What's the least acclaimed album you love?

someone mentioned fiery furnace brother album above and it reminded me that last week in the car rufus put on a later FF album and i had a mental mantra in my head of *i still like blueberry boat i still like blueberry boat*. it was driving me up a wall. a car wall. a door, really. driving me up a door.

you were both a passenger and the driver

remembered Razorlight as complete Kings of Leon shite, so pleasantly surprised to put on the album on Spotify and find the Television comparison not wholly off

I'm a little surprised Cardiacs haven't been mentioned yet.

Heh, you might have heard Razorlight's self-titled second album the first time. While most of Up All Night is pretty meandering, "Golden Touch" is a genuinely great song.

No-one loves them, they don't care (xp)

Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man. I unironically think it's his best album.

The Books - Lost and Safe

For me it's not only their best by a wide margin...

I agree with this 100%

i can't make it through an entire Cardiacs song let alone an album. i don't know how people do it. i've tried on the youtube before. i've never made it through an entire zappa album either though. and i've never mustered up the courage to listen to an oingo boingo album or a mr. bungle album.

how many people are listening to oingo boingo in the world right now? i'd love to know. 6 people? more than 6?

There was a point in my life when Oingo Boingo was my favorite band. In my defense I was a high schooler in LA and they were pretty good live. Haven't listened to them in years, but perhaps Elfman's later career suggests there was more to them compositionally than they got credit for. That's all I got.

Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man. I unironically think it's his best album.

I think this too (high five) and was thinking of posting it but I wasn't sure if ppl would complain that it actually *is* acclaimed or something. Among Leonard Cohen diehards it doesn't seem especially well-regarded. I think it's amazing.

how many people are listening to oingo boingo in the world right now? i'd love to know. 6 people? more than 6?

wtf is this shit just in the air these days? chaki tweeted yesterday about how Riotfest should get OB to reunite (lol) and then I woke up this morning with "Private Life" in my head. I don't even like this fucking band...

cardiacs have a growing and by-now considerable cult following and a not insignificant critical cachet. they have guardian articles written about them and sing to god is a bona fide rym nerd rite of passage. compared to all the bands or albums that were critically loathed AND then forgotten they've got it good imo (and their stock will continue to rise)

i see this thread as more for stuff each of us will end up being nigh on the last/only fan of, stuff that everyone else has dismissed

DOALM is amazing.

Oingo Boingo is awesome and Elfman is a beast. before the band split he had already scored Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Pee Wee, Beetlejuice, and Forbidden Zone. in addition to songs in movies like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Back to School". they were kind of the official party band of the 80s.

death of a ladies man is incredible and definitely one of the best cohen albums imo

I don't even know if it is maligned anymore, seems like it has entered "here, my dear" territory of critical flops that have since been reappraised

love - four sail (i like it so much better than forever changes)
every oingo boingo album

yeah, no offense to boingo or cardiacs fans. that frenetic circus thing is just really hard for me. which i thought of because of that fiery furnaces incident in the car.

four sail is great but it's true that it was kinda considered a dud for years. or just not listened to much. i like reel-to-real and false start too. and there was definitely a time in my life when out here was my fave love album.

i have no idea what reviews of later Love albums were like. i must have read some in old magazines at some point. should check rolling stone.

"Reel to Real" is definitely less acclaimed than "Four Sail". I like it!

Has Dylan's Self Portrait been rehabilitated? There was that box set... I definitely love it, even the Paul Simon cover

boingo became a mature pop act after the early circus stuff but critics and fans alike also hated that stuff (its my fave)

I really love "Common One" by Van Morrison but I'm not sure it's that panned, it's just kinda slept on

There's definitely something of the Boingo that persists in my "mature" listening habits - and a high tolerance for "frenetic circus" music is part of it. Only now I get my demented fun-house kicks from bands like Hail Spirit Noir and Ghost.

Can't believe somebody already mentioned How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb! Well, I guess I can because I think it's very good, but I never see love for it on ILM. At this point, probably my third favorite U2 album after Achtung Baby and Zooropa

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

there was also a weird time in my life when no guru no method no teacher was my favorite van morrison album and i have no idea what people think of that one. or if its even talked about or rated or whatever. i loved it.

but now i quickly check and it got five stars by david fricke in rs so i guess people liked.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/no-guru-no-method-no-teacher-19860911

In the Stereolab poll I had Chemical Chords at #2 in my albums list. It's hardly reviled, but the consensus seems to be that they'd gotten too ornate by that point. I think it's really lovely.

Air - 10,000 Hz. Legend

Air - 10,000 Hz. Legend

I really enjoyed and still love Pet Shop Boys' 'Relentless' EP which had a mixed reaction at the time and is now basically forgotten.

The Farrah Abraham album

I don't even know if it is maligned anymore, seems like it has entered "here, my dear" territory of critical flops that have since been reappraised

I definitely malign it. I'm a massive Cohen fan but DoaLM is by some distance his weakest album.

My answer to this would be whichever 10,000 Maniacs album is least acclaimed – Blind Man's Zoo, probably.

any wing-tip sloat.
they were largely ignored & dismissed as lesser than trumans water / pavement / polvo, they had some gorgeous scrappy mathy bits thempered with a blithe tossed off sensibility. would've been more at home on ron johnson records than vhf, and to my mind you can hear the REACH. and that counts for something.
Also Qui's "love's miracle", w/ d yow guesting on vocals. I remember people throwing their toys out of their prams that this didn't sound exactly like birthday party tribute act "the jesus lizard" .
to my mind it sounds better, and qui's subsequent yow-less "life, water, living" disappeared with barely a whisper, but is the perfect mix of the method actors, shudder to think pony express record, the melvins, and something ineffably them (vaudeville sensibility?)

The Kinks' Preservation Act 1 and 2 are mentioned above - I absolutely adore those, they're my favourite Kinks albums by far and I'd probably place them in my top 20 albums of all time, if I'm allowed to put them together. I always listen to the two albums in sequence anyway, never to just one of the two.

If by "least acclaimed" you mean something like "most likely to be held in contempt by ilx" probably one of 3 or 4 albums by Diana Krall.

I'm crazy about Ashlee Simpson's first album.

Absolutely love "Paper Tigers" by that Swedish pop/garage band the Caesars, who did that one iPod ad.

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For me it's their 'Love for the Streets' album. Much better retro-rock than what The Hives were doing.

I am very fond of Sly Stone's "Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back".

<3 Wingtip Sloat

Ok, thought of one I'll really be on my own with. The last Klaxons album.

yay Wingtip Sloat!

I am very fond of Sly Stone's "Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back".

ha ok now this def fits the bill - since most people are totally unaware of this album, and those that are generally don't like it (myself included, it's the only Sly album I've sold back)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GjKyAEePk

an album some people may have missed. okay, all people...

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