For me, probably Toto IV. Although, now that I think about it, there are probably a good few critics out there who show it some love since the yacht rock revival began in earnest.
― jon123, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Once upon a time it was Miles Davis's On the Corner, but everybody loves that now.So...Miles Davis's You're Under Arrest.Oh, and Swans' The Burning World, which Michael Gira himself hates.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
Ha, nomar beat me to Monster. Apart from that, probably the second Best Coast album.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
Lloyd Cole - Bad Vibes. Objectively very poor but I love it for the "artist tries something outside his comfort zone and fails wonderfully" vibe.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
i really dug some of those sasha and digweed mixes, especially the northern exposure series.
― nomar
the northern exposure series is totally back
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I'd probably have to pay every ILM poster money to listen to this but it's one of my favorite releases of the 90s:https://www.discogs.com/Folk-Implosion-Nothings-Gonna-Stop-The-Flow/release/1639807
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
this is a good question
The Fall's Middle Class Revolt album seems to be regarded as somewhat of a failure, but I love it.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
i think i have affection for a lot of (what are now) critically unloved albums from the early '90s that received four stars in Rolling Stone.
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
"Goodbye Jumbo, World Party"
i'm always interested in the fandom that goes beyond something like goodbye jumbo which is an album people have actually heard of and even heard. is there a thread about rolling really deep with a band/artist? and how lonely that can be? did anyone buy the last prefab sprout album? lloyd cole has, like, ten solo albums.
if there is a thread, i don't know the name of it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
i bought the lloyd cole/roedelius album.
i thought about buying the last prefab sprout album and I'm sure it's really good but...
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
also think being a fan of preservation act 1/act 2 might be even bolder than being a fan of word of mouth.
i've also kinda been curious about what post-word of mouth albums sound like. don't think i ever heard phobia or u.k. jive.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
i'm always interested in the fandom that goes beyond something like goodbye jumbo which is an album people have actually heard of and even heard.
I don't know anybody irl who likes this album. Even when it came out I didn't know anyone else who was into it. I think it's fantastic, I return to it regularly and it's Wallinger's best album imo.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:45 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I loved U.K. Jive at the time, and considered it their best since Muswell Hillbillies. When I revisited it recently, it mostly held up, but the production is pretty bad (all-digital recording in 1989).
Phobia is garbage, with the exception of the last song, "Scattered," which is one of their best ever. Turns out it was written in 1971.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
I love Maxwell's Embrya which got panned hard when it came out, but I see some people praising it now so idk
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
Act 1 is not bad. Act 2 is bad.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
Cybill Shepherd's Cybill Does It... To Cole Porter. I was trying to find reviews online without much luck. Christgau gave it a D-, although he did say her voice is surprisingly pleasant. The album features many of the songs from the film At Long Last Love, which was a notorious flop. The record is campy fun, though; I've listened to it way more than Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbooks.
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
i kinda like the 2nd and 3rd albums by the dream academy. that is my contribution to this thread. or parts of them anyway. there is a prefab sproutishness to some of it sorta. i even liked their insane john lennon cover. also i like the solo albums by the woman from the dream academy. ambient pop stuff. she was also in a new age group with bill nelson and roger eno that you might have missed. any friend of virginia astley is a friend of mine.
also, by mentioning virginia astley i make tarfumes happy because then he thinks about pete townshend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OcTsl7s6w
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Preservation Act 2 got a 9.5 on pitchfork
https://web.archive.org/web/20011212144343/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com:80/record-reviews/k/kinks/preservation-act-2.shtml
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
oh and Act 1 got a 9.8
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223071609/pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/kinks/preservation-act-1.shtml
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
hahaha
I couldn't get through all of Act 2 in one sitting. I don't think I even got through it in two sittings.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:22 (six years ago) link
Must've been a fun couple of years at RCA.
"Ugh, the Kinks want to put out TWO theatrical concept albums! One a double! This is gonna kill us. Oh well, at least Lou Reed will deliver a solid commercial follow-up to Sally Can't Dance."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
I love Mariah Carey's album "Emotions", that'd have to be top for me.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
I am a real big fan of the Scarlett Johannssen album!
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
whitesnake, self-titled
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
xps LOL Tarfumes
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
i've also kinda been curious about what post-word of mouth albums sound like.
I loved (as I still love) Word of Mouth so much that I bought "Think Visual" on its day of release and tried to convince myself I was into it, but nope
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Seconded!
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
i picked this up as a 50p cut out special at the same time i bought the Godfathers major label album for same price in a strange pop up store in the leeds corn exchange while having a lovely lunchtime groove with BH.i have listened to the Godfathers album a lot (one of the few occasions i get the whole vinyl is better than cd argument), but, not sure i have ever been able to get all way through the Cybill album.
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
It's certainly not for everyone!
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
it's not for me that's for sure.nice cover though.
― mark e, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
I've seen both Metal Machine Music and the John Gavanti album described as unlistenable but I kinda love them both. Probably not a terribly controversial opinion on ILM.
― Lipbra Geraldoman (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Must've been a fun couple of years at RCA."Ugh, the Kinks want to put out TWO theatrical concept albums! One a double! This is gonna kill us. Oh well, at least Lou Reed will deliver a solid commercial follow-up to Sally Can't Dance."― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:24 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:24 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Probably not far from the truth. While that was happening, you also had John Lennon renegotiate a sweetheart deal for Harry Nilsson that saw RCA shelling out million dollar advances for 'luded out comedy albums from a singer with a blownout voice.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
...and with that said I actually get a bit of enjoyment from the mid '70s Nilsson albums.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Probably Maladjusted by Morrissey for me. A supposed career nadir that is actually very strong, and better than the supposed return to form that followed a few years later.
― JRN, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
ratt - out of the cellar
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
i don't think i've ever heard any morrissey after southpaw grammar. which is my fave mozzzzz album. because metal fan. (though i love a bunch of the singles circa 1988-1992)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
people like us - mamas & papas
― velko, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
According to RYM, it's Bob Dylan's Saved, though there seem to be a fair number of fans on this board. More recently, it's Broncho's Double Vanity.
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
Off the top of my head, King Crimson's Islands. Even 'Ladies of the Road.' Not sure it actually counts, though.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
I know you guys are playing some hair metal and the Xanadu soundtrack way more than some of this stuff on this list.
― earlnash, Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
The ELO stuff on Xanadu is pretty good, and of course "Magic" is the best song ever.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
I was going to say the first Gay Dad album but that actually has a decent score on RYM (3.38). I'll go with Comedown Machine by The Strokes. Barely anyone seems to appreciate what a weird and wonderful album that is.
― kitchen person, Thursday, 20 April 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
I am a real big fan of the Scarlett Johannssen album!totally!
the waits covers one, that is - haven't heard the other
― niels, Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:01 (six years ago) link
My goto answer is Wolfgang Press's Bird Wood Cage (1988), but there are a lot of less acclaimed albums from the late 80s that would qualify. I'll stan for Wire's It's Beginning to and Back Again (IBTABA), which RYM considers a 3.15.
― behavioral sink (Sanpaku), Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
The first that comes to mind is All fools day by The Saints.
― stranded, Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:36 (six years ago) link
Not sure about albums, but I do love loads of chart EDM from the last decade, and none of it seems to receive either critical acclaim or even low-key support around here. Was thinking of starting a thread on this topic at some stage, but afraid it would crash and burn.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 20 April 2017 07:43 (six years ago) link
I love it too.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
The Books - Lost and Safe
For me it's not only their best by a wide margin (yet it gets less attention than their previous efforts "lemon of pink" and "food for thought") but it's also one of my top 5 albums of the 00's.
The Books in general are very underrated imho, almost nobody seems to remember them and it was only a decade ago that they were active. Granted they are not the sort of artists or music that drive people crazy.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
Yeah I've always liked Lost and Safe and never really understood why people seem to like it so much less than their other stuff.
According to RYM, Aereogamme - Sleep and Release is the "correct" answer to this question for me. But I don't think that really the case, since that record's not hated, it's just obscure and overlooked. Most of my favourite music's unacclaimed but not in the way this thread's looking for.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 20 April 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
I'll stan for Wire's It's Beginning to and Back Again (IBTABA), which RYM considers a 3.15.
If you'd said "Manscape" I'd have been impressed.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 April 2017 10:54 (six years ago) link
Thomas Anders and Modern Talking Band (how they're billed) played my city on Wednesday :'(
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
i don't even know how to process my appreciation of jason falkner's _all quiet on the noise floor_ as kind of perfect statement of power pop and pop formalism, in structure, technique, and delivery. but a) i don't know if anyone outside of 100 people have ever heard it b) i am not a musician, critic or anything, i just like that genre generally and holy shit c) trying to like stuff other ppl don't know is an annoying trait.
― Hunt3r
fuck it i'll listen to that record, i've only heard his record with r stevie moore but it was pretty good and i like power pop
seriously that experience is just goddamn normal for me, you know what power pop i listen to? goddamn hussalonia, there are maybe about five people who know who that dude is
feel free to drop by the thread where i just post shit i love but can't actually talk about to anybody because maybe three people have heard it, the more the merrier
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
Some bloke came in the shop. I said hello. He started singing:"Is it me you're looking for..." I added:"I can see it in your eyes."
that song was one of my mum's favourite songs when I was a kid. for kinda sad reasons, it was her sort of theme song for a failed relationship. although I can't stand the song myself I can't hate it either
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
It's more that nobody has heard it, but I found out the first self-titled Autre ne Veut is on streaming services, and that might still be my album of the decade. Love it so much.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 6 April 2019 07:28 (four years ago) link
Xpost it is actually a good song. Just heard it a gazillion times way back. :-)
― nathom, Saturday, 6 April 2019 07:43 (four years ago) link
Co-sign all that Tea Party talk upthread, have always loved The Edges Of Twilight, especially the songs where they amplified the Zep love and Eastern elements to a huge scale, the big drum break in Sister Awake is genuinely thrilling after all these years.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's hated or anything - it just kind of fell into a crack in the earth upon release, as one would expect, but the Cult's 2012 album Choice of Weapon is really good.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
Metal Machine Music for me - glad to see it's received several mentions on this thread already. When I first heard it (the Buddha Records reissue on CD) I was quite disappointed, expecting some kind of rip-your-head-off wall of feedback. But now I appreciate it as almost a relaxing record.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
It's really beautiful. It's the only Lou Reed record I ever listen to anymore (I spent years trying to get into him and the VU before finally giving up).
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
I still stand by my answer at the start of this thread.
― mark e, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
i like mmm too, it is a quite soothing listen.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
I just realised it's most likely 'Monsters' by Meat Puppets
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
Ha; I remember buying that record in high school after hearing Huevos and Up On The Sun, liking both a lot, and wanting more of that; I put it in my Walkman and was instantly like "What is this terrible pseudo-metal?" (I love metal, but that wasn't what I wanted from the Meat Puppets at all.) I turned around and returned it; luckily, my friend's family owned the store and he let me pick something else instead.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
First track I heard was 'Light' on the radio, which is a kinda Grateful Dead sounding thing, but I was at home with the heavier stuff on the record, not having heard them before, I love the whole thing, Linn-Drum and all but the last track 'Like Being Alive' is absolutely beautiful.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Well, your post has me revisiting them on Spotify, for the first time in ~30 years, so maybe I'll check it out.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
I guess my real answer should be Tremolo by Blue Rodeo, generally regarded (when it's regarded at all) as a generic mid-career MOR album but was genuinely mind-expanding for me as a kid, esp the closing run of songs, which include Cowboy Junkies style slowcore, intricate instrumental gorgeousness, and the closest they ever got to cutting a punk tune.
― Simon H., Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link