Albums that are generally overlooked but that you think are ‘classics’

Redlester

Alright so we’ve had the thread for knocking the ‘greats’. 

Here’s your chance to alert us all to something that is overlooked, forgotten, a hidden gem etc in your opinion, but which deserves a wider audience. 

Stay positive lads.  

Teyeplayer

Bell x1: Music in Mouth. 

Edit: not that I expect anyone to know who Bell x1 are. 

GavRichList

Antics by Interpol.

Bright Lights is always referenced as their real great, but for me it's Antics every time. 

Philly_Q

Not sure I like the word "classic", but a few hidden(ish) gems.  Well, personal favourites:

Stone Gossard - Bayleaf

Nina Gordon - Tonight and the Rest of My Life

Forty Deuce (featuring Richie Kotzen) - Nothing to Lose

Winny_Pooh

Should be classics
Golden Earring - Moontan (the single is famous but barely anyone knows how great the album is)

Little Feat - Feats dont fail me now & Dixie chicken (criminally unknown and a better band than Allman Bros, Grateful Dead and many contemporaries)

Overlooked
Lhasa de Sela - Lhasa
Melody Gardot - Currency of man

(these didn't fit into a neat category along with their previous work)

Underappreciated albums by people we know
Nick Cave and the bad seeds - lyre of orpheus
Tracy Chapman- let it rain
Tom Waits - Alice
Joni Mitchell - Travelogue 
Bob Dylan - Love and theft
Bonnie Raitt - Fundamental 
Suzanne Vega - Beauty and crime
Ry Cooder - the prodigal son

fields5069

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information.
McAlmont & Butler - The Sound Of...

Teyeplayer

For those of a west-coast country-rock persuasion: 
Poco - ‘A good feelin’ to know’

Kittyfrisk

Teyeplayer said:

Bell x1: Music in Mouth. 

Edit: not that I expect anyone to know who Bell x1 are. 

Aye well, you're not Maude Gonne... 

zepp76

4 non blondes: bigger, better, faster, more!

 Simple songs and of their time but some cracking tunes none the less, and just reminds me of a time spent with my brother in the 90’s when he was alive and loving life (as he always did).

EricTheWeary

fields5069 said:

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information.

I have a compilation of Shuggie which is great and a couple of albums where he plays guitar for his dad. I did see him live about 25 years ago but he was obviously, sadly past his peak by then. There's an instrumental he did on an album by Preston Love, the track is Shuggie's Chitlin Blues, which I just thought was the best blues guitar I'd ever heard at the time ( although he's probably better known as a psychedelic songwriter than as a guitarist). Anyway, I'll see if I can find Inspiration Information to stream, ta. 

blobb

Both Hatfield & The North Albums.

If you know, you know what I mean.

Johnnyseven

Teyeplayer said:

Bell x1: Music in Mouth. 

Edit: not that I expect anyone to know who Bell x1 are. 

I'm aware of their existence, a mate really likes them, never heard of anything by them though.

Teyeplayer

Johnnyseven said:

Teyeplayer said:

Bell x1: Music in Mouth. 

Edit: not that I expect anyone to know who Bell x1 are. 

I'm aware of their existence, a mate really likes them, never heard of anything by them though.

Not sure if you know their history, but this will fill in the blanks for anyone who is thinking ‘who the hell are bell x1’. 

They were Damien Rice’s old band, he left because they were becoming ‘too Radiohead’. The first two albums did use up some of the old songs that they’d written together as Juniper and there are versions of some songs in circulation from before the demise of Juniper, but they’ve continued to develop since in a way that Mr Rice hasn’t imo (not that I dislike his songs, I just don’t feel he’s grown as an artist). Bell x1 frontman Paul Noonan is a fantastic lyricist and highly regarded in Ireland, sadly they’ve always received little attention over here. 

Kittyfrisk

' A Wizard, A True Star' by Todd Rundgren. Unclassifiable but great.
'The Tain' by Horslips, Irish folk/rock fusion with some cracking riffs.
'Zero Time' by Tonto's Expanding Head Band, seminal album with (I believe) the first ever example of synthesised vocals.
'Green Tambourine' by The Lemon Pipers, particularly 'Through With You'. Far out, Man.
' Diamond Mine ' by King Creosote & Jon Hopkins. Haunting.
'Beautiful Freak' by Eels. What a debut album.

And as @fields5069 ; suggested,  'The Sound Of...' by McAlmont & Butler. A gem.

And far too many others to list 

S56035

Teyeplayer said:

Bell x1: Music in Mouth. 

Edit: not that I expect anyone to know who Bell x1 are. 

I do.  They're ace.

I'd put in Hum - You'd Prefer An Astronaut and Moist - Silver

Hootsmon

Chris Squire Fish out of Water

strumjoughlamps

Afghan Whigs - Black Love

Wishplants - Coma

Power of Dreams - Immigrants Emmigrants and Me

Red Red Meat - Jimmywine Majestic 

The Charlottes - Things Come Apart

Rowby1

@Winny_Pooh full marks for Little Feat, I think Waiting For Columbus is their album I’d call the classic though.

It Bites - Once Around The World

Fuengi

Any of the final three albums by The Walkmen, You & Me, Lisbon and Heaven, all absolutely glorious. 

Aim and Ignite by Fun is a pop / rock masterpiece. If you like Jellyfish give it a listen, you'll like it a lot.

ICBM

The Explorers - self titled (post-Roxy project with Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay)

Lloyd Cole - Love Story

Heather Nova - Oyster

Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London

Plumb - Chaotic Resolve

JAYJO

Gerry Rafferty   Night Owl
Blondie  Autoamerican
The Specials  More Specials
Bob Dylan Slow train coming
The Beatles  live at the Hollywood bowl