Favorite Albums Hated By Critics and Music Nerds - Music

lightmyway
Swimming into view

Gender: Female
Age: 43

My answer to the poll is no. I don't read any reviews or anything like that, although I used to read Spin. Taking critic's opinion into conscious consideration is good up to a certain point, but once you've figured out what your taste is, reviews are a patronizing waste of time. A really good review should just try to explain what an album sounds like and let people make their own decision based on that, rather than quantify its worth based on the author's personal taste and opinion.

benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?

Age: 27
Location: California

Happymeal wrote:

Hanson albums, any Hot Hot Heat album, Barenaked Ladies' discography, Crash Test Dummies, Goo Goo Dolls

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Anyhow, all of those, Train (I know all of the words to every song they played live when I saw them), Sigh No More, Any Man In America, Orchestral Maneouvers In The Dark, Airborne Toxic Event, blink-182, The Sun and The Moon, Vessel, Pretty Odd and Too Weird To Live both, Americana, Foiled, and OK Go's whole discog get not so great ratings here and elsewhere, but all of those except Train are on my overall chart.
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benpaco wrote:

Hello, you've just gained 1,000,000 benpaco points. These points are redeemable for nothing whatsoever, but you've received them nonetheless.

Anyhow, all of those, Train (I know all of the words to every song they played live when I saw them), Sigh No More, Any Man In America, Orchestral Maneouvers In The Dark, Airborne Toxic Event, blink-182, The Sun and The Moon, Vessel, Pretty Odd and Too Weird To Live both, Americana, Foiled, and OK Go's whole discog get not so great ratings here and elsewhere, but all of those except Train are on my overall chart.

In response, I love Train, Panic at the disco, OK Go, a few Blink - 182 albums (especially dude ranch), and Orchestral maneouvers (however, their early 80's work is highly praised and amazing).

EDIT: Also Brad Roberts (Crash test dummies) has the best voice ever.

benpaco
Who's gonna watch you die?

Age: 27
Location: California

Happymeal wrote:

In response, I love Train, Panic at the disco, OK Go, a few Blink - 182 albums (especially dude ranch), and Orchestral maneouvers (however, their early 80's work is highly praised and amazing).

EDIT: Also Brad Roberts (Crash test dummies) has the best voice ever.

lol I actually meant Blink's and OMD's eponymous releases, though as a whole their discogs are pretty good. Also yes he does, I love an untrained baritone voice and he's got one of the best.
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Precedent

Panic! At The Disco and Hot Hot Heat are great!

I like Lil Wayne, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lady GaGa (only her early work though), a bit of Ke$ha, etc.

It's all fun

newbands1

Gender: Male

I value the opinions on this forum and rym with more high regard than any other official critic.

nutso42

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Babel by Mumford & Sons

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Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles by Goo Goo Dolls

I own both these albums. On CD.

rayword45

Gender: Male
Age: 26

I'll edit this post later with specific albums, but right now I will admit I have a soft spot for Trap Rap.

I mean, jumping at a party to Us by Lil Reese or All My Niggas by Lil Herb or even Macaroni Time. THAT is fun stuff! And I'll admit that these songs are usually objectively horrible (especially Macaroni Time) but goddamn it's a blast to party to.

benpaco
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Age: 27
Location: California

nutso42 wrote:

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Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles by Goo Goo Dolls

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AgainstMeAgainstYou

Gender: Male
Age: 28
Location: Ajax, ON

If I recall correctly, Eagle-Eye Cherry's album Desireless has been dismissed routinely as "Save Tonight and a bunch of filler", but I've found it really enjoyable. Yes, ST is the best thing on the album, of course it is. But it's not like there are bad songs by any means. I'd say it's a bit influential for my musical style.