Historically underrated bands

[Qman65]

1. UFO
2. Thin Lizzy
3. Montrose
4. Humble Pie
5. Nazareth
6. Pat Travers Band
7. Y & T
8. Triumph
9. Zebra
10. Helix.

[Beef Supreme]

Clutch

[Bon Scott]

Trouble
Exciter
Vandenberg
Yngwie Malmsteen
Dokken
Spread Eagle
Grim Reaper
Slave Raider
Hericane Alice
April Wine

[cmd24]

Clutch

[cmd24]

Primus

[YBBR]

How about The Meters?

[Jimi_Thing]

Suicidal Tendencies

[somuchyummy]

nrbq
jellyfish
karnak
crack the sky
goldfrapp
jules shear
split enz
kirsty maccoll
the feelies

[Qman65]

Trouble
Exciter
Vandenberg
Yngwie Malmsteen
Dokken
Spread Eagle
Grim Reaper
Slave Raider
Hericane Alice
April Wine

I like the April Wine and Vandenberg plug. Vandenberg was a staple in the rotation.


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[thinktank]

Guided By Voices.

They’ll get their due but not in this lifetime.

Their First Ave show on Dec 30 was outstanding.

Over three hours of rock.

Played 60 songs, I think.

[Stork311]

The Kinks.

[Slap Shot]

BRMC
T. Wrex
Big Star
King Crimson
UFO

[Qman65]

2 from the 80's that didn't make it big but like them alot.


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Anytime you can get Ian Anderson to play flute on your song, I don't know how it didn't become a hit.


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[Jimtown guy]

UFO
Queensryche
Nazareth
Tommy Bolin

[Moses Scurry]

King's X. Musician's love them, some say they are the original grunge band. Acquired taste I supposed.

"Jerry Gaskill has a vivid memory of being chased down the street by Layne Staley of Alice In Chains. Gaskill’s band, the Texan trio King’s X, had rolled into Seattle on the tour to promote their debut album, 1988’s Out Of The Silent Planet. Many of the leading players in the city’s nascent grunge scene had turned out to see them, including members of Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone as well as Alice In Chains.

It was after the show that Gaskill found himself accosted by Staley. The Kings’s X drummer was on his way to get some food when he heard footsteps hammering behind him.

“I see this guy hurtling down the street towards me, going: ‘Jerry! Jerry! I love your band, man!’” remembers Gaskill, as softly spoken and modest a man as you could ever hope to meet. “It was Layne. For some reason they all were really supportive of us up there. We became friends with a lot of those guys.”

Staley wasn’t the only superstar besotted with King’s X. In the early 90s, at the height of his own band’s success, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament declared on MTV that “King’s X invented grunge”."

[Mandatory]

Lagwagon

[bubu dubu.]

Violent Femmes

[Slap Shot]

Violent Femmes

Not bad.

Nationally I would say The Replacements since they got plenty of play locally.

The 77's. See if I can find the Rolling Stone write up. Progressive Christian rock band from the 80's that had an album Rolling Stone said was one off the best of the year but being a Christian band and the record being up against U2 that year was lost in space.

[bubu dubu.]

Violent Femmes

Not bad.

Nationally I would say The Replacements since they got plenty of play locally.

The 77's. See if I can find the Rolling Stone write up. Progressive Christian rock band from the 80's that had an album Rolling Stone said was one off the best of the year but being a Christian band and the record being up against U2 that year was lost in space.

I bring Violent Femmes up almost solely for that self titled, 1982 album, where every fucking song is awesome. I have like 2 albums I can listen to front to back and not have to skip songs or fast forward, this being one of them. I've hardly checked anything else out by them.

[Slap Shot]

Violent Femmes

Not bad.

Nationally I would say The Replacements since they got plenty of play locally.

The 77's. See if I can find the Rolling Stone write up. Progressive Christian rock band from the 80's that had an album Rolling Stone said was one off the best of the year but being a Christian band and the record being up against U2 that year was lost in space.

I bring Violent Femmes up almost solely for that self titled, 1982 album, where every fucking song is awesome. I have like 2 albums I can listen to front to back and not have to skip songs or fast forward, this being one of them. I've hardly checked anything else out by them.

3 - ironically their 4th record is great as are Hollowed Ground and Blind Leading The Naked. Don't know if they would now sound dated listening for the first time. Songs like Fat, Black Girls, Give Me The Car Tonight...

[bubu dubu.]

Not bad.

Nationally I would say The Replacements since they got plenty of play locally.

The 77's. See if I can find the Rolling Stone write up. Progressive Christian rock band from the 80's that had an album Rolling Stone said was one off the best of the year but being a Christian band and the record being up against U2 that year was lost in space.

I bring Violent Femmes up almost solely for that self titled, 1982 album, where every fucking song is awesome. I have like 2 albums I can listen to front to back and not have to skip songs or fast forward, this being one of them. I've hardly checked anything else out by them.

3 - ironically their 4th record is great as are Hollowed Ground and Blind Leading The Naked. Don't know if they would now sound dated listening for the first time. Songs like Fat, Black Girls, Give Me The Car Tonight...

I have definitely heard "Give me the Car Tonight," and until now mistook it for being on the album I mentioned. It must have snuck its way onto my first ever iPod, and remained under mentioned albums category in my library. I think its a fantastic song, and catches the feelings of teenage hormones very well.

Edit: the song is on the 20th anniversary album, of mentioned album, which must be the version I have on my iPod

[bubu dubu.]

Just listened to "Black Girls"

Yeah, that song would not be alright in today's era. Context is everything though, its not as offensive as people would now make it out to be. The "f%^got white boy" part would have people fuming, but he's really just talking about preppy kids.

[Slap Shot]

Just listened to "Black Girls"

Yeah, that song would not be alright in today's era. Context is everything though, its not as offensive as people would now make it out to be. The "f%^got white boy" part would have people fuming, but he's really just talking about preppy kids.

I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
'Cause if you got really, really fat
You just might want to see me come back
I hope you got fat

I don't care, I don't care
How heavy or how skinny
I don't care, I don't care
No, how heavy or how skinny

Just gimme, gimme something to love
A little extra weight would never look
No nicer on nobody else but you
And I could always use a little bit more to hold on to

And if I get a fright in the middle of the night
I'll cling to you
I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
If you got truly fat, fat, fat
You just might want to see me come back


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[bubu dubu.]

Just listened to "Black Girls"

Yeah, that song would not be alright in today's era. Context is everything though, its not as offensive as people would now make it out to be. The "f%^got white boy" part would have people fuming, but he's really just talking about preppy kids.

I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
'Cause if you got really, really fat
You just might want to see me come back
I hope you got fat

I don't care, I don't care
How heavy or how skinny
I don't care, I don't care
No, how heavy or how skinny

Just gimme, gimme something to love
A little extra weight would never look
No nicer on nobody else but you
And I could always use a little bit more to hold on to

And if I get a fright in the middle of the night
I'll cling to you
I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
If you got truly fat, fat, fat
You just might want to see me come back


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Only thing that turns me off to watching that song is the mullets. Fuck the 80's fashion. The only place for mullets is hockey, or in an ironic/sarcastic/facetious way. Watching this turns the Femmes down a notch for me.

[Beef Supreme]

The Velvet Underground

King Crimson

[Slap Shot]

Just listened to "Black Girls"

Yeah, that song would not be alright in today's era. Context is everything though, its not as offensive as people would now make it out to be. The "f%^got white boy" part would have people fuming, but he's really just talking about preppy kids.

I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
'Cause if you got really, really fat
You just might want to see me come back
I hope you got fat

I don't care, I don't care
How heavy or how skinny
I don't care, I don't care
No, how heavy or how skinny

Just gimme, gimme something to love
A little extra weight would never look
No nicer on nobody else but you
And I could always use a little bit more to hold on to

And if I get a fright in the middle of the night
I'll cling to you
I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
If you got truly fat, fat, fat
You just might want to see me come back


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Only thing that turns me off to watching that song is the mullets. Fuck the 80's fashion. The only place for mullets is hockey, or in an ironic/sarcastic/facetious way. Watching this turns the Femmes down a notch for me.

They're from Wisconsin so I give them a pass.

[bubu dubu.]

I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
'Cause if you got really, really fat
You just might want to see me come back
I hope you got fat

I don't care, I don't care
How heavy or how skinny
I don't care, I don't care
No, how heavy or how skinny

Just gimme, gimme something to love
A little extra weight would never look
No nicer on nobody else but you
And I could always use a little bit more to hold on to

And if I get a fright in the middle of the night
I'll cling to you
I hope you got fat
I hope you got really fat
If you got truly fat, fat, fat
You just might want to see me come back


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Only thing that turns me off to watching that song is the mullets. Fuck the 80's fashion. The only place for mullets is hockey, or in an ironic/sarcastic/facetious way. Watching this turns the Femmes down a notch for me.

They're from Wisconsin so I give them a pass.

Dude, you are really starting to ruin them for me.

[Qman65]

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[Tommy_Hawk]

Dire Straits- Mark Knopfler; an all time Iconic guitarists/frontman. He has the riffs we all know by heart to prove it.

Talking Heads- David Byrne: True Original. The fuckin' Talking Heads. Listener's Choice Top Acclaimed Band of the 80's. Chris Frantz's drum echoing off the walls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yet, you never hear their name brought up in conversation.

Zz Top- Gibbons, Hill, and Beard. One of the best trios in Rock & Roll history. They taught us all that ever girl's crazy about a sharp dressed man. Not afraid to be themselves.

Men at Work- They're like Toto, but good. Colin Hay; get to know him.

[Tony Bongwater]

Soul Coughing: theres not a bad song on any of those three albums.

Deftones: though they get plenty of love they get filed under chick music by the uninitiated and their influence is titan. Not to mention they've stayed true to themselves and their sound while other bands keep trying to "go back to the first album".

Fugazi: those of us who know them know better but they've been forgotten by the masses.. which they probably love.

Fiona Apple: went the opposite way of most artists and used her pop album to fund becoming an excellent jazz singer.

Tal Wilkenfeld: was introduced to her as a 14 year old bassist playing with Jeff beck, and ripping shit apart.

https://youtu.be/blp7hPFaIfU

But shes pretty good on her own

https://youtu.be/iyLDSNPWZb0