I'm still a fan of the pre-release bootleg version of Lily Allen's first album.
Also, The Streets.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Sunday, 23 April 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
Lizard has it's fans, I thought. I like it a lot more than In the Court... personally.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Sunday, 23 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
Prob 1st Remy Zero (s/t) or 1st Kelley Deal 6000 album (Go to the Sugar Altar)
― the rockists' red glare (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
Beach Boys - Love You
A lot of Beach Boys fans like this album.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
I guess nobody's brave enough to stan for the Beach Boys' '80s outout?
― progge went a-courtin' (unregistered), Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
*output
well SOME people belonged to Columbia House in the 80s....
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Love You is very well regarded in Beach Boys hardcore fan circles. Goodness knows why, I think it's shit.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link
Yes, I tried to get into it based on all the buzz but...
― Shpilkes for a Knave (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 April 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
I don't recall much good on the album, just the silliest tracks.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
Great album.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
"Mona" is pretty good.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 April 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Probably my least favourite track tbh.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 24 April 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
I really just wish someone would write a book about 'Ding Dang'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortnin%27_Bread#The_Beach_Boys_version
― progge went a-courtin' (unregistered), Monday, 24 April 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Valentijn, Monday, 24 April 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
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).
― Valentijn, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
xp saw Neil play a Greendale show and will never be able to fully forgive him.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 24 April 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Oh!
Alice Cooper's DaDa! There's another one.
― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
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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.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
i like a lot of indie landfill stuff that the critics sneer at
my morning jacket, i like them. i like danger mouse a lot too.
rubik, i think they were good. also zun zun egui, i like them.
lots of "weird" stuff of course. that thing eric dolphy did with the opera singer, i think people don't like that one much.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
The final album by Kingmaker, 'In The Best Possible Taste' - or the first half of it at least.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Rehearsing My Choir received mixed reviews, and has a 63 on Metacritic — so I guess that.
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
yeah that one is so good! no Blueberry Boat but oh well
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:07 (five years ago) link
Oh, I like it more!
― What's that Phish song that goes "Bag it, Tag it"? (morrisp), Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
I love Van Der Graaf's World Record, which is probably their least loved LP including reunion albums
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 24 March 2019 23:17 (five years ago) link
rym has it above all the reunion records (the last two of which i love) and "aerosol grey machine" (which i also love)
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 25 March 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
Throwing Muses' "Red Heaven" maybe or The Pooh Sticks "Great White Wonder"?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 25 March 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
The 1976 Iron Butterfly album ‘Sun and Steel’ is terrible but I adore it and could listen to it forever.
― Migdalia Amygdala (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Monday, 25 March 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
Many people love to hate on Drake but I think most of his albums have worthwhile moments and his “pop” singles are usually brilliant imho.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 25 March 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
Leaving aside library music, second-tier mid-century composers with virtually no audience, and recordings of bird-song and steam trains, maybe...Terence Trent D'Arby's Neither Fish Nor Flesh, or most of it.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 25 March 2019 11:07 (five years ago) link
I really like Endless Wire by Gordon Lightfoot but everyone says its the beginning of his decline.
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
a weekend in the city
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
Kreuzberg's a great song, but yeah i don't think i've listened to the rest of that album since it came out.
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 25 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
Cher Lloyd - Sorry I'm Late
I could actually list a lot of modern pop albums here if I was going by RYM. All Britney albums apart from Blackout have scores under 3, even her good albums like Glory, In The Zone and Femme Fatale.
― kitchen person, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
for whatever reason it's the remake of "The Circle is Small" that sours me on Endless Wire. can't remake perfection.
but its definitely fine, maybe a half-step down from Summertime Dream, if that. his later records are way worse.
― frogbs, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
Roxette - Joyride
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Good question. If we're only talking about critically panned albums rather than hopelessly obscure ones, I frankly have no idea.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 March 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
New Order - Get Ready, Waiting for the Sirens Call, and Republic
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
The second Subcircus one, probably, although I haven’t listened to it in years.
― gyac, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
For me, this might have to be the Velvet-Underground-But-Really-Just-Doug-Yule album Squeeze, which I legit enjoy very much.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
I'll rep for their debut, but the 2nd album fell off a cliff. When you do go back to it, you may find it hasn't aged well.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
not sure what acclaimed means here but idaho's "year after year" is still one of the albums i love most. i don't remember many people repping for it besides parts of the french press (libé, les inrocks).
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:40 (five years ago) link
Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
OK, I haven't heard it in over a decade, but I used to like it a lot
― Frederik B, Monday, 25 March 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
FPed Fred
― Don't Go Back to Brockville (Tom D.), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
xxp I can believe that, still embarrassed I spent real money on it.
― gyac, Monday, 25 March 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Fred in Kula SHOCKAH!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 March 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
Moby Grape "Wow"
― Mark G, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
"VU" Squeeze is impressive. Not sure I've heard or read any positive opinion on that before.
I still can't be bothered to try it.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 17:20 (five years ago) link
yeah I think that's the best answer so far
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link