Best of each artist · One record per artist
Most underrated
The albums that ended up in the shadow of the big ones – and deserve another spin.
All 20Rock 9Pop 4Soul, funk and R&B 1Jazz 1Hip hop 1Electronic 1Folk, country and song 1Hard rock and metal 2
- 1 Pink Floyd Animals In the shadow of Dark Side and The Wall, but Pink Floyd’s angriest and perhaps best-played album.
- 2 Neil Young On the Beach For years it was hard to find, and so it was forgotten. Now one of his most loved albums.
- 3 Fleetwood Mac Tusk Everyone expected Rumours 2. They got an odd, home-made double album that many bands now cite.
- 4 David Bowie Lodger The least talked-about Berlin record, but full of ideas that pop caught up with much later.
- 5 Radiohead Amnesiac Often seen as Kid A’s little sister. It has some of Radiohead’s very best songs.
- 6 Led Zeppelin Presence Zeppelin’s lowest-selling studio album, but “Achilles Last Stand” is among the best things they ever did.
- 7 R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi It came after the big hit albums and got lost in the crowd – but it has some of the band’s best songs, like “E-Bow the Letter” with Patti Smith.
- 8 U2 Zooropa Made in a hurry and forgotten just as fast, but U2’s freest and strangest album.
- 9 The Kinks The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society Flopped in 1968 when everyone else was making psychedelia. Now perhaps the Kinks’ best album. Timeless classic
20 artists in the list.