Underrated Albums from great bands?

[CFH]

A couple more, feel free to add your own.

Sepultura: Chaos AD - Often overshadowed by the more popular and experimental Roots, Chaos AD is an album of comprable quality. Sepultura's traditional thrash style has mostly been replaced by a slower, more groove-laden approach. Chaos AD also provided listeners with their first tastes of the experemental approach the band would take with Roots. This album demonstates why this band, along with Pantera and Slayer, almost singlehandedly kept real metal (ie not Metallica) alive in the 90's. Refuse/Resist and Territory are the more well known songs on this album, but Amen and Nomad as also standouts.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7ezd_SA4o

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=52nhSRD38hU

Babyshambles: Down in Albion - Ok, so they may not be a "great band" in terms of ground breaking originality or popularity, but Down in Albion is an outstanding album. I'm going to say something a bit controversial, but it's better than either of the more popular Libertines albums. An EP and another album have come out since Down in Albion, and the band is pretty much unknown in North America. Fuck Forever is probably the best known track on the album, but nearly ever song stands out as a remarkable piece of songwriting.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmoCxXXcwg

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GFnlCjg1OsI

[Trainer Monkey]

Pink Floyd-The Final Cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ZSSFYeNck

[Trainer Monkey]

The Exploited
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiM755xBz80

[Gandalf]

The Clash: Give 'em enough rope
Pulp: We Love Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Dont stand me down

[Trainer Monkey]

The Clash: Give 'em enough rope
Pulp: We Love Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Dont stand me down

Oddly Give Em Enough Rope is my fave Clash album,it catches the transition between the much cleaner stuff theyd do later,and the earlier go for broke style

[Gandalf]

The Clash: Give 'em enough rope
Pulp: We Love Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Dont stand me down

Oddly Give Em Enough Rope is my fave Clash album,it catches the transition between the much cleaner stuff theyd do later,and the earlier go for broke style

You break it down well there. Its definitely an album that slots stylistically right between the first album and "London Calling". The songwriting becomes richer and more complex than on the debut and hints at the confectionary that was to come next. Its an important Clash album IMO and stands up well. "London Calling" is my favourite, such a variety to the songwriting.

[Trainer Monkey]

The Clash: Give 'em enough rope
Pulp: We Love Life
Dexy's Midnight Runners: Dont stand me down

Oddly Give Em Enough Rope is my fave Clash album,it catches the transition between the much cleaner stuff theyd do later,and the earlier go for broke style

You break it down well there. Its definitely an album that slots stylistically right between the first album and "London Calling". The songwriting becomes richer and more complex than on the debut and hints at the confectionary that was to come next. Its an important Clash album IMO and stands up well. "London Calling" is my favourite, such a variety to the songwriting.

Dont get me wrong,London Calling is an allmost a perfect album,but it does lose the raunch factor that the first record had. Give Em Enough Rope hits the middle ground between the two,just look at the contrast between English Civil War and Stay Free.
I can never diss on London Calling,its practically a Beatles Album,in that,if you cant find a song you like on it,you obviously dont like music. But Rope caught them right in transition.
The Clash really might have been one of the most amazing groups to ever breathe air. In 1982 I cut my first mohawk,because Joe Strummer had one.

[Fenster]

Miles, you sound like Patrick Bateman

[Gandalf]

A couple more, feel free to add your own.

Sepultura: Chaos AD - Often overshadowed by the more popular and experimental Roots, Chaos AD is an album of comprable quality. Sepultura's traditional thrash style has mostly been replaced by a slower, more groove-laden approach. Chaos AD also provided listeners with their first tastes of the experemental approach the band would take with Roots. This album demonstates why this band, along with Pantera and Slayer, almost singlehandedly kept real metal (ie not Metallica) alive in the 90's. Refuse/Resist and Territory are the more well known songs on this album, but Amen and Nomad as also standouts.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QP7ezd_SA4o

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=52nhSRD38hU

Babyshambles: Down in Albion - Ok, so they may not be a "great band" in terms of ground breaking originality or popularity, but Down in Albion is an outstanding album. I'm going to say something a bit controversial, but it's better than either of the more popular Libertines albums. An EP and another album have come out since Down in Albion, and the band is pretty much unknown in North America. Fuck Forever is probably the best known track on the album, but nearly ever song stands out as a remarkable piece of songwriting.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmoCxXXcwg

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GFnlCjg1OsI

Babyshambles are pretty good. There are some cracking tracks on that debut album, but its a few tracks too long for me. Pete Doherty has a way with a tune, but his quality control check can sometimes be wayward.