Lowly regarded early and/or late albums you like

Logan wrote: David Bowie is one that I thought about mentioning too. I really like the debut, and actually like the second too quite a lot (I love, say, Cygnet Committee off it). Pinups and Young Americans get neglected by me. I do love The Man Who Sold the World and the B side of Let's Dance. And actually, like The Next Day and heathen quite a lot. Much as I love lost of Bowie's 70's work, I adore Hunky Dory for instance, here's a case where his last, Blackstar, became my favourite of his. And I would rather listen to Genesis debut than anything after at least and Then There Were Three. And "The Serpent" off it is one of my favourite songs. Still, I way prefer the immediately subsequent albums to it. Trespass is a huge step-up for me.

I too think Bowie's second album is pretty good and I love most of The Man Who Sold the World. I like Let's Dance, Heathen and The Next Day too. The "comparison" to all of these (including the "classic" Station to Station and Diamond Dogs) were only in regards to how many times I've actually listened to them. There was a period of time shortly after I discovered the first Bowie album - and his earliest non-album tracks (as in The London Boys, In The Heat of the Morning, Let Me Sleep Beside You, Karma Man... all great) I listened to it almost daily. Something similar goes for that first Genesis album (but I still prefer every single Gabriel-era album over it). I know both albums were considered crappy non-starters. But I found these "the artist as a young man" releases - while still searching for their own voice(s) - enchanting - and adored both.