What's the least acclaimed album you love?

Another one for Bobby Conn...really great album

New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

my favorite Flying Burrito Bros record is the self-titled one with "Colorado," don't know if that's rated

the top is like the best cure album

Think that New Radicals record has had enough reevaluation that I know more people who view it positively than negatively. It's a nice album

my favorite Flying Burrito Bros record is the self-titled one with "Colorado," don't know if that's rated

It is by me.

Yes - Tormato (lots of fun)
Beach Boys - Holland (not particularly disliked but extremely underrated)
Beach Boys - Light Album (not a great album but it has some of my favourite songs on it)

When the Dennis Wilson albums got reissued I was incredibly pissed off nobody ever mentioned "Baby Blue" from Light Album.

Don't know who underrates Holland anymore tbh, I think it' might even be overrated now!

King Crimson - Lizard (hey, despite Haskell's stroke-y vocals, I dig it)

Beach Boys - Love You

this has for real become one of my favorite BB albums

I'm still a fan of the pre-release bootleg version of Lily Allen's first album.

Also, The Streets.

I'll have to have a think about what the actual "least" acclaimed album that I like is, but one that's springing to my mind right now is Ministry's With Sympathy.

Lizard has it's fans, I thought. I like it a lot more than In the Court... personally.

Prob 1st Remy Zero (s/t) or 1st Kelley Deal 6000 album (Go to the Sugar Altar)

Beach Boys - Love You

A lot of Beach Boys fans like this album.

I guess nobody's brave enough to stan for the Beach Boys' '80s outout?

*output

I guess nobody's brave enough to stan for the Beach Boys' '80s outout?

well SOME people belonged to Columbia House in the 80s....

Yeah, Love You is very well regarded in Beach Boys hardcore fan circles. Goodness knows why, I think it's shit.

Yes, I tried to get into it based on all the buzz but...

I don't recall much good on the album, just the silliest tracks.

Great album.

"Mona" is pretty good.

Probably my least favourite track tbh.

I really just wish someone would write a book about 'Ding Dang'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread#The_Beach_Boys_version

Some people responded to my mention of Neil Young's Greendale. It's probably true that it was never that badly acclaimed. I got the impression that many weren't wild about it as I have heard from some people/in some reviews that they simply don't have patience for it or couldn't get into the themes.

It's probably more a divisive album than an overall badly acclaimed one. That, I think, might also be true for later David Sylvian albums: Blemish, Manafon. I adore them, I'm pretty sure I'm far from the only one & those albums got good reviews, but I've met three different longtime Sylvian fans who told me that they couldn't listen to it.

More on topic: every album by Echo & the Bunnymen is very, very dear to me. I know that a lot of fans mainly think highly of their classic first four records with the original line-up and are quite dismissive of most of their post-reunion album, some of those later albums didn't get all-positive reviews either. But I have immense love for them all, as well as Ian McCulloch's solo work (even if I would also name Porcupine and Ocean Rain their best).

xp saw Neil play a Greendale show and will never be able to fully forgive him.

Oh!

Alice Cooper's DaDa! There's another one.

clap your hands say yeah - s/t

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I don't know how many people who love their self-titled album know this, but their 2017 album, The Tourist is right up there with that one - a pretty damn good album.

i like a lot of indie landfill stuff that the critics sneer at

my morning jacket, i like them. i like danger mouse a lot too.

rubik, i think they were good. also zun zun egui, i like them.

lots of "weird" stuff of course. that thing eric dolphy did with the opera singer, i think people don't like that one much.

The final album by Kingmaker, 'In The Best Possible Taste' - or the first half of it at least.

Rehearsing My Choir received mixed reviews, and has a 63 on Metacritic — so I guess that.

yeah that one is so good! no Blueberry Boat but oh well

Oh, I like it more!

I love Van Der Graaf's World Record, which is probably their least loved LP including reunion albums

rym has it above all the reunion records (the last two of which i love) and "aerosol grey machine" (which i also love)

Throwing Muses' "Red Heaven" maybe or The Pooh Sticks "Great White Wonder"?

The 1976 Iron Butterfly album ‘Sun and Steel’ is terrible but I adore it and could listen to it forever.

Many people love to hate on Drake but I think most of his albums have worthwhile moments and his “pop” singles are usually brilliant imho.

Leaving aside library music, second-tier mid-century composers with virtually no audience, and recordings of bird-song and steam trains, maybe...

Terence Trent D'Arby's Neither Fish Nor Flesh, or most of it.

I really like Endless Wire by Gordon Lightfoot but everyone says its the beginning of his decline.

a weekend in the city

Kreuzberg's a great song, but yeah i don't think i've listened to the rest of that album since it came out.

Cher Lloyd - Sorry I'm Late

I could actually list a lot of modern pop albums here if I was going by RYM. All Britney albums apart from Blackout have scores under 3, even her good albums like Glory, In The Zone and Femme Fatale.

for whatever reason it's the remake of "The Circle is Small" that sours me on Endless Wire. can't remake perfection.

but its definitely fine, maybe a half-step down from Summertime Dream, if that. his later records are way worse.

Roxette - Joyride

Good question. If we're only talking about critically panned albums rather than hopelessly obscure ones, I frankly have no idea.

New Order - Get Ready, Waiting for the Sirens Call, and Republic