Underated classics

[gibbin82]

Not really a Glastonbury topic but please forgive me as I browse through my albums to tide me over until next June I came across a few albums I consider undiscovered classics and wondered what you have in your collection you consider falls into this category? Please post your forgotten classics with a few background notes and if possible a link to a stand out track.

For my contribution one of the albums I really can't understand never really made it is Jackson Heights album Kings Progress. FYI Jackson Heights was formed by bass player Lee Jackson who was a member of The Nice prior to Keith Emerson disbanding it to form the legendary prog rock band Emerson Lake and Palmer. A much simpler style of music than the Nice, Kings Progress was Jackson Heights debut album. Never selling in great numbers it later became a sought after cult album for vinyl / valve amp enthusiasts. For the music trivia people out there another member of Jackson Heights was Brian Chatton (keyboards and vocals) who played with Phil Collins in a band called Flaming Youth before he joined Genesis. One of the stand out tracks was a reworking of the Nice track The Cry of Eugene, have a listen below and see what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0M0KwX7jH0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Edited July 24, 2013 by gibbin82

[grumpyhack]

Pretty well anything by the Small Faces. A much underrated group, just seen by many as a 'Mod' band. But they begat a Rolling Stone, Rod Stewart and left a great legacy.

Worth exploring Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.

[mr gumby]

I won't post clips as I've got a shit phone that won't let me, but here's a few suggestions. Maybe if anyone with a better phone or computer, they could put up a clip or two.

Flaming Lips - Clouds taste metallic.

Nick Cave - Nocturama.

Ben Folds Five - Whatever and ever amen.

All About Eve - Touched by jesus.

Van Morrison - No guru, no method, no teacher.

Nirvana - In utero.

David Gilmour - On an island.

Midnight Oil - Blue sky mining.

The Silencers - Seconds of pleasure.

Counting Crows - Recovering the satellites.

Marillion - Brave.

[Ed209]

Explosions in the Sky's score for 'Saturday Night Lights'

One of my favourite albums of all time

http://youtu.be/7KCA4U0UuJ4

[Guest]

Rod Stewart was never in The Small Faces

just sayin'.....

neither was Woody

They were in (The) Faces, which is what they became after Steve Marriott left, and it was with him that those (Ogdens, All Or Nothing and countless others) great records were made.

(The) Faces were great too.

[mrtourette]

I think the point was that without The Small Faces we wouldn't have had The Faces, and the careers of Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart would have been completely different.

And what's the definition of underrated anyway? Or is this just a thread to name our favourite albums?

[Northernsoul45]

morrissey - vauxhall & i

best solo album of his career and easily one of the top albums of the 90's

cousteau- cousteau

what a great voice the singer liam has

jeff buckley - grace

(probably not underrated for many on here, but i think age dependent with that one)

still gutted i never saw him live

elliot smith - figure 8 , either / or

thankfully i did see him live...sadly now gone:-(

[Guest]

I think the point was that without The Small Faces we wouldn't have had The Faces, and the careers of Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart would have been completely different.

And what's the definition of underrated anyway? Or is this just a thread to name our favourite albums?

[mrtourette]

The Faces weren't mentioned...

[zero000]

Sea Change - Beck.

A real album of heartbreak and probably Beck's career peak so far.

[CaledonianGonzo]

I wish Mac was still with the Stones rather than Chuck Leavell.

[Guest]

True, but the guy didn't actually say that Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood were in The Small Faces either. But like you say it doesn't really matter.

[Guest]

I wish Mac was still with the Stones rather than Chuck Leavell.

[CaledonianGonzo]

did either of them make much difference?

[Guest]

Agreed he was - whether or not that was him, having to follow Moon, or the fact that Face Dances was just terrible music, I don't know.

Fair enough about the writing - he co wrote with Rod as well didn't he - although two of my favourite Small Faces songs, Long agos and Worlds apart and up the wooden hills were written by Mac. Maybe he was under used.

[Guest]

I'd take Nicky Hopkins or Stu over either of them, though.

[tommyds]

Amazing album. I have an original mono vinyl copy. Sounds fantastic.

[tommyds]

I've always felt that The Band don't get enough respect for their non-Dylan related output

[Guest]

I'd never considered The Small Faces as being underrated, I thought they were acknowledged as one of THEEE great bands..?

Underrated classics..? isn't that an oxymoron?

A Ghost Is Born - Wilco?, Number 5 - Steve Miller Band, 12 Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus - Spirit

oooh loads

[Guest]

I've always felt that The Band don't get enough respect for their non-Dylan related output

[Guest]

I'd say they were underrated. People who aren't bothered about music have heard of most other 60s bands but wouldn't have heard of Small Faces. (I'm pretty sure there's no "the" in Small Faces or Faces. I am willing to be proved wrong though).

[tommyds]

It is and it hasn't.

[tommyds]

Paid £150 for it on ebay. Thought it was worth more so worth investing. Then realised I will never sell it so it doesn't really matter.

I had a mad vinyl ebay summer last year. Maxed out my credit cards on a fair bit of rare sixties mono vinyl. Ogden's was the one that started it off, then I went a bit crazy, going all alpha male if I was getting out-bid. Paid way over the odds for Let it Bleed, but got bargains on that and The Doors.

Proper skinted me for months and still paying it all off now, but don't regret it for a second.

[Guest]

That's gotta be worth a few hundred then.

Speaking of Bowie, you probably know, but if you ever see a gatefold where he has dog's 'nads as well as legs, they're worth a fair bit as they got censored and airbrushed out later on.

[gibbin82]

The Small Faces Ogdens Nut Gone is a great album, it isn't really underrated but good to be reminded of it as I haven't heard it for ages and will have to give it a listen again. As for Rod Stewart not being a member of the Small Faces auguably it could depend on which side of the Atlantic you live, as the first Faces album was released in the US as First Steps by Small Faces. There is also a tenuous link with Rod Stewart to Lee Jackson of Jackson Heights, when Rod was still trying to establish himself as a successful solo artist and before his fame with the Faces, he did a session in 1969 for a band called Python Lee Jackson (unfortunately that is where the link ends as it wasn't the same Lee Jackson as the Jackson Heights one ). The session was recorded by the late great John Peel and Rod was paid the huge sum of a new set of seat covers for his car (which shows how big a name he was then). Despite the lowly fee it IMO it produced one of best tracks Rod has ever sung on called In a Broken Dream. It was re-released in 1972 and became a worldwide hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyEsgO75bMI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Edited July 28, 2013 by gibbin82