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Lost Classic Albums

Pere Ubu - Modern Dance; not lost but truely great and not listened to anywhere near enough.

The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy; a rock lp to make you smile from ear to ear.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice
 
alexisonfire said:
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy

I love that album, especially 'Wish You Well'.

I would say myself that 10,000 Maniacs 'In My Tribe' is a bit of a classic.
 
imaginationdead said:
The Modern Lovers - 'The Modern Lovers'

:D great, & very much lost for a number of years!

The first money mark album is great too.

Large Professor's "the LP" is brilliant, but got sat on by the record company for years & only eventually got a limited release in 2002, 6 years after it'd been finished, which is a real shame.
 
Loop - Heavens End
The Jam - Setting Sons (not lost & forgotten but underrated imo)
Jonathan Richman - Rockin' and Romance
Big Audio Dynamite - Tighten Up Vol. '88
 
Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon

When people get all misty eyed about early 90s dance albums its usually Orbital, Underworld, Prodigy and Leftfield that get the most mentions. But this album (in fact Meat Beat Manifesto in general) is often forgotten about, which is a shame as it's fucking brilliant and still gets regular plays in my house :)
 
i've an excellent late 60s canadian garage/psych album by a band called 'the rainbow press' (the sunday funnies) which i've been unable to find any information about at all, but which is also superb from beginning to end... they sounded like a rather more upbeat belle & sebastian. and were ace.
 
Taz - Analyze This. Played it again last night and it really is one of the best undiscovered UK hip-hop albums ever i reckon. Can't get the tunes out me head today.
 
I may be influenced by the fact that I've just listened to it, but Babybird's "There's Something Going On" is truly beautiful and disturbing in parallel. Stephen Jones really knows how to hit the emotions.
 
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Fantastic and why is it so difficult to get in the UK?

It was £3 in Fopp about 6 months ago.
 
In On The Kill Taker for me

Most people prefer their old stuff, 13 songs seems the most popular. It puzzles me a bit. To me, the last three albums are way more innovative, tuneful and have better lyrics. Just all round much better. I'm not a massive punk fan so I kinda do prefer the rhythmic indie stuff and hearing guy's great voice more than ian mackaye yelling. What do you and most people prefer about the old stuff? I don't get it.
 
Most people prefer their old stuff, 13 songs seems the most popular. It puzzles me a bit. To me, the last three albums are way more innovative, tuneful and have better lyrics. Just all round much better. I'm not a massive punk fan so I kinda do prefer the rhythmic indie stuff and hearing guy's great voice more than ian mackaye yelling. What do you and most people prefer about the old stuff? I don't get it.

I like the more ambient later stuff too. But IOTKT is one of the best punky albums I've ever heard...
 
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