What's the least acclaimed album you love?

always felt like heard you missed me is a weird title cuz he had a good album out the year before. he didn't really let people miss him for too long.

Should have been called "Heard You Missed Us, Well We're Back" maybe, since the previous one was credited to solely him, and all the others were Family Stone records. I also enjoy the record, as I have time for all things Sly.

Air - 10,000 Hz Legend is amazing!

"Radian"

"10,000 Hz Legend" for sure!

John Cale "AI"

Prince "20Ten"

Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman

- gets zero love

Ultra Vivid Scene - Joy

Antics > Turn on the Bright Lights

i also fuck with the next two records

I play "Sheezus" every other month or so.

Bobby Conn - The Golden Age - not sure how people rate it nowadays, if at all

Also, Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star could be my fave SY album, but it seems less reviled nowadays.

I like quite a lot of albums which are not very well regarded. If I like an artist, I tend to find something to like in every album they do; for example I can really enjoy listening to Bob Dylan's 'Knocked Out, Loaded'; Neil Young's 'Landing On Water'; Genesis' 'We Can't Dance' etc. Liking them doesn't mean loving them, though - I wouldn't name those albums as my favourites at all.

But: bands/artists where my most favourite album actually IS a lesser acclaimed album:
-Kinks - Preservation Act 1 and 2 (as I posted earlier, see above)
-King Crimson - Islands (one of my top 10 albums of all time!)
-Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against the Soul
-Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft
-John Cale - Caribbean Sunset t/w Words For The Dying
-Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse (I suppose most would go for an earlier album)
-Duran Duran - used to be Big Thing until it was dethroned by All You Need Is Now
-Peter Gabriel - PG2(scratch) t/w Up (probably neither has bad acclaim but again I suppose most would go for his other albums
-New Order - ...actually not sure which is my favourite, could just be Technique but could also even be their last album Music Complete... anyway, I've always loved Get Ready and Republic (with the exception of Regret, which tends to be the only acclaimed part of the album!); while Power, Corruption and Lies is my least favourite, which makes me feel that I my feelings on the band are completely the opposite to those of the general fan.
-Richard Thompson - You? Me? Us? (at least I think it's lesser acclaimed. It's tied for me with Dream Attic.)
-Neil Young - have several faves, most are acclaimed but I think Greendale is not

Artists I love, which probably get low acclaim altogether:
-Shed Seven
-Kula Shaker
-Cast
-Menswe@r
-Mansun, mentioned by someone else above - do they really have low acclaim?
(not love, but like:)
-Mumford & Sons (really don't get the hate I often see directed at them, I have their first two albums and I think they're pretty good)

Albums which aren't my favourites but which I do like a lot & of which I don't really get the bad acclaim:
-David Bowie - Never Let Me Down (also: Tonight and Tin Machine II)
-Byrds - S/T 1973 reunion album (also Byrdmaniax: it has bad production but several really great songs)
-Roxy Music - Flesh+Blood (probably my fave after Stranded)

Valentijn - Kinks one was a good call. "Sweet Lady Genevieve" is a good track

Oh and my absolute fave Dylan albums are New Morning and Planet Waves. They're not regarded as his worst but they're not especially regarded as equals to Blood On The Tracks either.

Bobby Conn - The Golden Age - not sure how people rate it nowadays, if at all

beyond fucking classic

Echobelly - On

-Roxy Music - Flesh+Blood (probably my fave after Stranded)

you win

All of this love for those Kinks albums is making me really happy. Also, I adore The Cure 'Bloodflowers' album, and although it wasn't exactly panned, it was greeted with a giant yawn and then ignored.

huge soft spot in my heart for Metric's Fantasies, which meant a lot to me in high school (really clocking my age with that factoid)—it was tepidly received and it is pretty ramshackle in hindsight, but i can't help but love that middle ground between pop-punky tightness/hooks and late-aughts cosmopolitan indie wistfulness.

Valentijn - Kinks one was a good call. "Sweet Lady Genevieve" is a good track

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The one time I saw the Kinks, in 1993, Ray opened with a solo acoustic "Sweet Lady Genevieve." About eight of us in the audience went nuts, while everyone else wondered what the song was and why it was making only eight people go nuts.

And last month when my partner and I were out to dinner celebrating our anniversary, I heard it over the restaurant's PA. It wasn't a totally out-of-left-field choice, as I'd heard "Picture Book" there before, but still odd to hear in the wild.

^ very cool :)

13th Floor Elevators - Bull Of The Woods:

https://devonrecordclub.com/2014/10/24/13th-floor-elevators-bull-of-the-woods-round-73-toms-selction/

We had this as a theme at one of our meetings.

John Cale - Caribbean Sunset

Not my favorite, but much much better than the consensus says. I've been waiting for a reissue!

If you'd said "Manscape" I'd have been impressed.

I always leaned more "stentorian" Graham Lewis fan than "tuneful abstract" Colin Newman fan. Yes, I like his 80s solo efforts more, too. Manscape is a bit too uneven, even for me, but I do remember afternoons with "Torch It" on repeat.

xp Valentijn:

I loved Mansun's "Wide Open Space", and I'm not surprised it was embraced years later by the trance community. At the time, though, I was rather prejudiced against Britpop, as I thought the shoegazers and post-rockers (Simon Reynold's early usage) offered a path forward, and Britpop trapped in the past.

Another vote for caribbean sunset. I haven't listened to it for years but when i discovered it around 1985 and i loved it as it seemed so badass compared to paris 1919.

Greendale is fantastic, but I don't think it received bad reviews?

When he toured Greendale, I think there was some negative press, but mainly because it hadn't been released yet, nor had the tour been promoted as "Neil's new shit!" or whatever, and audiences didn't want to sit through 70+ minutes of unfamiliar material.

I love both the album and the film (which I was lucky enough to see in a theater).

Wrath by the band Iris is another one. Synth pop by two guys who obviously dig the shit out of Depeche Mode and I think this album is up there with some of DM's best

― Vinnie
Great recommendation!

the CURE - The Top
clap your hands say yeah - s/t

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is the eponymous debut album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, self-released in the U.S. on 13 September 2005, and released in the UK on 23 January 2006 by Wichita Recordings. Produced and mixed by Adam Lasus, the album and the band rose to fame after buzz and attention built up on various MP3 blogs and a very positive ("9.0/10") review from influential music website Pitchfork Media. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was listed as one of the 50 most important recordings of the decade by National Public Radio's All Songs Considered.[12]

Well I hope Im wrong then but I thought opinion changed after the intial buzz. Also thought most of that buzz was due to its DIY success

aight

it's a great record

I am possibly the only person who likes the last Lovin' Spoonful album, "Revelation: Revolution '69", which was basically Joe Butler and some session musicians - Joe Butler being the drummer of Lovin' Spoonful, for those not so familiar with them. I always liked the songs he sang when Lovin' Spoonful actually were Lovin' Spoonful.

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?

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