Critically Reviled Albums That You Actually Enjoy

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"Dylan" is pretty much reviled, but I love it.

― Officer Pupp (Officer Pupp), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You.
Now it seems to be undergoing something of a critical renaissance, but I always loved it, I tells ya!

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Cake. I love all their albums, and I don't care who knows it.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Steely Dan, Gaucho
Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque
David Bowie, Never Let Me Down

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Cake. I love all their albums, and I don't care who knows it.

-- A Giant Mechanical Ant

If you really didn't care you'd post that under your own name.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

GEEZ i guess you're right. so much for my big breakthrough.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

the new album by freelance hellraiser seems to be getting a fair bit of hate. fuck'em - i love its basic but fun pop-dance. whereas lily allen. urgh. so over that one...

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The first Asia album
Tales From Topographic Oceans
Most of Squeeze by "The Velvet Underground"

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

the hardest way to make an easy living is the album of the year. fuck rock critics.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Not so much reviled though, the concensus was more 'not as good as the first two'.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Love Beach--Emerson Lake & Palmer

Any well known hit by REO Speedwagon.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

People Like Us - Mamas & Papas

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Blind Melon's first record is terrific ... I think I'm in the minority on that one.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Definitely agreed. Soup is even better, imo.

GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SAY THAT

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I quite liked Urge Overkill's "Exit the Dragon," despite the tepid critical and public reception. In fact, I thought it was easily the best album in the band's mediocre-at-best discography.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

You guys sure make a lot of these indie guilt threads.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Not indie guilt, man. Just guilt guilt ... :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre100/e154/e154381ded3.jpg

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"Steely Dan, Gaucho"

"gaucho" as a 'lost classic' or 'critically underappreciated' is the biggest strawman going today. i mean, i grew up with it and always loved it; the past four years have seen repeated claims of 'it's so good! why doesn't anyone agree?' it's like paul simon's 'hearts and bones'; when everyone's reputed their hatred, it's not underrated anymore!

it seems as if people that hate 'gaucho' just hate steely dan, period, and latch on to it as a cipher for their entire ouevre.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Like Flies on Sherbert

I can't really understand why this can be considered a bad album

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Gaucho has its own thread of consensual praise.

― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Stone Roses - Second Coming.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f655/f65553hxdrb.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Electric Six - Fire
Adam Green - Gemstones
Scritti Politti - Provision

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Catherine Wheel - Wishville

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Seconding Soto's endorsement of Empire Burlesque, also:

Bowie's Tonight
Toto IV

I will defend these two via fistfight, if necessary.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I am really enjoying the new Frank Black Album Fastman Raiderman, and it is getting slagged pretty good by the critics.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Thompson Twins: "Quick Step And Sidekick".

One of all time top 50 favourite albums, and yet I have still yet to see a positive review, either from back then or a retrospective one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Fatboy Slim - Palookaville

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes "Talk"

Now I'll ritually kill myself to restore the honor of the forum.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"Second Coming" by the Stone Roses definitely.

Pavement's "Terror Twilight", although I'm not sure if the critics hated it as much as the fans did.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Second Coming a lot more than I like the first Stone Roses album.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 6 July 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

End of The Century.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 6 July 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Bowie's Tonight
Toto IV

I like both of those, but I don't know whether a multi-Grammy-winning album such as "IV" could count as "critically reviled". Sure, you don't need to be a critics favourite to dominate the Grammys, but the albums that do still usually aren't universally hated by critics. In the case of Toto, most of their output will also receive a fair share of praise in the kind of magazines that appeal to musicians rather than fans.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just thinking in terms of rockcrits, Geir, and in that sphere, it's definitely reviled. (Xgau to thread!)

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Thursday, 6 July 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Is REM's Monster critically reviled? Aphex Twin's Drukqs? If so, those. Otherwise the only ones I can think of with no major critical backers are Journey's Escape and Departure and Styx's Pieces of Eight. Even Jane's Addiction gets props from Jim deRogatis. I'm not sure if Metal Machine Music counts for anything. Ooh, also I like some schlock-classical that gets sneered at by the academy like Pachelbel's Canon. I know at least a couple snobs sneer at Rodrigo's "Concierto di Aranjuez" but I'm not sure what its general critical standing is. Barely any new music gets really reviled these days, does it?

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I just noticed that I posted almost the exact same post two years ago.

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

For a list of critics list containing "Escape", look at: http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/A538.htm

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

awwww juliana's pony suffered universal panning according to metacritic?

i'll jump in and campaign for that one then

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

STP - Tiny Music

― billstevejim, Monday, 30 July 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Sabbath-Never Say Die

I've always loved this one. Most people seem to hate it, even the members of the band. I think it's great.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 30 July 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link

i like the first half of never say die very much,and i'm convinced the title song is one of the great lost power-pop singles. you'll find others on this board who like that one too, as of course you would with any album you can name.

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 30 July 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link

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