It was tainted the moment it was conceptualized.
Mumford is awful as well. They're on Nickleback's level.
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It was tainted the moment it was conceptualized.
Mumford is awful as well. They're on Nickleback's level.
IHaveCandy
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To be clear, I love Thriller. I just hate how it overshadows Off The Wall.
Syph Medwes
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What the fuck does that even mean?
I would say The Wall is more overrated (still absolutely amazing though), DSOTM is just so unique I don't see how it's "masturbatory."
Master of Puppets I would agree with. I think it's an excellent album, but I still place Ride the Lightning above it.
And who the hell actually thinks Illmatic is overrated? smh
IHaveCandy
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You guys don't masturbate to your favorite albums?
ColonelColon
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The Girl is Mine is better than Girlfriend imo.
Crimsonclaw111
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Overrated? My vote would go for the following:
AC/DC's Back in Black. I love the 3 songs that define the album (Hell's Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long, Back in Black) but Bon Scott AC/DC had better albums imo.
If Angus Young couldn't solo the band would be dead from chord repetition after 25 years.
AC/DC's Back in Black. I love the 3 songs that define the album (Hell's Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long, Back in Black) but Bon Scott AC/DC had better albums imo.
If Angus Young couldn't solo the band would be dead from chord repetition after 25 years.
IHaveCandy
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I like to pretend Paul McCartney is the unknowing boyfriend in Girlfriend, which is the better song too.
i deffo agree that non of these albums are bad, in fact, they're good, they''re too good and that's the problem. the albums are very enjoyable. i like them a lot. more than most other albums. but that's working against them.
i'm sort of into misery and disappointment. it's just a little too good and i need be upset with just okay. or good, but good that's bordering on average. simple, but simple enough. that's how i like it, the albums vis a vis music discs.
but actually i have some really good troll posts about big albums to ruffle some feathers. i might post those later and live up to who i am as a troll. i hope i get some of you in those traps. they'll be just okay owns. haha, we'll laugh.
i'm sort of into misery and disappointment. it's just a little too good and i need be upset with just okay. or good, but good that's bordering on average. simple, but simple enough. that's how i like it, the albums vis a vis music discs.
but actually i have some really good troll posts about big albums to ruffle some feathers. i might post those later and live up to who i am as a troll. i hope i get some of you in those traps. they'll be just okay owns. haha, we'll laugh.
OrlanisWorks
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That is absolutely... my god. Wow.
AC/DC Back in Black seconded. Technically, every album they ever released. Their drummer doesn't know how to drum and limits their ability to create music, like Lars Ulrich and Metallica. One bad musician brings down the entire group.
There are plenty of highly rated artists I think are terrible, Queen and Michael Jackson for example, but I think that's kind of missing the point, so I'm going to say:
It's a good album, I can understand why people like it, I like it too, but their third album is such a colossally better record, and it doesn't have close to the recognition of their first one, it always seems strange to me.
It's a good album, I can understand why people like it, I like it too, but their third album is such a colossally better record, and it doesn't have close to the recognition of their first one, it always seems strange to me.
Lowlander2
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In Rainbows. That people call this dull, limp effort a masterpiece equal to the brilliant OK Computer astounds me. It's not just overrated, I think it's actively bad.
Animal Collective sounds like four blokes doing completely random stuff IMO. I don't get how anyone can actually like the band, let alone praise them. I would say their only worthwile album is Strawberry Jam, because at least that one has some semblance of a good record, although I will never consider it as more than merely 'okay'.
sketchsanchez
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No, I mean I understood your explanation it's just...
it just seems like a totally dumb/pretentious answer to "what kind of stuff you like?"
I think I'm just old. All these sub sub sub genres seem exceptionally dumb to me.
Basically: Calling something you listen to "shoegaze" because of what the guitarist does on stage reminds me of calling certain bands "crabcore" because they crouch while playing. So dumb.
NinjaBoiX
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I fucking hate his voice so much, the fake breaking, as if he's so overcome with emotion, urgh.
And every song sounds really similar, fast banjo strumming, harmonious singing in unison, they are just so fucking boring man.
i am now dedicating the rest of my evening to listening to this album on repeat.
I'm pretty sure this thread was designed to kill me though so I should probably stay out while people spout their bad opinions.
ShinobiFist
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Some of the hate I don't understand. Is it hate on the genre or the fans?
NinjaBoiX
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Crazy talk. It contains the greatest cover of all time, Hallelujah. Cohen's original is trash, Buckley's version is utterly divine.
Man, that guy could sing.
Overrated? My vote would go for the following:
AC/DC's Back in Black. I love the 3 songs that define the album (Hell's Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long, Back in Black) but Bon Scott AC/DC had better albums imo.
If Angus Young couldn't solo the band would be dead from chord repetition after 25 years.
I have no fucking clue how this sold over 40m albums.
I hope you mean overrated as in "people say it's god-tier, but god could hotter lines". I'd disagree, but would accept that as a valid opinion.
Black Album is properly rated, and American Gangster is underrated. The rest, sure. Even Reasonable Doubt isn't as good as people say it is.
NinjaBoiX
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Yeah, it's better than I initially gave it credit for, but I still don't get what's so amazing about it. Kendrick's voice is irritating as hell, and some of the production is atrocious too.
You want a good hip hop record? Listen to one of these:
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
"Doctor Robert", "Tomorrow never knows", "Love you to" and "I'm only sleeping". It's a fine album, but to me they have some which are much better.
And that is compensated with stupid filler such as "Vera" or "Bring the boys back home", ugly songs like "Don't leave me now" and "The trial", and boring/mediocre songs ("Outside the wall", "One of my turns" "Run like hell").
"Comfortably numb" being one of their best songs in no way makes The Wall a great album. I really like "The narrow way, pt. 3" for example, yet I think Ummagumma is a steaming pile of shit, with only one track I like listening to.
Acrylic7
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are you serious? This is probably the only album off of the top of my head that I could say was a true masterpiece.
Has to be a joke post.
first 2 albums disagree.
and Infinite.
edgardavids
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When they make some songs with actual proper melodies, I enjoy them quite a bit. But their albums are basically all over the place imo. Stuff like "who could win a rabbit" and "winter's love" are fantastic as well as some of strawberry jam like you said.
Their new one for instance is utterly atrocious sounding and I dont know how people claim to like that experimental stuff (yes ive heard people say they like dense manatee). Different strokes i guess.
I basically disagree with 75% of this thread though. Pink floyd gets my thumbs up as long as we arent talking about animals.
its a beautiful album!
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
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I put down Merriweather, yet I completely agree with Kid A as being a 'near perfect' album.
Ignatz Mouse
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Came to post this.
Bel Marduk
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Are you sure you don't have dark side of the moon confused with the wall? Dsotm has pretty universal themes in terms of lyrical content. The wall , otoh, is in its entirety an ego trip by one person. Its about his own alienation from his fans. It was so masturbatory that it broke up the band...
I cannot agree that post-Cale VU is the best VU, sorry. Beyond that, it was first. There hadn't been anything like it in the mainstream before. It made a huge impression, both on young musicians, but also young music writers. The perennial problem for artists that make seminal works is trying to get out of their shadow.
SpartanForce
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all stuff that beatles have done
oh my gawwwwwwwwwdAlso:
A poor transition album between This Is a Long Drive and Moon & Antarctica with less soul than the former and much less refinement than the latter.
lonesome crowded west is probably the most underrated album of the past 15 years. this post made me a little upset.
also, smh at whoever said animal collective sounds like 4 guys doing random shit. their music is slow burning, but once you wrap your head around it, nothing will compare. i honestly hated everything outside of mpp when i first heard them, but i kept listening to their vast discography and realized just how great their stuff is.
Self-titled VU could have been just as good as the Cale-era VU albums if not for one man: Doug Yule. His vocal presence on the self-titled album and on Loaded will annoy the hell out of me until the end of time. Lou Reed was such an interesting vocalist in his prime back then, Doug Yule in comparison puts me to sleep.
Also I just appreciate the ruggedness that the Cale albums had.
I'm just saying that I've seen plenty of passionate music fans turn into cynical, bitter 30 year olds. It's inspiring to see people so passionate about music but its also depressing to see the same arrogant elitism that kept so many people I knew isolated.
kitchenmotors
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This piece of trash had every bandwagoner on its sack like there was no tomorrow. Glad this filth had been pushed into the farthest corners of irrelevance now. Not a single classic song came from this fecal matter.
I wouldn't go to that extreme, but it does pale in comparison to Miguel's Kaleidoscope Dream. But I completely agree about the bandwagoner bit.
Let me throw this one out there. I was SO disappointed by it, it really did nothing for me. Had such high hopes, especially after seeing them live.
Never gets enough love.
Muffdraul
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I didn't get that one either. I've never really heard anyone say anything about Nirvana's first album that isn't basically "It's OK, not as good as their later stuff."
equippedwithtowel
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In Rainbows is way better then Kid A.
Davey Cakes
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I really enjoy In Rainbows. It might be my favorite Radiohead album, but has stiff competition.
That said, those two albums are very different so a direct "A > B" comparison doesn't do them justice. I do think they're both far from overrated, regardless.
If anything, Kid A is rated exactly as it should be. When it first came out, people were really harsh in their criticisms because they wanted another OK Computer. Years later, upon reflection, Kid A was seen as brilliant and rightfully so; it showed that a band could change their sound while still keeping the music high quality. In the end it's the audience that's the problem. Being open-minded about music is way more rewarding in the end, because you can more easily appreciate the transformations over time of even your favorite artists.
So yeah, there's praise now but the praise wasn't always there. I think that's fair; Kid A had its journey and now it can rest.
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