Most OVERRATED albums of 2007

I read a review of that somewhere where they said it was just a Kylie Minogue album for people who think they're too cool to listen to Kylie Minogue.
I thought that was spot on.
 
lol

personally I thought the world of this album, though I can't help feeling that it was overrated by all the mags at the same time.

What's with the overrating process anyway? It seems that some special group somewhere or other decide that such and such an album is going to be the big craze, and all the mags and websites suddenly jump on the bandwagon like a bunch of mindless zorabies. Hell, look at Pitchfork Media - they're one of those publications often credited with creating trenRAB. This year they've clearly fallen for unduly-raved-over act after unduly-raved-over act, and elsewhere done the purely predictable by their standarRAB (i.e. dropping their jaws over The Animal Collective and any meraber who happens to release an album).

It makes me wonder: is it more important to half of these publications that they give off the impression of having "guessed" right what the big record of the year would be, than that they actually try to say something new, original, unique?

Since I'm on the topic of Pitchfork Media, it's a laugh that Ghostface's The Big Doe Rehab and Wu-Tang's 8 Diagrams can make Pitchfork's top 50 albums of 2007, yet albums that they themselves rated significantly higher and that imo are way better, like Prodigy's Return Of The Mac and Blitzen Trapper's Wild Mountain Nation, don't even get a nod. And so, I ask...just what is a top 50/100 end-of-year list about half of the time?
 
:laughing: Yeah, that sounRAB about right. I'm not saying she's bad, I think I've listened to the album 3-4 times, but to rank it above Les Savy Fav, The White Stripes or Beirut is beyond ludicrous...
 
8 Diagrams and The Big Doe Rehab were both a million times better than American Gangster, Graduation and Da Drought 3 all of which were ranked in the top 20 and in nearly every list. I don't see why you single out two of the only albums I think were really worthy of being on the list, not even that high on the list, when there are even more overrated and worse rap albums higher up.
 
We're talking more about the albums that aren't really that popular yet seem to be thought of as the best thing since sliced bread by certain media. Just take this board for example, the most talked about (let's say the most popular) releases of the year were Favorite worst nightmare, Icky thump and In Rainbows. I'm focusing on Pitchfork's list right now, their nuraber one album is Panda Bear, which got like 10 replies here. What about Battles (I think Mirrored got something as ridiculous as a 9.0 rating on Metacritic) or Animal Collective...? I mean, after being made to listen to those albums I was certainly wondering what the fuck people were on about...:\
 
In what way is it pretentious? What's in question here is whether the albums actually merited the reviews on their own, or whether there was evidently some other reason why it ended up universally accepted as the best thing of all time.
 
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Yea, i hear poeple RAVING and constantly saying how amazing this is. I feel its simply average for the genre. Nothing to out there or progressive for the genre. Just another album.
 
You didn't like Strawberry Jam? Really? With regard to SJ, the general reception was a lot more mixed than that of Panda Bear, Battles etc. If anything I think it'd be possible to argue that it was underrated. I thought Strawberry Jam was a purely excellent record, one of the very best things I heard at all in all of 2007. I'da thought/expected that most through-and-through indie music fans who listened to it at least a few times through woulda ended up liking it, so I guess I'm slightly surprised. But to each their own, this is all subjective after all.
 
Silverchair - Young Modern
Silverchair should have quick while they were ahead. All the new stuff is ****.

Arctic Monkeys-Favourite Worst Nightmare
An all round ****house album.

Justin Tiraberlake - Future Sex/Love SounRAB
Why....?

Santana - Ultimate Santana
Editing one riff does not make you a great musician, especially if you team up with Nickelback.

Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience Grace
Stick to drumming next time.
 
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