Most Overrated Pink Floyd Album

Vompatti wrote: ^ "More" overrated? It's objectively their best one and hardly gets any praise.

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

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!

For me all Pink Floyd albums(excepted More and Obscured by Clouds) are best and not are overrated but overplayed for their artsy beauty

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!!!!     

I would argue that Roger Waters and David Gilmour have underrated Atom Heart Mother, and that Ron Geesin has deserved more recognition and respect.

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.  

This one. Unreleased of course

Edited by siLLy puPPy - July 21 2017 at 21:12

Operation Mindcrime and Scenes From A Memory, aarrrgghhh. So overrated, doesn't even compare to Sgt Piper's Lonely Gates Dawn Band. 

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.