[Closed] Underrated/forgotten bands

also this was the best one when they were The HouseMartins..just a brilliant vid !!!!!

didn't one of the housemartins go away for being an arsonist?

The Bronx are doing OK for themselves. Guess it helps when you can be your own support band too

haha do they tour with their mariachi band as a "support" then? 😀

Garbage
Inspiral Carpets
Lemonheads

Ohhh, can I...

The Sundays
Great White
Tesla (as mentioned)
White Lion
Ratt
Dokken
Sister Sledge
The Saw Doctors

Refering back tot he OP I too watched the Waterboys and they've been a fave of mine for many a year now..

boy hits car

Carter USM got close to mainstream success but never quite made it. They had a No.1 album but very few people can remember its name, let alone any of the songs on it.

I jumped ship after 101 Damnations and 30 Something...even 20 years on, I still love titles like Sealed with A Glasgow Kiss, Only Living Boy In New Cross, and 24 Minutes From Tulse Hill

Sleeper
Bluetones (I know they're still going but Return To The Last Chance Saloon is one of the best albums ever IMHO)
Cat Empire - more people need to be made aware of these
Seahorses

The Stone Roses
James
Mindy Smith

and

Jason Mraz

Pale Saints. Comforts of Madness one of the great albums (IMHO of course)

The stone Roses? Undersated/forgotten bands?

this is a long list of instantly forgettable painting by numbers songs/bands, you may like them boys, but sometimes it's ever so obvious that this forum is mostly full of 40 somethings.

I should get a login for my dad, he'd love this.

Blind Melon; possibly remembered for No Rain and Change...

It doesn't really surprise me that they've not been mentioned yet, infact it's testamony to just how forgotten The Beatles have become.

Truly original and inspirational, they still deserve widespread acclaim.

this forum is mostly full of 40 somethings

And mostly men, too. But don't knock us for it, that's just what we are. Happy to have all sorts join the ranks, of course, and it's not like anyone's turned away for not being a 40+ bloke, is it?

Lone Justice.

Lowgold, saw them a few times. brilliant live:

January, signed to Alan McGees label, the one after creation, was it poptones?

Blyth Power - post punk folk rock sort of..

One of the best British songwriters of all time is their Josef Porter, not to mention one hell of a raconteur - drinking with him post a gig at an English Civil War re enactment was a great evening. Plus he sings and sort of plays drums (keeps a good tight ship, nowt fancy, just how I like it) and the revolving cast of musicians keep things fresh, I don't think I've seen the same line up twice.

If there were any justice they'd be a lot more popular, but I think they are a little bit too clever for their own good.

40+ somethings, awe c'mon we're all friends here yeah? Does age really matter?? Nah for sure it don't. Anyways there are lots of Bands from a range of years I like, not just 90's stuff.. But the OP did ask for forgotten stuff, so thats what we're doin', just rememberin'.
And most of todays pop stuff is forgotten, is so yesterday, so out of it as soon as it's released.. Bit like Sheryl Cole.

Blyth Power - post punk folk rock sort of..

The band I was in back in the day opened for Blyth Power at the Duchess (Leeds). They were great that night. Signalman White the stand-out track.

Happy days...

this is a long list of instantly forgettable painting by numbers songs/bands,

So lead by example. Who are your underrated / forgotten bands?

Hi TSY, you're back! Are you starting a thread about your trip in THE BIKE FORUM?
I'm not joining in with this thread, because some of it is actually making me angry.

oh yeah, right... 😆

Ever heard of the millionaires? Them

The Grit. Well worth a look (whoever mentioned rockabilly) but not much stuff up on Youtube...

brassneck - Member

Blyth Power - post punk folk rock sort of..

Great, band, have a search, lots of fans on here.

This lot were brilliant, very influential and never got the credit they deserved:

+1 for The Monks, really don't think the likes of The Fall would sound the same without them. Proof if it were needed that "manufactured" groups are often the most interesting ones.

The Minutemen aren't necessarily underrated but I'm sad that all most people will ever hear of them is 20 seconds over the credits of Jackass.

Anyone with an interest in US indie bands like the Pixies and Nirvana should check out "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azerrad, loads of great stuff in there.

fIREHOSE.

Absolutely fantastic band, just so right.

Still widely heard on telly as an instrumental accompanyment to football

"Bass guitar" - Sawt-id

this is a long list of instantly forgettable painting by numbers songs/bands, you may like them boys, but sometimes it's ever so obvious that this forum is mostly full of 40 somethings.

Count, lots of them. Grew up being dragged to Glasto and gigs, seen loads of these sorts of bands, my dad probably has most of this stuff on CDs.

Lots of this stuff is alright. OK, it's not music by numbers, that was mean. Sorry

Pale Fountains / Shack wouldn't be that well known outside of their home town of Liverpool (where they are deified). Classic band (nearly) lost to heroin and bad luck - such an obviously pop and accessible sound they could have been household names. They invented Oasis, though, so probably deserve some punishment.

[i]Asobi Seksu, Shearwater, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Like, The Stills, The Shins, Wolf Parade, Freelance Whales, The Wailin' Jennies, Sharks Took The Rest[/i]

Emsz has got a point though (except for the 40-something bit).
Yours is a good list, but some (most?) of the bands mentioned were shit chart acts in their day and are best forgotten!

Oh bum, I said I'd stay away... sorry.

Trash Can Sinatras.

Pretty Girls Make Graves

The New Romance is a good album (by good i mean i like it 😉 ), saw them live when they relesed Elan Vital - not as good IMHO.

Trash Can Sinatras.

Some bands were forgotten for good reason.

The Trash Can Sinatras (now 'rebooted' as just Trashcan Sinatras), will forever live in infamy as one of the three or four worst bands I've ever seen. They were terrible. And I'm not a tough critic when it comes to that sort of thing. Just abysmal.

Some of the songs were OK, in a wispy-wee-Scots-och-we'll-be-no-bother sort of way, I'll give them that, but mostly they were dull at best, and I don't recall that they wrote anything worth listening to after [i]Cake[/i].

Mudhoney-so much better than Nirvana.....

but sometimes it's ever so obvious that this forum is mostly full of 40 somethings.

Hmmm Far better to be a 40 something on here now & to have lived than to be a non 40 something wasting my time on here..... 8)

The Shins are terrible.

this is a long list of instantly forgettable painting by numbers songs/bands

excuse me? if any of the stuff I've posted is "painting by numbers" it would look something like this

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young 'uns of today, think they bloomin invented music 🙄

I have said it before....Gene

lots of Scottish ones.. Gun, Silencers, Geneva, Associates, Goodbye Mr Mckenzie? Mull Histroical Soceity (sp)

seen lots on Jools Holland that did nothing after the show.... Olso being one

Gun are ace.

Finally got to see them live a year or so back, with Toby Jepson fronting them.

Speaking of which, Little Angels.

Smoking Popes! Not heard that in years. Thanks.

Also, this:

And this:

Good shout for Mull Historical Society there...

nickf - Member

Carter USM got close to mainstream success but never quite made it. They had a No.1 album but very few people can remember its name, let alone any of the songs on it.

OTOH they've sold out Brixton again in November. [i]Almost[/i] on the same day they shot Kennedy. Not bad for a band that split up 13 years ago

The Southern Yeti - Member

It doesn't really surprise me that they've not been mentioned yet, infact it's testamony to just how forgotten The Beatles have become.

Seriously? The most commercially succesful band of all time? Unsurprisingly nobody's mentioned them in this thread about forgotten and underrated bands.

What's next? Coldplay?

[i]Seriously?[/i]
Almost definitely not

Without being judgmental on what anyone else has said, I nominate, for the forgotten, underrated band:
EAT.

_tom_ - Member
The Shins are terrible.

grant lee buffalo

also depeche mode are totally underatted in the UK but massive everywhere else.

and before the "aint they a gay band" DM haters come along a bet you cant even name 3 albums! (and dont go and cheat and look on google!)

Depeche Mode? Forgotten? Even the bloody SATURDAYS covered one of their songs!!

Depeche Mode? Forgotten? Even the bloody SATURDAYS covered one of their songs!!

I'll go along with The Monks and add The Sonics and Chocolate Watchband
In a different genre- Close Lobsters

Anyone remember Electrasy and their album Beautiful Insane?

THey were around in 98 and had a single called Morning Afterglow which Radio 1 pushed. It's me and mrslister's song, even though it's about breaking up 🙂

+1 for The Violent Femmes - I'd like to see the numbers painring that they came up with. Most played in my head while digging trails.

Also That Petrol Emotion - very usefull when theres a need to tamp down the loose

Think they're split up now but I liked these guys

Oh and Hey Mercedes 🙂

At the risk of making LeathalD angry to these guys fit in the underated /forgotten bands who should hav been bigger?

Painting by numbers on the autistic spectrum -

slainte 😀 rob

I really need to get my soundcard sorted to contribute to this thread properly.

HOWEVER, why do I never hear/see other people talking about these guys? Fast and slightly wild sort of blues-jazz-psycadelic (I hesitate to use the term 'psycadelic' cos it can just mean 'painfully cliche' but the guitarist does a pretty credible hendrix impression live)

One review described them as being a bit derivative, but by the time it has listed about 10 different influences I think it had undermined its own point...

The Monks are doing OK, one or two film soundtracks, a couple of compilations (Optimo and Espacio) and a movie of their very own that I saw in the cinema 8)

Rustymac, Gomez did (by my count) one more worthwhile album (In Your Gun, much the same vein as Bring it On and Liquid Skin).

SONA FARIQ we're pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.

...actually, having written that I'm reminded that there's a White Denim tune on a Persil advert, d'oh!

There's also Mr Soft and Sub Sub. Wonder what happened to them.
Oh, wait:

Third Eye Blind
Zolof the rock and roll destroyer
Vertical Horizon

+1 for grant Lee buffalo also Grand Drive, great bands.

Shed 7 on the other hand.......

Electric Soft Parade - Their debut album Holes in the Wall mas Mecury nominated, but they seemed to disappear. Empty at the End and Bitting the Soles of my Feet are brilliant tracks.

JJ72 - Good debut, only made one more then split up.

Live - underrated American alternative rock band. Throwing Copper is one of my favourite albums.

+JJ72 and ESP

RIP Bert;

Sticky Filth
Cosmic Psychos
Sprung Monkey
Weddings, Parties, Anything
Toy Love
Headless Chickens
Muttonbirds
Hello Sailor
and Holy Toledos

British Sea Power - Excellent live and liked the album "the Decline of British Sea Power" lots

An Irish band called the Stunning, made it to the outer reaches of the charts here but deserved more.

+1 The Chameleons
The March Violets
The Mighty Lemon Drops
+1 Creaming Jesus
+1 Curve
Bad Brains
24-7 Spyz
Loop
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Eugenius
Buffalo Tom

Another +1 for Grant Lee Buffalo. Mighty Joe Moon was an amazing album!

I would also add Joseph Arthur to that list.

have we done shed 7?

23 Jewels (early 80s Nottingham)
That Petrol Emotion
+1 for Curve
+ MANY for Shearwater - Been a bit obsessive about them for the last 3 years.

RIP Bert;

Indeed, just heard on my way to work 🙁

Didn't really like Pentangle much, but he's got a pretty serious claim for most influential British guitarist.

Got a massive blister on my finger from hacking out Anji last night - that clips got some lovely variation licks over the Davey Graham version I know.

Curve
Ride
Sugar
Gene

I had a few acts in mind when I saw the title of this thread and I'm surprised to see that (I think) none of them have been mentioned...

1. The Jazz Butcher

4. The Pastels

5. Spacemen 3

6. Galaxie 500

Anyone mentioned Therapy? yet?

If not - Therapy?.

Bands I never listen to now cos' (but are still going) I think they've lost it..
Matchbox20
Counting Crows

Bands/Artists I listen to but hope they'll return to former glory:
John Mellencamp

Stone Roses underrated/forgotten? Not in my house!

Another one... the Zutons. Brilliant band.

qwerty - Member

SONA FARIQ we're pretty damn good in my book, only one album, supported some big names, are no more.

I've been playing that album a lot a work lately! And only last sunday was drunkenly opining to the housemate that kasabian sound like a lesser descendent of them - less groove and less kick. Should've been big.

Another plus one for Hundred Reasons too - they may have been my first proper gig.

Future Of The Left continue to be nowhere near as loved as they should be - seemed to be playing smaller venues than normal last time they wandered past - and that's a shame. Same goes for The Computers, still doing the same support slots they were three years ago when i first saw them.

I'm surprised this bunch weren't championed more during those recent post-punk retrospective years (unless they were, and i wasn't paying attention)

@ Tazzymtb - Godflesh got a half-arsed mention in the Home Of Metal exhibitions they've had 'round Brum and the Black Country lately. Important enough to feature on the commemorative artwork/tea-towel

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but not enough to get any display that i noticed (Napalm Death felt a little swept into the background too) save for a couple of quotes from musicians they inspired.

Some Bands I loved but never get a mention now:

Man
Greenslade
Steve Hillage

Could go on but these were particular favorites before I realised that punk was the way forward. Still secretly loved a lot of prog rock though.

The Soup Dragons
Teenage Fanclub
Mega City Four
Pop Will Eat Itself
Adult Net
Birdhouse
Big Audio Dynamite
Bomb the Bass
Electronic

All made a few good tunes. Gone, but not necessarily forgotten (cos I'm remembering them now).