What's the least acclaimed album you love?

Oh I like "uncondit guar", but...

I LIKES "BLUEJEANS AND MOONBEAMS" MORE ahem except "Upon the my o my" is prime.

Singalong chaps.. "Captain, Captain..."

Gene - Olympian

Bluejeans & Moonbeams was the first Beefheart album I knew, my dad had it when I was young. For a supposedly terrible album it's amazing, there are a few duff tracks for sure, but Observatory Crest is just sublime.

'Observatory Crest' is a beautiful song!

I used to love the first two King's X albums and still dig them out once in a blue moon.

I know it's basically Christian rock, but there's something about the pastoral airy-fairyness of it that just gets me.

― does it look like i'm here (jon123)

i don't think an album being made by a christian, even a rock album, disqualifies it from being worth listening to. i really like an album by a band called the rock 'n roll worship circus who were really into big star. mostly i feel sorry for them. the guy from king's x for instance probably gave a good go of being christian and gay before reluctantly concluding he couldn't be both and that he couldn't not be gay.

Even "Transcendental Meditation"? Ouch, poor Doug.

― One Eye Open

i like transcendental meditation! but even so i'm not saying that the songs are _good_, a lot (all) of the statutory rape songs the beach boys loved to do are just indefensible, just that i can't imagine any of the songs on "squeeze" ever finding their way onto beach boys albums... and there's a lot of unexpected shit on beach boys albums!

Terence Trent D'Arby's Symphony Or Damn

uh what? this is often called his best album, even at the time

Oh really? I think I just got clowned a couple times for thinking it was good (and it is)

The self-titled Interpol album

I love Bluejeans and Moonbeams too! Yeah it’s too “normal” for beefheart but it has some beautiful arrangements. I’m particularly fond of “observatory crest” and “further than we’ve gone”. I’d definitely sample several bits of tbis album if I were a producer.

“Same old blues” is also good. “Party of special things to do”... Yes I actually love this album come to think of it... might even be one of my top 3 CB albums.

Robbie Williams - Rudebox

A lot of people are listing a less acclaimed album from an otherwise highly-regarded artist, so I just want to give a shout to the people upthread who mentioned Phish, Wet Wet Wet, and Toto.

For me, I think it's gonna be "When I Woke" from Rusted Root, who have a whole ILM thread dedicated to how laughable they are.

I thought of Empire, New Jersey, The Wall, and various Yes and Rush albums but a quick scan suggests the correct answer is probably Metal Machine Music.

This thread did motivate me to listen to Squeeze for the first time. It hasn't made a strong impression a few tracks in.

(I am listening to Ghost now.)

i have 12 hours of live phish in my music library

that's 39 songs, i know that seems like a lot for 12 hours of phish but there are some really short jams that skew the average

squeeze never made an impression on me either, i struggle to figure out how anybody can hate it, like dude you're just hating the idea of it because i can't believe you can actually remember a single goddamn thing about that record

Making a weak impression is what Squeeze does best.

I love Kiss' Unmasked. It's a fun power pop album. "She's So European!"

Uriah Heep's Salisbury - the North American version that has "Simon The Bullet Freak" instead of "Bird Of Prey." (I prefer the earlier version of BOP.)

Robbie Williams - Rudebox

Rudebox is Robbie’s only interesting album

Ooh "she's so European" is catchy as heck, great pre-chorus.

comedown machine

Oh damn I loved the singles. Shld I listen to the rec?

wet wet wet: /popped in souled out/

I can't on this thread. I refuse to participate. 😂

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.