Heavily “Dismissed Albums” that you not only love, but might make your all-time 100

This takes the standard “What album do you love that many pan” even further.

Simply put, which “heavily panned albums” do you not only love, but which might make your (theoretical) Top 100 of all-time?

There may not be a ton of these for most people, but these are a handful for me:

In Through The Out Door - Led Zeppelin (1979)
This is not merely a great album that gets heavily panned. For me, it is arguably their finest moment as a band. Easily an all-time 100 type of album (for me).

Peter Criss - Kiss (1978)
Unmasked - Kiss (1980)
Asylum - Kiss (1985)
I know, every Kiss album is “heavily panned”. I could virtually list the entire catalogue, but these three are the ones that seem to get lustfully panned (yes, I just made up that term) , and yet they are three of the most played albums in my entire library.

Harum Scarum - Elvis Presley (1965)
A gorgeously sung, fun, frivolous and exotic album. I loved it from day one. I understand why Elvis’ soundtracks get such disdain (many just don’t like albums that are blatantly un-serious or void of deep artistic ambition), but I love virtually every one he has released. This one especially!

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (1967)
Just kidding. Well, sorta...

Likewise, a borderline pick...

Their Satanic Majesties Request - The Rolling Stones (1967)
This is another extremely dismissed album that I have loved from day one. And continue to love even more. However, I can’t say that it would quite make my TOP 100...

 

Pretty decent candidates.

Personally I would enjoy threads like this more if people posting would do their homework and produce receipts, evidence, quotes. So much more interesting to hear the specific and accurate ways albums have been "heavily dismissed," not vague and sometimes erroneous memories or impressions or sullen presumptions of hazily intuited dismissals of someone's disrespected Top 100 Canon fave albums. Instead of the voices of actual zingers and putdowns we hear secondhand reports from the mysterious land where the mean-critics' underratings are archived and from which no traveler has returned.

 

This one. Like you, not sure it would make the Top 100, but it might.

 

I never liked Satanic Majesties until I heard it in mono.

 

Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door has aged very well IMO.

 

I don’t know about top 100, but I do enjoy “Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven” unlike many other music critics and fans.

 

Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
It's A Beautiful Day - Choice Quality Stuff/Anytime
Lucio Battisti - E Già
Roketz - One Way
Tangerine Dream - Ambient Monkeys
The Beatles - Let It Be
Vangelis - Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit
Zucchero - Bluesugar
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again

 

I really love several of these one-hit-wonder albums by early eighties bands.
Big Country ST
Buggles, The Age of Plastic
Gary Numan, The Pleasure Principle

Three of my personal classics.

 

Years ago, I would have said McCartney II, but I think critics have come around to it as they have with Ram...

 

Huge Elvis fan, and like quite a few of the soundtracks, but Harum Scarum?

 

Liz Phair s/t

 

Wings: "Wild Life".
Rolling Stone said: "Wild Life is largely high on sentiment but rather flaccid musically and impotent lyrically, trivial and unaffecting."
I love it, and Rolling Stone can go to hell.

 

Rolling Stones - Dirty Work, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges To Babylon

Wings - Wild Life

 

(Music From) The Elder
All Shook Up
Soap Opera
Jazz
In through the out door

 

Rod Stewart A Night On The Town. What can I say I just love it!

 

The Cars - Door to Door. Go Away is top-notch.

 

Queen - Hot Space
Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request

 

I don't dislike any of those albums you listed ... I am not sure they would make my top 100 though ... I like a lot of albums

For me

Kiss - Music From The Elder, may just make my top 100

Pink Floyd The Final Cut - would certainly make my top 100

Frank Zappa - Bongo Fury might make my top 100

 

Great Album, one of his best

 

Thinking about it

Bee Gees Cucumber Castle may make my top 100

I don't know how many people know it, never mind how well it's rated but
Steeleye Span - Commoners Crown would probably make my top 100

 

True, but like anything, I’m not sure there it really a precise meter out there measuring disdain (or acclaim). Most people, myself included, just use their educated experiences in regards to albums that they feel have been most dismissed. Like the other part of the question (the theoretical Top 100), it’s not intended to be an exact science. Just a topic of diversion to have fun with. An antidote to just dwelling on some negative topic.

 

Yes, I know. I stand guilty as charged.

 

Yes, wonderfully so. I love the production on the record. As I do all Zeppelin’s albums, but there is a particular “modern” vibe to “In Through The Out Door” (for lack of a term that more accurately expresses what I’m trying to say).

 

• Dylan's gospel trio. The era is probably shown to better effect on the box set, but the studio albums are not to me a low point in his career at all.
• Sandinista! Not really "lustfully panned," but always described as being better off as a double or single album. Not with me. Love it.
• Metal Machine Music. I like drones, I like the Velvets wilder excursions, I can handle this. I won't claim to listen to it often, but every few years I'll happily pull it out.