Albums you love that are not considered the artist's best.

I always loved Red Rose Speedway!
Never understood why it is so poorly rated...

 

Batman - Prince
London Town - Wings
Emotional Rescue - The Rolling Stones
That's Life - Frank Sinatra
Jump Up! - Elton John
Elvis Sings Flaming Star - Elvis Presley

 

Well I don't like it but my feelings aren't exactly irrational I think.

I love every other Replacements record including All Shook Down.

Don't Tell a Soul I have problems with. I'm glad it exists. I even find it fascinating. It's what a band predicated on not giving a ****, and thumbing their noses at the 1980s, sounds like when they try accommodating themselves to success and the decade. It seems to me a fantastic failure, a new kind of failure for a band that loved to fail.

It doesn't bother me than Bob's not there. Some situations are just impossible.

The production is horrible but I can overcome even that. "I'll Be You" and "Talent Show" I consider great, great songs, and they manage to transcend all the weird, "what instrument is that?" type noises. That said, the songs would have been better with a more straightforward production.

To me, something seems amiss with the songwriting. It has moments of brilliance of course--"We can't hold our tongues/ At the top of our lungs"--but they just don't quite add up. I don't think the Mats or Westie "sold out" or anything. There was just some mismatch between ambition and execution. As I said, All Shook Down I consider a great record and a fitting end to the Mats' run.

 

RRS was Paul gearing up for Band On The Run. It's a really good album.

 

A few that leap to mind:

BACK TO THE EGG by McCartney and Wings is in my top five Macca releases.

OOH LA LA by The Faces got panned when it came out, but I prefer it to NOD/WINK and LONG PLAYER.

MIND GAMES by John Lennon is my favorite to put on to listen to just for pleasure; it is undemanding, and a solid listen from start to finish without the peaks and valleys of other records.

YOU'RE GONNA GET IT by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers is my second favorite--DAMN THE TORPEDOES is still #1 for me.

TEMPLE OF LOW MEN by Crowded House is a favorite that didn't seem to do well critically.

JcS

 

I could explain it to you, but it would only be an explanation as to why *I* don't like it!

JcS

 

LOVE the album and film so, so much. Screw the critics

 

Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones

 

"My Big Mouth" sums up Oasis really, really well. Great songs on this album.. Their last good one.

 

I like their albums after 'Be Here Now', but there's something missing from all of them...

 

I'd add 'Black And Blue' and 'It's Only Rock And Roll' to this.

 

Not sure about Tin Machine but I agree that Hot Space is awesome.

 

Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac, especially Future Games and Bare Trees.

Also the original Deep Purple lineup. I especially love Book Of Taliesyn and S/T. I find the mark 1 lineup infinitely more interesting than the various head-banger permutations that followed.

 

Paul McCartney - Press To Play


Arcade Fire - Neon Bible


Rolling Stones - Black And Blue


Joni Mitchell - Dog Eat Dog

 

Morrissey - 'Southpaw Grammar'
R.E.M. - 'Monster' - probably my favorite of their albums
Frank Zappa - 'Broadway The Hard Way'
KISS - '(Music From) The Elder'
Miles Davis - 'On The Corner' (realizing that it's "cred" has increased as time has passed...)

 

Yes, Back To The Egg, I love that one too!

 

It seems to me that SF Sorrow is the most-touted Pretty Things album, but my favourite is Parachute, and I would also choose the Philippe DeBarge album over SF Sorrow.

 

You're gonna get it is a masterpiece

 

Tracks 1 - 6 are really good, the remainder not so much...

 

I've always had a soft spot for Neil Young's Harvest Moon which is not an overwhelming fan favorite but has beautiful songs and production. Especially for the 90s!

 

Eagles - Eagles
Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

 

I love this one - a true clunker.

 

I recently burned a greatest hits 2 CD set. I often do this because my favorites are often different than the singles. It's a great set but because this's first three records are littered with so many great songs, and because that early era produced some great b-sides, I had to be really selective. From the albums post "Be Here Now", I found the only worthy absolute musts to be Songbird and Go Let It Out.

 

The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
The Beatles - The Beatles' Second Album
Paul McCartney - Russian Album
Elton John - Rock of the Westies

 

Shake it Up- The Cars
Oh No It's Devo
Yesterday and Today - Beatles
Stormwatch- Jethro Tull
Pretzel Logic-Steely Dan
On Every Street-Dire Straits
The Monkees Present