Underated albums

[koeeoaddi there]

and is if to prove my point about Sgt Pepper is this list i just found on another website about NME's top 100 british albums.

01) The Stone Roses - S/T 1989
02) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead 1986
03) Oasis - Definetly Maybe 1994
04) Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks 1978
05) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
06) Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish 1993 *
07) Pulp - Different Class 1995
08) The Clash - London Calling 1979
09) The Beatles - Revolver 1966
10) The Libertines - Up The Bracket 2002
11) Radiohead - The Bends 1995
12) The Specials - S/T 1979
13) The Verve - A Northern Soul 1995
14) David Bowie - Hunky Dory 1971
15) Primal Scream - Scremadelica 1991
16) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels 1980
17) The Streets - Original Pirate Material 2002
18) Franz Ferdinand - S/T 2004
19) The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come 1987
20) The Beatles - Rubber Soul 1965
21) Muse - Absolution 2003
22) Super Furry Animals - Radiator 1997
23) New Order - Technique 1989
24) Pet Shop Boys - Please 1986
25) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society 1968
26) The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow 1984
27) Polly Harvey - Dry 1992
28) Nick Drake - Bryter Layter 1970
29) Led Zeppelin - II 1969
30) Suede - S/T 1993
31) Massive Attack - Blue Lines 1991
32) The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 1968 *
33) Coldplay - Parachutes 2000
34) The Jam - All Mod Cons 1978
35) Radiohead - OK Computer 1997
36) The Beatles - S/T 1968
37) Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible 1994
36) Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space 1997
39) Ride - Nowhere 1990
40) Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner 2003
41) Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love 1985
42) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 1985
43) The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. 1972
44) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 1979
45) The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free 2004
46) Pulp His 'N' Hers 1994
47) The Libertines S/T 2004
48) Elastica - S/T 1995
49) The Who - My Generation 1965
50) The La's - S/T 1990
51) Billy Bragg - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry 1986
52) Madness - One Step Beyond 1979
53) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 1969
54) Morrissey - Vauxhall & I 1994
55) Bloc Party - Silent Alarm 2005{In the text this reffered to as a self titled album}
56) Portishead - Dummy 1994
57) The Cure - The Head On The Door 1985
58) Suede - Dog Man Star 1994
59) The Clash - S/T 1977
60) The Human League - Dare! 1981 *
61) Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain 1984
62) Saint Etienne - Fox Base Alpha 1991
63) David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars 1972
64) Gang Of Four - Entertainment! 1978
65) Radiohad - Kid A 2000
66) Elvis Costello - This Year's Model 1978
67) Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head 2002
68) The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow 1968 *
69) Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure 1972
70) Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription 1987
71) Buzzcocks - Love Bites 1978
72) Joy Divison - Closer 1980
73) Kasier Chiefs - Employment 2005
74) Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation 1994
75) Tricky - Maxinquaye 1995
76) Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7th Time 1997
77) The Beta Band - The 3 E.P.s 1998
78) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 1992 *
79) Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque 1991
80) Black Sabbath - Paranoid 1970
81) Antony and The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now 2005
82) The Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches 1990
83) Wire - Pink Flag 1977
84) Redskins - Neither Washington Nor Moscow... 1974 *
85) ABC - The Lexicon of Love 1982
86) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass 1970
87) The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake 1968
88) Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman 1993
89) Blur - Parklife 1994
90) Supergrass - I Should Coco 1995
91) The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace 1985
92) Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory? 1995
93) Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets 1974*
94) The Futureheads - S/T 2004
95) Julian Cope - Jehovahkill 1992
96) Adam and The Ants - Kings of The Wild Frontier 1980 *
97) Led Zeppelin - IV 1971
98) Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me 2001
99) Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy 2004
100) Derek and Clive - (Live) 1976

i looked at that about 5 times trying to find it, but nope! sgt pepper aint there.
neither is any string band.
or the quo.
outrage!

[Yorick]

I agree about Ringo Starr's drumming being underrated. Every drummer at the conservatory I go to slams him, but to me he's perhaps the most effective efficient drummer ever, he just does what fits, nothing more, but isn't that enough?

Every Paul McCartney album between 1970 and now has been underrated, except for Band On The Run. Paul McCarney is possible the most constant artist ever, you really can't go wrong with any of his albums; they all have a certain charm and at least a handfull of great great songs!

[Bean Bag]

Absolutely!!!!! I always thought it was his sound on the kit that put them through.  Solid and ballsy.  There's even a slice of funk on it - I likes it dirty.  Ringo was/is a GREAT drummer.  So too was Nick Mason, juicy sense of swing.  You GOTTA have that swing, ladies.  Nick and Ringo, both are two truely underrated foundations.

Sadly Yorick, you'll find that level of snobbery all over the "institutes of higher learning."  But that's alright.  That's what makes them stink...and the goods ones raw!    Learn what'cho can and get the F out!!

[Evenreven]

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubcadela

Seriously, the filter is going bananas. Changing "bish" to "cadela"?

[mark goddard]

New gold Dream (81-82-83-84) by Simple Minds is a very underrated album . It has a Roxy music-ish feel to it
i have the vinyl which was Gold with purple flecks thruout ...very cool looking . i actually used it once as a background in a photo shoot.

[cta]

Absolutely!!!!! I always thought it was his sound on the kit that put them through.  Solid and ballsy.  There's even a slice of funk on it - I likes it dirty.  Ringo was/is a GREAT drummer.  So too was Nick Mason, juicy sense of swing.  You GOTTA have that swing, ladies.  Nick and Ringo, both are two truely underrated foundations.

Sadly Yorick, you'll find that level of snobbery all over the "institutes of higher learning."  But that's alright.  That's what makes them stink...and the goods ones raw!    Learn what'cho can and get the F out!!

Nick Mason prior to Dark Side Of The Moon was a killer drummer.  Lots of fills, cymbal hits, great energy, etc.

Soon as DSOTM came out...it's been really nothing but ride-ride-ride-TAP-ride-ride-ride-TAP

[Jason]

Ummagumma is the most underrated album ever after Smiley Smile.

[I. Spaceman]

I'd say More.

[mike thornton]

now, perhaps now, o&o is a darling. but, when i was a senior in high school (1979) and doing cc radio shows, i did a zombies week. quite a few teachers came up to me and told me it was kool, but *none* of the kids got it. they certainly would never get majesties request...well, maybe 2000 light years. they got blondie, though...sort of. o&o is the epitome of underrated when you're the only kid in school spinning it. even in 2006, it's still event horizon to the masses obscure.

[sugarandspice]

 I cant listen to Ummagumma it scares me...(mushrooms runied that album for me) But I love the list of  NME's top 100 british albums. I am very very very happy with most of the records on there, well damn near all of them.....

xoxox
suga

[al]

Actually I have HUGE issues with the NME list - so many that I didn't think it was even worth commenting on. Anyone who thinks the Libertines have made an album that is better than - lets say Who's Next - (strangely omitted from even the 100) is living in a parallel universe I don't want to visit. But hey, it's their NME now, I stopped buying it in about 1990 - and I hated the Stone Roses even then!

[I. Spaceman]

Exactly, Alan.

[Bean Bag]

Absolutely!!!!! I always thought it was his sound on the kit that put them through.  Solid and ballsy.  There's even a slice of funk on it - I likes it dirty.  Ringo was/is a GREAT drummer.  So too was Nick Mason, juicy sense of swing.  You GOTTA have that swing, ladies.  Nick and Ringo, both are two truely underrated foundations.

Sadly Yorick, you'll find that level of snobbery all over the "institutes of higher learning."  But that's alright.  That's what makes them stink...and the goods ones raw!    Learn what'cho can and get the F out!!

Nick Mason prior to Dark Side Of The Moon was a killer drummer.  Lots of fills, cymbal hits, great energy, etc.

Soon as DSOTM came out...it's been really nothing but ride-ride-ride-TAP-ride-ride-ride-TAP

Good point.  When I think of Nick Mason's drumming -- I'm thinking about the early stuff, too -- Pompeii, mainly.  Such good stuff there.  I think Dark Side has some good energy but certainly not much after that.

[mark goddard]

Get Happy by Elvis Costello is a very underrated album ..no one ever seems to mention this one .in my opinion it's his best !

[Maybelline]

Whoa there, people. TUSK, obviously, is the most underrated album in the history of music. Fact.

[Maybelline]

Oh, and I agree with Chris on Prince's Parade.

[donald]

To my ears, Nick Mason on Ummaguma sounds like Keith Moon at times and at other points sounds like Bill Buford (Larks Tonguein Aspic).

In other words, a lot of range and talent.

Astronomy Domine Rocks!!

[I. Spaceman]

He sounds a lot like Pepper-era Ringo to my ears.

[mark goddard]

i Think "come" is Prince's most underrated album....it was kinda of a let down when i bought it, but over time song's like "Space", "papa", "Dark" ,"race" and "Pheromone " are just too fonky and over time they seep into the corner's of your mind.  the only downfall of this album is he decided to puy Letitgo ( which is actually a very autobiographical  song) into the album to please WB for a more commercial sound.
and if you ever hear the long version of "Race" it's even better !!.i just feel because this album came out before the Excellent Gold Experience  it get's overlooked. also the original version of "come is better than what's on here , you gotta wonder if he overproduced the title song again to please WB???

[bluesno1fann]

The Beatles:
With The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour

The Rolling Stones:
The Rolling Stones (1964 Debut)
Aftermath
Their Satanic Majesties Request

Pink Floyd:
A Saucerful Of Secrets
The Final Cut

The Beach Boys:
20/20
Carl And The Passions: So Tough
L.A. Light Album
The Beach Boys (1985)

Syd Barrett:
The Madcap Laughs
Barrett

Fleetwood Mac:
Fleetwood Mac (1968)
Then Play On

That's all I can think of for now.

[Outtasight!]

And finally RICHARD THOMPSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doesn't anyone realise that this man is the greatest guitarist on the planet, a great song-writer and has made more good albums than almost anyone who started off in the 60's - he's certainly the only one still making really good albums almost every year.

Yes, yes, yes... I agree on every point! How could I forget RT?

I saw him live again a few months ago, and he's still the greatest guitarist on the planet.

Absolutely, probably the most criminally underated/ignored musician on the planet. His albums are never less than superb. His latest is probably a career high point. Probably the best album released last year. The guitar playing and songwriting is out of this world.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

EVERY AC/DC album that's neither Back In Black or Highway To Hell

Every Beach Boys album that's neither Pet Sounds or SMILE

[SMiLE Brian]

Even SIP?

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Even SIP?

Hmmmmmmm, well I guess ...... yeah..... since it's long gone past the point of being overly trashed!

[rn57]

I agree about Ringo Starr's drumming being underrated. Every drummer at the conservatory I go to slams him, but to me he's perhaps the most effective efficient drummer ever, he just does what fits, nothing more, but isn't that enough?

Every Paul McCartney album between 1970 and now has been underrated, except for Band On The Run. Paul McCarney is possible the most constant artist ever, you really can't go wrong with any of his albums; they all have a certain charm and at least a handfull of great great songs!

Ram is one album that started out completely underrated and now is pretty universally accepted as a classic.  Wild Life is so completely underrated that once again it's out of print on CD.  But it has some quite outstanding songs, like Tomorrow and Dear Friend.  And IMHO, most of what the Tom Tom Club has been doing for thirty years can be found in Wild Life's cover of Love Is Strange.