For me,

Pre-81:

UNDERrated = Goat's Head Soup (great songs, better "vibe", absolute classic)

OVERrated = It's Only Rock n' Roll (by the numbers by Stones standards; apart from first three tracks, filler)

Post-81:

UNDERrated = Steel Wheels (maybe I'm just attached to this one b/c its the first stones record I ever got, but I've always liked it)

OVERrated = Voodoo Lounge (band sounds great, but songs are not very memorable)

Underated is Blind Love by Ratcat

Overated is Nevermind by Nirvana

Ratcat? I loved "That Ain't Bad", which was a blip on the radar in the U.S. about 15 years ago. Never heard anything else by them - I'll look for Blind Love.

Underrated - Blur, Modern Life Is Rubbish

Overrated - White Stripes, Elephant

For Stones - Underrated - Satanic Majesties
Overrated - England's Newest Hitmakers



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-02-25 07:21 by JuanTCB.

Over : Between The Buttons / Under : Undercover.

Over: Undercover / Under: you guessed it...Buttons

Overrated---Voodoo Lounge

Underrated---tie between Goats Head Soup and Emotional Rescue.

Most over-rated album on god's green earth:

James Brown, Live at the Apollo... what a run-thru that album really is.

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."

Underrated: Dirty Work.
Overrated: Exile On Main Street.

overrated: goats head soup (any acclaim is too much)

underrated: steel wheels (any album with Almost Hear You Sigh, Mixed Emotions and Slipping Away can't be that bad!!)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2006-02-25 11:09 by nikkibong.

underrated : Goats Head Soup

overrated: Some Girls (not bad but not as good as tattoo You)

Not that I agree in making it post and pre 81, but here goes:


Pre 81:
Overrated: Some Girls.
Underrated: Black And Blue.

Post 81:
Overrated: Dirty Work (According to the thread about it. I can't belive that so many like it).
Underrated: Voodoo Lounge (All-time classic).

JumpingKentFlash

Underrated : 12 x 5, Goats Head Soup
Overrated : Exile On Main Street, Vodoo Lounge

Underrated: Goats Head Soup, Emotional Resque, Undercover.

Overrated: Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Steel Wheels.

Underrated - A Bigger Bang
Overrated - Tattoo You

under-undercover
over-iorr

over-rated poster- t&a
under-rated poster- FERRANTE

Stones-wise:

Underrated: Steel Wheels, Between The Buttons
Overrated: Exile, Some Girls

Just my opinion.

StonesTod Wrote:
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> Over: Undercover / Under: you guessed
> it...Buttons

Of course.

Underrated: "Between the Buttons", "Their Satanic Majesties" and "Black and Blue". Maybe their three most experimental albums.

Overrated: "Exile" (great, but too long, with some filler here and there, and hardly their best ever -- maybe even the weakest of the 1968-1972 period), "Some Girls" (very good, but not the masterpiece everybody says it is) and "A Bigger Bang" (good, but generic and with no instant classics).

No way.Exile had maybe one or two "filler" tracks but,it also has their best tracks.It doesn't get any better than Soul Survivor,Ventilator Blues,Shine A Light,Rip This Joint,Let It Loose etc.

Emotional Rescue, Under, It is a great album, Classic.
Dirty work, I like what the other gentleman said before, giving it any aclaim at all is being pretty nice.

Undrated ABB, Goats Head Soup, Tattoo & Voodoo Emotional Rescue

Overated IORR, Buttons Some Girls Steel Wheels Dirty Work

One Hit & Sleep Tonight deserve more acclaim.There are also some other decent tracks although the '80's production and the fact that they left off some tracks that were better than some that made it hurt the album.I suppose that they felt a Stones album needed to consist of at least 80% Jagger lead vocal songs.