As it happens, I bought the 12" single of Diskomo when it came out and also have a 7" single of Duckstab. I don’t have a vinyl/cd release of Eskimo but I do have the dvd! Watched it a few times. 
My nomination would be the live album Stupidity by Dr. Feelgood. Little remembered, although it was a number one album in the UK when it came out in 1976.
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Saw him at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach California in 1975.
Don’t know about Dopers but I lot of people I know have never heard Jamming With Edward by the Stones minus Richards and Woods but with Ry Cooder and Nicky Hopkins.
Also Sufficiently Breathless by Captain Beyond gets a lot of “who’s that” from people I know.
I had a roommate in college who had a couple of Captain Beyond albums. IIRC the band was started by one of the former members of Iron Butterfly?
Same roommate had a couple albums by a group called Marc-Almond that I remember being very listenable. John Marc and Johnny Almond were part of John Mayall’s backup band on his “Turning Point” album. Which I guess is also a good one to mention for this thread, even though it’s not really rock, it’s more of a laid back acoustic jazzy-blues. If you’re familiar with “Room To Move”, that’s the most upbeat cut on the album.
Yes the guitarist Larry Reinhardt and bassist Lee Dorman were in Iron Butterfly. And yes I do have some Marc Almond as well, and you are correct that they really are not “rock”.
Breaking all the rules from Peter Frampton in 1981
Cool! Reminds me just a bit of Southern Culture on the Skids. Too Much Pork for Just One Fork is a terrific, fun album.
I had 4 Shawn Phillips albums, all via Wuxtry, the St. Louis used record shop. I named the two I liked best. My introduction to him was Contribution; it was my sister’s album. I loved Wuxtry for the unknown gems that could be found there.
Héroes del Silencio - Senderos de Traición
Open your minds and ears to Spanish rock.
Because you are all white children, I will share with you Mother’s Finest: Another Mother Further
I saw them in concert. It was not a good experience. The worst thing is that they opened the doors an hour late after we waiting outside in cold weather. Finally, they opened the doors and we went in. The band came out and proceeded to start a sound check. When the audience booed them, they got all huffy, like we were the ones to blame. No apology or explanation why an 8:00 concert didn’t begin until 10:30. And the music wasn’t worth the wait.
Our college had a track records of booking groups who no one had heard of at the time. Sometimes they hit it big – like the J. Geils Band or the Mahavishnu Orchestra.* Sometimes, though they never did, but put out some very good music. These included Dreams, Seatrain, and McKendree Spring.
*Though Mahavishnu insisted on playing at ear-splitting volume. If I go deaf, it’s because of that concert alone.
I have “Joy 1967-1990” in my CD collection, and it got a decent number of listens back in the day. Tried it again maybe 7-8 years ago, and it left me pretty cold.
This one probably doesn’t qualify for this thread, as the album went Gold in the U.S., and a couple of the tracks charted. But I think it’s criminally underrated and wrongly forgotten: “Boomtown” (1986) by David & David. Catchy music and gripping lyrics.
Boylan Heights by The Connells , 1987 also their albums Fun and Games and One Simple Word are very good too.
Good one.
One of my favorite albums, though only about 40% of it is “rock” (its range of styles is wonderful), is Re, by Café Tacuba.
Cool. About two years ago we had a thread “what if X had paired up with Y, a la Lennon and McCartney — would that have made for the cure of a cool band?”, and I suggested Page and Harper. Didn’t know until now that they’d actually collaborated a bit.
1985 — must have been just before Page formed The Firm with Paul Rodgers (and just after he’d done the music for Death Wish II.)
Agreed. Very eclectic album.
Aloha Sayonara by The Honolulu Mountain Daffodils. Title track. Stoogish rock with a black sense of humour. Some of the rest is more krautrock. Other albums also good.
The Street Giveth and the Street Taketh Away by Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys. They opened for Hendrix who produced the album - and it is beautifully produced. The hit was “Good Old Rock and Roll” but with a few exceptions the songs are even better than that one.
I have. But not recently. Duck Stab is their masterpiece IMO. Commercial Album was pretty good, too.
Mavericks (1995) by Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, (formerly) of The dBs
I didn’t know about it, either. Anyone else notice that the cover is designed to look like the Rizla (rolling papers) logo?