Most Overrated Band Of All Time

[navidson]

Four??

I'm intrigued.... maybe I am missing something? I think Leaving New York is acceptable. Wanderlust is passable as in a "that's not too bad but will never listen to it again" way other than that I am struggling it just felt such a lazy album.

Thoughts on Up? I think that's pretty underrated.

Up is a pretty decent album - but I always though Reveal was one of their most underrated - Especially 'I'll Take The Rain' which is a top tier REM ballad

 

[Papa Shango]

I was 15 when that came out, and to listen to it for the first time was incredible (Yellow Submarine excepted, which I still think is rubbish). The twin lead guitars on 'And your bird can sing', for 1966, still blows me away.

So many good and diverse songs on that album. Take Taxman and For No One for example. Two tremendous songs but so totally different.

Yellow Submarine always felt a bit out of place on Revolver I reckon, even with the diversity of the album.

 

[Charro]

The bends is probably one of my all time favourite albums but after that I struggle with Radiohead like.

Kasabian are one for me. Few massive tunes early on then went downhill when the fella who wrote those tunes left.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

Four??

I'm intrigued.... maybe I am missing something? I think Leaving New York is acceptable. Wanderlust is passable as in a "that's not too bad but will never listen to it again" way other than that I am struggling it just felt such a lazy album.

Thoughts on Up? I think that's pretty underrated.

You’ve named two of them! I also like the one with Q Tip guesting (Outsiders?) cos I’m a big Tribe fan, and I like the title track. I may have overstated it by using the term “standout” TBF. And I struggle with ‘Up’ - I like ‘In The Air’ and ‘Lotus’ from memory, but I don’t listen to that one much.

 

[CrustySack]

I haven't read the thread but christ.... Led Zeppelin. WTF is that all about? 3 good songs. Bonham was class but c'mon.

 

[ilikecheese]

You need to give it a go Cheese - It's in my top 5 albums of all time

They felt like sellouts to me after Green. Wasn't there a song on Automatic that featured KRS One?

 

[Papa Shango]

Up is a pretty decent album - but I always though Reveal was one of their most underrated - Especially 'I'll Take The Rain' which is a top tier REM ballad

I don't mind Reveal, it's one of those albums though where not a lot sticks with me, Probably their only album where I could not name all the songs on it track by track.

 

[navidson]

They felt like sellouts to me after Green. Wasn't there a song on Automatic that featured KRS One?

Nope thats 'Radio Song' on 'Out of Time'

 

[Papa Shango]

They felt like sellouts to me after Green. Wasn't there a song on Automatic that featured KRS One?

Radio Song, it was on Out of Time.

Sell outs is harsh, they became really big, you can only stay out of the limelight for so long.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

Up is a pretty decent album - but I always though Reveal was one of their most underrated - Especially 'I'll Take The Rain' which is a top tier REM ballad

Agree on ‘Reveal’, and was going to say something similar. I think ‘The Lifting’ is a great opener, and IIRC, it was the first post-Bill Berry album, so there’s some interesting new percussion throughout the album.

 

[Papa Shango]

You’ve named two of them! I also like the one with Q Tip guesting (Outsiders?) cos I’m a big Tribe fan, and I like the title track. I may have overstated it by using the term “standout” TBF. And I struggle with ‘Up’ - I like ‘In The Air’ and ‘Lotus’ from memory, but I don’t listen to that one much.

Lotus is alright yeah. I hate Airport Man opening the album, it's barely a song.

Hope (even though its pretty much a copy of Suzanne by Leonard Cohen), At My Most Beautiful, Suspicion and Daysleeper are some of my favourites from Up.

 

[navidson]

Radio Song, it was on Out of Time.

Sell outs is harsh, they became really big, you can only stay out of the limelight for so long.

I think Shiny Happy People is the reason for the 'sellout shouts' - It's a horrendous song which the band themselves despise

That album has so much beauty on it though - Especially 'Country Feedback' and 'Half a World Away'

 

[Papa Shango]

Agree on ‘Reveal’, and was going to say something similar. I think ‘The Lifting’ is a great opener, and IIRC, it was the first post-Bill Berry album, so there’s some interesting new percussion throughout the album.

Up was the first post Berry album.

 

[ilikecheese]

Radio Song, it was on Out of Time.

Sell outs is harsh, they became really big, you can only stay out of the limelight for so long.

Ah right. Even more reason I stopped buying their stuff.

I have a massive respect for Radiohead because they did the exact opposite when they blew up. Creep was their sellout moment I guess, but they kept pushing the envelope with each record.

 

[Old Blue 2]

So many good and diverse songs on that album. Take Taxman and For No One for example. Two tremendous songs but so totally different.

Yellow Submarine always felt a bit out of place on Revolver I reckon, even with the diversity of the album.

Lead guitar on 'Taxman' was Paul McCartney. But then Paul was a guitarist with the Beatles until the demise of Sutcliffe. Harrison was more of a country & western/rock & roll guitarist (cf. Act Naturally, and Roll over Beethoven).