Overlooked albums by major bands?

Albums for example like KISS-Creatures of the Night, Black Sabbath-Eternal Idol, and Alice Cooper-DA DA, that never make it on top of any of popular reader's polls and always seemed to be overlooked.

I'll play

Without Love- Black N Blue
Night In The Ruts and Rock In A Hard Place-Aerosmith
Weekend Warriors-Ted Nugent
Vagabonds Of The Western World-Thin Lizzy
Song For America-Kansas
Motley Crue-Motley Crue
Hollywood Vampires-L A Guns

Motorhead-Another perfect day

These seem to get very little love except from me:

W.A.S.P.'s STILL NOT BLACK ENOUGH
Dokken's DYSFUNCTIONAL
Stryper's AGAINST THE LAW
Venom's CAST IN STONE

Annihilator - Refresh The Demon
W.A.S.P. - K.F.D. (People are afraid of a little industrial sound and alot of anger)
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Danzig - 4(p)
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Accept - I'm a Rebel
Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
Deep Purple - The House of Blue Light

Fat Freddy wrote:

These seem to get very little love except from me:


Stryper's AGAINST THE LAW

I would say VERY overlooked album, especially by the christian community. Although, it's probably not overlooked here!

Schbopo wrote:

Motorhead-Another perfect day

Definitely! The first Motorhead album I bought and still my favorite. The guitar playing on that album is just incredible, having Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy might not have been the long term solution for the band...but it sure proved what they were capable of! They haven't done anything as melodically interesting since he left. (that's not a put-down, just an observation).

I will also add
Alice Cooper-Special Forces
Aerosmith-Done with Mirrors
Deep Purple-The Battle Rages On
Scorpions-In Trance
Queen-II
Black Sabbath-Headless Cross
and of course
Spinal Tap-Smell the Glove

I just got APD the other day. Its the only Motorhead I have never had. It must be a grower because I'm not gelling with it yet.

I would also add Never Say Die as an overlooked album. Sure, most people know the title song...but very few seem to be familiar with Johnny's Blade, A Hard Road, Junior's Eyes, Air Dance, Over To You, etc.

Testament - Souls Of Black
Def Leppard - Slang
Queensryche - Promised Land
Dokken - Dysfunctional

AC/DC - Powerage (not enough hits for most people I suppose)
Thin Lizzy - Renegade
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown
Dio - Dream Evil (one of his best IMO.)
Aerosmith - Night in the Ruts (heavy 70's Aerosmith!)
Blue Oyster Cult - Cultasaurus Erectus (no hits, so no one cared I guess?)
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
Alice Cooper - Last Temptation
Yes - The Ladder
Molly Hatchet - Silent Reign of Heroes
Molly Hatchet - Kingdom of XII
Cheap Trick - All Shook Up (produced by the legendary George Martin)
Ted Nugent - Nugent

Yeah Thin Lizzy's Renegade is an overlooked classic....i would go so far as to call it their best.

Rush:

Signals
Grace Under Pressure
Roll the Bones
Test For Echo

Too many folks dismissed this band after Moving Pictures, myself included for a time, I think this was because the guitar was no longer the dominant sound in the mix, not as metallic. There is some great music on these, as well as other later lp's, still some heavy stuff too.

Signals
Grace Under Pressure

My 2 favorite Rush albums.

Exodus-Force of Habit

Motley Crue-Motley Crue
Tesla-Psychotic Supper
AC/DC-Powerage
Chicago-V

St.Anger

TheGooch wrote:

St.Anger

It's not overlooked, everyone just hates it. I didn't think it was all that bad, though.

All of the pre Sykes Whitesnake LP's.

I Know people that thought "Slide" was their first album and some that never knew there was anything before the 1987 release.

The pre Sykes era Whitesnake was one of the greatest RnR bands out there IMO. An incredible band that nobody seems to remember!

Sykes added a nice touch to Slide but everything after that was, to me, not what Whitesnake was all about.

Eyesore wrote:

Dokken - Dysfunctional

Yay... more love for Dysfunctional!!

Dokken- Dysfunctional is an excellent cd overlooked, I should had also added to my list. " Nothing More to Say" excellent ballad, maybe Don Dokken's best vocal performance.