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Old 06-03-2009, 20:29
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some pop albums are so good an underlooked due to poor radio or publicity...

heres my top 5

1. Betty Boo - Grrr - pure pop indulgence
2. Zoe - Scarlet, Red and Blue - used to sing this all the time
3. Geri Halliwell - Passion (her best album)
4. Britney Spears - Blackout (her best album)
5. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
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Old 06-03-2009, 23:01
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some pop albums are so good an underlooked due to poor radio or publicity...

heres my top 5

1. Betty Boo - Grrr - pure pop indulgence
2. Zoe - Scarlet, Red and Blue - used to sing this all the time
3. Geri Halliwell - Passion (her best album)
4. Britney Spears - Blackout (her best album)
5. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
Blackout has some of what I class as Britneys best songs on - such as Piece of Me and possibly Break the Ice - but some of the others are awful.
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Old 06-03-2009, 23:53
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Saturdays - 'Chasing Lights' Every song on the album could be a single, and a successful one at that.
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Old 07-03-2009, 00:37
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Scoundrel Days; Minor Earth, Major Sky and Lifelines. All by A-Ha and absolute classics. Forget the Take On Me poppy s**t and listen to Morten's sooth and tender voice, Paul's guitar playing (which should really mark him out as a far superior player than The Edge of U2) and Magne's piano skills. The lyrics and compositions are stunning. No wonder that they are constantly referred to as artists of influence by many bands (U2, Coldplay, Pet Shop Boys to name a few).
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Old 07-03-2009, 01:26
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Erasure: The Innocents

Belinda Carlisle: Heaven On Earth
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Old 07-03-2009, 01:58
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Erasure: The Innocents

Belinda Carlisle: Heaven On Earth
I own both of those. They are fabulous albums
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Old 07-03-2009, 02:13
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Ashlee Simpson's Bittersweet World is not very good. Her first album was the only decent one.
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Old 07-03-2009, 02:25
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some pop albums are so good an underlooked due to poor radio or publicity...

heres my top 5

1. Betty Boo - Grrr - pure pop indulgence
2. Zoe - Scarlet, Red and Blue - used to sing this all the time
3. Geri Halliwell - Passion (her best album)
4. Britney Spears - Blackout (her best album)
5. Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
I've probably bought lots of pop albums I think are underrated (pop music has a tendency to be looked down on by the music press anyway) but just looking at your list it reminded me of Zoe. Whatever happened to her? I thought she had a great voice and some good songs.
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Old 07-03-2009, 02:52
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I think Natalie Imbruglia's White Lilies Island album is terrific and very underrated. I love just about every song on it. I far prefer it to Left Of The Middle, which I know was much more popular, but I only like a handful of the songs on that one. I like Counting Down The Days too, although it can't compare to WLI for me.

I also really like Melanie C's Reason album.
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Old 07-03-2009, 10:06
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I agree , Mel C and Natalie Imbruglia both have released some great pop albums!
Belinda Carlisle is pretty great, too.I think Erasure have released some of the best pop tunes ever, but don't know that I'd call them overrated . They seem to have had a long spell of popularity/chart success?
Cyndi Lauper has released some wonderful, underrated pop albums.
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Old 07-03-2009, 12:51
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got to say
1. Betty Boo - Grrr - pure pop indulgence
2. Zoe - Scarlet, Red and Blue - used to sing this all the time

are both fantastic albums that I had actually forgotten. thanks for the reminder!
wonder what happened to Zoe?
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Old 07-03-2009, 13:48
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Thicke - A Beautiful World
Lucie Silvas - Breathe in
JC Chasez - Schizophrenic
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Old 07-03-2009, 14:29
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I think Natalie Imbruglia's White Lilies Island album is terrific and very underrated. I love just about every song on it. I far prefer it to Left Of The Middle, which I know was much more popular, but I only like a handful of the songs on that one. I like Counting Down The Days too, although it can't compare to WLI for me.
Agreed, shame for NI how her career never really kicked on from 'Torn' despite the second album being miles better.......very Sundays-esque in places.

I was going to mention The Bangles debut album last night but I'd had a few sherbs so wasn't sure if my judgement was impaired. I'm still not.
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Old 07-03-2009, 15:15
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So who is going to be the first to mention Rachel Stevens?
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Old 07-03-2009, 16:51
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Frank - Devil's Got Your Gold. It bombed, but it's amazing and it's Xenomania produced.

So who is going to be the first to mention Rachel Stevens?
It has to be done. Come And Get It. Amazing, but she just doesn't have the personality to succeed as a popstar.
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Old 07-03-2009, 17:49
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These three albums came to mind instantly - all criminally underrated!

1. Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island
2. Dannii Minogue - Girl
3. Holly Valance - State of Mind
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Old 07-03-2009, 17:50
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2. Dannii Minogue - Girl
What an album! Should have been huge.
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Old 07-03-2009, 17:52
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i know i have said this so many times but it has to be

sugababes catfights and spotlights.

oh yeah and frank's devils got your gold is a beautiful little gem
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Old 07-03-2009, 18:33
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Rachel Stevens - CAGI (one of the best albumes of all time)
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Old 08-03-2009, 20:38
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Sugababes- One Touch, it's a shame they were over-shadowed by other groups of the time.
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Old 08-03-2009, 20:45
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Tatu Dangerous and Moving.... Craving, Perfect Enemy, Sacrifice! All of which should of been singles instead of AAU, FOF, and G

Give Dangerous and Moving a chance
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Old 08-03-2009, 21:00
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Both of the Babyshambles albums- they are both really good albums and I think they fell victim to the Pete Doherty hangover of that period- Down in Albion has some great songs on it and is in no way 'unlistenable' as one review stated (it is a bit shambolic but, like Peter, it is charmingly shambolic), while Shotter's Nation is a really solid album- UnBiloTitled, Delivery and The Lost Art of Murder rank up there with Pete's best work.

The first two Primal Scream albums are very underated- in fact they are brilliant! Be Here Now by Oasis is not as bad as people make out (just overproduced and slightly exhausting) and Nowhere by Ride should have been one of the big albums of the early 1990s (Alan McGee's original golden boys).
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Old 08-03-2009, 21:41
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