Critics be damned!!! I love the album anyway...*

Elvis Costello - "Mighty Like a Rose"

 

Another vote for Jethro Tull's A Passion Play.

Saw the tour and always loved the album since that.

 

Iggy Pop - "Zombie Birdhouse"

A strange, fascinating album.

 

The soft parade by the doors.

 

Blows Against the Empire - Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship

One of my favorite albums. I have four copies of the original release, which sort of defies reason. But that’s OK. Here’s an excerpt of the review by Ed Ward in the February ‘71 issue of Rolling Stone. I don’t think Ed liked it.

“If Paul Kanter really thinks that the pap he’s serving up here is a blow against the empire, I suggest he take a bowl of oatmeal and a spoon and start throwing the oatmeal at some building he’d like to see topple, just to observe how long it will take.”

 

Bathory s/t

dark angel - darkness descends

 

Killing Joke are infamous. special acquired taste !
i love the shIIIIt outta them !!!!!!!

some of my fav tunes with Ministry first few, and The Cure.
some amazing music. metal since birth, but i have some guilty pleasures !!

 

Elton John - Blue Moves
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Bob Dylan - Planet Waves
(My faves of each artist)
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
Arcade Fire - Reflektor

 

A true psychedelic classic.

 

I liked Under Wraps too:

I also liked Trans too:


I liked the 'futurism' of both releases.

 

Pablo Cruise's work was and still is all bashed on by many critics, I love it.

 

I love Tales From Topographic Oceans by Yes. I think it’s a masterpiece. Nothing else like it out there.

 

I really like Pilgrim by Clapton.

 

I love ELP’s Works 1. Palmer is smoking on his side and Lake’s side is lovely. Pirates and Fanfare are great. Works 2, pretty damn weak.

 

The bashed albums that I like are usually because I was in a really good place when they came out, and they bring back a lot of great memories. For example, Heart's "Private Audition" came out right when I graduated from high school, and Asia's "Astra" came out when I graduated from college. In any other time or place, I probably wouldn't have given them a pass!

 

A masterpiece

 

My favourite Smashing P.‘s.

 

And the best song wasn‘t even on the regular album: Let‘s All Make Believe.

 

Another vote for Jethro Tull's 'Under Wraps'. Bought it on the day of release - loved it from day one.

 

The thing about the Linn Drum programming that Ian Anderson did on Walk Into Light, Under Wraps and Crest Of A Knave is that he did not just make a loop and set it on repeat, he programed fills and variations that make the parts very natural and playable by a human drummer as Doane Perry demonstrated wonderfully on the tours.

 

Terence Trent D'Arby's second album "Neither Fish Nor Flesh". Some outrageously beautiful music on this album.

 

It's a really good album!

 

Trans I dig it have the rare vinyl version with the sticker
MOST GD albums were dismissed by critics
Sabbath
Zeppelin
both have catalogs that critics were very dismissive of on release

 

It's true, there was a time when what is now 'classic' rock from the 70s was considered 'that new hard rock crap'.

 

NEIL YOUNG/TRANS: I loved this record from the day I bought it back in 1982. Though I like the vocoder stuff a lot more than the Trans Band stuff.
WINGS/BACK TO THE EGG: I love this less these days, but back in 1979 my buddy and I used to crank this in his 75 Nova cruising down Woodward Bl.