Underrated albums/pleasant surprises

[Rick and Roll]

Promised Land suffers (unfairly so) due to the brilliance of Empire and Mindcrime. It is stillpretty good - a nice choice. I like Hear In The Now World also.

I have the first BLS. I have always found Stevens and Bozzio excellent. I liked the record initially, but the improv feature gets uninteresting after awhile. But still pretty good.