Post an album, or several, that you feel hasn't ever gotten its due respect...typically, an album by a band whose other album or albums have long outshined this one critically.

Pearl Jam - No Code

4/18/2010 9:02:03 PM

One Hot Minute

4/18/2010 9:03:35 PM

Oh. I fucking loathe the RHCP, but that's a pretty good call.

4/18/2010 9:05:05 PM

very good album for and long drives

4/18/2010 9:27:27 PM

I love the herbals

and driving

and driving for long distances whilst smoking the herbals.

4/18/2010 9:31:10 PM

oh damn, i thought this was a favorite albums to sleep to thing...

4/18/2010 9:35:32 PM

ha. I love that fucking album. but yeah, you missed it

4/18/2010 9:37:47 PM

Everyone loves The Roots...but I'm the only person I know (and BHS...but I don't "know" him), that thinks:



is their best album.

4/18/2010 9:40:40 PM

I have always thought that's their best album.

4/18/2010 9:41:31 PM

planes mistaken for stars - s/t

4/18/2010 9:45:08 PM

I don't "know" you either. But it does make me like you a little more.

I also like:



the best out of all the TCQ's albums. I don't know if I necessarily think it's their best...but I like it the most.

4/18/2010 9:45:43 PM

I, too, think do you want more?!!?!? is the roots' best album...I said something to that affect in one of emce's threads the other day

but love movement??? No. Midnight Marauders. (for the sake of the thread as low end theory would be the most crItically acclaimed)

[Edited on April 18, 2010 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ]

4/18/2010 9:56:00 PM

ah, MM is well-regarded as a great album. No Low End Theory, but typically considered a great album critically. I think jbrick's post is apt.

4/18/2010 9:58:02 PM

LET gets more than MM from my recollection, which I thought was more of your point...but ok

that and I never liked Love Movement...esp for a final album. I was pumped and generally let down......although I still played it til it wouldn't play anymore

which I guess my hate for LM is more of your point

[Edited on April 18, 2010 at 10:05 PM. Reason : ]

4/18/2010 10:04:27 PM

nah, i was more or less claiming that MM is just a hair under LET in popularity...that leaves Beats, Rhymes, and Life, the Love movement, and the instinctive travels. . .I'd say it'd be btwn LM and BRL

4/18/2010 10:07:25 PM

Well in that case I vote BRL

4/18/2010 10:09:02 PM

what I was really goin for (I realize now it is a little unclear) was seeing what albums people loved that were generally critically pooped upon. like, "a band's worst album in respect to its catalog", but you beg to differ.

4/18/2010 10:12:23 PM

4/18/2010 10:13:19 PM

nah, I'm with ya now...my mistake earlier

4/18/2010 10:17:02 PM

^^NICE. I couldn't agree more.

4/18/2010 10:29:27 PM

More from me:

Common - Can I Borrow a Dollar?
De La Soul - Stake is High
Goodie Mob - Soul Food (Still Standing has all the "hits"...but Soul Food is the best)
Q-tip - Kamaal the Abstract (this HAS to be "slept on"...the fucking record label slept on it...and I love it)
RATM - Renegades (I feel like most people think this was their weakest...but it's my favorite because it has the most songs on my RATM gym playlist..."Maggie's Farm", "I'm Housin", "Kick Out of the Jams" and of course their version of "How I Could Just Kill a Man"...love this album)
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (only fits the first part of the "slept on" description, because he really hasn't put out a lot (with other groups, but not solo), but I really really love this album....feels like it was made 40 years ago)

4/18/2010 10:40:59 PM

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"Pearl Jam - No Code"

i went through a stretch of time about 2 years ago where i listened to this album every day at work for like a month straight. one of my friends had the nerve to suggest that no code is considered pearl jam's weakest efforts, but he doesnt really listen to them and didn't know what he was talking about, obviously.

4/18/2010 11:47:42 PM

OutKast - Aquemini

John Forte - Poly Sci

4/19/2010 12:19:29 AM

I would list The Zombies Odessey and Oracle, but it's finally started receiving the proper recognition the last several years. (but, one could make the same argument for Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue as well)

Hot Hot Heat don't really fit the criteria of having "more successful records", but I've always felt that album was just completely overlooked, when it has as many hooks on one 35 minute record done by anyone not named The New Pornographers.

Crazy catchy Canucks, the lot of 'em.

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 12:23 AM. Reason : .]

4/19/2010 12:21:20 AM

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"De La Soul - Stakes is High Goodie Mob - Soul Food (Still Standing has all the "hits"...but Soul Food is the best)"

Stake is High will always be the best De La album. Always.

Second, I don't see how Soul Food is a sleeper...had "Cell Therapy" and "Soul Food"--both arguably their biggest singles. I, for one, have never heard Still Standing.

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 12:36 AM. Reason : fddsaa]

4/19/2010 12:36:37 AM

I guess "Still Standing" was the first Good Mob album I was introduced too. And I only recently (last couple years) started listening to Soul Food. Anybody that listens to Goodie in my car only recognizes a couple songs off of Still Standing, and that's it.

4/19/2010 1:03:08 AM

4/19/2010 1:49:29 AM

^ I would have to disagree on this one. If anything I feel this album made ISIS go from a smaller underground metal band that alot of people didn't know, to actually making it on the Billboard charts with this release. Plus I believe they actually went on tour with TOOL the same year this came out. If anything, Panopticon, the album they released before this one, is slept on. I rarely hear people talk about that album when they talk about ISIS and i think it's their best album. "Grinning Mouths" is a fuckin monster of a song.

4/19/2010 2:26:44 AM

4/19/2010 3:13:20 AM

i think no code is the best PJ album (though i'm not a huge pearl jam fan anymore)

also, i don't know about the broad consensus but my 30ish friends all love new adventures in hi-fi

4/19/2010 7:50:58 AM

You only have 30 or so friends?

4/19/2010 9:01:51 AM

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"OutKast - Aquemini"

slept on??? get the fuck out!

4/19/2010 9:17:19 AM

4/19/2010 9:31:35 AM

ok HORSESHIT

This album is terrible. The Scenario remix is the only half-decent track. Q-tip basically squatted over this CD and let fly a 73 minute police horse dump. This is back before Napster when CD's were expensive so I paid 17 dollars to listen to him defecate. Fuck this album, fuck ATCQ, and fuck you.

4/19/2010 9:53:12 AM

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"slept on??? get the fuck out!"

I know tons of people who couldn't identify one song from this album. A travesty, I know.

4/19/2010 10:14:11 AM

^^Nope...still love it.

4/19/2010 10:32:05 AM

This thread will be very popular and very contentious. And in that spirit...whoever said fuck A Tribe Called Quest can fucking die. Although, I think The Love Movement is pretty bad. I would like to nominate one Tribe-related album that just got reissued last year, though:



Also, this:



I would also like to double-nominate these:





And, speaking of The Wolfking of L.A., this:



Anyone ever noticed the John Phillips sendup of that cover? Definitely intentional. Also this, although it might be too acclaimed to qualify:



And, the one that always enters these types of discussions (and justifiably, since it rules) to the point that it wouldn't really qualify anymore (kind of like in sports talk when you keep saying a player is underrated and you say it so often that he can logically no longer be underrated):



So many more I want to post, but I'm going to try to keep it at least somewhat short.

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM. Reason : .]

4/19/2010 12:38:19 PM

^I listed Kamaal the Abstract. Love that album. And still love the Love Movement.

4/19/2010 1:07:49 PM

Good call on Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins. I didn't think of it when I made my earlier post but that album was just what was needed in the Summer of 98 while going through a breakup and I was all emo and shit

4/19/2010 1:15:38 PM

4/19/2010 1:21:32 PM

^^^fucking love Pinkerton

^at first I wasn't very happy about Adore. A lot of the songs sounded different compared to what I was expecting. But after repeated playback I grew to appreciate it.

4/19/2010 1:21:44 PM

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"^ I would have to disagree on this one. If anything I feel this album made ISIS go from a smaller underground metal band that alot of people didn't know, to actually making it on the Billboard charts with this release. Plus I believe they actually went on tour with TOOL the same year this came out. If anything, Panopticon, the album they released before this one, is slept on. I rarely hear people talk about that album when they talk about ISIS and i think it's their best album. "Grinning Mouths" is a fuckin monster of a song. "

Panopticon is my favorite album from Isis, and "Grinning Mouths" is my favorite song from them.

I guess I just hear more people talk about Panopticon and Oceanic than any others. But perhaps that's just the people I hang with , i don't know.

4/19/2010 1:41:25 PM

Fuck I am just glad to hear someone else say that they love that album and that song. I just wish i knew more people who actually knew the albums that you spoke of. Regardless, Isis is a great band and i am just happy to see people talk about em.

4/19/2010 2:17:37 PM

I don't think Aquemini is slept on by actual music fans. The casual listener who only knows Outkast from the Stankonia singles and "Hey Ya" probably won't know about it, but that's about it.

4/19/2010 2:27:11 PM

4/19/2010 2:52:29 PM

Yeah, aquemini was my jam back in the day. But I've loved outkast since southernplayalistic....

For me, aquemini is probably their most well known album (in my personal context)

4/19/2010 2:52:44 PM

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"...Isis is a great band and i am just happy to see people talk about em."

Me too!

4/19/2010 2:52:59 PM

^^I would say the same.

I guess its an age thing...but I can't imagine Stankonia being more popular than Aquemini.

4/19/2010 2:57:06 PM

^^me three

[Edited on April 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM. Reason : ]

4/19/2010 2:57:47 PM

I mean, wasn't "Rosa Parks" on Aquemini?!

4/19/2010 4:23:09 PM