Here Today... Gone To Hell!

This is a thread for the underdogs. The albums in an artist's catalogue that just get shit on for no good reason. The albums that make their way to the bargain bins well before their time. These are often the stylistic choices later regretted by a band after the media tears them apart. Thanks to a general mob mentality when it comes to popular music, we have albums being released in such a cookie cutter fashion because of those times that someone did step outside of the box ... these are underrated albums. Let's start listing our favorites.

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Pantera- Reinventing the Steel
Metallica- St Anger
Alice Cooper- Dirty Diamonds

3 of my favourite albums but not many people dig em.


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You're almost brave to list St. Anger, but hey I have it (somewhere) and I dig it more than I don't. I still don't get all the hatred towards it.

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I dig St. Anger, too.  Its a very aggressive album.  Who cares if it doesnt have guitar solos.   

My list:

Danzig 4
Andrew WK  I get Wet
Anything by Faith No More

I probably should not have mentioned St Anger coz it will just turn into a St Anger Sux thread as they alway do.


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Dress to kill- KISS :headbanger:


its just a good solid album that has simple but tastful guitars in it Ace is amazing and one of my favorite songs on there is the one Peter sang but Ace wrote called getaway.

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AC/DC's Flick Of The Switch is one that comes to mind. It's the last album they did where Brian Johnson's voice was truly on top form. It seems incredible that two years later on Fly On The Wall they had to drown him in echo.

Nirvana's debut Bleach is one I like, but it usually gets overshadowed by Nevermind and In Utero. It's got loads of cool songs on it: About A Girl, Floyd The Barber, School, Sifting etc.

And of course, there's The Spaghetti Incident. Quality album. :beer:

W.A.S.P Inside The Electric Circus

blackie said its a crap album by them but i think its bloody great!

Agree on U2 - Pop

Great album and tour!

The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup is criminally underrated and I don't know why. It's one of my favorite albums ever. Great songs like Dancing w/ Mr. D, 100 Years Ago, Silvertrain and specially Winter

Also Springsteen's Born in The USA get a lot of shit because people misinterpret the message of the title song. But it has some awesome tunes in there

u2 - pop
u2 - zooropa
oasis three lastest albums
massive attack 100th window

Slash's Snakepit - both
ROger Waters - amused to death
Queen - Hot Space
Metallica - Load
Velvet Revolver - Libertad  ;)

Roger Waters - amused to death

This one is so damn uderrated, masterpiece.

yes, it's great :peace:
i'd say shout at the devil- motley crue

Since MC often get this cheesy 80's ballad-band sticker, this album is true heavy metal at it's finest :headbanger:

Public Image - Flowers of Romance.

fucking raw!

Queensryche- Here in the Now Frontier

Stone Temple Pilots- Shangri-La Dee Da

Hard Nose The Highway by Van Morrison.........I have no idea why this album slipped into outprinted obscurity...it's actually one of his better works. 

I have always loved this album. It is the perfect marriage of Trent Reznor and Rob Halford.

Good call, Amused To Death is definatly a fantastic album. Water's best solo piece, and in my oppinion, the best solo album from any of the Floyd guys.

Staying with the Floyd theme here, The Final Cut is underrated in my oppinion. Amazing lyrics and compesition. It could do with a bit more Gilmour, but when he does appear he really does make a mark.

Scott Weiland's 12 Bar Blues. Amazing album.

Limp Bizkit "Results May Vary"

I love this fuckin album

I wasn't a huge fan of Limp Bizkit before but this album has great lyrics and some damn good melodies.

yes. especially this album, but every STP album is underrated in my eyes, that band never gets enough respect.

i can honestly say i love every single song STP ever made. can't say that for VR (although i still like them)

Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth. I'm sure that outside of the U.S. this cd was well recieved, but here hardly anyone knows it exists.

Great fucking album.

Blind Melon - Soup     An amazing album that most people may not even know exists.

  Good call. Mouthful of Cavities is Shannon at his vocal best.

The Fragile - a masterpiece

The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society.

I just recently stumbled upon this album a few days ago and I've been obsessed with it.  It's their greatest work in my humble opinion.  I was reading up on it and it pretty much was a flop when it was released, but now it's garnered very much cult acceptance and is celebrated as their masterpiece.  I friggen' love it. 

i think one would be Poisons Power to the People i hate every bone in your body but mine is an amazing song!!!!!!





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New Radicals - Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too

A masterpiece.

I don't know, I think the Fragile gets a lot of praise. It's a good album but for its complexity and length the amount of attention it gets is pretty good.

marilyn manson-eat me drink me

dont get the hate for it, its a return to form, more like mechanical animals, not quite as electronic but hey, the guitar solos totally make up for it.

Agreed :beer:

Anything by the Tragically Hip is highly underrated outside of Canada anyway...

KISS - music from the elder

yeahhhhhh



Peace

Imo, whenever an average music/rock fan thinks of NIN, they usually think of TDS or more in general, Closer. While TDS is my second favorite NIN album, I think of The Fragile as something more. Instead of Angry Angry Angry and Fuck Pig Fuck Pig, etc, The Fragile actually has that complexity and depth, while keeping the same kind of emotion. The reason why I think it's underrated is that it debuted at #1, then fell off the charts, (literally - a record fall), the next week.

There's obviously more underrated albums, I just happened to think of that one.

Uriah Heep has alot of underrated albums

The Magician's Birthday
Demons and Wizards
Abominog

All great stuff

And 2112 by Rush is underrated

Metallica - St. Anger
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Tommy Stinson - VillageGorillaHead

= Amazing albums, that are highly underrated by the genereal public...

Yeah, I guess so. The Fragile does seem 'more' than any other NIN album, but part of that is because it lacks focus or direction. It sounds like a guy with fucked up emotions and a heroin addiction in a room with a shitload of instruments and a mic for 3-4 years. And that's what it was.

Anyways, I'm not saying it isn't a very good album that more people should check out. It's just not my pick as a truly underrated album.

Alice Cooper-The Last Temptation: I think it's up there with Billion Dollar Babies and Nightmare as some of Alice's best work ever. Amazing album from start to finish I can't skip a single song.
The Black Crowes- Lions: Not as great as some of their other albums but still really good and way better than the couple before it. Really just came and went without any notice when it was released.
AC/DC- Ballbreaker: Their best album since "Back In Black". Definately my 2nd favorite Brian Johnson fronted album, slightly ahead of "The Razors Edge" (always preferred the Bon stuff to almost anything).
Guns N' Roses-The Spaghetti Incident: This album gets trashed in the press constantly still and I never understood why. I think the concept was just lost on some. I love to fucking crank up every song on it tho.       
Pantera-The Great Southern Trendkill: I think it's their best album and possibly the greatest metal album of all time. Heavy as fuckin' anything but still with kick ass grooves. Better than "Far Beyond Driven" in my opinion.           
Black Sabbath-Sabotage: I think Hole In The Sky and Symptom of the Universe are better than any song on "Paranoid". That alone says it. 
Jerry Cantrell-Degradation Trip Vol. 1&2: Probably the best thing to come out this centruy. Amazingly honest record, doesn't take any time to show off what a good guitar player he is, cause it's all about the songs.
Izzy Stradlin-Anything he has ever done: Even most of my friends who are big GnR fans haven't heard much of Izzy's stuff just cause it has been so hard to find for some years. Izzy is just a phenomenal songwriter who deserves all of the praise in the world. In a perfect world Nickelback would never have played outside a bar, no one would know who fall out boy were, and Izzy would be played on every rock radio station.

welcome to the monkey house - the dandy warhols
pros and cons of hitch hicking - roger waters
the soft parade - the doors

i totally agree on the sabbath album, id say its one of my favourites, its brilliant.

good band, i like a lot of their stuff.

I absolutely agree with you. The Last Temptation seems to be the third Album in the "Steven" trilogy. The first being "Welcome to My Nightmare", the second being "Goes To Hell'. It would be great to see a fourth album based around Steven.

Has anyone heard DA DA though? There is a song on there called "Formerly Warner" about Alice's "brother" who lives in the attic. Could it be another reference to Steven??

Anyway, Da Da is also very underrated.

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i never realised one member of kiss looks like a giant cat.  :rofl:

Dynasty got a reputation as a disco album because of one song. There is some good stuff on there. As for Stanleys latest solo effort, if it works for you, cool.

I just found the Dynasty cassette that I bought at the time "I Was Made for Loving You" came out!
Is that the song that gave it a disco reputation? Better listen to the thing again. If I could just find a 'cassette player'!

1916 by Motorhead is a cool album but album like Ace Of Spades are their more well-known efforts. Love Me Forever, Angel City and R.A.M.O.N.E.S. are all very good. The title track is also interesting and very 'un-Motorhead'. I like it.

I'll be honest in saying "I Was Made for Lovin' You" was one of the songs that first introduced me to KISS, one of my favorite bands. As such, it still stands as one of my favorite KISS songs, regardless of reputation. But that album is most definately viewed by most who don't get it as a disco album (KISSco) because of that one song, which is totally unfair. When I first heard Dynasty, songs like "2000 Man" and "Magic Touch" immediately jumped out at me and are still among KISS' best songs. Oh, and I prefer the KISS era without make-up. Call it nostalgic, I dunno. I went out and picked up KISSology, Vol. 2 this morning and it even blows away Vol. 1 for me. KISS fans, check it out.

And yes, I really dig Stanley's latest solo effort and I think there's some real great guitar melodies hidden in there in no small thanks to guest players like John 5. Paul was always my favorite member, so I guess if you're into Paul I think this is just an album that a lot of people missed when it came out or sort of passed over altogether. At the very least I'd wish more people would download it for a listen. Pick it up if you dig it, and definately see him on one of his solo tours if you can. You'll get to see that Paul really was/is KISS and puts on one hell of a show.

finally a KISS fan besides me and D. I agree with you there on Dynasty and live to win is pretty cool too. I don't have Puals but if its anything like the song that was on South Park its gotta be good :D

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and Slaughters "stick it to ya"
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1. Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi
2. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants - Oasis

great albums that either get slagged or dosen't get the credit it deserves.

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Hey I'm a huge Kiss fan, I own 90% of their albums.?  : ok:

We'll have a special KISS club, where all four of us on the boards who are KISS fans will be SuperFriends and patrol these boards in the name of the KISS Army :-X

Hey, I like KISS too. It's just that I own like only five of their albums.

Tyranny Of Souls - Bruce Dickinson

Despite Chemicall Weding and Accident of Birth being 2 major albuns in the metal world, everybody was blown away with the quality of this 2 albuns. The last album Dickinson released (its a great album) but stayed in the shadows...like if only a small group of people knew it was released

Yes me too man, it's very deep and has a lot of good songs... we agree on so much...

how about Power To The Pepole by Poison?


Peace

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Lets do it!

KISS ARMY unite :beer:

Smashing Pumpkins, Adore

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not a masterpiece, but a very very good album that was in the shadow of the hugely popular epic album Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness.

If only I still had my KISS makeup kit from Grade 2! I could do up our faces!


By the way, this album is underrated: Ego Is Not A Dirty Word - Skyhooks

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i think bang tangos "dancin on coals" is an under-rated album.

I know I posted already but I wanted to add Buckcherry's Timebomb to the conversation. This album always gets overlooked when people talk about them it seems. I love their other two albums but I actually feel this one is their best. Not at all a fan of the ballds on it but it has their best rockers to date. "Whiskey In The Morning", "Porno Star", "Tmebomb", "Riding", "Slammin", "Fall", "Frontside"-all really fuckin awesome songs.

Hey man, you can post as many times as you'd like. I keep adding albums as I can think of them.

Here is another underrated aussie album. (Lead singer has an irish background - hence, the mask)...

Aussie rock at its finest! I've partied with these boys a few times!

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The cover shows the lead singer in a black "ski mask" - the album is called "The Dark Room". The band is called "The Angels". It's from the 1980s.

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Michael Schenker Group..Armed and Ready, Cry for all Nations...

Here's an underrated album by U2. Live: "Under A Blood Red Sky"

Hopefully, this album cover won't upset the sensitive people too much.....

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Agreed!

I'll add Black Sabbath's "Technical Ecstasy," which nobody seems to like, but me.

Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die are really great albums. It shows that even though the band, esp. Ozzy was going through the where do we fit in stage, amongst other problems in the band that they were able to be creative and finish albums the best they could. Both albums truly show signs that Iomi and Ward did in fact play the saving grace roles well enough for the Sabbath ship to stay afloat long enough until further decisions were made.

Living In The 70s (1974) - Skyhooks! Australias absolute finest!

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The lead singer 'Shirl' crashed his helicopter into the side of a mountain in 2001.

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Green Day - Warning

Brilliant album : ok:

Dare I say, most Thin Lizzy albums belong in this thread.  Or, at least, three or four.

100% agree, phil lynott was one of the best song writers of that era i feel.

He brought us amazing guitarists too, and they developed a twin lead guitar style many bands used afterwards.

Pro-Pain:
"Foul Taste of Freedom" or "The Truth Hurts"

Overkill:
"The Years of Decay"

Spinebelt:
"Beautiful Songs for Ugly Children"

And for my Funky people

Funkadelic: "Let's Take it to the Stage"

If you don't own any of these... buy them now.  Siriusly... why are you still reading this?  GO BUY THEM!  : ok:

Almost all.

All from the 70s is the best thing ever.

good call ^^

"1965" by The Afghan Whigs.

Hell, anything by The Afghan Whigs.

theres a band called love/hate lumped as "hair metal"

but they wernt, they didnt have the big hair, or make  up, t hey just wore rocker clothes.

There first 2 albums are brilliant, the first one for pure rock, the second one for its more experimental grooves.

great bass playing, drumming, guitaring, and singing.

there hit single in the UK back in 1991 "why do you think they call it dope" is awesome.

listen to it closely theres alot going on, the bass slappin n poppin a cool tune, if you listen the guitars tappin a harmonics tune all over the verse.

great talented band, under-rated to hell, sadly there later releases were post dropped by label and production spoils it.

the first under produced album is ok, after that the band you can tell has lost its original guitarist and are ruined by alcohol and drugs.

I must definitely agree with that, this album is just magnificent. Although Tirany is very heavy metal more underated is Accident of Birth, not to talk about Skunkworks which have some piece of jewels there  ;)

Also Helloween's Master of The rings is very underrated and somehow is often told to be the weakest of their discography, I wonder if people that say that knows about Chameleon  :nervous:

Bang Tango's 1st two discs (and their live EPs)
Saigon Kick - The Lizard (and their post glam/metal follow up "water")
Law and Order - guilty of innocence
LA Guns - rip n' tear
Buckcherry - time bomb (agree with you guys, but the slower songs are still good too)

la guns you mean cocked and loaded i think?

Metallica - Load or Reload  I dont get why people hate these albums, ok not as good as master but Amazing albums!(Fixxxer and king nothing are the best songs from these two and both great tracks)
GN'R Lies - Short and Sweet
Skid Row - Subhuman Race - so agressive, better than skid row and almost as good as slave to the grind.

It's because they stopped making metal albums and started making hard rock albums which, if you're a metal fan, was not a cool move.  I like metal and hard rock, so I've always liked those albums, but a lot of metal fans don't for just that reason.  And, to top it off, it's one piece in the larger "Metallica sold out" image.

Yeah i know all that, although i dont believe metallica sold out just changed their sound.

yes i do.  thanks for the correction.  rip n' tear was a track from it.

hardcore superstar- the self titled, and the new album , dreamin in a casket.

Black Sabbath- Born Again

Re Load, is an average album, Load is way better, if they would have made just one album with those two, it would have been HUGE, Re load's "Carpe Diem Baby" is one of the best song on that album. great riff, great drumming, and greeeeat guitar solo, it totally fits the song. Kirk rocks!

also i think crashdiets albums are under-rated, they never get the exposure outside of sweden that they deserve.

Anything by testament - this guys are amazing most of the albums rock and the vocals are great.
Practice what you preach could possibly be there best with songs like Perilous nation and the the ballad.

That and The Great Southern Trendkill bro :smoking: