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B-52's - Wild Planet
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B-52's - Wild Planet
Haven't thought of them in a long time, but I always liked 'em.
Great band, I like their music much more than Sublime...honestly Sublime, to me, only has a few good songs and most of their music is just irritating and hard to listen to. Slightly Stoopid is way more mellow and easy to listen to, well constructed songs. They're similar in that they're a stoner band, but I enjoy their music a lot more than Sublime.
I almost mentioned The B-52s, but always have a hard time placing them in the underrated category. I think they're about as known as they ever will be, and their sound is niche enough that I don't think everyone will ever like them. But I certainly think they're underrated as musicians. Great, unique sound that's usually tossed aside as silly and weird.
And, yes, Wild Planet is a great album. "Strobe Light" is one of my very favorite songs.
Down hasn't been mentioned in either overrated or underrated, which seems to suggest they must be rated pretty appropriately.
But I'd say if you were basing your opinion off of their first album "Nola," they'd be underrated. Has to be one of my all-time favorite albums -- love my metal and blues and they found a great mesh on that album.
Edit: And I failed to mention it, but Faith No More was the first band that came to mind when seeing this thread. I saw that they got mentioned right off the bat so I didn't bother mentioning.
They're someone I grow to appreciate and like more the further we get away from their heyday. Definitely ahead of their time, and Bill and Ted were as well, tbh.
For some reason the mention of Faith No More made me think of some other bands I really loved in my late teens that never got the love they deserved.
First on the list is Monster Magnet's first LP, "Spine of God." It was a funnier tongue-in-cheek parody/homage of seventies stoner metal than This is Spinal Tap, while at the same time being a legitimately kick-ass record. Their subsequent albums grew progressively more polished, unfunny, and mainstream butt-rock-y, but SOG was the .
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Clutch, "Transnational Speedway League." First time I saw these guys live was at Liberty Lunch opening for Monster Magnet and everybody was looking around trying to understand why they suddenly wanted to beat the out of one another -- nobody had ever heard such viscerally confrontational music, I don't think.
Their singer looked like a cartoon mechanic growling out these incongruously literate, funny lyrics. Their drummer would subliminally sneak these tricky-ass off-time polyrhythms on top of his already rock-solid playing. No guitar solos, no conventional 90's "metal" playing like false harmonics or muted picking, just simple riffing, like if Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone grew up listening to Motorhead instead of Brill Building.
I kinda outgrew metal in college when I stopped being pissed all the time, but this was the last heavy band I hung on to because they kept growing from album to album and the lyrics were so ing hilarious and surreal.
Unfortunately Clutch got lumped into the stoner rock category in the mid-nineties and never got taken at face value by a press that was trying so hard to pimp indie stuff like Pavement as the new grunge that they would kind of instantly dismiss anything with metal guitars as too, well... grunge.
used to be a fav or mine too as a teenager.
Yeah they're probably too much of a novelty act to be considered an underrated band. I think that album is underrated, though, given the success of their debut (critically) and Cosmic Thing (commercially).
Without a doubt Toad the Wet Sprocket is the only underrated band that comes to mind
and there is only one mazzy star song i've heard. post a good one somebody?
I think that Michael Franti, especially his stuff with Spearhead, isn't heard by enough people. Not "underrated" per se, but just not as well-known as he should be.
Well, there are a lot of different definitions of "underrated", but anyway, I think that the Byrds are underrated.
Also, to name a more contemporary band, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - at least in Europe, don't know about the US.
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The Beatles. Oh wait, I thought you said overrated bands.
Just ing with you all. I grew up on the Beatles and love them immensely. Among popular music, I don't really hear anyone discussing Queens of the Stone Age. They just kick out great rock songs. I'd throw Foo Fighters in there, but I don't think they're severely underrated.
Imagine being Dave Grohl, drummer for the greatest band of the 90s and then lead singer for very good band that's one of the biggest in the world at the moment.
And of course, he did this too.
Also underrated in my opinion: Nada Surf. One of the best bands of the 2000s:
And of course, Big Star are underrated:
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