[Music] Most over-rated albums

[WildWood]

I have a record shop, and have nearly been chased out of it on numerous occasions when I announce that everything by Dylan leaves me cold..!!
Personally, I've tried listening to Van Morrison - Astral Weeks over & over again thinking it must be me, but I just can't see what all the fuss is about!!

 

[Is it PotG?]

I have a record shop, and have nearly been chased out of it on numerous occasions when I announce that everything by Dylan leaves me cold..!!
Personally, I've tried listening to Van Morrison - Astral Weeks over & over again thinking it must be me, but I just can't see what all the fuss is about!!

Ii like to think I have at least one album I enjoy by most artists, but Dylan and Morrison do make it difficult for me.

 

[Weststander]

Tough one this. I'll spare you all further comment on the Beatles, or my huge dislike of Queen. Can't agree with the nomination of Bat Out of Hell. It was panned by the critics and has risen above that because it's huge fun. Few songwriters can match Jim Steinman for a sense of humour, that's very rare in songs that aren't specifically comic.

Tempted by 'Rumours', but I think that's unfair as although it's a style of music that I'm not keen on, it's probably the pinnacle ofthat style. I'll settle on 'Thriller'. I like 'Off The Wall', but found the follow up far less funky, far less interesting and took a dislike because it was just ubiquitous and every critic fell on their knees in front of it.

The same for me with movies, huge hype and adulation at the time, often means it’s a relative let down for me, plus the contrarian in me goes against the tide.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

(What's the Story) Morning Glory ?

Rubbish (imo of course)

 

[WildWood]

Ii like to think I have at least one album I enjoy by most artists, but Dylan and Morrison do make it difficult for me.

& I don't mind a bit of folk on occasion either. (check out Tim Hardin if you haven't already & you're a Weller fan..!)

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The same for me with movies, huge hype and adulation at the time, often means it’s a relative let down for me, plus the contrarian in me goes against the tide.

There's a common pattern that an artist's best album is greeted relatively coldly, and then the follow up is much more critically/commercially successful and much worse.

 

[Weststander]

I have a record shop, and have nearly been chased out of it on numerous occasions when I announce that everything by Dylan leaves me cold..!!
Personally, I've tried listening to Van Morrison - Astral Weeks over & over again thinking it must be me, but I just can't see what all the fuss is about!!

With VM, I think it’s simply that his genre or unique genre … jazz/blues/folk with a Ulster twist just doesn’t do anything for me as a package, it’s dull, every song sounds the same to me.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Led Zeppelin IV. About half of it's shite.

Actually, basically all the Led Zeppelin albums I've heard.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

(Armour at the ready) …. I tried, but I just can’t get into Pet Sounds, it just doesn’t do anything for me. I love 60’s music and some Beach Boys singles.

I can't agree with this enough.
Imagine I've written about three other posts, all agreeing with it (I briefly considered doing that but decided it might come across as insane).

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Don't start me.

Ok....

All Dylan
All Beatles
All Stones except Aftermath
All Greatful Dead.
Iron Butterfly Innagaddanothanksmate
All Queen except the first album
Bat out of smell
All Floyd after Obscured by clouds
Hotel California
All Hawkwind except that single
The Dead Kennedys
All Johnny Cougar Mellonsmell
All Abba
All Dianna Ross
Lady in Red
And of course Elvis

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I can't agree with this enough.
Imagine I've written about three other posts, all agreeing with it (I briefly considered doing that but decided it might come across as insane).

Pet Sounds is a great album

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Pet Sounds is a great album

No it's not.
Deal with it.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

With VM, I think it’s simply that his genre or unique genre … jazz/blues/folk with a Ulster twist just doesn’t do anything for me as a package, it’s dull, every song sounds the same to me.

VM made several brilliant albums before 1975.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

No it's not.
Deal with it.

Yes it is.
You deal with it

 

[HangletonGull]

Everything u2 and pink Floyd have done

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

No it's not.
Deal with it.

Touche

 

[keaton]

I love the Beatles (in fact I'm buying lots of the McCartney/Wings solo stuff at the mo) but I've better really got Sgt Pepper and would never choose to play that.

Love the Stones too but Exile on Main Street is gubbins

 

[Weststander]

Don't start me.

Ok....

All Dylan
All Beatles
All Stones except Aftermath
All Greatful Dead.
Iron Butterfly Innagaddanothanksmate
All Queen except the first album
Bat out of smell
All Floyd after Obscured by clouds
Hotel California
All Hawkwind except that single
The Dead Kennedys
All Johnny Cougar Mellonsmell
All Abba
All Dianna Ross
Lady in Red
And of course Elvis

Finally, after lost decades, someone who feels the same about that bloody Eagles album.

But Lady In Red, that will upset the romantics on this forum .

 

[BN9 BHA]

By most commercial, I think you mean best. None of these albums was overrated. These artists made other great albums for sure, but the ones you mention are when the act got everything right. Through the lens of time and perhaps over familiarity it may seem otherwise, but over rated they aren't.

The op is 100% correct about Brothers in Arms

 

[Stato]

I have a record shop, and have nearly been chased out of it on numerous occasions when I announce that everything by Dylan leaves me cold..!!
Personally, I've tried listening to Van Morrison - Astral Weeks over & over again thinking it must be me, but I just can't see what all the fuss is about!!

It was the owner of a record shop that I thank for loving 'Astral Weeks'. In a shop in Poole, he was like a character out of Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity'. I tried to buy the first album by the Black Rebels Motor Cycle Club and he wouldn't sell it to me. He told me it was a crap Jesus & Mary Chain rip off. When I picked up 'Astral Weeks' he was happy to let me have that. He was an odd type, but he was right about 'Astral Weeks', fantastic album. He was right about BRMC too. I bought it from a charity shop some years later and it was dreary.