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This is just going to be a personal taste, slap fight.....and I will throw hands: Any Beatles album that fits this category. It's not that it's bad, but I don't see why any of them are considered masterpieces.
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Beatles- Revolver I don't think it is awful but I don't really get why it is so highly rated. It didn't make my top 100 list of 60s albums when I worked on that project a few years back with a group of people.
Neutral Milk Hotel- In An Aeroplane Over the Sea. Maybe I'll revisit it someday. Sometimes I'll change my mind on a second listen. Hated it the first time though.
Neutral Milk Hotel- In An Aeroplane Over the Sea. Maybe I'll revisit it someday. Sometimes I'll change my mind on a second listen. Hated it the first time though.
Do I need to post a giant image or can I just say everything Jack White has ever done
I'm The Crab Man
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Flowerboy by Tyler the Creator. It was a good album for the most part, but it never was the best Tyler album compared to all the other ones.
Automatic For the People by REM.
I do think it's a genuinely good album, but it's also where REM began to take on a more polished and radio friendly tone. I still wish Monster had gotten more recognition on release
Also, Aqualung by Jethro Tull I think is just a meh to average album. I'm a huge Tull fan, but I find myself hardly listening to this one, much preferring their folk years and Eastern-influenced years.
I do think it's a genuinely good album, but it's also where REM began to take on a more polished and radio friendly tone. I still wish Monster had gotten more recognition on release
Also, Aqualung by Jethro Tull I think is just a meh to average album. I'm a huge Tull fan, but I find myself hardly listening to this one, much preferring their folk years and Eastern-influenced years.
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Nevermind (Nirvana).
Not just putting down Nirvana, I like In Utero quite a bit.
Not just putting down Nirvana, I like In Utero quite a bit.
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I nominate all of Led Zeppelin's catalog of plagiarized aural feces.
I concur. Nevermind was Nirvana's weakest studio album IMHO, despite being a damn good album nonetheless.
As for the single most overrated album of all time ...
It's a great album (a solid 8/10 any day of the week IMHO), but it's hardly the GOAT that so many Gen Xers seem to think it is. I can't help but wonder if it'd still be held up on a pedestal had Jeff not joined the 27 Club.
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Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast.
It's actually one of my least favourite albums of theirs, ever.
It's actually one of my least favourite albums of theirs, ever.
I've always found it curious that so many people are willing to call Zep the best band ever, but can only name two of their albums (Usually ZOSO and Physical Graffiti, sometimes Led Zeppelin III) as classics. Hell, a lot will outright pretend their last two albums (In Through the Out Door and Coda) didn't happen, and some will even go "Lolwut" when you mention them.
Aw man someone already said Beatles and Nevermind by Nirvana, so I'll have to throw down on anything and everything by Kiss. Dudes coming along dressed to the 9s for some heavy death metal shit and come at you with "I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night" is just a weak look and it makes it doubly funny to me that religious folks got all up in arms about them because it's like "just wait till Cannibal Corpse comes out....."
I agree. Mostly because Smells Like Teen Spirit got way overplayed. In Utero was a superior album, or their unplugged album. Although when it comes to grunge bands I think there were far better ones. Like Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.
Fear Inoculum by Tool was pretty overrated, ya it had some good songs but is a pale whisper compared to their earlier releases.
Damn, you all took my pick! Nevermind wasn't bad, there were some crackers on there but for me, its when Nirvana got really commercial and to this day I can hardly stand to hear 'Come As You Are' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' more than maybe once a year
Never tire of In Utero or Bleach, personally love Incesticide but Unplugged in New York is perfection imo
So here's my second choice.... I just don't get the love for this album myself
Agree with that! For me, 'Iron Maiden' is fantastic but 'Killers' is absolutely sublime...I'm a Di'Anno girl, what can I say...
Agreed, kind of. Huge Tyler fan here and had some of this albums songs on my chill playlist since this album leaked, but the album itself just doesn't flow as well as you'd imagine it might. Like, "See You Again" and "911/Mr. Lonely" are beautiful songs with great direction, A$AP Rocky has a great feature and so does Lil Wayne surprisingly. However it's chopped up by a few ok songs and Tyler dropping some "Wolf"-esque verses on a project that's very much it's own thing.
Overall, Tyler's second best album. Classic OF is very hard to top.
Master of Puppets isn't the best Metallica album. The title track is a classic, but much of the rest of it just merges into the same poorly-mixed muddy riff. Ride the Lightning is much better - better production, better performances, more variety in the songs. And call me a poser but I'd rather listen to the Black Album too.
Seconding @EvaBraunsGhost about Dark Side of the Moon - a very, very good album, but not as good (imo) as The Wall or Wish you Were Here. It has great high points but doesn't maintain its standards all the way through the way other classic Floyd albums do.
Seconding @EvaBraunsGhost about Dark Side of the Moon - a very, very good album, but not as good (imo) as The Wall or Wish you Were Here. It has great high points but doesn't maintain its standards all the way through the way other classic Floyd albums do.
Is it cheating to say anything by Beyonce? Pretty much every single album she's ever released is just pop music that any diva could make, but critics and fans alike herald her as some sort of goddess who has never made a bad song.
