Most Underrated bands/albums of all time

[Skeletor]

OK, I'll start off with Life Of Agony's 'Soul Searching Sun' if you haven't heard this album, go to a store and buy it or <sotto voce>Download it</sotto voce> now.

As for bands which are criminally underrated, I'll start with The Angels, Icehouse and The Whitlams as 3 Aussie bands which probably should have had far more international success. I'll also plug Kyuss, Vast, The Cult and The Verve's Pre-Urban Hymns work.

 

[Moffo]

sublime

the clash

radiohead (in a mainstream sense they are underrated)

 

[Skeletor]

I'll just add that Ratcat's "That Ain't Bad" is one of those tunes which you should hear on semi-regular rotation on radio. It seems like that song (and band) have been forgotten though.

 

[Tom Shines]

Talking Heads
B-52s

 

[Ron Jeremy]

Aussie bands definately Icehouse & The Church, farkign brillant Aussie bands.

Overseas? Whitesnake, Alice in Chains, Dokken, Ratt ( musically anyway)

 

[elyod138]

Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams, I agree with The Clash and Vast aswell.

 

[CC_Eagle]

Sigur Ros.

Not nearly getting enough accolades for the incredible music they produce.

 

[LESStar58]

people seem to actually rate the Clash ever since joe died...same thing happened with johnny Cash :roll:

I don't think the Clash are underrated at all...they are still dubbed "the only band that matters" can't get a better compliment than that!

You want to talk underrated punk rock bands? What about Stiff Little Fingers? Great songs written that were pertinent to their surroundings (Belfast in the 1970s...not the most popular place to be at the time) and delivered with a ferocity and an energy that puts them right up there in my book. They were pretty much a Northern Irish answer to the CLash IMO!

Go listen to "Inflammable Material" and get a taste of SLF!

 

[hineyrulz]

Soundgarden and Faith no More are pretty underated IMO, Also Stone Temple pilots and Bush.

 

[Kiwi]

:sarcasm: *waits for FunkyMonkey to come in saying RHCP or to insult someone*

 

[Knightmare]

The Cruel Sea 'The Honeymoon is over' is way underated IMO. There's heaps of catchy songs on there, and the whole album has a real Cronulla- garage band vibe to it. Brilliant Summertime listening.

 

[madunit]

Garbage is imo, very under rated.

 

[Alex28]

Fight For Your Mind/The Will To Live - Ben Harper (people seem to love the rubbish he produces now. His early stuff is brilliant)
Dear Friends and Enemies - Big Heavy Stuff (one of the best Australian albums this decade)
Interiors - Brad (amazing album, will forever be overshadowed as a side project for Stone Gossard)
See This Through and Leave - Cooper Temple Clause (Overshadowed by all the other english music released at the time. Great raw rock)
Come Down - Dandy Warhols (This album should have been huge - just as good as Thirteen Tales...)
Lost Souls - Doves, Cast of Thousands - Elbow (Doves and Elbow > Daylight > Coldplay)
XO - Elliott Smith (People seemed to only pick up on him with Figure 8. XO is a modern masterpiece. Not enough respect)
Ill At Ease - Mark of Cain (The bass line of 'Remember Me' got me excited about heavy rock all over again...)
McLuskyism - McLusky (can't pick a particular album, just get the best of collection instead. Would have been bigger if they had more radio-friendly names for songs than "Lightsabre lollipoping Blues" for example...)
Sleeps Like A Curse - The Panics (one of the best Aussie bands around. Well written album)
Make Me Love You - Pivot (Great instrumental album, awesome live)
Longplayer - Pollyanna (How these guys failed yet Something For Kate are big is beyond me...)
New Adventures in Hi-Fi - REM (A much better album than it is given credit for...)
Tu-Plang - Regurgitator (It sh*ts me that Unit is given so much praise. This album kicks Unit's arse all over the place)
Take You Apart - Screamfeeder (Another great unappreciated Australian band...)
When Do We Start Fighting - Seafood (Again...undershadowed by Coldplay, Travis, Keane, et al. This album is brilliant)
Shihad/Blue Light Disco EP - Shihad (before they got big, much better than anything post-General Electric)
Final Straw - Snow Patrol (Before they were maligned as 'that band with the annoying Grey's Anatomy' song - this was probably my fave album of 2004. It's a shame what they have become)
Dark Horses - Tex Perkins (better than anything The Cruel Sea made besides The Honeymoon Is Over)
Sound As Ever - You Am I (I don't know whether this is underrated or not - people in the know love this album, kinda overshadowed by Hi Fi Way and Hourly Daily)

 

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Pantera - cowboys from hell
Opeth - delivernece
Iron Maiden - dance of death
Lifehouse - no name rice
3 days grace - one x
Breaking benjamin - phobia

last 2 great albums dont get any air play at all anywhere in aus

 

[miniHINDY]

You Am I - Convicts (I rate this amongst there best albums, all great tunes)
The Herd - The Sun Never Sets (My favourite HipHop album, a lot better than other Australian hiphop bands)
Laura - Radio Swan is Down (Great Australia Instrumental post-rock band)
The Mars Volta - Amputechture ( Everyone thinks its worse than all their other stuff, but imo its up there with their best)
Shihad - Pacifier Live ( The most rocking live CD you are ever likely to hear)

 

[Dr Crane]

The Arcade Fire

 

[Marshall_magic]

Incubus

 

[sydraider]

Black Sabbath.

Speaking in a mainstream sense of course, where they are better known as the band ozzy started in than the band which Iommi created some awesome guitar work that still influences a lot of artist to this day.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

VAST.

If you haven't heard them, download Touched and Pretty When You Cry. Then buy their first, self-titled album.

Tea Party who have quit. 7 Circles is a great Rock album.

 

[Skeletor]

I think Music For People is an awesome album too, but I think I'm kind of in the minority there.