most under rated band ever

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:29 am

according to youtube this is Gram and Keith together.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun May 29, 2011 3:43 am

probably the worst thing ever when Keith says....

jah wonderful. nice bullshit on your head and hair Keith. beads. white country.

no hit record.

i don't think i can ever listen to the Stones, again.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sun May 29, 2011 2:59 pm

joe walsh put out space age whiz kids.

underrated or not, the 80's beat the guy.

fuck Joe Walsh, fuck the Eagles.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:22 am

Mikey wrote: And I don't want to take anything away from the Small Faces. They were a great band. But their sound was not as accessible to most people, at least on this side of the pond. Steve Marriott really came into his own after he left.

You crazy, Mikey. Rod Stewart? :?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:06 pm

Red Balloob is one of my fave Small Faces songs.

:)

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:53 pm

King Crimson wrote: Spotlight Kid.

captain beefheart?

I grew up in St. Louis going to Uncle Tupelo shows when they were cowpunk and not alt country. I still have the Gun cassingle. Started wandering own the FBB path when March 16-20 album came out. got to college and the alt country was all the rage at the college radio station. white label test press of no depression on the radio station wall.

this guy kills me. candy for depressives. this is from sxsww in 2011. i saw this same song performd at sxsw in '95. that tells you that it never happened for american music club.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:00 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:
King Crimson wrote: Spotlight Kid.
captain beefheart?

it's about the nudie suits: outfitter to the Burritos and the good Captain (on the Spotlight Kid cover)....and Reagan, Lennon, ZZ Top, and on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudie_Cohn

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:39 pm

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:29 pm

War Wagon wrote:10cc

Before 10cc was together, member Graham Gouldman wrote this song:

A deece tune by 10cc, although a bit on the pop side is:

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:21 am

Alrighty then, this thread has grown new legs. Some really good stuff.

Of course this band is anything but under rated, but since the topic came up the other day in the HOF thread, here it is.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:43 am

^^^ The Dinosaur Jr version is SO much better.

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:58 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Argus is a TOP TEN of all-time album.

Argus was a great album....never understood why Wishbone didn't hit bigger....

Personnel changes turned them into shit, but the early stuff is great.

That could be said for a lot of bands in that era.....Humble Pie (big fan), Spooky Tooth (big fan)....

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:09 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Ah, Spooky Tooth. Always reminds me of stopping by a friend's house on the way to high school, preparing for the day by listening to ST and ummmm...well, preparing for the day.

Yeah i used to prepare a LOT for school.....

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:55 pm

Since my mornings in HS consisted of showing up for 2nd Period (had the option to not schedule 1st... so I took it) Auto Shop, followed by Morning Break, followed by PE, followed by Band, followed by Lunch... I found the need to prepare heavily on the way to school.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:36 pm

And what a great start to the day auto shop was... what with those exhaust hoses venting out the floor and whatnot.

Teacher's coming! Drop the hose out the car window!

Naive fucker actually bought the "I just put in a new stereo amp, and we're checking it out" story time and time again. How many stereo parts can a few guys install in a year?

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:42 am

I'm not going back through to see if they've been mentioned, but Procol Harum was seriously under appreciated...

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:41 am

The grandaddy is Dave Clark Five, contrast Boorman's dystopian vision of the Dave Clark Five 'house' from Catch Us If You Can, the band are church squatters. As opposed to the Beatle happy-clappy, four doorway pad from 'Help!'.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:47 am

Dr_Phibes wrote:...contrast Boorman's dystopian vision...

If you want a Boorman-esque "dystopian vision", he also directed Zardoz.

:o

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:18 pm

Martyred wrote:
If you want a Boorman-esque "dystopian vision", he also directed Zardoz.

:o

1 1/2 hours of my life I'll never get back.....it's never a good sign when the most memorable thing about a movie is a Charlotte Rampling tit shot

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:45 pm

ZARDOZ!!!

his head scares the shit out of me

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:31 am

A very much underrated band, they were flat out good.

Screw, it's not live but do me a favor. Listen to it anyway.

Dr_Phibes · Post by **Dr_Phibes** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:06 am

nothing wrong with semi live

Felix · Post by **Felix** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 4:16 pm

Sudden Sam wrote: Thank god I have a good turntable again. I've just begun going thru all my LPs and have been enjoying my return to the early 70s.

going through my old vinyl again last night, I couldn't believe I'd forgotten Ten Years After.....

Ten Years After, unappreciated
Alvin Lee great guitar player

good shit....

M2 · Post by M2 » Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:55 pm

Rose Tattoo

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:51 am

Dinsdale wrote:UFO was badass during the Michael Skenker era.

This.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:49 pm

Maybe the most underrated live rock album ever, and this is definitely right at the top of the list of the most underrated rock solos ever...

Pretty much, this entire album killed...

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:55 pm

Sam, listen to those clips, and pay close attention to the solo in "Rock Bottom." Strangers In The Night could easily be the most underrated live rock album ever.

Oh, and UFO without Michael Schenker isn't worth bothering over.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:24 pm

Call me crazy, but im gonna say the Cranberries are the most underrated. Most you guys pass them off as trife, BUT, they were fuckin great back in the day.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:01 pm

bradhusker wrote:Call me crazy, but im gonna say the Cranberries are the most underrated. Most you guys pass them off as trife, BUT, they were fuckin great back in the day.

The Cranberries? While they were collecting Grammys, Built to Spill was making some of the best albums you'll never hear. That is unless you listen to T1B radio.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:30 pm

BSmack wrote:
bradhusker wrote:Call me crazy, but im gonna say the Cranberries are the most underrated. Most you guys pass them off as trife, BUT, they were fuckin great back in the day.
The Cranberries? While they were collecting Grammys, Built to Spill was making some of the best albums you'll never hear. That is unless you listen to T1B radio.

Sorry to dis-agree with you smack, BUT, I have heard them, and guess what? There is a huge difference between good music, and music that is great. And Built to Spill falls in the "good" category.

See, the problem with debating music is that everyone has their favorite, so, we agree to dis-agree. THAT BEING SAID HOWEVER, this then brings us to educated vs. non-educated, let me explain.

Led Zeppelin's "physical grafitti" came out in 1975, some 37 years ago, YET, its still amazing, still vital, still in your fuckin face. Its not top 40 fluff or sugar junk for the brain dead masses.

Its the HAMMER OF THE GODS. Im not asking your "opinion" here, Im telling you. I have the education to TELL you. to TEACH you. I dictate to you, you got that?

Built to Spill is nice music, BUT, when put up against "The Who" "Pink Floyd" "Led Zeppelin", "The Beatles", "Elvis", "The Stones". Metallica, U2, etc............they dont measure up.

NOW, I fully dont expect you to understand what I just said, and thats ok, life is full of morons.

I only ask that you open your mind and realize that Built to Spill is nice and good, nothing wrong with their ART at all. BUT, dont give me your bullshit about them being as good as the cranberries.

I can smell your bullshit from miles away, and it stinks.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:54 pm

Brad, I have more Xeppelin and Floyd albums, live boots and outtakes than just about anybody on the planet. And I'm here to say Built to Spill is fucking great. Come to chat some Saturday night and we'll do a Zep/Floyd/BtS comparison. I'll even throw in some of the MANY Elvis songs I have in my collection.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:45 pm

BSmack wrote:I'm here to say Built to Spill is fucking great.

disagree. BtS is good. Not great.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:34 pm

BTS is great

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 8:44 pm

BSmack wrote: The Cranberries? While they were collecting Grammys

Yet Brad saw fit to include them in an "underrated" list.

Because he's smart like that.

And BTS couldn't be any more mediocre if they tried.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:32 am

Dinsdale wrote:
BSmack wrote: The Cranberries? While they were collecting Grammys

Yet Brad saw fit to include them in an "underrated" list.

Because he's smart like that.

And BTS couldn't be any more mediocre if they tried.

What about Jewel? She is vastly underrated as an artist. Most you dipshits in here would gladly pass her off as pure fluff. YET, she is truly amazing in my estimation.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:20 am

bradhusker wrote:What about Jewel?

One decent album and a bunch of crap after that. She's lucky she has an outstanding rack or she would have never made it.

bradhusker · Post by **bradhusker** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:38 pm

BSmack wrote:
bradhusker wrote:What about Jewel?
One decent album and a bunch of crap after that. She's lucky she has an outstanding rack or she would have never made it.

Im gonna have to beg to differ with you here. Do me a favor and get her live DVD. Its a double DVD set of two live shows in Dallas. Three and a half hours of pure amazing artistry. We are talking about an artist who does not have any down time here. Every song is interesting and worth the price of admission on its own.

Her voice has tremendous depth. A contra-alto which reveals so much pain and angst, and then, when she wants, she can hit the upper registers with the crystal clarity of an opera singer.

I am gonna go out on a limb here and say with authority, she has a voice without peer. GO out and listen to her voice on the christmas classic, "Oh Holy Night". When she hits the high note, I dare any human being to not be visibly shaken to their very core.

The first time I heard her hit the high note in "Oh Holy Night", my body convulsed into millions of chill bumples, it was as close to a religious "otherworldly" experience that a human being can have.

To fully describe it, I will only say that her voice becomes , at that moment, a singular pure sound, a sound so pure and crystaline, so angelic, that its as if the almighty Himself, sent his finest angels down to touch us all. I KID YOU NOT, at the moment she hits that high note, her voice goes from being folksy and sweet, to the most beautiful sound that has ever come from a human being on planet earth, or any other planet in the universe. IN OTHER WORDS, it would be impossible to create a sound as beautiful and pure from any other source, living or non-living.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:24 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:BTS is great

I was kind of on the fence about Built to Spill until I read this.

Obviously, BtS sucks.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 2:43 pm

bradhusker wrote:
BSmack wrote:
bradhusker wrote:What about Jewel?
One decent album and a bunch of crap after that. She's lucky she has an outstanding rack or she would have never made it.
Im gonna have to beg to differ with you here. Do me a favor and get her live DVD.

Don't need to. I saw her open for Neil Young and Crazy Horse when she was touring in support of "Pieces of You." I know what she sounds like live. She has a great voice. Her lyrics range from dece to meh to WTF is that hippie bitch talking about?

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:25 pm

"Built To Spill? AWESOME!"

Sincerely, 1993

Sincerely, anyone who's never heard Swervedriver

Sincerely, I-think-jangly-overdriven-DIY-guitar-pop-is-still-fresh-in-2012

Sincerely, Suburban Flyover Rec Room