This album, which I am only just now getting around to listening to, is another instance (and, there seems to be many these days) where I don’t quite get all the hype. Last year, Silversun Pickups quickly became the critics’ new indie darlings, and eventually landed on more than one “best of ‘06″ lists. But, I don’t get it! They are just another Mid-Western band that’s way too influenced by the Smashing Pumpkins. Seriously! I can do without all the melodramatic whining; and if I want to experience some warm and fuzzy aural dreamscape, I’ll put on MBV or Slowdive. Smashing Pumpkins had very little to offer fifteen years ago, and this iteration of their sound has even less.

I’m through with reading reviews!

In honor of the hype machine, I present to you yet another list: The Five All-Time Over-Rated Bands/Musicians:

1. Radiohead
2. Bob Marley
3. Elvis
4. Sex Pistols
5. Kurt Cobain (the celebrity)