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What is your favourite album that nobody talks about?

  • 30-06-2015 2:41pm
    #1
    HeathenWolf
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    Personally, mines is Mad Season's 'Above' or Nirvana's Incesticide.


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  • #2
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,645 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time


  • #3
    seachto7
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    Army of Anyone.

    Filter, Welcome to the Fold.

    Filter singer was involved with both


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,032 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Don't know if I could pick just one ...

    Thought Industry - Songs for Insects
    Genesis - Duke
    Tackhead - Strange Things

    Never heard of Tackhead? It's what Doug Wimbish and some mates were up to before he was poached by Living Colour:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MN3XcJf_k

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #5
    youtube!
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    Steven Wilson The RAVEN that refused to sing...christ what a record.


  • #6
    happyoutscan
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    Sacred Reich - The American Way
    Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care
    D.R.I. - Thrash Zone
    Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time


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  • #7
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    Thin Lizzy ( the first Lizzy album)


  • #8
    Passenger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,148 ✭✭✭Passenger


    youtube! wrote: »
    Steven Wilson The Scarecrow that refused to sing...christ what a record.

    Was that a follow up to THE RAVEN that refused to sing? ;)


  • #9
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    Fortress by Alter Bridge - https://youtu.be/sAYrAu-jnMY


  • #10
    youtube!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭youtube!


    Passenger wrote: »
    Was that a follow up to THE RAVEN that refused to sing? ;)


    oh bollox tired from work here brain disengaged:o:o:o


  • #11
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Youthanasia by Megadeth is hugely underrated

    Sunset On The Golden Age by Alestorm

    Euphoria Morning by Chris Cornell is another underrated album


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  • #12
    Dozyart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Dozyart


    Baroness - Yellow & Green


  • #13
    Fishyfreak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭Fishyfreak


    AC/DC - Powerage

    When anyone talks of classic AC/DC albums, the first two to roll off the tongue are Back in Black & Highway to Hell. But Powerage is (in my opinion) their best work.

    It has it all, amazing lyrics, syncronised guitar work between Mal & Angus, Rudd with such effective and understated drumming, Cliff Williams ramping up the base & Bon Scott's vocals are just brilliant.

    Not a bad song on the album, it's a masterpiece.


  • #14
    blastman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    Fishy, I'm with you on that. It was the first AC/DC album I bought and I didn't get into it at all, initially. Got BiB shortly afterwards and that was my gateway in. Over the years, though, Powerage has grown in stature for me, to the point where it's probably my favourite album of theirs. There's something about it, it always sounded....different, somehow, from the rest of the catalog.


  • #15
    Koptain Liverpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 505 ✭✭✭Koptain Liverpool


    HeathenWolf wrote: »
    Personally, mines is Mad Season's 'Above' or Nirvana's Incesticide.

    I talk about Mad Season a lot :)
    Don´t find many to listen to me though....


  • #16
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Disturbed - The Sickness


  • #17
    bnt
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    Another one is Rush's Presto. There are complaints about the sound being too "Hi-Fi", to the point where the band kinda disavows it too. (Though they did play the tltle track on a recent tour.) Well, not only do I like the sound, it has some of the strongest "straight" songs they've ever written. By "straight" I mean that they're not as dependent on those three guys, and I think other artists could do great cover versions of them.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #18
    Roanmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    blastman wrote: »
    Fishy, I'm with you on that. It was the first AC/DC album I bought and I didn't get into it at all, initially. Got BiB shortly afterwards and that was my gateway in. Over the years, though, Powerage has grown in stature for me, to the point where it's probably my favourite album of theirs. There's something about it, it always sounded....different, somehow, from the rest of the catalog.

    Said the same thing to my brother last night.
    Had the vinly version with Cold Hearted Man on it, was disappointed when the CD version didn't have it.
    Riff Raff, Sin City, Kicked in the Teeth and Down Payment Blues are superb.


  • #19
    blastman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    Roanmore wrote: »
    Said the same thing to my brother last night.
    Had the vinly version with Cold Hearted Man on it, was disappointed when the CD version didn't have it.
    Riff Raff, Sin City, Kicked in the Teeth and Down Payment Blues are superb.

    I presume you got it on CD since (on Backtracks or Iron Man 2)? :)

    My original (cassette) copy had Cold Hearted Man on it, but didn't have Rock And Roll Damnation, for some reason. I spent years listening to that song on If You Want Blood wondering where the hell it came from!


  • #20
    JaseBelleVie
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    I love some of Europe's albums, but particularly Out Of This World and Prisoners In Paradise.


  • #21
    poeticmakaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭poeticmakaveli


    Tesla - five man acoustical jam


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  • #22
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    poeticmakaveli wrote: »
    Tesla - five man acoustical jam

    I freaking love Tesla! Absolutely awesome band, and that is some album!

    My personal fave album by them is The Great Radio Controversy. "Hang Tough" has to be one of the best 'Pick yourself up, be strong and don't let the bastards wear you down!' songs of all time! :D


  • #23
    poeticmakaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 254 ✭✭poeticmakaveli


    JaseBelleVie wrote:
    I freaking love Tesla! Absolutely awesome band, and that is some album!


    Tesla were very underrated I felt!!
    Yeah the great radio controversy was a super album!
    "The way it is" what a song!
    The new album they released last year I thought was very good and kept that sound!


  • #24
    JaseBelleVie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    Jeff Keith is an amazing vocalist. And yes, Tesla are woefully underrated; one of the best bands to come out of the 80's.


  • #25
    smilerf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 ✭✭✭smilerf


    Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour/Himalayan/Baby Darling Dollface Honey

    They are all brilliant


  • #26
    Dublin Spur
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    another shout for Powerage

    also love:

    Black Crowes "By Your Side" (1999) and
    Quireboys "little bit of what you fancy" (1989)


  • #27
    peter1892
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    'Crank' by The Almighty. It never quite happened for them but I loved that album, here's the opening track:

    https://youtu.be/1qcR42FAtIg

    Oh and another shout for Powerage from me! And Presto...


  • #28
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    2 by Black Country Communion is another great album that has been completely overlooked

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHcdq1F8MU


  • #29
    kev1.3s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,358 ✭✭✭kev1.3s


    Not a regular poster here but seen this and had to pop in with my two cents,
    An absolute long term favourite of mine is Amorphus's Elegy.


  • #30
    Passenger
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    2 by Black Country Communion is another great album that has been completely overlooked

    Seconded. Great album.


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  • #31
    Putt it there
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭Putt it there


    Id have 3 i reckon

    1. Nightlife - Thin Lizzy
    2. Hells Ditch - The Pogues
    3. World painted blood - Slayer


  • #32
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople is one I think is quite underrated

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gvuPV2EGb8


    Released in the mid-70s, the title track was a big hit and was one of the big glam rock songs but the album itself is actually a bit heavier than that title would suggest. It was produced by David Bowie at the height of his Ziggy Stardust era so it was inevitably linked to that style but I think it stands on it's own. I think it's not just some band copying Bowie's style for profit, they have their own sound.

    Songs like Ready for Love/After Lights, Sea Diver, Sucker and Soft Ground are brilliant. There's also a brilliant cover of the Velvet Underground song Sweet Jane. And then there's the title track which, imo, feels a bit out of place.


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