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Under-rated band or artist.

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  • 27-01-2009 9:45pm
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    Princessa
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭


    Hey everybody, what in your opinion is the most under-rated band or artist?
    Apoligies if there is a thread similiar to this.


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    seanybiker
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    buckcherry


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    Boo-yah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 269 ✭✭Boo-yah


    Eels


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    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    The Zombies


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    RichTea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Boo-yah wrote: »
    Eels

    Good choice. I'd like to mention Band of Horses as being notoriously under-rated, my reasoning being that not a lot of people know much about them yet.


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    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,773 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    RichTea wrote: »
    Good choice. I'd like to mention Band of Horses as being notoriously under-rated, my reasoning being that not a lot of people know much about them yet.

    Band of Horses are good alright...


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    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,773 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Have to actually mention Modest Mouse - I saw a poster on here the other night say the only song the y have is "Float On":eek::eek::eek:


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    poundhound
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭poundhound


    King's X


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    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    charlotte hatherley


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    Glassheart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Glassheart


    Orizio wrote: »
    The Zombies

    Definitely a serious contender.


    For me it would be Stone Temple Pilots.


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    cartman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭cartman


    ya gotta agree with ye on the eels. andrew bird also


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    funktastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 551 ✭✭✭funktastic


    Galaxie 500
    AR Kane
    Brief Candles
    The December Sound
    Whipping Boy
    Pylon
    Ride
    The Sundays
    Pale Saints
    The Gun Club
    Into Paradise


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    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    That band that were not signed because of the Beatles - The Tremeloes (?). Really good songs that have sadly been forgotten.


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    davylee
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭davylee


    for me credence cr are one of the most under rated bands ever


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    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    Brand New
    Screeching Weasel
    Lunachicks


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    Censorsh!t
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭Censorsh!t


    RichTea wrote: »
    Good choice. I'd like to mention Band of Horses as being notoriously under-rated, my reasoning being that not a lot of people know much about them yet.

    The Funeral is an amazing song


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    Whipping Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭Whipping Boy


    David Kitt
    Gene
    Whipping Boy


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    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    Thing is, this is all dependent on who you speak to. For example, I almost got a heart attack when I saw 'Modest Mouse' mentioned, who to me are practically overrated, and usually believed to have released some of the finest albums of the 00's, but I guess if you talk to people who only take a slight interest in music, they may not even have heard of them, or only listened to 'Float On'.


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    Pacifico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,115 ✭✭✭Pacifico


    Electric Six :)


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    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,773 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Orizio wrote: »
    Thing is, this is all dependent on who you speak to. For example, I almost got a heart attack when I saw 'Modest Mouse' mentioned, who to me are practically overrated, and usually believed to have released some of the finest albums of the 00's, but I guess if you talk to people who only take a slight interest in music, they may not even have heard of them, or only listened to 'Float On'.

    I just had to mention them as I say due to the poster on some other thread in here saying they'd only one good song.

    I'd also like to mention Zwan, who took an awful pummeling at the time - I actually think their album was very good.


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    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,941 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    davylee wrote: »
    for me credence cr are one of the most under rated bands ever

    I would semi-agree with you. They were appreciated by their generation but their greatness has been forgotten down through the generations which is an atrocity. Very few people out there of my age(19) that like them. Such a pity...


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    Sútalún
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Sútalún


    funktastic wrote: »
    Ride

    They're awesome alright..
    And no-one who I've talked knows who they are. Some people can kinda get the wrong impression too. "Ever heard of Ride???" :pac:
    In terms of modern bands I think Feeder are cronically under-rated. But then.. their last album really let them down.
    Editors as well. But not really sure if they're under rated. They're pretty main stream I suppose.

    Buuuut. For sure in my opinion the most under rated act would be Sparklehorse. Mark Linkous is a genious. I really hope someone knows who they are..


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    RandolphEsq
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    Muse. Can't be praised enough


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    RichTea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    BrightEyes wrote: »
    Muse. Can't be praised enough

    Good band but hardly underrated.


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    DublinWriter
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    Richard Thompson.


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    davylee
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭davylee


    mars bar wrote: »
    I would semi-agree with you. They were appreciated by their generation but their greatness has been forgotten down through the generations which is an atrocity. Very few people out there of my age(19) that like them. Such a pity...

    i'm not that much older so i dont no about the sixties but your definatley right about this generation


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    gernon
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭gernon


    the late great Clifford T Ward


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    Rockshamrover
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Rockshamrover


    Dallas Green.


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    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Seafood

    Seriously, if you haven't heard of these guys then check them out. Last 3 albums have been excellent.


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    spiderdan
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭spiderdan


    fitting as he's only recently passed away

    John Martyn is seriously underrated, check out his early work- amazing stuff


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    niallon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭niallon


    Sadly underrated in his own country (though underrated isn't exactly correct, more so that he is ignored) Freddie White. Started off in the seventies, played in Scullion, stint in Moving Hearts etc. and he is truly one of the greatest vocalists and guitarists in the country.

    Give him any song and listen to what he turns it in to, incredible stuff.


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