Most overrated albums?

[dubfordessert]

Nirvana - Nevermind

[dubfordessert]

Not saying i didn't like it but i thought Kid A was far superior

Haha, I'm the exact opposite. Kid A was good, but OK Computer's the only Radiohead album I still bother listening to. The Bends can fuck right off.

WHAT.

sorry, no. the bends is amazing. granted it's fairly straightforward musically (the shame!) but it has Street Spirit on it ffs. as well as my iron lung, bones, the bends, bulletproof...

no. no.

NO.

[particle-jim]

Tbf the only radiohead albums I havent cared much for were pablo honey and in rainbows

[SCope13]

Mad controversial ect ect but... Nevermind. Just think its good, not the best album in the world as most people would have you believe.

Totally agree.

[wolf89]

Most of the bends is shit.

Ok computer has some well written songs

Kid a is the best. In rainbows is up there.

[PinUp]

Nirvana - Nevermind

It's just because it's the iconic grunge album that it gets so much hype.

I also like in rainbows, it was the album that got me in to radiohead so I owe some gratitude!

[magma]

Not saying i didn't like it but i thought Kid A was far superior

Haha, I'm the exact opposite. Kid A was good, but OK Computer's the only Radiohead album I still bother listening to. The Bends can fuck right off.

WHAT.

sorry, no. the bends is amazing. granted it's fairly straightforward musically (the shame!) but it has Street Spirit on it ffs. as well as my iron lung, bones, the bends, bulletproof...

no. no.

NO.

Maybe I was being a little bit extreme.

I'll give you Street Spirit, but when The Bends came out I filed them under "another indie band with some good singles" and carried on listening to my NOFX tapes - it wasn't really my scene and I don't think I realised how far indie would fall at that point... I mean, The Bends is still better than most guitar albums released in the last 20 years... but when I first heard Exit Music For A Film and Paranoid Android the top of my brain fell out.

I think I'm just not clever enough for Kid A.

[wolf89]

On nirvana.

Nevermind has some amazing song writing but it's a little too clean and had been hyped to the point it's hard to live up to it's reputation. In utero is my favorite from them

[particle-jim]

Most of the bends is shit.

Ok computer has some well written songs

Kid a is the best. In rainbows is up there.

I really liked hail to the theif and amnesiac, certainly more than in rainbows anyway

[dubfordessert]

some of kid a is a bit hard to get into but the National Anthem i always loved that bass line, and How To Disappear Completely is a strong contender for their best track ever. Idioteque is strong electronica, In Limbo is... interesting. From the way people say how cerebral it is you'd think it would be less accessible than it is imo.

fair enough though, the bends is not like their other output at all.

but let's not turn this into a Radiohead album comparisons thread...

[ytee]

I might be the only person that hates The Beatles, but ya overrated trash.

[Forum]

No one ever talks about Hail to the thief, i think the media had gone off them a bit when it came out after Kid A and Amnesiac so it hardly had any hype. I thought it was pretty good

[SCope13]

I might be the only person that hates The Beatles, but ya overrated trash.

I can understand the Beatles not being someone's thing, but I really don't know how someone can truly hate them. I mean you can't honestly listen to, say, Abbey Road and be like "this is terrible music"

[particle-jim]

Plenty of people dont like the beatles but you cant deny their huge influence on music, music today would be very different if the beatles never existed

[ytee]

Plenty of people dont like the beatles but you cant deny their huge influence on music, music today would be very different if the beatles never existed

I definitely respect what they have done for music...but I can't stand there music. Although the movie Help is brilliant.

[Forum]

Discovery anyone? Some of the blandest, most basic music i've ever heard

[magma]

Never Mind = Overrated by the mainstream, Underrated by Nirvana fans.

The Beatles have made such a wide range of music that I find it hard to believe anyone really thinks it's all "trash", but fair enough... it's hard to deny they changed the game... and they were the Chemical Brothers four years before the Chemical Brothers were even born too:

[dubfordessert]

No one ever talks about Hail to the thief, i think the media had gone off them a bit when it came out after Kid A and Amnesiac so it hardly had any hype. I thought it was pretty good

it took me a long time to get into hail to the thief but its solid.

i haven't listened to radiohead properly for ages, might have to have another "phase"

i like a few beatles tracks, but never had the urge to bother with them tbh. all about happiness is a warm gun

[scspkr99]

Overrated tune and album threads are kinda disappointing but w/e

[magma]

The First Kasabian album.
Apparently this was so overrated that I actually paid money for it despite it being a lager-can indie album released in the 00s... I think I probably played it once. Rubbish.

Dilla - Donuts
Not in any way shit in the slightest, in fact, it's pretty bloody good, but it's definitely overrated to heeeeeelll.

Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
If you put a sticker on your album calling the music "Stadium [insert genre]" you're overrated before you've even sold anything. GTFO with your fucking keytars too.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
More than passably decent but no way worthy of the praise it got and still seems to get.