I've never understood the "overplayed" argument. I can understand someone hearing enough of one song or an album, but the idea that a radio station or a band constantly playing a particular song or songs from a particular album somehow devalues the song/album is nonsensical. I've had this argument with people who will say things like "Layla is overplayed". It may well be that you've heard it so often it doesn't inspire the same thing in you it did when you first heard it, but objectively it's still a great song. And Rumours is still imo, Fleetwood Mac's best album.
The problem is, it's like the child that gets all the praise. People resent it. But that's more to do with the childishness of the listener imo.
I also think when it comes to the critics, they do seem to be of this mentality that "If you're rich you only have yourself to blame". Weird pseudo-leftist types. And British critics are particularly snobbish about Americans and that West Coast scene. Especially after Fleetwood Mac had had some success as a British Blues band.
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