"Your little secret" albums
 

What albums do you LOVE that were not that artist's biggest hit?

I can name a lot, but I'm obsessing on Don Henley's first solo album: I Can't Stand Still. I've had it for years and go through huge obsession phases with it. I love the songs and the slightly under-produced sound. I Can't Stand Still, You Better Hang Up, and Long Way Home are favorites. The only thing missing is Stevie singing on one of the songs...I just can't decide which one!;) I so hear her singing "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" in Them And Us, but I don't know about the rest of the song.

I love Nirvana's Incesticide and Metallica's Master of Puppets. Master of Puppets was popular but not as much as their Black album. Also I really like Tom Petty's Hard Promises. There are a bunch of great songs on it including Insider.

"Quadrophenia" by The Who - My all time favorite album.
"Tunnel of Love" by Bruce Springsteen - Too amazing for words.
"Monster" by REM - Most people hated that they went harder but it's a really good album if you give it a chance.
"Here Come The Noisemakers" by Bruce Hornsby - Overlooked as one of the best live albums around.

Re: "Your little secret" albums
 

"Passionworks" and "Private Audition" by Heart.

Umm..
 

Tusk.

;)
lol

American Beauty.........Or Kiln House...you granny dressed
icons.......rule

Re: Re: "Your little secret" albums
 

OMG - I LOVE Private Audition, esp. "City's Burning"

"Young man is angry, girl is afraid
She want to get high, He want to get paid"

LOVE THEM!!!!

Bette Midler- "Divine Madness" (Her medley of E. Street Shuffle/ Summertime/ Leader of the Pack is absolutely jaw-dropping!!)

Tina Turner- "Break Every Rule" (She just plain rocks)

Tom Petty- "Pack Up the Plantation: Live" (one of the best live albums)

Blondie- "No Exit" and "Curse of Blondie" (Something for everyone: garage rock, punk, jazz, country, rap, blues...)

Madonna- "American Life" (Cheesy as hell, but a very guilty pleasure)

David Bowie- "Heathen" (Next to Ziggy Stardust and Scary Monsters, it's his best album ever)

Bjork and others- "Dancer In the Dark" Soundtrack (Love, love, love, love it! Catherine Deneuve sings on it!)

Anything from Sly and the Family Stone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

I have a lot...

No Doubt- Return of Saturn (I know that it did sell pretty well, but it never lived up to the success of their third (I think) album Tragic Kingdom .)
FM- Mirage (I know that this one did well too, but it's not too popular amongst the fans.)
Blondie- Plastic Letters, The Hunter, and their first album, Blondie.
No Doubt- The Beacon Street Collection.

Let's see....
 

Queen-"The Miracle"
Helloween-"Better Than Raw"
Yes-"Big Generator"
Stevie Ray Vaughan-"Couldn't Stand The Weather"
Triumph-"Never Surrender"
Queensryche-"Operation: Mindcrime"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-"Southern Accents"
Robert Plant-"The Principle Of Moments"
Gary Moore-"Run For Cover"
Metallica-"Master Of Puppets"
Paul McCartney-"Tripping The Live Fantastic"
Yngwie Malmsteen-"Odyssey"
King's X-"Out Of The Silent Planet"
Iron Maiden-"Somewhere In Time"
Dream Theater-"Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence"
Alice Cooper-"Raise Your Fist And Yell"
Blue Oyster Cult-"Imaginos"


Brian j.

Everything but the Girl - Amplified Heart
Everything but the Girl - Walking Wounded
Tesla - Mechanical Renascence
Prince - The Gold Experience
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Thelma and Louise - Soundtrack
Natural Born Killers - Soundtrack

Let's get the FMac stuff out of the way:

Every pre-Mystery To Me album
Paris-first album and Big Towne, 2061
Danny Kirwan-Midnight In San Juan & Hello There Big Boy
Peter Green-In The Skies and Little Dreamer
Bob Weston-There's A Heaven
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo-I'm Not Me
Billy Burnette-self-titled album from 1980
Rick Vito-all of 'em

Ok, the rest of the world: (there are so many, but I'll just keep listing until I get a hand-cramp)

Jethro Tull-Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses
Blue Oyster Cult-first album and Secret Treaties
Santana-Welcome
Carlos Santana-Havana Moon
Miles Davis-In A Silent Way, Filles De Killemanjaro, Miles Smiles
John Coltrane-Coltrane Plays The Blues, Coltrane & Ellington
Dwight Yoakam-Under The Covers (or the Europe release, La Croix D'Amour)
Rusty Weir-Stacked Deck (covers of "Don't Let Me Down Again", "Lola (My Love)" & "Think About It")
Billy Cobham-Spectrum 4
Mahavishnu Orchestra-Birds Of Fire
Souther, Hillman & Furay Band-first album
Stephen Stills' Manassas-first album
Neil Young-On The Beach
King Crimson-Red and Starless & Bible Black
UFO-Phenomenon
Alan Parsons Project-Tales Of Mystery & Imagination (his first album)
Robin Trower-Passion
Bryan Ferry-Boys & Girls
Roxy Music-Flesh & Blood (the album before Avalon)
Yoko Ono-her entire catalogue
The Pair Extraordinaire-Live In Buena Park (actually, it's my beautiful wife, Susan's album)
Bob Gibson & Hamilton Camp-Live At The Gate Of Horn (again, it's hers)

I could keep going, but we'd be here forever and I don't think there's that much bandwidth. :laugh:

Lindsey Buckingham - Go Insane
Prince - The Unnamed "Symbol" Album
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Madonna - Erotica

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

Re: Umm..
 

I KNEW someone would say that!:)

:eek: I can't believe I've uncovered another Yoko Ono fan around here besides me!!!:wavey:

:nod:

- Jake

albums
 

Rock a Little (did well but not best seller of Stevies records)
Rubber Soul ( I know this one did well, but I love it the most of all Beatle albums)
Who's That Girl (Madonna, and yes I even like the movie:eek:
BuckinghamNicks
Tusk

Wait a minute. You're actually suggesting that MTM or HAHTF were big hits? Or that you don’t love those two? :laugh:

I’d say every Welch-era album. Green-era gets its due in Europe alright.

Agreed! :nod: Also, The Other One.

And I will always insist on Out Of The Cradle. ‘Till the day I die.

Again in agreement. Also, Too Old To Rock’n’Roll!

SABB was their biggest hit in the USA. But yeah, their debut overshadows too many good records from their catalogue.

:laugh: Peaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

In addition:

Bob Dylan – Selfportrait, New Morning and Good As I Been To You
The Who – Who Are You
The Kinks – Their entire catalogue from 1968 to 1972.
The Move – All their albums.
Roy Wood – Boulders
Cockney Rebel – The Human Menagerie
Genesis – From Genesis To Revelation
Bee Gees – 1st (yes! :nod: )
The Beach Boys – Every album released between 1967-1977, except 15 Big Ones :distress:
Black Sabbath – Sabotage
Judas Priest – Sin After Sin (if only for “Last Rose Of Summer” :laugh: )
Alice Cooper – Dada
Sparks – Sparks, A Woofer In Tweeter’s Clothin’, Indiscreet, Big Beat, Introducing Sparks
The Clash – Sandinista!
Talking Heads – True Stories
Chic – Real People
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden, Laughing Stock
Yello – The first three, before they went mainstream.
Arthur Brown – Requiem
Associates – Fourth Drawer Down
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Unicorn, A Beard Of Stars
Pink Floyd – Animals
David Bowie – Low, Heroes
Iggy Pop – New Values
Nina Hagen – Nunsexmonkrock (don’t ask)

Yeah, I guess that does it for starters. ;)

Closet Faves
 

I love Yes's 90125 album. Tons of fans disregard the Trevor Rabin stuff because the songs weren't 30 years long and there weren't any fiddly synthesizer solos. They also complain about it's commerciality. However, if they would actually LISTEN to the album they'd see that every song is totally different from one another and that for 80's rock, it was pretty damn ambitious.

Aerosmith's Draw The Line album is also criminally underrated. Most consider it a step down from Rocks and a dissapointment because they lost the metal and just went back to bein' raw and rockin' and I think it's all the better for it. Listening to Draw The Line makes you feel like a badass who's at the coolest party ever. It was my first Aero album and remains my favorite. No ballads! ;)

I also really like the Mac stuff Future Games up to Heroes Are Hard To Find, which is my favorite Mac album. :) I refuse to stick up in any way for Tango or Say You Will.

King Crimson's Lizard is also considered one of the big missteps in their career, and in some ways it is. But you can't totally disregard the Crimson/Jon Anderson collaboration on "Prince Rupert Awakes." It's a beautiful vocal performance and a beautiful song. The first side has some devastatingly wierd stuff even by Crimson standards but is a compelling listen. I need to get this on CD!

I also actually prefer Magical Mystery Tour to Sgt. Peppers and also prefer Venus And Mars to Band On The Run. So shoot me!

Fleetwood Mac's Mirage and Tusk

Lindsey's Law And Order and Go Insane

Stevie's TISL

Heart's Passionworks

Sammy Hagar's Three Lock Box

The Babys' Union Jacks

Triumph's Thunder Seven

Alanis Morrisette-- Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

Madonna-- Bedtime Stories and Erotica

Stevie Nicks-- The Other Side of the Mirror and Trouble in Shangri-La (my 2 fave Stevie albums)

Thompson Twins-- Here's to Future Days (that's random one for ya) :laugh:

Nerina Pallot - Dear frustrated superstar

Lovely lovely simple singer songwriter ballads!!

Question...
 

What's the exact definition of "little secret" albums?

:confused:

Re: Question...
 

I would assume it would be low selling albums that only you think you know about

Let's see,

Fleetwood Mac - Penguin (enjoy every song, even the Dave Walker vocals, takes awhile)

Bob Welch - Eye Contact (JMO fantastic!)

Yes - Union

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe - S/T

Moody Blues - Octave

Allan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture

Dire Straits - Communique`

Mike Pinder - The Promise



"The Earth is good, why do we abuse it?"...Ray Thomas

Yes! There are Dire Straits and Alan Parsons Project fans!

~~

My albums:

Lindsey's Law and Order and OOTC (that's a no "duh!")

Chris' self-titled release

I'll list more when I think of them.

God bless! :wavey:

I should have had Chris's in my list also!



"The Earth is good, why do we abuse it?"...Ray Thomas

I don't see any for Stevie's Street Angel...

All 5 Fleetwood Mac albums from the Bob Welch period, especially my favorites, Mystery To Me & Heroes Are Hard To Find.

Also, Lindsey's Out of The Cradle
Both of Christine's solo albums
Billy Burnette's Try Me
Mick Fleetwood's Zoo-I'm Not Me(this is surprisingly good)

I cannot find that stinkin Zoo CD... :distress:

I love Cher's "Love Hurts" album.

That's because it's never been released on CD, only on vinyl. I have a CDR of the album.:)

Josh Joplin-Future that was, Useful Music and Projector Head
Meredith Brooks-Bad Bad One
Some cd by Jill Sobule (I can't remember the title)
Some cd by Rhett Miller (I can't remember the title on that either lol)

The last two I got free when my station was cleaning out cd's that were useless to it :)

Reviving an old thread. :)
 

"Street Angel", to name one. Also, I have great appreciation for Queen's 1980 album, "The Game".

The Game was a huge hit with 2 number one singles:shrug:

I was mistaken. For some reason I'm having a hard time remembering which album of their albums is the least liked. Is it Jazz?
Man, my memory is fuzzy right now.

maybe you should go back and listen it is a really good album

It may be "Made in heaven", "Hot space" or "The miracle".
However I have to say that "The game" is an album that, much like Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, has been reevaluated with time but when it first came out it went mostly ignored saved for its big hits and it has been much more successful in America than in Europe anyway.
Having said that I love Crazy Little Thing Called Love. My mother is a huge Queen fan.

I have a few, some unfavorable among fans or flopped critically/commercially or just ones I feel don't get enough recognition when talking about said artist.
Cher - Prisoner
David Bowie - Reality
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Nico - The Marble Index and Drama of Exile
Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
Mick Ronson - Slaughter on 10th Avenue
T. Rex - The Slider
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

You might be thinking of Hot Space.

Or am I thinking of Hot Space?

I think need to clear my brain of all the dust that has collected. Anyone have a vaccum I can borrow?