Underrated albums...

[kimota]

Everyone else I know who likes The Oblivians is always lukewarm about The Oblivians Play 9 Songs With Mr Quintron, but to my mind that might be one of the greatest albums ever.

I love that record!!!

Also I third the Basehead record love, hell throw in their second one also Not In Kansas Anymore

and maybe the Michael Ivey tracks from BYOB, which are just as good as anything on the first two Basehead albums.  The third album, "Faith" was wretched.

[Andy]

gonna get some beer and vodka too
get real drunk 'til we turn blue.


what is this BYOB you're talking about?

[kimota]

it was kind of an more r n' b based group he headed for one album.  It was released on Imago after Not In Kansas Anymore, I think.  Most of it is so-so, the tracks Ivey are on are very good. 

[Matt]

Maybe it's just me...

[bruce]

The third album, "Faith" was wretched.

Your being nice how about a horrid piece of shit

[kimota]

The third album, "Faith" was wretched.

Your being nice how about a horrid piece of shit

Well, the first two albums are so good, I feel I have to be somewhat nice to "Faith".  I'll never listen to it again though.  One of the bigger dissapointments for an album release, ever.  He lost track of everything that made the first two albums so great. 

Have you heard any of the singles from the first two albums?  Great stuff as well.

[Spoony]

I'm not a big U2 fan, but I liked Zooropa. I don't know anyone else who does, but I liked it for being an album of 2-minute pop songs from a band going through a 'photoshop-honeymoon' phase. There were some timely/now dated Euro-strife issues they were working with and not diluting anything to be widely accepted by a mass audience (who thew the album out like it tried to bite them). Eh. I like it.

C

[bruce]

The third album, "Faith" was wretched.

Your being nice how about a horrid piece of shit

Well, the first two albums are so good, I feel I have to be somewhat nice to "Faith".  I'll never listen to it again though.  One of the bigger dissapointments for an album release, ever.  He lost track of everything that made the first two albums so great. 

Have you heard any of the singles from the first two albums?  Great stuff as well.

I actually saw them on tour with of all bands Pere Ubu. They were so damn high even telling the crowd can you see the red in my eyes

[Gilly]

Bee Gees- 1st
Bill Fay- Bill Fay
Bruce Cockburn- LP
The Coral- The Coral
Destroyer- This Night
Fastbacks- New Mansions in Sound
The Groundhogs- Thank Christ For the Bomb
Harry Nilsson- Aerial Pandemonium Ballet + Pussy Cats
Jeff Beck- Truth
Jeffrey Foucault- Ghost Repeater
Jonathan Richman- Jonathan Goes Country
Love as Laughter- Sea To Shining Sea
Mark Wirtz- A Teenage Opera
Pixies- Bossanova
Starflyer 59- The Fashion Focus
Sugar- File Under Easy Listening
Velvet Crush- Teenage Symphonies To God
Warren Zevon- Warren Zevon
Wu-Tang Clan- Forever

[erika]

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. I find Moondance so irritating.

[kimota]

The third album, "Faith" was wretched.

I actually saw them on tour with of all bands Pere Ubu. They were so damn high even telling the crowd can you see the red in my eyes


Wow, I would have loved to see Basehead live but the chances of the getting to Iowa were mighty slim.

[Pat K]

Everyone else I know who likes The Oblivians is always lukewarm about The Oblivians Play 9 Songs With Mr Quintron

Not me.  So awesome.

Finally, some sense on the Internets!

The Breeders Title TK.
Its not so much under rated but definetly under listened to.

Definitely. That album gets not nearly enough love.

[Matt]

Bill Fay- Bill Fay

I think this one is rated exactly right. The songs are good, but the arrangements? Ew, buoy.

Time of the Last Persecution, on the other hand, is one of my very favorite records.

[bruce]

Velvet Crush- Teenage Symphonies To God

Great stuff but needed more rocking tunes on it. But this is coming from someone who saw them play live all the time.

[Beth]

All the later David Bowie albums. For some reason it's not "cool" to like him once he entered the late 80's, but I totally disagree. Especially Heathen, which came out in 2002. A fantastic record.

The new Rilo Kiley album is also pretty great, and I'm not even that into Rilo Kiley. I feel like it got kind of passed over in 2007, but it's really good.