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TumblinDice76
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Radiohead OK Computer
Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
Neil Young harvest
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
AC/DC High Voltage
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TumblinDice76
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Radiohead OK Computer
Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street
Neil Young harvest
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
AC/DC High Voltage
Were these panned by critics at first? Current reviews of at least sojme of these are strong.
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matxil
Lou Reed - Berlin
(As far as I am concerned, his best album)
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windmelody
Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, and Bridges to Babylon are no masterpieces, yet they have more great moments than most reviews mention. A Bigger Bang has good moments as well, yet the album often sounds like a demo tape.
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Chacho
Speaking of "Emotional Rescue":
In my house, at this point, "Emotional Rescue" gets more air play than "Exile On Main Street". However, that could be because Exile got literally tons of air play from 1972 to 1980.
I believe that the ones who do not like "Emotional Rescue" on this forum, and it is widespread from what I can see, simply don't get it, or, have not been around very long.
How anyone could rate something like "Voodoo Lounge" or "A Bigger Bang" higher than "Emotional Rescue", I really do not understand.
In my opinion "Voodoo Lounge" should have been a 5 song EP, and I have no comment on "A Bigger Bang". I guess Voodoo and Bigger Bang are my own personal Critically Maligned LP's.
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RisingStone
Bob Dylan - At Budokan
Largely disparaged, dismissed or ignored by critics and Dylan enthusiasts alike over the years as his “Vegas” album. I feel there is rich musicality in the kaleidoscopic arrangement adopted for reinventing the material when it comes to the performances recorded and heard on this album. FYI see the customer reviews on amazon.co.uk — most of the voices are surprisingly positive.
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matxil
Lou Reed - Berlin
(As far as I am concerned, his best album)
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tomcasagranda
I can think of some albums I like that have been maligned unjustly:
1) Bridges to Babylon - my 3rd favourite Stones album
2) Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson
3) Ragged Old Flag (album) - Johnny Cash
4) Metallica - Reload
5) Mighty like A Rose - Elvis Costello
6) Pink Cadillac - John Prine
7) Borderlord - Kris Kristofferson
8) Old Ways - Neil Young
9) Hard Nose The Highway - Van Morrison
10) Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen
Either that, or I've got shocking taste in music.
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tomcasagranda
I can think of some albums I like that have been maligned unjustly:
1) Bridges to Babylon - my 3rd favourite Stones album
2) Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson
3) Ragged Old Flag (album) - Johnny Cash
4) Metallica - Reload
5) Mighty like A Rose - Elvis Costello
6) Pink Cadillac - John Prine
7) Borderlord - Kris Kristofferson
8) Old Ways - Neil Young
9) Hard Nose The Highway - Van Morrison
10) Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen
Either that, or I've got shocking taste in music.
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tomcasagranda
I can think of some albums I like that have been maligned unjustly:
1) Bridges to Babylon - my 3rd favourite Stones album
2) Henry The Human Fly - Richard Thompson
3) Ragged Old Flag (album) - Johnny Cash
4) Metallica - Reload
5) Mighty like A Rose - Elvis Costello
6) Pink Cadillac - John Prine
7) Borderlord - Kris Kristofferson
8) Old Ways - Neil Young
9) Hard Nose The Highway - Van Morrison
10) Human Touch - Bruce Springsteen
Either that, or I've got shocking taste in music.
I think you have to look at the historical (critical) aspect when viewing a recent ie contemporary Stones album being "maligned" - it's just not very good, rightfully so, because the songs they chose to be contemporary arguably got more hype/reviews about the way they were produced than the songs themselves: Saint Of Me isn't really any kind of stunning song, it's pretty much Stones by numbers; MAWGJ and Gunface are horrible songs. Trent Reznor couldn't make those any more interesting. The songs that work, that are good or great, on BRIDGES are the ones they recorded without any doodah, like Flip The Switch, You Don't Have To Mean It, Out Of Control, Thief In The Night, How Can I Stop, Too Tight, Lowdown...
The reason U2's arc jarring ACHTUNG BABY was critically claimed was because it was GOOD. It has good songs, great songs. The production was the icing of that cake.
Such subtle things as songwriting quality overpower production and flavor of the year production values. The Stones were very late to the game with BRIDGES. Think of Beck's ODELAY - it came out in mid-1996. The Dust Brothers basically peaked that year. Beck started on that LP in 1994.