Most Underrated Band

Sir Osis of Liver.

Here's mine.

Tail Docker

The Academic. According to an academic mate of mine.

Gbear

The Doors.

Everyone I ever hear talk about them seems to utterly loathe them.

As long as you're not silly enough to think the lyrics aren't bollocks and accept that Jim Morrison was a dickhead I don't see why you can't enjoy a pretty excellent blues-rock band.

Karl Stein

The Undertones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqa3cVOxUc

braddun

u2

Cantremember

Lol. Lads, I thought that this was going to be about the up and coming! It's crusties night in AH!

longshanks

The Stranglers are underrated? News to me.

Kevin McCloud

The elastic one

SeamusG97

Crowded House

wendell borton

At the drive-in

Karl Stein

Cantremember wrote: »

Lol. Lads, I thought that this was going to be about the up and coming! It's crusties night in AH!

How can an up-and-coming band be underrated? Shirley a band has to have a substantial catalogue to be considered before they can be deemed underrated?

Eutow

Gang of Four

Macavity.

The Doors? The Stranglers? They both have a huge following. The Doors are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone ranked them 41 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Not underrated by a long shot.

fruvai

Supergrass

A Dub in Glasgo

James

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWPgJkOdUZU

soap1978

ocean colour scene

DainBramage

The Pogues

bodice ripper

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Rothko

Minutemen

Banjo String

Hector pickaxe and the floating crowbars.

DainBramage

fruvai wrote: »

Supergrass

I think their song/video for 'Alright' in which they are wheeled around in a bed meant Supergrass were always going to tagged as a 1990's Monkees.

However they had much more to offer as their subsequent albums proved and are criminally under-rated imo. but sadly I think they've split up now.

Macavity.

Sebadoh.

Pinch Flat

St etienne

Witchie

Michael Franti and Spearhead.

Gmol

Rory Gallagher, how many here could name 3 of his songs(and be honest)

the evasion_kid

Gmol wrote: »

Rory Gallagher, how many here could name 3 of his songs(and be honest)

He's a massive fan base in greece

e_e

Fugazi

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo

Roger Hassenforder

Fink
(although he had a song on the Walking dead one time, so maybe he's gone a bit mainstream...)
One of my favorite songs, maybe due to the circumstances when I first came it first...

the evasion_kid

The pixies

Skylinehead

Karl Stein wrote: »

The Undertones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgqa3cVOxUc

Teenage Kicks was the first song I learned on the bass :cool:

Not entirely true, Smoke on the Water was first, but in fairness it's 3 notes.

AboutaWeekAgo

bodice ripper wrote: »

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Yep, came in to post that

Huge back catalogue and still putting out quality albums, their latest one that came out this year is great. You'd have to wonder if Anton wasn't such a headcase back in the day would have been bigger?

Roger Hassenforder

e_e wrote: »

Fugazi

bitterly disappointed the first time i bought a Fugazi album.

IIRC
it was red.
and rubbish

might give it another spin on the strength of this.

foxy farmer

Big Country. Stuart Adamson lead singer was a genius. Their management and record companies were their downfall.

Gmol

Just thought of another one,Badfinger

e_e

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

bitterly disappointed the first time i bought a Fugazi album.

IIRC
it was red.
and rubbish

might give it another spin on the strength of this.

Tbh they had to grow on me the first few times I listened to them. Try Repeater or The Argument.

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Scary Eire

lertsnim

The Frank & Walters should be much bigger. A criminally under rated band from Cork.

El Weirdo

XTC.

BlaasForRafa

The Quarter After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAWs4qlhSOY

JPT Scare Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDLpfmmhA08

Talib Fiasco

The Roots

Roger Hassenforder

lertsnim wrote: »

The Frank & Walters should be much bigger. A criminally under rated band from Cork.

brilliant band.
the injustice of it all:

RikkFlair

Teenage Fanclub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzKFH-m9NGU

SpatialPlanning

Powderfinger - always thought they should have been a lot bigger.

DEFTLEFTHAND

The Blades, U2's big Dublin rivals in the late 70s, most of the music press of the era predicted the Blades to make it big not U2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htRJdw-7j4c

Captain Hman

Three Days Grace underrated in my view

J Mysterio

Gmol wrote: »

Rory Gallagher, how many here could name 3 of his songs(and be honest)

Massive fan. He truly is underrated - one of the best musicians to have ever been produced in Ireland, if not the world.

Few interesting tidbits:

Jimi Hendrix was once asked by a journalist what it was like to be the best guitarist in the world and he said 'I dont know, ask Rory Gallagher'

At one time there was a poll taken of some of the great guitarists (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) to determine their choice of the greatest - guess who won?

I ****ing love Rory.

CaptainInsano

Gentle Giant.
A group of absolutely exquisite multi instrumentalists that didn't seem to take off like the likes of Rush. Stumbled upon them by accident myself, any prog rock fans here should check them out.

J Mysterio

Will check that out. Was massive into Rush back in the day, Gentle Giant is ringing a bell somewhere in the back of me head.

Karl Stein

His mother bought him a synthesizer
Got the Human League into advise her

Lapin

Microdisney and Fatima Mansions.

If Cathal Coughlan ever dies, I'll demand statues in his honour to be placed on every mountaintop in the land.

J Mysterio

Lapin wrote: »

Microdisney and Fatima Mansions.

If Cathal Coughlan ever dies, I'll demand statues in his honour to be placed on every mountaintop in the land.

Someone might cut them down though, if they don't believe in Cathal Coughlan.