Underrated albums...

[kimota]

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.

[Gilly]

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.

[Putin]

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.

[John Junk 2.0]

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.

[TL]

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!

[Chris in Somerville, Mass.]

-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?"

[TL]

-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".

[dave from knoxville]

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!

[Dorvid Barnas]

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.

[Dorvid Barnas]

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

[Martin]

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.

[Dorvid Barnas]

What's THAT?!

[God Stewart]

I have two that come to mind:

Rodan - Rusty
Marnie Stern - In Advance of a Broken Arm

[Chris L]

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.