What's the least acclaimed album you love?

comedown machine

― ufo,

Great album. Their second best after Room On Fire.

"i don't think an album being made by a christian, even a rock album, disqualifies it from being worth listening to."

To be fair, I didn't say that. But Christian rock has a pretty bad rep for a reason.

oh absolutely, christian rock is mostly very bad and deserves to be hated, and honestly even king's x never grabbed me

comedown machine

― ufo, Thursday, March 28, 2019 11:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg this is a good one

Angles was the true critical nadir, no?

yes, rightly

i mean i really like about half of it

Those later Strokes albums are totally non-canonical to me (lol)

And the third album isn’t even all that good, but at least it’s a “Strokes album.”

the two albums that follow are both superior! (it does have some jams though)

haha angles is the one i dig. easily my 3rd fave of theirs.

i fuck w those first 4 my morning jacket records but seems even if they're unfashionable now they were fairly well-regarded at the time?

Comedown Machine might be the only album of theirs I’d consider purchasing.

metacritic says Angles was reviewed slightly better than Comedown Machine and FIOE but it's solidly their worst imo. the first three tracks rule but the rest feels like a dry run for Comedown Machine. on a lot of tracks they're trying to do something that resembles the chiller, slightly more groove driven sound they adopted on Comedown Machine but with harsh production to sound like their first two albums and it doesn't just work that well. FIOE is mostly just bloated, it has plenty of highs as great as their best work but around 1/3 of it is complete filler.

Comedown Machine has a lovely warm sound and all the songs are jam-packed with subtle hooks that feel like they've been with you forever, there's times when it's my favourite of their albums

i also really like the first album Julian did with The Voidz, Tyranny, but i think i'm much more alone there. his trademark hooks are still everywhere they're just buried under layers of sludge

Killing Joke's Fire Dances. Generally regarded as their weakest, I think it their best.

^ well, weakest of their early period. I can't really be arsed with KJ when they became a token metal band with ideas.

you have dishonored the 🔥

I bought Fire Dances last year on the understanding that it was one of their best and I love it. Looking forward to the earlier stuff.

Is that the first post-Youth?
I finally got into the early stuff when the remasters happened 10 years ago or whatever.

Queen - A Kind of Magic

Not unacclaimed but inexplicably underrated, I would trade Buke And Gase for the entire oeuvre of both Kate Bush and Sonic Youth

Just checking them out, sounds pretty good.

The first Queen album doesn't seem to get much love but I prefer it to A Night At The Opera. Even "My Fairy King", yes.

I agree. That first Queen album rocks hard and while the production has its flaws, I've come to love the record anyway. It's nice to hear them in a (relatively) rawer way. 'Liar' and 'Great King Rat' still tear my face off.

Ooh, thought of another one... Japan's Adolescent Sex from their early, more glam rock era. David Sylvian's snotty and bratty vocal style bears little resemblance to the vocal style he'd become known for, Mick Karn hasn't discovered fretless yet and the bass is more in a supporting role rather than pushed up front like it would be later, and Rob Dean had yet to become surplus to requirements - there's funky guitar licks galore all over the record.

The band have gone on record as saying that they don't think much to the album and they weren't ready to make a record at that stage in their development. As the creators of Quiet Life, Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum, I respect their opinion. They're fucking wrong, though.

The thread title promises so much more than these posts actually deliver.
Where are the people testifying about their love for Candlebox or Uncle Kracker?
Where are the closet fans of the Spin Doctors or the Scarlett Johansson covers album? Does anyone in this bitch like ICP??

Step it up, people -- the spectrum of bad goes way past Comedown Machine. This is the rare thread where the people in the adjacent cubicles would have more interesting answers than ilxors.

i love multiple silverchair albums idk

Surely "least acclaimed" does not equal "bad", but I agree that Comedown Machine isn't particularly an interesting answer to the thread question.

Ok I will struggle to enjoy more time unenjoyed music

I mean, I do like two albums by The Tea Party like a lot but they’re not critically reviled so much as just weirdly embarassing

my family photo album!!

Transmission rules tbh xp

I avoided Buke and Gase subconsciously because I always clocked them by their name as a Tenacious D side project or something, but I'm listening now and they sound pretty cool

Metal Machine Music was much more critically reviled than Pocket Full of Kryptonite, based on the surveys of critical reception in Wikipedia!

The one Buke & Gase clip I checked out was very good. Listening to Scholars now.

I can safely say that I do not care for Transmission, but I think The Edges Of Twilight is a pretty.. perfect album? What they're trying to do is extremely stupid! But they do it so perfectly! It is amazing to see how much sound they made as a rock trio, too

Buke And Gase are named after their instruments (baritone uke, guitar-bass) and even were originally named Buke And Gass for spelling consistency but were constantly introduced with the Gass being pronounced "gas" so, yeah. They don't have good album covers and actually they don't particularly have good albums either? Like, obtuse self-sabotaging mixing decisions that are particular to virtuosos with lofty goals who choose to shoot themselves in the foot at the last moment rather than turn in "the album that their efforts produced"? But it's really about seeing them live, they are the loudest and most brilliant two-piece in history, I must've seen them play two dozen times now over the years and I'm still shattered every time. Think of Deerhoof scaled-down to a two-piece and with added ambition and less levity

My partner cites The Edges of Twilight as the album she has listened to the most in her life. I do mean to listen to the whole thing at some point. I think I always felt that the drummer let them down a bit?

What they're trying to do is extremely stupid! But they do it so perfectly!

ahaha this is a perfect summation of their whole thing. they were the most embarrassing and thus most enjoyable of the "major" CanCon radio rock acts of the 90s. (have we ever polled those?)

i guess i need to get into the tea party

(i already love olp and matthew good)

They were no Gandharvas imo.

Brad I can safely say that you would love both Splendour Solis and The Edges Of Twilight

The lead singer is definitely something. It felt even in the 90s like everyone was trying to take down the band for the lead singer being "lame-o" because he equal parts aped Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, was the only person I'd stoop to using the word "pseudo-intellectual" to describe, but his insufferability comes off as charming now. I remember in high school, my friends saying things about him like "lol he's from WINDSOR" and "people who went to high school with him said he only listened to New Order and only developed this guitar-mystic persona once he graduated lololol" and these "criticisms" just seem kind of charming now? idk, those first two albums are hit after hit after hit. Brad just listen to The Edges Of Twilight's first six tracks and either you'll flip out or you'll know the band is not for you

Jim Morrison and Jimmy Page, surely?

As a side note, did we ever poll Big Shiny Tunes 2?

Yep!: Favourite track from Canada's 5th biggest selling album of all-time "Big Shiny Tunes 2"

I listened to Edges of Twilight a lot, but did eventually get rid of the CD in my early 20s because I thought it looked embarrassing in my CD collection. Haven't listened to it in about 20 years but looking at the track listing right now I could remember most of the songs. Sister Awake is the one I remember liking the most. I should listen to it.

Yeah, that's her favourite.

Yes I got my Jameses confused

Me I like The Bazaar and Inanna and especially Silence... this album really got into some tightly controlled cacophony

Edges of Twilight is better than I expected tbh.

I unfortunately have The Tea Party to thank for my introduction to "what all the Indian instruments are called and what they do"

I managed to listen to half of Edges of Twilight. It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.

It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.

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