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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on July 28, 2006, 12:39:47 AM
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Well? Here's some of mine off the top of my head:
Basehead- Play With Toys
Old 97's- Wreck your life
De La Soul- Buhloone Mind State
J Mascis- Martin and Me
Nine- Nine Livez
Starlight Mints- their entire discography
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Here's a few from my Itunes:
* All three Harvey Danger albums - seriously!
* REM - Reckoning
* Son Volt - Straightaways
* Loaded (Fully Loaded) - the VU
* Animals by the Floyd
* Pornography - the Cure (the fanboys are right about this one)
* Destination Failure - the Smoking Popes (they opened for Morrissey! Then the lead singer became a fundamentalist!)
* Portishead - Roseland NYC Live (everyone forgot about them after "Sour Times")
* New Order - Republic (people liked this one but not enough)
* Something to Write Home About - The Get Up Kids (most emo is unlistenable, but this is good)
* New Hope for the Ape Eared (the sophomore LP release always gets short shrift)
* Weezer - Pinkerton (only kind of underrated)
* Negativland - Dispepsi (they made something listenable and nobody listened!)
* Lou Reed - Set the Twilight Reeling (Everyone likes New York, which is slightly better, but not that much)
* Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg (just because something is different doesn't mean it's bad)
* Belly - King
* KISS - Alive II (so what if they only had three sides of live songs worth recording?)
That oughta be enough for now.
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Braid - Frame and Canvas
Dinosaur Jr. - Hand it Over
Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue
Paul McCartney - Red Rose Speedway
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Superchunk - Indoor Living
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Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
The Posies - Success
Morphine - The Night (the curse of the great but posthumous LP)
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Social Distortion in general
~EmD
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I think most of these albums aren't really underrated. Most are pretty acclaimed but just didn't sell that much. But I'd have to agree with Wu Tang Forever. That is their best album even with all the filler.
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Ramones - "Pleasant Dreams"
Public Enemy - "Apocalypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Black"
They Might Be Giants - "John Henry"
Elvis Costello - "Brutal Youth"
Rush - "Signals"
The Fastbacks - "New Mansions in Sound"
The Flatmates - All EPs, including the "Love & Death" compilation
Green Day - "Kerplunk!" (fuck all y'all in advance...)
Pixies - "Trompe Le Monde"
Public Image Ltd. - "Album"/"Compact Disc"/"Cassette"
Robyn Hitchcock - "Eye"
Wasted Youth - "Reagan's In"
Sicko - All albums except "Laugh While You Can, Monkey Boy"
The Sugarcubes - "Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!"
Sewer Trout - "Songs About Drinking" EP
Supercharger - "Goes Way Out!"
Van Halen - "Women and Children First"
The Wedding Present - "Watusi"
XTC - "Black Sea"
And amending my list by agreeing with Cramedog that GbV's "Do the Collapse" is totally underrated. Why all the hate/meh for that record? Is it simply the Mr. Porizkova connection?
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Pavement - Terror Twilight
Neil Young - Trans
Danielson Familie - A Prayer For Every Hour
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers
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Werner Pirchner -EU
Slovenly -Thinking of Empire
"Your Charming Proposal" by Hey John, Bees
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Guided by Voices "Do The Collapse"
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I really like all but maybe four or five songs on Sandinista!.
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Neutral Milk Hotel's "On Avery Island"
People always tend to talk about "In the airplane over the sea"
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Pet Sounds always steals the thunder but the Beach Boys' Friends is the perfect balance of creepy/happy. I heart it.
:) :'(
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Based on what I've seen so far, this list will be sure to cement my reputation as a meathead:
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
ZZ Top - Rhythmeen
Cheap Trick - One On One
Chris Whitley - Din of Ecstasy
Dead Meadow - Feathers
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Mudhoney - Since We've Become Translucent
New Bomb Turks - The Night Before The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Pretty much everything Helmet did up through Aftertaste.
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Chris Whitley - Din of Ecstasy
I think that is my top underrated album. It is nice to see someone else feels the same way.
And the Booth and the Bad Angel album. For whatever reasons, it really worked for me despite not really liking James that much.
Oh, and Yusef Lateef's Live At Pep's, Hello Nasty, any Freddie and the Dreamers album, and DJ Shadow's The Outsider. I remember back in the day when Paul's Boutique was way underrated, now everyone has it.
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Basehead- Play With Toys
this one too.
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The albums by The Presidents of the United States of America. They're simple, catchy as hell and above all: fun.
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Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska. no question about it. even when critics praise this thing they still say backhanded things.
and i'm not that into springsteen. it's just good damn music.
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Here's a few:
Ramones - Halfway to Sanity
Hüsker Düde - Warehouse Songs and Stories
Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy, Shades of a Blue Orphanage, Vagabonds of the Western World
Kristeen Young - Orphans, X
Wire - everything after 154
Res - How I Do
Mary Timony - anything she's done, especially post-Helium
Lungfish - Love is Love (does anybody even review their records anymore? they should...)
The Drones - Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By (New Aussie Drones, not the older Cannuk punk band)
Macca - RAM
Daft Punk - Human After All
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Macca - RAM
Yes. I think most of 1970-1980 McCartney is underrated, but Back Seat of My Car on Ram > all.
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Mary Timony - anything she's done, especially post-Helium
Yes. YES.
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Macca - RAM
Yes. I think most of 1970-1980 McCartney is underrated, but Back Seat of My Car on Ram > all.
We believe that we can't be wrong.
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'Handcream for a Generation' by Cornershop... Just because Fatboy Slim didn't bend the lead single out of shape, nobody was interested.
Anything by dEUS. Seriously, people, how many times do I have to say this?
Check out the new video - with someone from The Knife, and some backflips.
(Apparently, I can't link to a Youtube page without it embedding the video?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9OILKwaFNA
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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.
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Everyone else I know who likes The Oblivians is always lukewarm about The Oblivians Play 9 Songs With Mr Quintron
Not me. So awesome.
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Two late, great terribly underrated bands - American Music Club (representative album: "Everclear"), and Thelonious Monster (album "Stormy Weather").
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The Breeders Title TK.
Its not so much under rated but definetly under listened to.
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Yall So Stupid - Van Full of Pakistans
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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 was never all that crazy about the Oblivians, but their version of "Mary Lou" alone makes this, to my mind, their best album.
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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
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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.
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gonna get some beer and vodka too
get real drunk 'til we turn blue.
what is this BYOB you're talking about?
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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.
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g63/totep22/byob.jpg)
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(http://www.maggiesfarm.it/museumss.jpg)
Maybe it's just me...
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The third album, "Faith" was wretched.
Your being nice how about a horrid piece of shit
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. I find Moondance so irritating.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Has anyone heard The Weather by Busdriver, Radioinactive and Daedelus? It's kind of a tough album to get into but once/if it sinks in, pure gold.
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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.
Unfortunately I've only listened to parts of that because I've never been able to find a copy.
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.
That's true, but if Matthew Sweet is still somewhat acclaimed they should be too. I just went with albums that really should still be staples in record stores but usually aren't.
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison. I find Moondance so irritating.
Astral Weeks is underrated? That's one of the most critically acclaimed albums ever.
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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.
heathen is excellent. and i'll even like the weird 90s ones Like Outside and Earthling.
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Ten Spot by Shudder To Think.
Pony Express is one of my faves of all time, but I feel like that's got enough credit.
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Ten Spot by Shudder To Think.
Pony Express is one of my faves of all time, but I feel like that's got enough credit.
I'm gonna say Get Your Goat is the most underrated!
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-Holly Golightly - any LP in the past 10 years
-The Leather Uppers - "Bright Lights"
-Kool and the Gang - "The Best of..." (the early, pre-disco years one on Delite Records)
-Lubricated Goat - "...Plays the Devil's Music"
-United Mutation - "Freaks Out" (D.C.-area 80s h.c.)
-Andre Williams - "Silky"
-Cosmic Psychos - "Go The Hack"
-The Firesign Theatre - "Don't Crush That Dwarf..." & "How Can You Be In 2 Places At Once?"
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-Holly Golightly - any LP in the past 10 years
Too true!
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A lot of eighties-era bands that slowed down or mellowed out in some form or fashion put out albums that were unjustly panned by fans at the time, but 10+ years down the road you look back on it and think "what was the big deal, it's one of their better albums".
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I could play this game all day, but I will limit myself (for now) to 5
Odds - anything really, but I will go with Good Weird Feeling
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
King Crimson - Beat is the best of the three, but the entire Discipline trio (Discipline, Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair)
Jen Trynin - Cockamamie
Jellyfish - both studio albums are unbelievable, but I will tilt towards the first one, Bellybutton
Some other people worth your time that you may not know: Rheostatics, Baby Bird, Mysteries of Life, Steve Tibbetts, Chagall Guevara
Good God, I love music. It's the only thing that's got me this far. Lately I have been listening to Neal Morse's Sola Scriptura, which is a rock opera about the Protestant Reformation. Fun times!
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Ten Spot by Shudder To Think.
Pony Express is one of my faves of all time, but I feel like that's got enough credit.
I'm gonna say Get Your Goat is the most underrated!
The pride of Northern Virginia, fortunately. ;)
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Morphine - The Night (the curse of the great but posthumous LP)
Yes! Following the good but probably overrated Cure for Pain, I thought they were OVAH after Yes and Like Swimming. They were coasting on a formula that was no longer innovative. (Beat poetry and low-register instruments - we get it. What now? Triple sax? One String Bass?)
But The Night! The title track and "Take Me With You When You Go" are beautiful; the best stuff they ever recorded.
I'll throw in:
XTC - Drums and Wires
The Vehicle Birth - Tragedy
5ive Style
Don Ellis Orchestra - Electric Bath
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Hard Knocks - School of Hard Knocks
Lil' Louis & The World - Journey with the Lonely
Mr. Fingers - Amnesia
Son of Bazerk - Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk
The Goats - Tricks of the Shade
The Nonce - World Ultimate
The UMC's - Fruits of Nature
D*Note - Criminal Justice
I think we can all agree on these.
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I have two that come to mind:
Rodan - Rusty
Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm
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I almost never listen to 80's R.E.M. anymore, but every now and then I'll put on New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
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I almost never listen to 80's R.E.M. anymore, but every now and then I'll put on New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
I'm listening to Chronic Town right now.
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I almost never listen to 80's R.E.M. anymore, but every now and then I'll put on New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
I liked that album a lot, too, but at the time I don't remember too many REM fans liking it too much. I think the song with Patti Smith is great.
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My roommate threw in The Doors' Soft Parade last night and I forgot how good that album is. I love the transition from Wild Child to Runnin' Blue.
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I totally agree that Basehead's Play With Toys and Cope's Peggy Suicide should get more love, but they were two very well-reviewed and received albums when they came out...they just got lost in time, and subsequently awful releases on Basehead's part.
A couple of my choices:
Morrissey, Bona Drag. I think his releases get marginalized b/c of the Smiths' output, and b/c his fans can be irritating, but as an overall product I think Bona Drag is underrated...the deep tracks are all good etc. etc. etc. Easy to listen to over and over...
Savoy Brown, Pure Sienna. How come nobody every talks about this album? It's weirdly funky, good songs, summer album, best product from a marginal band...never hear any of the tracks in any movies/radio etc. although they're entertaining, has that weird "slightly poppy songs about devastating drug abuse" thing that everyone points out as a plus for Steely Dan...
The Spinnanes, Manos. Just a solid, overlooked indie release...
Joan of Arc, The Gap. Breaking up the cd tracks in the middle of the songs was pretentious as hell, but the songs themselves are pretty good. There's a nice ambiance and a sweetness to the songs. Also, every person at Pitchfork needs to get punched, hard, for the sustained character assassination they've been doing on Tim Kinsella for the last six years. That guy is totally stand-up, super nice...
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Some other people worth your time that you may not know: Rheostatics, Baby Bird, Mysteries of Life, Steve Tibbetts, Chagall Guevara
Dave - you like Mysteries of Life? If it's the same one I'm thinking of, I was a member for the recording of the first album, then parted ways. I had no idea they had a Knoxville fan base.
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Joan of Arc, The Gap. Breaking up the cd tracks in the middle of the songs was pretentious as hell, but the songs themselves are pretty good. There's a nice ambiance and a sweetness to the songs. Also, every person at Pitchfork needs to get punched, hard, for the sustained character assassination they've been doing on Tim Kinsella for the last six years. That guy is totally stand-up, super nice...
I love my Cap'n Jazz double-disc.
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Ten Spot by Shudder To Think.
Pony Express is one of my faves of all time, but I feel like that's got enough credit.
I'm gonna say Get Your Goat is the most underrated!
You may be right. Like if they stopped with that one and hadn't picked up Nathan Larson, I feel like they may have been LEGENDARY in a certain way, instead of like a love-it-or-hate-it-or-like-it-and-sometimes-be-embarrassed-by-it band.
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I really like New Radiant Storm King.
I have maybe 4 albums and all are good, but I don't know anyone else that digs em.
Jeremy Egnick's Return of the Frog Queen is a great album that deserves some props too.
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I really like New Radiant Storm King.
I have maybe 4 albums and all are good, but I don't know anyone else that digs em.
They along with Girls Against Boys seemed like they were opening for countless bands I went to see.
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I really like New Radiant Storm King.
I have maybe 4 albums and all are good, but I don't know anyone else that digs em.
Jeremy Egnick's Return of the Frog Queen is a great album that deserves some props too.
I like New Radiant Storm King but didn't really like their latest album. I did however really like Jeremy Enigk's World Waits.
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Hurricane Necklace is my favorite NRSK album, aside from the Silver Jews stuff they played on.
Jeremy Enigk's album is great, too...it's also been ripped off so many times it's not even funny. Although I can't think of a solid example off the top of my head...
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Some other people worth your time that you may not know: Rheostatics, Baby Bird, Mysteries of Life, Steve Tibbetts, Chagall Guevara
Dave - you like Mysteries of Life? If it's the same one I'm thinking of, I was a member for the recording of the first album, then parted ways. I had no idea they had a Knoxville fan base.
I don't know about a fan base, but I like Keep a Secret a lot.
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Some other people worth your time that you may not know: Rheostatics, Baby Bird, Mysteries of Life, Steve Tibbetts, Chagall Guevara
Dave - you like Mysteries of Life? If it's the same one I'm thinking of, I was a member for the recording of the first album, then parted ways. I had no idea they had a Knoxville fan base.
I don't know about a fan base, but I like Keep a Secret a lot.
That's the one. I'm glad you enjoy something I had a part in!
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Two late, great terribly underrated bands - American Music Club (representative album: "Everclear"), and Thelonious Monster (album "Stormy Weather").
American Music Club are back together and touring. I believe they recently put out an album on Merge.
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these ones have been on my mind lately:
Pavement - Terror Twilight
The Move - Looking On
Butterfly Joe - selftitled
Television Personalities - My Dark Places
Pain - Full Speed Ahead
Rocket From the Crypt - RFTC
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Clinic - Walking With Thee. (Internal Wrangler's got nothing on this one.)
Imperial Teen - Seasick.
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Also Wu-Tang Clan - The W, and Lisa Germano's entire catalog.
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Clinic - Walking With Thee. (Internal Wrangler's got nothing on this one.)
Imperial Teen - Seasick.
youre right (even though i enjoy both clinic albums), and i would agree even moreso if i knew anyone personally who knew what/who clinic was.
when it comes to good music, nothing seems underrated as much as underknown.
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Clinic - Walking With Thee. (Internal Wrangler's got nothing on this one.)
Imperial Teen - Seasick.
youre right (even though i enjoy both clinic albums), and i would agree even moreso if i knew anyone personally who knew what/who clinic was.
when it comes to good music, nothing seems underrated as much as underknown.
I'll vouch for Walking With Thee being their most consistently great record, even if the small handful of peaks on Internal Wrangler are just a bit better than the best songs on WWT.
I also feel like the only person in the I know who likes the Long Blondes' Couples. It's a perfectly good Blondie homage, ain't nothin' wrong with that.
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Lisa Germano's entire catalog.
Great call. Her most recent record on Young God was especially good.
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Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
King Crimson - Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
don't judge!
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Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
King Crimson - Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
don't judge!
At least for those first two, I will judge you awesome. (The third, I ain't heard. I dig some of Red if that means anything.)
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Starflyer 59- The Fashion Focus
Blake Babies- God Bless the Blake Babies
Metallica- Ride the Lightning
Joan Osborne- Relish
Sugar- File Under: Easy Listening
Jonathan Richman- Jonathan Goes Country
Elastica- Elastica