Question of the Day: Most underrated Album/CD of all time
Here are some that come to mind:
The Cure: “Head on the Door”
Jars of Clay: “Who we are instead”
R.E.M.: Reckoning
Alarm: Strength
U2: October
Thoughts?
March 31, 2008
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March 31st, 2008 at 10:57 am
Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore is quite good and often goes unnoticed. And I might be a minority of one in thinking this, but U2’s Pop and Zooropa are actually pretty good.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
October is one of my favorite U2 albums, and “Gloria” is one of my favorite U2 songs - I will concur with your assessment on that one.
I have to dissent with Paul’s assessment of Pop and Zooropa, however. Let’s just say that Johnny Cash is the highlight of Zooropa - apart from the excellent “The Wanderer”, the rest of the album is rubbish.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
A side note on Zooropa: I had a chance to see U2 in concert during their Zooropa tour while I was in Ireland back in ‘93. I was in Blarney the same night they were playing in Cork, which is only a few miles away - and there were plenty of tickets still available for the show. Unfortunately, the woman to whom the Church says I was never married, who I was travelling with at the time, didn’t want to go.
That, alone, should have been grounds for an anullment.
March 31st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I’ve always felt it was Joel Scott Hill’s “LA Getaway” or Leafhound’s “Growers of Mushrooms.” It’s hard to call any U2 album “underrated.” I’d call “Bull” by Say Zuzu, “The Night Life” by Ray Price, “Heart of Saturday Night” by Tom Waits, “I Am the Cosmos” by Chris Bell, and Dennis Wilson’s “Pacific Ocean Blue” as others that come to mind. Oh, and anything by The Frames (particularly “For the Birds).
Ask me tomorrow and I’ll come up with a different list.
March 31st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Nobody ever agreed w/me on this one, but I always thought “The Beat Goes On” by Vanilla Fudge was the best album nobody ever heard. And then, the eponymous “Nazz”, which I first heard in my cousin’s rec room in Meridian Miss.
April 1st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
George Michael, Listen Without Prejudice. Seriously. Check out “Mother’s Pride” — truly the best vocals that I’ve ever heard from a male pop/rock singer. (That’s an objective fact, not just my subjective opinion.) A somewhat pacifist song, but you don’t have to agree with it to appreciate the songwriting ability:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwutf8Qd84Q
Oh she knows
She takes his hand
And prays the child will understand
At the door they watch the men go by
In the clothes that daddy wore
Mothers pride
Baby boy
His father’s eyes
He’s a soldier waiting for war
Time will come
He’ll hold a gun
His father’s son
And as he grows
He hears the band
Takes the step from boy to man
And at the shore she waves her son goodbye
Like the man she did before
Mothers pride
Just a boy
His country’s eyes
He’s a soldier waving at the shore
And in her heart the time has come
To lose a son
And all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone
They make no difference
No difference in the end
Still hear the woman say your daddy died a hero
In the name of god and man
Mothers pride
Crazy boy
His lifeless eyes
He’s a soldier now forevermore
He’ll hold a gun till kingdom come
April 7th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Billy Joel’s river of dreams is a great album start to finish. There is not one bad song on the album.