[Closed] Most underrated acts in music

Peter Andre
Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer

The Chameleons.

Regarded by many as a comedy band, but musically, massively underrated. And hugely influential too. I reckon Sean Ryder as a lyricist is a genius.

JLS

PWEI +1

I'll add the two I always add when bands should be heard......Black Angels and Fu Manchu.

PWEI +2

Therapy?

Buffalo Tom.

Can't post a link to a video at the moment, but check out Treehouse or Taillights Fade.

British Sea Power
The Twang (but maybe that is because I am a Brummy!)

The Twang (but maybe that is because I am a Brummy!)

Two brilliant albums and a third due out in April. 😀

Another vote for Therapy?

Queen Adreena
Eels
Violent Femmes

Fu Manchu +1
Violent femmes +1

and Kyuss

John Shuttleworth.

All he does is sing about everyday trivia to nursery-rhyme type tunes interspersed with dodgy effects from his Casio keyboard.

Some people just don't get it.

eels
+1

BigJohn + 1

He's a genius, i have the 2 margerine tub problem all the time 😉

Therapy? definately underrated, or more like overlooked, they've become part of the background noise of british rock, which I guess improves the quality of that background noise immensely. Unless the Shameless album comes on, in which case you're screwed.

Carter USM... A great band, now relegated to a joke for sneering music industry pricks and occasional appearances on TV talking about attacking Philip Schofield. Oh and occasional sellout gigs at Brixton Academy.

I am Kloot, although their recent Mercury nomination will probably change that. best songwriter in Britain IMHO.

+1 binners for the happy mondays

Band called clem snide, from the US, love them, saw them live about 5 years ago, they finished their set in a tiny club in newcastle, i went over to speak to them, about 5 minutes into the conversation I mentioned they didn't play a song I like, the singer picked up an acoustic guitar, jumped on stage and played for another 30 mins or so, starting with the song I liked, brilliant!

Lowgold, their first album was as good as any guitar music at the time (2001 / 2002 ish)

The Fall

Wish I could get my money back on my BS cd, it's crap.

Stone Temple pilots

I intially thought they were a Pearl Jam ripp-off after listening to a few songs from their debut album. But later albums showed that they had their own style and sound.

Check out: 'Plush', 'Vasoline', 'Interstate Love Song' and 'Still Remains'

Live.

Big in America but never really got much credit over here.

Check out: 'I Alone', 'Selling the Drama', 'Lightning Crashes', 'Sweet Release', 'Graze' and 'All I need'.

Silverchair

Labelled as teenage Nirvana Wannabees, but evolved from Grunge into a really good alternative rock band.

Check out: 'Tomorrow', 'The Door', 'Pop Song for us rejects', 'Emotion Sickness', 'Point of View', 'Paint Pastle Princess', 'The Greatest View', 'Without You', 'Too much of not enough' and 'The Lever'

Actually - Just remembered another one: Campag Velocet!

Therapy? here too spent many a night moshing in Rock City Notts too them.

Levellers

The cardiacs had a very big small following.

And one I would love to see perform a lot more
The Fujii

HURTS

Mew

Not under rated but perhaps underknown

Waits for DezB to do his thing 😀

Suede, Soul Asylum, Neds atomic Dustbin, Little Man Tate

+1 for Carter, Therapy? and The Mondays. Off to See Shaun Ryder in Cardiff at the end of the month.

Eric Clapton and the Beatles for comedy additions

plumber - Comforting Sounds played here not 5 minutes ago!

Senser

matt johnson/the the, eels & hanson

[i]Waits for DezB to do his thing [/i]

I done a nice post right at the start but it didn't appear 🙁

I'll have to make it brief with no explanation
Alex Smoke

and anything with Dose-One involved. eg. cLOUDDEAD, Subtle, Themselves

I also think Bowie is underrated in the British rock hierachy- when you see the fawning over folk like Elton John, Mccartney, Mercury, Ozzy etc.

There's loads from the 80s when the charts were a closed shop and there was a clear line between indie and major label stuff. e.g. Cocteau Twins got a lot of music press aclaim but I doubt many listened to them outside of the indie crowd.

[b]Neutral Milk Hotel[/b] from the 90s were praised to the skies, but still deserved a wider audience. Having the worst name in music history probably didn't help with this. [i]In the aeroplane over the sea[/i] is a stunning record - I still pick it up at times and find it knocks me out, hell of an album.

[b]At the drive in[/b] had too hard a sound for mainstream success, but still deserved to be better known over here. One of the best rock outfits of the late 90s - Relationship of Command still hold up brilliantly. Their next project [b]The Mars Volta[/b] also started out like a train but have lost their way latterly.

Some interesting stuff there.

I would also like to suggest Beulah, their LP WHen Your Heart Strings Break is one of my all-time faves and just perfect summer pop music...

i love this band!

had never heard of them until i played pgr4 on 360.

The Stranglers.

also these guys.

DAVID FORD

TOM MCRAE

Little Joy......fantastic album!the drummer from The strokes plus a beautiful girl called binki sapiro,and great singer who sings like julian casablancas,only more soulful....its a really beautful album.
also The Dirty Projectors...Bitte Orca is the album

Dunno why, but I thought of another jangly one...

yet another one

not actually their official video (a fan made one) 🙂

+1 Chameleons
Magazine

and finally.the most underrated band in history 😀

Coldplay.