Good to know.

this whole thread is a bunch of pretentious wank.....some people say albums are overrated just because it's popular. Even though it's a good album they'll say it's overrated because it's receiving good critical reviews.

That's nice and all but it doesn't change the fact that Kala was rubbish.

lol if you say so......

I liked it and think that it should be getting all the critic raves that it gets

We're talking more about the albums that aren't really that popular yet seem to be thought of as the best thing since sliced bread by certain media. Just take this board for example, the most talked about (let's say the most popular) releases of the year were Favorite worst nightmare, Icky thump and In Rainbows. I'm focusing on Pitchfork's list right now, their number one album is Panda Bear, which got like 10 replies here. What about Battles (I think Mirrored got something as ridiculous as a 9.0 rating on Metacritic) or Animal Collective...? I mean, after being made to listen to those albums I was certainly wondering what the fuck people were on about...:\

In what way is it pretentious? What's in question here is whether the albums actually merited the reviews on their own, or whether there was evidently some other reason why it ended up universally accepted as the best thing of all time.

I have'nt heard Panda Bear, Battles or Animal Collective. I can only go on what I've heard. I think we can sometimes mix over rated with underwhelmed.

You didn't like Strawberry Jam? Really? With regard to SJ, the general reception was a lot more mixed than that of Panda Bear, Battles etc. If anything I think it'd be possible to argue that it was underrated. I thought Strawberry Jam was a purely excellent record, one of the very best things I heard at all in all of 2007. I'da thought/expected that most through-and-through indie music fans who listened to it at least a few times through woulda ended up liking it, so I guess I'm slightly surprised. But to each their own, this is all subjective after all.

Silverchair - Young Modern
Silverchair should have quick while they were ahead. All the new stuff is ****.

Arctic Monkeys-Favourite Worst Nightmare
An all round ****house album.

Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sounds
Why....?

Santana - Ultimate Santana
Editing one riff does not make you a great musician, especially if you team up with Nickelback.

Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience Grace
Stick to drumming next time.

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Skeltonwitch - Whatever their garbage album is called
Kanye West - Graduation