Music: Who are the most underappreciated bands ever?

[Ben Grimm]

I don't mean critically. My personal top 4 are my all-time favorite punk band The Cramps ^, D.C.'s Bad Brains, Minnesota's Husker Du, and Milwaukee's Violent Femmes.

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[GKJ]

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I don't mean critically. My personal top 4 are my all-time favorite punk band The Cramps ^, D.C.'s Bad Brains, Minnesota's Husker Du, and Milwaukee's Violent Femmes.

Some suggestions I got from Yardbarker are Anvil, April Wine, Black 47, Blue Cheer, Boogie Down Productions, Cinderella, Exodus, Little Feat, Living Colour (Cult of Personality is my favorite MTV video), Melvins, Naked Raygun, Screaming Trees, Social Distortion, Ten Years After (Alvin Lee is a great guitarist), UFO, and Wishbone Ash. Does @Hockey Outsider appreciate Wishbone Ash? Does @Dr Pepper like Anvil and April Wine? We'll see what they say. I hope @GKJ posts.

Probably got like 50 bands I could list. I’ll get to some of them.

 

[VMBM]

Delete

 

[Dr Pepper]

Sloan!

Also Anvil I suppose. Not huge on April Wine though

 

[frisco]

The Church.

My Best-Carey

 

[kook10]

Small Faces, Sly & The Family Stone, Them

 

[Ben Grimm]

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@kook10 Sly and the Family Stone are a top 50 band all-time.

 

[kook10]

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@kook10 Sly and the Family Stone are a top 50 band all-time.

They are widely known for a couple of big hits which get used in commercials and such, but have a depth and substance far beyond that.

 

[kihei]

Talk Talk was the first band that came to mind.
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[Babe Ruth]

I don't know about 'ever'.. but I thought Failure was the most underappreciated (rock) band of the '9os.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Ramones
kinks
Ny Dolls
Stiff little fingers
Descendants

 

[Mescaleroman]

the Stranglers
World Party
the Replacements
Guided by Voices
the the

good call above on the Kinks and SLF

 

[Hippasus]

Can, Brian Eno (including collaborations), Rottrevore, Beherit, off the top of my head.

 

[Ben Grimm]

... the Replacements ...

@Mescaleroman I'm a big fan of The Replacements.

 

[tTheVeganWoofMate]

The Doors
Boston

 

[TheAngryHank]

Goldie lookin chain.
And Spoon.

 

[Shareefruck]

Just going down my list of favorite things, the names I hear mentioned least often are probably Can, Neu!, Faust, Augustus Pablo, John Hassell, Gas, Glen Branca, and Tony Conrad, but they're all critically appreciated.

 

[Hippasus]

Just going down my list of favorite things, the names I hear mentioned least often are probably Can, Neu!, Faust, Augustus Pablo, John Hassell, Gas, Glen Branca, and Tony Conrad, but they're all critically appreciated.

Re: Can: I suppose, but I think they should be even more appreciated. Like at the level of The Beatles, The Kinks, or The Beach Boys.

 

[Shareefruck]

Re: Can: I suppose, but I think they should be even more appreciated. Like at the level of The Beatles, The Kinks, or The Beach Boys.

Agreed. I definitely appreciate Can far more than The Beatles, The Kinks, or The Beach Boys. Honestly, I'd make that argument about a ton of things that it still feels absurd to call underappreciated, though.

Example: I could honestly say that I feel that The Wire is an underappreciated TV show (because despite already being considered one of the best shows of all time and being insanely highly appreciated, from my perspective, inferior stuff like Breaking Bad still gets mentioned in the same breath and treated like its equal, and its name still doesn't quite ring out like The Sopranos does).

 

[VMBM]

Delete.

 

[MVP of West Hollywd]

The Decemberists - their shtick makes them pretty unique and I think they have been pretty consistent quality wise with their most recent album in 2018 being really good in my opinion despite being a middle aged band with families and side projects now.

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Suicidal Tendencies
Clutch
Kyuss
Motorhead
UFO
Primus
Voivod - So underappreciated and underrated that even Canadians never bring them up.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Kyuss

Good one..
I saw Kyuss open (as a fill-in) for Danzig on his Danzig 3 tour. Then I wore out their 'Blues..' cassette over the years.
I think at the time, stoner rock was too niche to get really big(?) But they were a really great band..

 

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[Mr Jiggyfly]

Misfits
Social Distortion
Sevendust
The Prodigy
Groove Armada
Slightly Stoopid
Stick Figure
Don Carlos (not a band, but he should be more well known by pop culture)