Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Top Ten Underrated Records


Disco Stu's List:
1. Chris Bell "I Am The Cosmos"
2. Teenage Fanclub "Thirteen"
3. Mary Lou Lord "Live City Sounds"
4. Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun"
5. Fleetwood Mac "Albatross"
6. The Band "Northern Lights Southern Cross"
7. Marshall Crenshaw "Marshall Crenshaw"
8. Neil Young "Trans"
9. Graham Nash "Songs For Beginners"
10. Sparklehorse "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot"
Honorable Mention:
Elliott Smith "Figure 8"
Mike Nesmith "Loose Salute"
Mr. T Experience "Night Shift At The Thrill Factory"
NOFX "So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes"

Hendo's List:
1. The Figgs - Everything
2. The Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready
3. The Greenhornes - S/T and Gun For Hire
4. The Supersuckers - Must've Been High
5. MC5 - High Time
6. The Go - Watcha Doin
7. The Replacements - Sorry Ma... and Stink
8. Link Wray - Everything
9. Husker Du - New Day Rising
10. The Clash - Cut The Crap
Honorable Mention: The Ramones.

JoseReyesMVP's List:
10- The Verlaines-everything. jinglejanglejanglejing.
9 - Rory Gallagher- Deuce ('71) blues and more. my all time favorite white boy blues guitarist.
8 - The Haynes Boys-Guardian Angel ('96) before Tim Easton went solo. still his best work.
7 - The Only Children-Change Of Living ('04) former emo-screamo dude get's his Wilco/Band/Stones groove on.
6 - The Long Ryders-State Of Our Union ('85) take no country/RAWK prisoners. use this as a template
5 - The J. Geils Band-Full House ('72) the Geils Band Live.holyfuckinshit.
4 - Superchunk -Foolish ('94) buncha young punk rockers from North Carolina finally grew up with this masterpiece.
3 - The Mekons - The Mekons Rock'n'Roll ('89) railing against the music industry and anything else that got in their way
2 - Prisonshake- The Roaring Third ('93) fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
1 - Young Fresh Fellows- This Ones For The Ladies ('89) I've been banging my head against the wall for over 20 years trying to understand why this band never toured by private jet, never had a run on the Billboard charts, never played for Carson, never had billboards on the Sunset Strip, never had They Might Be Giants/Presidents Of The United States of America/The Rolling Stones open up for THEM!! The lack of mass appeal after this brilliant record sent me to the top of McDonalds on Central Ave. with a machine gun. Everybody's got their breaking point, this one was mine.

3 comments:

No Name said...

JoseReyesMVP - that list looks awesome. Def. gonna have to go check out the discs I've never heard of before. Thanks for giving me another reason to spend some $$. Seriously, though, the comments brought it home.

ezruh sellof said...

jose, also, the superchunk add, word. disco stu, you gotta lend me thirteen, i've never really checked out teenage fanclub.

Anonymous said...

maybe ill due a teenage fanclub post