Forgotten or little-known gems by popular bands

**ronmac** · 02-10-2016

Bands with many fans, but albums (comps included) that seem to go unnoticed by them.

Two examples:

Deep Purple (self-titled third album). IMO, their best album. Desert Island disc for me.
Pink Floyd "Relics" -- Any PF fan should have this great "Collection of Bizarre Antiques And Curios."

**Nijinsky Hind** · 02-10-2016

Neil Youngs... on the beach
James Taylor... on apple records debut album
Jefferson Airplane...bless its pointed little head
Rolling Stones... black and blue

To name a few.

**progeezer** · 02-10-2016

on DP's s/t 3rd album! Another case of a cover blowing away the original ("Lalena").

The entire Odessa album by the Bee-Gees, as well as most of their NY Mining Disaster debut album comes to mind, and FOR ME, MAYBE NOT YOU (generically), the .com album by Marillion, which after the 2 disc Marbles & maybe Script is my favorite Marillion album. I'm really not into symph/neo music nearly as much as I was several years ago, but I probably will never get tired of listening to "Go", "Enlightened" and the 25 minutes of imo brilliance that is "Interior Lulu/House".

**Nijinsky Hind** · 02-10-2016

Odessa is quite good!! , I'm searching for a red felt cover first issue LP if anybody has one for sale in VG or better condition!!!

**Rick Robson** · 02-10-2016

78's David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf
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One more of his releases that speaks for the damn eclectic artist the 'chameleon' was.

**Progbear** · 02-11-2016

Joan Armatrading: Whatever’s for Us. Her debut, and maybe still my favourite album of hers.

Should I count James Newton Howard? His 1974 debut LP on the Kama Sutra label, before his Elton John association and all those soundtracks, is a real gem of keyboard-prog if you ask me.

**davis** · 02-11-2016

Tom Waits - Small Change. Killer, imo, from start to finish.

**JJ88** · 02-11-2016

The early Bee Gees albums certainly have a following, but indeed, nothing prepared me for how great they were. Over time I've come to feel that Odessa is their best as well...could do without some of the orchestral instrumentals, but otherwise I love it.

With Relics, I find it somewhat frustrating that it didn't include all the non album songs....particularly in the CD era, as they've never been as easy to come by ('Candy And A Current Bun', 'Apples And Oranges', 'It Would Be So Nice', 'Point Me At The Sky' and 'Embryo' are the five, from memory).

I could nominate many a Hollies album- certainly from For Certain Because through to Another Night, there's a lot of 'buried treasure' on those albums. Unlike the singles, which were often covers, the albums from that period were generally self-penned.

**Galactic Bulldozer** · 02-11-2016

Thin Lizzy - s/t

Focus - Mother

ELO - s/t

**Galactic Bulldozer** · 02-11-2016

You can't escape the other man...

Not exactly a popular band but still a gem...

**viukkis** · 02-11-2016

Originally Posted by Nijinsky Hind

Rolling Stones... black and blue

I thought I was the only one who likes that.

I'm still pretty sure I'm the only one who likes Tyger by Tangerine Dream. In any case, I think it's amazing and easily their best post-seventies album.

**spacefreak** · 02-11-2016

Two extremely unknown

ELOY debut (up to the mid 90s)
KROKUS 1st album (till now)

**at least 100 dead** · 02-11-2016

Kraftwerk's debut:

**at least 100 dead** · 02-11-2016

Tony Williams: Play or Die. It was never released on CD, which is a crying shame.

**Garden Dreamer** · 02-11-2016

RUSH - Test for Echo.

This album gets slagged on Rush forums. It has some clunkers but it's nowhere as bad as the forum fans make it sound, in my opinion. Until Clockwork Angels came along, it was my favorite Rush album post-Power Windows. It's not a great Rush album, but I like it. And it's certainly "forgotten" as it wasn't represented on their R40 tour, which included something from nearly every alum.

**Lopez** · 02-11-2016

Blaze by Herman's Hermits.

Really, not a bad album at all, and few have heard of it. As it came out in 1967 after Sgt. Pepper, it has that almost pop-psych feel to it. Sounds like they were going toward the sunshine pop sound that was becoming popular then.

**Digital_Man** · 02-11-2016

Yes - Time and a word (there are others too but this one stands out for me as being under rated)
Led Zeppelin- In through the Out door
Rush - Caress of Steel & Roll the bones
Genesis - and then there were three
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream & Lightbulb Sun(better than what followed but they don't get the props they deserve. The same could be said about Signify too probably).
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

**Birdy** · 02-11-2016

In the Tangerine Dream field, I would nominate their Sorcerer soundtrack and while were there, Edgar Froese's
Macula Transfer.

Blue Oyster Cult's Spectres doesn't seem, to get the attention it deserves.

Steve Hackett--Guitar Noir--excellent album

King Crimson--Islands also seems to get little attention but what a great album!

Brand X--rarely do people mention Lancaster and Lumley's great "Marscape" album

**nosebone** · 02-11-2016

The Good Rats - Tasty (1973)

Check out the cool lead break at 3:10

**SteveSly** · 02-11-2016

Originally Posted by Birdy

Blue Oyster Cult's Spectres doesn't seem, to get the attention it deserves.
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Another Blue Oyster Cult that I would nominate would be "Heaven Forbid". I think it ranks right up with some of the best stuff the band has ever done, but a lot of BOC fans are not even aware it exists.

**Galactic Bulldozer** · 02-11-2016

Peter Gabriel - Birdy

**Scrotum Scissor** · 02-11-2016

Supertramp - Supertramp (1970)

Ironically, this album would probably have been better known with 'genre collectors' if credited to some obscure post-psych/vintage progressive one-off venture.