Re: All-time Overrated Albums
meanchico wrote:
What comes to my mind first is that Modest Mouse album “Good News For People Who Love Bad News.” I really enjoyed it for about 3 weeks and then it annoyed the shit out of me from that point on. I couldn’t go anywhere in Minneapolis without hearing it for at least a year or so. Same with that break-out Arcade Fire album. Ugh.
I'm with you up to a certain point - that album had a few really good songs on it, but some of the tracks were so damn-near unlistenable that it's really hard to fathom how it got as popular as it did. Imagine how many people willingly sat through multiple listens of weird-ass shit like "The Devil's Workday" and try to tell me that band doesn't deserve respect for drawing folks into their bizarre sonic universe. I kind of love it when genuinely strange bands like Nirvana, Crystal Castles, (early) Beck, etc. manage to convince the world that their strangeness is the new norm.
