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Forgotten Classic Album

  • 26-05-2012 08:01AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48


    In 1980 The Clash released their tripple album "Sandinista!",It was a "stew "of punk,reggae,soul,rap and just about everything you could imagine.The record company went nuts,it was slated by the critics and was in the record shop bargin bins within weeks.From day one I loved the album and and in my opinion it's a classic that has stood the test of time,would recommend to any serious music fan.

    Anybody else recommend a Forgotten Classic Album?

    Thanks


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    ABC - Lexicon of love. There's nothing else like it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,398 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    '1972' by Josh Rouse. Nobody knows it, can't recommend it enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    It's not quite forgotten in the same way as you mentioned but "No One Can Do It Better" by The D.O.C. is my pick. It was released in the same 4 year stretch that NWA ruled the world. Eazy E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Snoop all released classic albums. The D.O.C. had writing credits on E's, Dre's and Snoop's album. His own was just as good but it is completely overlooked by most people.

    The fact that he was in a career-ending car crash a few months later didn't help matters. He has no opportunity to follow up on his album. He had to do it through his ghostwriting for Dre and Snoop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog


    Birneybau wrote: »
    '1972' by Josh Rouse. Nobody knows it, can't recommend it enough.

    yeha this is a great album if you get the chance give nashville a listen!

    i'd pick grant hart's first solo album 'intolerence', a classic that seems to be eclipsed by the stuff he did with hd



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Obscured By Clouds by Pink Floyd. It was released after Syd Barrett had left but before they became massively famous (it was recorded while they were making Dark Side Of The Moon). At the time they were doing a lot of soundtrack albums. This is one of those albums and was recorded very quickly. You hardly ever hear anything about it nowadays. Even the band themselves have pretty much disowned it. Personally I think it's a lot more interesting than their more famous albums though as is Music From The Film More, another soundtrack album that took a few days to record.

    David Gilmours first two solo albums, David Gilmour and About Face, are brilliant too. Short And Sweet from the first album is especially good as is Murder (a song about the murder of John Lennon) from the second album.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Who's afraid of... by Art of Noise, huge influence on 90's and contemporary electronica/hip hop.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    Birneybau wrote: »
    '1972' by Josh Rouse. Nobody knows it, can't recommend it enough.
    I actually bought this by accident years ago (I think I mistook the cover for something else) but it actually is a really great album. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 kell1


    Thank's for the great recommendations and I hope to check them all out.Might I also suggest Armed Forces by Elvis Costello,I just can't stop it! by The Beat and Bop till You Drop by Ry Cooder.I'm currently listening to Plastic Beach by the Gorillaz and both Fleet Foxes albums (amongst others) so i'm not a complete Dinosaur!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    The Songs I Love So Well by Phil Coulter, it was limited edition and is now out-of-print.

    Very insightful songs into the life of Ireland's second best songwriter (IMO), and the first track is his own version of My Boy, a song himself and Bill Martin wrote for Elvis.

    Great album for anyone interested in Irish folk music, and for serious fans that like to dig deeper, as many of the songs on the album were made more famous by other artists.

    Also for anyone interested in songwriter's versions of their own songs, I'd recommend Jimmy MacCarthy's The Song of The Singing Horseman or Julie Gold's Try Love.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Nobodys Perfect - The Distractions.

    Manchester band from late '70s . Released only one album but their brand of 60's influenced power-pop was not in vogue at the time. Full of lovely songs such as the following:



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭kingtubby


    John Cale's Hobosapiens.

    It was released in 2003 to critical acclaim though imho people have forgotten about it lately as its an album whose name I see mentioned very rarely.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    Duck rock - Malcolm McLaren. This came out a few years before Paul Simon's album and also used South African music. Yet everyone thinks Simon was the one who did it first!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    It's not quite forgotten in the same way as you mentioned but "No One Can Do It Better" by The D.O.C. is my pick. It was released in the same 4 year stretch that NWA ruled the world. Eazy E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Snoop all released classic albums. The D.O.C. had writing credits on E's, Dre's and Snoop's album. His own was just as good but it is completely overlooked by most people.

    The fact that he was in a career-ending car crash a few months later didn't help matters. He has no opportunity to follow up on his album. He had to do it through his ghostwriting for Dre and Snoop.

    He had another album called Helter Skelter which in my opinion is excellent. After the car crash his voice was all messed up, as can be heard on Dr.Dre's The Chronic, he is the game show host on $57 sack pyramid. But he embraced his new voice on Helter Skelter. I think that he has said in interviews that he regrets releasing the album now, i dont understand why, it's excellent.

    But, not nearly as good as "No one can do it better". Here is a new song that pays tribute to the album:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    He had another album called Helter Skelter which in my opinion is excellent. After the car crash his voice was all messed up, as can be heard on Dr.Dre's The Chronic, he is the game show host on $57 sack pyramid. But he embraced his new voice on Helter Skelter. I think that he has said in interviews that he regrets releasing the album now, i dont understand why, it's excellent.

    But, not nearly as good as "No one can do it better". Here is a new song that pays tribute to the album:

    I've never heard that album. Must give it a listen. Dunno if I'll like it though. It'll be hard to listen to him with his "new" voice.

    I listened to an interview with him a while back. He's very articulate but his voice is a wreck. He was supposed to be undergoing surgery that would try to restore 70% of his voice. I haven't heard anything more about it though.

    The skit was called "The $20 Sack Pyramid", and he had the role of the person giving the clues in the quiz. I actually listened to it in the car yesterday. It's a brilliant skit. 10 times better and funnier than the skits around these days.

    That song you posted is great. Love all the references he has to the song titles.

    DOC doesn't get nearly enough credit as he should. Without his input in general I don't think "The Chronic" wouldn't have been a classic. This is pretty much the reason why I've no expectations for Detox (if it ever drops) now that DOC has distanced himself from it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    manic street preachers's lifeblood was overlooked imo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    The+Auteurs+%2528New+Wave+-+Front%2529.jpg
    The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)

    It's hard to imagine that these guys, along with Suede, were once at the forefront of an emerging movement in British music known as Britpop. Unfortunately this album got buried when Oasis, Blur, and to a lesser extent Pulp, grabbed the limelight. If you love clever witty lyrics and a 70's glam-influenced sound you will love this beauty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,479 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    'Rattlesnakes' by LLoyd Cole & The Commotions in 1984

    So good I bought it twice - on casette and CD

    I recommend it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Rattlesnakes definitely! Lloyd Cole was one of the best lyricists of the 80's and the songwriting on Rattlesnakes is remarkable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Back in the High Life by Steve Winwood.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 kell1


    Forgot about Rattlesnakes,what a fantastic debut.Played that album to death.Such a pity that Lloyd Cole's career went into a nose dive and he never fullfilled his potential.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭bullpost


    Lloyd Cole is playing WestPort festival at end of June.
    kell1 wrote: »
    Forgot about Rattlesnakes,what a fantastic debut.Played that album to death.Such a pity that Lloyd Cole's career went into a nose dive and he never fullfilled his potential.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Black Grape 'It's Great When You're Straight'

    Brilliant summertime album.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom



    i'd pick grant hart's first solo album 'intolerence', a classic that seems to be eclipsed by the stuff he did with hd




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bassboxxx


    Another one for "Obscured by clouds". I love stay and enjoy it as much as any Floyd tune.

    For me it'd have to be "Soul Mining" by The The. At least 4 gems there, I can never get enough of "Giant"!!!!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    The Webb Brothers - Marooned. This exploration of the highs and lows of hedonism is an absolute triumph which skates through a multitude of genres with ease. How this isn't hailed as a classic and why the band languish in obscurity is completely beyond me…









  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 Lauriele


    fryup wrote: »
    manic street preachers's lifeblood was overlooked imo
    Lifeblood is their most boring album! They redeemed themselves somewhat with Send Away The Tigers but nothing will ever compare to The Holy Bible or even Everything Must Go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    I'll go with David Bowie's album Space Oddity (originally called David Bowie). Everyone knows the title track, but the other stuff on it is amazing, and usually overlooked. Also contains his best song (imho) Cygnet Committee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Lauriele wrote: »
    Lifeblood is their most boring album! They redeemed themselves somewhat with Send Away The Tigers but nothing will ever compare to The Holy Bible or even Everything Must Go.

    I actually think Journal For Plague Lovers is just as good as Everything Must Go, maybe even better.

    Anyway, I'd nominate The La's one and only album. Most people are probably familiar with There She Goes but the whole album is a masterpiece and one of the very best albums of the 1990's.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 167 ✭✭promethius42


    Rory Gallagher - Calling Card


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Kula Shaker's debut. Stone cold classic imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,518 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I thought I'd go for something completely different for this one. I have come up with "How Dare You" by 10cc - great adult pop/rock. It contains two songs which were hit singles at the time - "Art for Art's Sake" and "I'm Mandy, Fly Me". But it is not an album that gets any airplay, although there are many fantastic tracks. I love the way the opening instrumental title track segues into "Lazy Days" - both brilliant tracks in their own right. I have seen a video for the fantastic closing track - "Don't Hang Up" - which kind of paved the way for drummer Kevin Godley as a singer. Kevin and Lol Creme left 10CC after this album to form the duo Godley and Creme.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    I'll go with David Bowie's album Space Oddity (originally called David Bowie). Everyone knows the title track, but the other stuff on it is amazing, and usually overlooked. Also contains his best song (imho) Cygnet Committee
    I automatically thought of Bowie when I saw the thread title. I think it's probably because he's released so much, that it's easy to overlook a lot of it.
    Young Americans is a fantastic album which seems to have largely escaped the 'Best ofs' etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,479 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    'The Hurting' by Tears For Fears was another forgotten Classic

    Brilliant Album


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,275 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The The - 'Infected'

    I always recommend this album as I come across so many people who don't even know who the band are.

    One of my favourite albums of all time. I nearly wore the CD out listening to it!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,805 ✭✭✭Setun


    Birneybau wrote: »
    '1972' by Josh Rouse. Nobody knows it, can't recommend it enough.
    1972 is the perfect summer album. If the sun does ever manage to come out for a few days, blast that album out and sit in your backgarden with your mates, a few beers, and with the bbq on and in you automatically gain some nice memories you can fawn over when the weather inevitably turns shite again.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭mitosis


    The La's - The La's

    Sub 3 minutes pockets of joy (except looking glass @ 7mins)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JFlah


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    The+Auteurs+%2528New+Wave+-+Front%2529.jpg
    The Auteurs - New Wave (1993)

    It's hard to imagine that these guys, along with Suede, were once at the forefront of an emerging movement in British music known as Britpop. Unfortunately this album got buried when Oasis, Blur, and to a lesser extent Pulp, grabbed the limelight. If you love clever witty lyrics and a 70's glam-influenced sound you will love this beauty.

    Absolutely superb , Luke Haines = mad genius :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    JJ72

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJ72

    dont know if its forgotten but its a brilliant and imo a classic album.pity they broke up.he had a fantastic voice.

    and i know its not a classic music album but this is a work of art and bloody funny and will always be classic in my eyes.its definitely forgotten and a collectors item.

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTI6bGCYQo-Dyx-jY1rx25i34VoFoft3nmul5KpabmiDBSEuRjq


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,479 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Another forgotten Classic Album for me is

    'Steve Mc Queen' - Prefab Sprout. Brilliant.

    Gave it another run this week!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    This...



    It's a lovely slice of Power-Pop played by really inventive dudes.

    It's full of catchy tunes that unexpectedly fly off to some strange places.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,479 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    'A Fine Romance' by David Kitt 2001. A definite Classic Album

    Brilliant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Boston, self titled album.. The lead track's riff went on to inspire Kurt Cobain. Not full plagiarism but definitely leaning on excessive use of influence. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    gammygils wrote: »
    'A Fine Romance' by David Kitt 2001. A definite Classic Album

    Brilliant

    'The Big Romance' :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 kell1


    Went to see Tindersticks play in the Olympia back in 2001 and David Kitt was the support act.He was touring this album and I must say that I was very impressed,Mr Tindersticks himself was absolutely pissed/stoned out of his head and David Kitt saved the day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    NIMAN wrote: »
    The The - 'Infected'

    I always recommend this album as I come across so many people who don't even know who the band are.

    One of my favourite albums of all time. I nearly wore the CD out listening to it!!!

    Superior political indie/pop/rock, bought it for a tenner on vinyl recently, still powerful sounding stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,398 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Ooh, an album I'm currently revisiting, Black Rebel Motorcyle Club's debut album.

    Stone cold classic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton





    Not sure if this is old enough yet to be considered forgotten but every time I go back and listen after a while it makes me laugh and gives great insight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Ooh, an album I'm currently revisiting, Black Rebel Motorcyle Club's debut album.

    Stone cold classic.
    Good call on this album. They got lumped in with the garage rock revival trend at the start of the 00's but they seem to have more in common with bands like The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Telescopes rather than bands like The White Stripes. It's a great psych-rock album.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,479 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Sinfonia wrote: »
    'The Big Romance' :D
    My apologies.

    I was actually listening to it at the time :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,256 ✭✭✭bullpost


    New Gold Dream - Simple Minds. Listened to this again recently and it stands the test of time.
    They get a bad rap because of the ****e they produced later on but this album is packed full of great tunes.


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