if you're on RYM this is fairly easy to calculate:http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/conformity
looks like the biggest difference for me is Datarock - Red. which makes sense, I don't recall seeing a single good review of that album. I still think it's great though.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 11:47 (seven years ago) link
I could probably dredge up a ton of these. Starting with Basia's discography.
The most recent example I can think of is Zero 7's last album, Yeah Ghost, which was lambasted but which I thought and continue to think is fantastic.
― Lipbra Geraldoman (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:18 (seven years ago) link
Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers, Know Your Enemy
Tom Petty - Long After Dark
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global a GoGo
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
My highest result on that RYM thing is last year's Saqqara Mastabas album by Matthew Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces guy), which I found to be charming and mad, and which literally everyone else on the planet (aka the 25 or so people who heard it) found to be baffling, scrawny and irrelevant
The Ark Work is my third highest though lol
― imago, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:48 (seven years ago) link
This is a great question. I think for me, most are albums that slipped under the bar before my critical facilities were well formed (and before I cared about acclaim). Things like Dead or Alive (Sophisticated Boom Boom) or the first 3 or 4 Thompson Twins albums.
Sad to say, but my adult listening habits first filter everything through a gauntlet of received wisdom before I even give anything a chance. But this is part of the reason why I like ILM -- for encouraging me to give things like The 1975 a listen.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Billy Joel's Attila thing is a contender
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:26 (seven years ago) link
that dog's "totally crushed out" is near perfect and in my top 20
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
that dog are great, yeah. i tried looking at the rym thing but since i stopped rating records it doesn't have much to say. maybe "everybody loves a happy ending" by tears for fears? that seems to have been roundly ignored by everyone except me.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
It seems likely that the answer to this question will be 'album by artist that I continued to follow long after they fell out of critical favor'. Like latter-day Tori Amos, maybe?
― Lipbra Geraldoman (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
the Who, Endless Wire
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
probably these corny "global underground" mix cds from danny tenaglia from the late 90s, they are very dear to me though
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:00 (seven years ago) link
Great thread idea! I'm gonna say 'Once Around The World' by It Bites.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:46 (seven years ago) link
I've never been a fan of that type of middlebrow/tasteful prog house, but those Global Underground mixes were acclaimed at the time, then fell deeply out of fashion, and I'm sure will do crazy prices in ten years, just like deep house.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
yes, the ladder
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
Word of Mouth, the Kinks
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Soap Opera by the Kinks/ concept album era Kinks in general
― soref, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:14 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, April 19, 2017 5:31 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I won't lie, it's slightly hurtful to have been out-"least acclaimed" like this
― soref, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
probably the last pair of U2 albums (not to mention Rattle & Hum)
Monster by R.E.M.
oh wait:
Rift by Phish
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night - Stereolab
i was thinking about making a thread about bands where your favorite album is not beloved/rated highly- Cobra has its fans but it always gets overlooked.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
― Siegbran, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:27 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea most of them are boring as fuck but the two danny tenaglia ones *kisses fingers*
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:12 (seven years ago) link
Goodbye Jumbo, World Party
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
i really dug some of those sasha and digweed mixes, especially the northern exposure series.
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
yea i like that xpander ep by sasha too
― marcos, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
I've always felt that nobody gives the slightest shit about that live Tom Waits record Big Time, but it's astoundingly great and many of the tracks are rendered out much better than their studio versions.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
I fucking love Asobi Seksu's last 2 albums (Hush and Fluorescence) but rym seems to think they jumped the shark after Citrus (common complaints seem to be "vocals too high in the mix, too many keyboards, doesn't sound exactly like Citrus, not shoegazey enough to appease the genre fascists"). I should probably stop defining my tastes in opposition to the rym hivemind, huh
― progge went a-courtin' (unregistered), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
I only like acclaimed music
― briscall stool chart (wins), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
For me, probably Toto IV. Although, now that I think about it, there are probably a good few critics out there who show it some love since the yacht rock revival began in earnest.
― jon123, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
Once upon a time it was Miles Davis's On the Corner, but everybody loves that now.So...Miles Davis's You're Under Arrest.Oh, and Swans' The Burning World, which Michael Gira himself hates.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Ha, nomar beat me to Monster. Apart from that, probably the second Best Coast album.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
Lloyd Cole - Bad Vibes. Objectively very poor but I love it for the "artist tries something outside his comfort zone and fails wonderfully" vibe.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
― nomar
the northern exposure series is totally back
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
I'd probably have to pay every ILM poster money to listen to this but it's one of my favorite releases of the 90s:https://www.discogs.com/Folk-Implosion-Nothings-Gonna-Stop-The-Flow/release/1639807
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
this is a good question
The Fall's Middle Class Revolt album seems to be regarded as somewhat of a failure, but I love it.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
i think i have affection for a lot of (what are now) critically unloved albums from the early '90s that received four stars in Rolling Stone.
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
"Goodbye Jumbo, World Party"
i'm always interested in the fandom that goes beyond something like goodbye jumbo which is an album people have actually heard of and even heard. is there a thread about rolling really deep with a band/artist? and how lonely that can be? did anyone buy the last prefab sprout album? lloyd cole has, like, ten solo albums.
if there is a thread, i don't know the name of it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
i bought the lloyd cole/roedelius album.
i thought about buying the last prefab sprout album and I'm sure it's really good but...
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
also think being a fan of preservation act 1/act 2 might be even bolder than being a fan of word of mouth.
i've also kinda been curious about what post-word of mouth albums sound like. don't think i ever heard phobia or u.k. jive.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
i'm always interested in the fandom that goes beyond something like goodbye jumbo which is an album people have actually heard of and even heard.
I don't know anybody irl who likes this album. Even when it came out I didn't know anyone else who was into it. I think it's fantastic, I return to it regularly and it's Wallinger's best album imo.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
― scott seward, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2:45 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I loved U.K. Jive at the time, and considered it their best since Muswell Hillbillies. When I revisited it recently, it mostly held up, but the production is pretty bad (all-digital recording in 1989).
Phobia is garbage, with the exception of the last song, "Scattered," which is one of their best ever. Turns out it was written in 1971.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
I love Maxwell's Embrya which got panned hard when it came out, but I see some people praising it now so idk
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Act 1 is not bad. Act 2 is bad.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Cybill Shepherd's Cybill Does It... To Cole Porter. I was trying to find reviews online without much luck. Christgau gave it a D-, although he did say her voice is surprisingly pleasant. The album features many of the songs from the film At Long Last Love, which was a notorious flop. The record is campy fun, though; I've listened to it way more than Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbooks.
― I don't really like any of these albums (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
i kinda like the 2nd and 3rd albums by the dream academy. that is my contribution to this thread. or parts of them anyway. there is a prefab sproutishness to some of it sorta. i even liked their insane john lennon cover. also i like the solo albums by the woman from the dream academy. ambient pop stuff. she was also in a new age group with bill nelson and roger eno that you might have missed. any friend of virginia astley is a friend of mine.
also, by mentioning virginia astley i make tarfumes happy because then he thinks about pete townshend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OcTsl7s6w
― scott seward, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Preservation Act 2 got a 9.5 on pitchfork
https://web.archive.org/web/20011212144343/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com:80/record-reviews/k/kinks/preservation-act-2.shtml
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
oh and Act 1 got a 9.8
https://web.archive.org/web/20011223071609/pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/k/kinks/preservation-act-1.shtml
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
hahaha
I couldn't get through all of Act 2 in one sitting. I don't think I even got through it in two sittings.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
Must've been a fun couple of years at RCA.
"Ugh, the Kinks want to put out TWO theatrical concept albums! One a double! This is gonna kill us. Oh well, at least Lou Reed will deliver a solid commercial follow-up to Sally Can't Dance."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I love Mariah Carey's album "Emotions", that'd have to be top for me.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:27 (seven years ago) link
I am a real big fan of the Scarlett Johannssen album!
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
whitesnake, self-titled
― nomar, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
What they're trying to do is extremely stupid! But they do it so perfectly!
ahaha this is a perfect summation of their whole thing. they were the most embarrassing and thus most enjoyable of the "major" CanCon radio rock acts of the 90s. (have we ever polled those?)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 12:55 (five years ago) link
i guess i need to get into the tea party
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
(i already love olp and matthew good)
They were no Gandharvas imo.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
Brad I can safely say that you would love both Splendour Solis and The Edges Of Twilight
The lead singer is definitely something. It felt even in the 90s like everyone was trying to take down the band for the lead singer being "lame-o" because he equal parts aped Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, was the only person I'd stoop to using the word "pseudo-intellectual" to describe, but his insufferability comes off as charming now. I remember in high school, my friends saying things about him like "lol he's from WINDSOR" and "people who went to high school with him said he only listened to New Order and only developed this guitar-mystic persona once he graduated lololol" and these "criticisms" just seem kind of charming now? idk, those first two albums are hit after hit after hit. Brad just listen to The Edges Of Twilight's first six tracks and either you'll flip out or you'll know the band is not for you
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:11 (five years ago) link
Jim Morrison and Jimmy Page, surely?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
As a side note, did we ever poll Big Shiny Tunes 2?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Yep!: Favourite track from Canada's 5th biggest selling album of all-time "Big Shiny Tunes 2"
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
I listened to Edges of Twilight a lot, but did eventually get rid of the CD in my early 20s because I thought it looked embarrassing in my CD collection. Haven't listened to it in about 20 years but looking at the track listing right now I could remember most of the songs. Sister Awake is the one I remember liking the most. I should listen to it.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that's her favourite.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
Yes I got my Jameses confused
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
Me I like The Bazaar and Inanna and especially Silence... this album really got into some tightly controlled cacophony
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Edges of Twilight is better than I expected tbh.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
I unfortunately have The Tea Party to thank for my introduction to "what all the Indian instruments are called and what they do"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
I managed to listen to half of Edges of Twilight. It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.
New board description.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
TRIPtych was my intro. Some good singles off that one. I imagine some of the deep cuts are pretty dire, though.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:41 (five years ago) link
Daughters self titled album is my favorite thing they've ever done including the new stuff. Usually is pretty forgotten.
I still love the Tomorrow, in a Year by The Knife, Planningtorock and Mt. Sims. Generally unloved.
I feel like I was shouting into the void with Self Defense Family's Have You Considered Punk Music last year. Still love it.
The Sunn/Scott Walker collab might get some more love now due to recent sad events but I was genuinely shocked at how little acclaim it got comparatively to how much i loved that thing.
For this question thought I'm going to go with the Mountain Goats - Goths. Its my favorite by them and easily one of my favorite albums of the decade. It definitely got a fair amount of love but they have a lot of acclaimed albums and this generally probably isn't considered top tier. And that is a testament to a lifetime of excellent releases. It's also very different than the others and i love it very much.
― gman59, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
Love is a funny word to use in the case of Rick Dees' "Disco Duck" album, but hey.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
can't actually remember any full albums if i look at the tracklistings but i probably really enjoy a modern talking album or two
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 23:06 (five years ago) link
Siegbran to thread.Modern Talking were the best. I still play that shit now. I even wrote a musical based on their songs back in the 90s (in my head, but still).
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
ot unacclaimed but inexplicably underrated, I would trade Buke And Gase for the entire oeuvre of both Kate Bush and Sonic Youth
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, March 31, 2019 4:48 AM
Meant to ask if you're a huge fan of Kate Bush and Sonic Youth?
Could Buke & Gase support a thread because I'm thinking of getting Riposte soon.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
I only listened to it again when the new one came out, but 'The Unattractive, Portable Head' is such a great song.
― Frederik B, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
i don't even know how to process my appreciation of jason falkner's _all quiet on the noise floor_ as kind of perfect statement of power pop and pop formalism, in structure, technique, and delivery. but a) i don't know if anyone outside of 100 people have ever heard it b) i am not a musician, critic or anything, i just like that genre generally and holy shit c) trying to like stuff other ppl don't know is an annoying trait.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
Some bloke came in the shop. I said hello. He started singing:"Is it me you're looking for..." I added:"I can see it in your eyes." He turned around and fistbumped me saying I had top taste and asked if I knew of Paul Young. One of the better clients. Lol. But no, I hate the song, dude. Lol
― nathom, Friday, 5 April 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
Siegbran to thread.
Modern Talking were the best. I still play that shit now. I even wrote a musical based on their songs back in the 90s (in my head, but still).
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:41 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nice
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
Thomas Anders and Modern Talking Band (how they're billed) played my city on Wednesday :'(
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
― Hunt3r
fuck it i'll listen to that record, i've only heard his record with r stevie moore but it was pretty good and i like power pop
seriously that experience is just goddamn normal for me, you know what power pop i listen to? goddamn hussalonia, there are maybe about five people who know who that dude is
feel free to drop by the thread where i just post shit i love but can't actually talk about to anybody because maybe three people have heard it, the more the merrier
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
Some bloke came in the shop. I said hello. He started singing:"Is it me you're looking for..." I added:"I can see it in your eyes."
that song was one of my mum's favourite songs when I was a kid. for kinda sad reasons, it was her sort of theme song for a failed relationship. although I can't stand the song myself I can't hate it either
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:52 (five years ago) link
It's more that nobody has heard it, but I found out the first self-titled Autre ne Veut is on streaming services, and that might still be my album of the decade. Love it so much.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 6 April 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
Xpost it is actually a good song. Just heard it a gazillion times way back. :-)
― nathom, Saturday, 6 April 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
Co-sign all that Tea Party talk upthread, have always loved The Edges Of Twilight, especially the songs where they amplified the Zep love and Eastern elements to a huge scale, the big drum break in Sister Awake is genuinely thrilling after all these years.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
I don't think it's hated or anything - it just kind of fell into a crack in the earth upon release, as one would expect, but the Cult's 2012 album Choice of Weapon is really good.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
Metal Machine Music for me - glad to see it's received several mentions on this thread already. When I first heard it (the Buddha Records reissue on CD) I was quite disappointed, expecting some kind of rip-your-head-off wall of feedback. But now I appreciate it as almost a relaxing record.
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
It's really beautiful. It's the only Lou Reed record I ever listen to anymore (I spent years trying to get into him and the VU before finally giving up).
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
I still stand by my answer at the start of this thread.
― mark e, Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
i like mmm too, it is a quite soothing listen.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 7 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
I just realised it's most likely 'Monsters' by Meat Puppets
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
Ha; I remember buying that record in high school after hearing Huevos and Up On The Sun, liking both a lot, and wanting more of that; I put it in my Walkman and was instantly like "What is this terrible pseudo-metal?" (I love metal, but that wasn't what I wanted from the Meat Puppets at all.) I turned around and returned it; luckily, my friend's family owned the store and he let me pick something else instead.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
First track I heard was 'Light' on the radio, which is a kinda Grateful Dead sounding thing, but I was at home with the heavier stuff on the record, not having heard them before, I love the whole thing, Linn-Drum and all but the last track 'Like Being Alive' is absolutely beautiful.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
Well, your post has me revisiting them on Spotify, for the first time in ~30 years, so maybe I'll check it out.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
I guess my real answer should be Tremolo by Blue Rodeo, generally regarded (when it's regarded at all) as a generic mid-career MOR album but was genuinely mind-expanding for me as a kid, esp the closing run of songs, which include Cowboy Junkies style slowcore, intricate instrumental gorgeousness, and the closest they ever got to cutting a punk tune.
― Simon H., Sunday, 14 April 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link