Albums by FAMOUS artists that don't get no respect!

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These are albums that are either undeserved blips on otherwise successful careers, or didn’t quite get the recognition by either the public or critics they deserved, despite the status of the band:

MOTLEY CRUE MOTLEY CRUE
Maybe one of the most overproduced heavy metal albums ever made, probably becuase Motley Crue just fired Vince Neil and had a new lead singer, and worked their balls off to make a good CD. Unfortunately, the Crue fans would neither accept the new lead singer, John Curabi, over Vince Neil, and thus the CD tanked. The good news is that Crue’s self titled CD is available in bargain bins all over! :smiley:

ROLLING STONES UNDERCOVER
This album did get into the top 10 in 1985 (?), but you rarely hear any of the tracks on the radio anymore. The lyrics catch the Stones at their darkest. Sado-masocshism, torture, serial killing, and assassination are topics of the songs. “Too Much Blood” and “Undercover of the Night” send frightened shivers up my spine.

LED ZEPPELIN PRESCENCE
The hardest rocking of all the Zep CDs, again, rarely gets radio airplay because it is also the most inaccessible of Zeps efforts.

BLACK SABBATH Headless Cross
OK I lied, this album is only Sab axer Tony Iommi and a bunch of metal castoffs. But his guitar is HEAVY, and vocalist Tony Martin’s vocals will break glasses and scare the kids. Doesn’t sound like a Sabbath record, but a must listen for all metalheads!

SIMPLE MINDS Good News From the Next World
Catches Jim Kerr and Co about 10 years from their heyday in their “Don’t You Forget About Me” years; good solid poppy tunes, with great vocals by Kerr. I’m suprised this radio friendly CD didn’t get more mainsteam play.

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AH! Moderator, I screwed up and accidentally posted twice; please kill off my previous thread! :o

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Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother. Granted this is early Floyd, before they started making their music Accessible, but the title track is a masterpiece, sort of a score for a gladiator movie. The second side has some great music (I’d also include “Summer '68” as one of their best).

Jefferson Airplane Volunteers – fairly obscure and just before the group became too self-important to live. But their version of “Wooden Ships” is brilliant and the music is great throughout.

Traffic Welcome to the Canteen – For contractual reasons, the album was released without Traffic’s name on it (it was credited to all seven musicians). It’s a great live album of the group’s best songs – including two from Dave Mason (who had rejoined the group for one last time) and another Steve Winwood song from the Spencer Davis days. (Admittedly, Traffic may not qualify today as a “famous” group, but they were very highly regarded when they were recording and are due for a rediscovery.)

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Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

Sinatra’s stirring foray into bossa nova with the great Jobim is underrated and criminally unknown to many music aficionados.