L.P.'s Known As Classics, Which You Think Are Over Rated

[3331]

yeah i gotta back you up on that. i mean quests first three joints are the shit. i mean lyrically they aint that great but they're just real fun and different. midnight marauders is my fav.

[Juronimo]

I disagree with y'all stating Illmatic, but thats cool, thats your opinion...

Now if anybody lists "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest then I will have to strongly disagree...lol.

I used to have Low End Theory on tape, that album is fuckin brilliant, easily a classic.

Those of you guys who don't think the Chronic is classic, you had to have been around at the time, especially if you were living in Southern California at the time. That album was like a time capsule, capturing all of the emotions, the anger and frustrations of everything going down at the time. When you listen to a song like "The Day the Niggas Took Over", that song just sums up how people felt back then, with the Rodney King verdicts and the ensuing riots. I think The Chronic captured that whole era better than any other album coming out of LA at the time. Also, give props to Ice Cube's Predator and King Tee's The Triflin' album as those albums also have similar themes running through them. The Chronic captured that and the music was different than anything else at the time, plus you have a young Snoop, Kurupt, Daz, Rage and RBX and you have a masterpiece.

[LooN3y]

This might grow into a controversial thread, but I'm just wondering which albums that have been classified as classics, that you think are over rated. I'll be the 1st brave soul (my karma prolly gonna see a MAD drop after this 1) and I'll say Dr. Dre's "The Chronic". I only liked "Fuckin With Dre Day", "Nuthin But A G Thang", "Rat-tat-tat-tat", "Lyrical Gangbang" & "Stranded On Death Row".  I listened to it today for the 1st time (I'm pretty young, and I been trying to go back and listen to all west coast classic albums that came before me/when I was relatively young) right after I listened to The D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It Better" (also for the 1st time) and D.O.C.'s is 10x better. Only 1 listen, and already 1 of my fav. records of all time. Lol, please lets understand people this is ALL opinion.

i feel like its a definite classic for a fact and not an opinion, probaly 1 of the most influential records ever made

[Lunatic]

This might grow into a controversial thread, but I'm just wondering which albums that have been classified as classics, that you think are over rated. I'll be the 1st brave soul (my karma prolly gonna see a MAD drop after this 1) and I'll say Dr. Dre's "The Chronic". I only liked "Fuckin With Dre Day", "Nuthin But A G Thang", "Rat-tat-tat-tat", "Lyrical Gangbang" & "Stranded On Death Row".  I listened to it today for the 1st time (I'm pretty young, and I been trying to go back and listen to all west coast classic albums that came before me/when I was relatively young) right after I listened to The D.O.C.'s "No One Can Do It Better" (also for the 1st time) and D.O.C.'s is 10x better. Only 1 listen, and already 1 of my fav. records of all time. Lol, please lets understand people this is ALL opinion.

i feel like its a definite classic for a fact and not an opinion, probaly 1 of the most influential records ever made

I didn't mean it like that. What I meant by ALL opinion, was that this is simply my opinion. I DO know that the general feeling is that chronic is a classic, and I ain't got no problems with that.

[eastcoast timbs]

Woah @ Illmatic being overated

 I say Chronic 2001 and Doggfood are overated. I liked 2001 when I first heard it, but I can only listen to a few of the songs without gettin bored now. And only on the internet have I really heard Doggfood being a classic. It had some nice joints on there, but I'll put it in the 3.5-4 mics range. Over here people bumped Chronic, Doggystyle, and AEOM like crazy, but Doggfood wasnt gettin burn like that

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Add "All Eyez On Me" to the list of classics that I think are overrated.

7DT>AEOM>MATW

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Game - Documentary
How anyone can think that album is classic is beyond me, the album is barely above average. Outside of Higher, Start From Scratch and Where I'm From, the rest of the album is ehh.

How is The Doc known as a classic in the first place?