most forgotten albums of mainstream bands?
 

what do you think are the best forgotten albums of mainstream bands, particurally bands that don't have a great reputation for one reason or another?

edit: my answer: staind's <i>dysfunction</i>.

I personally thought Three Dollar Bill Y'all was a good cd by limp bizkit. Then they got big and Durst became a jackass and their second cd was crap on a stick.

Everclear-sparkle & fade

i think it fits in to the category. I dont really like Everclear but there are so many good songs on this album.

...well i think so anyways...

Pink Floyd, Animals

Beatles - Rubber Soul

Most people dont think of this album first, But this one has the honour of being the first album after LSD experiments. So its intriguing. Revolver is right after weed. Interesting progressions.

third eye blind-out of the vein

it's much more like their first, more sucessful album...but hasn't gotten nearly the attention it deserves.

there are too damn many to name... the ones that stand out to me, though, are...

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

The White Stripes - De Stijl

The Offspring - Ignition

Blink-182 - Cheshire Cat (yes, Blink-182 actually made good music once)

AFI - Anything besides Sing The Sorrow (which blows compared to all their other albums)

those are just the ones that stand out to me. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

yeah, everyone seems to forget that there was life before enema of the state [although that wasn't bad either.]

Local H - Ham Fisted

I would have to agree on the everclear one ;)

In Flames = Lunar Strain

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

undertow by tool gets overlooked abit. Also their EP opiate.
Mainly because anema was so fucking good i guess.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
Sublime - Robbin The Hood
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
Nirvana - Incesticide (Although I don't like this album, I know plenty of people that do)

This is a group only in the sense that since all the music they ever did together was recorded in one weekend in 1973. They'v inherited the band name from an album released in 1975 that, while never mainstream, has gotten "classic" (Ihate that word) status over the last 25+ years in a couple of genres (bluegrass, country rock, alternative). The band consisted of several really good musicians; Peter Rowan, David Grisman, John Kahn, Vassar Clemins, and Jerry Garcia. The album and the bands name is "Old and in the way"; if you have any liking for "old timey" music, give it a listen; it pre-dates "O Brother Where Art Thou" by a lot of years; I wore out several vinyl copies of it before it came out on CD; the first album was a selection of tunes from the three performances the band did in '73, about four years ago, everything that was recorded that weekend was put out on an additional two CD's; any one of the available CD's are worth a listen.

Weezer - Pinkerton

Blink 182 - Dude Ranch (before they went to shat)

Staind - Dysfunction

anything evanescence - their demos, eps, etc. are awesome, but many dismiss them since they are heard on mainstream radio.

edit: forgot one.

INCUBUS - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

RIGHT FUCKING ON. That album is RIDICULOUSLY overlooked. Tiny Music... also deserves a better say.

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore

The Verve - A Storm In Heaven
Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
Coldplay - Parachutes
and Faith No Mores albums all get overlooked

Just a few:

REM - Murmur
The Pixies - Bossanova
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Green Day - Kerplunk
Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy
The Beatles - Revolver
AFI - Black Sails In The Sunset

It wasn't especially amazing, but after releasing the most played song of 2000 (Hanging by a moment) you'd think Lifehouses' 2nd album Stanley Climbfall would get a bit more recognition.

Garbage's first album, self-titled. Awesome album :thumbsup:

Cheshire Cat > Dude ranch!

oh, and nobody has forgotten Pinkerton!

On the Pink Floyd boat with 'Soundtrack from the Film More.'

Radiohead--Pablo Honey.

Forgotten because, well, The Bends and OK Computer were such undisputed classics.

Yes I know Creep was on there but the rest of the album had some great songs on it. Their sense of melody and dynamics was just starting to show itself.

the who sell out

no wait, i take that back.

uhh,

kill em all - metallica

Re: most forgotten albums of mainstream bands?
 

darksparkles, if you are gonna put staind's dysfunction cd, you might as well put their first cd instead. Their first cd is called Tormented and like no one has heard of it. thats back when they were good.


BulletBob, i agree with you on Insecticide by Nirvana, except i think its a great album.

Any Pink Floyd album that ISN'T Dark Side, The Wall, or Wish You Were Here, or Piper.

Obscured by Clouds, for example. Although Animals is my all-time favorite by them.

-Mikey

Agreed, but also toss in my vote for Shangri La Dee Da.

The White Stripes - De Stijl
and an old incubus cd, don't remember name.
old santana albums

Fungus Amungus (or however it was spelled)

Everything the Deftones did before White Pony.

You know what....

Come to think of it, Core and Purple are pretty much the only Stone Temple Pilots albums that aren't really overlooked.

oh, the who's <i>quadrophenia</i>.
odd, since its one of their later ones.... but i think it's tons better than tommy and deserved a lot more recognition than it got.

spiritual machines or happiness... by our lady peace. those two albums are quite different from what we're used to hearing, and I think, their best albums, but all anyone ever wants to talk about is either clumsy or their newest album (gravity)

I'm only mentioning it because someone else mentioned "Robbin' the Hood"- Sublime's "40 oz. to Freedom." Most Sublime fans have this album, but most also think that the self titled album was better, which I don't agree with.

Right on. Opiate was a great albumn, athough Tool admits that it was rushed and wasn't their true sound. Aenima did kinda overshadow them, but any true Tool fan owns them none the less. Rock on Sleepyjack!! Also: Fear Factory "Soul of a New Machine" or "Demanufacture", Dimmu Borgir "Enthrone Darkness Triumphant", At the Drive-In "In/Casino/out", Deftones "Adrenaline", and probably alot I can't remember.

Pearl Jam's VS. Not as great as Ten, but much better than the last four (or however many) albums they've made.

VS sold like 6 million copies, nobody's forgotten it. It broke so many sales records.

Thin Lizzy's "Renegade"

That's true, but compared to the critical success of ten, and the lackluster performance of almost all the others, (with maybe the exception of Vitology) it seems to me that VS would be the forgotten one, not the best, but not grouped in with the worst.
I dunno, just my humble opinion.
(((goes to dig up CD, wants to hear rear view mirror)))

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.

Word




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.