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Recommend one underrated album you think deserves more recognition

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    #32
    mosstin
    Registered Users Posts: 6,118 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Morgans wrote: »
    The Divine Comedy - Promenade.

    Simultaneously grandiose and silly. Bigger than music.

    The best album that ever came from this island. IMO.

    What a ****ing wonderful record. As is Liberation, mind.


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    #33
    WhitestBoyAlive
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    Kings of Convenience - Riot on An Empty Street



    Although Whitest Boy Alive are also good :D


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    #34
    olhos
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    most bands being mentioned are uk, irish or usa. check out belgian band deus, been around since about 95. the only band i buy on the day of the release. highlite cd, the ideal crash.


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    #35
    builttospill
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    olhos wrote: »
    most bands being mentioned are uk, irish or usa. check out belgian band deus, been around since about 95. the only band i buy on the day of the release. highlite cd, the ideal crash.

    The Ideal Crash isn't underrated. it got rave reviews across the board. See I don't get this thread. Most people are naming albums that are rated highly; they just haven't been commercially successful.

    My choice is At Action Park by Shellac. It got mixed reviews but I reckon it was the kind of sound Kurt Cobain was desperate to make when Nirvana recorded In Utero. Instead he had to bow down to the record company.


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    #36
    The Pontiac
    Registered Users Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭The Pontiac


    Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix


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    #37
    fillefatale
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    MBV's Strawberry & Wine, you can't even so much as buy it now.


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    #38
    myles79
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    The Veils - The Tide That Left and Never Came Back
    from "The runaway found"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugOkKZQbZBk


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    #39
    wandatowell
    Registered Users Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Rosie by Fairport Convention; love that album


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    #40
    myles79
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭myles79


    knock knock by smog
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JjjJfnAM7E


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    #41
    myles79
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭myles79


    arab strap (live album)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAIht_TY78


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    #42
    SM01
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    Mazzy Star - Among My Swan.


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    #43
    gasolinehorsey
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    builttospill wrote: »
    The Ideal Crash isn't underrated. it got rave reviews across the board. See I don't get this thread. Most people are naming albums that are rated highly; they just haven't been commercially successful.

    My choice is At Action Park by Shellac. It got mixed reviews but I reckon it was the kind of sound Kurt Cobain was desperate to make when Nirvana recorded In Utero. Instead he had to bow down to the record company.

    ideal crash is overrated i thought, much better reviews than the album

    'worst case scenario' and 'in a bar, under the sea' on the other hand, amazing albums that didn't get the recognition they deserved


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    #44
    Daithio
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    Following on from another thread, Gomez - In Our Gun


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    #45
    Miguel_Sanchez
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    myles79 wrote: »
    knock knock by smog
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JjjJfnAM7E

    That is a fantastic album. One of my favourites of all time.


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    #46
    0ubliette
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    Early Day Miners - Jefferson at rest

    Best album released this decade IMO, yet never seen anyone mention it and you wont find it on any 'best of' lists this december.


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    #47
    builttospill
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭builttospill


    gasolinehorsey wrote: »
    ideal crash is overrated i thought, much better reviews than the album

    'worst case scenario' and 'in a bar, under the sea' on the other hand, amazing albums that didn't get the recognition they deserved

    Just saw this now. Tell that to the guy that suggested The Ideal Crash. You should be quoting his post and not mine. Just for the record I don't rate Deus that highly. However, regarding their albums I completely disagree with you. Worst case Scenario is probably their worst album. A load of Frames-lite indie standard dogshyte complete with dodgy lyrics and wannabe lounge room meanderings. They kind of matured with the Ideal Crash but there was always something a bit off about them. I reckon it's a bit of the foreign band syndrome where they try to be as much like the English speaking bands as possible intead of being themselves. They just can't pull it off cos it's not in their nature.

    Another underrated album is Alien Lanes by Guided by Voices. Now it got good reviews but everyone always raves about Bee Thousand. Alien Lanes is my favourite of theirs and is usually overlooked when publications are doing best album polls.


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    #48
    loyatemu
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    gasolinehorsey wrote: »
    ideal crash is overrated i thought, much better reviews than the album

    'worst case scenario' and 'in a bar, under the sea' on the other hand, amazing albums that didn't get the recognition they deserved

    +1 - "In a bar..." is their masterpiece. With the exception of "Instant Street" I found "Ideal Crash" pretty boring.


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    #49
    homerun_homer
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    Mansun's Six. One of my desert island discs, so much variety.



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    #50
    gasolinehorsey
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    the god machine - one last laugh in a place of dying

    one of the finest albums ever made, and it never got any critical acclaim, will always be in my top 10 fave albums


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    #51
    TelePaul
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    The 'Into the Wild' soundtrack, Ed Vedder. Best album I've bought in ages.


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    #52
    Weepsie
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    My Computer - No CV, an album everyone should hear thought it got loads of good reviews but they were always in the smallest print in between reviews of albums that were huge.


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    #53
    Valmont
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    fillefatale wrote: »
    MBV's Strawberry & Wine, you can't even so much as buy it now.

    !!!Alert!!! There is something by MBV that I don't already own?! Agh, surely there must be a way?

    That Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song is class. I might give the album a go.

    My contribution to this thread would be Bravery, Repetition and Noise by the Brian Jonestown Massacre. A listen-the-whole-way-through album. Thoroughly underrated.


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    #54
    handsomecake
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    youth and young manhood.........................kings of leon


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    #55
    loyatemu
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    handsomecake wrote: »
    youth and young manhood.........................kings of leon

    hardly underrated, a lot of their fans consider it their best (personally I prefer Aha Shake Heartbrake)

    another one: Inspiral Carpets - "The Beast Inside" - it was panned, and killed their initial momentum when it came out, but its much better than their debut, darker and more atmospheric:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iEmsg2x1ZM


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    #56
    cinnamon girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭cinnamon girl


    loyatemu wrote: »
    another one: Inspiral Carpets - "The Beast Inside" - it was panned, and killed their initial momentum when it came out, but its much better than their debut, darker and more atmospheric:

    Yes, I think it's a great album.


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    #57
    BarryCreed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭BarryCreed


    Blur Think Thank

    Unified Theory


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    #58
    manic mailman
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭manic mailman


    minus the bear (ust in general should be getting more plaudits i feel)

    parhelia (formerly revile -great irish instrumental prog band)

    redneck manifesto


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    #59
    myles1979
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    necro
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqXiPcZfw4A


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    #60
    one man clappin
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    B00005TNYG.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1136512759_.jpg


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    #61
    DigiGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭DigiGal


    Anything by Clinic


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