| Best Ever: Radiohead- O.K. Computer. Hard to beat the Beatles, but I give them the nod being that it's the best I've heard that was recorded in my lifetime.
Worst Ever: Creed- My Own Prison, or whatever it's called. Got it at the radio station I work at and used it as a frisbie after one listen. It's not even funny bad, like Manowar, it's that "we take ourselves waaaay too seriously" kind of bad, which is the worst kind. It sounded exactly like the hundreds of other C-grade Pear Jam rip-off cds that used to come to us every day, yet somehow they got noticed while most of the others faded away. /shrug
Ground-Breaker: My Bloody Valentine- Loveless. It wasn't the first by them, but this is the most fleshed out realization of Kevin Shields' genius. Sounds like an album from another planet, and yet it's still just your basic guitar band.
Best Debut: Ramones- Ramones. Start to finish a bad ass kick in the teeth of an album.
Worst Debut: Umm, see Creed above.
Overrated: Too many to even think about. My brain just overloads when I try. If I mentioned some of the biggest ones I'd probably be stoned to death.
Underrated: Hrmm, how about Murder Ballads, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? There's probably more deserving, but this is the one that popped in my head. Most reviewers don't seem to get him, most people don't seem to like him. Every review I read of it when it came out trashed it for being so violent, but it's one of my favorite of his albums. |