than The Real Thing (which featured Epic), it cleaned up overseas and won widespread critical acclaim.īut follow-up King For A Day bombed, and that’s unfortunate. King for a Day Fool for a Lifetimeįaith No More’s album Angel Dust is their masterwork, and while it sold less in the U.S. King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime – Faith No More Standout Tracks: Coming Down (Drug Tongue), Joy, Sacred Life, Star, Saints Are Down Click here for Albums Revisited: The Cult’s Electricġ1. But it’s every bit as good as Electric or Love. The Cult went a dirtier, grungier direction with this self-titled release, with singer Ian Astbury exploring his most personal lyrics to date. Standout Tracks: Hands All Over, Gun, Loud Love, I Awake See where the riff from Gun ranks on my Underrated Guitar Riffs list.Ĭult It showed their early grasp of classic rock polish with metal/punk rawness. But the less-heard Louder Than Love was their major label début (beating other Seattle bands to the big leagues). Most people’s knowledge of Soundgarden begins at BadMotorFinger and ends with SuperUnknown. Standout Tracks: Rude Awakening, Unfortunately, Innocence Gone, Man’s Ruin Click here for my exclusive interview with Prong’s Tommy Victor!ġ3. But its mix of industrial and groove metal was just as good as anything by White Zombie, Ministry or Pantera. It proved an apt title as Prong were dropped from their major label due to poor sales. But follow-up Rude Awakening broke the momentum. Prong had minor success with 1994’s Cleansing. Standout Tracks (Mamouna): Mamouna, Your Silent Face, Which Way To Turn, 39 Steps Click here for my review of Bryan Ferry’s The Jazz Age. Standout Tracks (Olympia): Song To The Siren, Heartache By Numbers, Shameless
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But with such a sensuous mix of dance tunes and ballads what’s not to like? Plus the list of guest musicians is impeccable (Flea, Brian Eno and Jonny Greenwood to name but a few).
It’s confounding because it features some of his most lush, romantic tunes.Īnd Olympia has the unfortunate distinction of being his worst selling album. Memo to Bryan Ferry don’t end your albums with the letter A. OlympiaMamouna by Ferry, Bryan (1994) Audio CD If you’d like to preview/buy any of the albums listed, clicking on album title (highlighted in blue) will take you to iTunes, and clicking on the album image will take you to Amazon.Īnd now, here’s the Top 15! 15.TIE: Olympia /(2010)/ Mamouna-Bryan Ferry (1994) And click here to read Part Two, to see what albums have been covered, and my criteria for their inclusion.
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This is Part Three in a 3 part series of the most Underrated Alternative Rock Albums Ever Made.