Overlooked masterpieces.

[sans culottes]

ITT: Amazing albums that are rarely mentioned on lists of amazing albums.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is Tom Petty's Wildflowers. It's absolutely fantastic but it's pretty overlooked. Let it Be by the Beatles might have a lot of praise (what by the Beatles doesn't?) but everyone seems to call it the worst of their later albums. I say it's a masterpiece. And then of course, a lot of excellent underground albums. Mother Love Bone's Apple comes to mind. If it had a hit single or two on it, it'd easily show up on most lists.

[snorkel]

Among bands people know about, I don't feel Tool's albums garner enough attention for how fucking incredible they are

Among bands people don't know about (but should):

Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them by Murder by Death (still one of my favorite albums)
Crusades by The Plastic Constellations (a Minneapolis band that should have made it big and never did)
Premiers Symptômes by AIR (everything else by AIR has been overplayed to death but this little EP from their beginning never gets any attention, and is better than anything else they've released)
Pablo Honey by Radiohead (I know, I know, Radiohead gets as much praise for everything as The Beatles, but this first album of theirs is definitely overlooked as one of britpop's earliest, cleanest, most amazing entries)

[Samus Aran]

The Stone Roses' Second Coming. Their first album received a lot of praise and is still rather popular, and since their second album didn't live up to the monstrous public expectations and it generally sounded quite different, the public shunned it. It's a crime, really, because it's a fucking great album. I think that it's still flawed, and I probably do like their debut slightly more, but Second Coming still deserves better than the bashing it gets.

[sans culottes]

Kaz, I thought you'd mention ELO. I was about to add that to my post, but then I decided to go eat a pizza instead. A New World Record is pretty underrated. It's definitely not a BEST ALBUM EVER OMG, but it's fucking brilliant.

[Samus Aran]

Kaz, I thought you'd mention ELO. I was about to add that to my post, but then I decided to go eat a pizza instead. A New World Record is pretty underrated. It's definitely not a BEST ALBUM EVER OMG, but it's fucking brilliant.

Eh, well that's one of my albums I could have put in this thread, because there's honestly lots of "overlooked masterpieces" out there. I just felt like mentioning The Stone Roses because...idk because I can.

[the shortest route to the sea]

Schoenberg's Enwartung!

[burzumfan420]

Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

"Thank God for mental illness" by the brian jonestown massacre.

Quiet, retro and a little gritty, it's simplicity makes it what is is.


"Destroy all astromen" by Man or Astroman.
Surf music entwined with Sci-fi B-movie voice clips. Rock solid from start to finish.

Moby Grape's self titled album. One of the very best things to come out of the sixties. Same can be said for the electric prunes.

Syd Barret's "the madcap laughs" is also very overlooked.  

[Samus Aran]

I feel I might as well mention Nick Drake, as a whole. Basically his whole career is criminally overlooked.

[Hiro]

Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther. It's just a really awesome album, I don't see how it never caught on with anyone. Lots of the songs on it are just true classics.

[burzumfan420]

"Thank God for mental illness" by the brian jonestown massacre.
Syd Barret's "the madcap laughs" is also very overlooked.  

More like everything released by those two artists

[Zach]

"Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete" by Polaris, which was really Miracle Legion minus one of their guitarists. Outstanding music; it's problem my favorite album ever, but no one knows about it.

[Selkie]

I know Jeff Buckley's Grace is by no means not popular, but I really think that it should be up there among the greatest albums of our time.

[jerk1]

edIT's Crying over pros for no reason         is easilly the best album i've ever heard...it sets me in the best mood ever and nothing is like it.

[Geno]

Among bands people know about, I don't feel Tool's albums garner enough attention for how fucking incredible they are

holy shit am I agreeing with snorkel