Is Foxtrot Underated?

Not underrated. Not overrated.

Underrated? Well, it is a Top Ten LP on most Prog lists (including PA's!) so probably not.

Supper's Ready was recently voted the number one prog song in Prog magazine, and that's half the album so obviously not.

uduwudu wrote: Nothing is ever overrated. Something can be underrated. If Foxtrot has a high rating it's cause symphonic rock (er, prog fans) like it usually. A lot. Get the views of, say, a 1977 type punk. This is what politicians like to call "balance".

Totally disagree about nothing is overrated, and I don't see how things could be underrated and never overrated. I think you're using the term in a too limiting way.

To overrate means to assess too highly and attach too much value/ significance to. To have a higher opinion of something than is deserved works at a group and individual level. It's hardly just about some aggregate rating.   Even then though, just because a large group of people like something doesn't mean that they cannot be overvaluing it in many ways and that they can't be wrong in that assessment (perhaps if they know more then they would value it less and in some cases if they knew the truth, not value it)..

If I were to say that The Flower Kings is the most significant Prog band, and if I were to say that without Dream Theater, neither metal nor metallurgy would have existed then I have overrated the significance of both of those bands.

Aside from the odd crackpot overvaluing something and the odd cult or cult nation overvaluing something, "David Koresh offers salvation", "All praise to Kim Jong-un, our glorious leader", and "Donald Trump is too honest", I think huge numbers of people internationally overrate people, things and concepts. I find superstitious belief systems overrated that have huge numbers of adherents.

Edited by Logan - May 05 2017 at 07:56

A bit overrated.

Overlooked by those who've never looked - yes.  Otherwise, no.....unless we have different ideas as to what "underrated" means.

Its in the top 10 albums on the site so i don't think its overrated. Cant get much more "Rated" than top 10

I vastly prefer Foxtrot to SEBTP. SEBTP is my personal least favourite of the (admittedly only four) Genesis albums I've heard. There's hardly anything there that grabs me. Firth of Fifth is magnificent, I'll give them that. But the rest is mostly forgettable. My mind often wanders during Battle of Epping Forest and when it comes back, I'm thinking "Is this still going on?"

RoeDent wrote: I vastly prefer Foxtrot to SEBTP. SEBTP is my personal least favourite of the (admittedly only four) Genesis albums I've heard. There's hardly anything there that grabs me. Firth of Fifth is magnificent, I'll give them that. But the rest is mostly forgettable. My mind often wanders during Battle of Epping Forest and when it comes back, I'm thinking "Is this still going on?"

Rated properly