Most Underrated Band

SilverScreen · 26-11-2014 12:03am

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

chicorytip · 26-11-2014 12:28am

The Nolan's.

Charlie19 · 26-11-2014 7:22am

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWcyIpul8OE

J Cheever Loophole · 26-11-2014 9:20am

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.

Bacchus · 26-11-2014 9:24am

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.

J Cheever Loophole · 26-11-2014 9:32am

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.

traprunner · 26-11-2014 9:36am

HURT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThCh-_mgag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCeYFJh3V-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG2KJ4t7wos

unjedilike · 26-11-2014 9:43am

Crash Test Dummies

Birneybau · 26-11-2014 9:44am

unjedilike wrote: »

Crash Test Dummies

Mmm Mmm

purplepanda · 26-11-2014 1:59pm

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

WesternZulu · 26-11-2014 2:11pm

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.

hidinginthebush · 26-11-2014 3:48pm

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

Wheeker · 26-11-2014 4:09pm

The Prisoners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF3zOMQWWqg

ricero · 26-11-2014 4:22pm

Tame impala. A beast of an Aussie band

the evasion_kid · 26-11-2014 4:25pm

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMw9cu54gXc

BlaasForRafa · 26-11-2014 7:17pm

British Sea Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2n-7K0Ef6Y

Iliketrains

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

Steve_Carella · 26-11-2014 7:29pm

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...

Means Of Escape · 26-11-2014 7:37pm

Cry before Dawn

Capt'n Midnight · 26-11-2014 7:38pm

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.

Steve_Carella · 26-11-2014 7:40pm

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...

Balmed Out · 26-11-2014 8:16pm

The jesus and mary chain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4AAd00dSQ

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.

monkeysnapper · 26-11-2014 8:25pm

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

Help!!!! · 26-11-2014 8:33pm

the evasion_kid wrote: »

Kerbdog,an irish band that really should have made it

Its good to see them back gigging again though

Bacchus · 26-11-2014 8:34pm

hidinginthebush wrote: »

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.

Custardpi · 26-11-2014 8:37pm

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.

porsche959 · 26-11-2014 8:42pm

Talk Talk:

The Associates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTXquAe25vI

porsche959 · 26-11-2014 8:44pm

Trev De rev wrote: »

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.

porsche959 · 26-11-2014 8:46pm

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).

BlaasForRafa · 26-11-2014 9:22pm

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUHaN8rF2U

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

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

SilverScreen · 27-11-2014 12:51am

Can we settle on Talk Talk being the winners?

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

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.

Sonderkommando · 27-11-2014 12:54am

The mighty Bolt Thrower!

Charlie19 · 27-11-2014 12:56am

SilverScreen wrote: »

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.;)

Custardpi · 27-11-2014 1:51am

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaOxyZkO-bo

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOV66-W9QeM

e_e · 27-11-2014 2:28am

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gwZhwJi95E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsQW7jZJY9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iREX_SzhHu8

Kettleson · 27-11-2014 2:40am

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".

LithiumKid1976 · 27-11-2014 11:50am

Wilco are fantastic.
this song, is awesome

Jesus, etc.

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

just my two cents

McTigs · 27-11-2014 12:06pm

super_furry wrote: »

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.

Birneybau · 27-11-2014 12:21pm

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:

unjedilike · 27-11-2014 3:33pm

Faith No More

Kettleson · 27-11-2014 3:51pm

......Television.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7UjpWhF2d8

Kettleson · 27-11-2014 4:13pm

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6BfAtjEyc

pappyodaniel · 27-11-2014 5:25pm

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte3Jg-2Ax4

Such a weepy.

Mesrine65 · 27-11-2014 6:15pm

From the north of Ireland, The Answer

J Mysterio · 27-11-2014 8:59pm

Kettleson wrote: »

......Television.

Interesting, will check them out a bit more later.

slightly_broke · 27-11-2014 11:34pm

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

J Mysterio · 28-11-2014 12:15am

Ah jesus, Fleetwood Mac are almost universally adored.

slightly_broke · 28-11-2014 12:19am

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

fergiesfolly · 28-11-2014 12:32am

slightly_broke wrote: »

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.

Mackas_view · 28-11-2014 12:45am

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

ikeano29 · 28-11-2014 12:56am

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

Most Underrated Band

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