# The best album that no one heard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947 "2002-03-30T19:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/1 "2002-03-30T19:32:04Z")
Well, thanks to the movie thread I now have a lengthy list of films I want to check out, so in the same vein, here’s my list of amazing albums that (almost) no one I know listened to. **Boozoo Bajou** - Satta! **The Bobby Hughes Experience** - Fusa Riot **Dusted** - When We Were Young **Kid Loco** - Jesus Life For Children Under 12 Inches **Moloko** - Do You Like My Tight Sweater **Nightmares On Wax** - Carboot Soul **Syrup** - Different Flavours **Terra Nova** - DJ Kicks **Bahamadia** - Kollage **The Coup** - Party Music **Deltron 3030** - Deltron 3030 **DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist** - Slurped: Brain Freeze **Handsome Boy Modeling School** - So…How’s Your Girl **Marley Marl** - House Of Hits **Ozomatli** - Embrace the Chaos **Prince Paul** - A Prince Among Thieves **Quannum** - Spectrum **Stetsasonic** - In Full Gear **Ugly Duckling** - Journey To Anywhere **Tortoise** - Millions Now Living Will Never Die **Urban Dance Squad** - Artantica **Augustus Pablo** - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown **Bootsy Collins** - Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! **Cymande** - Cymande **David Axelrod** - David Axelrod **Fela Kuti** - Expensive Shit **Incredible Bongo Band** - Bongo Rock **Lafayette Afro Rock Band** - Darkest Light **Gil Scott-Heron** - Spirits ---
**Author:** ![ThePyroWeasel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@ThePyroWeasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThePyroWeasel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/2 "2002-03-30T20:30:21Z")
**Feelings** by David Byrne. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/3 "2002-03-30T22:06:42Z")
[_ **The Isle of Dreaming** _](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SQW4/qid=1017525843/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/103-6176559-8499044) by **Kate Price**. **cainxinth** , I was friends with a guy in college who turned us on to Bootsy Collins, especially that album you named, _Ahh… The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!_ ---
**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:** [March 30, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/4 "2002-03-30T22:37:29Z")
**Song Cycle** by Van Dyck Parks **Emitt Rhodes** **Kak** **Macdonald and Giles** **Siegel Schwall Band** **Renaissance** (Note – the “Ashes Are Burning” version of this group came later; these are different people and quite different) ---
**Author:** ![ignatius\_reilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/db5fbb/32.png) [@ignatius\_reilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatius_reilly)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/5 "2002-03-31T02:37:10Z")
**There’s Nothing Wrong with Love** by Built to Spill. **Country Love Songs** by Robbie Fulks. **Through the Trees** by The Handsome Family. **Dev’lish Mary** by The Hot Club of Cowtown. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/6 "2002-03-31T04:55:13Z")
I just ran across Deep Purple’s **Purpendicular** , from 1996 with Steve Morse on guitar. I had never heard of it, didn’t know any of the songs, never heard anybody talk about it. It’s a **great** album. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/7 "2002-03-31T06:16:19Z")
‘the dreaming’ by kate bush. truly a masterpiece. freaky and psychedelic as all get out. syd straw’s ‘surprise’ and ‘war and peace.’ awesome, the both. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/8 "2002-03-31T07:05:23Z")
Black Sabbath Vol. 4 or sabatoge ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/9 "2002-03-31T07:32:59Z")
**Let’s Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later On Tonight** and **Kids In Philly** by Marah **Fun?** by The Candyskins **Nurse** by Therapy? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/10 "2002-03-31T15:37:15Z")
Well, of all the albums in my all-tie Tp 50, the one that sold the fewest copies was… “Born to Laugh at Tornadoes” by Was (Not Was) I’ve never seen nother album with such an eclectic cast of guest artists: Ozzy Osbourne doing a rap number Mel Torme singing a torch song about suffocation The Knack’s Doug Fieger providing superb vocals o two songs tha DONTsound anything like “My Sharona” (who thought it possible?) Along with: Mitch Ryder Wayne Kramer of the MC5 Pretty much an musician who ever lived in Detroit ---
**Author:** ![Niobium\_Knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/11 "2002-03-31T18:47:40Z")
Any Cracker album, like Forever for example. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/12 "2002-03-31T19:15:11Z")
**Secret Treaties** - Blue Oyster Cult Don’t let their image or later stuff put you off - this is a masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/13 "2002-04-01T14:12:24Z")
**Ultra Vivid Scene** - Joy: 1969-1990 ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/14 "2002-04-01T14:35:43Z")
_oar_ by Skip Spence _Egyptology_ by World Party _The Blue Ridge Rangers_ by John Fogerty Any and all Chris Whitley albums, but especially _Terra Incognita_ ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/15 "2002-04-01T15:07:06Z")
Here’s something very difficult to listen to, yet funny as hell. It’s not music though. “Shakespear’s Lost Comedie” by the Firesign Theater ---
**Author:** ![ozonebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ozonebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozonebaby)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-album-that-no-one-heard/100947/16 "2002-04-01T15:24:30Z")
**Love Over Gravity** : A View From Inside