Most overrated albums

True that Godbluff isn't the best VDGG album like some people say, but it's still a masterpiece.  Not as much experimentation, but it has VDGG's tightest and most mature compositions in their career.

Blacksword wrote: After 6 years...yes, six years!! of picking people up on the old overated malarkey, I have no fight left in me, and simply join in. No one would listen to word I say anyway. At least I can say anything, without fear of any retribution...

Nobody is above retribution...

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psarros wrote: I think LE ORME's ''Felona e sorona'' is way too overrated...Great concept,but musically speaking the previous two works of the band were a lot better.

Felona e sorona is still a great album by itself-i could never see it as over-rated

Rocktopus wrote: 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.

I definitely agree about "Animals"

In the Court is revered for being the first true prog album, but 40 years on, it's pretty poor, Epitaph and the title track excepted.

The Wall isn't great, Godbluff leaves me cold (like all VDGG) and I completely fail to see why anything by PFM or Banco is so revered - their albums are 3* at best. Script is a bit overrated; I prefer Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws (but why didn't Script have Market Square Heroes on it??)

Moonmadness isn't as quite as good as The Snow Goose but that's like saying Rafael Nadal isn't quite as good as Roger Federer; it's still brilliant. ITLOGAP in my favourite Caravan album and nearly merits 5*.

But the album that gets my vote as most overrated is Harmonium's Si On Avait............etc. It's pleasant enough but never a masterpiece in a million years.

The entire catalogue of Depeche Mode. They're good band band but not that good.

As for prog album, I won't even start naming them.

Thirteen albums here are all great, but since they are rated higher than number fourteen, they qualify as overrated by definition, imho.  

Edited by Ronnie Pilgrim - June 24 2010 at 12:25

Ronnie Pilgrim wrote: Thirteen albums here are all great, but since they are rated higher than number fourteen, they qualify as overrated by definition, imho.

Hercules wrote: In the Court is revered for being the first true prog album, but 40 years on, it's pretty poor, Epitaph and the title track excepted. The Wall isn't great, Godbluff leaves me cold (like all VDGG) and I completely fail to see why anything by PFM or Banco is so revered - their albums are 3* at best. Script is a bit overrated; I prefer Fugazi, Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws (but why didn't Script have Market Square Heroes on it??) Moonmadness isn't as quite as good as The Snow Goose but that's like saying Rafael Nadal isn't quite as good as Roger Federer; it's still brilliant. ITLOGAP in my favourite Caravan album and nearly merits 5*. But the album that gets my vote as most overrated is Harmonium's Si On Avait............etc. It's pleasant enough but never a masterpiece in a million years.

but "In the Court of the Crimson King" is not really the first true prog album, at least definitely not in the way "this is the album that started it all", as some people claim. had there been no "In the Copurt of the Crimson King" prog would have started nevertheless at the same time; many bands were already doing similar things. the German prog scene goes back to 1967, but German bands had an inferiority complex and did not dare to publish an album. had it not been for Amon Düül's "Psychedelic Underground" Krautrock might never have happened, but after that album no band needed to have an ifneriority complex; they could certainly not be worse than that.
as to "Epitaph": in my opinion the worst track on "In the Court of the Crimson King"


Edited by BaldJean - June 24 2010 at 12:58