Agreed.

I mean, if you played it to someone who'd never heard it before, they'd be all ''this is awesome.''

It's like The House That Wolf Built for dummies.

Is that the one with 'Why Does My Heart...' on it? Cause that's a good track.

I mean that in a good way.

I think so. This is the thread where you go into bat for reviled albums.

Joshua Tree

Maybe not as good as The Unforgettable Fire. Still fucking brilliant. It's not their fault it sold like 15 million copies.

Nickelback sell 15 million copies of anything too.

I have no stats to support this. I assume it's true.

Okay.

Tin Machine - Tin Machine. Don't understand why this one is loathed so much. For a start, after the valium LPs Tonight and Never Let Me Down it felt like Bowie was actually interested in making music again. Furthermore there were some pretty decent songs on there - haven't heard it for a few years but off the top of my head Heaven's in Here, I Can't Read and Under the God were all better than merely decent. I liked Reeves Gabrels' bizarre laboratory-style squealing horrible rock guitar.

Not saying it's a stone cold classic, but it gets treated like an absolute nadir of Bowie's career - I'd rather take this on a car trip than either of his preceeding two records.

NB: Yes, Crack City is horrible and hopeless, and ISTR there is on about video nasties that was pretty do-without-able as well.

McCartney 2

Released between the soft London Town (recorded on a boat!) and the commercial sounding Tug Of War. Loads of people dont realise this has a bunch of his best/weirdest moments on there. It has Coming Up, Temporary Secretary, Waterfalls. Plus some electronic instrumentals like Frozen Jap. It also has one of the most underrated Macca Ballads ''One of these days''. Its better than ''Yesterday''.

Meanwhile Lennon released that piece of shit Double Fantasy the same year.

God Bless Tiny Tim

Everyone hates it, few people have heard it. A bold blend of psychedelica and musichall it's not a novelty album - it's a unique artistic statement and an attempt to recover lost values. Think of a US Village Green Preservation Society with added ukelele. How can that be a bad thing?

FM - Macca 2's one of his best solo records for mine.

I also like McCartney 2, although again I haven't heard it for years. Temporary Secretary is nuts.

Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics

People listen to the covers of Purple Haze and Smoke On the Water and are are horrified at the clumsiness. But I listen to the covers of Son Of A bitch, Holocaust and hear something simpler and better than the originals.

Haha, I gave Graveyard Classics a spin a few weeks ago and had very similar feelings pc. It's also much funnier than I remember.

Have to agree on Tin Machine & Mcartney 2 - add the whole post Beatles Mcartney canon.
(in inverse proportion to the over-rated John Lennon)
The following are more damned by feint praise rather than reviled
Magic, Murder & the Weather - Magazine
The Blue Cave - Hoodoo Gurus
Final album syndrome?

Pablo Honey's not that bad, sure there's a couple of duds, but it's not terrible

Get Born - Jet

I know Jet are perennial chat whipping boys but there's something about this filmclip that sums up this album.

presidents of the united states of america - II

even if you did/do like this band, chances are you didn't/don't like this album. which is stupid, cos it's great.

ahaaa..more support for old Sting's cod jazz MOR pop..eat it earthsmoltencore!

I only listen to reviled albums. I draw the line at Sting mind you.

Satanic Majesty's Request is the second best Rolling Stones album, coming in behind the colossaly awesome debut LP.

Hells yeah for everyone who said REM's Up, I have probably listened to it more times than any other REM album. So great.

And I'll happily go into bat for Guided By Voices Do The Collapse. The production on Teenage FBI and Hold On Hope is awesome.

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

The only Floyd album I still listen to voluntarily. Roger Waters finally realised that the ''universal angst'' he sang about was actually a personal angst and decided to write some honest songs for a change. Can be a little heavy handed at times but it's got some great moments and is shirtloads better than the confused mess that was Animals.

god it's a brilliant album the final cut. kind of fucked my mind when I was a kid it's so good. gunners dream just blows me away so many beautiful little songs. Agreed it's heavy, but it is what it is..I reckon I haven't heard it for a while, I know if I went back and did it all over again I'd be an emotional wreck by the end of it. and the orchestration is just sublime...and yeah it's straight up lyrically..

well said JRB. you rule.

Stone Roses - Second Coming.

It's better than the other album. It has more guitar solos.

the REM album that does it for me is 'Reveal'.
So underrated, and a lovely poppy summery album...

And it's not exactly reviled, but....
Motley crüe's latest - 'saints of los angeles', was such an underrated return to form from last year. The title track is one of the beat they've ever done. Did not get the attention it deserved.

'in too deep' is awesome.

plus i can sing along to this whole album.

Matt Church and The Green Apples - Daisyworld

Oh brother, this is one pearler from Matt Church and The Green Apples.
The illusion of Matt being the shy guy with acoustic guitar in hand is shattered with this albu
Daisyworld does have its quiet moments, if you’re looking for an album of dreamy ditties and appropriate amounts of brooding, then look elsewhere.
Daisyworld is a heaving beast, gutsy and unpredictible.
Four stars

ABC's Beauty Stab. I paid full price when it came out (and still really enjoy it), but I also still can't get the image out of my mind of multiple copies for $1 in a bin at Dimmey's within months of release. This despite having 'SOS' on it.

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Yep. Musically an absolutely bizarre record, too - from the vocals to the arrangements to the production it is so malformed and unnatural and wrong that I almost feel sorry for it, which adds another layer of poignancy to the lyrics. As the years go on I am increasingly sympathetic to Rog's sixth form tirades against war, repression and (on The Final Cut) Thatcherism. He's right, after all, even if he is expressing himself in a particularly charmless fashion.

I totally agree with what jrb and _v said about The Final Cut, although I find it a bit pompous at times (especially side 2)

On a personal note I remember when it came out my Mum excitedly bought it home from the store and we listened to it and all went what is this shit? Get over yourself Roger. My Mum took it back to the store and exchanged it for Synchronicity (which didn't fare much better).

'death of a ladies man' by leonard cohen is probably my favourite album of his, it has this desperation that his other albums and while the arrangements sound cheesy at first. they really stand up after repeated listens, i would say it's his most musically varied album.

Wouldn't say it's a favorite but I dig it as well...Death Of a Ladies Man that is.

Stone Roses - Second Coming.

Yep. Though some of it makes me cringe (and The Foz can fuck right off), when it's good it's fucking blistering. And the balls on them to have an eleven-odd minute opener? Fucking yes!

Surfer Rosa - Pixies

Everyone hates this album but i love it. I'm the only cool person in the world.

Lateralus - Tool

Yes, I have a massive penis with which I fuck 18 year old girls.

DNichols said 5 hours ago:

ABC's Beauty Stab. I paid full price when it came out (and still really enjoy it), but I also still can't get the image out of my mind of multiple copies for $1 in a bin at Dimmey's within months of release. This despite having 'SOS' on it.

I havent listened to thisin ages. I remember liking it.

furthermore, despite montyclift and anonymous sniggering about my thoughts on genesis at the pub tonight, closing track 'the brazilian' is amazing and clearly served as the inspiration for some of the best songs by a young trent reznor.

including 'a warm place'.

CONTROVERSIAL BUT TRUE.

long bow to say we reviled it.

we were just commenting about your column (snigger snigger)