Most overrated albums

Rocktopus wrote: yanch wrote: This may get me in hot water, but I also think Tales From Topographic Oceans is overrated. It's an awesome concept, but I can't even listen to The Remembering and The Ancients. As much as I like yes those two tracks just do nothing for me. An album ridiculed for about 27 years, and featured in the top ten of every "worst album in the world... ever" lists ever made, overrated? I feel like I'm one of millions of people not liking it.

Well, you see for me, 'Tales' is vastly under-rated; ie an album I really like, yet so many others don't... ergo (and again) I'm right & they're wrong

Could it be that musical taste is subjective?

Jim Garten wrote: Good old 'overrated' eh? Over-rated = an album I don't like as much as a lot of other people do, therefore I'm right & they're wrong.

True! I never actually understood how great this overrated-concept really is until now.

For me its Wish You Were Here and Animals. Yawn.

yanch wrote: This may get me in hot water, but I also think Tales From Topographic Oceans is overrated. It's an awesome concept, but I can't even listen to The Remembering and The Ancients. As much as I like yes those two tracks just do nothing for me.

An album ridiculed for about 27 years, and featured in the top ten of every "worst album in the world... ever" lists ever made, overrated?

I feel like I'm one of millions of people not liking it.

Blacksword wrote: I have to disagree about Moving Pictures. It remains my favourite Rush album.

I'm not keen on the 'The Land of Grey and Pink' either. It's ok, but I cant really see what the fuss is about.

I have to disagree about Moving Pictures. It remains my favourite Rush album.

I think Moonmadness is the best album Camel ever made.

For me, Brain Salad Surgery by ELP, and Relayer by Yes, dont catch my ear, like I feel they should, considering the adoration they get.

Vompatti wrote: Looking at the top 10, I'd say: Selling England by the Pound - two brilliant songs, the rest is pretty average Genesis stuff. Close to the Edge - great album, but nowhere near as great as Relayer. Dark Side of the Moon - one of the least interesting Floyd albums. The production is flawless (even a bit too flawless), but The Great Gig in the Sky is the only song on the album that shows some originality.

Looking at the top 10, I'd say:

Selling England by the Pound - two brilliant songs, the rest is pretty average Genesis stuff.

Close to the Edge - great album, but nowhere near as great as Relayer.

Dark Side of the Moon - one of the least interesting Floyd albums. The production is flawless (even a bit too flawless), but The Great Gig in the Sky is the only song on the album that shows some originality.

1. I'd rather say that Pawn Hearts is somewhat overrated. At least I don't  understand the doting upon this album, which consists of one solid prog track, one masterpiece track and a from a musical point of view rather disjointed epic in which good and poor passages alternate. It is a good album, but this band has created at least three albums that are far better. One of these albums is Godbluff.

Close to the Edge. really a good album, and I would give it four stars anytime, but by far not the epitome of prog that it is always depicted as. "Relayer" is a much better album.
the same is true for "In the Court of the Crimson King". yes, yes, a good album, but a far better one was to come, which is "Lizard". actually  I believe that many people who give it 5 stars don't like the final 10 minutes of "Moonchild" at all, and they make up about 25% of the album, so how these people who don't like it can give the album 5 stars is beyond me. I like "Moonchild", by the way, but "Epitaph" is a bit soggy, so the album only gets 4 stars from me. "Lizard", on the other hand, is very underrated

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