Underrated albums...

[Andy]

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

[buffcoat]

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.

[butler]

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

[Emerson]

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

[johnfgillson]

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.

[bookem_dan-o]

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?

[Gus]

Pavement - Terror Twilight
Neil Young - Trans
Danielson Familie - A Prayer For Every Hour
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers

[Ynyr]

Werner Pirchner -EU
Slovenly -Thinking of Empire
"Your Charming Proposal" by Hey John, Bees

[thecramedog]

Guided by Voices "Do The Collapse"

[Stupornaut]

I really like all but maybe four or five songs on Sandinista!.

[erika]

Neutral Milk Hotel's "On Avery Island"

People always tend to talk about "In the airplane over the sea"

[Phantom Hugger]

Pet Sounds always steals the thunder but the Beach Boys' Friends is the perfect balance of creepy/happy. I heart it.

 

[masterofsparks]

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

[<<<<<]

Pretty much everything Helmet did up through Aftertaste.

[kimota]

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.