nirvana - nevermind
or beatles - revolver

by the clientele.

The Bed is In the Ocean.

Scenes from the Second Storey.

by Rumble Strips and Colour It In by the Maccabees are both really good pop records. Much under appreciated.

thanks

Listen to it pretty much every day

Close runners-up:-

On The Might of Princes - Sirens
Frodus - ...And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea

The Weddoes get a lot of love on here, but I don't understand why this album isn't held up as a modern alt-rock classic, alongside Spiderland and Daydream Nation.

It's just fucking brilliant! Guitars that crunch and buzz, great songs, even more despair than is usual for Gedge, Steve Albini ... utterly utterly amazing.

Take your pick from their 3 albums.
All outstanding.
All underappreciated in the extreme.

I thought all his stuff was pretty overlooked

Cable - When Animals Attack.

probably not the most underrated of all time though

Ballboy - A Guide for Daylight Hours

Mansun

or indeed Attack Of The Grey Lantern.

"Bon Chic Bon Genre"
Fucking fantastic album.

Pretty much nailed the dance-rock thing absolutely perfectly, and did it at least a couple of years before indie kids started properly pretending to be into dance music. Only it got a lukewarm reception, and everybody said that the Nite Versions remix album was better (it was amazing, but not better). If Any Minute Now came out tomorrow it would be huge. Guaranteed.

the mighty COPPER BLUE by Sugar.

It was totally not underrated at the time (album of the year 1992 by NME for example) but has been totally forgotten and did not end up being particularly influential. A victim of fickle fashion.

Seriously, Copper Blue is in my top three ever alongside some Pixies bollocks and maybe some Radiohead nonsense so if you don't have it then get it.

Okay this track is off Beaster but you'll still love it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XkvUFdKXavY&feature=related

Greatest album of all time.

not of all time, but these are definitely underrated....

Built To Spill - Ancient Melodies Of The Future

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Some Loud Thunder

Amusement Parks On Fire - Amusement Parks On Fire

in terms of in public awareness and at the time critical reaction...

good god's urge (maybe should have called the album Tahitiian Moon)

or maybe The Beginnining Stages.

Both two of the greatest albums of our time, and barely anyones heard them.

END OF THREAD.

Beaucoup Fish. Seriously

Low - The Great Destroyer
Howling Bells - Howling Bells
Mystery Jets - Making Dens (purely for Zootime!)
The Ordinary Boys - Over The Counter Culture (very much a guilty pleasure)
Michael Armstrong - any of the Rockabye stuff
Hope Of The States - The Lost Riots
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
Do Me Bad Things - Yes!

and the overrated...
Oasis - pretty much anything

Maybe I just missed the mood with Oasis (I was under 10 when Definitely Maybe and WTSMG came out), but I find all their songs, whilst not awful, woefully average. I don't think Liam is a good singer and his attitude thing is just shite and not cool in the slightest. My view of them is not helped by the one time I saw them, at Glasto 04, where they were terrible. "Meh" is the word for Oasis.