most under rated album by your favourite band

Spiritoftheseventies

For me its Green by R.E.M. Dont think there is a weak track on it (apart from maybe Stand), musicianship is superb. Always return to this album. Terrific diversity of styles here from the fab four.

kev9100

Be here now - Oasis. There's a couple of ordinary tracks on it but most are pretty dam good.

Dazd_N_Confusd

Waiting For The Sun by The Doors.

My favourite album by them yet not as well recieved by the critics. Usually regarded as their 2nd worst after The Soft Parade.

Malmedicine

Gold Against the Soul by the Manics some absolute beasts on that album (la Tristessa Durera) and yet never mentioned.

Kold

Amnesiac by Radiohead. It's actually their strongest album. OK Computer and Kid A get all the praise but Amnesiac is just a heavenly arrangement imo.

Dazd_N_Confusd

Kold wrote: »

Amnesiac by Radiohead. It's actually their strongest album. OK Computer and Kid A get all the praise but Amnesiac is just a heavenly arrangement imo.

Yeah, I'll go along with this.

rcaz

Kold wrote: »

Amnesiac by Radiohead. It's actually their strongest album. OK Computer and Kid A get all the praise but Amnesiac is just a heavenly arrangement imo.

Nah, Kid A's the best for me. Amnesiac is great, but the songs on Kid A... (I just read the track lists of both albums again)... Oh ****, it's so close!

Hail To The Thief gets a lot of bad press - a great album! Really good marriage of their two sides, I think. Songs like 2 + 2 = 5 and Backdrifts, The Gloaming, Myxomatosis, Scatterbrain...

At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips gets a lot of stick, but I think it's just because a lot of people wanted more Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi stuff (and don't get me wrong, no album has come near The Soft Bulletin for me). Songs like Mr. Ambulance Driver and Pompeii am Gotterdammerung are nearly perfect.

Spiritoftheseventies

Kold wrote: »

Amnesiac by Radiohead. It's actually their strongest album. OK Computer and Kid A get all the praise but Amnesiac is just a heavenly arrangement imo.

Yeah have that album. Pretty good but still rate Ok computer above it.

ricero

for me empire by kasabian very good album some experimental tunes there completely different sound from there debut. stuntman, doberman , empire and shoot the runner quality tunes.

ricero

kev9100 wrote: »

Be here now - Oasis. There's a couple of ordinary tracks on it but most are pretty dam good.

agree with you there completely i think its a pretty good album but slated by the
usual oasis haters because there was no stand out tracks like live forever and wonderwall

TheColl

Supergrass - Road To Rouen.... It's no as good as some of their work, but still an excellent album from start to finish in my opinion!

kev9100

ricero wrote: »

agree with you there completely i think its a pretty good album but slated by the
usual oasis haters because there was no stand out tracks like live forever and wonderwall

Do you think so? I've always thought that "Do you know what I mean" was a brilliant track. Of course, the album is'nt perfect and some of songs, like "All around the world" for example, are far too long. I still think it's a good album though.

Spiritoftheseventies

kev9100 wrote: »

Do you think so? I've always thought that "Do you know what I mean" was a brilliant track. Of course, the album is'nt perfect and some of songs, like "All around the world" for example, are far too long. I still think it's a good album though.

Yeah some good tracks on it alright. Stand by me (even if it it borrows slightly from all the young dudes) would be my favourite.

Swirls

I have to agree that Be Here Now is an excellent album.

As for Radiohead, my favourite is The Bends. Coming after that is probably In Rainbows.

Machina by Smashing Pumpkins was definitely under-rated.

As for REM, I always thought Up was under rated.

Supergrass was also mentioned, I'm beginning to think that they are a very under rated band generally... I think I was too busy listening to Oasis, Radiohead and the Pumpkins to ever give them the attention they deserve!

zimovain

ricero wrote: »

agree with you there completely i think its a pretty good album but slated by the
usual oasis haters because there was no stand out tracks like live forever and wonderwall

Id go for 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.' myself. It has total duds in Little James,I Can See A Liar' but there is some great stuff on it. Gas Panic could well be their best song. The album has a real gloomy vibe. Love it:cool:

Battleflag

One Hot Minute by the Red Hot Chili Peppers springs to mind

kieran26

Metallica-Load i know they are a huge band but this album is particularly villified by early metallica fans its not a good metal record but its a fantastic hard rock album

kev9100

zimovain wrote: »

Id go for 'Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.' myself. It has total duds in Little James,I Can See A Liar' but there is some great stuff on it. Gas Panic could well be their best song. The album has a real gloomy vibe. Love it:cool:

I have to disagree with you there. With the exception of Gas Panic and Where did it all go wrong "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants" is a poor album.

Bog

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant by Belle & Sebastian.

Ok, it came off the back of 3 extraordinarily sublime albums. It had an unnecessarily unwieldy sounding title and it contains the worst B&S song on record (the obvious Isobel Campbell piece), Beyond The Sunrise.

Yet for all of that, I still like listening to this album. There are some wonderfully summery songs in The Model and Women's Realm, you can't resist the urge to dance to There's Too Much Love and Don't Leave The Light On Baby is one of the best B&S songs ever written. The Chalet Lines also dealt with a very difficult subject which is very rarely addressed in your typical indie song.

But do skip Beyone The Sunrise.

There's Too Much Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFzs-SWo4A

The Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0307j2XmBQ

Don't Leave The Light On, Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9GPp80HHk

antomorro-sei

kev9100 wrote: »

I have to disagree with you there. With the exception of Gas Panic and Where did it all go wrong "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants" is a poor album.

I'd disagree with that.

****in' in the bushes,
Go let it out,
Little James,
Roll it over

All good songs methinks

Personally, I think Be Here Now is the most under rated/over criticized album.

JerryHandbag

Neil Young - Trans :eek: Yeah I know Youngs high pitched synthesized vocals over synthpop music shouldnt really work....but I like it!!

Also honourable mentions to:
Oasis - Be Here Now
David Bowie - Lets Dance
U2 - Pop
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door

MajorThom

Interpol - Our Love To Admire

nommm

The Hullabaloo soundtrack by Muse. Some brilliant tracks on it.

loveissucide

Wilco-A Ghost Is Born. Their best album IMO, but gets ignored far too often.

tech77

Among My Swan.
For "Flowers in December" and "Take Everything" alone.

Merry_Happy

Adele - 19. Amazing debut album that I don't think got half as much credit as it deserved.

loyatemu

Rolling Stones - "Its only rock and roll" - some amazing songs on it Time Waits for no-one, If You Really Want to Be My Friend, Fingerprint File - I'm even quite fond of the utterly ridiculous Luxury (Mick Jagger singing in a cod-jamaican accent about being a poor oil worker)

in fact all the Stones' mid-70s albums are underrated. They've just got a bad rep because they're not quite as good as their 1968-1972 run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7Vy-W-TWU

loveissucide

loyatemu wrote: »

Rolling Stones - "Its only rock and roll" - some amazing songs on it Time Waits for no-one, If You Really Want to Be My Friend, Fingerprint File - I'm even quite fond of the utterly ridiculous Luxury (Mick Jagger singing in a cod-jamaican accent about being a poor oil worker)

in fact all the Stones' mid-70s albums are underrated. They've just got a bad rep because they're not quite as good as their 1968-1972 run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih7Vy-W-TWU

Yet 10 times better than pretty much anything post-1980

ricero

MajorThom wrote: »

Interpol - Our Love To Admire

fantastic album it must be said i cant wait for there new album

ricero

arctic monkeys - favorite worst nightmare

i love this album some top tunes on it as well id rather listen to this then there debut album which i think is overrated

mosstin

Bog wrote: »

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant by Belle & Sebastian.

Ok, it came off the back of 3 extraordinarily sublime albums. It had an unnecessarily unwieldy sounding title and it contains the worst B&S song on record (the obvious Isobel Campbell piece), Beyond The Sunrise.

Yet for all of that, I still like listening to this album. There are some wonderfully summery songs in The Model and Women's Realm, you can't resist the urge to dance to There's Too Much Love and Don't Leave The Light On Baby is one of the best B&S songs ever written. The Chalet Lines also dealt with a very difficult subject which is very rarely addressed in your typical indie song.

But do skip Beyone The Sunrise.

There's Too Much Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFzs-SWo4A

The Model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0307j2XmBQ

Don't Leave The Light On, Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9GPp80HHk

Ugh. FYHCYWLAP is easily their worst album. In your summation you neglected to mention that it contains their worst song - Nice Day For A Sulk manages somehow to distil all of the reasons people hate Belle and Sebastian during the course of its' two and a half minute duration.

Merry_Happy

ricero wrote: »

arctic monkeys - favorite worst nightmare

i love this album some top tunes on it as well id rather listen to this then there debut album which i think is overrated

I love "Whatever People Say I am Is What I'm Not". I'm a major Arctic Monkeys fan and personally I think "Favourite Worst Nightmare" is their poorest album so far. "Do Me A Favour" is an exception though..amazing track. I think "Humbug" hasn't got the credit it deserves either. Alex Turner is god.

A Disgrace

A House's 'I want too much', their last album on Warner Brothers, and came after the massively successful 'On our big fat merry go round', which had a top three US billboard single, and just before their biggest hit album 'I am the greatest' which was on Setanta/Parlophone and was the only album in history (at the time) to be entirely playlisted by BBC1 radio, and also delivered their biggest hit single, 'Endless Art', amongst others..

Anyway, regards 'I want too much'. Produced by Mike Hedges (U2, Manic Street Preachers, The Cure) it was recorded in a house in the West of Ireland on only vintage instruments, mostly out of tune, and including a piano or keyboard used by John Lennon.. you can hear this influence on these two songs, sadly not the two best from the record, but alas, the only ones I could find on youtube.. Yet still class...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uKhJZT_84

Sinfonia

Kold wrote: »

Amnesiac by Radiohead. It's actually their strongest album. OK Computer and Kid A get all the praise but Amnesiac is just a heavenly arrangement imo.

OK Computer still wins for me, although Amnesiac is a close, close second. They're tough to compare because they're quite different, but overall I have to side with OKC. Amnesiac is still my favourite album of the last 10 years, with Kid A as a close, close second. Although I do agree that Amnesiac deserves more credit than it gets. (On a side note, I think that In Rainbows, while a great album, tends to be overrated.)

Also, reading a thread on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti recently, it seemed to be underrated, particularly the second half. It's my favourite Zep album, although ironically it has the only Zep song that I really don't like and would always skip (Night Flight).

Any album by Love that isn't Forever Changes seems underrated to me as well, simply because Forever Changes overshadows the rest (and I would say deservedly so), but there's more to Love than the one album.

loveissucide

Sinfonia wrote: »

Any album by Love that isn't Forever Changes seems underrated to me as well, simply because Forever Changes overshadows the rest (and I would say deservedly so), but there's more to Love than the one album.

Revelations ruins Da Capo though.

red_ice

Queens of the Stoneage - Lullabies to Paralyze. Its actually my favourite album fullstop. I dont like how people say that its a terrible album and that its not how queens should sound.

I think its a fantastic documentation of where the band were at. Its a new enough sound, but its a very big transition album. If you listen to Songs for the Deaf then Era Vulgaris they are worlds appart, yet the same in a way.. Alot of it comes down to the production (imo), but when you listen to Lullabies to Paralyze you hear how it came to be. Its in the bass tbh!

My fav album of all time - Lullabies to Paralyze, give it more credit its fantastic!

HURGH!

Sinfonia

red_ice wrote: »

My fav album of all time - Lullabies to Paralyze, give it more credit its fantastic!

Underrated fo' sho', but SFTD FTW IMO

MilanPan!c

Not my FAVOURITE band, but Radiohead's album, Pablo Honey, is woefully underrated.

It is, for instance, better than the entire out put of:

Gene
Gay Dad
Lot's of other flash in the pan britpop bands

But it's all but forgotten.

MilanPan!c

kev9100 wrote: »

I have to disagree with you there. With the exception of Gas Panic and Where did it all go wrong "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants" is a Very Very poor album.

Borderline unlistenable.

QFT

aDeener

The Stone Roses - Second Coming, bloody excellent. begging you and tightrope are two of my favourite songs

Spiritoftheseventies

aDeener wrote: »

The Stone Roses - Second Coming, bloody excellent. begging you and tightrope are two of my favourite songs

To add this to the mix always had a soft spot for Meat is Murder by the Smiths. Guitar playing from Marr is somthing else.

kev9100

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

To add this to the mix always had a soft spot for Meat is Murder by the Smiths. Guitar playing from Marr is somthing else.

Johnny Marr's guitar playing is pretty much superb on everything.

Ironman76

Alice in Chains Unplugged. Anyone Ive recommended it to has come back with rave reviews. Oustanding.

eclectichoney

Mezanine - Massive Attack

Protection always gets the praise, followed by Blue Lines, but mezzanine is still such a complex record. 100th Window is also criminally under-rated, so a toss up I guess! 100th Window really does appear to be the forgotten Massive Attack record actually,

strobe

Someone mentioned Be Here Now. I'd have to go with Heathen Chemistry if I was picking an Oasis album. I like BHN aswell but I still hear it getting a fair amount of praise, so I wouldn't nescesarily call it the most overrated, while I never hear HC get a mention in when people talk about Oasis best work. The last decent thing they ever put out, and the most varied and experimental of all thier albums in my opinion. Again a couple of ultra bland forgettable tracks but otherwise is a great album.

Another hugely underrated album from one of my favourite bands I'd have to say was G n R Lies, ok not indie but still a class album full of great songs like "Used To Love Her" that alot of people have never even heard.

A Disgrace

MilanPan!c wrote: »

Not my FAVOURITE band, but Radiohead's album, Pablo Honey, is woefully underrated.

It is, for instance, better than the entire out put of:

Gene
Gay Dad
Lot's of other flash in the pan britpop bands

But it's all but forgotten.

Totally disagree with the 'Gene' bit, the first two records are total class, and if anything, they were undermined by their association with Britpop

This, is an example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdLYQVcDMv8

And so is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vts4jq4cuYM

Skinback

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

For me its Green by R.E.M. Dont think there is a weak track on it (apart from maybe Stand), musicianship is superb. Always return to this album. Terrific diversity of styles here from the fab four.

Three Minute World, Pierce Turner.....magic

IsThisIt???

The Moon and Antarctica-Modest Mouse. Most Modest Mouse stuff actually, think they should be much bigger here.

arsenallegend

Humbug by Arctic Monkeys
it took a few listens but my god what a great album it is
Cornerstone and secret door were great songs as were the 8 others
a lot of fans dropped them sadly cause they changed their style but in the long run this change is for the best

MilanPan!c

IsThisIt??? wrote: »

The Moon and Antarctica-Modest Mouse. Most Modest Mouse stuff actually, think they should be much bigger here.

Agreed!

loyatemu

eclectichoney wrote: »

Mezanine - Massive Attack

Protection always gets the praise, followed by Blue Lines, but mezzanine is still such a complex record. 100th Window is also criminally under-rated, so a toss up I guess! 100th Window really does appear to be the forgotten Massive Attack record actually,

Mezzanine got huge praise at the time and was probably their biggest album. 100th Window is forgotten but rightly so IMO - its a 3D solo album and its very dull.