Most overrated albums

I'm sure it's been said a couple times at least, but Pink Floyd's The Wall (and, to a lesser degree, Animals).  Another board I frequent is filled to the brim with hipsters who heap unending amounts of praise on these two albums, particularly Animals. 

For me, The Wall is, in the most literal sense of the word, a monotonous album.  Every song has the same feel and the same general sound (and not in a good way) at the same tempo with the same themes, and it goes on for 80 minutes.  There are some good songs on the album ("Run Like Hell" and "Waiting for the Worms" are my favorites), but the album really just comes off more as Roger Waters' glorified bitch-fest.

Animals, meanwhile, has some strong passages, but I have some similar issues with it as I do with The Wall.  Musically, it's much more guitar-centric than I like from Pink Floyd, and while Nick Mason was hardly ever an exceptional drummer, he comes off as more of a metronome than anything else.  Add into that Waters' lyrics (which I've never been wild about), and I get a somewhat disappointing album.  (I really am quite fond of "Sheep," though.)

Don't misunderstand me - I have a generally positive opinion on Animals (I'd give it a solid 3.5/5), and I think The Wall is alright (somewhere around 2.5 or 3).  However, I just don't think they're the masterpieces they're often hyped to be.

Anything by Tool,Agalloch and anything not named Morningrise by Opeth.

of prog

Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

King Crimson - In The Court Of Crimson King

Yes - Fragile, Close To The Edge, Relayer

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, The Wall

Gentle Giant - Three Friends

the rest

everything by Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin (maybe without Hoses Of The Holy).

Moon Safari-Lover's End
Il Tempio Delle Clessidre
Ciccada-A Child In The Mirror
Lunatic Soul-Lunatic Soul II

Billy Pilgrim wrote: InClouds wrote: People do have different opinions and different tastes, you know.  Why do some people act as if their judgement of music (or any art form) is objective and absolute?  I just don't get it.  The value of something is something that is subjectively determined; value is not an inherent characteristic of anything.  It seems fairly pointless to say things like "how could anybody possibly like this?" when everybody is going to interpret different aspects of something in different ways. Sometimes bad is bad. Surely you don't think Justin Bieber or the Backstreet Boys have any talent or anything to offer the art of music. Yet they have fans and it boggles my mind. Pink Floyd is great and I'm not comparing them to a pop band or anything, but they're overated in my book because none of them are very good at there instrument. Only high point is lyrics.

Eärendil wrote:

King Winter wrote: That's true, In The Court is more influential than "Masterpiece"... Most interesting albums from KC are in the 72-74 period.

"In the Court" is not even that influential. in the way "from now on many other groups wanted to make albums like that". there are several albums which were recorded at about the same time that were quite simjilr.
interestingly there is one band for which "TCOTCK was very influential, and that band was Genesis, as can be read in the Genesis book by Armando Gallo but I  think on the whole the album is overrated as "influence". there was a lot of similar stuff around at the time; had ITCOTCK not be made prog would have happened nevertheless

All the albums of Pink Floid and Rush