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Originally Posted by Janszoon
What is the difference between overhyped and overrated? To me, DSOTM probably is overrated. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great album, but I don't know if any album can live up to the kind of hype that surrounds that album.
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You kinda answered your own question. I know you guys hate when numbers are brought into the discussion but It's hard to argue with these:
741 consecutive weeks on the Billboard top 200 album list. 741!?!?!?
50 million copies estimated to be sold worldwide.
DSOTM blew the doors off when it first came out and it's continued to blow people away for decades.
I consider it an absolute masterpiece with very few peers in the overall general rock genre.
Of all of the dad rock albums I've exposed my son to DSOTM is the one he completely agrees is brilliant.
But that's just my and his opinion.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away, across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell