Most Underrated band of all time

[Uncle Spielberg]

The Stranglers, no contest.

Never make the top 100 bands of all time for some reason. Vastly superior to the overrated sex pistols who both started at the same time.

The sex pistol make the top 10 but the Stranglers nowhere

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

busted
everyone goes on about mcfly now but busted are by far the best

 

[Icy Gull]

Ezio, accoustic guitar genius' who write songs with great lyrics and are as good live as any band I've ever seen.

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Killing Joke were a very underrated band. A pioneering band who influenced many others over the years but who had very little in the way of chart success themselves.

Bizarrely, they are Kate Bush's favourite band, and their influence can be clearly heard on her 'Hounds of Love' album (particularly on the single 'The Big Sky', which features former Joke bassist Youth).

 

[Halftime Oranges]

um the jelly beans

 

[Cian]

I'll be shot for this, but

Linkin Park are seriously underrated, or possibly underappreciated is a better term. Their music is pretty good but regulasly dismissed as being little more than pop, just because of the genre its in..

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

The sex pistols make the top 10 but the Stranglers nowhere

Things is, GG, if the Pistols hadn't battered down the doors of the music industry it's possible the Stranglers would never have got a deal.

 

[Cian]

I wouldn't call the Stranglers underrated. You're more likely to hear them on the radio now than the Sex Pistols

Then again, its the later, cleaner stuff thats played, like Golden Brown. Which is about heroin, I know....

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

On the subject of the Stranglers, if any fans haven't got it yet I can highly recommend a book entitled 'The Stranglers Song By Song' by Hugh Cornwell and Jim Drury.

The book contains details of what each and every Stranglers track that was recorded when Cornwell was with the band meant, and explanations of how they came together both lyrically and musically. Fascinating stuff for Stranglers anoraks such as myself.

 

[DJ Leon]

That Petrol Emotion and Guided By Voices. Should have been bigger than the Beatles.

 

[dougdeep]

Undertones.
Pretty Things.
Spooky Tooth.
Nazareth.
Streetwalkers.
Man.
Clash.
Stranglers.
String Driven Thing.
Vandergraph Generator.


Is that enough?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Sunburst

 

[Guest]

Stackridge.

Bit of a cult band in the 70's but brilliant none the less.

I only had vinyl and my missus made me give the turntable and all of my albums away some time ago so I have not heard Stackridge for years. Apparently having my albums neatly lined up either side of the fireplace was too 70's for her tastes in the 90's.

No-ones more important than.........

 

[John Boy]

I would say the Undertones and the Thrills

 

[king Wombat]

sparklehorse
third eye blind
albert lee

 

[MattBackHome]

Sunburst

Aah yes, the mighty Sunburst.

Incidentally GNLF, "The First Cut" still gets an occasional airing at the Hove Park Cafe and is widely reckoned to have stood the test of time. One old woman described it as 'quite incredible'. Rumours that the band are to reform for a one-off spectacular are unfounded, as Bent Skid is apparently getting married and emigrating to South Africa. Seriously.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Secret Affair.

 

[jail bird]

Huey Lewis and the News

The Power of Love - a pure classic

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Huey Lewis and the News

The Power of Love - a pure classic

I thought dougdeep was taking the piss by saying The Clash were underrated...

 

[aftershavedave]

Secret Affair.

you're having a laugh aren't you?

very average indeed, even amongst their peers i'd put them below the chords and purple hearts. plastic and ordinary...