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DJTommy
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- Posted: 07/22/2017 17:49
- Post subject: Most overrated and underrated album on BEA?
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It's simple: What do you think is the most overrated album on BEA (as in position on the overrall chart) and the underrated album on BEA?
My choises would be:
Overrated: The Wall by Pink Floyd
Don't understand why this is so liked. It does have a few really good tracks ("Comfortably Numb" is undeniably a masterpiece) but way too much of it I just find to be pompous, overblown and obnoxious. Overall it's just okay, but IMO it was the beginning of the group's weak period (which would last 'till they broke up). They put out many better albums and I'd prefer Animals taking its spot instead.
(Dis)Hounerable mentions: Any highly ranked Rolling Stones album, Arcade Fire - The Suburbs, Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Queen - A Night at the Opera and David Bowie - Hunky Dory (get Low higer than it!)
Underrated: Spiderland by Slint
I know this is fairly high (top 200) but it's in my personal top 20. It's always got an unsettling atmosphere and really well shows the feeling of social alienation and whatnot (especially in "Don, Aman"). That's my best attempt at describing it. "Washer" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard and I don't think I've ever heard "Good Morning, Captain" without getting goosebumps. A masterpiece.
Hounerable mentions: Most Godspeed You! Black Emperor albums, DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....., Madvillain - Madvillainy (and many other MF DOOM albums), Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and GZA - Liquid Swords.
If you really want to you can choose more than one.
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- #2
- Posted: 07/22/2017 21:37
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Most overrated: Either Rubber Soul or Revolver
Most underrated: Probably Variations in Dream-time (Anthony Davis) ... One of the most astonishing masterpieces (Classical, Rock or Jazz) of the last hundred years (or more) yet hardly anyone has heard it (ranked #9439)
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- Posted: 07/23/2017 07:07
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OK Computer Radiohead
The Wall. Pink Floyd
Velvet Underground & Nico
The Bends Radiohead
Is this it The Strokes
The Joshua Tree. U2
Pink moon Nick Drake
The Queen Is Dead Smiths
Grace Jeff Buckley
Purple Rain Prince
Rain Dogs Tom Waits
Underrated. Everything else
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bobbyb5
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- #6
- Posted: 07/23/2017 07:12
- Post subject: Re: Most overrated and underrated album on BEA?
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| DJTommy wrote: | It's simple: What do you think is the most overrated album on BEA (as in position on the overrall chart) and the underrated album on BEA?
My choises would be:
Overrated: The Wall by Pink Floyd
Don't understand why this is so liked. It does have a few really good tracks ("Comfortably Numb" is undeniably a masterpiece) but way too much of it I just find to be pompous, overblown and obnoxious. Overall it's just okay, but IMO it was the beginning of the group's weak period (which would last 'till they broke up). They put out many better albums and I'd prefer Animals taking its spot instead.
(Dis)Hounerable mentions: Any highly ranked Rolling Stones album, Arcade Fire - The Suburbs, Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Queen - A Night at the Opera and David Bowie - Hunky Dory (get Low higer than it!)
Underrated: Spiderland by Slint
I know this is fairly high (top 200) but it's in my personal top 20. It's always got an unsettling atmosphere and really well shows the feeling of social alienation and whatnot (especially in "Don, Aman"). That's my best attempt at describing it. "Washer" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard and I don't think I've ever heard "Good Morning, Captain" without getting goosebumps. A masterpiece.
Hounerable mentions: Most Godspeed You! Black Emperor albums, DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....., Madvillain - Madvillainy (and many other MF DOOM albums), Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and GZA - Liquid Swords.
If you really want to you can choose more than one. |
All the ones you chose as underrated are actually rated pretty high
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DJTommy
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- #7
- Posted: 07/23/2017 09:11
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| bobbyb5 wrote: | | All the ones you chose as underrated are actually rated pretty high |
If these albums are not even in the top 100 they're not high enough. I guess I could add some lower ranked Miles Davis records like On the Corner and Jack Johnson if we're going a bit lower.
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- Posted: 07/23/2017 10:46
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The most overrated records in the top 100:
1. Nevermind - I'd have no problem seeing it in the lower part of the top 100, but top 10 is ridiculous.
2. The Queen Is Dead - and The Smiths in general are a bit overhyped here.
3. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
And a lot more of the picks are slightly overrated.
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- #9
- Posted: 07/23/2017 11:43
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| Daydreamer wrote: | The most overrated records in the top 100:
1. Nevermind - I'd have no problem seeing it in the lower part of the top 100, but top 10 is ridiculous. |
Totally agree with this.
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- #10
- Posted: 07/23/2017 14:53
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Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. That placement is ridiculous.
Also, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, anything by Led Zep, Ten, Automatic For The People, probably those two Oasis records, Back In Black, and Absolution. And even as far as Radiohead goes, Amnesiac in our top 100 is weird.
Yuck.
Most underrated is a list of thousands.
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