The band that I'd put as the most underrated is Trip Shakespeare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Shakespeare -Everyone should know their album Lulu, it's great. Check out "Today She Moves". -Wonderful harmonies and some great fretless bass.
I'd be glad to discuss my reasoning behind both.
So who's overrated in your opinion?
Who is underrated?
I'm actually more interested in the underrated so I can hear some new great music but it's fun to discuss the overrated too.
It was one of the first songs I learned how to play on the guitar and sing. It was my go-to song anytime there was a young lady around when I was a kid. It worked. I owe them.
-Hilarious!! Spot on.
MUSIC RULES. ....seriously. One more underrated band, some good friends of mine...from the Detroit area: The Great Lakes Myth Society:
Underrated: Two Gallants
I love this dual between him and Robbie Robertson from The Last Waltz. Great Rock and Roll moment at the .48 second mark when Clapton's strap fails and Robbie picks up the lead. Great stuff.
Case in point: Barefoot Truth - A Folk and Jazz influenced Jam band out of Vermont http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmoBgpko58Y&feature=playe... http://www.youtube.com/user/barefootTRUTH#p/u/11/kdECvgNgxvY http://www.youtube.com/user/barefootTRUTH#p/u/10/VJBJPnRJ-bI -- This one has a ridiculous drum solo in the beginning. If that's not your style, go to the 3 minute mark.
Also, great production quality on the video/sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VIgFl2OCNg&feature=playe... Just completely breaking it down in the middle of a song.
Overrated: Joy Division and The Smiths.
I'll check it out this weekend. I'm excited to be recording some "strings" for our new album tomorrow afternoon! Hope all is well!
Just give it a listen. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldpBJEn4vQ No one was doing this. No one.
I'm not a fun of gloomy stuff in general. That song in particular reminded me of Lost In The Supermarket (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVcM79U46z8&feature=fvwre...), by The Clash, which is from the same year as Unknown Pleasures. So no one? Maybe, but I think this requires further research.
"I wasn't born so much as I fell out" -What a great lyric. The Clash and Joe Strummer in particular are amazing.
I can understand not digging gloomy stuff.
Kate Bush is probably underrated in my book too. I might say James too. That guy has some talent. If you're not a fan of Joy Division, give She Wants Revenge a listen. Any appreciation at all for that band is misplaced, IMO. :) Oh, Oh, Belle and Sebastian! Totally overrated! This is fun.
:) http://hubski.com/pub?id=5180 Overrated: New Order -ouch.
There's probably no other band that has has as great an influence on rock and roll that you could never in a million years hear on the radio. I mean, come on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp-ihtgzdE They're the kind of band that (thankfully) comes along every decade or two to save rock and roll from itself. That last sentence is also a fact and not an opinion. Just sayin ;)
I'll be checking out Curve. Reminds me of Garbage: http://www.curve.co.uk/mp3/weekend.mp3
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boa... FYI: Garbage, 1994, formed because Butch Vig was sick and tired of producing and wanted to be a "rawk star." Curve, 1990, formed because Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics thought Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia should make music together. With regard to the group's significance to the development of 'alternative' rock and pop music, it has been claimed by both Curve aficionados and music writers that British/American alternative band Garbage appropriated large portions of Curve's musical template, and constructed from it more 'mainstream' material, albeit with a certain 'edge' remaining. Toni Halliday has occasionally commented on the comparisons between both groups, stating at one point - in an interview conducted by Volume magazine in 1996 - that she could "see bits of Garbage in what we've done, just like we see bits of Sonic Youth or the Valentines or really any band that was doing something supposedly outside the norm. In a way it's very flattering to be tied in with [Garbage drummer and co-producer] Butch Vig, not just because he's a brilliant human being, but because he's a brilliant producer, and he's worked on some of our favourite records. But eventually Garbage are a pop band, and Curve were never a pop band."
Good stuff, love the passion KB.