Most underrated LP/albums ever

Leo

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Saw them @ CB's - right Leo ?
it may have been because of File mag ? there was a Canadian art - punk attitude mag out around that time.
Liked Diodes choice in cover v's , production too ( hearing Red Rubber Ball Sat. , so clear and pretty driving )

never saw them live, unfortunately. I'm sure they played CBs, videos online of them at the Peppermint Lounge.

probably their catchiest single/biggest hit wasn't on the album

 

WashYourHands

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As a batch, the burst of Richard H Kirk releases around 1994 - Virtual State, Spirit Guide to Low Tech (Sweet Exorcist) and Closed Circuit (Electronic Eye) - a wellspring of mesmerising amazement. He seemed to operate like a submarine. Cloistered in Sheffield, then torpedo

You're listening to someone at their pinnacle-best, often pencilled in among the un-groovy. Sacrilege. Kirk opened up an entire panacea of his own and these are colossal. You could grip in crates labelled ambient/idm for fuck all and maybe the more overtly popular Cabaret Voltaire lp's from the early 90's overshadow (or allowed for) this salvo of solo gems. Proof that using 4/4 wasn't a gimmick but an art
 

blissblogger

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can't for the life of me remember if I ever did listen to Sweet Exorcist's after-their-moment's-passed Proper Album Finally - Spirit Guide to Low Tech

 

version

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Keeping it Kirk(woods), Meat Puppets second and third albums are rated, in quarters, but insufficiently

The interplay between the brothers here, the bass and the guitar


The drummer is fine but where could they gone if they'd had Mitch Mitchell level
I've got some special edition of this one with a bunch of additional material tacked on the end, really love the 'New Gods' demo and the second version of 'Aurora Borealis'.


 

blissblogger

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coming from a similarly dazed and diffused sort of place to Meat Puppets, and again, rated, in certain quarters, not widely enough, not highly enough

 

blissblogger

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this one always reminds me of the music in Gregory's Girl


the titles are evocative - "Out Past Curfew" - could be parental interdictions, but in America just as likely to be local statutes that forbid teenagers to be outdoors after a certain hour

 

Benny Bunter

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Flowers of Romance is one of those ones where it sounded amazing the first time I heard cos of the arresting sonics and all round extreme weirdness, but severely diminishing returns on further listens. Nowhere near as good as metal box

I'd say the first Rolling Stones LP is massively underrated - probably cos its nearly all covers (apart from Tell Me which is a great song) but I don't accept that as a valid criticism. It's tearin' from start to finish.
 

Benny Bunter

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Yeah thats a good one, I think the title track and Banging the Door are the only other tunes I really dug.

Cliched take by now probably, but it really could have been a brilliant album with Wobble basslines to gel it all together - it really annoys me every time I listen to it, cos theres so much potential and interesting sounds, but its like there's something essential missing, a gap. If I hadn't heard metal box first I'd like it more maybe?
 

IdleRich

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Yeah thats a good one, I think the title track and Banging the Door are the only other tunes I really dug.

Cliched take by now probably, but it really could have been a brilliant album with Wobble basslines to gel it all together - it really annoys me every time I listen to it, cos theres so much potential and interesting sounds, but its like there's something essential missing, a gap. If I hadn't heard metal box first I'd like it more maybe?
Wobble and Sister Sledge... a bold pairing I had not really thought about it.
 

william_kent

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Jacks ‎– Vacant World ( ジャックスの世界 ) - 1968

Dark-side acid folk rock with a free jazz drummer. As though the Velvet Underground recorded their 3rd LP in Japan.

I'd bet a token amount that Mizutani from Les Rallizes Denudes must have listened to this album, noted the refusal of the band to give interviews, and then copied the lead singers hairstyle. Apparently considered an influential record in Japan, but maybe not as well known in the West, possibly due to everything being sung in their native tongue. That doesn't matter though as the singer is obviously distraught about something or other, and the translated titles give clues, like Gloomy Flower, In the Broken Mirror, and the title track Vacant World which was banned from Japanese radio for being "negative". Even a song titled Love Generation has lyrics like "Because I don't want to pretend to be alive, Sometimes I pretend to be dead".


Jacks - Marianne
 
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