I have said it before….Gene

lots of Scottish ones.. Gun, Silencers, Geneva, Associates, Goodbye Mr Mckenzie? Mull Histroical Soceity (sp)

seen lots on Jools Holland that did nothing after the show…. Olso being one

Gun are ace.

Finally got to see them live a year or so back, with Toby Jepson fronting them.

Speaking of which, Little Angels.

Smoking Popes! Not heard that in years. Thanks.

Also, this:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0W0WmyKMzo[/video]

And this:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9ysvLIHLI[/video]

Good shout for Mull Historical Society there…

nickf – Member

Carter USM got close to mainstream success but never quite made it. They had a No.1 album but very few people can remember its name, let alone any of the songs on it.

OTOH they’ve sold out Brixton again in November. Almost on the same day they shot Kennedy. Not bad for a band that split up 13 years ago

The Southern Yeti – Member

It doesn’t really surprise me that they’ve not been mentioned yet, infact it’s testamony to just how forgotten The Beatles have become.

Seriously? The most commercially succesful band of all time? Unsurprisingly nobody’s mentioned them in this thread about forgotten and underrated bands.

What’s next? Coldplay?

Seriously?
Almost definitely not

Without being judgmental on what anyone else has said, I nominate, for the forgotten, underrated band:
EAT.

_tom_ – Member
The Shins are terrible.

By comparison with who?

grant lee buffalo

also depeche mode are totally underatted in the UK but massive everywhere else.

and before the “aint they a gay band” DM haters come along a bet you cant even name 3 albums! (and dont go and cheat and look on google!)

Depeche Mode? Forgotten? Even the bloody SATURDAYS covered one of their songs!!

Depeche Mode? Forgotten? Even the bloody SATURDAYS covered one of their songs!!

HAHA yeah i get what your saying but im a big fan and think the UK ‘because they were a bit off the wall different’ forgot them.

I’ll go along with The Monks and add The Sonics and Chocolate Watchband
In a different genre- Close Lobsters

Anyone remember Electrasy and their album Beautiful Insane?

THey were around in 98 and had a single called Morning Afterglow which Radio 1 pushed. It’s me and mrslister’s song, even though it’s about breaking up 🙂

+1 for The Violent Femmes – I’d like to see the numbers painring that they came up with. Most played in my head while digging trails.

Also That Petrol Emotion – very usefull when theres a need to tamp down the loose

Think they’re split up now but I liked these guys

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiaVAdkgp08[/video]

Oh and Hey Mercedes 🙂

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQi6weFAoo8[/video]

At the risk of making LeathalD angry to these guys fit in the underated /forgotten bands who should hav been bigger?
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5gAkna3jI&ob=av2e[/video]

Painting by numbers on the autistic spectrum –

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frb9A3ZaL-U[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNwfMoyNs0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStFpDMlSK0[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jlg3oBLkf4[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbKJwfeLrw[/video]

slainte 😀 rob

I really need to get my soundcard sorted to contribute to this thread properly.

HOWEVER, why do I never hear/see other people talking about these guys? Fast and slightly wild sort of blues-jazz-psycadelic (I hesitate to use the term ‘psycadelic’ cos it can just mean ‘painfully cliche’ but the guitarist does a pretty credible hendrix impression live)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eYwkkujr5Y[/video]

One review described them as being a bit derivative, but by the time it has listed about 10 different influences I think it had undermined its own point…

The Monks are doing OK, one or two film soundtracks, a couple of compilations (Optimo and Espacio) and a movie of their very own that I saw in the cinema 8)

Rustymac, Gomez did (by my count) one more worthwhile album (In Your Gun, much the same vein as Bring it On and Liquid Skin).

SONA FARIQ we’re pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.

…actually, having written that I’m reminded that there’s a White Denim tune on a Persil advert, d’oh!

There’s also Mr Soft and Sub Sub. Wonder what happened to them.
Oh, wait:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2xaeXnxlM&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b81qLfQejb4&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]

Third Eye Blind
Zolof the rock and roll destroyer
Vertical Horizon

+1 for grant Lee buffalo also Grand Drive, great bands.

Shed 7 on the other hand…….

Electric Soft Parade – Their debut album Holes in the Wall mas Mecury nominated, but they seemed to disappear. Empty at the End and Bitting the Soles of my Feet are brilliant tracks.

JJ72 – Good debut, only made one more then split up.

Live – underrated American alternative rock band. Throwing Copper is one of my favourite albums.

+JJ72 and ESP

RIP Bert;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MO_Xxq3LVw[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOIt7fOgeFk[/video]

Sticky Filth
Cosmic Psychos
Sprung Monkey
Weddings, Parties, Anything
Toy Love
Headless Chickens
Muttonbirds
Hello Sailor
and Holy Toledos

British Sea Power – Excellent live and liked the album “the Decline of British Sea Power” lots

An Irish band called the Stunning, made it to the outer reaches of the charts here but deserved more.

+1 The Chameleons
The March Violets
The Mighty Lemon Drops
+1 Creaming Jesus
+1 Curve
Bad Brains
24-7 Spyz
Loop
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Eugenius
Buffalo Tom

Another +1 for Grant Lee Buffalo. Mighty Joe Moon was an amazing album!

I would also add Joseph Arthur to that list.

have we done shed 7?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VED67gUNXM[/video]

23 Jewels (early 80s Nottingham)
That Petrol Emotion
+1 for Curve
+ MANY for Shearwater – Been a bit obsessive about them for the last 3 years.

RIP Bert;

Indeed, just heard on my way to work 🙁

Didn’t really like Pentangle much, but he’s got a pretty serious claim for most influential British guitarist.

Got a massive blister on my finger from hacking out Anji last night – that clips got some lovely variation licks over the Davey Graham version I know.

Curve
Ride
Sugar
Gene

I had a few acts in mind when I saw the title of this thread and I’m surprised to see that (I think) none of them have been mentioned…

1. The Jazz Butcher
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIez7lGxKps[/video]

2. Magnetic Fields
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q59ZncmAtQ[/video]

3. Felt
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXu5vC07mE0[/video]

4. The Pastels
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XPLKuy8Zak[/video]

5. Spacemen 3
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Ty8Gz5UeE&feature=related[/video]

6. Galaxie 500
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w9iv7RcmPM&feature=related[/video]

Anyone mentioned Therapy? yet?

If not – Therapy?.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVsIvvFtcs[/video]

Bands I never listen to now cos’ (but are still going) I think they’ve lost it..
Matchbox20
Counting Crows

Bands/Artists I listen to but hope they’ll return to former glory:
John Mellencamp

Stone Roses underrated/forgotten? Not in my house!

Another one… the Zutons. Brilliant band.

qwerty – Member

SONA FARIQ we’re pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.

I’ve been playing that album a lot a work lately! And only last sunday was drunkenly opining to the housemate that kasabian sound like a lesser descendent of them – less groove and less kick. Should’ve been big.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ufiPh2inI&feature=related[/video]

Another plus one for Hundred Reasons too – they may have been my first proper gig.

Future Of The Left continue to be nowhere near as loved as they should be – seemed to be playing smaller venues than normal last time they wandered past – and that’s a shame. Same goes for The Computers, still doing the same support slots they were three years ago when i first saw them.

I’m surprised this bunch weren’t championed more during those recent post-punk retrospective years (unless they were, and i wasn’t paying attention)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjbBr1_rSD8[/video]

@ Tazzymtb – Godflesh got a half-arsed mention in the Home Of Metal exhibitions they’ve had ’round Brum and the Black Country lately. Important enough to feature on the commemorative artwork/tea-towel

but not enough to get any display that i noticed (Napalm Death felt a little swept into the background too) save for a couple of quotes from musicians they inspired.

Some Bands I loved but never get a mention now:

Man
Greenslade
Steve Hillage

Could go on but these were particular favorites before I realised that punk was the way forward. Still secretly loved a lot of prog rock though.

The Soup Dragons
Teenage Fanclub
Mega City Four
Pop Will Eat Itself
Adult Net
Birdhouse
Big Audio Dynamite
Bomb the Bass
Electronic

All made a few good tunes. Gone, but not necessarily forgotten (cos I’m remembering them now).