[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L30VL4IFzkw[/video]

Poppies were ace, especially Dos Dedos. Cracking album.

Teenage Fanclub still going Mike, and still turning out the good stuff. Side project ‘Jonny’ are worth checking out too.

PWEI are touring at the moment I think – back to their grimy indie club roots, I was going to go to Oxford to see them but I have to fly out @ 04:00 the next morning and be half awake when I get to the site 🙁

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iXfM0ZSmPY&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvS9YTi7VXI[/video]

Pimpmaster Jazz – do you enjoy PWEI or Lionel Ritchie more?

Anyone mentioned Senseless Things?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnQ0mUoyKCg[/video]

do you enjoy PWEI or Lionel Ritchie more?

I like Lionel when I’m sad. 😉

Some good calls so far (Galaxie 500, Bert Jansch, Therapy?) but has anyone mentioned Chavez yet?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKr45j6S_qQ[/video]

Underrated, and not sure I know anyone else who owns either of their records.

Andy

I was going to get Poppies tickets but then discovered it’s just one of them resurrecting the name, which put me off tbh. Sad I never saw them back in the day…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Wm4qXC_j4[/video]

Anybody mentioned The Chameleons? One of THE great under-rated manchester bands!

THE THE….infected greatest album of the eighties

Nenah Cherry……brilliant

John Foxx………underpass

Ultravox………new romantics brillance

Hothouse Flowers…….first album

The Pale Fountains…….

Cocteau Twins……

Neds Atomic Dustbin………

The Beat……..took ska to usa

Gone but not forgetten

Ian Drury and the blockheads…legend and father of Grime

Mike-at-dialled-bikes, along with PWEI, B.A.D. toured a couple of months ago. A collegue at work saw them at the Cheese And Grain in Frome. He’s a huge fan of The Clash too.
A local band who have just released their second album are starting to pick up some attention; Kill It Kid, from Bath. Really very good band indeed, very underrated at the mo’.

+1 for Jesu
+1 for Mansun
+1 for Spacemen 3
+1 for Grant Lee Buffalo
+1 for Add n to (x)
+1 for Blyth Power
+1 for British Sea Power
+1 for The Beat Band
+1 for Sikth
and if I may add my own

Dawn Of The Replicants
Grandaddy
Black Bonzo
Evil Scarecrow (absolute hoot live, wish I knew how to post vids on this thing)
The Olivia Tremor Control
Creedle
Porcupine Tree (not so much underrated as under appreciated)
Ulver (ditto)
Clutch (ditto)
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Quasi
Beehoover

I could keep going but trust me when I say they are worth seeking out for a listen. 🙂

Shame on you all.

Not a single mention for The Blue Nile.

The Church. Loved them from the first hearing on the OGWT pick of the year in oh, god, 1981? , still innovating even today. Here’s one of many I could’ve chosen.

[video]http://youtu.be/Osz-GQbX37o[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkZlF6BKxQ[/video]

always preferred theatre of hate over spear of destiny

these chaps are ace

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w[/video]

What about Airhead and their album Boing?

‘Funny how the girls I fall in love with never fancy me,
Funny how the ones I don’t, do…’

Only got it on tape, would love it on CD…

Mr SBrock count me in on The Chameleons but you must check out Live In The Hothouse by The Sound.
They really should have taken U2’s place in history.
The Skids were also so much more than Into The Valley.

ooppss Forgot,HOUSE OF LOVE

Gone but can’t forget this

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzD5e3lQKhg[/video]

I’d never heard The Chameleons before, they are really good.

I know the Boo Radleys were mentioned, I really liked their early stuff like this…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x21u0lixghA[/video]

Still no takers for the Jazz Butcher? He’s the dictionary definition of an underrated pop genius…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pedlUdXbg&feature=related[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnCsLlbfv4[/video]

Oh god I’ve just woken up from a very long dream called being a grown up and gone back to student days gigging in Camden:
Curve – of course
Ride
Swervedriver
Mega City 4
See See Rider
Love and Rockets
The WoodenTops
TackHead and the like for the mentalists
and my mate’s (at the time) band – the ultimate shoegazers Chapterhouse
could go on …