list some albums we forgot about how good they are

hrd2imgn

Listening to the super shuffle, depressed how digital music has killed the album in ways....Silerfuck/Pumpkins/Siamese Dream comes up and I think this was a damn good album

list some damn good albums we all forgot about

Faith No More- Epic
Siamese Dream- Pumpkins
Thriller- MJ
And Justice For all- Metallica
Appetite- Guns and Roses
Blood Sugar Sex magic- RHCP
INXS Kick
Desisel and Dust- Midnight Oil
Joshua Tree- U2
Licensed to Ill- Beasties
Parachutes- Coldplay
No Code
Broken/Downward Spiral NIN
Pyromania- Def Lep
Sixteen Stone- Bush
Superunknown- Soundgarden
TOTD
Throwing Copper- Live
Brad- Shame

KM43590

Just sifting through my iPod, here's a few that I haven't heard in years. But back in the day I would listen to these day in and day out! I miss those days!

Beck - Odelay
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Blind Melon - Soup
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Collective Soul - s/t
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
DMB - Before These Crowded Streets
Deftones - Adrenaline
Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
Helmet - Aftertaste
HUM - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Melvins - Houdini
Offspring - Ignition
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Toadies - Rubberneck
Weezer - Pinkerton

hrd2imgn

so no one has awesome albums we may not at this point know or forgot how damn good they are eh?

mfc2006

Just listened to Damien Rice's "O" for the first time in over a year....wow. I sincerely hope he puts out another album soon!

Leezestarr313

Die Ärzte - Von kurz nach früher bis jetze

One of the German bands I listened to when I was younger, and I still can sing along to every fucking song. Silly, yet very much loved 80's German punk rock. I have to get this on vinyl.

adusick

KM43590 wrote:

Just sifting through my iPod, here's a few that I haven't heard in years. But back in the day I would listen to these day in and day out! I miss those days!


Helmet - Aftertaste
HUM - You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Toadies - Rubberneck
Weezer - Pinkerton

You really nailed it here. Takes me back to when I'd pore over an album for months before buying a new one. Now it's listen and delete, move on.

Some others -
Radiohead - OK Computer and The Bends
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Neil Young - Harvest
The Who Sell Out
Presidents of USA - s/t
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
Helmet - Betty
NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
Rancid - Out Come the Wolves
Velvet Underground and Nico
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hifi
Zeppelin I-IV

smarchee

The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

SatansFuton

The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Self Titled

I sometimes forget just how great they were before they sort of petered out. I think they're still around, but they never matched the greatness (or success, as they pretty much disappeared from the mainstream) of that debut album. It was the album that introduced me to "Kick Out The Jams", although they reworked the lyrics quite a bit.

Lifted

blind melon - soup

DewieCox

SatansFuton wrote:

The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Self Titled

I sometimes forget just how great they were before they sort of petered out. I think they're still around, but they never matched the greatness (or success, as they pretty much disappeared from the mainstream) of that debut album. It was the album that introduced me to "Kick Out The Jams", although they reworked the lyrics quite a bit.

Definitely a lost classic, which can't be said for alot of these, imo. So unique and a great time for music when something like this album could crack the mainstream. I think the 3 "hits" are my least favorite songs and their Kick Out the Jams may be my favorite. "Can't get your body out of my mind"


I could never forget how great every Zeppelin album is, and Crikey, No Code? The Radiohead stuff? Appetite For Destruction?!??!!!! among others....Hell, I practically knew those were great albums before I ever heard them.

SatansFuton

DewieCox wrote:

SatansFuton wrote:

The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Self Titled

I sometimes forget just how great they were before they sort of petered out. I think they're still around, but they never matched the greatness (or success, as they pretty much disappeared from the mainstream) of that debut album. It was the album that introduced me to "Kick Out The Jams", although they reworked the lyrics quite a bit.

Definitely a lost classic, which can't be said for alot of these, imo. So unique and a great time for music when something like this album could crack the mainstream. I think the 3 "hits" are my least favorite songs and their Kick Out the Jams may be my favorite. "Can't get your body out of my mind"


I could never forget how great every Zeppelin album is, and Crikey, No Code? The Radiohead stuff? Appetite For Destruction?!??!!!! among others....Hell, I practically knew those were great albums before I ever heard them.

Yeah, the three "hits" (actually, there were only two around here, Lump and Peaches, what other song got play there?), while good, have never been a highlight of the album for me. Maybe they just got played so much I lost interest in them, and they did get played a lot when the album came out. But for me it's always been all about Boll Weevil and We're Not Gonna Make It/Kick Out The Jams.

Their version of Kick Out The Jams was always on at parties when I was in high school, so it brings back a lot of memories. In fact I'm pretty sure the first place I heard it, even though I had the album, was at a party. It was a great party song too, if that rockin' intro and "I've been elected to rock your asses 'till midnight" doesn't crank the party up to 11, your party has no pulse.

Of The Aggie

SatansFuton wrote:

Yeah, the three "hits" (actually, there were only two around here, Lump and Peaches, what other song got play there?), while good, have never been a highlight of the album for me. Maybe they just got played so much I lost interest in them, and they did get played a lot when the album came out. But for me it's always been all about Boll Weevil and We're Not Gonna Make It/Kick Out The Jams.

Their version of Kick Out The Jams was always on at parties when I was in high school, so it brings back a lot of memories. In fact I'm pretty sure the first place I heard it, even though I had the album, was at a party. It was a great party song too, if that rockin' intro and "I've been elected to rock your asses 'till midnight" doesn't crank the party up to 11, your party has no pulse.

Kitty was the other hit and IMO the only good song from them.

As for most of the albums mentioned in the OP, I listen to those all the time and have never forgotten how good they were. I do like random mode a lot but still listen to full albums too. Having lots of vinyl that I actually play has made me still appreciate the album.

DewieCox

Of The Aggie wrote:

I do like random mode a lot but still listen to full albums too. Having lots of vinyl that I actually play has made me still appreciate the album.

Vinyl is definitely a big part of my appreciation for full albums, but even when I listen to my ipod I usually just shuffle by album.

May 30th

Tool-Aenima

kwdaley

I miss the pre-digital days (ie. the 80s) where you had an album that everyone seemed to own. No matter where you went, you heard songs from them played everywhere. You will never see this happen again...

Some examples:

Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Born in the USA - Springsteen
Kick - INXS
The Joshua Tree - U2
Bad - Michael Jackson (didn't own it, heard it everywhere)
Purple Rain - Prince

Sure I'm missing a few.

Newch91

The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen

Such a great album and that second side may be the best side I've ever heard on any album ever.

Suziemay

The Verve - Urban Hymns
Weezer - The Blue Album

dimitrispearljam

Lifted

fugees - the score

Get_Right

Death cab-plans
Beastie Boys-ill communication

goldrush

There are alot of albums listed here that I wouldn't say are 'forgotten' (Neil Young, GNR, Radiohead etc). Some that I'd forgotten and rediscovered recently are:

Paw - Dragline
The Four Horsemen - Nobody Said It Was Easy
Clutch - Elephant Riders