Underrated/Overrated Albums?
 

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.

Underrated -

Fallulah - Escapism

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.

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

underrated

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:

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

Underrated
Kelly Clarksons Discography
ARTPOP

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.

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