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Underrated Bands (1 Viewer)

CletiusMaximus said:
Henry Ford said:
Yeah, if we're including performers and not just bands I'd also throw in Amanda Shaw.  But you could add about two dozen New Orleans names to that list.
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From the mid-90's New Orleans scene - Royal Fingerbowl flew way under the radar, then burned out, presumably due to alcoholism and other vices.
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I was going to see a reunion at Jazzfest this year but the rain was a killer for Chazfest. They had another show at 2AM and missed it.

Alex is still going strong in about 15 different offerings in the city

 
CletiusMaximus said:
ffldrew said:
Yes - They were fantastic - sadly other things got in Anders way. He's rocking one day at a time now. 

https://youtu.be/d6pf2MLc7gE
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He has calmed down quite a bit. The last time I saw him, he had an ipad mounted on a microphone stand in front of him, I think to help remember lyrics.
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Not so sure about "calm" - he can still bring hellfire. I was at this show - his Christmas Spectacular he holds annual at Tipitinas.

Rocking hard with Kirk Joseph from the old days  - Trippin in Montana

https://youtu.be/E7SC13jKdNg

ETA - His back is in horrible shape these day - he can't be as wild as he'd like. Couple of slipped discs. He cant take any dope for it as well.

 
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Insein said:
I love Incubus but they have about the right amount of adoration. 

Queens of the Stone Age about the same. 
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I dunno - needing to pair with Jimmy Eat World with free ticketmaster vouchers and still only getting 2/3 full ampitheater's?

EDIT: But to be fair that's to hear 80% of their music created after they were good.  Which is weird.  But I get it.

 
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MAC_32 said:
I dunno - needing to pair with Jimmy Eat World with free ticketmaster vouchers and still only getting 2/3 full ampitheater's?
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They're old. They're in that spot now where most of their original fans are 35+ and are struggling to make new fans since their latest albums are a strong break from the old stuff. I guess their old stuff might go unappreciated but I think they were pretty big in their hay day (late 90's early 2000's).

 
Insein said:
They're old. They're in that spot now where most of their original fans are 35+ and are struggling to make new fans since their latest albums are a strong break from the old stuff. I guess their old stuff might go unappreciated but I think they were pretty big in their hay day (late 90's early 2000's).
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That's where I was going, I think they peaked about here - https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/incubus/2000/house-of-blues-chicago-il-1bd62da0.html.  I didn't go to that show, but I went to the one night before.  Set list isn't uploaded but it was very similar.  

 
MAC_32 said:
That's where I was going, I think they peaked about here - https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/incubus/2000/house-of-blues-chicago-il-1bd62da0.html.  I didn't go to that show, but I went to the one night before.  Set list isn't uploaded but it was very similar.  
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Would have loved to gone to that show. I saw them again this summer with Jimmy and they were good but they played a bunch of 8 stuff. Nothing from Science and only the hits from Make yourself. They played a lot of light grenades (which I actually like).  I still enjoy almost all of their stuff and it's a long strange road they've travelled to get here. 

 
Used to love the Hoodoo Gurus. A couple other older Aussie bands that got some accolades in their heydays, but seem to have faded away from memory (I think) are The Saints and Radio Birdman.

 
Evilgrin 72 said:
Agree that it's not among my favorites either, but it's probably the song most frequently called out by people I know that were lukewarm on the band as the one that got them into deftones.  More so even than anything on White Pony, which was arguably their most influential and critically revered release.
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I listened to White Pony beginning to end for the first time in years last night. It's just a fantastic album. 

 
Patrick Bateman said:
I listened to White Pony beginning to end for the first time in years last night. It's just a fantastic album. 
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I still remember hearing it for the first time in 2000 and thinking "Damn, these guys are really blazing their own trail here." I think I listened to it 200 times over the course of the next few months, no exaggeration. 

 
MAC_32 said:
Because the cut off is 3 albums - Incubus.  Label got to them starting with Morning View, although they have still knocked out a few good ones since.  Fungus, SCIENCE, and Make Yourself though - all fantastic beginning to end.  

The Josh Homme projects probably belong too.  Although I didn't really get into either Queens or EoDM until internet radio, so I don't think I've ever listened to any of their albums beginning to end.
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Love Incubus, but wouldn't really call them underrated.  Perhaps I'm wrong.  I just view them more as a really good band that peaked pretty high, but have slowly fell off since.

I was going to put early 90's Kyuss in my original post, so I'm pretty much with you on Homme.

 
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What about Nick Cave?  Do he and the Bad Seeds qualify, at least in the States?

Pretty expansive catalog, with some really great stuff in there.  I think globally he's probably got too much traction to be "underrated", but in just the U.S.?  I wouldn't be surprised if I walked outside right now and asked 20 people if they'd ever heard of him or his band that 15(or more) of them would say "no."

 
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Patrick Bateman said:
Stone Roses
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Hmmm....I wonder on these guys.  For a band that wasn't together for very long, and who went very deliberately out of their way to be obtuse with the media at the time, they sure seemed to keep themselves "in the news" as it were. 

Certainly influential, as far as that goes.  Hard to have had the Madchester movement without them.  As much I enjoyed some of the band's stuff, I've always preferred Brown's solo efforts to the Rose's work, honestly.  (The UNKLE remix of Dolphins Were Monkeys might be one of my most listened to tracks on my Spotify playlist).

I guess I'm saying I think the Stone Roses are rated pretty much right were they should be.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Doves

Gomez
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#### yes, on Gomez.  They are in heavy rotation in one of my playlists.  Got turned on to them by an old co-worker in the early aughts (lot of 70+ hour weeks where he'd basically be playing "DJ" for the art team that was there after hours. Stumbled across a bunch of stuff back then that I wouldn't have otherwise.)

Tom McRae prolly qualifies for this thread too.

 
I don't know if these guys fit. I always kind of liked them but they don't seem too popular

airbourne toxic event 

 
AcerFC said:
I don't know if these guys fit. I always kind of liked them but they don't seem too popular

airbourne toxic event 
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I just read White Noise. 

eta: I never knew where the name came from. like when I reread 100 years of solitude recently and saw Francisco the Man in there.

 
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rockaction said:
J Mascis got pissed at me at a show once for having the temerity to look at both him and Lou Barlow in succession. 

True story. He leaned into the mic and said "well, somebody has a problem."

Huh. Yeah, J, it's you.  
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He is kind of a ####. At his show at Maxwell's in Hoboken, in between sets my buddy asked him if he was going to play the Bowie song (he covered Quicksand), his response was "#### Bowie" as he walked away.

 
My candidates:

Drive-By Truckers

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

God Street Wine

Dan Baird / Georgia Satellites

Warren Zevon

The Alarm  

 
Dr. Octopus said:
My candidates:

Drive-By Truckers

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

God Street Wine

Dan Baird / Georgia Satellites

Warren Zevon

The Alarm  
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For every DBT song that I find incredible, I find another I can't listen to start to finish.  There's no in between with them for my ears.  

 
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