The 25 most overrated albums ranked, from Nirvana’s In Utero to The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper
Besides politics, pineapple pizzas and Elon Musk’s Twitter feed, few things stoke as much virulent social division as a Best Albums list. Pub tables are rent asunder over the precise relative merits of Hunky Dory and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. WhatsApp groups shatter over whether Nevermind trumps The Queen Is Dead. Entire families are separated forever into warring factions of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks versus Beyonce’s Lemonade.Because, no matter what your musical taste, you’re not wrong. It’s just that sometimes a critical hysteria hits, mass sonic delusion descends and records are...
Fans Unimpressed With New Katy Perry Album
Katy Perry is back. The star has finally returned to the music scene with her seventh studio album, 143. Katy Perry lost the public with her fourth album, and it only got worse with the fifth, so pop fans waited in anticipation to see if she could reclaim her throne as a pop hit-maker. The album got mixed reviews online, with her fan base eating it up, but overall, pop lovers aren’t too pleased with it.
Remember When: A Rolling Stone Music Critic Laid the Hammer Down on Bob Dylan’s ‘Self Portrait’
When you do it once, they expect you do it again. In Bob Dylan‘s case, he had done it—as in releasing incendiary albums and singles that seemed to capture the tenor of the times—on several occasions throughout the 1960s. His 1970 album Self Portrait didn’t do it for a lot of people, include Rolling Stone magazine.