Most Overrated Album of the 2000s

[@Sound_Judgement]

It’s kind of funny how Amnesiac went from being grossly underrated at its release to being so ubiquitously praised that calling it “overrated” could even plausibly be a take.

[@chrislawuk]

God that’s a great point! You just reminded me, but yeah Amnesiac was SLAGGGGGGed by the music press at the time as boring, as “Kid A offcuts”, and god knows what. Like - again, how you can call any album that has fucking Pyramid Song, for example, on it “offcuts” just shows how entitled music reviewers/listeners can be. But that’s fine, really, because enjoyment is truly subjective. But I think it’s pretty clear the band said that the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions were just really huge, Amnesiac was always planned as a release when Kid A was being put together IIRC, it’s not like they thought “oh let’s scrabble these offcuts together and push a release out”. The album is cohesive, has its own sound, is wonderfully dark and twisted in places, yes it has some meditative/more simple moments but that to me adds to the experience, not detracts from it.

[@Soul_underground]

Life in a glass house didnt hit for me for years, now i adore it

[@username-1999]

i guess anthony might be wrong...

[@sovka8394]

Amnesiac is definitely underrated. It is almost as good as Kid A. I could imagine making an 11/10 album out of these two. The best Radiohead album EVER.

[@KaisTestKitchen1]

​@@sovka8394I hope you're trolling

[@manofnomuscles5496]

He does tend to be

[@fonchy6098]

One or two…

[@sovka8394]

@@KaisTestKitchen1 maybe not, maybe NOT!

[@noctaroh5121]

I know we will get more videos like this for older decades, but I’d love to see more in the decades you’ve already covered because there’s probably plenty of examples you could bring for every decade, and this a series that brings a lot of fun discussion.

[@feli6277]

Yes! I agree!

[@ivo8312]

could even do one for each year

[@tadghkelly3747]

God, what a dumb comment lol

[@DoubleKlutchRacing]

@@ivo8312yeah decade is too many albums I think…

[@xbenci]

Amnesiac is not overrated. don't really ever see anyone praising it as one of the best albums of the 2000s or anything

[@lecielo]

I think Fantano is lost in his music critic bubble and has lost all perspective.

[@mrmogford8117]

So many Radiohead fans have it as an underrated album or some ‘experimental masterpiece’ when really it’s just leftovers from kid A. Don’t get me wrong some amazing songs- but It’s also filled with stuff that was clearly left off a record for a reason- it’s not fragmented in an experimental way it’s just undercooked leftovers!

[@xbenci]

@@mrmogford8117 ok but that's just Radiohead fans being Radiohead fans. on a larger scope, Amnesiac is one of Radiohead's least-given-a-shit-about albums. either way on RYM it's top 100 only because it has an insane number of ratings, which the editor also pointed out

[@mrmogford8117]

@@xbenci fair point but it is still his perspective on what he feels is overrated in general, no point getting wound up he chose this over something else. Also just seeing how many people react to a take is a good indicator that it’s still a talking point, which at the end of the day is why you make a video bluntly titled ‘most overrated’- to start conversation and discourse. So personally can see why he picked this album.

[@JimPea]

@@mrmogford8117 If Pyramid Song, I Might Be Wrong or Knives Out are undercooked leftovers then I don't know what that says about tracks like Treefingers and In Limbo off Kid A. Honestly, I think Amnesiac gets judged on it coming after Kid A, even Anthony's reviewing it in that context, but if you go through it track by track or experience it as its own thing, it doesn't even remotely read as leftovers.

[@LK-428]

Amnesiac's actually my favorite Radiohead album, while I understand and can see how Anthony's criticisms of it being overrated make sense to me, (and yes I'll be cringe since I'm on the internet talking about Radiohead again) the obscured surrealism the whole thing gives me floors me every time, the fact that you can't tell what Thom or the band are trying to tell you but you can feel most of it being hellishly sad or angry is something that not only brings me back to this album more than any of Radiohead's other albums, but makes it one of the only Radiohead albums that haven't grown off of me in recent years. Massive favorite, 's all.

[@nontaig6069]

Yeah, that's one of the biggest flaws of their music for me besides thom yorke's vocals. This vague, beautified sadness feels synthetic, made just for the sake of it. It's navel gazing over pretty instrumentals.

[@chrislawuk]

I’m just your average delusional Radiohead fan, like the only albums that aren’t 4.5 or 5* for me are The Bends and Pablo Honey (I actually much prefer the b-sides and off cuts from those album eras), but damn I LOVEEEE AMNESIAC AND JUST NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO SAY THAT and I also loved the B-sides (Cuttooth? Hello? Worrywort? HELLO!?) and the extension of the bits added to the KID AMNESIAE release

[@user-yj7cu5sk2w]

@@chrislawukrip the bends

[@ashleydaniels12]

I saw the thumbnail and thought it was Turn On the Bright Lights 😭 I would never have forgiven you Melon

[@JohnnySaltine]

HOLY FUCK!!! I'm so happy you gave a shout out to LP. I still bump it today. The grooves fucking go so hard!!!!

[@bruckheck6529]

i love lp, latin and congrats so much. dreaming of the day i can see them live, seems it's where they shine the most

[@Cristalskulle]

It's crazy I'm a huge fan of their last three albums but I still haven't listened to LP !

[@peach_total]

i like kid a a lot but i actually think the more i listen to both of them the more i prefer amnesiac. it just brings such a distinct feeling. the inclusion of more jazz-inspired elements and the more rough and left-field electronics really make it feel distinct

[@thebatman1482]

I think they should be viewed as one big project. Because yeah, Amnesiac has the weirder electronic passages and Pyramid Song, but Kid A has EIIRP, Idioteque, The National Anthem, Motion Picture Soundtrack and How To Disappear Completely which is probably one of the best pieces of music ever recorded.

[@AppleGreenmusic]

National Anthem is a stronger jazz track than anything on Amnesiac

[@GodEmperor_]

I want yoooouuuu to know......He's not coming baaaaaaack.

[@bennyfairfax1]

@@AppleGreenmusic national anthem isn't jazz

[@mosquerajoseph7305]

@@bennyfairfax1literally lmao

[@theofficialshed3690]

amnesiac feels more album oriented rather than track oriented. very consistent skeletal and ambient feel to the album, so scary and ominous at times!

[@adrianabejo860]

Women's self-titled debut is kinda underrated too. It is my 2008 AOTY and I am kinda upset that only a few people talks about it and the band.

[@jaellycookie]

Agreed, shaking hand is one of the best songs of all time and the album is almost as good as public strain in my opinion

[@Paperbagman555]

True, great band, underrated. I loved their melodies, Reimer was a special guitarist. If Reimer didn’t tragically die so early into their run, who knows how big they could’ve been

[@ocketspay936]

Also Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots I think is underrated

[@tdw-lr9rn]

Flying Lotus, whom Anthony rates a lot, names Amnesiac as his favorite album from Radiohead (and also named Radiohead as his favorite band). You can hear those influences in FlyLo's Cosmogramma and You're dead.

[@sovka8394]

He also said that Radiohead is his favourite band and Amnesiac is his favourite album. People just don’t get it.. Except of Haunting Bears and Morning Bell/Amnesiac , this album has no weak moments for me. An amazing underrated record.

[@ktbiwk]

AMNESIAC is literal brilliance ❤

[@tomofthepops]

How can you just pass over Life in a glasshouse ? It’s like a top 10 Radiohead song

[@jacklucian8]

YES AGREED 100%

[@agenerichuman]

Not really. It's decent but the dissonance kind of grates on me. And it's weird there's two versions of it. Kind of gives me the impression the band wasn't really satisfied with it. Great lyrics though.

[@aizem7897]

@@agenerichuman there is two versions of a lot of songs on amnesiac

[@nathanieledwards7150]

Have you guys ever heard the fila brazilia remix of "climbing up the walls"....it's better than the Radiohead version imo. And fila brazilia isn't usually my bag, either. It exists on you tube, and my friend used to spin it as a dj. That's my Ted talk

[@MateusOliveira-hr1wp]

@@agenerichuman Dude has, apparently, never heard of the entire jazz genre whatsoever, and that track isn't that jazzy nor does it have that much dissonance to begin with.

[@ImSkeletox]

Not extremely underrated but I think Silent Alarm by Bloc Party is one of the best indie rock albums of all time, I feel like people don’t talk about it enough.

[@mykhedelic6471]

That shit was an embarrassment of riches. The drummer alone could've destroyed the planet.

[@joedent3323]

It is well Bum.

[@user-xo7go4rr7g]

It definitely was. It was a flash in the pan Hard hitting indie record with fast pace punk infused aspects. YFIIP- By Broken Social Scene is also another underrately great Indie record of the 2000s.

[@MrDohers]

I just think it is because everything they put out after it was so disappointing that the band dropped off most people’s radar. I’ll revisit from time to time and every time I’m shocked how well it holds up

[@grey8478]

people don't talk about it??? my brother in christ it is one of the biggest and most commericially successful post-punk albums of all time

[@manucou]

I think it would be pretty interesting if you covered movie soundtracks on a video

[@laughingfurry]

I wonder if his opinions would match those who think low of the modern movie soundtrack.

[@Spanishdog17]

The 70s had the best soundtracks hands down. The 90s was a close second with those incredible rap soundtracks. Who would ever guess that Street Fighter the movie has a dope rap soundtrack?

[@Mustardhouse]

​@@Spanishdog17the there will be blood ost by jonny greenwood is so good lol

[@Pixiesforever7]

Good that Melon now acknowledges Pyramid Song. In the past he was scathing of that obvious masterpiece. Maybe one day he'll also recognise Like Spinning Plates

[@MsM-kh9xg]

Karnivool's Sound Awake is currently sitting at 3.69 on RYM and thats a damn travesty

[@nurplepain3636]

Yes, still one of the best Prog albums I've ever heard. Can't wait for their new album! They brought back their Sound Awake producer for it.

[@MsM-kh9xg]

@@nurplepain3636 oh damn I didn't know it was the same producer, didn't think I could get more hyped for it but here we are

[@th.nd.r]

Huge Radiohead fan here, and I love Amnesiac (Like Spinning Plates was my most-listened-to song a couple years ago), but I gotta agree with you here. You make a great, specific, well-nuanced, well-thought-out case.

[@David-yk5tq]

Rare fantano viewer W. I also think Amnesiac is overrated, but you respect his opinion and I think that's great

[@j0rdeh]

I've never liked the album version of Like Spinning Plates, but the live versions are great.

[@th.nd.r]

@@MostlyLoveOfMusic right?? My only problem with it honestly is that it isn’t longer.

[@plasmaflame3457]

@@MostlyLoveOfMusicu should listen to like spinning plates why us version off of kidamnesiac it’s sooo good

[@matthewthompson7579]

Holyfuck was huge for me at the time! I was in grad school wrapping up my degree plus working and this was one of my go to albums for late nights grading papers. Got to see them live at Moogfest in Asheville '11 and they absolutely killed it! Kudos for the Holyfuck love, I oughta give this album another spin.

[@justfetus]

they really do slap live, not sure what their more recent live setups are but they used to recreate all the music from scratch using a shit-ton of analog equipment plus the usual instruments.

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

I also think Maladroit is an underrated album, at least within Weezer’s discography.

[@JoshLeitzel]

I love Maladroit! I’m always telling people it’s one of the honest-to-god good Weezer records. Something of a forgotten gem in their discography. Not perfect, but very solid and superior to Green IMO.

[@Singleparentof20000]

It’s definitely an album with ideas but those ideas are pretty damn good. I think if they fleshed out some of the songs a little more it could be their best release. Sits in my top 3 tho of their discography, half in part it was the first cd I ever purchased lol

[@Redarmy1917]

I don't hate Maladroit, but I also don't love it. It kind of just exists. As far as the decade goes for Weezer, I'd honestly put Make Believe at the top. Yeah, Beverly Hills kinda sucks. But Haunt You Everyday is great. There isn't a single song on Maladroit that makes me feel anything. Maybe I need to listen to it some more, but yeah, not good, not bad. Just there. Which actually still makes it the second best record for them of the decade since every other album has some songs that seem like it's actively trying to be shit.

[@Szaam]

Underrated: Coral Fang by The Distillers. Very well-written and tastefully produced punk rock that broadened the band's appeal without going pop.

[@paultapping9510]

YES! Brody Dale has an incredible voice

[@KennedyIvy]

Sing sing deathhouse is better

[@sagemode6]

“In reality I’m 5’4”, stand on my money now I’m 6’6”

[@satanzbarz6111]

that's gotta be one of the best quotes ever holy shit

[@yeah-sn7jv]

amnesiac is underrated if anything it might not be as good as kid a but it is radiohead at one of their most creative moments

[@PogieJoe]

Anthony should play the KID A MNESIA Exhibition. Made me love Amnesiac even more than I already did, so maybe it would give him a different appreciation

[@chrislawuk]

Yes, truly, it is a must for any RH fan. I thought it was so awesome, like the world’s best art exhibition but available to everyone on earth (with a computer anyway). I got stoned once and wandered around it for hours. That Pulk/Pull place, that’s designed like the world’s best rave, and as you move it affects the track mix, it basically made me track down a Meta Quest 2 to see if I could feel like I was more really there… unfortunately not really as it wasn’t designed for VR even with VorpX on my side. I hope it always stays available because clearly a lot of thought went into it, and the Kid/Amnesiac re-releases. Another reason I love the RH boys - they innovate even outside of the studio (the other day I was reminded of the hullabaloo around the IN RAINBOWS release method), I think they always look at it from the perspective of the fans as honestly as possible. Let’s be honest I want to wash all their feet. Jesus style.

[@DesertMotors]

I once saw Holy Fuck open for Wolf Parade at a small show in San Diego back in 2007 (I think). I got to the venue super early and ended up front row. I forgot ear plugs and Holy Fuck lived up to their name. My ears were ringing so lady after that I could barely hear Wolf Parade.

[@candlerredden]

your description of the underrated album reminds me of Mirrored by Battles, the strong interplay between the musicians, the infusion of electronic elements and rock music, and the weird vocals that don't have any lyrics or meaning behind them.

[@someguyumayknow3]

Amnesiac has some filler moments like “Hunting Bears” and “Morning Bell/Amnesiac” but most of the record holds up to Kid A and is still a Top 5 Radiohead album for me.

[@tacosavings9751]

Yeah...the dig at Life in a Glasshouse as being too jazzy is nonsensical given you could make that claim of so many Radiohead tracks from that era.

[@elxicoplayboi5517]

I know Im alone in this but I love Hunting Bears. There is something very primal and athmospheric to it that I just really vibe to.

[@someguyumayknow3]

@@tacosavings9751 I get what he means, it is “too jazzy” to fit right in the Kid A tracklist, hence it being held back for Amnesiac, but it’s more than an unfinished leftover

[@someguyumayknow3]

@@elxicoplayboi5517 Me not liking it is definitely a personal issue, I fell asleep listening to Amnesiac once and “Hunting Bears” woke me up and scared me

[@bismarckluna]

​@@elxicoplayboi5517 Finally a Hunting Bears enjoyer! I think it's s an amazing interlude to set up Like Spinning Plates, like walking in a desert down before it gets nuked. But people always hate instrumental interludes for some reason, so it's expected.

[@ScarlettR61]

Amnesiac is my favorite Radiohead album and it’s hard for me to describe why. A lot of it is connected to some personal stuff that was going on at the time, which I don’t want to get into that much. To put it simply, a couple of extreme life changing events had happened in pretty rapid succession and I felt confused, broken, and paranoid. I saw that I had crossed a threshold that I could not come back from. My old life was over and I had killed it. In a way, I felt like an amnesiac (lol). I had to pick up the pieces and try to move on. And that’s what the record means for me. It exemplifies this period (in some ways ongoing) period in my life, as well as the mindset that characterized it. I wouldn’t say Amnesiac is exactly overrated. It’s a lot more out there than Kid A and not nearly as accessible. And I agree that it’s far from flawless. What I would say however is that it is completely different from Kid A. It’s tone is much darker, it’s music more minimalist and it’s progression reversed. I’d generally say that Kid A gets less despairing and more relaxed and upbeat as it goes along, while Amnesiac starts out somewhat bleak and proceeds to get more jaded and defeated. I see it as the aftermath or “answer” to Kid A. Musically its contains parts I find nostalgic, eerie, mystical, hopeless, and empty, and for I love that, and that extends to the b-sides. I actually cried when I first heard that version of “Fog”. It’s increased influence in jazz is actually one of my favorite parts about it. Many people including Ant call it out of place but I think that’s intentional. The whole album feels out of place, abrupt, and wrong. And it works for me. “Life in a Glasshouse” is my favorite closer of all their albums. To me it feels like a resurfacing of lucidity which caves (or shatters) in under the stress and fear of, well, existing with others. It’s almost like a dirge in a way, for the album itself or something. I know the song is technically about celebrity culture but that’s my view of its overarching theme or core emotive idea. I get Ant’s critique and I see where he’s coming from in a more objective lens, but Idk it just means a lot to me lol.

[@bleepybloopy]

did we just get a secret classic review? 😮

[@destructiveblade7446]

Was hoping he would say "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and start an all out war.

[@musicboistudios9575]

Lol

[@Smiggieballs1]

He said it was “fine”

[@syntheticreality549]

Dude that album is so good😭

[@Kittycatsyipee]

I like it, but I still genuinely don't understand why people seem to like that record so much more than other wilco records?

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

It’s pretty dense and I will admit, it took me quite a few listens. Pot Kettle Black might be my favorite Wilco song. A lot of them take time to develop and I can really appreciate the ideas on the album.

[@anxietyprimev6983]

Huge Radiohead fan here, I've been hyperfixated on them for like the past 6 months because I haven't been able to find any other bands that make me feel the way they do, and Amnesiac's my favorite album of theirs precisely because of the emotions it conveys. I don't believe Amnesiac was really ever supposed to be this big chart topper that'll change the industry or whatever like Kid A and OK Computer more or less were. I mean, I guess with the whole double album thing it technically _is_ a bunch of Kid A leftovers, but it doesn't really feel like that to me. Like, if you ask me, I think if Kid A is supposed to be this big exploration of electronic art rock and a good palate cleanser for the band after all the trouble they went through for the stuff they did before, then Amnesiac is more like them putting on a little passion project play to themselves with all the new toys they just got for christmas. Sure, it's a baller album, but I feel like it's too intimate to be something made to appease the fans and executives or make headlines in the local paper. It's too dark, It's too depressing, it sounds like Thom just sat down at his diary and started trauma-dumping for 8 hours straight. Aside from Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors kinda dragging on a bit I can't really find anything I don't like about the album, and I think that's because it speaks to me in a way that an album created to appeal to a ton of people never could. Like, with OK Computer and Kid A you could totally argue that there are a few "happy" (or _optimistic,_ ha ha ha) songs sprinkled throughout the tracklist, but I think for Amnesiac Radiohead just didn't care enough to try and lighten the mood; the best you'll get is Thom singing about how much capitalism sucks for the 15th time or that one line in I Might Be Wrong where he _implies_ he's not a complete nihilist anymore. I guess what I'm trying to say is that trying to critically compare Amnesiac to Radiohead's other works is kinda missing the point of the album. Thom and the gang didn't put on their hour long backyard greek tragedy production so they could top charts or get a bunch of new fans or whatever, they put out an hour long and record label backed piece of vent art. I mean, I guess if something is getting a lot of praise then it's by definition a contender of "overrated" status, and you kinda _have_ to review things when you're a reviewer, but I can't help but feel like this album in particular isn't trying to play the game. I guess my take isn't really bulletproof, because by my logic most indie music somebody decided to make in their bedroom one night is automatically exempt from criticism, but nonetheless I still hope this comment is sufficient enough to make somebody see this album the way I see it, if only for a little. Also, I need to find more music that's tonally and aesthetically similar to Amnesiac, so if you know of anything like that I'd really appreciate your recommendations. Overall, no, I don't think Amnesiac is overrated, and I am really not helping to kill off the depressed Radiohead fan meme.

[@basediggy]

You’re my Goat.

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Radiohead are bollocks

[@AntonyHollingworth]

I saw Holy Fuck live in 2008 in support of Foals, they were incredible. Definitely underrated.

[@stevenbatke2475]

I got to open for them in January. They are still awesome!

[@lavenderhollow]

for me the most underrated album of the 2000's is bull of heaven - 018 - candles green, heads and skulls. an absolutely perfect lofi drone masterpiece that is as lonely and cold as it is calming. while yes it is a little over 4 hours, this album was made with sleep in mind, and it also excels at that. a full listen fully awake is 100% worth the time and just absolutely bliss, and for bull of heaven its actually pretty variable with it having 3 distinct sections that all have different moods but keeping a consistent instrument and feel. the second section in particular just gives me shivers every time i hear it, this album is utterly gorgeous. my real picks for most underrated would be 045, the single best drone ive ever heard in my life, and 118, my favorite drone album of all time, but 045 is a week long and 118 is 2 months long and they are hard to reccomend. 045 has an excerpt thats just over an hour long, and 118 has 3 excerpts but they only display a fraction of the real amount of segments. the comment page for 118 on rym has the fan excerpts archive page listed, which has every segment in the full song as excerpts. even then the 118 fan excerpts in total are about 23 hours, which is a lot to ask for most listeners, but it is sooooooooooo worth your time.

[@WilfredoWolganG]

I think Amnesiac is an album you play at the end of the world. That’s why it’s my favourite Radiohead album.

[@xXAjaxXx]

For a 'bunch of Kid A leftovers' it really is a well-paced, well-produced and diverse track list. I'm not gonna quibble about it's placement in any list because I don't care about lists, but it's an amazing record, one of their best.

[@bismarckluna]

I really dislike the "It's a b-sides records" argument for the reasons you mentioned, it's a really cohesive and well produced record. Calling stuff like Pyramid Song, Knives Out, I Might Be Wrong and Glasshouse "leftovers" is just sad, any of these songs, to me, are better than 80% of Kid A's tracklist. Pyramid Song it's probably their best piece, the band even said so in the past.

[@sonnysumo8172]

You can’t duck the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot allegations forever Anthony.

[@hollandscottthomas]

There's a modern re-release (last year?) called Kid Amnesiac that pairs the two together, along with a bunch of the excellent B-sides and alternate versions. They work really well as compliments to one another, and I love them both for different reasons. You can really feel a lot of the influence both albums had on a tonne of electronic stuff afterwards. Kid A is the strange, floaty drug trip, Amnesiac is the cold, rough-edged comedown.

[@ricardobezerra2712]

I saw the thumbnail and thought you were going to talk smack about Caetano Veloso's Transa (the cover is very similar to Amnesiac) and I was ready to fight

[@bismarckluna]

Kkkkkkkkk achei que era a única pessoa que achava as capas parecidas.

[@miguelsimoes3010]

Amnesiac is my favorite Radiohead, and the unfinished project feel of the thing is probably what draws me into it the most. Not their best, that's probably Thief, but Amnesiac is shuffle cocaine and Spinning Plates is my own portable ASMR machine.

[@CynicalScorpio]

I've always seen Amnesiac as one of their more underrated albums. It has that same eerie and sinister vibe that Kid A does, just presented in a more organic way. One comment I read described Kid A as feeling like a cold alien landscape, and Amnesiac as feeling an abandoned dusty attic. Also the "incomplete" song structures never really bothered me. If anything, the album feeling more fragmented just adds to the vibe for me.

[@gabrielbraga1981]

yeah, i've always seen it as kid a jazz

[@barcelomrozovic1625]

It's called 'Amnesiac', it makes sense for it to have jarring song structure.

[@Scroolewse]

Wrong. Didn't you watch the video? The correct opinion is that it is overrated smh

[@bismarckluna]

The loose structure makes the songs feel like distant ramblings, which fits the album atmosphere perfectly. Pyramid Song, for instance. Is just a descriptive abstract verse that's repeated almost exactly the same but more confidently with a full arrangement. It's fairly loose and even demo-like, I don't think they ever structured another song like that, but it works really well.

[@knickknack675]

Would love to see you and max dood go over the history of rappers/fighting games/lyrics

[@flakCanon]

Listened to Amnesiac for the first time last year since it’s release and I think it’s gotten better with age. Amnesiac is underrated in Radiohead’s discography

[@pyramidsong]

Lovely Allen was such banger. Holy Fuck was so fun, and they were great live. I love that you love this Anthony

[@danielpierce9343]

If you do a 90s overrated and underrated list (if you continue this), my suggestions would be Third Eye Blind’s debut record as an underrated album because not only are the hits from that record incredible, I think the non-singles hit just as hard if not harder because of the visceral lyrical content and the amazing delivery of Jenkin’s vocals and the instrumentation being incredible. A little aside, but the song Narcolepsy lyrically is like the entire plot of Night in the Woods…to me at least… speaking of which, this album to me a 8.5 to 9 out of 10. and for Overrated, probably Oasis’s What’s the Story Morning Glory because even as an Oasis fan, I think the debut from them hits much harder to warrant the praise the follow-up gets and the follow-up doesn’t flow as cohesively as Definitely Maybe. Despite having my favorite singles, it feels more like a compilation record of greatest hits than a holistic album experience. Some might point to the mixing being an issue…honestly, never bothered me but it is a step down again from the debut because the compression is a tad bit overwhelming. The Oasis fan in me still gives this a 8 or 9 out of 10, but I think the unquestioned praised this album gets by critics (especially RollingStone putting goddamn wonderwall at 100 out of 500 on the greatest songs of all time, and this record super high on the 500 albums of all time, to me there’s a problem lol) If you have read this all the way, thanks and as you can tell, I’m a fan of Britpop…oh shit, I could have put Blur’s ParkLife on Overrated albums but that’s probably the Oasis fan in me doing that…(but seriously, the only thing I like from them is 13 and Leisure) but for another underrated album, The Las debut record (and only record to date)-highly influential and incredible for the time, 9.5 to 10 out of 10 for me

[@lukeking6711]

AGREE on TEB! that whole album goes absolutely nutty (CAN I GRADUATE)

[@HelloSpyMyLie]

I think you see incendies and it’s pretty clear that the albums has iconic songs on it. That’s why it’s chilling on these lists

[@antzerobooks]

honestly no matter of people's opinion on this series, i hope it continues, i'm now at the point in my life where i finally have the time to listen to more music, so both of the overrated and underrated albums are appreciated

[@luisvsalvatore]

I just saw the thumbnail and know for sure my bald homeboi wrong. 💀

[@JoeBergy122]

I thought for a minute the thumbnail had a blurred out Aesop Rock- Float. Got excited. Then I realized it would be upside down.

[@ragingnebula2179]

Wait I'm looking at the list and Turn on the Bright Lights is at 23 while Elephant is at 222 and Who will Cut our Hair when We're Gone? is at 458. I-

[@weery33]

who will cut our hair deserves to be top 100

[@alexwilson3133]

You and who’s army?

[@zhehaotan2891]

I agree on what fantano said to Amnesiac, but it still has to be deserved on top 100 charts

[@TechnoAdamGuy]

Not really

[@lomstair7546]

If you agree with him, how could it land in the top 100? Wild take tbf

[@Guadeloop]

Amnesiac is one of the best things Radiohead has ever done

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

Stadium Arcadium might be the most underrated double album of all time and is certainly an underrated album from the 2000s. I know it got recognition it deserves in some respects, it’s rarely mentioned as one of the best albums of the 2000s and I think it deserves to be.

[@robot2971]

based

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

@@michaelluciano1980Which ones?

[@katchereye]

BSSM and Californication are far better albums, Stadium Arcadium is mid as fuck

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

@@katchereyeI agree that those are better, cohesive albums, but Stadium Arcadium has more, good songs. It has more songs in general, but personally, I’d only skip maybe 3 out of the 28 that are on there. I know it’s a double album, which can help it or hurt it. I think it helps it. I wouldn’t sit and listen to it in one sitting, but nonetheless.

[@ThatFaceMelter94]

@@katchereyeThe genius of John Frusciante instrumentally and vocally is peak.

[@Sufjetkek]

Bold of you to put amnesiac on the thumbnail of a most overrated album of the 2000s video

[@fetedesneiges6678]

Also underrated: Fuck Buttons -Tarot Sport.

[@Elgordo37468]

I’ve been waiting for you to talk about LP for so long! I love it

[@phobixthething5692]

HOLY FUCK YES! LP is such a good time, glad to see you bringing attention to it!

[@waxl121]

Animal Collective, Holy Fuck, Battles, Dan Deacon, Black Moth Super Rainbow. The 2000's had a ton of great live music from weird ass bands

[@timkirsten6184]

Amnesiac is an S tier album and my mind can't be changed.

[@themoon8321]

@@beaualoevvkeep quiet

[@essential_listening]

Album just isn’t very good, but I love most of their records.

[@DanDhaniels]

It's just my favorite Radiohead album, Melon. I do think that if they exchanged Pull/Pulk Revolving Doors for The Amazing Sounds of Orgy it would have been a perfect 10 for me.

[@hvyhttrs]

Random Underdog Sleeper of The 2000's Her Space Holiday - The Young Machines (2003) = Underrated. Had that bubbly melancholy "I made this in my bedroom" vibe before it was really a thing (even though that was already a thing). Pretty early on the lo-fi electronic emo wave too. Best tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9

[@dyecyde]

amnesiac is a cold dark experimental journey man. it’s a great album.

[@Paperbagman555]

I love Amnesiac, the songs on it always stuck with me more than Kid A tbh, only ones on kid A I revisit are Idioteque and everything in its right place

[@ThiefOfBaghdad]

How to disappear completely?

[@nowheregirl3858]

Vex Red's 'Start With a Strong and Persistent Desire' LP is hugely underrated.

[@redsoxrule75]

I think a lot of the comment section missed that this is the most underrated *on RateYourMusic*, not in terms of general consensus or something. To music nerds (and I say that with affection), its a bit overrated.

[@leorrocher]

Joanna Newsom’s first album The Milk-Eyed Mender is the most underrated record of the 2000’s

[@victorralph8457]

Q and Not U's no kill no beep beep would be my pick for underrated album of the decade. It's decently rated at 3.69 but I genuinely think it's one of the best post hardcore records of the decade

[@ColeRodgersX]

anthony, you can’t put my beautiful dark twisted fantasy for every single spot, that’s not how lists work silly

[@theoccasionalmoonlight4050]

I'll never understand the Amnesiac hate. It's obviously not their best but it's got some incredible tracks on it. My hunch is people compare it too closely to Kid A, which I guess is inevitable, but the record doesn't get a fair shake imo. Also, I'd hardly call it overrated in the grad scheme, maybe specifically with regards to rate your music, but I rarely see positive talk about it. If anything, it's usually placed among their worst 3

[@thedarknightbegins]

TPAB is the most overrated album of all time, period

[@NoUploadJustComment]

Amnesiac is a masterpiece. The only problem is that they have at least 2 other albums that are also masterpieces that are better.

[@user295.]

At least 5 tbh

[@lulululululu866]

fanty loves those wallets so much he ate them!! hes so silly ❤❤

[@damonisaacsmith]

Amnesiac hate will not be tolerated

[@jacksonburnette207]

Haven't watched the vid yet but the thumbnail is insanity melon Amnesiac is better than OK Computer track for track. It has the same vibe as a psychedelic album without really actually sounding like psych, and it's a top 10 Halloween record. Even 8 Outtakes from Amnesiac is in the top half of their output. That's just how good the Kid A sessions were. I will say it's odd that Worrywort wasn't included on Amnesiac, it's a top 10 RH track. That said, Vespertine is better and I'm glad it got overtaken on RYM when they changed the algorithm.

[@N_Wah_]

Anthony will probably say Soundtracks for the Blind is the most overrated album of the 90's

[@nocturnalphase]

Can’t say I agree with Raditude being an underrated album but you do you

[@peelslowlyandsee]

Amnesiac is a tremendously influential album. 'Packt Like Sardines' and 'Pull / Pull' can be heard in the work of Flying Lotus, and Kurt Vile has based his career on 'I Might Be Wrong'.

[@ktbiwk]

I had no idea Flying Lotis sampled Radiohead ❤thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@peelslowlyandsee]

@@ktbiwk oh, I didn't mean he sampled Radiohead (maybe he did), but rather Radiohead had an influence that's heard in Flying Lotus.

[@halcyon14th18]

fun fact: one of the members of Holy Fuck would later go on to start the musical project, Chipmunks on 16 Speed

[@fraoulduke]

You always give a shoutout to the good people at the ridge but… what about the bad people at the ridge 🥺

[@blakecscott5525]

Surely there’s a better choice than an album considered an artist’s 4th best record…

[@jonathanchavez9009]

Way better than the mid air thief take

[@jdwilliams202000]

Lovely Alien was one of my most played songs of 2007

[@Ellis2003]

I swear Amnesiac is not rated highly at all by most music fans or even Radiohead fans 😭 maybe basing this entirely off one website doesn’t exactly reflect the music community as a whole

[@Azure1013]

It’s called Amnesiac because they forgot they had to make a cohesive album

[@realalienhehe]

The most underrated is probably Drowner by Yellow Swans or Uneasy Flowers by Autistic Daughters

[@CtrlSaltDelete]

:( Amnesiac is my favourite Radiohead album and by a mile too. Pyramid Song, Life in a Glasshouse, Knives Out, You and Whose Army, Dollars and Cents - for me these aren't just the best tracks Radiohead has put out, but also the most 'Radiohead-y' of their stuff - more melancholic, atmospheric, dark and engaging than anything else in their catalogue. I know my Radiohead opinions are very unpopular (in other hot takes In Rainbows is in the bottom half of their discography and The Bends is terribly overrated), but *the* most disappointing? Damn.

[@f4gsforpele]

How can you prefer that mess to In Rainbows, Ok Computer, Kid A, etc…even The Bends is more cohesive & more consistent

[@yemmohater2796]

Pulk Pull Doors though

[@caketits2723]

@@yemmohater2796 One of my favorite songs of theirs lol. I like Amnesiac a lot more than Kid A, though.

[@CtrlSaltDelete]

@@f4gsforpele It's precisely how consistent In Rainbows is that puts it in the lower half of their albums for me - it's not The King of Limbs, but it's a bit boring for me. Same goes for The Bends. OK Computer meanwhile has some tracks I love - Paranoid Android, Climbing Up The Walls, but also some I think are boring as Hell - eg Karma Police (another hot take, I know), and in my eyes OK Computer is wildly inconsistent in quality. I love Kid A, but everything I love in Kid A is, to my taste, done better in Amnesiac. For me Amnesiac absolutely has peaks and valleys - but not in quality, just in tone. It is super stripped back, but that really clicks for me, Pyramid Song is for me easily the best single track Radiohead have made, Knives Out, Dollars and Cents, I might be Wrong, You and Whose Army are all up there too, and the interludes and snippets like Hunting Bears totally work for me too. Obviously that's not going to work for everyone - but to sum it up Amnesiac > In Rainbows for the same reasons Swans' The Seer > To Be Kind - I like a project that is a bit more varied.

[@blargghkip]

How is In Rainbows not varied??? Every song (except maybe All I Need and Faust Arp) sound completely different! You can dislike the album for any reason you want but I seriously am not sure what you're getting at here.

[@Wicked_Panda]

what about The Shins? how does Fawntannah feel about Chutes Too Narrow?

[@jakeunderwood1864]

I'm at a festival right now with death grips, machinegirl, earl sweatshirt and Denzel Curry etc. and there are soooo many anthony halfpint-tanos

[@LiamFlanagan-dd9wb]

Great to see Holy Fuck get some shine!!! I agree that they haven't topped "LP" but they have consistently put out top notch albums and EPs since. I have seen them live 3 times since 2008 and they are sooooo tight and visceral, great live show!!!

[@peachmelba1000]

Probably nigh on impossible to find at this point, but Brian Borchert's "first" band from the mid 90s, called Burnt Black (which was a really noisy, arty metal project) was very very good, given how relatively young he was at the time. It was a cassette only release iirc.

[@DildoSchwaggins1]

Wow I can't believe you called the Ridge Wallet overrated. That's no way to treat your sponsors.

[@tinytimtam]

Guillemots' debut Through The Windowpane is absolutely gorgeous chamber pop, there are beautiful lush cuts as well as some incredibly upbeat, life-affirming tracks that are amazing. Don't see it being talked about anymore, def underrated

[@owen1686]

yea super groovy just fresh cuts on that project. super underrated most people woouldnt know about it, really life affirming and inspiring charming riffs on those cuts

[@Ryan-fs2xj]

You are wrong about Amnesiac

[@suicidalkangarooz]

Man, thank you for that LP recommendation, that was a fun listen!

[@21cabbage93]

Amnesiac isn’t even rated that highly on RYM it’s rated as like their 4th best

[@farizalwahyufirdaus7646]

Honestly, amnesiac has got to be the best album unfortunately pulk/pull revolving doors has ruined it.

[@MrMurph73]

I think Pulk/Pull and Like Spinning Plates are 2 of their most underrated tracks. But yes, as an album it's not the most coherent

[@corncake4677]

Its not one of my favorites or one i really come back to a lot, but i respect the idea of it as a sort of dark, seedy, haunting underbelly to what was going on on Kid A. Its very dour in a way unlike all the other radiohead albums (and thats saying something) and thats partially is what makes it hard for me to get into it i guess but i still respect what its going for. Also i like pulk/pull honestly even if it is dumb

[@codycooke4461]

SO happy to see Holy Fuck on this list. Such a great band

[@andrewhyde4708]

I’m a big Radiohead fan and Amnesiac contains some of my favourite tracks of theirs, but I can’t disagree with Anthony that as an album it’s not that developed and is a way off being one of the best of the 2000s.

[@woodybalfour8213]

Kid A is yang and Amnesiac is yin...Can't have one with out the other xx