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Albums which were dismissed upon release, but time has turned them into classics.
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CliveWalkerWingWizard
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Five leaves left/Pink Moon Nick Drake
Market Porter
Or The Globe
Vardis - 100 MPH :guitar:
spring hall convert
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Anything by The Velvets or The Stooges.
Cosmic Joker
The Motorik
Was about to suggest the Velvet Underground & Nico, so agree
The three orginal albums by NEU! and a number of albums by Can
The first five Black Sabbath albums, espcially Paranoid and Volume Four - far to noisy and heavy for jazz/prog oriented critics in the early 70's
I believe a lot of critics didn't "get" the Led Zeppelin albums on first release either
The three orginal albums by NEU! and a number of albums by Can
The first five Black Sabbath albums, espcially Paranoid and Volume Four - far to noisy and heavy for jazz/prog oriented critics in the early 70's
I believe a lot of critics didn't "get" the Led Zeppelin albums on first release either
tonymgc
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So many people said it was rubbish but i prefer it if i'm honest.
clapham_gull
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I really like Queens first album which was largely ignored on release.
Unbelievable listening to it that the same band would knock out such nonsense like "The Invisible Man" years later.
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Unbelievable listening to it that the same band would knock out such nonsense like "The Invisible Man" years later.
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Another one which comes to mind is Springsteen's Tunnel of Love.
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It certainly does not get the credit it deserves.
Super Steve Earle
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The Invisible Man is brilliant and especially the video. anyone load it up? Stunning soloing from Brian.
clapham_gull
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It's as if Bob Dylan had released the Birdy Song.
spring hall convert
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Good picks. I find it hard to believe tha Can weren't critically adored. They are almost perfect.
clapham_gull
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Dismissed as the last throw of the dice by a band rapidly disintegrating, since been voted Best Album of all time by Newsnight viewers
Yes very good album.
Not so sure about that: Five Leaves Left was well, if not rapturously, received but Pink Moon attracted some rave reviews. I remember listening to it on the strength of the reviews and being rather disappointed - I've grown to love it now. It's certainly true to say that all three ND were commercial disasters in his lifetime but they were a long way from being dismissed.
Not so sure about this either. Can were an archetypal critics' band - virtually all their albums got good reviews.
My choice would be Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, which was dismissed as the ravings of a lunatic and is now seen as one of the greatest rock albums of all time
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The Kinks - Village green preservation society.
Released in 1968 when flower power & all that hippy shit was at its peak. The most underated songwriter of all time was dismissed for singing about Village greens, sherlock holmes & draught beer.
Released in 1968 when flower power & all that hippy shit was at its peak. The most underated songwriter of all time was dismissed for singing about Village greens, sherlock holmes & draught beer.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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'Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts' 
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Dismissed as the last throw of the dice by a band rapidly disintegrating, since been voted Best Album of all time by Newsnight viewers
I would have posted this if you hadn't beaten me to it.
The Modfather
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The La's self titled album