most under rated albums of the 90s

Saint-dotsie

the cardigans-first band on the moon
mercury rev-see you on the other side
pearl jam-yield
spiritualized-lazer guided melodies

any additions thoughts?

Achille

The Blind Kids in Wheelchairs Global Funk Orchestra - "Hey You, Get That Banana Outta There!"



mind-blowing


Yield was under-rated? i wasnt aware.
those that rate it seem to rate it fair enough. its not brilliant, they have better.

DerekD Goldfish

Simmilar thread have been done before but who cares it depens how you define underrated.
Whipping boy - Submarine
Whipping boy- Heartworm
Whipping boy- Whipping boy(was released in 2000 but recored in 1998)
Idlewild- 100 broken windows
Teenage Fanclub- A catholic education
Teenage Fanclub- Banwagonesque
Nirvana- In utro(not that underated but Ill include it anyway)
Kyuss- Blues for the red sun
Sultans of Ping- Casual sex in the cineplex
Flaming lips- The sof bullitin(was that 99 or 00?)
Cake- Fashion nugget
Manic's- Holy Bible (yet again depends how you define underated)
Jeff Buckley -Grace (it is highly rated but you cant overate this album)
Jeff Buckley- My sweetheat the drunk
At the drive in - Relationship of comand
My bloody valintine- Loveless
Lir- Nest
Quicksand- Manic compression
Ben Folds five- whatever and ever
Primal scream- Screamadelica
Mary Janes- Sham
Snowpatrol- Songs for polar bears
Eels- Electro shock blues
Weezer- Pinkerton
Therapy?- Troublegum
Screaming trees- Uncle anesthesia

spoiltbrat

Sebadoh - Bake Sale (highly-rated by all who own it but thats not enough people).
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster Album
Whipping Boy - Heartworm (I agree with DerekD)
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command (another agreeance)
dEUS - In a bar under the sea...

Thomas from Presence

Innuendo by Queen

Class record and horrendously under-rated

lamda

pulp - This is Hardcore....
Oh and apparently hail to the Thief which is only gettin 7/10 in reviews pfft!!!

Rodriguez

At the Drive in- Relationships of Command + Incasino out


and i think ill go with


Sonic youth - Washing Machine

Arthur Peanut

Yeah definitely Whipping Boy's Heartworm I had a bootlegged cassete of it back in the nineties and it worn out through over use so i picked up a cd copy on ebay just last week. I know they've split up and when they did they apparently nearly bankrupt Sony Ireland. What are the individual members up to now?

acquiescefc

60ft Dolls - The Big Three

'Love your haaaaaaaair'
'everywheeeeeeeeeeere'
'it follows you around'

Newports finest, apart from the Manics

Daylight

C'mon people. How can you call all these albums underrated. Pretty much every album being listed here are considered classics.
Bit more effort!

Ste k

Kerb dog - On the turn.

Greatly under-rated album and possibly a very un lucky band. Wilt never lived up to anything in my opinion.

Pelvis as well had great debut.

butterflywings

bleach- nirvana
another love song-frames

what basturrds gave hail to the thief 7/10?? i haven't got it yet, but man it's radiohead for God's sake. we shall all piss on this blasphemer's grave.....

DerekD Goldfish

C'mon people. How can you call all these albums underrated. Pretty much every album being listed here are considered classics.

Among indie muso types maybe but the general public probably havent heard of the vast majority of the bands and albums listed which is a great pity.

Achille

yeah but if you mention Led Zeppelin to half the general public, their answer is "who's he?"

i dont think that makes them under-rated.


i'll recommend Wheat's "Hope and Adams", and "Wormwood" by moe.

Saint-dotsie

i forgot the biggest one of all
new adventures in hi-fi-r.e.m.
its pure class but everyone thought it was crap when i came out.
i think yield is an excellent album and is reffered to as pearl jams weakest album but in my opinion its in their top four.

Damon_Kind

Steps - Steptacular

Cork

Whipping Boy's Heartworm + CDs by The Frank And Walters. "Trains, Boats & Planes", "Grand Perdae", "Glass" and the perfect "Beauty Becomes More than life".


Does anybody have any news of the release date of their new cd?

Cherry

Jeff Buckley -- Grace.

Seems to be more popular now, & immediately following his death, than it was when he was alive. Still under-rated, though.

Beany

Longpigs - "The Sun is often out"

acquiescefc

Longpigs

Respect!

Amnesiac

here here re. the frank and walters...you've got to love 'em.
chronically underrated!

SprostonGreen

James - "Laid"

p.pete

RHCP - One hot minute

Might not have been there best album but it's widely regarded as their worst which I always thought unfair, I liked it.

knobbles

my interpretation of under rated:

pixies - trompe le monde
pumpkins - adore


...regarded by many and the bands themselves has failures,
i think they're their best

nessy

Any Sophie B Hawkins album.. especially Timbre

Kali

id agree with sebadoh - bakesale.. bloody excellent album and criminally under-rated, possibly down to the slightly poor production, but rocking all the same..

I'd add:

Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
Corduroy - High Havoc
Galaxie 500 - On Fire

Tyrrial

I'd say:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (a bloody great album!)

The Reindeer Section - Son of Evil Reindeer (way to under-rated)

Belle and Sebsatian - Tigermilk (The warmest Music ever written)

and that's my two cent

starlet

since someone got there before me with Steptacular and Songs for Polarbears, I'll go with Hope is important by Idlewild. WAAAAHHH!!!!

Saint-dotsie

couple more addititions-
adore-pumpkins
tiny music- stone temple pilots
mansun-six

Daylight

Built to Spill - Keep it like a secret
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes

This could keep going for a while

Abdiel

If I was to include a Smashing Pumpkins album, it would have to be Gish. They only really became mainstream popular after this (circa Siamese Dream\Meloncollie) but Gish is easily their best album.

Nice to see Slowdive mentioned. I'd add "Just for a Day" in there as well.

Anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor really (Slow Riot..., F#A#..., )
First Lamb album is quite good also, doesnt seem to get much attention either.

And for a change of pace, NIN: The Downward Spiral

Ixidor

i think KoRn's first album was under-rated... but i don't think anyone on this board would agree with me.

Kopf

aphex twin - richard d james album
astrobotnia - part i
astrobotnia - part iii
boards of canada - twoism
bogdan raczynski - samurai math beats (fück yeah)
bola - fyuti
kettel - cenny crush (not half as many people know about this guy as should do)
aphex twin - selected ambient works volume ii
(in fact everything aphex has done)

there, so take your heads out of your indie-loving arses and enlighten yourselves to some nice good dance music. i might as well put in one title that will appeal to the congregation -

the smashing pumpkins - pisces iscariot
(i know it's a collection of b-sides and unreleased songs, but why does nobody ever talk about it or how great it is? some fücking gems on that album.)

nonemoreblack

Originally posted by Daylight

Built to Spill - Keep it like a secret

Respect

Also

Sugar ..Copper Blue
dEUS ..WCS

Tom182

I WANT TOO MUCH by A House....

I'd admit it took me a while for this to grow on me, but after the release of their "best of" I've dug out all their albums...

Jesus, they had some sh!t hot tunes....but definetelty "I Want..."
takes alot of beating...................

bandit

Therapy Infernal love

Manics Gold against the soul (the best collection of singles they've ever released came from this album)
Both of these albums are hated by the bands for some reason

Others would be

Super furry animals Fuzzy logic

The Sundays The Sundays

Weezer Pinkerton

Three colours red The title of which escapes me now but it rocks like a parkinsons sufferer

Duffman

I don't know how it was received when it was released 'caus I was a wee kiddie but Siamese Dream by the Pumpkins....

Loads of people have never heard of it :eek: fools...

JAFO

Brand New Heavies "Heavy Rhyme" heavy on the rap, but all real instrumentation.. very sparse on the samples.. real poetry from the streets of Brooklyn, i urge everybody to pick this one up, whatever you do, don't buy the crappy "acid Jazz" they did.. this is rapping in a real raw form.. all guest rappers.. BRILLIANT!

Tyrrial

Originally posted by JAFO
Brand New Heavies "Heavy Rhyme" heavy on the rap, but all real instrumentation.. very sparse on the samples.. real poetry from the streets of Brooklyn, i urge everybody to pick this one up, whatever you do, don't buy the crappy "acid Jazz" they did.. this is rapping in a real raw form.. all guest rappers.. BRILLIANT!

sounds a treat:rolleyes:

JAFO

oh it is!!.. a real "how did i live without that?" kinda album!!

MoeJay

Therapy? - Suicide Pact - You First
Kyuss - Sky Valley
Joyrider - Be Special (who remembers them?)

butterflywings

Originally posted by Kopf
the smashing pumpkins - pisces iscariot
(i know it's a collection of b-sides and unreleased songs, but why does nobody ever talk about it or how great it is? some fücking gems on that album.) [/B]

noone talks about it cos it's so hard to get so noone knows!! that's my theory anyway, i've been looking for it for ages...