Alright, there are thousands of great albums out there. Let's find the little gems everyone else overlooked (or forgot they existed). I'll start.
Miami - the Gun Club (1982)
>Heavily blues-influenced post-punk, with country undertones.
>Has aged surprisingly well. The production is not as cheesy as the year suggests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtqAgaPML8
s/t - Aerial M (1997)
>Instrumental solo project of David Pajo
>Proto post-rock, sometimes reminiscent of Tortoise or Duster
Smoke Em If You Got Em - the Reverend Horton Heat (1990)
>Quite based psychobilly with insane guitar work, gritty vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f12LYWyXELc
bump lads
Great idea for a thread
Some Boots - Karate (2002)
>>poetic vocals, emo undertone
>>crisp clean production
>>crazy jazz guitar solos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvBKc17_3qM
>>71749293
nice, I'm feeling it
also bump for interest
Boris - Flood (2002) (got into tournament but only because I responded to it myself)
>mixes drone, ambient, metal, stoner rock, and classical
>an overlooked post-rock masterpiece
>doot doot doot
>skip Flood I for the real shit
Television Landscape - William Brittelle (2010)
>art rock/pop, tones of Bowie, Bon Iver, Talk Talk, but also very unique
>nice arrangements w/ strings, interesting guitar work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEjNvKcj8g
Deceit - This Heat (1981)
>absolutely one-of-a-kind, a pioneering work of post-punk, you can still hear their influence today on bands such as Viet Cong
>all over the place with some downright creepy songs, themes of nuclear warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZMhAM2SqU
>>71749353
Purplene - S/T (2004)
>>similar but no jazziness
>>Albini produced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY0p0ZSSfRw
>>71749526
forgot pic
Dead Frenchmen - Wonderland (2007)
>Decent post-punk revival in the vein of interpol.
>Well crafted. Perhaps not exceedingly original but I don't think it deserves to be forgotten like it has
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL8ULz0jJKU
Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)
>one of the very few great grunge albums post-In Utero
>some sick-ass riffs with pounding drums, also lyrically interesting with regards to addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3eeyLQ164
This Thread Is Comfy As Fuck
>>71749706
Try and keep it alive, I'll post more tomorrow morning
>>71749706
No fags allowed, read the sign
>>71747001
For anyone with oughties nostalgia, this is the album with Psychobilly Freakout from GH2.
Really good song.
>>71747001
RHH is one hell of an underrated band. I've never seen them talked about here ever. This, Full Custom Gospel Sounds, and Martini Time are fantastic albums
>>71749865
Agreed. Heat is a fantastic guitar player
>>71749922
I got into him via GH2 as a youngin' and almost went to see him live as a teen, I wish i did
This is a really god damn thread idea, OP youve earned one (1) bj.
My rec is Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (jazz, 1971)
I shill this shit all day on here, so much so that one of you might've even seen me doing it, and its fuckin worth it.
An overlooked and underrated opus of 70s jazz, this album takes you on a journey that spans the range of what jazz had to offer in its hey day. Every track is its own adventure and has its own distinct sound, yet they flow together brilliantly. This album also functions well as a good entry level album for beginning jazz listeners. It's at times melodic, soothing, abrasive, groovy, spacey, and nuts.
Plz listen thx.
>>71750115
Any track in particular?
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Planning Weed Like It's Acid / Life Is Loss: Pop Songs 2015
>Noise Pop, Shoegaze, Dream Pop,
>The only band within the realm of shugazi doing any real, notable experimentation with the sound. No massive unchanging wall of sound to make it pretty but dull. Small sections of what I can only describe as choral noise, house beats and ambience placed across sunny upbeat pop music.
>>71749401
Broh, Flood I is an absolutely brilliant tape piece on par with Fripp & Eno's collabs. Git gud
>>71750207
I really enjoyed their previous album. For some reason I have not listened to this one yet.
The Templars - The Return of Jacques de Molay
>Oi! heavily influenced by 60s garage rock
>A great record from the ever overlooked oi! subgenre of punk. Catchy low-fi punk songs with lyrical themes ranging from medieval history to workers rights to hating hippies. Garage punk fans might enjoy this especially.
>>71750115
>>71750207
>>71750309
Try to provide sample tracks lads. You're not selling hard enough!
>>71750309
>>71750335
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF4IOxPicYg
Mustafa Ozkent - Gençlik Ile Elele (1973)
>A mix of funk and afrobeat with an amazing work on guitar and drums, give this a listening
sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwEriCVgU4
Rodan - Rusty (1994)
>Post-hardcore, bits of post-rock
It's a masterpiece of dark, angry, atmospheric music. The first track lulls you with its beautiful latticework of guitars playing over each other. About halfway through it takes an uneasy turn, eventually looping back around to its beauty. Then the train hits you with track 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_NKtGTstVw
Has a reputation for ripping off Spiderland despite having almost zero similarities.
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
>They're like Velvet Underground, but a crazy, reverb drowned mess of sounds that fit together perfectly
https://youtu.be/frvlSkqorYM
Cows - Sorry In Pig Minor
>Noise rock, experimental.
>Produced by Buzz Osborne of the Melvins.
>Features crazy rockabilly influenced guitar playing, jazz style drumming, distorted slide bass, an insane sounding vocalist, and lyrics about depression and suicide. One of the weirdest albums I've ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRWo2O9490
>>71746839
https://loweryourhead.bandcamp.com/album/hell-iii
>fantastic metal album that's not garbage. Mixes Godspeed You Black Emperor with fantastic drones and riffs, vocals arentry bad either.
>obscure enough to give you hipster points
>>71750918
Fuck I thought I attached this
Shipping News - save everything (1997)
>Post-hardcore, post-rock, low-fi
>Headed up by Jason Noble, and Jeff Mueller of Rodan
A real mishmash of ideas, but all of them good-great. First track is a rhythmic, rocky romp as Jason Noble sings through a phone cord about lost love. The second track is three minutes of Jeff Mueller yelling about being sailor on a boat before the song slows down for 7 minutes and starts to actually evoke the feeling of being on a ship at sea. Probably the standout track. The fourth track is a wonderful lamentful lullaby. The closer is Shipping News' answer to Slint's Washer. Two and a half minutes of poetry about lost love is recited by Noble, before the instruments kick in for an eight minute extravaganza of mourn, and rage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUPnuAxOyP4
>>71750849
HEY, YOU FUCKING IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?!
(seconding this)
>>71749401
Boris is pretty popular on this board, esp Flood and Citrus
>>71749649
>240p
it's 2017 cut it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vss-AyCiiXw
use youtube music, band/track name topic
Blue Oyster Cult- Imaginos (1988)
>criminally underrated BOC album
>featured Robby Kreiger, and Satriani's work on it helped him finance SWTA
>their only concept album/rock opera and probably their heaviest sounding album
>intended to be original drummer Albert Bouchard's solo album, the band themselves are lukewarm about its production given he was fired 5 years prior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5uYum80NaQ
And of course the standard self-titled song of every rock group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5uqatdNu1I
>>71750983
It's most definitely worth checking out the rest of their discography, which wildly varies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O09DeaMmSN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLdQs984Trc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTG41a4xhI
>>71746839
no mars volta?
listen to de-loused in the comatorium
you're welcome
A good mixture of The Ramones meets The Stooges meets the first two Cheap Trick albums.
Lead singer/guitar player Chris Osgoode started Twin Tone Records which gave the world Soul Asylum and The Replacements. H was also Bob Mould's guitar teacher.
>>71751121
Apart from a few things in it, I think this album's great. The production makes it sound huge and 80s. Definitely far from the BOC sound, but good anyway.
Love this song. It's so over the top, and the guest vocalist is excellent here. Normally I hate Joe Satriani, but his solo is actually pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXLlaW_4cM
>>71746839
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett (2015)
>great at not taking it too serious
>Indie rock, australia, sense of humor
>I don't see this album discussed on /mu/
https://youtu.be/1NVOawOXxSA
Volcanic Rock-Buffalo
>Balls-to-the-wall Aussie stoner rock from the 70's
>Absurdly heavy (for 1973) guitar riffs over nearly unintelligible, yet catchy vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxflt2mbpA
Altered States - Mosaic (1994)
>Psych rock, noise
The drummer and guitarist from Ground Zero had a wonderful baby in this album. Some of the wildest shit to have the name of psych rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCxodRXo74c
>>71747001
saw them live, the rev gave me his guitar pick
>>71746839
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwimkrfbie_SAhUG0YMKHbKyBu4QtwIIJjAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7gGPv9hngk4&usg=AFQjCNFz8O6LH2C7kQy5wm8Nr7L4x_n16w
>>71755990
FAK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGPv9hngk4
>>71755977
Pic(k) related
>>71756001
Kek
>>71756010
Anon, our thread is the better one
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - s/t (2011)
>side project of Stars of the Lid member Adam Wiltzie
>impossibly pretty strings and piano songs, comfy as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxSkRFUrL8
>>71746839
Lamp - For Lovers
Don't know exactly why you should listen to it, but it's a good sophisti-pop jazzy duet album that has flavours of 60s and 80s pop all over. If you are into J-pop or K-pop you might enjoy this slice of feel good music, very western and kawaii!
>>71750115
this is based, thanks anon
>>71756701
Holy shit, someone actually listened to Thembi. My existence has been validated