I agree. Big Star should be much bigger than it was.
Laura Nyro’s three great albums from 1968-70:
ELI AND THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION
NEW YORK TENDABERRY
CHRISTMAS AND THE BEADS OF SWEAT
The Replacements three great albums of the '80s:
LET IT BE
TIM
PLEASED TO MEET ME (which includes “Alex Chilton,” maybe their best song ever and their tribute to Big Star.
This is a great album, but I can’t be surprised that the album doesn’t get airplay when the title track is a seven and a half minute song without lyrics until a minute in that bounces in and out of 5/4 time.
Hey! “Take 5” is five and a half minutes, has no lyrics whatsoever, is 5/4 throughout, and gets airplay! 
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The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall.
Badfinger’s Wish You Were Here album. Released and withdrawn by Warner Brothers within weeks, it never stood a chance. The Pete Ham suicide and Stan Polley make it all that much worse. Tough to listen to time capsule.
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Hot Tuna should be so popular that Jack and Jorma should be living on a tropical island being tended constantly by naked beautiful island girls who hold coconuts full of tasty rum drinks to their lips.
But then they wouldn’t be touring to my city to delight me and all the other old hippies.
Two of the best albums ever:
Marillion- Clutching at Straws. I don’t know how big it was in Europe but it got no airplay in the US. I could still listen to it everyday. I would also say Misplaced Childhood but that at least had their only US hit.
Robbie Robertson- Self titled first solo album. Amazing songwriter. Also another album I could listen to front to back every day for the rest of my life.
Touch. 1969.
Album cover here.
Yeah, I’ve always thought of them as a one-hit wonder (“Tubthumping”)—I’ll have to check out this album, and at least some of the others mentioned in this thread. Thanks, everyone!
I could probably think of quite a few albums that fit the description in the thread title, but I’ll limit myself to two, at least for now:
Lulu by Trip Shakespeare.
Sticks and Stones by the 77s. (Some guy with a blog called “An Atheist’s Guide to Christian Rock” makes an extended case for this album here.)
It’s an album of two halves - quiet and loud. The first side is acoustic, folky. On the second side the band joins in.
Clutch Blast Tyrant
Love Big Star. Love Television’s Marquee Moon. Love My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless and Isn’t Anything. There are many albums who have their respect and cult followings that should be bigger IMHO.
An album I’ve spoken of in this type if thread is Jet’s Get Born. It has the Apple iPod song Are You Gonna Be My Girl, and pretty much every song was licensed for commercials.
To me, it’s like Shake Your Money Maker by the Black Crowes. At first listen, it feels like it’s been in my rotation forever. Solid songs that show their influences clearly - and they are influences I like - but a bit of something that keeps them from sounding like a faded retread. And it sounds great - the guitar and amp sounds are some of the best I’ve heard in recent recordings.
It’s a classic that gets regular play in our house.
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime - still jaw-droppingly awesome 35 years later.
Pentagram should have been a lot bigger, as big as Black Sabbath, but the reason they weren’t had a lot to do with their own self destructive tendencies.
Jeb Loy Nichols was in a band that fused reggae, dub, folk & alt-country:
Fellow Travellers, Things And Time.
Huh, it’s not on iTunes. Here’s Just a Visitor…
Could not agree more! I still listen to it weekly. D. Boone RIP.
NRBQ: “At Yankee Stadium.” Great vocals, guitar playing, songwriting. not a wasted cut.
I’m listening to Sopwith camel right now. This is a great thread. thanks, OP and all.
