Willow ,'Help'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
We listen to BBC 6 over the internet at work, and right now they're doing a Most Overrated Album Ever contest.
Chatty!co-worker and I are amusing ourselves by slagging on albums.
My suggestion was Beck's "Sea Change."
(To be fair, I'm just basing my slag on the fact that *I* don't get why it was so very very lauded.)
I can't say enough about it just because it hurts so good, which tends to make me effusive.
My suggestion was Beck's "Sea Change."
(To be fair, I'm just basing my slag on the fact that *I* don't get why it was so very very lauded.)
Because he's Depressed and Introspective on that album.
It's not his best album, but "The Golden Age" is a beaut.
My suggestion would be "Kid A," but it may not be overrated enough (even with the Grammy nomination).
The most obvious overrated album, I think, has got to be Sgt. Pepper. I'm a Beatle fan, but I'd rank that album as only above Magical Mystery Tour in their catalogue. Most of the songs are utter trifles in the "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" range. There are more great songs on the "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields" single than all of Sgt. Pepper. ("A Day In The Life" being the only great one, I think.)
Of recent vintage, I don't really know where I'm at odds with the consensus. I like most of the much lauded records of the last 10 years or so. I should check Pitchfork.
Lately, I've been revisiting the Cashout Go Away effect wherein a band you dislike makes a bundle on one record and then effectively quits because they're rich. Live and Bush seem to have done this.
Good Lord -- Picaresque got a five-star review in the Guardian.
That utterly surprises me. I wouldn't think they'd get it.
The most obvious overrated album, I think, has got to be Sgt. Pepper.
I don't think it's an overrated album, musically. It's pretty close to timeless. But I think its "influence" on rock is waaaay overstated. If anything, it's a musical spur. There is no rock album like it because it's not rock, it's British music hall. Attempts to copy it have been financial, if not musical, disasters.
So, in that sense, it's overrated. But it still holds together quite well after nearly 40 years.
I love it, but have always privately preferred "Rubber Soul"
I don't love it at all and have vocally preferred both Rubber Soul and Revolver.
(Actually, I really like "A Day In the Life," but was going for the symmetry, y'know.)
Smartass. Well, pot. kettle, so... Maybe it wasn't ever the music, more like the ambition of it? Or maybe people have a special, fond, place for the music they get high to. Besides college.