Underrated/Overrated Albums?

[Daniel.]

What albums do you consider overrated and underrated?

Underrated -

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible - I don't know anyone ho knows this but it's so beautiful and dark
Marina and the Diamonds - Electra Heart - It has a low meta score but it's pop perfection, probably my favourite album from a pop girl this decade
Lady Gaga - ARTPOP - it's a mess but a fun mess with bops, easily the Gaga album I revisit the most.
A Day To Remember - Homesick - Again I don't know many people who know this, but it's pop punk/metalcore at it's best and in my top ten albums of all time.
Paramore - Paramore - Not really underrated as it's acclaimed but it's so stunning and everyone needs to know

Overrated -

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence - I love Born To Die but this fell a bit flat for me, on other forums its revered as the greatest album of the decade by some.
Rihanna - Unapolagetic - one of her worst, bland and generic.

[EscapismIsAnotherPrison]

Underrated -

Fallulah - Escapism
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Kovacs - Shades Of Black
Nadeah - While The Heart Beats
Saint Lu - Saint Lu
Miss Li - Wolves
Élodie Frégé - Amuse Bouches
Soha - D'Ici Et D'Ailleurs
Lucia - Silence
Purdy - Diamond In The Dust
Bel - Melancholia
Flavia Coelho - Sonho real
Karina Zeviani - Amor Inventado
Zornik - Less > More
Arian Saleh - The Cobblestone EP
Andrew Belle - Dive Deep

Overrated -

There are just too many of them.

[Morgan.]

Underrated - Trench by twenty one pilots - honestly a masterpiece, overlooked because of who the band are

Overrated - When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go by Billie Eilish - it's been out a day and I'm already sick of literally everyone talking about it, couldn't really get into that much, didn't like the songs or style

[RileyH]

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[GiRTh]

Underrated -

Any Steely Dan album
Any Outkast album

Overrated -

Kid A - Radiohead

I dont get it, I just dont get it. This album is listed in a bunch of 'best of all time' polls, I've listened to it a few dozen times but very rarely get all the way thru without wanting to turn it off. Its boring. :shrug:

[Smithy]

Overrated
Beyonce - self titled, Lemonade outsold
Britney - Blackout
Gaga - The Fame
Adele - 25
Ed Sheeran - All of them

Underrated
Kelly Clarksons Discography
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[Shaun]

Over:
- Solange - A Seat at the Table - just a 7 or 8/10, really not best-of-the-year material like some people thought :unsure:
- Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy - barely even a 6/10.
- Patti Smith - Horses - in Rolling Stone's top 50 of all time. I struggled to enjoy it.
- The Eagles - Hotel California - also in their top 50, just...not brilliant :shrug: must be an Americana thing.
- Green Day - American Idiot - so overhyped and built up to be this political clusterbomb when in reality it was a bunch of high-schooler poetry and lazy satire.

Under:
- Beyonce - 4 - people just talk of her self-titled and Lemonade being her "coming of age" albums but this was as good, I feel.
- Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow - just looked at as a "charming little comeback" or whatever when it was actually a crazily introspective and warm album and one of her best, imo
- The Killers - Sam's Town - whenever people get nostalgic about them they jump straight to 'Hot Fuss' and ignore anything else. Hot Fuss was 5 great songs in a row and then a lot of fuzz. Sam's Town was far more evenly-spread, and IMO, better.
- Radiohead - The Bends - not underrated per se, but following on from GiRTh's point: Kid A and OK Computer are looked upon as their masterpieces and I think I prefer this to both.
- Kelis - Flesh Tone - I honestly think she harnessed EDM and house music in a way that lots of popstars have tried to emulate since and failed. Brilliant 21st century album.

[GiRTh]

- Radiohead - The Bends - not underrated per se, but following on from GiRTh's point: Kid A and OK Computer are looked upon as their masterpieces and I think I prefer this to both. .Agrred. Its made worse by the fact the band have turned their noses up at most of the music they were making pre-OK Computer.

If we'd had this poll a year ago I'd have also listed Is this it by The Strokes.

Massively over hyped when it came out and an album I refused to even give a serious listen until about a year ago. Great album, still way over hyped when released though and imo not a top ten of the 2000's