Best Ever Albums

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

meccalecca — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:32:17 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/20/2013 15:32

here's a couple

Brian Eno + John Cale - Wrong Way Up: Two of the most influential figures in modern music joining forces for one of the best albums either has been involved in.

Raymond Scott: Manhattan Research, Inc: One of the earliest groundbreaking works in electronic music by the guy who composed the music that soundtracked Looney Tunes.

James Brown - Live At The Apollo: The King Of Soul at his very best.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

meccalecca — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:22:53 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/20/2013 15:22

AlexZangari wrote:

Wilco - The Wilco Book Probably none of you have heard this, and I don't mean that in a pretentious way but in a "this was just the bonus CD to a book about them but should have been their follow-up to YHF" way. It's fiercely experimental and remarkably thought-provoking.

I have a copy of The Wilco Book. The CD is great. But I still wouldn't put it on the level of any of their best albums

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

drakonium — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:07:57 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 08/20/2013 15:07

AlexZangari wrote:

Sonic Youth - Sister Their second best record.

Completely agree.

AlexZangari wrote:

Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics This should be regarded as a classic along with the 2 previous albums and Clouds Taste Metallic.

Completely disagree.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

AlexZangari — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:38:09 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 08/20/2013 14:38

I don't think I've posted in here yet. Some I think are underrated:

Blur - 13 This is one of my all-time favourites, and I know Mecca has it at #1. I can't stress enough how everyone needs to listen to this album. It's overlooked way too often because Parklife is the go-to for Blur. If Parklife hasn't had an effect on you, don't just assume Blur isn't for you. Listen to this and all Blur's non-britpop material - their s/t, Think Tank, and Leisure (although Leisure's probably their worst album. If you're a big Madchester fan you might dig it). Blur has a very diverse discography. Stray from their Britpop work and you might be surprised.

The Killers - Sam's Town Their best album by a large stretch for me.

MCR - Danger Days Aside from MCR being pretty much shunned on this site, this album in particular doesn't get the attention it deserves. It's an adrenaline rush. I think Outlaw had it in his top ten.

Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics This should be regarded as a classic along with the 2 previous albums and Clouds Taste Metallic.

Sonic Youth - Sister Their second best record.

Stereolab - Dots and Loops On par with (perhaps even better than) ETK.

Wilco - The Wilco Book Probably none of you have heard this, and I don't mean that in a pretentious way but in a "this was just the bonus CD to a book about them but should have been their follow-up to YHF" way. It's fiercely experimental and remarkably thought-provoking.

Tegan and Sara - If It Was You I put this at #3 behind So Jealous and The Con, which are in a league of their own.

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening I might be the only one who finds this better than Sound of Silver 😕

The Rentals - Seven More Minutes The Rentals aren't extremely popular, but if there's one album people are familiar with it's Return of the Rentals. This one is loads better.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

drakonium — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:31:59 GMT

Author: drakonium

Posted: 08/20/2013 14:31

Since I've listened to it, I've been really surprised to see I Am A Bird Now by Antony & The Johnsons ranked so low. I mean, it's depressing pop with good songwriting and one of the best voices of the decade. Nothing inaccessible or unpleasant. How albums like Silent Alarm, X&Y or Wolfmother are in front of it for its year is beyond my understanding. I'm not saying that everyone should like it, I'm just surprised because to me, it really sounds like something that would be to many people's tastes here.

Same for the first two Dexys' albums, most Flaming Lips 90's output (In A Priest Driven Ambulance, Hit To Death In The Futurehead, ...), Wire's 154, Richard Hell & The Voidoids' Blank Generation, Cocteau Twins' Blue Bell Knoll, Low's I Could Live In Hope, The Undertones' self-titled, Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See, Gravediggaz's 6 Feet Deep, The Hives' Veni Vidi Vicious, Atmosphere's God Loves Ugly, The The's Soul Mining, Peter Gabriel's debut or The Jam's In The City. All of these are critically acclaimed classics and/or by pretty popular bands and sound like something that would get success here, but none of them are even in the top 1000.

Anyway, I guess I'm just complaining about my favorites not being ranked high enough.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Mr.Music — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 06:14:47 GMT

Author: Mr.Music

Posted: 08/20/2013 10:14

As a Gun Club fan i must say after Miami everything seems to be underrated - The Las Vegas Story, Mother Juno, Pastoral Hide and Seek.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

rayword45 — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:28:10 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 08/20/2013 00:28

Underrated by fans or not by fans?

By fans:

Only because I consider it infinitely superior to MHTRTC

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Applies to both, I never hear anyone talk about this but the CD reissue is 70 amazing minutes.

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Again, applies to both.

Not by fans:

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Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

benpaco — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:22:43 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 08/16/2013 03:22

Blue October's "Any Man In America" might actually be as good as Foiled. Close between the two.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

soundguardian — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:02:51 GMT

Author: soundguardian

Posted: 08/10/2013 07:02

Dust by The Screaming Trees is severely under-valued:

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Actually, everything that they've ever done is pretty under-valued...

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Anonymous — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 23:14:49 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/10/2013 03:14

Modest Mouse:

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AZ (more of an underrated artist)

Wu-Tang Clan

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Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

JOSweetHeart — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:23:32 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 08/09/2013 23:23

Of the three albums that my most favorite singer James Otto has released, to me, they are all under rated.

God bless you and him always!!! 😄 😄 😄

Holly

P.S. The names of his albums are Days Of Our Lives, Sunset Man, and Shake What God Gave Ya! 😄 😄 😄

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

gussteivi — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:02:07 GMT

Author: gussteivi

Posted: 08/09/2013 23:02

Prog rock edition:

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Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Cymro2011 — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:00:56 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 08/09/2013 23:00

Double post.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Cymro2011 — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:00:12 GMT

Author: Cymro2011

Posted: 08/09/2013 23:00

Evergreen - S/T

The only reason the album hasn't been completely forgotten is because the drummer from Slint was in the band. It's a really great post hardcore album and the guitarist is awesome.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

sszwalbenest — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:42:14 GMT

Author: sszwalbenest

Posted: 08/09/2013 21:42

Let it Be by the Beatles
the Paul Simon Songbook by Paul Simon
Katy Lied by Steely Dan

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Anonymous — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 17:15:42 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/09/2013 21:15

Nearly on par with Hospice for me. The instrumentals all have a lot of really cool ideas in them, and it really has a completely different feel to it then anything afterwords. It's obviously the work of just one person, but it's such a fantastic work, I hope someday for it to be reissued on vinyl, even though it wouldn't make any noticeable difference in sound quality. I just want to have it next to the other albums in my Antlers collection.

And some other albums I think are underrated by my favorite artists.

Man there are a lot of really good Animal Collective albums.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

them — Fri, 9 Aug 2013 16:26:35 GMT

Author: them

Posted: 08/09/2013 20:26

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Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

Jasonconfused — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:34:40 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 04/20/2013 17:34

Sabotage by Black Sabbath

I"m actually surprised to see how much love Black Sabbath gets on this site, but Sabotage should definitely at least be in their top 5 albums.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

elparacaidas — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:11:03 GMT

Author: elparacaidas

Posted: 04/20/2013 17:11

Diamond Dogs/ David Bowie

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One of the best concept albums ever, inspired in 1984 George Orwell.
The Sweet thing medley its the masterpiece of all Bowie songs.

Re: Of your favorite artists, which album do think is underrated

JOSweetHeart — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:23:37 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 04/20/2013 00:23

MrFrogger wrote:

You literally posted exactly the same post on the last page

I'm sorry. Sometimes I may forget about earlier messages that I have left.

God bless you always!!! 😄 😄 😄

Holly