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Most Underrated Band

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Another shout for Talk Talk. Their last two albums Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock basically invented post-rock.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,163 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    The Nolan's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    I see these are big in the states but I've only heard of them once and that was in one of the Hangover movies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    I'm enjoying this thread thoroughly - great calls on the Undertones (my favourte band of all time), XTC and Talk Talk. :)

    Give a shout out also for The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro and Wilder were great albums and another group from the mid eighties who might be less well known, Colourbox.

    Present day, I would have to say I like a lot of what I hear of Hot Chip, but they never seem to have major commerical success.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    They have a loyal following, particularly in the US but I'm amazed that The National are not huge here! So many people just have no idea who they are and they are fantastic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 975 ✭✭✭J Cheever Loophole


    Bacchus wrote: »
    They have a loyal following, particularly in the US but I'm amazed that The National are not huge here! So many people just have no idea who they are and they are fantastic.

    Great call - was introduced to The National by the great Paul McLoone.


  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭unjedilike


    Crash Test Dummies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    unjedilike wrote: »
    Crash Test Dummies

    Mmm Mmm


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭purplepanda


    Electric Prunes
    Chocolate Watch Band
    Felt
    Hurrah!
    Game Theory
    The Prisoners
    Spacemen 3
    Shack
    East Village
    The Solarflares
    Spiritualized
    Cosmic Rough Riders


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    Bacchus wrote: »
    They have a loyal following, particularly in the US but I'm amazed that The National are not huge here! So many people just have no idea who they are and they are fantastic.

    I fully agree!

    TV On The Radio are another massively underrated band.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Bacchus wrote: »
    They have a loyal following, particularly in the US but I'm amazed that The National are not huge here! So many people just have no idea who they are and they are fantastic.

    Did they not play the point last year? Hard to say they're under rated if they can pull that sort of crowd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Wheeker




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,348 ✭✭✭✭ricero


    Tame impala. A beast of an Aussie band


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Social distortion....though seemingly one direction did a cover of this!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa




  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    Tuesday Blue.

    An absolute stormer of a first - and only - album (which still holds up pretty well today given it's late 80s production values). They were clearly geared towards the big sound and the big time and it just never happened. I wonder how many people here have even heard of them?

    Dammit! First post, can't post links...I wonder if I can get 24 more posts in and come back to post a YouTube link tonight...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    Cry before Dawn


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Alan: Oh, yeah. I like all the bands. I’ve got a broad taste, you know. From the britpop bands like UB40, Def Leppard, right back to classic rock, like Wings.

    Ben: Who’s Wings?

    Alan: They’re only the band the Beatles could have been.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Steve_Carella


    Tuesday Blue.

    An absolute stormer of a first - and only - album (which still holds up pretty well today given it's late 80s production values) from this Limerick band. They were clearly geared towards the big sound and the big time and it just never happened. I wonder how many people here have even heard of them?

    Dammit! First post, can't post links...I wonder if I can get 24 more posts in and come back to post a YouTube link tonight...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,721 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    The jesus and mary chain.


    Some of the bands being mentioned like the kinks, the doors and the pixies were and are massive and I cant see how they could be considered under rated, the pixies and the ramones while I like them have to be amongst the most over rated bands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    Yeh in confused as well ,I don't think most people read the description on the thread ??????


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    Kerbdog,an irish band that really should have made it

    Its good to see them back gigging again though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    Did they not play the point last year? Hard to say they're under rated if they can pull that sort of crowd

    I would say that they have a really strong loyal fanbase but are somehow not that well known. They are kind of a marmite band "you either love them or you haven't heard of them" and a lot of people haven't heard of them in my experience. I can count on two hands (not using binary or anything fancy either) the number of people I know who know of The National. So often I get a blank look when I mention them. They have almost zero radio coverage and it's only their last two albums that broke into the top 5 on the Irish charts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Not sure if they've been mentioned already but Mellow Candle were a great Irish prog rock band which sank without trace in the 1970s but have gained cult status in the past few years, particularly in Japan for some reason.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Stereophonics. Seen them at least 20 times. Great live, great songs, Kelly Jones has some voice.

    I think they're over-rated tbh. Bland pub rock with the odd decent single. No offense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    crockholm wrote: »
    Alice In Chains. They were big in the 90s,but much less appreciated than Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

    Hugely under-rated in the UK and Ireland for sure, but I think they are/were a lot more popular in the US (though arguably under-rated even there compared to Nirvana and Pearl Jam).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Department S - Never made it big despite having some great sharp pop songs



    Ceremony - A great shoegaze group who seem to be pretty much unknown, I don't think they even have much of a web presence to promote the group



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Can we settle on Talk Talk being the winners? ;)
    Ceremony - A great shoegaze group who seem to be pretty much unknown, I don't think they even have much of a web presence to promote the group
    What's eclipsing them even from modest cult success is that's there's another band called Ceremony who are more popular than them. I got hold of their album Rocket Fire back in 2010 and thought it was good enough but not pushing the boundaries of shoegaze.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    The mighty Bolt Thrower!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Can we settle on Talk Talk being the winners? ;)


    What's eclipsing them even from modest cult success is that's there's another band called Ceremony who are more popular than them. I got hold of their album Rocket Fire back in 2010 and thought it was good enough but not pushing the boundaries of shoegaze.

    I get it.. You're a Mod and you want to close a thread.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭Custardpi


    Another band which should be way bigger than they are (perhaps due to the non radio-friendly name) are Heartless Bastards, an Ohio band fronted by the wonderful Erika Wennerstrom. She's one of my favourite female vocalists, with a voice which sounds like a cross between Gillian Welch & the late Bon Scott of AC/DC. They really deserve a wider audience than they have.

    Going back a few decades someone who is far more well known but still underrated in my opinion is Iggy Pop & his band The Stooges. Listening to the album "Raw Power" it's easy to forget that this was made in 1973, 4 years before the Sex Pistols came on to the scene & a year before The Ramones were founded. This is a punk/punk-rock album before anyone was even using those terms. While Iggy has certainly enjoyed success over the years I don't think he's been properly recognised as the musical pioneer he was & what musical landmarks those early albums were.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    I rarely see Yo La Tengo get the credit they deserve. They've at least 4 near perfect albums imo.





  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    I'd say "overlooked" or "forgotten" as opposed to underrated.

    Anyways. Television.

    Was going to post up "Days" instead of the sublime classic "Marquee Moon".


  • Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭LithiumKid1976


    Wilco are fantastic.
    this song, is awesome

    Jesus, etc.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVC1k9x2Ryw


    just my two cents :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    Super Furry Animals (RIP). Always bubbling under threatening to become huge but never quite made that breakthrough to the mainstream.
    I somehow don't think we've heard the last of them but yeah, i still can't understand how they never got huge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Kettleson wrote: »
    I'd say "overlooked" or "forgotten" as opposed to underrated.

    Anyways. Television.

    Was going to post up "Days" instead of the sublime classic "Marquee Moon".

    100%, that album, that title track. Wow! Saw them play it last year, really stood up live too.

    Loads of great bands from around that time too.

    The Modern Lovers:



    The New York Dolls:



  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭unjedilike


    Faith No More


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Here's mine.




    For sure...but I would limit that to the first album. Couldn't put the desperately overproduced Golden Brown into that category.

    Same for the Ramones with me, first 2 albums, classic, maybe squeeze in Rocket to Russia, after that...fade away.

    The totally bare recording and production of Rattus was jaw dropping then and still is now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Big Star. When we speak of underrated bands there can only be one.


    Such a weepy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    From the north of Ireland, The Answer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Kettleson wrote: »
    ......Television.

    Interesting, will check them out a bit more later.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 slightly_broke


    fleetwood mac

    while not the beatles , the smiths or bowie

    they were unfortunate in that they were at their peak around the time that punk exploded so immedietly go labelled as super NAFF


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Ah jesus, Fleetwood Mac are almost universally adored.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 slightly_broke


    J Mysterio wrote: »
    Ah jesus, Fleetwood Mac are almost universally adored.

    when ( bar when peter greene was at the head prior to the mid seventies ) were they ever seen as remotely cool

    i like them but rock journalist really dont rate them at all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    when ( bar when peter greene was at the head prior to the mid seventies ) were they ever seen as remotely cool

    i like them but rock journalist really dont rate them at all

    Rumours is universally adored by every music journalist ever and regularly features in best albums of all time lists.
    And Tango in the Night was a huge seller.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭Mackas_view


    I'm goin to follow the general drift of this thread and say Led Zepplin and The Beatles :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭ikeano29


    Husker Du.

    Still am amazed by the roller coaster Zen Arcade with ear phones and cranked up loud.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTjfl0yhyRk


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