Drake was certainly not the former - all his albums were highly critically acclaimed. He wasn't a big seller though but, despite this, his death warranted massive coverage in the NME, including a three or four page article by Nick Kent. For an artist who'd sold so few albums, he was pretty...
They didn't pass me by as I was introduced to them by a friend but I think Aeroplane Over the Sea is brilliant and right up there as one of the best rock albums of all time.
The act that passed me by at the time is Gram Parsons. During the 70s I dismissed him as a boring old country act but...