Recommend me an underrated album.

[lowkey_jotunn]

Not so much underrated as unheard of, but if you're in a rock and roll mood, you'd do well with either of the Karnivool Albums (well, 3 if you can find Persona, but good freaking luck)

"Themata" for more straight up rock



"Sound Awake" for a bit softer with a touch of Prog. Abstract time signatures, key changes, you name it, these guys will rock it.




(caveat, neither album falls fully into the categories listed, or any definable category except "Awesome")

 

[arsenicCatnip]

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This and 'Cause I Sez So by the New York Dolls. David Johansen doesn't have the prettiest voice in the world, but the Dolls are an incredible band with some amazing new talent combed from other punk bands (since, sadly, 90% of the original members are dead now). They've been around in one form or another since the late '70s, and David Jo's been the lead singer since then. Fun fact: David Jo also performed under the name 'Buster Poindexter', and did the song Hot Hot Hot. You know the one.

This is the first single from One Day, entitled Dance Like a Monkey

 

[Tucker154]

Hymn of A Broken Man, by Times of Grace, is an amazing ablum that not alot of people seem to know.

Spoiler: Hymn of a Broken Man

Spoiler: The Forgotten One

Spoiler: Fall From Grace

 

[Tucker154]

Hymn of A Broken Man, by Times of Grace, is an amazing ablum that not alot of people seem to know.

Spoiler: Hymn of a Broken Man

Spoiler: The Forgotten One

Spoiler: Fall From Grace

 

[Zinaxos]

My Name is Skrillex... Just kidding.
"The Flying Club Cup" by Beirut. I don't think it's underrated, but Beirut isn't a band that many people have heard of where I'm from.

 

[IncredibleTurnip]

The Five Ghosts by STARS is great.

Spoiler

 

[RRilef]

I don't really have a grasp on whats really obscure/forgotten, so I'll just go with stuff I like but people I know have never heard of.

Aimee Mann: Pavlov's Bell (from Lost in Space)



Destroyer: Streethawk I (from Streethawk: A Seduction)
Now, personally, I love Dan Bejar's voice, but many people who I've gotten to listen to him can't stand it.



The Lodger: Good Ol Days (from Life Is Sweet)

 

[Bobbety]

If you say you can enjoy anything I'd suggest "Buck Fever" by Estradasphere, the songs do a lot of genre bending and have (what I feel is) a ton of variety.

Spoiler: Here's a song that changes style three times.

Spoiler: This one sounds right out of (and shares a names with) a Sonic level.

Spoiler: Here is a song I don't even know how to describe.

Spoiler: And here's a Super Mario 2 big band jazz remix (you have to at least listen to this one)

 

[Tucker154]

Edit: Whoops, dubble post.

 

[6unn3r]

Read below, stupid double posts.

 

[6unn3r]

http://open.spotify.com/album/05Hu2upmXcnye5TKXzUZpQ

Or you dont have spotify (why the hell not?):

 

[VincentMm]

Wouldn't say Grace is exactly a forgotten album but...

Reef - Replenish for some epic Indie/Surfer rock.
Baby D -Deliverance for some classic smooth DnB with a BEAUTIFUL female vocal.

 

[HassEsser]

Abbey Road

teehee, just kidding, check out Stone Temple Pilots eponymous album

 

[nothingspringstomind]

Everybody knows Tool but everyone seems to forget about A Perfect Circle possibly my favourite band in the world. Thirteenth Step in itself is an amazing album and the cover art sticks with me as the original reason i bought it.

 

[ScRaT_the_destroyer]

Sunn O))) - white1

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[JaceArveduin]

Not sure if you would call them underrated, but you can always try some Alestorm.

 

[zehydra]

It sounds like you would really enjoy Buck 65. I recommend the compilation "This Right Here is Buck 65".

No country or rap here, no sir.

I can enjoy anything except for Country and Rap.

Then let me recommend some country and rap, you horribly average closed-minded turd.

Busdriver, like Twista but a thousand times sharper and with great production. Also a master of wordplay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpP-8tJ-9Js

The Old 97's, the kings of alt-country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is83WB7Ue1Y&feature=related

Don't shut out whole genres because you heard somebody say "HUR I LIKE ERTHANG BUT RAP AND COUNTRY". They're usually morons who only listen to Top 40.

Um, except I also hate those genres because I don't like the kind of sound they're based on. I love prog rock, grunge rock psychedelic stuff, and I'm by no means the kind of person that just listens to the top 40.

In fact, a lot of people who are music enthusiasts don't like rap or country

I really don't know anybody I'd call a music enthusiast who claims to dislike entire genres as large as country and rap.

On the off chance you've actually listened to artists representing most of the different forms of the genres, what was it that turned you off?

For rap anyway, what turns me off is the lead vocals not being sung.

 

[Snake Plissken]

The Old 97's, the kings of alt-country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is83WB7Ue1Y&feature=related

While I would give that title to Lucero and not the Old 97s, I appreciate finding fellow alt.country lovers. Thanks for supporting a genre that should be more recognized than it is.

 

[Riccan]

Don't know if this is what you are looking for, but here:

Spoiler: Long list of primarily metal songs

*cough*
*cough*

EDIT: Just realized that you asked for albums, so here are the albums in the same order:

Spoiler

Age of Silence - Trilogy of Intricacy EP
Winds - The Imaginary Direction of Time
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Demilich - Nespithe
Dan Swano - Moontower
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Edge of Sanity - Twilight Afterglow
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
Burden of Grief - Haunting Requiems
The Residents - Animal Lover

 

[Nadlice]

It sounds like you would really enjoy Buck 65. I recommend the compilation "This Right Here is Buck 65".

No country or rap here, no sir.

I can enjoy anything except for Country and Rap.

Then let me recommend some country and rap, you horribly average closed-minded turd.

Busdriver, like Twista but a thousand times sharper and with great production. Also a master of wordplay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpP-8tJ-9Js

The Old 97's, the kings of alt-country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is83WB7Ue1Y&feature=related

Don't shut out whole genres because you heard somebody say "HUR I LIKE ERTHANG BUT RAP AND COUNTRY". They're usually morons who only listen to Top 40.

Um, except I also hate those genres because I don't like the kind of sound they're based on. I love prog rock, grunge rock psychedelic stuff, and I'm by no means the kind of person that just listens to the top 40.

In fact, a lot of people who are music enthusiasts don't like rap or country

I really don't know anybody I'd call a music enthusiast who claims to dislike entire genres as large as country and rap.

On the off chance you've actually listened to artists representing most of the different forms of the genres, what was it that turned you off?

For rap anyway, what turns me off is the lead vocals not being sung.

Is it fair to assume you tend to focus more on melody then lyrics then?

Do you feel you'd enjoy the atmosphere of some of the music were it not for vocal style?