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most overated album of all time

most overated album of all time

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Sgt Pepper

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@badradger said
Sgt Pepper
The Wall

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Thriller

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Purple Rain

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@wolfe63 said
Thriller
Michael Jackson wrote 3 of the 11 tracks.
Quincy Jones wrote the rest.

As for the title track ??
An expensive video with elevator music attached. 😛

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@badradger said
Sgt Pepper
You folks can label Sgt. Pepper, The Wall, Purple Rain, and Thriller as overrated if you wish, but these albums were very popular and sold a lot of copies, so it depends on who is doing the rating.

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@mchill said
but these albums were very popular and sold a lot of copies
Which is pretty much a pre-condition for them being candidates for the most overrated album of all time.....

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@mchill said
You folks can label Sgt. Pepper, The Wall, Purple Rain, and Thriller as overrated if you wish, but these albums were very popular and sold a lot of copies, so it depends on who is doing the rating.
everything is subjective its an opinion, for me pepper never lived up to its hype, nothing the beatles did ever spoke to me like the stones or kinks but hey that's just me.

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@badradger

all bad suggestions so far

how about "Hysteria" by Def Leppard?

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@mchill said
You folks can label Sgt. Pepper, The Wall, Purple Rain, and Thriller as overrated if you wish, but these albums were very popular and sold a lot of copies
So did Barbara Cartland and Mantovani.

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@badradger said
Sgt Pepper
I'm a real big Beatles fan but thinking about the bands and their albums that I listened to I have to agree with you. The Pepper myth was built on hype.

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@karoly-aczel

Nowhere to go but down after Pyromania, really.

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For me Loveless by My Bloody Valentine is an incredibly overrated and, frankly, terrible album.

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Anything by Coldplay.

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@stellspalfie said
Anything by Coldplay.
quazi lift music.