I don't even see anyone having nominated The Queen Is Dead.

Stupid twats if there were any.

are over rated full stop and nirvana are not that good well the lyrics are over rated god just look at smells like teen spirit.

when Pet Sounds wins. When you click against an album name to vote for it you're takes you down to the submission form but no matter which album you've chosen you'll find that Pet Sounds is highlighted. If people don't pay proper attention The Beach Boys will romp it.
Booooooooooooo.

COLDPLAY are definately overrated. Have you heard their cover of "Stop Me If You Think..." -- it's apthetic. True, their music is kind of tuneful but their lyrics do not nearly approach the rich territory of Morrissey. They should never be held in the same breath as The Smiths or Radiohead. As for THE QUEEN IS DEAD being overrated I think that is rubbish. In the American press it is far underrated -- it is usually in the Top 20 and should PROPERLY be atleast top 3 all time. It is overrated only in that STRANGEWAYS could arguable be considered The Smiths actual masterwork, in it's kalaidascopic but resigned melancholy. TQID is certainly more accessibile, thus it's stature as the greatest Smiths album.

Nirvana.

but if that filthy long hair didn't off himself, i doubt it would be so highly praised today.

That is a good list of overrated songs. Even TQID is overrated. Let the tounge lashings begin.

Thanks Morrissey they are over now and buried. I fuking hate that stupid stupid album.

I never quite 'got' the Sex Pistols - perhaps I miss something, but they just sound like a racket to me.

"I think that their audacious lyrics and discordant music will not hold their heads above water when their followers tire of torn jumpers and safety pins . . ."

. . . which was perhaps true - and PiL were even worse.

...it has to be Coldplay...both for their music and themselves...overrated...I read the guitarist didn't know who Peter Buck was and if you're a guitarist in an indie/alt. rock band or whatever they are, you must know certain people and influences.

And how can Pet Sounds be on this list??!! It IS the best album ever!!!

It's okay to dislike Morrissey - you can call him a whining whimp. Fair enough. And you can hate his voice... Fair enough. But you cannot discuss the fact that he is a great lyricist. And of all Smiths and Morrissey records - The Queen is Dead contains some of the finest poetry ever written...

And no, no, no, no! How can Chris WHINY Martin and his boring band be on that list? I didn't know that they had an album out that could qualify for overrating... I mean, then it has to be a great album with new musical thinking in it - and none of their albums have that... jeez...

Never understood the Sex Pistols thing either... they were really just a designband meant to create a wave of youth rebelling... come on, they were just a bunch of drunks and drug addicts... that's not new and certainly wasn't for the time...

The answer is Radiohead isn't it? Prog rock bollocks to the last minute.

Regardless, if any of these albums are over-rated or not, they are much better than most albums. To knock anyone of these albums when there are so many other crappy albums is stupid in my opinion. The writer has nothing good to say about any of these albums. The writer should stick to his Vanilla Ice CD.

I suppose that the most over-rated album isn't necessarily the worst, just the one with the largest gap between merit and reputation. For that reason, I'd say that Nevermind is the most over-rated. I thought that "Smells Like..." sounded like American music at its worst (an unwashed and lazy version of Bon Jovi) when it came out and that the singing style was studied. The rest of the album sounds turgid and lacking in melody.

Joy Division, Van Morrison, Kings of Leon, much of The Rolling Stones and John Lennon, all (and more, I'm sure) could have made it to that list.

Hatful, Strangeways and Meat Is Murder are all better. The Coldplay album is the most over-rated album on the list, the hype has been surreal. Reviewers must have been taking bungs from EMI, some were saying it was one of the all time great albums only days after hearing it! How the FUCK?!?!? They must have listened to it twice! Speed Of Sound sounds like crap U2 for about 30secs then just sounds crap.

Running it close is Sgt Pepper, which has one great song (A Day In The Life) and a few ok ones but it isn't even the best BEATLES album.

Other overrated albums (at random):

Blue Lines - Massive Attack
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - U2
O - Damien Rice
London Calling - The Clash
Employment - Kaiser Chiefs
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Is UNDERRATED in my opinion, especially here in the states. I've always said, and I stick by this, that these are the greatest albums of all time:

1. The Queen is Dead
2. Joy Division--Closer
3. Slint--Spiderland

Hands down. I can go back and forth between TQID and Meat is Murder for my fave Smiths album, but I think TQID wins the prize for its epic feel. Strangeways is an excellent album, but it is not as cohesive. Nirvana's Nevermind is definitely an overrated album, but don't write them off completely--In Utero is brilliant. As for most overrated, Oasis DM is a good one, in that it is not even good enough that we should be discussing it ten years later. And COLDPLAY? I don't even need to comment. Think about it. Which is the overrated album? Let's see, the signature masterpiece of the most important guitar band of the 80s vs...COLDPLAY. Ridiculous.

I believe that fat slob known as RObert Smith and his entire pathetic catalog should be on that moron writers list. Anyone else agree?

The thing with the queen is dead, is, it has some of the best smiths songs and some of the least good.

It has, in my opinion, the best song ever (any artist): The boy with the thorn in his side. I know its over, cemetry gates, there is a light is also some of the best songs of the smiths.

Then you have frankly mr. shankly and vicar in a tutu, in my opinion, some of the least good songs i smiths history.

The album is like a rollercoaster, it has peaks and...well...not peaks?

Meat is murder and Strangeways here we come, is good, straight through (with one or two exceptions).

Haha, i kinda lost myself, but ehhhh, THE END.

X&Y is so bland. Not one song stands out lyrically or musically. It sounds like it was designed to sell jeans and cars and be played in every outlet of DFS . If you are going to wet your bed do it with some style, not just a weak and predictable loosening of the bladder....

I'm voting U2 because, despite the stylish concept of The Joshua Tree and its experimental diverse influences, I simply prefer some of their older songs and, later, especially the album Achtung Baby. It's not bad, just, well, relatively over-rated I guess. Which could be argued about any title on the list, except TQID, of course!

The Queen Is Dead, if anything, is underrated. I love all of the Smiths albums, but The Queen Is Dead is absolutely genius--it is my favorite album of all time by any artist, of any era, of any genre. I believe that "Pet Sounds" is overrated, as are the Beach Boys as a whole. As an aside, while I enjoy Coldplay, to put them on the same list as these other artists at this point in their career really is not appropriate, as they have not yet stood the test of time (which may well occur, but it is too early to judge).

This poll is ridiculous and a waste of print. All of these albums are worthy of ownership for any music afficianado. The Queen Is Dead is greatness.
Coldplay is the best band since the Smiths. All of you Coldplay bashers, I guarantee do not own any of their albums, certainly not X&Y. X&Y is very good, so what if they are hyped, they have earned it. If they do nothing else, they will go down as one of the greats in rock history. #1 in 25 countries.........although thats what many of you bashers dont like the fact theyve had success, if they were more obscure you'd be all over it.
Its funny to me though how people will passionately dismiss the Smiths or Coldplay or "fill in the blank", while never really listening to a proper album.

I recall spotting the record on many, many different lists of the best albums of all time. Doesn't that mean it lives up to it's high acclaim?

Most of the albums on that list is great, but Definatly Maybee is the most overrated album ever, not one good song and boring lyrics. Come on "I be your supersonic, give me Gin&Tonic" Bullshit I say.

Ok Computer is an amazing album. The Queen is Dead is one of my favs!

Musically and lyrically it is absolutely NOT overrated. Production-wise, it's a little thin. Think of how much better "I Know It's Over" sounds on Rank, and think of how the album would have sounded with a tougher mix. It's still amazing, but any criticisms should go there.

ah..conjecture...outside of the uk I am not sure that anyone ever felt the "weight" of the Libertines. They won't go on to be on too many lists for anyone, I think. Coldplay...changed no one's life for better or worse, innocuous, inappropriate to be on such a list. A lot of these other records, TQID included, represented huge sea changes in music culture and the biz itself; they stand alone, whether I am tired of them by now or not. ( I am not tired of TQID yet).

Your comment DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!

OH please! Lemme guess, cause their not Morrissey or The Smiths?

Grateful Dead are freakin great! Just because its a different style of music does not make it shit. They had great lyrics and great music.

I'm sorry for you, obviously, 'Bush people'
out there, who just can't get it - and sadly -
run around causing all kind of (this time verbal)
havok.

Naah...i'm not so serious about this whole
thing. The Bush tho, is offcourse, a joke
and list of his blunders would make a big fat
and sad album.