i'll second (or third) STP's albums, especially Shangri-La-Dee-Da. That album got essentially no recognition, but I think it's their strongest release apart from Purple and Core. Plus, STP's one of my favorite bands.

Opiate and Undertow are good choices, and I'll throw in System of a Down's self-titled album.

I didn't really like STP's Core. It was a grunge album from a non-grunge band. I think the best overlooked STP album (although it's not technically an STP album) is Scott Weiland's Solo Album 12 Bar Blues . Compare it to the rest of the band's miserable Talkshow project, and it shows you who the real talent in that band is.

I can't stand Ten and Vs from Pearl Jam. Everything from Vitalogy onward is gold though. I can't be the only one that feels this way can I?

Maybe BulletBob. :)

I though Ten was an excellent album. I couldn't stand vs. or vitalogy, and completely gave up after that. They definitely seemed to suffer from the spend 10 years on your debut, and then have to follow that up in 2 years syndrome. I was just starting college at the time so there was so much new music opening up to me that I didn't have time for one trick ponies.

Oh and STP is that Johnny-come lately grunge band I was bitching about in some other thread.

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Same for "so much for the afterglow"

NIN - the downward spiral
Machine Head - Burn my eyes
Fear Factory - Demanufactured

Wow, what a tough choice. Some good ones already mentioned are BNL's "Gordon", R.E.M.'s "Murmur", Beatles' "Revolver". I am a huge fan of Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" and while I know it gets rave critical reviews, the only stuff you ever seem to hear is the early surfer stuff. As far as a more recent example, Counting Crows' most recent, "Hard Candy" is doing o.k., but I think it is amazing.

I think Offspring's album Ignition is great. Love the whole thing. I never knew Staind had an album called Tormented. Looked on ebay and a few people have it for sale, the orginal cd. So I have one on the way. Thanks for the info YaWhateva.

EASY.

Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut"

A darkly brilliant follow-up to "The Wall" and Roger Waters' last hurrah with the band.

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My pick is "Grace Under Pressure" by Rush. It was a damn good album that got lost in the 80's pop scene and also suffered unfair comparison to "Moving Pictures"

So many good albums were already said..... but here's the ones everyone is missing ;)

Pink Floyd- Meddle
Cake- Motorcade of Generosity
Smashing Pumpkins- Pisces Iscariot

Good ones mentioned are all the pink floyd ones, STP's, Weiland, Nirvana, and tool..... there are more but I can't think of them right now.

@atomic - subterranean is better! and aren't we talking about mainstream bands here? heheh

soundgarden - badmotorfinger
megadeth - rust in peace
alice in chains - jar of flies

This isn't a great album. No 4 wasn't as good as Core, Purple, or Tiny either.

Seems that when Weiland cleaned up, the music quality faded.

My vote is for Pink Floyd's Animals. I really like those songs.

How about Cake's first album, Motorcade of Generosity?
edit... Duh. I missed Katyblu's post somehow.

STP - No. 4
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. AND Fungus Amongus (by far their best albums although I love them all)
and while they still play some of the songs on the radio, Offspring's Smash was an awesome album that everyone forgot once offspring did pretty fly for a white guy shit

red hot chili peppers - anythign pre bsssm
incubus - fungus among us
tool - opiate
deftones - adrenaline
nirvana - bleach
blink182 - anything before enema
offspring - ignition, ixnay on the hombre
311 - transistor (noone ever mentions it when they talk about em)
less than jake - hello rockview

Also, 311 - Music. I have a friend who (says that he) LOVES 311, but when I mentioned that album, he'd never heard of it.

:eek:

the deleo brothers and kretz write essentially everything for STP (weiland handles vocal melodies and lyrics... he only wrote one song himself - tumble in the rough). weiland's a good singer, but i'll take the others' songwriting and instrumental skills (especially rob's bass playing) over weiland's voice anyday.

STP - No. 4 is a great fuckin album. It might even be better than their older albums.

Smash mouth - Fush Yu Mang. Their other albums are shit but that one is awesome.

Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster. My favorite album of all time.

Green Day's Insomniac is fiercely underated

And just for the record, I pretty damn sure the Beatles weren't on LSD when they did Rubber Soul. Paul actually hadn't tryed it until around the end of Revolver/start of Sgt. Pepper's.