Ten Most OVERRATED Albums EVER! (As voted by you)

This is a list of the ten most overrated albums in rock and popular music today. An entertaining video which puts a few classic rock albums to the sword.
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[@RobRochon]

Jesus...you might be my soul mate. I listened to every choice on the list from start to finish and agreed with every one with the exception the "The Wall" (sorry bro...I love that album). Every other album if I hear a track come to play I'll change the channel.

[@kenfrankel3498]

Love the Tom t shirt. WILDFLOWERS & ALL THE REST ….goat!

[@Mitch-6-Strings]

Disagree with 95% of this. Not sure how relevant it is to listen to this channel anymore.

[@RobRochon]

@@Mitch-6-Strings hey...no one is stopping you from continuing to listen to bad music. Fill your boots!

[@patrickderp1044]

i just gotta say none of you have written any good songs if you are calling these albums "overrated" you probably dont even play a single instrument lol

[@carbootstudios2459]

Overrated doesn’t always mean bad

[@jefferysteen1041]

That's true!

[@rocker11281]

So true!

[@Watcheroftheskies594]

Your profile picture is underrated TBH

[@randallpinkfloyd]

@@Watcheroftheskies594Not his pfp, but the album, us Animals fans always need to be prepared to talk about how it’s underrated

[@dougreed2257]

Yes, doesn't mean that all, to me it means the record is exaggerated or even sainted, too much credence I think, but not as good as made out to be in 'legend' that the album may be wrapped in!

[@Chatta-Ortega]

If we're talking about an album 40 to 50 years after it was released, it's not overrated.

[@kickstar1]

roasted.

[@leehale5828]

You got that right!!! What a wasteland modern music would be if these albums had never been released.

[@henrylombardozzi8254]

​@@leehale5828unfortunately it is a wasteland now all the young listen to anymore is that ghetto blast rap crap shame

[@tankmacnamara3734]

Good point

[@georgegaylord]

I totally disagreed. Springsteen in general and Fleetwood Mack were average in the 70’s -80’s and the radio Kept them forever in your face! Just because they still get radio play doesn’t make them iconic. Rumors lost me when Bill Clinton used them as a campaign song.

[@redsquirrel1086]

As someone who was around in 1967 and witnessed the reaction to Sgt Pepper's I am astonished how anyone can suggest that it is somehow overrated. Nobody had heard anything remotely like it before and it was truly ground breaking. In my opinion it is the most iconic and significant album in pop music history.

[@camicawber]

As somebody who was born in the early '70s and so missed the Sgt. Pepper's release, I just don't enjoy listening to it all that much. A Day in the Life is brilliant, and I've always enjoyed When I'm 64, but the rest of it is pretty blah to me. I like the Beatles a lot, but if I'm going to play a Beatles album, it's never going to be Sgt. Pepper. "Groundbreaking" doesn't matter much to me because I'm not listening from a historical perspective. I want to enjoy the music right now, today, and Within You Without You is tedious. She's Leaving Home is painful. I know that Sgt. Pepper was really the first-ever "concept album." I don't know that this was a thing that the world needed...though now that I say that, I realize that my favorite Who album is Quadrophenia. So it can be done well. But it can also be a pretentious mess, and that's where I put Sgt. Pepper. Anyway, the Beatles are great. I really enjoy them. But Sgt. Pepper feels to me like it's stuck in 1967 and since I didn't live through 1967, it just doesn't resonate at all.

[@redsquirrel1086]

@camicawber I think the fact that it was so utterly different from anything we had heard before is what makes it a special album. I accept your criticism however. Taken in isolation some of the tracks were nothing special. I prefer Abbey Road to be honest!

[@stuarthecht8196]

I was around as well in 1967 as a 6-7 year old. My dad gave me the Sergeant Pepper's album as a gift, and it was my first rock record! So it has that personal significance, but it also was, and still is, a phenomenal album. So I concur with you and don't agree with the notion that it would in any way be overrated, but I would also add that my favorite Beatles album is Abbey Road. Either way, there will never be music like this again, and I still miss the boys.

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@camicawber I'd rather listen to "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver" any day of the week than "Sgt Pepper".

[@pinkbeatle2012]

​@englishciderlover7347 Revolver in my opinion is perhaps one of the best albums ever made.

[@blackenedmagic888]

Anyone who says Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is overrated really needs to have their head examined. Quite frankly, it's one of the best Rock albums ever made - wonderful production, excellent lyrics and music, and performed flawlessly. The only reason I could see it being "overrated" is because its detractors are mistaking it with being "overplayed".

[@bmmaaate]

I played it recently and was surprised at how folky is was. Its way more folk that it is rock.

[@stevenwilliams3083]

Good point...which could apply to some of the other albums as well.

[@2visiondigital]

Guess he likes to hear himself.

[@wilhelmhagberg4897]

I don’t agree. It’s a fine album but far from remarkable. The other ”overrated” albums on this list share a level of innovation and uniqueness that ”Rumours” doesn’t come close to.

[@williammourningcrow6000]

No, it was to theatrical, I don't watch soap operas and I don't want to hear one either

[@gravl1]

Wow. Sgt Pepper OVERRATED?? This album is a pinnacle of experimental pop. Nothing before or since comes close. Rubber Soul thru The White Album is an unmatched stretch.

[@grahams.4803]

I agree! Unfortunately we have a presenter and audience that have little musical knowledge (present company excluded of course)!

[@blakemoon123]

Absolutely! Sgt. Pepper stands up as a classic album, but I also agree with the presenter that it’s a shame that Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields weren’t included despite being recorded during the Pepper sessions. I’ve rectified the error by making my own playlist version of the album that includes those two great homages to Liverpool.

[@slaydesaid8741]

It's funny/weird that you stop a The Wite Album. Abbey Road?

[@elston3153]

BLONDE ON BLONDE is the most important album when it came out in 66 everybody tried to top it no one did, I am born and bred in Liverpool brought up on The Beatles and Liverpool fc, there's no bias here Sgt peppers and The Beatles are overrated.Dylan's Songwriting for superior

[@davygravy7812]

You mean through Abbey Road

[@linus98765]

💯 agree. On the other hand, ELO's Out of the Blue album is highly underrated.

[@Scottlp2]

Ugh. Much of it too pop. Early ELO was great eg face the music. They still tour without Lynn.

[@linus98765]

@@Scottlp2 A New World Record is better than FTM. No filler track. Also, it's Lynne not Lynn.

[@evertvdb000]

oh yea! Great great album. i hope there will be a surround version some day.

[@marksomething]

ANWR,OOTB and time,the golden 3

[@evertvdb000]

@@marksomething agree!

[@crankybastid2197]

The thing I love about music is the time it takes me too. The Turtles, summertime, living in Willowdale Canada as a young boy. The Zombies, Beatles, Mungo Jerry and a whole host of other bands that reminds me of summertime sun and being young. If you don't get goosebumps by music you love, you're soulless. lol

[@LarryGonzalez00]

Thanks for dropping The Turtles some love. They are a criminally underrated band.👍☮

[@uhdudewhy7980]

The Turtles version of "Eve of Destruction" is the best ever.

[@joeking433]

Yeah, the music of the 60s was so diverse, and so good! These really creative artists came out of nowhere to make really good songs! Now it's all industry manufactured worthless bullshit. There still are these rare creative geniuses making really good songs but they don't make any money or sell many records.

[@chrisdelisle3954]

I'd say it's pretty difficult to remove the album from the time in which it was released. I wasn't there for "Pepper," but "Nevermind" came out when I was a sophomore in college and it was a phenomenon. And I imagine something similar happened when "Pepper" was released. I always thought "overrated/underrated" discussions really don't go anywhere and don't mean too much. When you're saying something is overrated, all you're really saying is that you don't hear it like other people who enjoy it hear it. It just means you have a different experience than others - big deal. I'm not a big "Born To Run" or "Morning Glory" fan, but I wouldn't argue in an attempt to invalidate someone else's experience.

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

The general rule of thumb is the music people identify with most is what they listen to during their high school and college years.

[@Treviscoe]

@@TheJohnnyCotts I think that's true, yes.

[@darko714]

For me it's what my kids listened to in high school and college, too, thanks to an ipod permanently connected to my car radio.@@TheJohnnyCotts

[@sarveshbane1609]

I've just started listening to the beatles these past 2 years and really connected with them, loved basically all of their later works and 6 months ago would've gotten into a long argument about why they are the greatest band of all time, I've grown since then, I'm in college now and after having a few heated discussions understood, the exact same thing you're talking about.

[@joeking433]

I was 13 when Peppers came out and it really just seemed like another great Beatles album. It was a time when LSD, pot, and other drugs were really getting popular in my suburban school so that I think was part of it's popularity. I was older when Nevermind came out and I thought Cobain was one of those rare creative geniuses a la John Lennon. I only liked a handful of Nirvana songs and never related to the whole grunge concept.

[@roy421000]

A lot of people have told me over the years that they "don't get it" with EXILE ON MAIN STREET. I understand that because I bought EXILE in the 70's and it took me years to get into it. I have never stopped playing since it came out and I think it one of the greatest albums of the rock era.

[@22julip]

Any stones album is overrated to me Their like an old version of ac dc three chord rock just. Change the lyrics that’s the stones they’re a corporation a money making machine, musically boring . Except the early stuff after Brian it went down hill ,they hired and fired so many musicians that’s why I say corporation. Get off my cloud is my favorite.

[@manfred747]

It's mostly tripe

[@anachronistofer]

I've always felt Love Over Gold was Dire Straits' best album, however it wasn't more commercially successful than their previous albums despite Industrial Disease being a minor radio hit. As far as Mark Knopfler 'being rich' and thus 'couldn't be bothered playing his guitar much' on Brothers In Arms (BIA), the band didn't become stratospherically $ucce$$ful until *after* BIA emerged with those big MTV hits, notably Money For Nothing, so I didn't understand the related comment. The big royalties weren't flowing in until after they had recorded BIA.

[@davidtoups4684]

Love Over Gold is one of the best recorded and best sounding records I've ever heard. Even the copy I bought from a local discount store sounded great on the middle of the road system I bought with my high school dishwashing money!

[@MykeLewisMusic]

Love Over Gold is a massively underrated album.

[@alanstrom2221]

@@MykeLewisMusic Much to my surprise, I own 5 Dire Straits albums. I have a very strong and romantic connection with "Love Over Gold" There are some beautifully sublime tracks on the album. I'm also a massive fan of DEAD KENNEDYS and MOZART. I'm also a massive fan of CELIBATE RIFLES & LIME SPIDERS from Sydney. Check out MC-5 & THE STOOGES & RADIO BIRDMAN. I like Bands like AMERICA & BREAD & SIMON and GARFUNKEL. I rate ALBERT HAMMOND as one of the best singer/songwriters to walk the Planet. He has written more Hit songs for other people than himself. Now, ALBERT HAMMOND is under rated. Some of my most beloved recordings are by Independent / DIY / Alternate Artists. I consider them to be very under rated and better than a lot of Mainstream releases.

[@mickker841]

It is good . I also like their first album equally. My favorite 2 Dire Straits albums.

[@slaydesaid8741]

@alanstrom2221 Cool that you mention Celibate Rifles - they're definitely not a household name. 👍

[@jtmichaelson]

I'm actually impresed at how you defended most of these albums in an honest take on each. For the first time in the years I've watched you, I finally agree with you 100%. I appreciated the respect you gave to Rumours, the honesty of The Wall, mentioning Making Movies over Brothers in Arms, the given respect for Bruce Springsteen's follow-up releases, among other moments. Quite possibly your finest moment as a KZbinr ;)

[@andrewfurst5711]

To be fair, these "overrated" albums are chosen by his viewers, not by the speaker. So he has some good comments about many of the albums. Also, "overrated" doesn't mean "terrible". It could be that some people are rating an album A++ and others it should be a B.

[@billmacarthur5310]

Nobody who didn't live through the era can understand how revolutionary it was to hear Sgt Pepper for the first time.

[@henrylombardozzi8254]

I used to listen to this album every time it stormed

[@Gregorypeckory]

True enough and the same can be said of a few others; Mahavishnu Orchestra first time listening was life altering so was the IOU black album that was Allan Holdsworth's complete re-education for all electric guitar players! The same is true of Jimi; everything he released was an absolute revolution, and a forecast of much of the sound pallet of electric music going forward. If there's one musician who utterly upset the apple cart, it's Jimi!

[@billmacarthur5310]

@@Gregorypeckory 1967 was an amazing year. Sgt Pepper, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Disraeli Gears all came out within a few months.

[@rft2001]

@@billmacarthur5310 Even though it was way before my time, I agree that 1967 might have been the most amazing year. Although 1968 was right up there as well.

[@baub58]

I agree, the first time I heard Sgt. Pepper in it’s entirety I was stunned. At the time, it was revolutionary, groundbreaking. I think the second side still stands up as a non-stop masterpiece.

[@stuarthecht8196]

Excellent, and I myself would have picked The Wall as number one, although I consider Comfortably Numb to be one of their best songs as well as containing Gilmour's greatest guitar solo.

[@joeking433]

Yeah, I loved Gilmour's guitar work and vocals but Roger's negativity turned me off to the album as a whole.

[@stuarthecht8196]

​I hear ya! I wasn't gonna say it, but Roger's negative, whiney vibe and those vocal shrieks ruin the album for me.

[@janpierzchala2004]

CNumb is one of their best but when considered the very best it is overrated

[@joeking433]

@@janpierzchala2004 What guitar solo do you think is better?

[@janpierzchala2004]

@@joeking433 The guitar solo is better than CNumb as a whole

[@arthurlevesque2123]

Everything by U2

[@davidgoulden5956]

Hard agree.

[@Goats_]

Great video. Could you do one on the most underrated albums?

[@user-rd8gp2vn8n]

He would but he has never heard of them.

[@leeadickes7235]

Underrated, Ween comes to mind.

[@joshgardner5887]

Radiohead’s Kid A would be at the top of the list.

[@markkumanninen6524]

The Slider should be there!

[@CraftySouthpaw]

I clicked on this video tentatively wondering if The Wall would be on here, and was both shocked and delighted to see that it not only is, but ranks all the way at #1. As a Floyd fan myself, my biggest problem with the Wall is that it plays more like a movie soundtrack with a bunch of partially realized songs that were intended to fit movie scenes, rather than as a standalone album. (I'm aware that the movie wasn't released until a few years after the album, but Roger had already conceptualized the movie as he was writing the album.) The Wall was a massive commercial success on the strength of the two most radio-friendly singles in the band's discography, Another Brick and Comfortably Numb, but it lacks the complexity and virtuosity of previous albums like Meddle, Wish You Were Here, and Animals. For me, it feels more like a watered-down "Floyd for the masses" album rather than one that was geared toward the band's core audience.

[@Chapps1941]

I agree: Meddle, Wishing You were Here and Animals are better.

[@stevemuhlberger]

@@Chapps1941Meddle! Yes!

[@rft2001]

Agreed. Too much Waters without the input of the rest of the band. It is like a play and once you know the story line, it isn't as much fun to listen to. The best songs were the ones that Gilmour had the most influence and playing time on. Meddle, Dark Side, Animals, More, Obscured By Clouds and WYWH are more to my liking. More musical. That said, it is still a masterful album.

[@Chapps1941]

@@rft2001 Meddle, WYWH, Animals & DSotM. The 4 best

[@Chapps1941]

@@stevemuhlberger Meddle is the flowering into the innovators they were.

[@2GoodLookin]

I agree with all of them except Rumours. It has been over played because it is a great album.

[@jods1]

Funny how some people in 2024 think 1967 Sgt. Pepper's is overrated (or any of the other albums in the list). It's like saying that because I don't like or understand Shakespeare he must surely be overrated. Overrated is something that (cumulatively) has little or no intrinsic value and is appreciated by a very restricted universe of people who want to force it on everyone else, something like eating live flies fresh out of a dumpster.

[@antalantal2366]

Incidentally, a topic that would be somewhat interesting for a survey/thread could be: "Which double albums would have been much better off as single LP?" Or, maybe, the shorter other way round : Which double albums are great from start to finish? A rather short list, I guess... See my suggestions below

[@africanfartingfrog]

Unpopular opinion: The White Album

[@leefertwayne8163]

This is my stigma, too. So many to list that could have been much better without the filler.

[@sablebasilisk7998]

The Wall The White Album .... and slightly off the subject but ...... Mahler Symphonies ...... wish he had stuck with the 7 " singles.

[@trickygoose2]

GnR's Use Your Illusion I & II. A pair of double albums. Probably would have made one very good double album between the two of them.

[@rodsmolter5046]

Probably most of them. I can't think of any double albums that are great start to finish.

[@Rael_486]

These albums are moments in time. You had to be there. Taken out of that context, they could never live up to the hype. 😮

[@ndogg20]

Well stated! In just 3 short sentences, you put in context what I was about to say in about 3 paragraphs.

[@blatherskite3009]

Exactly. To really get a handle on any art, and why it was important, you have to try to place it in its position on the timeline. You don't absolutely _need_ to have been there, but it certainly helps. You can get there by developing an awareness of where a work sits in the timeline and what else was going on before and after it, but obviously that takes listening to a lot of stuff, keeping a handle on the dates, and making a conscious effort to blank out everything that came after a work and was derivative of it. But if you were there then you just have all that naturally because you lived it in real-time.

[@arejaycee5704]

Agree 👍 I've tried explaining the impact The Real Thing by FNM had at the time.

[@egoncorneliscallery9535]

Well, he does mention the context and the time factor and usually says some positive things about the albums.

[@mahogany174]

Precisely!

[@Alaskanbrawl]

Rumours ? It’s a perfect pop album, the sound is flawless. Overplayed yes overrated no.

[@brucejohnson6381]

Vastly overrated. Over produced, schlock written songs and no soul at all.

[@user-zp1qr8jd1e]

Yes, it’s a great album. 🇵🇪

[@brucejohnson6381]

Over produced, no soul, hasn't aged well, poorly written songs with little feeling, etc.

[@Alaskanbrawl]

@@brucejohnson6381 let’s hear yours.

[@user-zp1qr8jd1e]

@@brucejohnson6381 RUMORS: Great album!

[@davidmerrittjacovino]

I think anybody who describes Pet Sounds as another surfer album probably thinks of The Beach boys as just a trope and has really never listened to it critically.

[@classicalbum]

I agree, I'm not sure you could call 'Pet sounds' a surfer album

[@HawklordLI]

I'm 72 and even back when I was a teenager I could never get into The Beach Boys, I always thought they sounded like a glorified Barbershop Quartet.

[@joebarr725]

I have listened to it critically. It is not a surfer album. It just plain sucks.

[@SteveA308]

I came here for the Born to Run piece which was brief and kind enough. I am a Wild and Innocent and The River kind of guy. But BTR gave us Thunder Road, Born to Run and the epic Jungleland. So it can never be overrated :))

[@OSIRIS1980WHS]

BRUCE is a product of the promotion machine. TIME magazine did promotion for the album.

[@scitsalcoryp]

thank you .@@OSIRIS1980WHS

[@SWWonders]

@@OSIRIS1980WHS people still have to like it

[@oneringdhs]

If he was just a "product of the promotion machine" he wouldn't have had the lasting career and impact that he maintains to this day. At some point, the promotion aspect would wear thin and people would lose interest. Definitely not the case here.

[@darthseamus8833]

Exile On Main St. is the greatest Stones album, and probably the best pure rock album ever made. I feel sorry for people that don’t love it.

[@MrMrh1958]

I’m one of them!😂

[@jeffswanson3740]

@@MrMrh1958Me too. Average at best. I gave my vinyl copy away to someone who would enjoy it more than me. I tried for decades to like Exiles, but I never could.

[@Sean-me4fv]

Name some hits from the album

[@darthseamus8833]

@@Sean-me4fv Tumbling Dice and Happy are probably the most well known tracks but a great album doesn’t need “hits”.

[@fitless]

Exile is excellent. It has such a great vibe that permiates the whole album. It still sounds fresh and the band has never sounded tighter.

[@thereunionparty]

I agree that Sgt Pepper's is overrated but only within the Beatles' canon. I would rather have 3 or 4 of their albums before this. I've never understood all the fuss about Pet Sounds and was majorly disappointed on first listen (and subsequently). I was expecting something mind blowing and found it all very samey. I would rather listen to "Surf's Up" or "Holland". Talking of samey, "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye is in that category for me. All the tracks literally sound the same.

[@dwightplock1162]

If I were to put a Springsteen album on there it would be the marketed and political “Born in the USA “, not the raw ” Born to Run”

[@mjhbuckeye]

Born in the USA isn't overrated since I don't think anyone with any credibility at all has rated it as the best or one of the best albums in Springsteen's catalog or among other artists' albums in its' release year of 1984. Overplayed? Certainly. Sold like hotcakes? Oh yeah. But rated highly by fans and critics? Uh, uh.

[@wmg5852]

@@mjhbuckeye Since I was a Springsteen fan BEFORE Born To Run (yes I'm old), You really don't know what you're talking about. I, and all of the friends I have that are huge Bruce fans (who are also old) consider Born In The USA one of his top 2 or 3 albums. It also was voted the best album in the critics poll of 1984. It was easily better than both 'Darkness On the Edge of Town' and 'The River' which both had some throwaway songs IMO. And his performances in the summer of 1984 were a revelation, and the best shows he ever did (having seen him at least 30 times.) I am getting sick of people trying to rewrite history, now that the 'adults' who were around at the time are no longer here to clap back.

[@mjhbuckeye]

@@wmg5852 You shouldn't jump to conclusions. I was 26 when Born In The USA was released and had been, at that point, a fan of Springsteen for over 10 years. My impression of the album, then and now, was that it was his Top 40 type of album, a desire to record a series of radio friendly hit singles rather than cohesive songs around a central theme or mood. It was also his surrender to 1980s synth-pop and MTV videos. I don't much consider 1984 to be a great year in rock music. Largely it was the year of Prince and Purple Rain which I remember being the top selling and more critically acclaimed album, not Born In The USA (my own personal favorite of '84 was the Pretenders Learning To Crawl). Easly better than Darkness and the River? Absolutely no way, no how. Darkness, in my mind, is the absolute best of the Boss' catalog. I saw him three times on the Darkness tour and listened live to the Cleveland Agora show simulcast on WMMS-FM and thought them the best live shows I had ever seen or heard. Most critics who have ranked or rated Springsteen's albums have either Darkness or Born To Run as number one with the other the runner-up and Born In The USA somewhere down the line. The River is a favorite of our host here and I agree with his assessment of that album. Me? I would have Wild, Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle, The River and Tunnel of Love after Darkness and Born To Run and in front of Born In The USA and I say so as a very mature adult who has seen the man multiple times and was a huge fan before the double debacle of Human Touch/Lucky Town. Not that Born In The USA is bad. It is listenable and entertaining, but a little thin, a lot derivative and trendy, and not on par with the classics I have mentioned. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, but your missive about the depth of your Bruce fandom does not make yours any better than mine or anyone else's.

[@wmg5852]

@@mjhbuckeye Look, your opinion is your own, not that of 'most fans' or 'most critics'. Do not make assumptions without backing it up. Once you make a statement like 'no one who has any credibility thinks it's one of his best' you, in fact, lose all credibility. The most influential music critic in the world (who is in wikipedia way too much) considers it Springsteen's greatest album. As I said, BITUSA won the worldwide end-of-the-year critics poll, and outsold Purple Rain.

[@rfish67]

I've never heard Radiohead or Oasis. I was not a fan of The Beatles's showtunes phase. I remember being surprised at the popularity of The Wall, which struck me as ponderous, overblown, and inaccessible. I still like Rumours, a reminder of my early youth.

[@kimness7796]

I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan. You were spot on. "The Wall" sounded more like a Roger Waters theatrical work. Which..... it was.

[@joeking433]

Yeah, it was depressing. Without Dave and Rick to balance out that negativity you get the crap Roger made after Pink Floyd that no one liked.

[@raycroal]

@@joeking433 to be fair pink floyd were awful without the dodger roger, momantary lapse of reason and division bell were shite with very forced lyrics trying so hard to be etheral

[@joeking433]

@@raycroal I see you've never listened to The Final Cut. ;) Not a redeeming song on that bowl of shit soup, LOL! Kind of like Roger's solo albums, one good song on the whole album (Not Now John). OTOH, The Division Bell was really good! And Momentary Lapse of Reason wasn't that bad. I really liked Learning to Fly and generally the album was worth listening to, unlike The Final Cut and Roger's solo stuff that sold like 80 copies each. ;)

[@raycroal]

@@joeking433 final cut was shite and so were the 2 you like, most people will tell you that apart from the chumps who bought the 2 cd's back in 80's and 90's and forced themselves to like it, i know a few of them.

[@joeking433]

@@raycroal Momentary wasn't hat bad. Learning to Fly was really good! And overall it was listenable though not nearly as good DSOTM, WYWH, and Animals. It was much better than The Final Cut which was pure rant fest garbage!

[@jornfox3545]

I've never gotten tired or bored of 'The Wall', 'Rumours' and 'Exile', can think of a few other albums I'd put up on the top ten. Yes 'Fragile', MJ 'Thriller', G & R 'Appetite'. Personal taste is interesting.

[@charlesbowman105]

It blows my mind how many people in the VC don't like the Wall. I totally get preferring other PF records more, but it's still a brilliant record with so many cracking good songs.

[@jornfox3545]

@@charlesbowman105 agreed, it's dark content with spaces of brilliance and elation. Not easy for everyone to open up to.

[@jornfox3545]

@@steven3557 love the Fragile album cover.

[@timothydillow3160]

Fragile?

[@timothydillow3160]

@@steven3557 totally agree it was in my car CD player for years roundabout is still my favorite piece of music of all time in any category pure joy captured and recorded forever

[@rjw4762]

Nope, Sgt Pepper is not over-rated - though not under-rated either ! As someone said at the time "It's release is one of the defining moment in 20th Century Culture". SO true. It remains the most famous album cover of all time .....but Revolver, Rubber Soul, White Album, Abbey Road and MMT are even better.

[@viceversar-do1cn]

Where was Thriller by Michael Jackson? Now I would've definitely had THAT one included here.

[@classicalbum]

This are albums voted by my subscribers... I guess no one voted for Thriller.

[@charlieanderson8497]

Have to agree with you on Desparado. Best album, the rest are just meh.

[@drewsollars2239]

Exile is not overrated. Springsteen's entire career is overrated if you ask me

[@99tonnes]

How do you feel about Springsteen's career - do you think it's appropriately rated?

[@finbarstadt7213]

Unbelievable! These are not over-rated. Many modern albums and sounds wouldn’t exist were it not for some of these. There seem to be many voters that don’t understand the history of musical development.

[@akadros310]

I don't really like when people use the term over-rated to talk about music. It is a very objective term and music is complexly subjective. No album mentioned was over-rated, they were revolutionary albums. Not liking a legendary album is fine but for someone to call albums that had caused huge cultural impacts (Sgt Pepper and Nevermind especially) over-rated is just not factually correct.

[@peztopher7297]

I think it's sometimes easy to take for granted something that's established because it's familiar and can be pervasive. And then difficult to appreciate it as when it was new. Sgt. Pepper's is my favorite Beatles album which I've known since I was a child. I've been exposed to many styles of music for more than fifty years, and I think it's interesting how there are some songs I used to think were great but don't care about anymore, while others I'll always be excited to hear. (And those that if I never hear again it will be too soon, such as "Don't Stop Believing".) A lot of it depends on the trajectory of your own life in regards to the music.

[@robm3569]

I deeply appreciate each album mentioned and for different reasons, and some of them have surely oversaturated radio waves, but who listens to radio anymore? I've always thought that the best Eagles album was Joe Walsh's "But Seriously Folks", an album he made directly after the Eagles imploded while making H.C.. On B.S.F. Joe brought in members of the Eagles to play and sing background vocals on in different configurations. Smart move on Joe Walsh's part, it's a great album.

[@kingtrance307]

I wish that Joe would go on tour with his own band! Too many contractual obligations with the Eagles right now.

[@robm3569]

@@kingtrance307 I'd go to that concert, I'd love to see Joe Walsh live.

[@kingtrance307]

@@robm3569 - Me too! I gotta wonder if will ever get the opportunity unfortunately. The Eagles plan on continuing this Long Goodbye tour through 2025! Knowing Henley he probably wrote in a non compete clause into Walsh’s contract (I’m kidding… well sort of.)

[@BoneCK15]

Pet Sounds sounded so much like the same surf music that Capitol immediately rushed out a greatest hits right after it for a real one-two punch. Lmao what was that person on about?

[@SW-fn7cl]

Yeah weird comment I'd say none of the songs on that album sound like surf rock lol

[@charlesroberts8803]

Have you seen the movie The Wrecking Crew? Pet Sounds is mentioned in the movie. The movie is a documentary on LA studio musicians.

[@blackbaron0]

For me the most overrated group on that list is Oasis. In most cases I think you said you prefered other albums by the artists concerned. Not with the Gallaghers though. Yes derivative is certainly a good word to describe them. Not unenjoyable , certainly did some good songs, but better groups have sold much less.

[@arejaycee5704]

Always found them very derivative and poppy and Liam vocals are very monotone.

[@winterbird4447]

Noel has always been a better marketer and public figure than a songwriter. Liam too.

[@williambaxter4628]

Double albums tend to be very overrated.

[@billbitterman9487]

Todd Rundgren Something/Anything is my favorite double album of all time. But, then again, for me, Todd is a genius and a severely under appreciated artist in general

[@jaygopinath1694]

Unless it ratm that album a total masterpiece

[@williambaxter4628]

@@jaygopinath1694 Again please. What is ratm?

[@user-he8qx5nv7y]

The term overrated is problematic. Usually people just mean they don't like something when lots of other people do. Totally subjective. Some great albums here!

[@rft2001]

Yes, it doesn't get any better than Pet Sounds, The Wall, Rumors, Sgt Peppers, etc. Stone cold classics.

[@clouddog2393]

Overrated is an opinion . Opinions vary so what is overrated to one is not to another. Same applies to underrated . People sometimes use overrated to describe something they don,t like whereas to describe it as underrated means they like it . Confusing innit ?

[@robinhazell6019]

I would class 'Dark Side of the Moon' as over=rated. A few tracks are excellent, but the reson it is one of the best selling albums of all time is because Pink Floyd deliberaely made an album to appeal to NON FLOYD fans to make loads of money. It's not a Floyd abbum for Floyd fans. Just my opinion.

[@classicalbum]

DSOTM features at the end.

[@davidtoups4684]

DSOTM is not helped by the seemingly endless re-issues and different versions that have been coming out recently. They're milking that cash cow to death it seems

[@tomdbass1]

That’s how I feel about Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I’m a huge fan of theirs and was so excited when I heard that a new Floyd album was coming out. I remember listening to it all day on Christmas (I got it as a Christmas gift) and after about the fifth or sixth time, thinking to myself- that’s it? Still my least favorite Floyd album.

[@brianmurray6287]

Very fair analysis of iconic albums some of them do suffer from overplaying .I certainly played the wall to death.

[@talktalkagain]

The thing with the `overrated albums` is that sometimes the listener is highly impacted by the media. I am proud to say before I've heard the Dark side of the moon in its entirety I've never read a single review line either praising or destroying this LP and that means my first and second and later reactions to the album were absolutely honest. I've naturally loved it since then.

[@Robutube1]

That's the same process by which I arrived at my favourite 'Floyd album being Atom Heart Mother. It used to be hard to fight against what the music press (Sounds, NME, Melody Maker) opined especially.

[@jaellycookie]

​@@Robutube1yeah! Atom heart mother best floyd!

[@billbitterman9487]

If a person is listening objectively, what the media and/or critics say shouldn’t influence that person’s opinion. It’s often the hot take to downgrade an album because of how they are reviewed or due to being overplayed. Heck, I think that the Eagles overall body of work has been unfairly judged in part because of The Big Lebowski. I own and regularly play and enjoy most of the records on this list

[@glumonion1454]

@@Robutube1love Atom Heart Mother, everybody slags it off, the critics, Waters Mason and Gilmour themselves but I don’t care. People went out to buy it and got it to number one in the U.K. and I love every moment including Alans psychedelic Breakfast.

[@Robutube1]

@@glumonion1454 Marmalade, I like marmalade 😁.

[@vassilisgonis]

Lovely presentation and fair kind points! However dare I say that the word Overrated is rather Overrated? (Since its new meaning is misunderstood)

[@WardDorrity]

I'm 72, and I never heard of nor listened to some of these.

[@mournblade1066]

Seriously? Which ones? I mean, I've never really listed to Oasis or Radiohead, but at least I am aware of them and those particular albums.

[@mahogany174]

Never managed to get through a Stones album. They just don’t do it for me.

[@Pedro2706]

Spot on with the exceptions of Pepper and Pet Sounds which are both examples of truly ground breaking song writing, instrumentation and musicianship and-the acid test-still sound fabulous today. They are in a different league to the likes of Oasis/Nirvana et al which are admirably workmanlike but thats it.

[@dang75790]

Pet sounds is a great album. The sound is outstanding.

[@jerrycollins234]

I love EXILE ON MAINSTREAT. It has that slightly unfinished unpolished feel too it. Thre perfect antedote to over-production!

[@dagnabbit6187]

Well John Lennon said about Sgt Pepper “ There’s better songs on the White Album ! “

[@sitvisjes]

I think Sgt. Pepper is only really loved By Paul and George Martin, it's his tour de force.

[@mpemberton7760]

"So Sgt Pepper took you by surprise/ You'd better see right through that mother's eyes"

[@ryanmcfadden8792]

I hate when people are like “thing popular so thing must be overrated and bad”

[@winterbird4447]

I hate when people are like «thing popular so thing must be good»

[@hanzofunai4238]

How about an episode on Ten albums that are great you probably never heard ! Now that would be an original take !

[@willyupshaw]

Remember the Future by Nektar

[@dhblan8591]

I could not agree more with your assessment of Oasis. That was one of those bands (and the song Wonderwall in particular) that forced me to change the radio station the moment it started to play. The voice just grated on me.

[@artfuldp1669]

Growing up in So. California in the 1970's, Hotel California was the soundtrack of our youth and coming of age. Every line in the title track rang true for those of us who were alive in that time and that place. Although to explain the meaning of the words to someone else is just impossible and meaningless. You had to be there to feel in a primal way that they were singing about your life.

[@hemihead001]

Queen is overrated too .

[@timjohnson8902]

Most of the albums mentioned are outstanding. They have simply suffered from overplaying. Eg direstaits seemed to be played everytime i was in wh smiths you couldn't get away from it. Apart from walk of life its a great album its just had overexposure. Come on rumours is near enough perfect . Imagine waiting for the beatles sgt peppers to be released and you hear it for the first time in 1967 it was groundbraking. Over exposure i believe have clouded peoples judgment.

[@dbriddie9525]

I'd love him to publish all the votes. If the majority voted Rumours then its sad that they are stupid enough to confuse overplayed with overrated as coincidentally those albums are some of the most popular and highly revered albums out there.......

[@earlgrey691]

Very much the truth of it.

[@stevefaure415]

Very good! An interesting take on some very, very popular albums without being a senseless takedown of their attributes. Myself, for 'overrated' I always go straight to "All Things Must Pass" at numero uno.

[@Robutube1]

Good call. Like you, I just don't get its position in the pantheon; very curate's egg.

[@Gto1927]

Nope, ATMP is head and shoulders above any Lennon or McCartney solo album.

[@brgreg8725]

Rumors is great! My biggest problem is I love the Peter Green era Mac. Hate that every Mac incarnation gets buried in the Nicks/Buckingham era. It’s a real shame-some incredible music from those 6-7 years

[@joepierce1672]

I have to agree, when Peter Green left, Fleetwood Mac became nothing more than the Stevie Nix backup band.

[@drumdad54sdl47]

I especially like the Bob Welch albums.. Mystery To Me in particular. It's sad that so many are totally oblivious that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Buckingham/Nicks..much like there was a Journey before Perry.

[@davidl570]

Far as pre-Rumours, if nothing else, Future Games comes to mind...........................DAMN that's a great album!

[@mattsmith7490]

I always liked Magical Mystery Tour over Sgt Pepper's. I think if Magically Mystery Tour had been released before Sgt. Pepper's, that would be the album everyone talked about.

[@mikem3695]

What a timely video for me. It's like Google is watching me. I had "Born to Run" when it came out. I fell for the hype. I was about 21 back then. Just two days ago I found it in a thrift store and played it yesterday. Not bad but not blown away either. My top overated album would be "Aja". My top overated band is Pink Floyd"

[@trainluvr]

Same here. WPLJ had some rock heavy going on about how BS was quickly moving toward becoming the king of rock. Well he beats the Eagles anyway. How many times have we heard Hotel California get airplay as we are out and about?

[@paulspence2815]

I agree with your assessment of Pepper. I think the two albums that precede it, Rubber Soul and Revolver, are superior records on a track by track comparison. It has some very dated 1967 era psychedelia that has not aged well. I love The Beatles, but Pepper does not do much for me.

[@LarsPop-Tartus]

Rumors is not overrated

[@classicalbum]

Perhaps just 'overplayed'... I think this point in made in the video

[@LarsPop-Tartus]

@@classicalbum “as voted by you”.. my comment was directed to those people not the presenter. Agree on Pepper and The Wall

[@LarsPop-Tartus]

@@classicalbum great show as always

[@elliotwalton6159]

I was never big on Sgt. Pepper's until I imported it into itunes and added Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields (inserting them where I thought they made sense). Those songs instantly lifted the whole album to another level. An incredible and unexpected listening experience.

[@johnschuler4816]

Excellent insights. Floyd is my favorite band and while I agree with you 100% about the overlooked quality of their early work, for me the pinnacle comes later, with Wish You Were Here (the album, not the song). The downfall of the band, I think, is when Roger began to dominate every aspect of production... The Wall I absolutely loved as an angsty teenager but it is a tough listen now aside from a few tracks only tangentially related to the concept of it.

[@dohanddonuts5716]

Totally agree. Being young when everything sucked. No one gets me, teachers suck and parents. The Wall had all that angst . Fell in love with Comfortly Numb the first time I heard it. This is before I knew it was "Comfortly Numb" Gilmour is my favorite guitarist. The Wall does have a lot of filler songs. However, I do agree that WYWH is their best. Meddle is a close second.

[@johnschuler4816]

@@dohanddonuts5716 Meddle's definitely top 5 material. The first song of theirs I heard was Comfortably Numb and it blew me away. Still does, really. Amazing. And it doesn't work without Gilmour... not just the guitar (but of course the guitar) but vocals. If I had to rank them, it'd probably depend what kind of mood I was in, but I'll take a crack at it: 1) WYWH 2) DSOTM (overplayed but c'mon holy crap) 3) Meddle 4) Piper 5) Saucerful 6) Atom Heart Mother 7) The Wall 8) Animals 9) Division Bell 10) More .. and then everything else

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

I have to agree, Roger Waters has always been a petulant child, up to this day he has never grown up. my favoured album is Meddle. my favoured Song "what's uh the deal" off the Obscured by colours album.

[@patricktongs9766]

Yes I have to agree with you on Floyd, Animals was their last album that I bought.

[@midnightrider7648]

Exile is an overrated album. That's the problem with double albums. It has some really great tracks but the album is watered down with filler. Sticky Fingers is nothing but great tracks. Of course both exile & sticky fingers had the great mick taylor on board.

[@donniea5058]

Exile does not have the excitement and punch of sticky fingers. The best tracks are those that look backward. On the rest of the album, they seem to be searching for a new sound and not finding it.

[@midnightrider7648]

@@donniea5058: i agree. the heavy heroin usage didn't help exile either.

[@connystardust9957]

Sgt Pepper: What a sensational musical achievement. Still today, after so many years, I have to bow my knees before the Beatles. Among thousands of LPs in my collection, this is one of the rare classic albums. I grew up in the 70ies and yes, music and art are a very personal, subjective experience. As to Mr. Springsteen: He was never able to touch my musical heart.

[@pjmuck]

Interesting list. I agree (and disagree) with several. Springsteen's Born in the USA deserves mention. Pearl Jam's 10: The best album by them but the dullest of the big 4 Seattle grunge bands. Weezer's Pinkerton: not sure how popular it got over in the UK, but here in the US it has reached ridiculous massive cult status. When it was first released, it was a major flop and huge letdown after their fantastic debut. One critic even gave it a Spinal Tap-esque revue: Stinkerton (LOL). Finally, my own personal opinion: Every Pink Floyd after Syd Barrett left you can keep. There's only so many songs at 30 BPM I can tolerate.

[@DavidMorley]

Of all of these , if I could re-live the experience of hearing "The Wall" for the first time, I'd trade my hind teeth. Yes it drags on, but it was insane and mind blowing on first hearing.

[@MrBiggordy]

I agree with you, insofar as over-rated is not the same as overplayed. Many of the tracks on these albums have been overplayed to death on radio stations across the northern hemisphere, but this should not diminish their cultural importance. It's possibly also true that a younger audience is thoroughly sick of being told how wonderful the albums are, when 'their' music is largely ignored. I must admit, during the seventies, I had a similar feeling about The Beatles - I failed to see the cultural significance of the band, and was fed-up with the constant fetishisation (if that's a word) of their music. Context, in this instance, is all.

[@malcolmmitchell4709]

Same here. But oddly i then got bored over the decades of the albums i preferred in the 70s and early 80s and now listen to Beatles albums. It's all in the over-playing.

[@aaronmilic5916]

This feels like the right place to ask a question I've always wondered about in regards to putting together an "album". The host of this video mentions Phil Spector's production, Thom Yorke's knob twiddling, feat of engineering on Pet Sounds... when I was a kid, parents and family never talked about any of these things, just whether the songs were good. All of these albums have massive well known singles that will be around forever and then album tracks and then downright filler. Thriller was mentioned, 7 out of the 9 songs were singles. I think Def Leppard's Hysteria was the same, 7 singles for 12 songs, Annie Lennox Diva, 7 out of 11 songs were singles... I always thought this was the goal, put out an album with as many possible radio singles as you can, to help sell the record. Excluding Pink Floyd who made actual albums that strung together song to song, was it ever in the label's best interest to release albums that only had three or four singles and then obvious filler? Alannah Myles Black Velvet, you can actually hear the volume go up on the singles, they don't try to hide it. Took me years to even start playing the b-sides of Joshua Tree or Brothers in Arms since all the big hits were on side-A. Or was it that artists did record 9 to 12 songs, thinking they could all be big hits and then the singles just rose naturally to the top? Any insight on the design and choices to create an "album" in the 70's, 80's and 90's would be appreciated. Thanks all.

[@varasano]

Brothers in arms is one of my favorite albums and I play it all the way through (except for walk of life) frequently since it came out. Your latest trick in particular is a great track. Born to run with jungleland, thunder road, many others is an amazing album.

[@johndowling5850]

I've never seen the appeal of Walk of Life.

[@Maltloaflegrande]

​@@johndowling5850it's one of their few songs I really like: nice Cajun feel and Knopfler actually bothers to sing properly all the way through. Good lyrics as well plus it led to a cracking cover version by Charles Mann.

[@visionman61]

I’ll tell you something I’ve listened to many great albums and the best through innovation pioneering in music is definitely PET SOUNDS it’s not overrated it’s very underrated

[@classicalbum]

Yes. I agree

[@jaycalandra4066]

Sorry but that album is terrible

[@chrisbotelho7212]

Pet Sounds BLOWS. It's why Brian Wilson lost his mind. He couldn't believe he'd created such a POS. True story.

[@visionman61]

@@jaycalandra4066 haha ! Never heard so much garbage it’s everything that music is about pure masterpiece

[@keithparker1346]

How so? It's largely forgettable. To me it's a standard album with 1 or 2 decent tracks and the rest is cack

[@lilajagears8317]

As far as Fleetwood mac is concerned I will always prefer the Peter Green era.

[@mikepalmer8]

They are basically two completely different bands. Mick and John had the rights to the name but that's about it.

[@johnsurrey7426]

Thank you for quoting my opinion about Brothers In Arms!

[@classicalbum]

Don't let the fame go to your head.

[@martykott450]

It's my least favorite Dire Straits record. Communique has grown on me as the years go by. Love over Gold is simply stunning!

[@davidl570]

@@martykott450 Far as Brothers, I don't mind it, but I've NEVER liked Money For Nothing or Walk of Life (especially the former.............so damn ANNOYING!). That being said.....................the deep tracks that make up side 2 are killer, and I don't think Mark's ever written a song as deep as the title cut. (And Communique is easily my favorite).

[@Silkyfur]

Some of these are definitely overrated, and others not at all, and I think your analysis and opinion is spot on. It's always baffled me how Brothers in Arms can be considered to be such a great album, when both Love over Gold and Making Movies are so much better. Both these brilliant albums sadly overshadowed by Brothers in Arms. However, as you said, the title track is magnificent from start to finish. As a long time Queen fan, I find A Night at the Opera to be terribly overrated. I consider the debut album, Sheer Heart Attack, Queen II, A day at the Races and Innuendo all to be superior to A Night at the Opera. The studio version of Love of my Life pales in comparison to the live versions, and all the pastiches fail to reach the heights of Bring Back that Leroy Brown from the Sheer Heart Attack album, and Good Old Fashioned LoverBoy from A Day at the Races, which are both successful and fantastic songs, whereas the pastiches of A Night at the Opera are just light-weight ditties. Also The Prophet Song is a great song, up until Freddie starts playing around a bit too much with the delay pedal. A few too many "Now I know! Now I know! Now I know!" and I've just had it. It's a shame, because there are so many great parts of The Prophet Song, but this part just ruins it for me completely.

[@tussk.]

Borthers in Arms spawned 3 huge hits, one of which is absolutely hateful, and people who dont know any better think that the guitar solo in the title track is amazing. its reputation as a great album is based on people who only bought the singles. my mate bought the album when we were about 14, and i had to stop going to his house because i wanted to smash his turntable to pieces because I was sick to death of hearing it over and over again. especially Your Latest Trick.

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

You should do a video on songs we can go the rest of our lives without hearing again.

[@MikeyP1983]

How Fleetwood Macs Rumours beat Eagles' Hotel California will always be a mystery to me

[@MixxM-ou2pc]

I suppose it’s much easier to produce a KZbin video in which you name a bunch of overrated albums than actually producing a multi platinum selling classic legendary album. Just saying

[@NowhereMan2710]

I think there's often a confusion between over-rated and over-talked about. Suggesting that Sgt. Pepper or DSOM are overrated is probably just a way of saying 'I'm sick of people telling me how massive, influential, important and amazing these albums are' - which is fine! There is a lot of music out there, but that doesn't mean these weren't epoch defining masterpieces.

[@vicariousjohnson9823]

I think you just wrote the definition of “over-rated.”

[@NowhereMan2710]

@@vicariousjohnson9823 Not at all, arguing something is overrated would be to say DSOTM is 'not' a 10/10 album, it's an 8/10. Rather than saying people spend too much time talking about DSOTM. There is a difference.

[@vicariousjohnson9823]

@@NowhereMan2710 okay.

[@MrOctober44]

With so many options with how to listen to music why would you listen to a radio station? Especially a oldies station where they're going to play the same five songs from each artist.

[@NowhereMan2710]

@@MrOctober44 Agreed, music radio has long since been a complete waste of time

[@kevinwilleford7876]

Your delivery of the 'scrotum' line is so dry and perfect I almost fell out of my chair. Well played.

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

I'll take REVOLVER over SGT PEPPERS any day

[@crusheverything4449]

@StephemMerchant-up8sg - All day and night.

[@jimhathaway6606]

And Rubber Soul.

[@charlesrutherford7057]

I like both, but Pepper changed everything.

[@markshaw-sh6by]

I’d take Abbey Road over both of them buts it’s down to personal choice isn’t it

[@thomasandersen6719]

Revolver, Rubber Soul, White Album and Abbey Road are all superior to Sgt. Pepper

[@huwadams9521]

Its important to avoid overplay. Any great album can, overtime suffer from this no matter how great it is. I overplayed The Wall, took me 25 years of non play and now I love it again!

[@Mirokuofnite]

Agree. People often confuse overrated with overplayed. Some of these albums are exceptional albums. But because they're exceptional albums they got ran into the dirt by radio and movies/tv shows. Funny you mentioned The Wall. I was huge into that album 17 years ago. But I overplayed it and other 'core' Pink Floyd albums and I can't listen to the band anymore. But I figure if enough time passes, and I avoid it long enough eventually I can appreciate it again.

[@Miwna]

In addition I also think that you don't always get what the artist is trying to convey until you've reached a certain age, or at least experienced some more of life. Ones understanding of the meaning behind the lyrics may change as you get older. Some things you just don't hear the same way as a teenager.

[@huwadams9521]

@@Mirokuofnite Yes, I agree. At the moment one album which I seldom play because it is so great!! is IQ's 'Dark Matter'. IQ are not mainstream so unlikely to get these fantastic songs played on the radio.

[@SkunkAdelic]

@@huwadams9521 I'm always telling people about IQ especially Dark Matter!!! Neo-prog rock at it's finest, and very Floydian. Definitely _not_ overrated!!.

[@robert.m4676]

That happened to me with The Doors. I loved the Doors and played them practically every day from the time I was a little kid in the early 70’s. By the 90’s I liked them but didn’t want to hear them much. But the past 10 years I’ve rediscovered what I originally loved about them.

[@gregsmith7949]

You hit the nail on the head with the difference between overrated and over played. On American radio, the classic rock and 80s stations really cram Journey, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Queen, and AC/DC down our throats.

[@owenball7218]

And when it comes to acdc its not even the good stuff! I would put on powerage before any other album and there isn't shit from powerage on the rqdio

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Don't forget Aerosmith and Lynyrd Skynyrd..to the max..bloody tiresome...

[@metalzonemt-2]

@@owenball7218 The radio play isn't for the fans, it's for getting new fans for the band and that's why they only play the hit songs. The fans already have all the albums, so they don't need to hear them on the radio.

[@SecretWeapon62578]

And they only play the same few tired songs from those bands. Meanwhile, I think Queen's Sheer Heart Attack is a brilliant album that is almost completely unknown to most people, aside from "Killer Queen."

[@richardlong6111]

There's this thing called a dial that will change the radio station when you hate the current song playing.

[@chad017]

There’s a difference between killing metal and “hair metal.” Nevermind did not kill Slayer and Megadeth it killed Winger and Warrant which really did have to go. This was the second generation of this genre and was quickly becoming outdated and embarrassing.

[@MJEvermore853]

Absolutely true. Nirvana didn't "kill" anything. The genre of 80's hair bands killed themselves by being absent of any real substance other than hairspray. They (Nirvana) didn't have any effect on those bands you mentioned, including Iron Maiden. I despise Nirvana. Most overrated band in history by far, in my opinion. When I first saw 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' on MTV, I immediately saw a little unwashed dork on my tv screen, not a so-called phenomenal musician/poet. I didn't buy into the corporate grunge agenda that was annoyingly shoved into my face everywhere that I went at that time. I knew right away that my generation and I were being pandered to. But I did and do know decent music when I hear it and Nirvana wasn't 'it', despite the media trying so hard to persuade me otherwise. I always thought that Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were much more appealing and talented than whiny Curt.

[@mikefrench2499]

I agree and disagree. I agree it wasn't Nirvana that killed certain bands (I absolutely hate the term "Hair Metal", all bands in those days rock and metal had long hair), it was the record labels due to the success of the Nirvanas at the time. The labels were only looking to promote or sign like minded bands. I disagree about the rock music coming out of the US in the mid 80's to early 90's, the likes of Winger, Dokken, Ratt, Crue etc. I loved it, it had it's own place in time, I didn't like the stuff coming out of Seattle, "not my scene Man". Wingers' 3rd album was probably their best, but it was released in '93, probably as a contract filler. It was never promoted and here in the UK never even knew about it. That was the Nirvana effect.

[@sitvisjes]

Yes, a band like Pantera became huge around the time Nirvana became famous. Far Beyond Driven was number 1 on the billboard right before Cobains death.

[@anthonyscully2998]

Rumours is a great album. It was overplayed for a reason. The songs are incredible

[@davidthom7127]

😴

[@VI-rt7sh]

That cover though. Its a milestone of utter pretentiousness.

[@michaelgallone7409]

That album sucks

[@shobudski6776]

Fleetwood Mac ended after Peter Green left. The band should have been renamed after he left.

[@michaelgallone7409]

@@shobudski6776 why ?

[@legrandfromage6450]

Great description of Exile on Main Street! I used to think it was overrated when I was a lot younger; it took a couple of decades for me to "get" what's truly great about it.

[@manfred747]

Well I've only owned it for 6 months and can't see how it can be rated as their best album. There's not one track to match Sympathy, Can't you hear, gimme, Midnight Rambler, Street Fighting man. Mediocre at best, so much filler. Hyped up to the eyeballs. I guess I have 19.5 years to 'get' it but meantime it's rubbish. I'm not sure you could get one decent Stones album out of it.

[@Albert-p3m]

@@manfred747 Well, it's dull, one-paced, gloomy and doesn't contain one song that would be up there in a list of the band's best.... but it does sort of work when played as a whole. Its dank atmosphere gets to you after a while.

[@daviddowdall6000]

Oasis have never been as good as they think they are

[@stewarttrickett3033]

The effect of Sgt. Pepper's on the world was earth shattering. No one had heard anything like it. It served as the very nexus of the musical revolution of the 1960s. It's easy to stand back some 57 years later and say "overrrated", but you would not have said that then.

[@SirManfly]

And people sometimes mistake over played for overrated !

[@John-k6f9k]

I don't see what the big deal about Sgt Pepper is. The Doors and Frank Zappa both predate Sgt Pepper

[@elston3153]

@user-qb1sm3rk9r it's impossible to state how influential Bob Dylan was to the Beatles, the doors , and many other artist, Frank Zappa wanted to give up when hearing Bob dylan , Dylan was way head of them all, even when Dylan released Blood On The Tracks.John Lennon said when healing Tangled Up In Blue , dylan Is several years ahead of us all again

[@rjw4762]

I agree - it's funny that as a child - 6-10 years old say - my Parents would play me this album before bed, sometimes. As a father now, I'd never think of getting out an album by U2 or Coldplay and playing it to my 9 year old !! The Beatles appealed to pretty much everyone...eventually.

[@shyman99]

The Moody Blues "Days Of Future Passed" came before Sgt Pepper and therefore is the very first concept album.

[@MJEvermore853]

I prefer DOFP to Pepper by several miles

[@FriendofDorothy]

I still listen to it. Best spoken word performance ever on "Nights in White Satin", and I understand it was done by their drummer. It's still an incredibly evocative and yes, MOODY, album. A gorgeous work of art. How they recorded it way back in the '70s I will never know.

[@HawklordLI]

The Moody Blues are a far more talented band than the Beatles ever thought of being.

[@shyman99]

@@FriendofDorothy - It was 1967.

[@davidl570]

@@HawklordLI Apples and oranges.

[@SPSteve]

I'm shocked that I agree with about everything you said. Music is so subjective that people rarely line up with each other. Exile on Main Street is amazing throughout, Soul Survivor, Sweet Black Angel, Ventilator Blues, Torn and Frayed, the radio hits and on and on. It's also significant for the time in my life when it was first released.

[@robertthurman9866]

During that period it seemed every 4th Stones album was a mix tape of some new stuff, a few left overs that did not fit the prior albums and some half finished projects they just shoved out the door. Which also made these some of the more interesting and fun Stones album. I am somewhat biased because I saw the Exiles tour with Stevie Wonder opening for them, awesome.

[@SPSteve]

In my mind Begger's Banquet through Exile on Main Street was the high-water mark for the Stones. Exile on Main Street was a golden nugget that released at a perfect time to be the sound track for my life at a heady time. Physical Graffiti was another fantastic album that released at the perfect time to be a part of my life during an exceptionally good period. Good friends, being in love, having a like-new late 60's American muscle car and the tremendous music of the time to preserve it for as long as I live.@@robertthurman9866

[@rodsmolter5046]

Tumbling Dice was the only hit off that album. Happy gets some airplay and it might have been an OK song if Mick had sang it.

[@karmas4172]

@@rodsmolter5046 I agree it fit my life so well when i was in my 20s, started with casino boogie then ended with torn and frayed

[@PaulFormentos]

I like Keef's vocals@@rodsmolter5046

[@spacecadet35]

Those who say Sergeant Peppers is over rated have no idea of how influential it was. It made pop a serious medium and defined the whole idea of concept albums. It was amazing what they achieved with the equipment that was available. My argument, listening to the commentary, is that this is now the most under-rated album ever.

[@wilhelmhagberg4897]

Yes. I think it’s the most important pop record ever made, not only because of what it was but because of all the doors it opened up and how it transformed pop music itself. It’s also a pretty fantastic collection of songs, even if Revolver might be a bit better on a song by song basis.

[@flynow5614]

This guy is a scammer. I think he may have invented click bait.

[@perfectallycromulent]

those who love Sergeant Peppers should be aware that many people out there find songs like Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite actively aggravating, and they can find one or more of these sorts of songs on every Beatles album. i like those songs, but i also like Ween. however, The Beatles sound overrated to people who find their sing-songy circus music songs to be annoying. lotsa hate out there in the world for Ob-la-di

[@DionysusAlS]

It's not that it's overrated, it's just that Abbey Road was better

[@shaynewest8757]

I personally don't think it's aged as well as their other late period albums.

[@tomball7009]

Overrated? The masses have spoken. They are great albums. If you're young and don't get it, then you don't like history either. These are the origins of an artistic sound. They were new and exciting. Now that they have been over played and copied to death, yes, you are just bored with it. You can't understand what it was like the first time to hear this kind of music. Spend a year or 2 and listen to the music before these arrived. You'll welcome it with a big, refreshed smile. However, Oasis, yes.

[@marktrickett5081]

I'm old and I still think the Beach Boys are crap.

[@John-k6f9k]

The masses have spoken with hip hop and Bieber too.

[@marktrickett5081]

@user-qb1sm3rk9r Hip-Hop (or at least some of it) is great. Bieber, and Shearan - not so much.

[@tomball7009]

@@John-k6f9k Who are they? 5 years from now, no one will remember that crap.

[@John-k6f9k]

@@tomball7009 That's the point I'm tying to make. "The masses have spoken". Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's of a high quality. The masses have spoken and propelled Bieber etc to household names. And also if an album becomes very popular, people will buy just to see what the fuss is supposed to be about. Which means even more popularity in the public conscience, and even more curiosity about it, which means more sales......etc, etc.

[@j.d.leslie8458]

I considered Pet Sounds to be more like Pet Dung.

[@legendaryTMNICO]

Pet sounds is overrated.

[@farfelllee]

it wasn’t even acclaimed in 1966 lol

[@blatherskite3009]

I think my only serious gripe with "The Wall" is that they couldn't find 90 seconds for "What Shall We Do Now?" because it's a stormer. _90 flippin' seconds!_ It's in the live shows and the movie (with an awesome Scarfe animation) but missing from the studio album, presumably due to the run-time restrictions of vinyl.

[@MEGAMIGA]

Exactly!!!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Agreed! I even made a cassette called ‘Beyond the Wall’ which featured tracks from the movie that didn’t make it to the vinyl album (admittedly only ‘When The Tigers Broke Free’, ‘What Shall We Do Now’ and a longer version of ‘Outside The Wall’ - I think I also added ‘The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot’ from the movie soundtrack as well) - I still have it, with my attempt at emulating the album sleeve! Hoorah for Nicam video recorders!

[@trip2themoon]

I have an unofficial Wall movie soundtrack CD that has When the Tigers Broke Free and What Shall We Do Now. I love hearing the sounds of the film through the songs. An official soundtrack should have been released years ago. I've heard that When the Tigers Broke Free has been added to recent releases of Final Cut.

[@blatherskite3009]

@@trip2themoon Yes, it's on the CD of The Final Cut that I bought and it fits in nicely. They've placed it in the middle of Side 1, between "One of the Few" and "The Hero's Return." And even though the film of the The Wall should have been on Blu-ray _years_ ago, when I dug out my old UK DVD recently I was pleasantly surprised to find it was one of those DVDs that had always had uncompressed PCM (i.e. Blu-ray quality) audio. So it sounds pretty amazing even though it's "only" a DVD.

[@leeadickes7235]

​@MEGAMIGA or the Tiger Tank song that was left out only to be on the final cut. Nobody listens to the final cut. I own it and never listen to it.

[@toniputin1096]

I would say that most people are mistaking overrated for overplayed, or overheard. Objectively these are all massive albums for a reason; they spoke to millions of people. But familiarity breeds contempt. The Wall is clearly not the most overrated album of all time. That's hogwash. I'll admit I have often had my fill of that album and avoided listening to it for years several times. But when I come back to it, I remember why I love it so much. The Trial sucks, but I excuse that because the album needs some kind of denouement.

[@tmcb_]

Excellent observation on why people may feel an album is overrated. I probably dislike The Wall more than you, but would never have listed it as "overrated."

[@richardbuckley1232]

Was going to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.

[@frankmachin5438]

Well said. ❤

[@socksumi]

There was too much material on double album, The Wall. If Pink Floyd had condensed it down to a single disk by eliminating the redundant fluff it would have been an all round better album.

[@BiffTannen-lo3gf]

Huh??

[@tawnieriekena7]

Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds influenced everyone in the music business. Before then most albums were comprised of the hit and a bunch of filler, usually covers of other people's hits. If it weren't for these albums, the very concept of "an album" as a cohesive artistic statement would not exist. Dark Side of the Moon stayed on the charts for over a decade and remains a touchstone of Rock history. Exile on Main Street , Rumors, Born to Run, Brothers in Arms, The Wall and for th a t matter , both SPLHCB and DSOTM are arguably not the best albums those groups released, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are overated. Hotel California, like all Eagles albums of original material, contains a few good songs surrounded by a lot of tedious filler. It is no coincidence that their biggest selling album by far is the greatest hits package. The CD of Brothers in Arms has longer versions of the songs than the vinyl edition and was the first album to sell more than one million copies in the CD format. I personally have never listened to any Radiohead album all the way through, so have no opinion on that one. Because of my work with, and friendship with, the members of Nirvana , I won't comment on that one at all. And once again I'll point out that Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell remains one of the best selling albums of all time despite being an atrocious pile of shit. Overall I found this exercise in revisionism ignorant and naive , and deduce that a lot of the voters have terrible taste in music. I honestly thought i would see the likes of Meatloaf, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Styx, Kanye, Beyonce, and Duran Duran make the list with their inexplicably popular dreck.

[@kevinstaggs5048]

Hey now, Mr. Roboto is the only truly bad STYX album.

[@tawnieriekena7]

@@kevinstaggs5048 The album is not called Mr. Roboto. It is called Kilroy Was Here. It's generally acknowledged that it sucks. I was referring to Paradise Theater, and Cornerstone, specifically, which also suck. I bought, and liked some of Pieces of Eight, Grand Illusion, Crystal Ball, and Equinox when they first came out. A once promising band that became increasingly insufferable under the "leadership" of Dennis DeYoung. That a rise in popularity accompanied the decline in quality is why they made my list. The aforementioned albums I listened to in the 70's haven't aged particularly well either. Especially compared to most of the albums that did make the list. Another example would be the Knee Deep in the Hoopla album by Starship, which sold far more copies than any of the albums released by prior incarnations ; Jefferson Airplane, and Jefferson Starship. The inverse relationship between quality and popularity is perplexing. The dissonance between perception and reality is what defines "overrated."

[@kevinstaggs5048]

@@tawnieriekena7 My mistake on the album title, either way it sucked. Dennis DeYoung seriously fucked that band. Too bad because he is a talented songwriter and musician when he's not trying to ram huge stupid concepts down people's throats. I do like the material done before that especially Grand Illusion. As to the term "overrated", my opinion is an album or song or band is overrated if the hype doesn't match the product. I believe Led Zeppelin to be the most overrated band in rock history. I know they were very popular but so was disco, nuff said. Any album by U2 is overrated since it invariably sounds like whatever came before or after it. The song Imagine is overrated because it is wannabe communist drivel. These are just my opinions and when it comes to music it is so highly subjective as to make individual opinions irrelevant.

[@charlietwotimes]

Oh I'd managed to finally forget Meatloaf..and you've served him up again. Awful awful. I heard Paradise By the Dashboard Lights the other day and I almost dry-retched. What a load of bile!

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

Best comment here. Maybe these albums are overhyped, but the Oasis LP is the only one I'd be willing to call overrated.

[@rediconoclast]

Lol. Over-rated albums by a man wearing a Tom Petty T-shirt. 😃

[@classicalbum]

These albums are rated by my subscribers, not me... the hint is in the title '(as voted for by you)'

[@bzeuzsak]

​@@classicalbumdon't listen to those vultures brother. They don't know what they themselves are talking about. If they don't like music they probably shouldn't live another day.

[@lonestar6709]

Read the title. This is the viewers vote!

[@brucestanley9656]

Petty cranked out a lot of good music.

[@classicalbum]

I know, trolls just come with the territory I guess.

[@geoffcoulson5698]

At last i ve heard somebody else say what ive always thought ( had to wait to the end mind) " DESPERADO" IS EAGLES BEST ALBUM. : Not sure about the rest of your choices though

[@derot01]

That's the problem with an academic approach to music, it's not acceptable to accept what the masses accept. It's similar to the elite approach to modern art; the black dot on the white canvas can only be appreciated by those in the know.