Most Underrated Album By These Groups:

NEWGUY562 · 05-21-2012, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Itunesucks

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo you (I think that there are some real winners on here. Of course we always hear the overplayed Start Me Up which drives me crazy. But Waiting on a friend is my fav stones song)

The Beatles - Please Please Me (I'm going with this one because it was the debut album and really launched the ground work for the later albums which are so heavily praised, for good reason)

The Kinks - Face to Face (Kind of what you said)

The Who - Quadrophenia (This album is the boooomb, my favorite of theirs. Much more listenable than Tommy and not as overplayed as Who's Next. Almost every song has a catchy hook and some great music.)

Pink Floyd - Animals (Its lyrics described various classes in society as different kinds of animals...that's all that needs to be said.)

Genesis - Invisible Touch (Pretty much every song on here is a winner. If you guy in expecting to find the mystery to life, you'll be disappointed. But it's a great pop album)

The Doors - Morrison Hotel (Again some more good tunes on here and if we're talking UNDERRATED this is it. Peace Frogs, Road House Blues, Waiting for the Sun)

another thing i like about quadorphenia is that it's a story but all the songs on it sound great musically

with certain story albums the songs just arent great enough on their own. i prefer quadrophenia over tommy...

At first when i checked out genesis i prefered their 70's prog work over their 80's pop but seriously every song on invisible touch was perfect for television...seriously check it out every song on that album is featured in either a tv show/movie/commercial. Wow!

In the film American Psycho, protagonist Patrick Bateman proclaims that Invisible Touch is the group's "undisputed masterpiece," discussing its virtues at length with two prostitutes he has hired for the evening. The scene represents a chapter in the Bret Easton Ellis novel where Bateman muses about the significance of the album. "In Too Deep" plays during this sequence.[6]

During the late 1980s, instrumental excerpts from the track 'Domino' were used on the BBC TV sports program Grandstand, as a bed over which presenter Desmond Lynam previewed what was coming up in that day's program.

"The Brazilian" is used in the television show Magnum, P.I. episode titled "Unfinished Business". "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" was used in the Season 7 episode "Laura" which featured Frank Sinatra in his last acting role.

"Land of Confusion" was used in "Freefall," the final episode of the 1980s cop show Miami Vice (a show on which Phil Collins had guest starred) during a scene in which the characters Crockett (Don Johnson) and Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) were in the middle of a stakeout. The song implied the complexity of the story during the finale.

"In Too Deep" was also used in the 1986 film Mona Lisa starring Bob Hoskins.

In "Old Stan In the Mountain" episode of American Dad! the song "Invisible Touch" was used as the theme music for Francine and Roger's dance.

sopsych · 05-21-2012, 10:11 PM

I'm not familiar enough with most of the bands' catalogs to say. At least with Genesis, I'm familiar with much of the material released from 1980 on. Probably the self-titled album is the most underrated, as many of the songs were good to get airplay despite not being singles and there is a nice mix of ballads and prog-rock.

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sopsych Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: indoors Posts: 722	I'm not familiar enough with most of the bands' catalogs to say. At least with Genesis, I'm familiar with much of the material released from 1980 on. Probably the self-titled album is the most underrated, as many of the songs were good to get airplay despite not being singles and there is a nice mix of ballads and prog-rock.