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Favorite underrated album?

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Most of what I listen to isn't on the radio (like KT I'm not douchebag elitist/hipster, but I also listen to mainly punk).

Out of those, I'd say The Queers - Punk Rock Confidential. It didn't get very good reviews in relation to the rest of their albums but it's by far my favorite.
 
Avenue A - Never the Less

Awesome awesome album.

Years ago Baileys had a comercial that had one of their songs in it. The one were everyone was floating around drinking balls of baileys cream.

The worldwide version of it played a song from 4 Heros (another great album) but the US version played Avenue A's Swing it back.
 
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I got bunch of my friends to buy Lana Del Rey's Born to Die album because I play it so much in my car. Great success!
 
A Storm in Heaven - Verve
No Come Down - Verve
A Northern Soul - The Verve
Free Mars - Lusk (possibly the most underrated album of all time)
Diary - Sunny Day Real Estate
Akathisia - Hovercraft
Pony Express Record - Shudder to Think
Fantastic Planet - Failure (possibly the other)
Boces - Mercury Rev
Dummy - Portishead
Portishead - Portishead
PNYC - Portishead
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart - The Flaming Lips
The Art of Self-defense - High on Fire
Her Highness - Medicine
Album of the Year - Faith No More
Angledust - Faith No More
Midnight Radio - Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Star - Belly
Millions Now Living Will Never Die - Tortoise
Tortoise - Tortoise
Trompe le Monde - The Pixies
Doolittle - The Pixies
Surfer Rosa - The Pixies
House of GVSB - Girls Against Boys
The Plague that Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves - The Infectious Grooves
The End of All Things to Come - Mudvayne
LD 50 - Mudvayne

It's hard to say that the best selling act of all time is underrated, but to the last couple generations of music fans, the Beatles have been marginalized, when in fact every single thing any of the four of them has ever recorded or touched is pure gold.
 
tHa ShIzNiT said:
that sounds........amazing.
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Of course it is, just look at the track listing:

Track listing

"Stupid Songs" - 2:14
"Argh Fuck Kill - Die Sinner Die" - 2:15
"Bedtime Story" - 2:53
"My Girl" - 1:25
"Dogfarts" - 2:06
"Inside My Head" - 1:21
"Wake Up America" - 2:39
"Proud to Be a Canadian" - 1:57
"Stupid World" - 2:48
"Ronald McRaygun" - 1:33
"Kill the Hosers" - 1:20
"Religious Bumfucks " - 1:45
"1967" - 1:48
"I Killed Mommy" - 2:00
"I'm My Own God" - 1:55
"Used to Be in Love" - 2:15
"Suicide" - 1:58
"The Idiot" - 1:26
"Germ Attack" - 1:28
"Scared of People - Black Sabbath" - 4:22
"I Want to Be East Indian" - 2:27
"Kill wise and beautiful woman Brain - Whiter Than Hitler" - 2:14

Their follow up album was great as well : Here Today, Guano Tomorrow
 
KMFJD said:
Dayglo Abortions - Feed us a Fetus
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Classic album but I thought most considered it their best. I'm actually a huge fan of Here Today, Guano Tomorrow, though of course their cover of Almost Cut My Hair on Two Dugs Fucking is one of my favourite songs ever.

KT
 
CraigRT said:
I Mother Earth - Scenery and Fish (one of my favorite albums of all time)
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (one of their best releases IMO)
Silverchair - Frogstomp (mostly the whole band that are all but unknown anymore)
Alice in Chains unplugged - (so easy to listen through this whole thing...)

I guess some of these are not considered under-rated but you certainly don't hear people talking about them. A lot of people bash Frogstomp but I think it's a great CD especially for how young they were when it came out.
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Alice in Chains unplugged is very good. Easily one of my favorites of all time... Don't know about unknown though. Everyone should know about it at least.
 
All the killers albums

Although they do get played on the radio, their "mainstream" songs are actually my least favorite.
 
Ns1 said:
hell yeah I'm serious.

Don't get me wrong, they got plenty of 11/10 hits, but they also got plenty of 0/10 duds too.
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Newp. Just like Zepplin/Floyd/Tool/Jane's Addiction (until that last album), every damn one of them is perfect, you just haven't heard it right yet.

I'm obviously being somewhat facetious, but I'd have a hard time naming a bad George Harrison tune, much less a Beatles song.

Can't we discuss the Lusk album instead?
 
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