post the name and/or cover of an album you find horridly underrated

[LemonMelon]

 

[U2Man]

 

[MrBrau1]

 

[Lancemc]

 

[Bug]

 

[LemonMelon]

 

[Zoots]

Please... I don't think ATYCLB is underrated at all. It's pretty much considered U2's third masterpiece and "comeback album" by many!

 

[LMP]

winner.

just because A Quick One, While He's Away is an absolutely tour de force.

 

[one4u2]

u2's best album

 

[MrBrau1]

for fucks sake

 

[U2Man]

for fucks sake

 

[intedomine]

 

[AtomicBono]

agreed especially on Pablo Honey, Zooropa, and ATYCLB as well.

i'm not even going to bother posting AAF...

 

[elevation2u]

can't get enough of "the wild, the innocent..."
before bruce went on to write cinematic, storytelling, restrained and solid rock and roll songs...he wrote jazzy, funky, mumble jumble, fluid songs that kicked as much ass as his latter albums

the critics always disregard Adams for being too "prolific" and his albums always "need pruning and editing"... fuck, they don't know talent when it hits them in the face. Adams released not just one but three solid, great pieces of art all within one year. Each album showed his growth as a songwriter and each one seemed for intense and more honest than anything before. I don't think I ever saw any on a list of best 2005 albums.

Everyone always talks about Yoshimi (which I very much love) but my personal favorite is :

weird & solid and sounds just as fresh as when it was first released.

 

[LemonMelon]

Everyone always talks about Yoshimi (which I very much love) but my personal favorite is :

weird & solid and sounds just as fresh as when it was first released.

 

[namkcuR]

Be nice.

Once you get past all the stuff that surrounds this record about how they looked/sounded(though I think only the youngest one sounded) like girls and all that kind of thing...that's all bullshit, it has nothing to do with the music. Is this the greatest pop record ever recorded? Of course not. But there are some damn good pop songs here....'Man From Milwaukee', 'Where's The Love', 'Yearbook', 'Madeline', 'Minute Without You', 'I Will Come To You, Weird', and of course, 'MMMBop', among others.

They are GOOD pop songs. IONS above, say, what Justin Timberlake is doing now. And lyrically, don't just judge based on MMMBop(although those lyrics are actually a bit deeper than meets the eye as well...not the chorus though ). Take these lyrics from 'Weird'...not bad for three 17/15/12(at the time) year old guys:

Sitting on the side waiting for a sign/Hoping that my luck will change
Reaching for a hand that can understand/someone who feels the same
When you live in a cookie cutter world/being different is a sin
So you don't stand out/And you don't fit in/Weird
Sitting on the side waiting for a sign/Hoping that my luck will change
Reaching for a hand that can understand/someone who feels the same
When you live in a cookie cutter world/if you're different you can't win
So you don't stand out and you don't fit in/Weird
Isn't it strange how we all feel a little bit weird/Strange, how we all get a little bit/Strange, 'cause we're all just a little bit weird sometimes

Ok, I'm done. It's a great pop record. Nothing revolutionary, nothing innovative, but it is MASSIVELY underrated.

 

[xaviMF22]

Be nice.

Once you get past all the stuff that surrounds this record about how they looked/sounded(though I think only the youngest one sounded) like girls and all that kind of thing...that's all bullshit, it has nothing to do with the music. Is this the greatest pop record ever recorded? Of course not. But there are some damn good pop songs here....'Man From Milwaukee', 'Where's The Love', 'Yearbook', 'Madeline', 'Minute Without You', 'I Will Come To You, Weird', and of course, 'MMMBop', among others.

They are GOOD pop songs. IONS above, say, what Justin Timberlake is doing now. And lyrically, don't just judge based on MMMBop(although those lyrics are actually a bit deeper than meets the eye as well...not the chorus though ). Take these lyrics from 'Weird'...not bad for three 17/15/12(at the time) year old guys:

Sitting on the side waiting for a sign/Hoping that my luck will change
Reaching for a hand that can understand/someone who feels the same
When you live in a cookie cutter world/being different is a sin
So you don't stand out/And you don't fit in/Weird
Sitting on the side waiting for a sign/Hoping that my luck will change
Reaching for a hand that can understand/someone who feels the same
When you live in a cookie cutter world/if you're different you can't win
So you don't stand out and you don't fit in/Weird
Isn't it strange how we all feel a little bit weird/Strange, how we all get a little bit/Strange, 'cause we're all just a little bit weird sometimes

Ok, I'm done. It's a great pop record. Nothing revolutionary, nothing innovative, but it is MASSIVELY underrated.

 

[xaviMF22]

this album is so awesome....but hardly anyone talks about it

 

[dietcokeofevil]

YEP

 

[Laura M]

Pop
Embrace - Out of nothing/The Good Will Out/Drawn from memory
Travis - 12 memories/The Invisible band
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Moby - Everything is wrong
White Stripes - Get behind me Satan
About a boy - Badly Drawn Boy

 

[LMP]

this album is so awesome....but hardly anyone talks about it

It's the best selling double album of all-time.

I'm not even kidding.

And the Hanson album being in this thread actually produced real tears from my eyes.

 

[xaviMF22]

It's the best selling double album of all-time.

I'm not even kidding.

really?

wow I would have thought "The Wall" or
even the White album would have that title..

 

[namkcuR]

And the Hanson album being in this thread actually produced real tears from my eyes.

What kind of tears?

 

[LMP]

What kind of tears?

the same tears from when I was forced to listen to that nonsense 10 years ago.

really?

wow I would have thought "The Wall" or
even the White album would have that title..

Me too! I had to look it up to be sure.

edit: At least it was at one point...

 

[namkcuR]

the same tears from when I was forced to listen to that nonsense 10 years ago.

It's not nonsense...whatever, different strokes. It's underrated is all I'm saying.

 

[GibsonGirl]

really?

wow I would have thought "The Wall" or
even the White album would have that title..

The Wall, according to this Wikipedia link (only based on US sales): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States

 

[xaviMF22]

The Wall, according to this Wikipedia link (only based on US sales): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States

not surprising...Pink Floyd FTW...

 

[LemonMelon]

It's the best selling double album of all-time.

I'm not even kidding.

Yes you are. It sold 4.5 million, with each sale counting for two.

 

[Laura M]

It's not nonsense...whatever, different strokes. It's underrated is all I'm saying.

There's nothing wrong with that album really. It's plain old pop music and like you said there is a lot more out there that's much worse.

 

[corianderstem]

The Smashing Pumpkins overtook Frampton Comes Alive and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack?

Man, the part of my brain devoted to music trivia is too far behind the times.