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411 Music Top 5 10.09.07: Most Overrated Albums
Posted by Daniel Wilcox on 10.09.2007

411 Music's Top 5 lists are back and this week the staffers dissect their top 5 most overrated albums of all time! Come inside and see our lists!

New and improved, 411 Music's Top 5 is back!

I am your host, Daniel Wilcox and I'll be here to guide you through 411 staff's Top 5 lists each and every week.

For the return of the column, the staffers look at the Top 5 Most Overrated Albums, and this is a tough one because there's a hell of a lot of overrated stuff out there for these guys to choose from.

Let's not waste any more time and get straight to the lists!

Dan Haggerty

No. 5 â€" Eagles - The Greatest Hits

Before you hit me with tons of hate mail for the number one selling album of all time, just listen. I appreciate that the Eagles have the number one spot in sales, and I also appreciate the fact that a 70's act have the honors instead of some pop-princess or God forbid Jackson. My issue is that this is on the back of a "Greatest Hits" album. When an artist writes an album, it's a statement as a whole. The album is a journey about what the artist was doing and trying to convey at that moment in their life, and for me an album is something that should be taken in its entirety. Ripping the best songs for your personal amusement on a theme disc is fun, but at the end of the day people should appreciate an artist's music as the original experience they created, and not some jumbled mix of era's that someone else decided to put together. See where I'm going with this? If you like the song "Hotel California", that's great and you should… Just buy the damn album it came from and enjoy the band's complete vision. Now copy/paste this for every other greatest hits package out there to tie for this spot.

No. 4 â€" Guns ‘N' Roses â€" Appetite for Destruction

Every time I see a Top 100 or 500 Album list, be it VH1, Rolling Stone, or whatever, this album is usually on it. Why? Use Your Illusion I and II were much better, and quite frankly sound more legitimate. Appetite comes across like it was calculated to take advantage of the hair/pop-rock meltdown the public was ODing on in the late 80's, like a well placed anti-hair album by a recovering hair band; on the flip side, Illusion has the feeling of a band that wrestled for years (and they did) being pushed to their limits to show their worth. Not that Appetite is a bad album, it's just not worth the accolades or sales it gets when the industry and even the band itself has better to offer.

No. 3 â€" Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

If you were not alive in 1986, then this one will be lost on you. A metalhead couldn't turn around to take a piss without bumping into this piece of pop purgatory. It was a great year for music, with lots of history making albums for the long haired masses:


    * Slayer - Reign In Blood

    * Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin

    * Megadeth - Peace Sells… But Who's Buying

    * Queensrych - Rage For Order

    * Metallica - Master of Puppets

Source:

http://www.411mania.com/music

[roboaxl]

I disagree seeing as AFD is the best album of all time but at the same time it's nice to see someone praise the Use Your Illusion albums for a change...

[GGS]

I'd love to see what his top 10 rated albums are i'm sure we'd probably find nickleback or limp bizkit in his list

[Faxl]

What he didn't mention about AFD was that it's actually a very very very brilliant album 

[GunsNR]

Why didn't you post n.2 and n.1?


No. 2 â€" Metallica - Metallica

Pretentiously known as the black album, people buying into the hype that this was metals answer to the Beatles' classic, this is undoubtedly the thrashers most overrated album. Not that it was a bad album, for it is not, and it's certainly head above everything they did after it. It's a fun album, if a curious stripped down recast of the previous three with more hooks and groves (and a token ballad or two) to get your kid sister on board. But 14 times platinum? I think not. The first four albums gave this institution its bragging rights and smoke this album any day of the week - From a great height.

No. 1 â€" Def Leppard - Hysteria

The soundtrack to selling out and an overall pile of musical self-loathing, this was Leppard's runaway hit of the ages. Only problem, it was completely devoid of life and sterile. I can picture Elliot hooked to a synthesizer like some Star Trek borg monstrosity while the sound room engineer surgically recreates his voice ten tracks deep in a chorus written to current marketing trends and focus group polling. Man, Def Leppard's first two albums were great, from NWOBHM classics to the sound of teenage anthems in all the right ways; those were the soundscapes of any Saturday night in the early 80's. But then the band turned left at commercial stardom to shit out this view from a hill. Sad really - Some fun hooks and groves, along with decent guitar work, but all canned and repackaged through production over substance, product placement over soul. I can see anyone carrying away a few guilty pleasures from this thing, but 12 times Platinum based on "Excitable" and the lyrical prose of the ages "Armageddon It". Someone shoot me.

Go buy On Through The Night or High ‘N' Dry for the real Def Leppard classics.

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AFD is a brilliant album, personally id say it is better than the UYI albums. and the black album isnt overrated, its a briilliant album, sorry but i had to mention that

[XXtracigunsXX]

AFD is a brilliant album, personally id say it is better than the UYI albums. and the black album isnt overrated, its a briilliant album, sorry but i had to mention that

I argee to that 

[eddierose]

The Black Album is the best album in the History of Music.

If you are a man you would know that AFD was better than UYI albums.

[GnRforlife]

The Black Album is the best album in the History of Music.

If you are a man you would know that AFD was better than UYI albums.

UYI are better the ''if your are a man'' thing is only added because you want to make yourself look cooler wich hasn't worked trust me

[XXtracigunsXX]

UYI are better the ''if your are a man'' thing is only added because you want to make yourself look cooler wich hasn't worked trust me

[.slash.]

The Black Album is the best album in the History of Music.

If you are a man you would know that AFD was better than UYI albums.

dont go to far dude, and what if women say it what are they a man?

[misterbrownstone]

The Black Album is an atrocity aside from a couple riffs (Sad But True, Through the Never, etc.)  LOVE the production, but the songs aren't up to par with the first 4 albums.  Load is better overall than TBA.

[PurpleHaze]

I dunno I quite like The Black Album, I always felt people hated on it because it was cool to. Not as good as MOP but so what? Sad but True has the most badass groove to the riff. It's a great album.

...and I prefer UYI to AFD but only because AFD is the type of album who's tracks sound better live. The illusions have much more depth and better production so they make a better studio listen. Live though, AFD pwnz.

[misterbrownstone]

i don't really need to justify it, but since it's you, i will  .  the song writing is weak (overall) and the songs all sound the same, due to riffage and lack of like...an identity.  like, if you listened to Battery, then Sanitarium and then Master, you'd easily tell the difference.  the majority of the songs just all blend into one pot of mediocrity if you ask me.