# Albums perhaps not widely known that you think should be huge **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161 "2017-08-20T01:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scoots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@scoots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scoots)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/1 "2017-08-20T01:39:38Z")
I’ll start off with this album. A band with left wing, anti-nazi, anarcho punk sensibilities but I don’t think this album (or the band themselves) ever got the recognition it or they deserved. Pointed lyrics and great harmonies but the main thing is the really catchy tunes. [Chumbawamba - Swinging With Raymond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9u6FESPLA) Anti Nazi tune - [The Day The Nazi Died](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxfc7vvlQp0&list=PL1977F284C16C4036) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Dope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dope)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/2 "2017-08-20T01:45:00Z")
Foxing - Dealer ---
**Author:** ![scoots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@scoots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scoots)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/3 "2017-08-20T01:56:00Z")
With respect to the previous post. Ideally - post youtube links of albums so we don’t have to go searching 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/4 "2017-08-20T04:11:53Z")
[Shpongle - Tales Of The Inexpressible](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1QqeTnX8Kc) ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/5 "2017-08-20T04:41:17Z")
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/6 "2017-08-20T06:19:32Z")
**The Jayhawks** _Hollywood Town Hall_ Not a stinker on the whole album. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/7 "2017-08-20T06:24:54Z")
“Fun?” by the Candy Skins should have been one of the best-selling albums of 1993, but sadly, it wasn’t. ☹ It was in heavy rotation on my local college radio station, and it sounds just as good now as it did back then. The single, “Wembley”, has a terrible video. That didn’t help matters. "Everybody Loves You" "You Are Here" [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IFIuFtVgLik/maxresdefault.jpg "You Are Here The Candyskins") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFIuFtVgLik) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/8 "2017-08-20T06:29:30Z")
anything by bad religion or social distortion… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/9 "2017-08-20T07:10:01Z")
Big Star in general should have been bigger, but their first two albums (#1 Record and Radio City) come immediately to mind, with tracks such as “Thirteen” and “September Gurls” and “Don’t Lie To Me” and “Life Is White” having been tailor-made for radio and movie soundtracks. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/10 "2017-08-20T10:21:23Z")
[The Negro Problem - _Welcome Black_](https://g.co/kgs/AejLNs). (2002) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/11 "2017-08-20T10:37:08Z")
**Tasty** by Good Rats. They were a Long Island band with a NY/NJ following, but limited popularity the farther from New York you got. **Tasty** didn’t have a wasted cut on it. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/12 "2017-08-20T10:43:50Z")
I always thought that Permanent Waves by RUSH was great but overshadowed by the great albums Hemispheres and Moving Pictures. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/13 "2017-08-20T11:36:03Z")
[Emitt Rhodes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emitt_Rhodes). His self-titled album was the perfect pop rock Songbook, without a weak track anywhere. Any of the songs could have been a hit single, but the record Company botched the promotion and stupidly wrecked his career. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/14 "2017-08-20T12:05:42Z")
[Roots by Sepultura](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2f8kd1d278) is widely known, but massively underappreciated. It’s probably the best heavy album of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Madness2017](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Madness2017](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madness2017)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/15 "2017-08-20T22:11:38Z")
I would throw out there a band that is relatively not known to the mainstream and they are 3 who released a album call The Ghost You Gave To Me. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/16 "2017-08-21T04:45:42Z")
fg ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/17 "2017-08-21T23:15:28Z")
The best rock album recorded thus far is relatively unknown: [Refused - _The Shape Of Punk To Come_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHhe6ziuo3k) If you ever see a copy of [_History of American Rock and Roll_ by Combine](http://www.allmusic.com/album/history-of-american-rock-and-roll-mw0000179876), grab it! Ditto for [The Brains eponymous 1980 debut](http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-brains-mw0001879389). And of course, the finest gem in my collection: Trees of Mystery’s _Mooks On Parade_. > [@Art\_Rock](#): > > Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet. Excellent pick, **Art**. Also excellent username/post combo! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/18 "2017-08-23T04:20:48Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > I always thought that Permanent Waves by RUSH was great I really like their 1990 album “Presto”, which is MHO their most radio-friendly. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/19 "2017-08-24T11:22:35Z")
‘How Dare You!’ by 10cc is amazing and barely considered any more. MiM ---
**Author:** ![robz2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f8ce5/32.png) [@robz2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz2)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-perhaps-not-widely-known-that-you-think-should-be-huge/794161/20 "2017-08-24T18:48:51Z")
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