What's the least acclaimed album you love?

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

― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, April 21, 2017 3:24 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

*output

I guess nobody's brave enough to stan for the Beach Boys' '80s outout?

well SOME people belonged to Columbia House in the 80s....

Yeah, Love You is very well regarded in Beach Boys hardcore fan circles. Goodness knows why, I think it's shit.

Yes, I tried to get into it based on all the buzz but...

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'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread#The_Beach_Boys_version

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

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, April 22, 2017 10:44 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.