Top Ten Albums that are Considered Underrated Because They are Between 2 More Famous Albums

The Top Ten
1 Fireball - Deep Purple

One of my absolute favorite songs on this album is The Mule - a very underrated song with one of the most amazing complex drum beats I've ever heard, esp. in the context of 1971.

2 Killers - Iron Maiden
3 Salisbury - Uriah Heep
4 Somewhere in Tme - Iron Maiden

Powerslave and The Number of the Beast are the opposite cases (overrated between two less popular and better albums)

5 The Return - Bathory
6 So Far, So Good...So What! - Megadeth
7 Vol 4 - Black Sabbath
8 Spiritual Healing - Death
9 You Can't Stop Rock & Roll - Twisted Sister
10 Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd
The Contenders
11 Systematic Chaos - Dream Theater
12 Massive Killing Capacity - Dismember
13 Leave Home - Ramones
14 One Hot Minute - Red Hot Chili Peppers
15 Animals - Pink Floyd

People say it's criminally underrated. It's not, but it indeed sits between some of the most massively popular albums of all time : Wish You Were Here and The Wall.

16 Twilight in Olympus - Symphony X
17 Heliocentric - The Ocean
18 Angel Rat - Voivod
19 Gloria - Disillusion
20 A Night at the Opera - Queen
21 Led Zeppelin III - Led Zeppelin

Positioned between II and IV. Of course, the fact that most of the music is acoustic also separates it from the others. I don't know if it's underrated in general terms, but I think it's definitely underrated compared to its neighbors.

22 Caress of Steel - Rush

Between Fly By Night and 2112. It's an important album because it's part of their transition to prog-oriented music.

23 Give 'em Enough Rope - The Clash

Between their self-titled debut album and London Calling. It's not quite as solid as those two, but it's still got some great material on it.

24 October - U2

Preceded and followed by Boy and War (neither are considered their best work, but they achieved more success and better reviews than October). Part of the reason that it was weaker than the others is that it was recorded too quickly (Bono had to rewrite the lyrics after a briefcase full of song ideas was stolen from them while they were on tour). Still a good album, though.

25 State of Euphoria - Anthrax

In between Among the Living and Persistence of Time. Very good album though

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