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Top 10 Most Underrated Bands
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aww, just realized this but zero love for the mountain goats? last time I checked their portland OR show didn’t even sell out, I was there and the wonder was pretty empty. If anyone deserves the recognition they aren’t getting its John Darnielle and crew.
Awesome list.
I don’t think these bands are underrated as much as unknown. But good read nonetheless.
More like overrated bands. LOL. I fucking hate this site.
What a shitty list.
Underrated bands:
Talkdemonic
Ratatat
!!!
Aquabats
Underrated hip hop groups (now and then):
Little Brother
Cunninglynguists
Typical Cats
Jugganots
Freestyle Fellowship
Arsonists
The Liks
Hard 2 Obtain
Never heard of a single one of thses stupid “bands”.
Indy pop crybaby crap. May be good but not great. Not chuck berry influential but forgotten great! Not bad brains or mifits influential! Not even as influential as Alice in chains and they suck! If you mean bands that don’t get the praise they deserve.
1 chuck berry
2 iggy pop
3 raspberries
4 ramones. They get tons of respect but it needs to be aknowledged that no one has changed music as much as them in the last 30 years!
5 the rolling stones. They need to be aknowledged as the greatest rock band ever!
6 how bout some sweet up in this mix.
7 runaways
8 motley crüe (first two albums)
9 mc5
10 new york dolls
by the way these are in random order as they came to me
runners up include circle jerks
big star
flaming groovies
link wray
motörhead
sonic youth
minutemen
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1.Blues Traveller
2.The Thrills
3.Blue Oyster Cult
4.Lynyrd Skynyrd
5.T-Rex
6.Alice-In-Chains
7.Poison
8.The J. Geils Band
9.??????
10.??????
And please don’t bring up The Replacements, Depeche Mode, or Sonic Youth. Pretty much everyone considers them underrated, ergo lots of people like them, ergo they are not underrated.
This list sucks. If anything most of these bands are overrated.
^ Avi: I love the Thrills. Didn’t think anyone else ever heard of them!
This article has made me lose all faith that I’ve ever had in humanity.
Top 10 Bands underrated, but not in any real order.
1 Firewind
2 Freedom Call
3 Hammerfall
4 Rhapsody(also called Rhapsody of Fire)
5 Stratovarius
6 Savatage
7 Dream Theater
8 Dokken
9 Journey
10 Queensyrche
@Azelfknight:Journey is pretty popular.
King’s X should be on here.
If you don’t know them, do yourself a favor and buy the album “Dogman” from iTunes.
some of the bands i don’t know, some bands i know lost my appreciation over the years, but both do deserve a listen after all since (stupid) attitudes change luckily and it’s always good to try out a good recommendation.
but most of all it’s nice to see a band i once supported at their first hamburg show hit the number one top slot!
I have to admit, I’ve never even heard of most of these bands.
never heard of any of them
These bands are barely on the radar so don’t really qualify as “under rated”. Perhaps the list would be better named “top 10 bands worth the time of a good listen” …I know I’m glad I took the time to listen to The Thrills..great band.
To leave Deertick off this list is an injustice to the south. Peck!
Ya exactly most of these bands are most likely quite highly rated, not popular per se but you get the idea:P Zero you really need a better understanding of the English language
1. You just admitted yourself that you don’t know if these bands are rated highly or not. Here’s a review of Teenager, the third Thrills album:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10846-teenager/
It received a 6.9/10. You can make the case that this is “underrating” this amazing album.
2. According to Merriam-Webster, Underrated can mean:
Undervalue, or underestimate
So one can argue that by these bands not being enormously popular, they are being “undervalued”.
Perhaps you need a better understanding of the English language.
Godspeed you Black Emperor
Sound Tribe Sector Nine
Buffalo Tom
Lotus
Baka Beyond
Portishead
the Lemonheads
Dinosaur Jr.
The Slip
Of Montreal
Just throwin them out there
The list might not be the greatest, but the shit the rest of you had to offer in response is pathetic. (Ramones!? F*** off.) Rip on Zeromage all you want (trust me, it’s easy to do), but in this case, your comments just made him look awesome.
Nice one, but in Britain the bluetones, the charlatans and James are all reasonably well known by anyone of a certain age, especially anyone who ever went to a festival in the 90s! These aren’t exactly bands who toured the shitty venues without any recognition like the Llama Farmers and the Crocketts. Then again i am writing this from the perspective of an englishman, i don’t know how well they are known anywhere else…
No metal represented on this list so I must throw Prong in there… most underrated band ever.