Well, it's one thing when your favourite long player of all time doesn't appear on one of those 'greatest albums ever' surveys, another when it *does* appear on a list of the most overrated albums of all time. I am guessing there's going to be a lot of outraged music fans out there after BBC 6Music released a list of the ten albums that their listeners think are ... the most overrated. Certainly Nirvana fan Andrew Collins, who announced the results of the poll on the station, was pretty outraged when Cobain et al's 1991 album 'Nevermind' topped the list - he described all the listeners who had voted for it as "mad". But with nine great albums on the list (plus Coldplay's 'X&Y'), even if Nirvana isn't your thing, there's certain to be something dissed on here that will get you a little bit angry.
Anyway, the list in full, with most overrated first, runs thus: Nirvana's 'Nevermind', Coldplay's 'X&Y', The Libertines' eponymously titled debut, Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe', U2's 'The Joshua Tree', Radiohead's 'OK Computer', The Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds', Sex Pistols' 'Never Mind The Bollocks' and The Smiths' 'The Queen Is Dead'.
Commenting on the poll, 6Music's Ric Blaxall told reporters: "These results may upset Nirvana's legion of loyal fans, but it goes without saying that one person's overrated album will be another's firm favourite. But this poll has given our listeners the opportunity to tell us what they really think."