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Most Underrated Band

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  • #202
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Karpackie wrote: »
    The answer is always Creedence Clearwater Revival.

    YES!!!!


  • #203
    SaveOurLyric
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭SaveOurLyric


    The Hanover Band.

    Maybe not really underrated as such, but certainly not as widely knows as they should be.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCBmqgVuX8


  • #204
    kellso81
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭kellso81


    Sufjan stevens - consistently brilliant albums for the last 15 yrs and many only know him for the radio friendly 'chicago' and not much else.


  • #205
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Ed Winchester wrote: »
    Doves. Came out around the same time as Coldplay. The sh!te band became massive. Doves made some brilliant albums and were class live.

    I so agree, <3 Doves.


  • #206
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VVj1zqbWpU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvC3TYWSCXM


    US Indie Rock > UK Indie Rock


  • #207
    sheroman01
    Registered Users Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭sheroman01


    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 love The National but they're no longer underrated. They played a near sold-out o2 here last November, they played 2 sold out shows in July in the Iveagh Gardens and their latest album topped the charts here (and other countries) as well as being nominated for a Grammy.


  • #208
    sheroman01
    Registered Users Posts: 4,685 ✭✭✭sheroman01


    Ed Winchester wrote: »
    Doves. Came out around the same time as Coldplay. The sh!te band became massive. Doves made some brilliant albums and were class live.

    Also another shout for Supergrass. Ridiculously talented band. In it for the Money is one of THE albums of the 90's IMO.

    Was just going to say Doves until I saw this :)

    Fans of Fifa will recognize one of their tracks, great song!



  • #209
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Crash Test Dummies


  • #210
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    Sparks


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  • #211
    nibble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭nibble


    Andybobandy wrote: »
    My Morning Jacket

    http://youtu.be/Bpdwwa7lsUI

    If you're an American Dad fan there's a great episode where Stan becomes obsessed with them, ends up devoting his life to following them on tour!


  • #212
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    DIIV, they make some sublimely beautiful music. I believe working on 2nd album, hoped to see them at Primavera 2012 but drugs, on their part, got in the way.





    Also, Google the video for 'Wait' as it contains nudity (female) and spunk bizarrely.


  • #213
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,551 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Ladytron.

    No idea why I like them.


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



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



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW-Vod2cezk


  • #214
    snollup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭snollup


    Elliott Smith for me.


  • #215
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Some classic and highly influential punk bands have near enough been totally forgotten about. Here's 1 for starters.

    Vom (short for Vomit) Electrocute Your Cock.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-XFitcOiUQ


  • #216
    Aphex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Dinosaur Pile-Up.


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  • #217
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    BAD BRAINS

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unSWZ3t_70


  • #218
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Venetian Snares

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_eMqI1MIQ


  • #219
    Borders no.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭Borders no.2


    Not a band but always thought Jack L was very underrated.


  • #220
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Borders no.2 wrote: »
    Not a band but always thought Jack L was very underrated.
    God no, I always get the feeling when watching him that he is only pretending to be able to sing.


  • #221
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,423 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Elastic


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  • #222
    BadMoonRising
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭BadMoonRising


    Kyuss


  • #223
    Walt Jabsco
    Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭Walt Jabsco


    Thievery Corporation &
    Dead Can Dance.


  • #224
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Ride


  • #225
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Could we call Ben Howard underrated?


  • #226
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    blade1 wrote: »
    Could we call Ben Howard underrated?

    The man that's headlining the 3Arena? No.


  • #227
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Borders no.2 wrote: »
    Not a band but always thought Jack L was very underrated.


    No offence intended, but he's not underrated enough in my opinion.


  • #228
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Pulp


  • #229
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    I think the who deserve more credit.


  • #230
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    I think the who deserve more credit.

    The Who?


  • #231
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Birneybau wrote: »
    The Who?

    Young bands starting out should get a few pointers from this performance....Man, Moon was class..

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


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  • #232
    JFlah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JFlah




    Should have been massive !


  • #233
    tastyt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭tastyt


    Band of skulls for me


  • #234
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    XTC.

    Have to agree - one of their later tracks but where else do you get lyrics that grab you like this plus its a stunning song as well. I wonder what his ex wife thought?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVRny0HtjaQ




    Love Senses working overtime, Grass and This is pop as well


  • #235
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,721 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Have to laugh when talking 'bout the younger generation


  • #236
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    'James' were a great Manchester band I rarely hear getting any credit. They have some really great songs and the lyrics to some of their songs are really like poetry. There's a song called 'sometimes' that is really amazing. Also another song 'how was it for you' about a guy falling in love with a prostitute or 'laid' about a love/hate relationship.


  • #237
    baron von something
    Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭baron von something


    i'm normally a hard rock/metal fan but a really underrated band is indie rock band Howling Bells.probably my favourite band to emerge in the last 10 years.they're not massively known even though they have 4 albums released.their eponymous debut album is eerily beautiful


  • #238
    The_Captain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭The_Captain


    Saralee4 wrote: »
    'James' were a great Manchester band I rarely hear getting any credit. They have some really great songs and the lyrics to some of their songs are really like poetry. There's a song called 'sometimes' that is really amazing. Also another song 'how was it for you' about a guy falling in love with a prostitute or 'laid' about a love/hate relationship.


    Funnily enough, they were mentored/pushed by Morrissey. They were much bigger than Morrissey in the early 90s, he wrote We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful about the jealousy he felt at watching them overtake him in the charts and generally become a bigger deal than him.

    Of course Morrissey goes on to be a household name for the next 15 years, while James just become that one hit wonder band who had that Oh Sit Down song


  • #239
    Saralee4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Saralee4


    Anthony and the johnsons


  • #240
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Saralee4 wrote: »
    'James' were a great Manchester band I rarely hear getting any credit. They have some really great songs and the lyrics to some of their songs are really like poetry. There's a song called 'sometimes' that is really amazing. Also another song 'how was it for you' about a guy falling in love with a prostitute or 'laid' about a love/hate relationship.

    James always reminded me of The Big Dish.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHAWemuR8dA


    Which lead me onto another band of that era.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify_f6XoqMU


    Bringing to mind other Scottish bands that really are on another level...

    The Blue Nile...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_5F7s9OM1M



    and the incredible SAHB....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWF3S9OgQho


    But again, these bands are not "underrated"....just overlooked, often forgotten.

    I think the criteria for "underrated" can be applied most fittingly to bands playing in pubs, youth clubs, basements, and bedrooms who will never see the "commercial" light of day..and maybe that's the way its best kept.


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  • #241
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    .....scolding myself for forgetting The Faith Brothers.

    Singing with a socialist voice in "Thatchers Britain"...they didn't stand a chance.

    "From all that you elect you cower
    Hypocrisy governs every waking hour
    Humankind is overlooked
    By liars, cheats and crooks
    selling souls for power"

    "choose to see in the country of the blind..."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQdO1-OJgHs


  • #242
    SeamusG97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭SeamusG97


    An old thread apologies but this Irish band have a new single. All their old material is just as good. A world class band IMHO.

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

    Why aren't they number one everywhere? What's wrong with the world?


  • #243
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Soundgarden, everyone thinks of Nirvana when they think of grunge but these guys were miles ahead.


  • #244
    donegaLroad
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    not exactly grunge, but I used to think the Sundays had a great sound for a band that did very sparse arrangements... their album 'Reading, Writing, Rithmatic' is a gem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5qNe2MFzk


  • #245
    SeamusG97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭SeamusG97


    SeamusG97 wrote: »
    An old thread apologies but this Irish band have a new single. All their old material is just as good. A world class band IMHO.

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

    Why aren't they number one everywhere? What's wrong with the world?

    Maybe I'll just cross post in Unpopular Opinions... Suit Yourselves.:D G'Night...


  • #246
    Elemonator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭Elemonator


    I'm a professional drummer (in piano too) and in college so this conversation comes up a lot. Personally I think Thin Lizzy were very underrated, they never really broke America except for the true rock heads. Brian Downey is probably THE BEST Irish rock drummer of all time. I'd have to agree with a few other posters about U2 though. Love them or hate (or just Bono) them, they are true musicians. In fact there's a story that goes amongst us Irish drummers than Larry Mullen was in the studio recording a U2 album. He was able to hear that the metronome was a 64th beat off. To put this into context, take a slow or fast tempo and count 1, 2, 3, 4. Now that's four notes or 4 quarters. Now imagine 1/64th of that, thats precision. People don't seem to realise drums are an extremely difficult instrument to play well as it takes years in developing your musicality, timing, groove and your fingers, arms, wrists and feet and being able to play different phrases independently of each other limb. In my opinion, they play their instruments to serve the music and not show off. Plus the fact, what other drummer would have come up with the Sunday Bloody Sunday drum track?


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  • #247
    [Deleted User]
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    irishguitarlad wrote: »
    Soundgarden, everyone thinks of Nirvana when they think of grunge but these guys were miles ahead.

    Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains sold shedloads of albums and were adored by critics. Not sure any of them fit into the underrated category, and when it comes to grunge they'll all be bracketed alongside Nirvana.


  • #248
    SeamusG97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭SeamusG97


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    not exactly grunge, but I used to think the Sundays had a great sound for a band that did very sparse arrangements... their album 'Reading, Writing, Rithmatic' is a gem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5qNe2MFzk
    Love all their stuff. Pity they released so few albums. Static and Silence, RWR and especially Blind. Harriet Wheeler is the focus of it all....


  • #249
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains sold shedloads of albums and were adored by critics. Not sure any of them fit into the underrated category, and when it comes to grunge they'll all be bracketed alongside Nirvana.

    Yeah back then with Soundgarden and Alice and Chains,but now when I mention them to friends who like Nirvana, they are like who the fook are they?


  • #250
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    SeamusG97 wrote: »
    Love all their stuff. Pity they released so few albums. Static and Silence, RWR and especially Blind. Harriet Wheeler is the focus of it all....

    I think she married the guitarist and started a family.. they probably achieved what they set out to do with the few albums they recorded, a bit like Nick Drake, but he is now highly rated.


  • #251
    irishgirl19
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    Hot house flowers


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