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What underrated/low selling album do you still love despite the critics?
Me: Ride, [i]Tarantula[/i]
You?
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Space - Spiders..
I can't remember if it was received [i]too[/i] badly but it certainly isn't remembered as the classic it should be..
I suppose that you've got that filed in with Leonard Nimoy and the Hoff's efforts cfh. 😉
What can I say, I like it! 😳
The Cooper Temple Clause - See This Through and Leave.
It did not bad IIRC but it should have been huge! They're the band Kasabian wish they were!
I've got a feeling I might regret that last comment! 😳
Lol I used to like that too Flash but I had forgotten it even existed until now.
Didn't he cover 'Under the Boardwalk' on it?
down by the sea?
Don't know about underrated but Fleetwod Mac - Rumours, quite possibly the best album ever wriiten
Especially when you know the band were destroying themselves through drug abuse and relationship breakdown when it was recorded
Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones.
Space? They were on Magic FM the other day and exactly as shite as I remembered. Whiney scousers without even the wit of The Wombats 😉
Damian Dempsey - Shots
Second Coming - Stone Roses
Audition - Witness
Most under-rated that everyone rates but should in fact be worshipped - [i]Relationship of Command[/i] by At the Drive in [who are reforming I believe].
Most under-rated that not many rate - [i]Bunny gets paid[/i] by Red Red Meat.
Category by itself - [i]Spiders[/i] by Space 🙂
Underrated... Ideas Above Your Station by Hundred Reasons. It's not consistently good but at its best it's just ridiculously good.
Ah why not go for another band of the same era, Hell Is For Heroes never came close to matching their first album Neon Handshake, but that's OK because very few other bands can either.
+1 for Second Coming. But nothing was going to live up to their first album
The Accused - More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral.
Don't know about underrated but Fleetwod Mac - Rumours, quite possibly the best album ever wriitenEspecially when you know the band were destroying themselves through drug abuse and relationship breakdown when it was recorded
I thought the question was underrated album? Rumours sold millions, No 1 album all over the place; hardly underrated.
Now [i]Twenty Twenty Sound[/i], by Dark Star, was criminally ignored by everyone, but is a stunning album. [i]Zurich[/i], their second album, never even got a release, although I have a rough mix of it, and damn good it is too.
The Beatles, Best of......
1. The Seahorses
2. The Adventures
sunshine on leith. the proclaimers.
william shatner the transformed man 😀
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Sleep No More- Comsat Angels. Tells you everything you need to know about the Editors.
Kanye's 808s and Heartbreak. Loads of rap fans hated it because it was different to all his other stuff. Loads of non-rap fans hated it just because it was him. But I can play it to almost anyone (including my dad) and they'll like it.
william shatner the transformed man
Was his singing meant to be tongue-in-cheek or was he serious and just didn't realise how ridiculous he appeared to everyone. The man is either a generous or a complete wally.
Just had a quick skip-play of that Kanye West album...I can appreciate what your saying but mate but...thats awful. 🙂
That whiny type sound he uses really grates on me. Each to their own though, if its your thing then good stuff.
I've always felt most of Thirteen Senses's albums have been underrated. I can play any of them non-stop & love everything I hear. Most folk think them a bit limp & whishy washy.
Listening to Sigur Ros a lot these days, & really into Ludovico Eienaudi. I'm getting old. 🙂
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Not sure about individual albums but one band that deserves to be more popular is Crippled Black Phoenix:
Levitation - Need For Not
Can't remember what the reviews where like at the time but still sounds superb today.
This gets slaughtered but I really liked it. Given the dirge they've churned out since, it's a masterpiece in comparison
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Re north wind. Ah yes Hundred Reasons get a thumbs up, great band who appear sadly no more. Seen them a couple of years ago in Edinburgh. Check out the bassists new band Freeze The Atlantic
Kanye West's 808s was massively underrated.
I don't think Take Me To Your Leader gets enough attention either. I think it's DOOM's best work apart from Madvillainy.
actually, this is a belter if you enjoy punk/hardcore
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Never once in my life met anyone else who bought this but everyone who hears it loves it
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One of the nastiest, bitterest, most insightful bands ever.
Never go the credit they deserve.
Played at a lot of 90's weddings by couples who had obviously never listened to the lyrics.
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Never has a band been plagarised by so many, whilst being acknowledged by so few.
Innit.
Funky Little Demons by The Wolfgang Press
I bought that because the press bloody loved itLevitation - Need For Not
I didn't, but there you go. Haven't actually chucked it away bu never listen to it
For your ridicule today, I'm offering
Longpigs - The sun is often out
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American Music Club - Everclear
You gotta say yes to another excess...by Yello. Way ahead of their game. Think 80s techno mentalists. Brilliant.
THE THE - INFECTED
Lo-Fidelity Allstars. 'How To Operate With A Blown Mind'. Great Album!!
Cooper Temple Clause. See this through and leave.
Mull Historical Society. Loss.
Longpigs. The sun is often out.
a quick scan
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Ted Hawkins - Watch your Step
think Mark Knofler (sp?) promoted a tour in the UK - saw him in a club in Leeds early 80's
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I'm disqualifying Loss on the grounds that it's not This Is Hope. Sorry, I don't make the rules...
THE THE - INFECTED
Brilliant album, but I thought it was critically acclaimed and hence hardly underrated
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Simply awsome!!
Not sure about underrated, but a few that may have slipped under the radar for some:
Helmet - Meantime
Quicksand - Slip
Refused - The shape of punk to come
The Young Gods - L'eau rouge
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
Lucero - That much further west
Life of Agony - Soul searching sun
Cave In - Antenna
Entombed - To ride, shoot straight and speak the truth
The get up kids - Something to write home about
Promise Ring - Very emergency
Leatherface - Mush
Seafood - When do we start fighting
Seaweed - Four
.......could go on forever 🙂
Seamonsters is a great shout rusty. The WP seemed to get a lot of stick at the time but that is a great album. Albini production really made the difference to their normal sound.
Couple of mates went to Brighton to see them recently, last year I think (I couldn't make it). Gedge only played about 3 old songs 🙄
Billy Mackenzie ...Beyond The Sun
Scott Matthews ...Passing Stranger
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
The Stone Roses - The Second coming
The Eels - Souljacker
The National - Alligator
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Not a single bad song.....and an Iggy cameo, what more could you want?
love and money - Strange kind of Love
fat lady sings - Twist
Diesel park west - Shakespeare alabama
Didn't everyone have The Return of Bruno back when Moonlighting was the best show on tv?
Someone mentioned the Adventures. Just send my Heart was a top track.
Thought of another one
Oar by Alexander "Skip" Spence. Or any album by Moby Grape for that matter.
Anything by Sparklehorse.
^^ Agreed! Sparklehorse are brilliant. I doubt I'd know about them if it weren't for Earthed.....is that sad?