Lowly regarded early and/or late albums you like

For some reason these click with me, but don't do well compared to their other albums (per PA/RYM ratings):

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^ Interview is the last GG I really liked, but I do like music off that album. I especially enjoy the first few albums by GG. I love Acquiring the Taste. Yummy.

^^ I love Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door and much prefer it to the subsequent Coda, and I prefer to the preceding Presence. It has "Carouselambra" which I adore, and I do love "All of My Love" off it. I love John Paul Jones in those. As for Saga, the self-titled debut is easily my favourite by the band, and I actually thought it was very well-regarded in its discography (at least by Prog fans, maybe not compared to many other bands). I love APP's first two album especially but have not heard the post Eye in the Sky albums.

Valdez wrote: Sometimes sufjan seems to repeat only because he's stuck in a spot and cant get out. (if that makes any sense) I love repetition if its done well.  This is on the extreme end of the subject but one of my favorites.

Gotta admit, now that Sufjan Stevens music sounds too repetitive to me. I kind of feel like he's doing some Nirvana meets Radiohead thing in that first song. It's hardly a favourite track of mine by him. And I do get what you're saying.

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Underappreciated "early" albums I love:

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I actually went out and bought the Mirror to the Sky CD from an Oxfam charity shop, even though they charged me £7 for it - which wasn't very charitable of them.

That's about £6 over the bar.

Paul Roberts and Baz as vocalists after Hugh Cornwell left the Stranglers... Wow do they get the critiques!!

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Am I wrong for simply loving Amon Duuls HIJACK?  lol.

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moshkito wrote: ...AMON DUUL 2 - DANCE OF THE LEMMINGS -- it might be the cover and how it just explodes in your imagination and you can't get out of it easily. But by the time you sit through the MM Soundtrack thing, with closed eyes and in the dark, you end up wondering where all this heavenly stuff is coming from. And then, if that is not enough, your mind, that appreciates art in all its styles, goes to get a cup of tea and spends its time wondering about "Mona Lisa has a bird brain" ... as you splash too much honey in your tea!...

Lots you mention that I like, and please don't consider removing your post even if it's not quite what I had in mind. That does not negate its value and I am not much of one of those "stick to a narrow topic" kinds of people. To me that can be really boring, I prefer more openness, and digressions can make the best reading and conversation. It also can be the most infuriating. Depends often on attitude and the open mindedness of the participants/ conversationlists.

I really like ADII, Yeti is a particular favourite album of mine, and I really like Tanz der Lemminge. While it often does get favourable reviews, I have noticed myself appreciating, and certainly recognising, the debut, Phallus Dei, more than many. It does have very good ratings at PA and RYM. To me it is one of the great albums of the 60s, but quite a few at PA don't seem to hold Krautrock in high regard or be very familiar with it. The post Wolf City album are not held in nearly as high regard (I like Vive la Trance, but don;t know the vast majority of later releases, only heard Made in Germany of post 1974 ADII albums).

Giant for a Day - Gentle Giant

^ Thanks, I was thinking specifically of the earliest and latest albums being lowly rated or regarded commonly as compared to the subsequent or previous albums. Say the first one or two and the last one or two. For instance, Genesis' From Genesis to Revelation is generally held in much lower regard than subsequent albums, but someone might still love it and hold it in much higher regard. It has a 2.83 rating at RYM compared to the subsequent Trespass which has a reputable 3.65. Incidentally, to me that's a fair rating for Genesis debut although I do like "The Serpent" off it very much.

^^ I like Buzzcocks too. Done well really does depend on taste commonly. I think one should very be careful when making claims of quality (objective). I've had so many people complaining about music as if it was poor over the years where kinds of thematic repetition are important to the structure that resonates so deeply with me. And some of those would then suggest music that does nothing for me and to me seems shallow and boring (for my tastes). To each their own tastes. I can't think of any artist whose music both moves me and interests me more than Sufjan Stevens. I;m sure some would complain about Beethoven's Seventh's second movement as being too repetitious, but it's one of my favourites. What sometimes gets to me with some arrogant people is that they act like they know better than the composers or appreciators what's good and lose sight of the subjective nature of appreciation. Of course there are some standards of good and bad and metrics to objectively gauge that, like on the imitative performance level.

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