Controversial, moi?

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

From today's Graniaud, a load of famous musicians discussing which "classic" albums they consider to be overrated.

Eddie Argos is a legend, that bloke from the Kooks is an idiot

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Some of those popstars are idiots but they are ALL - w/ one exception - correct about those dreadful albums.

(exception = Mark Ronson whose comments on 2pac are borderline retarded)
(oh and Siobhan's prob wrong about Abba but I don't really care about either)

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

For me, the three that are completely wrong are Ronson ('All Eyez On Me' is a masterpiece, one of the great rap albums of all time), Pritchard ("'Pet Sounds' is overrated" says writer of 'Naive'!!) and Wayne Coyne. I won't hear a bad word said against 'Nevermind', not even by someone as talented as Coyne.

Which other albums would you say are overrated?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The only albums I like from that list are 2Pac and Rhe Velvet Underground! I've heard music by most of the others, and in some cases even the whole album, and they're all awful. Beach Boys are sterile and dead-hearted. Nirvana whiny boy drivel which is completely redundant in the face of Courtney L. Strokes = whatever, if ONLY they were the fashion victim trust fund kids they get painted as. The Smiths, you have probably seen me hate on a thousand times. Beatles too. And the Stone Roses are like the worst band ever, my friend Anna was once DJing and this girl came up to her and requested them; she fixed the offender with a gaze of pure contempt and, without speaking, turned away; this is my attitude precisely.

[(Anonymous)]

"The Beach Boys are sterile and dead-hearted?" Lex, that is the wrongest thing I've ever heard you say. Maybe the experience of shy, early-60s California boys is too far from your own to appreciate, but there's joy, introspection, love in the Beach Boys' best stuff. Yes, there's some crap and some weird psychobabble, too. If you don't like them, fine, but make sure you've listened before you dismiss them out of hand.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I can't understand how anyone could find a song as wonderful as God Only Knows (which is of course on Pet Sounds) sterile. Do give that one a try, if you don't know it, Lex - I'm wondering if you have only heard the bouncy California Girls-type stuff. The opening line of GOK is one of the most breathtaking ever, for me - starting a love song with "I may not always love you", especially back then, is very audacious.