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thenewborn
11-07-2005, 12:11
Ok this is where you give a list of any albums out at any time, that have either been overrated, or underrated, and your reasons. Heres my list!

Overrated
Nirvana - Nevermind

I think that it was a lucky time period to bring out the album, as tehre was nothing for the kids, but come on, too many think this album is the greatest ever, obviously helped by kurts death, proppelling him to martyrdom for some.

The Darkness - Permission to Land

If i wanted to hear this i would listen to thin lizzy, and his voice gets on my nerves.

Green Day - American Idiot

I was so dissapointed with this album, its really watered down compared to their older stuff, and its on all the time!!

Underrated
Skid Row - Subhuman Race

people hated it because it wasnt the same as their original 80s style metal, but still an amazing album, just much more aggressive

W.A.S.P (self titled)

Not many realise these were the originals!! Motley Crue etc completely ripped them off on their image, antics and music, and WASP get no credit, even though this album was amazing, and the fact that 20 odd years later Blackies voice is still as strong as ever, compared to Vince Neil etc.

Metallica - Load

This album was a great album, but the reason it was shunned by the fans was due to the fact it was a completely different from their thrash metal stylings of the 80s and the early 90s Black Album. Dont hold the fact that it usually looked down upon as a bad thing, this is a dam good record, jsut not classic metal.

Lickable
11-07-2005, 14:38
Underated:

Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Hybrid - Wide Angle

Greenback
11-07-2005, 15:26
Under-rated:

"Wake Up!" - Boo Radleys (great summer album, guaranteed to put a smile on your chops)

"13" - Blur (much better than it was ever given credit for)

"Rounds" - Four Tet (I suppose this kind of nerdy electronic music is never going to have mass-market appeal - but WOW!)

"The Great Eastern" - The Delgados (lovely effette pop)

Over-rated:

"What's the Story/Morning Glory" - Oasis (not a patch on Definitely Maybe)

"The Marshall Mathers LP" - Eminem (can never understand why he gets credit for being 'imaginative' when everything he does is painfully obvious)

Anything by Madonna or U2.

Captain_Scarlet
11-07-2005, 16:58
Originally posted by Lickable
Underated:

Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Hybrid - Wide Angle Prodigy owns !

Experience
Music for the Jilted Generation
Catsbreeder
Pyromaniac
Exctasy of Violence
Fat Mixes
Fat of the Land
Expanded
Dirtchamber Sessions
Always Outnumbered Never Outnumbered.

classics :) Nice to see someone with taste that doesn't listen to ColdPlay :gag: :gag:

Mod2
11-07-2005, 19:00
Under-rated:

T-rex:Slider

The Who: The kids are all right

PuressenceUK
11-07-2005, 20:14
Under-rated

'Only Forever' by Puressence

Over-Rated

Anything by the bland drivel that is Coldplay

miniminch
11-07-2005, 20:36
Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
Prodigy owns !

Always Outnumbered Never Outnumbered.

I don't think so!;)

Agent Gypo
11-07-2005, 20:49
Over-rated

Anything by Prodigy or Green Day.


Under-rated

Dead Kennedys' Frankenchrist or Joy Division's back catalogue

thenewborn
14-07-2005, 18:22
i really cant stand prodigy, i never saw anything about that them interested me

robbie
14-07-2005, 20:12
Underated:

Anything by Candidate, Lamb or Morcheeba


Overated

OASIS
New Radiohead and MSP

Longcol
14-07-2005, 23:21
Overrated;

Coldplay - they remind me of Genesis when Phil Collins was lead singer - harmless, easy listening but in an irritating sort of way, and in the end, eminently disposable- and the latest single sounds like filler off a Sting album.

And as much as I love his early stuff - anything Van Morrison has done since about 1975.

Agent Gypo
14-07-2005, 23:45
Coldplay make me physically sick. Please take your generic dirge elsewhere and never bother me again. Those idiots haven't got a clue what guitars were invented for.

Greenback
15-07-2005, 09:04
I know it's deeply unfashionable to admit it, but I can't help liking Coldplay. They got some good tunes!

Another one to add to the over-rated pile: Moby.

BoppinBruce
15-07-2005, 09:20
As a child of, well, before the 60's, overrated, anything by The Beatles, Underrated, The list would be far too long for this posting.

Phanerothyme
15-07-2005, 10:08
Underrated albums?

Out of the Blue - ELO

Gondwanaland - Steroid Maximus

Albumen - The Egg


Overrated Albums? Don't have any :)

Fantomas
15-07-2005, 10:31
Underrated

The Auteurs - After Murder Park
Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Cardiacs - Sing to God (parts 1 &2)
Living Colour - Time's Up
Leatherface - Minx



Overrated

Oasis - take your pick!
Smashing Pumpkins - anything after Siamese Dream
Green Day - American Idiot

JA5E
15-07-2005, 21:12
Underated: Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern

Overated: Darkness - Permission to Land