Underrated albums.

[Banned Tosspot]

Verve “A Storm In Heaven”

I'll raise you...

 

[masterwig]

Sonic Flower Groove by Primal Scream.

From when they were more comparable to the Byrd's rather than the dodgy Rolling Stones wabbabes they became.

 

[Bill Walker]

Judee Sill. back in the 70's, singer songwriter, made 2 great albums, none sold well, but she wrote and sang really great songs.

Also Dave Mason, after he left Traffic, went solo and made a couple of very good albums but they got little or no promotion.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Are we discussing underrated albums or undersold ones? Album sales have fuck all to do with quality as you well know, U2 could probably release a recording of Bono farting into a mic for an hour and it would be a bestseller.

Roger Waters did a solo album in 1970 named 'Music from the body'. I bought it sometime in the 80s. It wasn't an underrated album or a best seller. Just him farting into a mic, amongst other body noises. A shit album literally I only played once or twice.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Boston by the band Boston was a very underrated album IMO.

 

[OB1]

Boston by the band Boston was a very underrated album IMO.

Do you really?

I think it is currently the second best selling debut album of all time and every track on it still gets lots of airplay.

I imagine all the Elvis Costello fans among the rock journo fraternity don't rate it but it's highly rated by those that like AOR/Hard Rock.

Obviously it's more highly rated in the States than here but I think that making a case for an album that has gone platinum seventeen times being underrated is quite the stretch.

Mind you, it depends on how you define underrated: compared to my rating of the album, most people could be said to underrate it. I think it is an absolutely superb album; perhaps the most perfect example of it's (sub-)genre.

I think the follow-up "Don't Look Back" was underrated because of the shadow cast by its predecessor.

 

[Daz_Blue]

I always thought the one showing our Blackpool trip in the 70s was underrated

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Do you really?

I think it is currently the second best selling debut album of all time and every track on it still gets lots of airplay.

I imagine all the Elvis Costello fans among the rock journo fraternity don't rate it but it's highly rated by those that like AOR/Hard Rock.

Obviously it's more highly rated in the States than here but I think that making a case for an album that has gone platinum seventeen times being underrated is quite the stretch.

Mind you, it depends on how you define underrated: compared to my rating of the album, most people could be said to underrate it. I think it is an absolutely superb album; perhaps the most perfect example of it's (sub-)genre.

I think the follow-up "Don't Look Back" was underrated because of the shadow cast by its predecessor.

Ok mate, underrated is the wrong word then. Great album btw.

 

[BimboBob]

Ok mate, underrated is the wrong word then. Great album btw.

You know nothing about music Rising.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

You know nothing about music Rising.

You're right bombo bib.