classic or well-loved albums that are just not that good
The Guardian has an article where they asked various musicians, producers, etc. to name classic albums that they just don’t get.
Wayne Coyne on Nevermind:
It’s better to be overrated than underrated. Besides, it’s not the musicians’ fault Nevermind is overrated - it’s the public’s, or the critics’. But you don’t find yourself ever longing to listen to it, because there were - still are, in fact - so many mediocre bands that sound like it, that you’re constantly experiencing it. I never get out Nevermind and think: what great production, what great songs.
Myself, I think there are plenty of best selling and well-loved albums that just aren’t that good, or at the very least, overrated.
With all the hubbub around the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Peppers recently I couldn’t help but think about how overrated that album is. I mean, it’s good, but it’s not the greatest album of all time.
I guess I will express my opinions in the form of lists:
5 Beatles albums I like more than Sgt. Peppers:
- Rubber Soul
- Revolver
- Help
- Let it Be
- Hard Day’s Night
5 Well-loved/ respected/ top selling albums that I don’t care for
- Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
- The Wall by Pink Floyd
- Greatest Hits by the Eagles
- Nevermind by Nirvana
- the Doors by the Doors
So what well-loved albums do you have a beef with?
June 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I hate seeing any greatest hits or compilations on “best of” lists, so I’d immediately toss out the Eagles. This may seem like blasphemy, but I honestly can’t make it through an entire Hendrix album either.
I checked out the Rolling Stone top 100 list and they never include any modern day artists (unless they are dead). I always expect to see The Pixies or Pavement at the very least.
I like Revolver and Rubber Soul better than Sgt Peppers too, but I think that album was unique and transcendent. It might not be one of the best of all time, but it is one of the most influential.
June 17th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Sgt. Peppers was undoubtedly important or influential. I’m not debating that, just whether it’s good or not, or really how good it is.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:16 am
i see what your saying, i hate how people are constantly categorising ‘dark side of the moon’ as the floyds best album, i bet they haven’t even heard thier other albums, and ‘the wall’ was good, but it could have been a lot better, there was the odd great song like ‘comfortably numb’ and ‘run like hell’, but most of the others are really dull in the music department, don’t get me wrong, i love floyd, it just annoys me that people automaticly assume these as thier best
i heard ‘the beatles’ sgt. peppers album not long ago and i just couldn’t connect with it, i just don’t like it for some reason, there’s something about it, i do, personally think ‘let it be’ is a much better album, i can listen through the hole thing without getting bored