What's the least acclaimed album you love?

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'

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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

The second Subcircus one, probably, although I haven’t listened to it in years.

For me, this might have to be the Velvet-Underground-But-Really-Just-Doug-Yule album Squeeze, which I legit enjoy very much.

The second Subcircus one, probably, although I haven’t listened to it in years.

I'll rep for their debut, but the 2nd album fell off a cliff. When you do go back to it, you may find it hasn't aged well.

not sure what acclaimed means here but idaho's "year after year" is still one of the albums i love most. i don't remember many people repping for it besides parts of the french press (libé, les inrocks).

Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts

OK, I haven't heard it in over a decade, but I used to like it a lot

FPed Fred

xxp I can believe that, still embarrassed I spent real money on it.

Fred in Kula SHOCKAH!

Moby Grape "Wow"

"VU" Squeeze is impressive. Not sure I've heard or read any positive opinion on that before.

I still can't be bothered to try it.

yeah I think that's the best answer so far

Lol what can I say, I like Yule's voice it's got some good tunes, but doomed by its context. Obviously doesn't belong on the shelf with the Velvets but ime the reasons its so bad & hated often boil down to "has no original members of the VU" and "no songs about drug-fueled orgies", which yeah, neither do a lot of albums. The 3 best songs on it could replace the 3 worst songs on Loaded imho. Forget that it says "Velvet Underground" on the cover and it's a nice enough slice of 70s singer-songwriter rock. Resigned to the fact that not even Doug Yule agrees with me :)

OK, I'll bite -- which 3 songs on "Squeeze" are better than any 3 songs on "Loaded" (and which 3)?

Heh, well here's where the "imho" part comes in. But Loaded being my least fav VU record, "Cool It Down" and "Head Held High" have always been weak links for me, and Lou's vox on "Train Round the Bend" are like nails on a chalkboard to me, the only Velvets song that I truly flat-out dislike. An alternate universe version of Loaded that replaces those 3 with "Friends", "She'll Make You Cry", and "Wordless" from Squeeze is an improved listening experience to my ears. They'd still be the 3 weakest songs on Loaded, but they wouldn't make it any worse imo. (Faint praise maybe, but hey.)

I read somewhere once that "Friends" and "She'll Make You Cry" were supposedly demoed during the Loaded sessions but not sure if I believe it.

That is bollocks, as is the idea that the best tracks on Squeeze are even halfway as good as the worst tracks on Loaded.

Squeeze is not terrible but I don't believe anyone LOVES it.

I long ago accepted the fact that I am nuts and literally no one else thinks this.

"wordless" is a decent enough song, and "loaded" is my least favorite velvets record too, but i wouldn't replace "train round the bend" with it.

i'd replace some songs on mardi gras, possibly even pendulum, with songs from "squeeze". i'd replace any of the songs on "unconditionally guaranteed" with songs from "squeeze". i wouldn't replace any songs on any beach boys albums through "keepin' the summer alive" with songs from "squeeze", even the terrible ones.

Even "Transcendental Meditation"? Ouch, poor Doug.

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