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Blaqua
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Topic: Most Overrated Pink Floyd Album Posted: July 27 2017 at 18:34 |
The Animals, currently 9th in the top100! Sheep sounds dark and
haunting, the rest just doesn’t grip me.
When it comes to the Wall, I don't share the bad criticism by
several posters. It's one of the best concept albums, very varied and multifaceted,
with many great tracks, Mother, Comfortably Numb, Run like hell etc.
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 25 2017 at 13:58 |
The Wall.......one or two good tracks and the rest is mediocre. Atom Heart Mother....some nice bits but the rest just kind of rambles along.
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Rednight
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Posted: July 25 2017 at 12:09 |
Oh, that would have to be Animules. Just a non-event after what had preceded it (imho). It makes The Wall look good, and that would have been my choice had it not existed.
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uduwudu
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Posted: July 22 2017 at 05:30 |
The problem with this over rating / underrating lark is the real target. If someone harps on about Sgt Pepper, DSOTM, Wall or whatever it's their problem. If something is payed to death the music is still fine just your perception had been negated.
It's an attack on you the listener, it's provocative. If Dark Side is overrated it mean its very popular. This would mean all these attributions are valid and eternal; no dissenting opinions will be tolerated. It gets .. progressively worse... As Logan pointed out people confuse "best" with "favourite" and this just causes more confusion. But perceptions and beliefs have all that emotional investment and other points of view are not to be considered. Security blanket syndrome and dogma substitutes for rational debate. Very tedious.
Nothing really is overrated, matter of fact everything is underrated.
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Posted: July 22 2017 at 02:33 |
twalsh wrote:
I personally find The Wall inconsistent and musically ugly. |
the problem with The Wall is about the same as with The Lamb >> too long and uneven I'm always wondering how perfect an album TW (and Lamb) might've been as a single LP, if the selection had been more drastic. There are lengths in the Wall and tracks which are relatively weak and unessential (especially on side 3 between Hey You and Comfortably Numb), and some tracks are about double the length they need to be (Mother is the most obvious one, Empty Spaces also, but to a lesser extent) Did Comfy Numb need to go around a second time, or could it have been stopped at the first round? My selection below is made not only from the tracks I like, but those that are indispensible in the concept. in italic, the songs I would've shortened and their new length (this is totally arbitrary, of course)1. In The Flesh? (3:17) 2. The Thin Ice (2:28) 3. Another Brick In The Wall Part 1 (3:41) 5. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 (3:56) 6. Mother (2:32) 7. Goodbye Blue Sky (2:48) 8. Empty Spaces (3:36) 9. Young Lust (2:03) 12. Another Brick In The Wall Part 3 (1:17) 1. Hey You (4:39) 6. Comfortably Numb (3:49) 8. In The Flesh (4:16) 9. Run Like Hell (4:22) 10. Waiting For The Worms (3:56) 11. Stop (0:34) 12. The Trial (5:16) Sure it would've been still too long for a single Lp, but then again
Genesis albums showed you could cram in around 25 minutes per vinyl
side.
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Thatfabulousalien
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Posted: July 22 2017 at 00:23 |
Operation Mindcrime and Scenes From A Memory, aarrrgghhh. So overrated, doesn't even compare to Sgt Piper's Lonely Gates Dawn Band.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 23:33 |
I love Floyd. Yeah, Fanboy right here. I don't think they ever released a dud album (but, weaker albums for me, across the board, have been Obscured and Momentery Lapse - both 3 stars). Most overrated ?? Probs Dark Side ; though excellent, ratings and opinions a waaaay overblown.
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 21:11 |
This one. Unreleased of course
Edited by siLLy puPPy - July 21 2017 at 21:12
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 17:41 |
I love the inconsistency/ contrasts of The Wall. To each his or her own... Goodbye Blue Sky....
Off-topic reminiscing: The Wall has been such a special to me album from the day my brother first brought it home. I was shocked by the album art and delighted by the music which I felt really naughty to be listening to (like the day I first saw a... never mind. I guess I needed a dirty woman). ....When I lined up overnight with friends to get tickets to The Wall in '86 and someone was playing the album, and we were all singing along to it..... Such good times. It was a long night, we also did do other Pink Floyd albums.
Edited by Logan - July 21 2017 at 17:43
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twalsh
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 17:23 |
I'm responding from a totally subjective standpoint. Everybody who knows Pink Floyd knows The Wall (and yes DSOTM). I personally find The Wall inconsistent and musically ugly.
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 10:53 |
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Logan
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 10:47 |
I would argue that Roger Waters and David Gilmour have underrated Atom Heart Mother, and that Ron Geesin has deserved more recognition and respect.
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 10:18 |
DSOTM and Atom Heart Mother may be slightly overrated.
I don't personally like The Wall, but still reluctant to call it "overrated".
Don't agree that Animals is overrated; about where it should be (at least on PA)
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 09:06 |
hmmm the overrated Floyd album well the task ahead isn't for the faint hearted as some of the albums are iconic era making albums we all have our favourites among them! lets take one say "The Wall" you ever hate it or you love it! but like M27Barney and moshkito have both chosen two iconic album to which I personnel I don't think ever album is overrated we`ll never see the poll which tops the said ANWSER!!!!
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Posted: July 21 2017 at 00:32 |
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
DSOTM ... where production makes the album bigger and better than it really is. After that ... I would say The Wall, although I would rather have heard the complete version (with the stuff from TFC), instead of a hacksaw version of a story that barely made sense to constipated ideas and fans! |
Yes, I agree, the best production job - of it's era! I like "Any colour you like" - but the rest is mediocre. I have 2000 better CD's in my collection. ho-hum (captcha-aaaaaargh)
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Posted: July 20 2017 at 09:49 |
For me all Pink Floyd albums(excepted More and Obscured by Clouds) are best and not are overrated but overplayed for their artsy beauty
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: July 20 2017 at 09:43 |
I think that everyone should distinguish between OVERRATED and OVERPLAYED. Sometimes overexposure can make us forget how awesome an album is.
OVERRATED: The Final Cut OVERPLAYED: Pretty much everything that sold a billion albums or more
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Posted: July 20 2017 at 09:19 |
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
DSOTM ... where production makes the album bigger and better than it really is. After that ... I would say The Wall, although I would rather have heard the complete version (with the stuff from TFC), instead of a hacksaw version of a story that barely made sense to constipated ideas and fans! |
100% agree.
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Posted: July 20 2017 at 09:01 |
^^^ I like the quote in your sig..
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Logan
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Posted: July 20 2017 at 08:59 |
Overrated means assessed or valued too highly (OED).
Too hold something in too high esteem, possibly out of ignorance.
I've been saying this for years here so I probably sounds like a broken record to some, but one can deem that a group or individual has overrated something and be objective in your method of assessment of how they assess it (say within specific frameworks of analysis).
I think it generally best to claim something is overrated by a group or an individual when speaking specifics. For instance, if someone claims that The Flower Kings is the most important band in Prog, and without the Flower Kings the Progressive Rock music movement would never have been born, that person has overrated the significance of The Flower Kings. As another case, someone claims that x musician is the best ever, yet one can point out technical flaws on the performance. That person has probably confused best with favourite. And frankly who could make such a claim without hearing everyone and being an expert, and even then it would be debatable. In some cases I believe that errors can be generally held as true. They say that history is written by the victors, and I suspect that there are many historical figures who are widely overrated. They didn't accomplish all that was claimed. I was listening to a podcast on Trump last night where the guest made all sorts of grand claims about Trump, and just based on what I know and what makes sense to me, I think that that person was holding Trump in too high a regard (overrating him).
Edited by Logan - July 20 2017 at 09:01
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