edit this comment.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

AAL2014 — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 12:27:13 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 03/02/2018 17:27

LedZep wrote:

Bowie
Underrated: Heroes (yes, I know it's widely popular but it's as good as Low imo)

Fuckin this.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 08:28:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/02/2018 13:28

Fishmans:
Overrated:Long Season. It's a great, though flawed album that deserves lots of love. But it's not the group's best. And the fact that the live version on 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare is way better kinda lowers the value of the studio version.

Underrated: Uchū Nippon Setagaya. Their best studio album IMO and one of my favourite albums of all time. I hope this one gets more love as time goes on.

Kendrick Lamar:
Overrated: DAMN. I like the album, but it's not the masterpiece that some people are claiming it to be. It has some serious flaws among the good stuff.

Underrated: untitled unmastered. Unfairly overlooked, seemingly just for the fact that it is a leftover album from To Pimp a Butterfly. It's like a less intense and more relaxed version of that album with the same delicious jazz and funk instrumentation.

Black Sabbath:
Overrated: Black Sabbath. Don't get me wrong, this is a great debut, but it doesn't deserve to be constantly ranked among the best of the best from the band. They have done many better albums.

Underrated: Sabotage. I do not understand why so many people dislike this album. Some even going as far as to compare it to the two awful albums that came after it. I think it is one of their very best albums. It's probably the group's rawest and darkest album, and tracks like "Hole in the Sky", "Symptom of the Universe", and "Megalomania" are prime examples and are some of the group's hardest tracks. I also love the underrated, poppy and synth-heavy "Am I Going Insane (Radio)". "Supertzar" is one of the group's dumbest moments and is unforgivable though.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

bobbyb5 — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 06:37:39 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/02/2018 11:37

Michael1981 wrote:

bobbyb5 wrote:

Only the title song sounds like a Rolling Stones song, but even that's a very Bowie-ish thing to do. And by saying it's his most Bowie- ish album I meant like its theatrical nature, and the way it's a semi concept album like Ziggy, and the futurism that he likes, and the Glam Rocky decadence that he used to like to sing about. And all the apocalyptic crap that he likes. And all the weird pervy characters that are on many of his albums. It's just the most Bowie-ish thing in the world. And each song is compelling in a different way.

🤣 OK. Good defence. Though I find a lot of Bowie's 70s stuff really sounds like Bowie lol.

Quote:

Teenage wildlife and up the hill backwards are pretty good besides the other two that I like, but the rest are just too slight of songs and just don't make any impression on me at all. They sound like rejects from Lodger. Which is a much better album that nobody seems to like very much. The really only great one is ashes to ashes I think.

Well I agree that Ashes to Ashes is the standout. I just think find the rest of the album really good fun as well. Bowie trundling down the middle of road, but with one of his best sets of tunes. I need to hear Lodger again. I think I read that the latest reissue sounds pretty different to before and people think its an improvement. I quite liked it when I heard it before. Probably a good time to check it out again.

That's exactly what I meant!!! It's more 70s-Bowie-stuff than any of his other 70s Bowie stuff!! Ha ha ha.! It's the most Bowie!! Lol.
It's also the coolest music he ever made too.

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

glynspsa — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 06:27:17 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 03/02/2018 11:27

Over rated: Dark Side Of The Moon

Underrated: Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother and Live at Pompeii

Re: Overrated/Underrated by Group

Anonymous — Fri, 2 Mar 2018 05:59:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/02/2018 10:59

bobbyb5 wrote:

🤣 OK. Good defence. Though I find a lot of Bowie's 70s stuff really sounds like Bowie lol.

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