Underrated artists

Phew! Beat Scogs to it.

This is much more difficult. Who is superb, but never really made it onto the big scene? I'll pick these:

1. MC Tunes (Nicky Lockett) on vox, Sam Brox on guitar, Steve OJ on bass, Mykey Wilson on drums and Ganiyu Pierre Gasper on turntable - The Dust Junkys. Done & Dusted will always be in my top 20 album list.

2. Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias. I larfed and larfed and larfed until I was sick.

3. Tracy Walters & The T-Bone Boogie Band. I learnt so much from Mr. 'Crowman' Walters. The Ian Dury of the blues, the performer's performer fronting an act that could have been huge if they wanted it. During the early 1980's they could pack any place from Coventry to Luton with a gutsy thrillin' of swing-blues-rock 'n' roll. They had fun. The audiences had no choice. The infection grew from the toes to the ankles, from the knees to the hips. You HAD to dance. The T-Bone's turned down all approaches to get big. Gotta love them for that on it's own.

4. Elastica - Yeah, I know. Most people have heard of them, but they never really got anywhere after being slagged by the music press and accused of rippin' off The Stranglers and Wire... which was very narrow minded. One rock biatch is awesome. Three is heaven.
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5. *Sniff* JulieFilth&Sin *Sniff* Sentimental old fool.

Honorable mention goes to Fictitious - My mate Tiggles' (Tim Ego) band from Newport Pagnell (c.1979-81) who toured with Bauhaus.

You must adjust.

So, tell us then!

Salmonella Dub
Rhombus
Head Like a Hole
The Mint Chicks
Trinity Roots

Coldplay

The Church
The Charlatans
Subsurfing (or anything by Greg Hunter)
Dub Tractor
The Aloof

Hey, I've got The Charlatans - They WERE good.

Come over here so I can slap you!! Underrated my left arse cheek

Nice...Down in metropolis...

Of course they were... But friggin' Oasis and Blur got all the praise around that time while they got nothing really, when they really topped them in tunes by far imo. I guess you can argue if they are comparable to those two, but I'm sure you know what I mean.

You know, I could make up names here and get away with it.
so here goes:
1)Hotfight
2)Bugs
3)Spyplane
4)SugarBoys
5)Bluntman & Chronic

@ET - Oasis should really be in that 'other' thread. Best thing they ever did was when Noel ate a Bavarian truncheon. Now I'd pay to hear the CD of that

Garth Brooks- nobody outside of NA appreciates the man! (yeah, my redneck is showing! )

Bachman Turner Overdrive from the 70's. Classic rock at its best!

As an NA, I can say that Garth is not under appreciated or estimated. In fact, I would say the opposite.
BTO, great band and love them. They be Taken Care of Business and at that time were definitely underappreciated!

Paul MacCartney is underrated. There. I've said it.

Dude, you are correct sir. Sir Paul is under-rated!

To drunk to think of too much, but The Cult comes to mind as well as Live. No one's heard of them here. Fucking great band!

Inspiral Carpets

Incubus
Brass Construction
Radiohead
The Only Ones
The Skids

Another great suggestion. They helped regenerate a sound while Oasis took credit for it. As for Charlatans man I am still happy someone else knows them. If you remember both the Mission and The Charlatans had to temporarily change their name in the U.S. adding the U.K. suffix to their name due to U.S. bands owning those prospective names. In no way were those U.S. bands as good as the U.K. groups...oh well off the soapbox..

Don Ross. He's a brilliant accoustical guitarist.

Mission of Burma
mclusky
Elastica for sure
XTC
The Sonics

Freddy White
Eliza Carthy
Show of Hands
Willie DeVille
The Oyster Band
Tom Waits
The Lonely Stranded Band
Mary Coughlan
Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler
Gerry Rafferty

That's my 10!

Southern Death Cult - EXCELLENT band. Might as well add Theatre Of Hate to the list too.


I adore The Only Ones. I think I've got the 45 of Another Girl here somewhere, plus a couple of CDs (Oh! Lucinda & Why Don't You Kill Yourself are fav songs).
The Skids you can keep - load of bollocks. "Yahnkeeeee To war! Yahnkeeeee What a bore?"

Wild flower I love you every hour crazy you babay... Great choice.

I just had to play some Only Ones. Listening now to 'Baby's Got A Gun'.

I found love in Atlanta, Georgia
I said, "Baby, I don't think I can afford ya"
She said, just for me
She's do it for free

Bush, eels, LIVE, Audioslave..

Bush - Well yes, but I kinda got the impression they did rather well. OK, they didn't do what The Beatles did, but they had a measure of success. Love certain tracks on Razorblade Suitcase.

Audioslave - Defo. They've become 'special' for me.

At about the point Johnny Filth discovered that he had a window of opportunity open to get his family where he needed to get them, he would turn up in the practise room playing I Am The Highway.

I'd get there 20-30 minutes before he and Julie, open up, get my SVT II and my fingers, vox and strings warm and drink plenty of liquid (if you ain't sweating, you ain't doing it right). We'd do our "Hello"s and I'd go to the loo, and I'd hear him warming up with... Pearls and swine.... Haunting.

I presumed it was one of his. Not so strange. 6 months earlier he had been playing what became Hold On and he got really upset when I asked him, "That's good man. Who's is it?".

This was confirmed the final recording we did when the producer said, "Hey. Listen to this. This is what you guys remind me of." You can guess what the CD was.

Don't think that counts. Tom Waits is very highly rated, and duely so.

Agreed

Too many to mention, but first one i alwazs thought never got the credit they deserved...Cooper Temple Clause...the band Oasis COULD have been...

Live's coming here in July.. saw a poster the other day.

Spinal Tap .. enough said...

You're right. I meant "Tom Waits for Noone" but forgot to finish it.
Very good screeva band from Donegal.

Under rated artist?
Ambrosio B
El Nino Perdido

Caravan (and anyone from the 60s Canterbury scene)
Camel,
Barclay James Harvest - never really got there

will think of more.

here's mine

Alan Parsons Project
Clannad
Genesis

Blue Rodeo- a great Canadian Band!

Agree with Alan Parsons project.. deffo. Shoina Lang is still one of my favs..

Now come on jeremy. Both bands had their levels of success. I thunk I've got Cunning Stunts somewhere here, and Camel's 'Nude' was spectacular.


Scogs! That's a definite thread offence. Take it over into overrated lumps of crap please.

I think Pink's underrated.
Anybody else see her new video "Stupid Girls" - funny as fuck.

Al Stewart, he's so much more than Year of the Cat
Jim Croce, the great American song writer of the 60's and early 70's (died in a plane crash 1974)
The Monkees, tons of social criticism on their two albums and an almost dadaistic piece about the Pet Pig Porky. Besides, my Ma went to High School with the keyboard player, or so she told me.

In no particular ranking order:

Peter Green - was it B.B. King who said something like (don't remember the exact quote) "Peter Green is the only white man who can really play the blues"

Van Morrison - well, some of his stuff, anyway

Wishbone Ash - went to their concert in Munich in January and they still sound great after 35 years.
Definitely underrated, considering that they were booked into such a small venue as the Muffatwerk-Ampere.

You've got to messin me ...
Talk about pickin up where the other thread left off
Overrated bands
I only bought that shite cos NME said it was great... absolute rubbish

Madonna is crap parnell. Elastica live were good, in-yer-face rock 'n' roll.

@ Sin
OK never saw em live - altho funny you mention live performance as the other band I mentioned as being overrated were Supergrass - I saw em for less than 10 yo yo (was called punts back then) couple of days before their debut "I should coco" came out - absolute legend! Read everywhere that they were gonna be the greatest thing to hit popular music since the drum (lead singer Gaz Coombes was 16 when he made that record) - what a let down they've turned out to be.

Under-rated ARTists:

Max Sauk

But then again I don't classify 'singing' as Art.

Agreed. I heard 'Alright' and thought, "Way hey! Here we go. Great summer tune"... and that was it. All the fuss over. The drummer came from Wheatley (just East of Oxford). Is Chris Goffey's (the old geezer from BBC's Top Gear) nephew, and was a mate of my brother, Robert. The second album 'In It For The Money' was appalling.

No, he [B.B. King] was referring to Eric Clapton, but I agree with you on Peter Green. But I wouldn't say he was underrated. Just went the same route as Rory Gallagher. Didn't want to go commercial.

I don't think Peter Green knew where his feet were, let alone what 'commercial' meant. Poor old Peter suffered a heavy trip in the same way as Syd.

Danger Mouse
The director of the Italian short film The Telephone Box
The writer of Eating Raoul (Movie)
Sydney James
The animators on Roadrunner