NationStates Jolt Archive

Not pub bands that you know personally, but music that has been released, people have heard of it, but never generated the following it deserved.

I'd say Kyuss. It blows me away, a fantastic band that no-one really cared about (well, not on a huge scale anyway) until they broke up and later Queens of the Stone Age came about as a result. They're still pretty obscure.

Honourable mention for the Butthole Surfers, but not all of their stuff was good.

No way man - the Butthole Surfers ROCK...they deserve more than an honourable mention-!

Even if the last album was a little more tame.

The Arcade Fire, Manitoba, TV on the Radio, The Faint, The Go! Team, On! AIr! Library!, Bright Eyes. I can keep going. . .

The Clark Family Experience.

No way man - the Butthole Surfers ROCK...they deserve more than an honourable mention-!

Even if the last album was a little more tame.

Haha, they are definitely great. But their underratedness (is that a word?) Is part of the reason they're good in the first place :)

I can keep going. . .

Please do, until you actually mention something I know :p

Gotta be Public Image Ltd. hands down. The early stuff anyway. Look at how many others they've influenced. But it all went to hell after Keith Levene left the group.

local h, burning brides, and how could you mention the butthole surfers without mentioning the sonic youth?

i can keep going, i love me some underground bands.

and how can i forget ambulance ltd?

"Classical Music" - it has cultural and artistic value, is entertaining, and is, without a doubt, the best music Western society has produced - yet it remains horribly underrated.

Ska

FRENCH OPERA!!!

Notre Dame de Paris, i think it's the 1995 one, is definately the best. The "belle" suite is so haunting!

How about Video Game Soundtracks!? Those things rock so much that it blows my mind. Too bad it costs so much to import them =(

how could you mention the butthole surfers without mentioning the sonic youth?

True, I guess. But I think Sonic Youth are less underrated than the Butthole Surfers. For example, their recent concerts down here sold out (AND I MISSED OUT :mad: ) and most people into modern music have heard of them as opposed to the Surfers.

How about the Acoustix or The Ritz or Fred?

True, I guess. But I think Sonic Youth are less underrated than the Butthole Surfers. For example, their recent concerts down here sold out (AND I MISSED OUT :mad: ) and most people into modern music have heard of them as opposed to the Surfers.

true enough, sonic youth has enjoyed alot more success then the surfers, but sonic youth is alot better (at least i think) and deserves alot more credit then they get. of course i could also talk about good ol mudhoney, then i would lead into black flag and the melvins and, well... im just to tired at the moment.

Thin Lizzy, Alice in Chains, The Ramones, Tom Waits

All pretty high rated, but not high enough in my humble opinion

DJ Format, Kasino and the Weakerthans

Willy Nelson.

Pavement.

Sage Francis...because he's just an awesome lyricist and person all-around.

Ska

SKA SUCKS {Propagandhi}

Ska sucks.
Ska revival isn't cool, you stupid fuck.
The bands are only in it for the bucks.
And if you don't believe me you're a schmuck.
But the trend will die out with any luck.
Rudy, a message to you Rudy... Fuck you Rudy!




indeed.

Not pub bands that you know personally, but music that has been released, people have heard of it, but never generated the following it deserved.

I'd say Kyuss. It blows me away, a fantastic band that no-one really cared about (well, not on a huge scale anyway) until they broke up and later Queens of the Stone Age came about as a result. They're still pretty obscure.

Honourable mention for the Butthole Surfers, but not all of their stuff was good.

Yes. Totally underrated band.

Hootie and the Blowfish...massively underrated over here in the UK.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci...fantastic...just fantastic.
Ska. I's feckin' loves ska, I's do. Going to see CapDown tonight. WOO!!

Definitly Ashborn an unsigned band with enormas potentional.
so far underated but expect big things...

local h
Indeed, Local H is the best band alive.

Other mentions, in no particular order:
the Plasmatics
Napalm Death
Babes in Toyland
Stabbing Westward
Concrete Blonde
Sebadoh
Soul Asylum
Diamanda Galas
Anti-Flag
Motorhead

I'd just like to put my vote in for the 'Butts'.
Bloody awesome band to see live, btw. I saw them in '91 - one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
Mexican Caravan is one of the best rock songs around. Then's there's 'Sweatloaf'. "Daddy what's the meaning of regret?"

Killdozer are very under-rated too, imo. They were more than a joke band with a gravelly voiced singer. Some of their songs were bloody awesome.

Jim's Big Ego
They Might Be Giants (I'm sorta sick of trying to convince people that they have more than two songs)
Monster Magnet
Mudmen

They Might Be Giants (I'm sorta sick of trying to convince people that they have more than two songs)

They have more than two songs? <giggle>

They Might Be Giants has to be one of the most underrated bands...especially their first album and their second, Lincoln. Still listen to it today.

Butthole Surfers, Public Image Ltd. great additions to the list.
Sonic Youth is great, but don't think they qualify- they have been the modern rock critic's darlings for 20 years, have had platinum albums, and have been on the simpsons...

The The - great songwriter, get the album Infected or Mindbomb

Dead Can Dance- try album Spleen and Ideal

Die Warzau - band from detroit, kind of industrial funk best album
Big Electric Metal Bass Face

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -song Television

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - 13 above the Night

Nitzer Ebb - Ebbhead

Machines of Loving Grace - both albums great

Course Of Empire - first cd

Pixies - Doolittle

Pogues - Peace and Love

Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Didos Mis Amigos

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow

Sister Machine Gun - metropolis

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland or Vision Thing

Silly Wizard - Irish folk music

Pixies - Doolittle

the pixies! how in gods name did i forget one of my top five bands ever? i am ashamed at myself.


Pavement

yes, another good band. slanted and enchanted is a classic

Eisley. Have a look at my sig.

The Delgados - critically acliamed, but noone seems to listen to them.
Belle and Sebastain - could always do with more recognition.

Without a doubt Blues music, as a genre, is completely underrated. The Blues are the roots that gave us rock, jazz, hip-hop, and almost every type of modern pop music, yet you can almost never find a radio statio devoted to the Blues or even one that will occasionally play Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Etta James, Blind Lemon, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightning Hopkin, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, or any of the great classical Blues miusicians.

Nor are Blues young guns, like Keb'mo, Robert Cray, or Susan Tedeschi, getting any air time, either.

The Blues is an American original and a national treasure, yet unfortunately this music genre, that came out of the heart and soul of the Black American experience, has been almost totally ignored by today's young people, especially young Blacks.

Without a doubt Blues music, as a genre, is completely underrated. The Blues are the roots that gave us rock, jazz, hip-hop, and almost every type of modern pop music, yet you can almost never find a radio statio devoted to the Blues or even one that will occasionally play Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Etta James, Blind Lemon, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lightning Hopkin, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, or any of the great classical Blues miusicians.

Nor are Blues young guns, like Keb'mo, Robert Cray, or Susan Tedeschi, getting any air time, either.

The Blues is an American original and a national treasure, yet unfortunately this music genre, that came out of the heart and soul of the Black American experience, has been almost totally ignored by today's young people, especially young Blacks.

Blues isn't really the roots of jazz, since jazz really more or less came out of African improvisational music, but you're on the right track. Robert Randolph and the Family Band is great up and coming gospel/blues group and certainly don't forget Kenny Wayne Sheppard.

and Stevie Ray...

Blues isn't really the roots of jazz, since jazz really more or less came out of African improvisational music, but you're on the right track. Robert Randolph and the Family Band is great up and coming gospel/blues group and certainly don't forget Kenny Wayne Sheppard.

and Stevie Ray...

I love RR and the FB, I must listen to "Run for Your Life" twice a day.

Pavement.

Rock on!

Also: The Flaming Lips, The Rapture, My Bloody Valentine, My Morning Jacket, The Killers, Modest Mouse (still), The Blood Brothers, Bled Through, VHS or Beta, Chin Up Chin Up.

Rogue Wave
The Replacements
My Bloody Valentine (At least by the public)
Beulah

Silly Wizard is definitely deserving of the list, but it's Scottish, not Irish.

The New Radicals
The Cranberries
The Cardigans
Chumbawumba

All are so great it hurts.

The Flaming Lips
The Presidents of the United States of America
Rilo Kiley
They Might Be Giants
The Rentals
Superdrag
Galactic
G. Love and Special Sauce

The Killers Kick Ass, but i hate modest mouse "shudders" :sniper:

More I forgot:

Cathedral
Foetus
Swans
Godflesh
Carcass
Death
Voivod
Husker Du
Meat Puppets
My Dying Bride

Clutch

Slint, British Sea Power, Bonzo Dog doo-dah Band

Silly Wizard is definitely deserving of the list, but it's Scottish, not Irish.

sorry i'm just an ignorant american

The Presidents of the United States of America
I wouldn't say they're under-rated. I'd argue over-rated. One good song, a couple of ok ones and the rest totally forgetable. A one-hit wonder.

Also I wouldn't say 'The Pixies' are under-rated, but for different reasons. They were pretty popular in the time, and certainly critics loved them. Look at how popular their comeback is (and deservedly so).

I think 'Big Black' deserves a mention for under-rated band. "Kerosene" still rocks even after 20 years.

Here's one for you Kiwis: 'Sticky Filth'.
"Weep Woman Weep' is probably the greatest Heavy metal song to ever come out of 'Naki.
If you're into good old-fashioned garage metal, I strongly recommend trying to get your hands on a copy of Sticky's classic debut album 'Weep woman Weep'. Cool cover too.