Under rated Bands

[NMH]

Free. They got attention for a couple of their singles, but Led Zep stole their thunder in the albums market imo. Tons of Sobs is at least as good as LZ1, and PlantPage nicked from it - and it predates LZ1, (in case that's disputable to any sensitive Zepfans).

EMF. After their unbelievable hit, they released a superior album and faded away.

Neds Atomic Dustbin. The indie tossers all getting raggedy-rabbi hairstyles to look like The Stone Roses or Charlatans couldn't get along with anything heavy.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

OMD

 

[Parson Henry]

OMD

Good call excpet they were fairly rated I would say.

 

[KPTF]

The Shop Assistants - superb gig down the old Brighton Poly in the mid-80's, fantastic one & only album then disappeared. Three Scottish birds + 1 bloke.

That Petrol Emotion were damned fine too.

 

[bristolseagull]

Paddington band

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Didn't they do Marilyn Dreams, as well as the legendary Remembrance Day?

I might now have to try to download those two

Yep, plus the rather sublime Nowhere Girl.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Guided By Voices
American Music Club
Spain
American Analogue Set
Smog
Green On Red
Throwing Muses
Tindersticks
The National


I could go on



and I will


Nude Nudes
Ultra Vivid Scene
Men Of Sussex
Big Star
The Cranes
The Blue Aeroplanes
Red House Painters
Sun Kil Moon



etc. etc.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

jeff buckly

 

[sten]

The Anti Nowhere League are playing the Uni soon, might pop down and see them, it will be different to when I last saw them at the Top Rank

Was that back in the early 80s when they supported The Damned and Animal pissed off the top level onto the crowd below, great gig also Brightons finest Peter and the Test Tube Babies were also in support that evening.

Underrated

Splodgeanessabounds

 

[sten]

Hawkwind, great puffing sounds

 

[33057 Seagull]

Brinsley Schwarz

Penetration

Rancid

 

[Mrs Coach]

The Blow Monkeys

Mrs C.

 

[chips and gravy]

Barenaked Ladies
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
(at the risk of being flamed) Marillion (if you get past Kayleigh that is)

 

[NMH]

Blue Aeroplanes.

Jazz Butcher

Family Cat

Auteurs

 

[Kukev31]

The Beatles

 

[NMH]

Hawkwind, great puffing sounds

Warrior on the Edge of Time

 

[Braders]

Rancid

word.

 

[B.M.F]

Soul Asylum, although big in the States

Blur, still seen as some teeny bopper thing, which they were for one album. Listening to their albums in order is like listneing to the stages of life, and tried to be different on each one.

Graham Coxon

Agree with all of the above but Showaddywaddy are the greatest and most under rated band of all time. Bopping along to Pretty little angel eyes as I type

 

[Trufflehound]

Just listening to The Sound again. Now there's a criminally overlooked band. They should have been as big as New Order, the Bunnymen or U2. "...From The Lion's Mouth" is as good as any album released in the early 80s, but almost no one bought it.

Curiously they were very big in Holland, but nowhere else. I've had people here offer me very large sums of money for my original UK label vinyl...

Their Dutch fame didn't stop singer Adrian Borland getting depressed by the lack of success and throwing himself under a train. Silly sod.

Even the crap sound quality on these can't totally mask how good they were live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej9cn8FKiu0&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ65hPcZA9U&mode=related&search=

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Levellers

What he said.

Excellent band and great lads too.