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1.Horses-Patti Smith
2Non stop erotic cabaret-Soft Cell.
3.A Wizard a true star-Todd Rundgren.
2Non stop erotic cabaret-Soft Cell.
3.A Wizard a true star-Todd Rundgren.
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It always amuses me when the term "under-rated" is used, I always then want to know where I can find the official ratings that fail to accurately represent the "under-rated".
 That aside, I'll throw Waiting by Fun Boy Three in to the mix. |
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Dry... Pj Harvey...patti smiths dawter
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An astonishingly good album, but difficult to see how it could be considered as under rated
 Dry has since been featured on several best-of-all-time lists. It was ranked number 70 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time" and number 151 on NME's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. Dry is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. I'll never forget the first time I listened to it, blew me away, a truly unique sound. |
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no one i know likes it
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kaya ....bob marley
whathappen.....the beat a tonic for the troops......boomtown rats journeys to glory ...spandau ballet the flat earth ....thomas dolby dare ....human league shes so unusual ...cyndi lauper are any of them underated ?, dunno, but i love em. most albums i have never see the light of day, with tracks pulled into playlists, via mp3 but a few get an airing in proper order, just like the old days |
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Pink Floyd - Animals
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Animals was widely acclaimed . Radio Caroline played it virtually non-stop
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A Wizard a true star-Todd Rundgren
RA (Utopia) I thought would have done better |
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Animals has my second favourite Floyd Track... Sheep
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Every album Tangerine Dream have ever released has failed to gain the recognition deserved . Maybe a thread for most underrated 'groups' is required
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Back To The Egg - Wings
Down To Earth - Rainbow A Farewell To Kings - Rush |
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Aspro - there isn't a track on the entire album that isn't brilliant .
sixtwosix - A Farewell To Kings is an absolute classic album . Hemispheres is not far behind either 9another underrated group |
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Pleased to see The Beat (English Beat anyone?
 ) but mine would be I just can't stop itPeter Gabriel Melt Warren Zevon Excitable Boy Crazy Horse Crazy Horse Tom Verlaine Tom Verlaine Donald Fagen The Nightfly |
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Underrated was mentioned so I'll go with Electronic by Electronic
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The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk
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A Few Small Repairs - Shawn Colvin
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The danse society. Seduction
Rosie Vela...Zazu Play Dead...the first flower Hugh Mundell...Africa must be free by 1983 Freeez ..Southern Freeeze The Fall...Slates |
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Bim Sherman..Danger
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calenture- triffids
east side story- squeeze trapped and unwrapped -friends again walk across the rooftops- blue nile starless- starless |
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The beat brilliant ska band, mirror in the bathroom classic.
I always thought Ultravox albums underrated, no better electronic band IMO. Never really got Farewell to Kings, Xanadu an exception, much preferred 80s Rush, Perm Waves etc.. but they were huge by that stage, so those early 80s albums werent really underrated. |
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Tarnation - Mirador
Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind Tindersticks - Donkeys 92-97 Pal Shazar - There's A Wild Thing In The House Oh Susanna - Johnstown Josh Ritter - Golden Age Of Radio John Stewart - Punch The Big Guy Joe Pug - Messenger Jesse DeNatale - Shangri-La West The Heavy Horses - Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs & With Darkness In My Eyes Gregory Alan Isakov - This Empty Northern Hemisphere & That Sea The Gambler Greg Brown - Covenant Doug Burr - The Sickle & The Sheaves Catie Curtis - Crash Course In Roses Brett Dennen - So Much More |
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Television - Marquee Moon
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duke..good shout.
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Abandoned Luncheonette - Hall & Oats
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Marquee Moon is wonderful, but hardly under-rated. It figures on virtually everyone's top 10.
If anyone could make a case that the follow-up LP, Adventure, was not a shocking let-down and devoid of inspiration, then perhaps that could go on the list of under-rated albums. But no one can, so it can't. |
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Another good shout from pumpy..found it hard to leave out a stelly dan album..but which one?..maybe pretzel logic.
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This is a difficult one.
 You can hardly call it under-rated - it's one of the most influential records ever made, from the motorik drumming on Isi, to the vocal style on Hero, which was copied just a few weeks later by Johnny Rotten. It was also the album which sent Bowie to Germany. But hardly anyone I knew at the time had ever heard it. |
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some very interesting posts on here . ..i'd add one . dylan's blood on the tracks . if it was rated 6th best album of all time then it fits this thread.
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Whatever happened to kraut rock?..tangerine dream faust amon duul can neu and others.
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sofia .. good one . can were groundbreaking . listen to tago mago then the happy mondays . a bit in common .
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Moonaxed
Slates by the Fall was a 10" ep. Underated but Mark E Smith is an acquired taste ?. |
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Hope
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The golden age of wireless..Thomas Dolby
You're safe....Maxi Priest Dim the lights....Winston Reedy Peace at last...The Blue Nile Ghostyhead....Rickie Lee Jones |
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Ell...Slates was a mini lp.it is 10"
Mark e is an aquired taste,so is marmite. It is still underrated. |
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Trompe Le Monde - Pixies
Songs For A Blue Guitar - Red House Painters II - Meat Puppets Sleeps With Angels - Neil Young In Through The Out Door - Led Zeppelin |
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Gang of Four - Entertainment
Ultravox (Foxx era) - Ha! Ha1 Ha! Lou Reed - New York The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic The Fall - Extricate |
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'Under rated' is a difficult concept.
If no one's heard of it and it was a commercial flop then it was probably 'rated' about right  and it's down to personal taste then.There's some cracking stuff out there by bands very few will have heard of however, that deserve more widespread exposure. 'Master Volume' - The Dirty Nil (Punk / Hard Rock crossover) 'Waiting To Burn' - Hana Piranha (Tori Amos with balls!) 'Unhinged' - Callow Saints (Female-fronted bluesy rock) 'The Green Album' - Woods of Ypres (Doom Metal) 'Personal Troubles and Public Issues' - The Wall (early punk rock, featuring brilliant single 'Ghetto') |
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Glad to see somebody else has heard of Rosie Vela. Her one and only album was produced by Walter Becker so there is a Steely dan connection.
Starsailor - Tim Buckley Road to Cairo - David Ackles ( originally just David Ackles ) |