Definitely not underrated because it's the most influential album of the last 25 years. There would be no Jagged Little Pill or Dookie without Nevermind.

Sgt. Pepper-Don't get me wrong, a great album, but the best rock album ever? No way, not even the best Beatles album. So much of it rehashes and in many ways palliates musical ideas they'd played out on Revolver, which, along with Abbey Road and the high points of the White Album, blows this out of the water.

Dirty Mind-Our intrepid hero's most overrated work. There were funkier and harder rocking songs on his first two albums, this just has slightly better blending of styles and cheaper production values, plus the best song is the one he stole from Morris Day. Granted, it is the first album where he'd developed a more original sound, but not the masterpiece or even the great leap forward it's cut out to be.

Exile On Main Street-It's good, quite good, but it seems like one continuous song to me and though I've listened to it multiple times I can't even remember any of the individual tracks afterward.

Aquemini-Sorry but I enjoy Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/Love Below a whole lot better. This is an album that has become overrated among fans in backlash to how much higher rated their subsequent two albums were. Good, but not outkast's best by any means.

What's Going On-Not that it isn't a great album it's just that there are at least two socially conscious R&b semi-concept albums that are much better, one of which came before, and both of which are by artists who had much more actual creative involvement in the music (marvin didn't really write his material till the mid 70s from what I hear): Curtis by Curtis Mayfield, and Innervisions by Stevie Wonder.

Pet Sounds-as with all the others in my list, It's an album I enjoy and appreciate but I don't think quite deserves the status it's acrued. I rarely listen to anything other than the hits (wouldn't it be nice, god only knows, sloop john b) and there isn't a hell of a lot of stylistic or emotional range. At it's worst it's treacly and whiny and just because Paul McCartney loved it doesn't mean that it's remotely like the Beatles or that you'll like this if you liked Sgt. Pepper.

Bitches Brew-I'm not the sort to label this a rambling incoherent mess, but Miles has done much better fusion albums (In A Silent Way, Dark Magus, Live Evil).

We're only In It For the Money-This is not Zappa's masterpiece nor is it the anti-sgt. pepper, it's just one in a series of countercultural satire concept albums he made in the late sixties and this one isn't better or even necessarily as good as his others.

Whats your alternative?

The video for the AL's title track (as least) was a RN-gimmick ripoff (women in uniforms!)

And TBDHWU, Madonna is finish (IMOH). Hell, even Kylie is doing a better job than Madonna now.

Between RN and AL, the albums are totally different concepts. It's insane to compare them.

Like hell. Madonna is like a female David Bowie in one more regard:

She needs an electronic trilogy (Ray Of Life/Music/American Life).

You're right for saying each album is a different concept. But they all connect!

I don't think Ray Of Light is overrated at all. One of the very best pop albums of the 90s.

I was blown away the first time I listened to that album all the way thru, and I can't say that about Here, My Dear, and I can only remember one or two songs at the most that I liked from it.

I know it's a sacred cow amongst Marvin's fans, but it's not special to me like WGO. WGO is Marvin's inspired masterwork.

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I think it's rated how it should be. Bedtime Stories is unfocused and trendy. I love a lot of the individual songs, but it just doesn't add up to being one of her best albums although I still really enjoy it. I think the work she did in '94/'95 is one of her best batches of songs. That album gets a major boost when you add in some of the non-album stuff like "I'll Remember", "I Want You", "You'll See" and "Let Down Your Guard".