+1. Night and Day and Look Sharp are fantastic.
So we've done favorite and most influential how about most underappreciated Band...
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+1. Night and Day and Look Sharp are fantastic.
Phenomenal band. Pretty appreciated though, aren’t they?
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So how are they most under-appreciated? Ah! I see what you did there.
agreed on the stone roses.
Good submissions... though Cheap Trick is in the RRHOF so one can argue they’re not underrated/underappreciated
i’d add: Dinosaur Jr, The Church, The Fixx, The Cult, The Pixies, SoNic Youth, The Fleshtones, Husker Du / Bob Mould, Kent, Magna Carta Cartel, Subvision, Dandy Warhols, Pete Yorn,
Whitesnake 1978-1986 .... the pre hair-band iterations of Whitesnake offerred high-credential rythmn & blues, which apparently did little to pay the rent in the mid-eighties; unfortunately Coverdale sold them down the road of poseur-shit-rock after 1986... which brings up another topic - bands that jumped-the-shark
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Underappreciated or underrated is always difficult because while some people will say they’ve never or barely heard of them other will say ‘Are you kidding? They are one of the all time greats!’.
I’ll go with The Smiths. Another lesser known band would be The Tubes.
I’ll go with The Smiths. Another lesser known band would be The Tubes.
They trashed my HS auditorium giving a concert there back in the 1970s.
Bob Mould wrote the theme music for The Daily Show. The version of it used for the first many years of the show was performed by They Might Be Giants.
One of the founders of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider, passed last week.
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It's been a habit of Mrs KG and I to play "Autobahn" when starting a trip, especially in Germany....
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It's been a habit of Mrs KG and I to play "Autobahn" when starting a trip, especially in Germany....
Wasn’t sure how we were classifying under appreciated. I know they don’t have the same wide commercial appeal as bands like The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, etc. that’s why I listed them. I would list an unheard of band but then they’re probably underappreciated because they’re not good enough, which is why they’re unheard of.
One of my guilty pleasures of the 80s is Billy Squier... made zero apologies for being influenced by Robert Plant / Led Zep or even outright copying them.... surrounded himself with really good players, did not try to solve world problems ( though Learn How to Live showed he was a good enough songwriter to dabble in it ) ...
In the Dark is one of my time machines back to senior year in high school... when I catch that song on Sirius I can smell the May sunshine and hear cans of Genny and girls blouses popping open for me
In the Dark is one of my time machines back to senior year in high school... when I catch that song on Sirius I can smell the May sunshine and hear cans of Genny and girls blouses popping open for me
I’ll throw a couple more out there:
- T. Rex (hugely influential, but like The Dolls, before their time)
- The Jam
Gave Big Star a listen for about 2 straight hours yesterday. This is a great song. I like a couple others, but I just don’t like it overall. I try to force feed I t to myself because of the obvious Replacements connection but it never works for me.
On a related note, an older gentleman I used to work with at a liquor store 25 or so years ago claimed he used to be the drummer for the Box Tops and that he sang The Letter because Alex Chilton didn’t show up to the studio the day they were recording it. I never believed him but it made for a fun story.
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I’m a huge Replacements fan. Great, great music. But I would have hated to pay money to see them live when you never knew which band was going to show up.
Dwight Twilley Band
Nick Lowe
Wilco
Switchfoot
Y & T
Chic
Rainbow
MC 5
Iggy Pop
Blondie
Nick Lowe
Wilco
Switchfoot
Y & T
Chic
Rainbow
MC 5
Iggy Pop
Blondie
Are you kidding? The Smiths are one of the all time greats!
CTE is amazing but pretty sure they have won two Grammys so likely not under appreciated
holy hell, what a flashback to college days, completely forgot about them. Add Space Men 3 for late night
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