Most overrated albums

Based on this You should be able to say : the highest rated albums, with less than 200 , but still more than 100 ratings  (to keep out the most unknown acts)

Edited by tamijo - June 16 2012 at 09:20

Snow Dog wrote: No, I think he has something.

Dean wrote: I could care even less for what someone who dislikes all post rock thinks of Sigor Rós

I hope you don't think that's me...I'm not a fan by any means, but what I've heard is quite pleasant.

Dean wrote:  someone's missed the point.

Oh, Dean, I know what your point is, I'm just choosing to ignore it: everyone is always wrong all the time.  That's your point.

Epignosis wrote: I don't mind the terms "overrated" and "underrated."  We imply that an album is one or the other almost every time we issue a rating. If album A has a 4.52 average rating and I rate it a three, I have effectively said, "This album is overrated." If album B has a 2.37 average rating and I rate it a four, I have effectively said, "This album is underrated."

dtguitarfan wrote: Dean wrote:  someone's missed the point. Oh, Dean, I know what your point is, I'm just choosing to ignore it: everyone is always wrong all the time.  That's your point.

dtguitarfan wrote: Dean wrote: I could care even less for what someone who dislikes all post rock thinks of Sigor Rós I hope you don't think that's me...I'm not a fan by any means, but what I've heard is quite pleasant.

I, also, don't care, or take seriously, what someone who dislikes a category thinks of a band from that category.  I also wouldn't give a rating or review much weight if I thought the person wasn't really familiar with the style of music. 

I look at ratings a little differently than some (incidentally, one could argue that I have overrated certain favourite acts such as Art Zoyd). To me the ratings description should read rather more like (it's actually not so simplistic to me) .:

Essential: a masterpiece of its category or style

Excellent addition to any into the category or style of music

Good, but non-essential alum of its band, category, or style

Collectors/fans only of the band, category or style

Poor. Only for completists of this band, category, or style

I say category or style since individual albums can not often be neatly categorised, and I would not penalise an album just because it is not one of the act's albums that fits its category.

I think that albums commonly should be compared to others of their ilk when judging, and that requires a fair amount of knowledge of the idiom.  That doesn't necessarily mean, however, that I would give a prog band turned pop a good rating for its pop albums even if they are good pop albums.... And personal enjoyment will always be a factor.  I would be rather loathe to rate an album of  a style  I am not that familiar with, or from a category that I don't enjoy a  fair amount of music from.

Close to the Edge. It's a great album, I love it more and more with every listen, it's complex and interesting musically, but it just doesn't hit me as the best Yes album, let alone the best prog rock album. If we talk about the best Yes album, it has to be Relayer.

Thick as a Brick. 

Epignosis wrote: I don't mind the terms "overrated" and "underrated."  We imply that an album is one or the other almost every time we issue a rating.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 16 2012 at 21:36