Underrated Bands/Musicians

[PapaG]

Just throwing some names out there.

Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Depeche Mode
New Order
Live
The DOC

 

[PapaG]

The Cult
Jim Croce
Jimmy Cliff

 

[Pokemanzdood]

Just throwing some names out there.

Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
Depeche Mode
New Order
Live
The DOC

Soundgarden? Seattle should have just kept them to themselves.

 

[Pokemanzdood]

That goes for Alice in chains too.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Underrated 80's:
Thomas Dolby (She Blinded Me With Science is only is 4th or 5th best song)
Buggles (most of their catalog skirts the edges of prog)
Talk Talk
Ultravox


Underrated rock/metal:
Opeth (especially their new album)
Leprous
OSI

 

[crowTrobot]

Opeth (especially their new album)

barf

 

[Denny Crane]

Toto.

 

[crowTrobot]

this will be pretty meaningless without a more specific working definition of underrated. for example Opeth is considered one of GOAT modern metal bands, so it's tough to think of them as underrated just because metal has a smaller following that more popular genres.

 

[crowTrobot]

how about
"bands i think are great that the general public hasn't heard of or couldn't stand"

opeth
isis
the end
LoG
children of bodom
divinity
<------ion dissonance
lacuna coil
between the buried and me
yngwie malmsteen's rising force : )

 

[magnifier661]

how about
"bands i think are great that the general public hasn't heard of or couldn't stand"

opeth
isis
the end
LoG
children of bodom
divinity
<------ion dissonance
lacuna coil
between the buried and me
yngwie malmsteen's rising force : )

Magnifier!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/MagnifierUSA/136589529709538

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

311.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

barf

I was the fat guy at the Opeth concert screaming "fuck metal!" everytime the crowd wanted (and didn't get) anything with cooki monster vocals.

Clean vocal Opeth has always been superior, and this is from a guy who totally digs everything they've done since Blackwater Park. But I freely admit I'm coming from the cheesedick side of prog metal (Fates Warning, Dream Theater, et al).

I think you'd dig Leprous, given the other bands you mentioned. They're tight. Also, Riverside. Not as aggressive as Opeth used to be, but still dynamic and heavy.

 

[crowTrobot]

I was the fat guy at the Opeth concert screaming "fuck metal!" everytime the crowd wanted (and didn't get) anything with cooki monster vocals.

Clean vocal Opeth has always been superior, and this is from a guy who totally digs everything they've done since Blackwater Park. But I freely admit I'm coming from the cheesedick side of prog metal (Fates Warning, Dream Theater, et al).

I think you'd dig Leprous, given the other bands you mentioned. They're tight. Also, Riverside. Not as aggressive as Opeth used to be, but still dynamic and heavy.

I love clean Opeth. Damnation is great, and I think I Feel the Dark is one of MA's best. I just don't care for the jazzish/'70s sound and lack of emotional intensity of most of the songs of Heritage. Gets really boring.

 

[magnifier661]

Okay crowTrobot; you got me interested, so I looked up the band. I like this song. Not really my cup of tea; but my daughter already heard of them and likes them.

[video=youtube;xWgV-5mMbZ8]

 

[crowTrobot]

 

[magnifier661]

Not bad. I guess my daughter wants you to listen to this one.

[video=youtube;-o9tj-xH1qU]

 

[tlongII]

Gentle Giant

 

[The Professional Fan]

Toto.

"it's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you!" - toto is awesome.

Queensryche is the most underrated band of all time.

 

[bigbailes]

i always thought beck was very underrated. he got recognized in the mainstream for his rock/rap fusion but always seemed to change up his sound with each album and this was a big reason (IMO) he faded from the mainstream.

 

[huevonkiller]

Anything from the Pokemanz movie OST.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I love clean Opeth. Damnation is great, and I think I Feel the Dark is one of MA's best. I just don't care for the jazzish/'70s sound and lack of emotional intensity of most of the songs of Heritage. Gets really boring.

So weird; I love both Damnation and Heritage, but I feel like Heritage is more emotionally intense than Damnation. The last minute of Folklore, the first minute of Haxprocess, all of Lines in my Hand... there's a ton of very intense music in there. But, I'm an old and a prog-head to begin with, so if they want to be a Rainbow-meets-Jethro Tull act, I'm probably more down with it than Opeth's "normal" sound.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Queensryche is the most underrated band of all time.

Only if your post is coming from 1991; everything after Empire is total crap. Yes, even Promised Land. Jesus, that album is horrible!

 

[Mediocre Man]

The Animals
10 years after
Dick Dale
Cheap Trick (still waiting for someone to give me a logical reason they aren't in the rock and roll HOF)
Spirit
Talking Heads
Nazareth
Violent Femmes

 

[crowTrobot]

Only if your post is coming from 1991; everything after Empire is total crap. Yes, even Promised Land. Jesus, that album is horrible!

i like the song promised land, but otherwise agree.

also pretty hard to make a case that they were underrated or underappreciated in their prime. OM and Empire were hugely popular getting a ton of airplay, and OM is widely considered one of GOAT rock albums, sometimes mentioned as best concept album of all time.

 

[PapaG]

Violent Femmes

I wore this cassette out in middle school because of this song.

[video=youtube;OPS2u0MH7_s]

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I wore this cassette out in middle school because of this song.

[video=youtube;OPS2u0MH7_s]

When I was a kid I thought it was a woman singing... it made it kinda hawt.

 

[The Professional Fan]

Only if your post is coming from 1991; everything after Empire is total crap. Yes, even Promised Land. Jesus, that album is horrible!

Promised Land is a brilliant album.

 

[MickZagger]

System of a Down.

 

[RR7]

jurassic 5

 

[MARIS61]

Gentle Giant

Damn! You must be as old as I am.

Saw them open for Black Sabbath at the Glass Palace in the early 70's.