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    #122
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,714 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    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.


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    #123
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


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


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    #124
    Help!!!!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭Help!!!!


    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Kerbdog,an irish band that really should have made it

    Its good to see them back gigging again though


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    #125
    Bacchus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    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.


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    #126
    Custardpi
    Registered Users 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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    #127
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Talk Talk:



    The Associates:

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


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    #128
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    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.


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    #129
    porsche959
    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).


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    #130
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    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


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    #131
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    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.


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    #132
    Sonderkommando
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    The mighty Bolt Thrower!


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    #133
    Charlie19
    Registered Users Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    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.;)


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    #134
    Custardpi
    Registered Users 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.
    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


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    #135
    e_e
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    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


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    #136
    Kettleson
    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".


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    #137
    LithiumKid1976
    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 :)


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    #138
    McTigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    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.


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    #139
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,254 ✭✭✭✭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:



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    #140
    unjedilike
    Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭unjedilike


    Faith No More


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    #141
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    ......Television.

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


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


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    #142
    Kettleson
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    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


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    #143
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,726 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Big Star. When we speak of underrated bands there can only be one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pte3Jg-2Ax4


    Such a weepy.


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    #144
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    From the north of Ireland, The Answer



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    #145
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


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

    Interesting, will check them out a bit more later.


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    #146
    slightly_broke
    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


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    #147
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    Ah jesus, Fleetwood Mac are almost universally adored.


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    #148
    slightly_broke
    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


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    #149
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    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.


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    #150
    Mackas_view
    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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    #151
    ikeano29
    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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