What's the least acclaimed album you love?

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

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.