No Code - Pearl Jam

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I loved Adore. It was the first Pumpkins album I got within the month of release. Siamese Dream is my joint least favourite with Gish, oddly.

under-rated albums...
how about these...
- Soulwax ~ Much against everyones advice
- Super Furry Animals ~ Fuzzy Logic
- Ian Brown ~ Unfinished Monkey Business
- McLusky ~ McLusky do Dallas
- McLusky ~ My pain and sadness is more sad and painful than yours
- Thee Michelle Gun Elephant ~ Cassanova Snake
- REM ~ Monster
- Beck ~ Odelay
- Beck ~ Mellow Gold
- Fun Lovin' Criminals ~ Come find yourself
- Death In Vegas ~ Dead Elvis
- Pixies ~ Trompe le Monde
- Pixies ~ Live at the BBC
- At the Drive-in ~ Relationship of command
- Shellac ~ 1000 hurts
- Shellac ~ At action Park
- Eels ~ Beautiful Freak
- Clearlake ~ Lido
- Hefner ~ The Fidelity Wars
- Snow Patrol ~ When its all over we still have to clear up
- French Kicks ~ Young lawyer
- Low ~ Trust
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ~ Now you got worry
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ~ Extra Width
- Jesus Lizard ~ Down
- Weezer ~ Pinkerton
- Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ Blood Sex Sugar Magik
- Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ One Hot minute
- Minutemen ~ Double Nickels on the Dime

I can think about twenty records that never got their due.

1) Tales of great neck glory - Sammy
(Sounds like a lost Pavement album, with the guy from Laptop singing. Very nice, but getting hard to find.)

2) The Family - Satchel
(Supreme shagging record. Flawless, but undermarketed alternative alternative to the Walrus of Love, Barry White)

3) Lamprey - Bettie Serveert
(Uberduff cover destroys career shock. Features several Neil Young esque solo breaks, and 'D.Feathers'. Lovely.)

4) Smeared - Sloan
(Full of poppy Sonic Youth goodness, lyrically clever-clever, and only marred by a few filler tracks.)

5) The Program - Marion
(Buried follow up to 'This world and body'. Consistently good, if lacking the bombastic approach of the debut.)

6) Frosting on the beater - The Posies
7) Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs
(Even though both of these albums always shows up in lists like these.)

8) Bagsy me - The Wannadies
(BMG proved that they didn't know how to market indie pop to save their lives. Featured some real classics.)

9) Down on the upside - Soundgarden
(A few minor hits, and a few minor reviews. Its been downhill for Cornell from here. See solo album, Audioslave)

10) The uneventful vacation - Commander Venus
(The boy Oberst's first band. Like a poppier Desaparecidos. With fewer tunes and scratchy production. Still good.)

11) Little Plastic Castle - Ani DiFranco
(Her best record, still woefully underplayed in this country. Jaw dropping guitar work, great tunes.)

12) Live at home - Spare Snare
(Scottish pop-punk. Hummable Lo-fi. May have featured a cover of 'Wired for Sound'. Or I may be imagining it.)

13) Destination Love:Live! - The Make Up
(Screechy live album from well dressed weirdos. Has best intro for a band ever, as well as 'They live by night')

14) Shame - Brad
(Similar to Satchel line-up and sound wise. Fades towards the finish, but opens with 'Buttercup'. )

15) Superdrag - Regretfully yours
16) Spoon - A series of sneaks

(Two albums Elektra didn't know what to do with. Both excellent, although Superdrag has the edge. Spoon topped ' A series of sneaks' with 'Girls can tell', on a label with a clue.)

17) Dead Man - Neil Young
(Like one big guitar solo interrupted by film dialogue and Johnny Depp reading William Blake. Good record to nod off to, in a good sense.)

18) The slow, sad truth of other people's lives - Solarscape
(Austrian (?) three piece, with pop sensibilities. Airtight vocal harmonies and sad lyrics are usually a good mix.
This album proves that)

19) Ready to receive - The Animalhouse
(First half is spotless indie pop. Second half tails off a little. BMG proved to be useless bunch of Krauts again, as this album was full of singles
which had real chart potential.)

20) Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu
(Just about to be re-issued with bonus tracks, this was a seminal album. Features plenty of screaming and subtle guitar work. Still sounds fresh.)