Unpopular album opinions

[the raytownian]

I don't doubt someone's expressed a similar opinion in a 24-page thread, but I'm not about to skim that many pages just to find out if this has already been said 500 times:
I don't really like Black Sabbath's debut that much relative to many of their other releases, including post-Ozzy ones. I don't dislike it at all, but these days I'd rather listen to Vol 4, SBS or Sabotage... or Heaven & Hell or Mob Rules or Dehumanizer... even Born Again.

I really like Born Again. It's so fucking dumb, it could literally be a Spinal Tap record, but somehow it just works.

I also think Piece of Mind is way better as a whole than Powerslave or Seventh Son, though I enjoy them all.

[daseb]

As much as I like Sunn O)) and Engine Kid and even Goatsnake they all still pale in comparison to Thorr's Hammer.

whoa whoa whoa whoa...did someone else in the entire developed world just admit to liking Engine Kid in 2015? Total 'so this is what it sounds like when doves cry' moment.

[Blackened Soul]

As much as I like Sunn O)) and Engine Kid and even Goatsnake they all still pale in comparison to Thorr's Hammer.

whoa whoa whoa whoa...did someone else in the entire developed world just admit to liking Engine Kid in 2015? Total 'so this is what it sounds like when doves cry' moment.

[daseb]

[the raytownian]

Futuristic Dragon > The Slider.

Late T. Rex > Early T. Rex (The Slider on) in general.

[WeHuntKings]

Futuristic Dragon > The Slider.

Late T. Rex > Early T. Rex (The Slider on) in general.

[myrrh]

Dont know if this has been covered : MBV is better than Loveless.

[psychic vampire.]

Futuristic Dragon > The Slider.

Late T. Rex > Early T. Rex (The Slider on) in general.

I jest. My ex insisted folk era Tyrannosaurus Rex was better than early glam T Rex. Also wrong.

[casecandy]

All T. Rex >

[the raytownian]

I figured "Unpopular album opinions" would be the one place my TREXOPINIONS would be accepted, or at least tolerated. JESUS CHRIST!
Ain't changin' for no 1, tho. Dandy in the Underworld's my shit. I mean, early T. Rex is great, but there's so much more to Marc/T. Rex than that.

The pixie-folk Tyrannosaurs Rex albums are mostly really naive and silly, while the late albums are totally coked out and weirdly eccentric, but these characteristics are part of their charm! Man was not made to subsist on three T. Rex albums alone!

Dont know if this has been covered : MBV is better than Loveless.

MBV as in "m b v"? I can't say I agree... but I definitely do love ye olde MBV (-all but the last track of This Is Your Bloody Valentine and Man You Love to Hate, because they're both super-mediocre) and Isn't Anything a lot more than Loveless, even if I really like Loveless... Much like pre/post Electric Warrior/The Slider T. Rex, I'm sure it's somewhat fueled by indignation over the lack of RESPEK/attention the pre-Loveless MBV gets, but I still don't get tired of listening to The New Record by MBV or Sunny Sundae Smile.

Sometimes, I just wanna say "SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT LOVELESS AND LISTEN TO THIS FLAWLESS INDIE-POP GOLD!"
I'm drunk on a Wednesday morn, if that weren't obvious. I stand by all of the above statements though.

[futuresailors]

I made the same Sunny Sundae Smile comment, and I don't think I was drunk.

WHAT ABOUT STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE THOUGH?

[WeHuntKings]

Futuristic Dragon > The Slider.

Late T. Rex > Early T. Rex (The Slider on) in general.

I jest. My ex insisted folk era Tyrannosaurus Rex was better than early glam T Rex. Also wrong.

I actually LOVE the early Tyrannosaurus Rex records, particularly A Beard of Stars. Devendra Banhart wouldn't have a career if it weren't for those albums, IMHO.

[psychic vampire.]

Probably true, but I never cared too much for him either.

Dandy In The Underworld does have one of my favorite T.Rex songs on it, but iave a super nostalgized association of listening to Electric Warrior and The Slider in the print shop as I etched zinc plates and breathed in terrible fumes.

[D.o.S.]

Electric Warrior has the best album cover, too.

[psychic vampire.]

Firmly agreed.