Albums that you consider to be a band's best work...

[Angrafan]

... but aren't regarded as such by the fans.

This thread is not album "crappy albums" you like. It's about those albums that you find to be a band's very best and everybody else thinks it's just another average CD.

The album that made me start this thread is Queensryche's Promised Land. Not only I find it to be Queensryche's best disc, it's also one of my favorite albums of all time.

here are some others:

Fates Warning- Disconnected
Amorphis- Tuonela
Skyclad - Vintage Whine
Faith No More - Album of the year

 

[MartinW]

Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Mechanical Poet - Eidoline
Conception - Flow

 

[DADRocks]

For me, and to keep with the Queensryche vibe today, would be their "Hear in the Now Frontier" and Mr. Big's "Actual Size".

 

[batmura]

Ulver - Blood Inside
Devin Townsend - Terria
The Gathering - Souvenirs
Garden Wall - Forget the Colours
Savatage - Streets
Novembre - Materia
Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
Eternity X - The Edge
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

 

[jem777az]

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

 

[p1driftfiend]

Elvenking - Wyrd

 

[AngraRULES]

Devin Townsend - Terria
Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

Uhhh...these are all highly regarded albums...

I think mine is Sonata Arctica's Winterheart's Guild.

 

[TENTH DREAMER DECEIVER]

Sepultura: A-Lex

 

[Diabolik]

Voivod - Dimension Hatross
- Nothingface (had to go with two because both are equal)

Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

Blind Guardian - Nightfall on Middle Earth

Heathen - Breaking the Silence

 

[Clark Griswold]

Labyrinth- S/T comes to mind.

 

[hoodaman]

Most people say Toto's "IV" is their best but I think "The Seventh One" is it. Also:

Nightwish - Century Child rather than Oceanborn
Iced Earth - Dark Saga rather than Something Wicked
Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites rather than August and Everything After

 

[OrbWeaver]

HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Freak Kitchen - Organic
Angra - Aurora Consergens


Bob, I'm pretty sure Blind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle Earth is a highly-regarded BG album amongst BG fans. I haven't heard a Blind Guardian fan complain about it yet (though I suspect I'm about to, given the contrary nature of certain members of the PP forums.)

 

[modernwizardry]

It's actually pretty tough...here's the two I could think of.

Kiuas - The New Dark Ages
Rush - A Farewell to Kings

 

[euleria]

Deep Purple Fireball

Regarding others's posts: Fates Warning is a tough one to judge, as their fan base will split between three or four albums as being their pinnacle. Disconnected isn't in that list, I suspect. (I lean toward either APSOG or The Spectre Within, personally.)

 

[AngraRULES]

Sepultura: A-Lex

This. It's a friggin' kick ass album from beginning to end.

 

[johan68]

Van Halen - Fair Warning
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

This.....

+ Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are.

 

[AngraRULES]

Another one:

In Flames - Reroute to Remain

 

[J-Man]

Slade- Keep your hands off my Power supply
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Nightwish - (Toss up) Wishmaster or Century's Child
Edguy - Mandrake
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill/Space Ritual(live)

 

[Justin G]

Voivod - Dimension Hatross
- Nothingface (had to go with two because both are equal)

Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare

Blind Guardian - Nightfall on Middle Earth

Heathen - Breaking the Silence

Pretty sure no one considers Nightfall in Middle Earth average.

A few that come to mind:

Rush: Hold Your Fire
Judas Priest: Turbo
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time

 

[skyrefuge]

haha, this is a funny thread. I read through all the responses, thinking I'd find some gems I'd overlooked, but for most of them I instead thought "man, are you serious? You've really got some shit taste!" Heck, I'm right there with the OP on 'Promised Land', but then, 'Vintage Whine'?!? Then I realized I'm just as guilty when I remembered what my #1 album on such a list would be:

Iron Maiden - The X Factor

I guess this thread could be re-titled "The 'Make Everyone Think You Have Shit Taste' Thread".

Some others of mine:

Helloween - Chameleon
Iced Earth - Iced Earth
Coroner - Grin

Though back to the OP, having recently picked up FNM's 'King For a Day...' and really enjoying it, maybe it's time to complete my collection, in what would surely be my most-chronologically-spread-out discography-collection ever:

Album - Date of acquisition
=================
The Real Thing - 1997-11-29
Angel Dust - 2003-11-24
King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime - 2010-07-01

Actually I guess I need to wait another 5 or 6 years to keep the cadence right!

Neil