Your most underrated!

[therhino]

Everyone has some tracks, albums or even artists that they know are brilliant and full of genius, but somehow no-one else is enlightened enough to see it. What are yours?

I humbly submit that "when the levee breaks" from Led Zep IV is a ridiculously underrated track. It's epic, majestic, sweeping and full of amazing riffs. I like it as much as, if not better than "stairway to heaven".

Radiohead's Kid A/amnesiac material is also widely hated, but it's often as good, in its own way, as their earlier more popular work.

Finally, I think Weezer's Pinkerton is far better than people give it credit for. It's possibly the band's worst-regarded album, probably because it's not as shiny and sunny as their other material, but it effectively pre-empts the entire emo genre while containing better music and more genuine emotion than any "pure" emo record I've heard.

[GorillaBearBear]

I think Belle and Sebatian's "Fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant" is hugely underrated by most B&S fans. I understand it's a matter of opinion, but the widely held belief is that The Boy With the Arab Strap is better than "Fold your Hands.." which people seem to view as a let down. I think it's probably their second best album. but hey.

[PoofBird]

I agree that Pinkerton is Weezer's best album. by far. Partly because it has a slightly more grim, desolate atmosphere. Tired of Sex is one of their best songs ever.

I disagree with baabaa on B&S

best albums of theirs:

1. If you feeling sinister
2. Tigermilk
3. Dear Catastrophe Waitress
4. The boy with the arab strap
5. Fold your hands
6. the other one

underrated artists:

The Get Up Kids. Emo according to some, yet not the hear-one-hear-em-all emo of Taking Back Sunday, Something Corporate or the likes (which i still like listening to, yet they are overrated)
The Get Up Kids are a bit like Weezer, sometimes Fountains of Wayne ish. And they are so fucking good.

Phantom Planet. I believe they're doing okay in the States, but i don't hear or see much of them in Europe. Their first album is one of my most played records, and their second one hit the spot even harder.

The Frames. Irish band, friends and discoverers of Josh Ritter. Big fans of the Belgian cult band dEUS. f00king great songs. Try listening to "For the birds" album.

[GorillaBearBear]

you would disagree poofbird :p I thin kti goes

Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Fold your hands...
Tigermilk
If you're feeling sinister
Boy with the Arab Strap
the other one :P

[Tommuz]

Memory of a Free Festival by David Bowie on Space Oddity is, in my opinion, Bowie's best song. It is hugely under-rated (like the album as a whole I sometimes feel) because of mainly the title track. I think the same can be said for all his pre-Ziggy stuff anyway but especially so in MoaFF

[Mellomeh]

Mine is 1 Giant Leap, a spin-off of Faithless. They're most popular song, My Culture featuring Robbie Williams and Faithless' Maxi Jazz , reached number 7 a few years ago and is still my third favourite song ever. Apart from that, they made a superb album featuring musical artists from all over the world, including Neneh Cherry and REM's Michael Stipe.

[nukem]

Heres some underrater bands
Ventana (http://www.ventanaband.com)
Motograter (www.motograter.com)
Mushroomhead (www.mushroomhead.org) those are a couple bands that I think are underrated Their all Metal bands by the way lol

[Flack]

Rammstein : Herzeleid

I Dont understand why people hate germans. Nuff said.

James

[Deathdevil]

- Hoobastank
- Rammstein
- Goldfinger
- Calibre

they have really good stuff, but no one knows them!

[PoofBird]

Where are you people from?

Rammstein get way to much attention as it is...

[gatochy]

There's this song by ABBA that's called Like An Angel Passing Through My Room. It doesn't sound at all "Abbaesque." It sounds like a lullaby and it's very, very beautiful. I never heard anyone even mention this track, ever, so I think it doesn't get more underrated than that.

[jables]

I have many songs I love but everyone else hates...

barenaked ladies - another postcard
mary prankster - tit's n whisky... for some reason when I play this to anyone they don't like it
Sister Hazel (pretty much any song is beautiful in my opinion)

[[murray]]

Gonga
Million Dead
Rise Against

Poofy, taking back sunday are nothing like something corporate :p

Whoever said hoobastank, theyre huge in america.

[Deathdevil]

Originally posted by [murray]
Whoever said hoobastank, theyre huge in america.

I did, see that's weird, here in Belgium no one has heard of them, they only know 'crawling in the dark', that's all...

[mr jones]

Ben Gibbard is an amazing artist, et i know pretty much nothing about him. I somehoe downloaded one of his tracs on kazaa a few months back nad have found few and far between material since then.
But his voice is amazing and ihis songs are just, pretty :)

[Gin&Tonic]

Originally posted by gatochy
There's this song by ABBA that's called Like An Angel Passing Through My Room. It doesn't sound at all "Abbaesque." It sounds like a lullaby and it's very, very beautiful. I never heard anyone even mention this track, ever, so I think it doesn't get more underrated than that.

I have that song! I love it so much! Wow, I wasn't going to mention it, but it is a beautiful song. (I have every ABBA song...ever...) I also love Angel Eyes, as well as the classics.

[gatochy]

Originally posted by Gin&Tonic
I have that song! I love it so much! Wow, I wasn't going to mention it, but it is a beautiful song. (I have every ABBA song...ever...) I also love Angel Eyes, as well as the classics.
:D I bought this album just with ABBA's ballads (called Love Stories) and that song was among them. Another one in that album I really loved is Slipping Through My Fingers, which is also never mentioned/ played.

[Smiert Spionem]

I have to agree that Pinkerton is very good. When the levee breaks is a very good zeppelin song. Other good albums besides the 'four symbols' one would include II, III and Physical Graffiti (few people ever seem to mention them).

Stairway to heaven is not the only song Led Zeppelin wrote (believe it or not), people should seriously check out 'heartbreaker', 'whole lotta love', kashmir' and 'the immigrant song' to name a few.

Bob Dylan is also pretty cool, if a little weird/unique!

[therhino]

I don't think you can call Bob Dylan underrated! He's high-profile enough already!

Apparently, the meaning of life in Douglas Adams' hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy may have been inspired by "blowing in the wind".

How many roads must a man walk down?
42.

[Smiert Spionem]

Im not sure why I put Bob Dylan?! Anyway, 'Come on Pilgrim' by the pixies is very good. It's their most difficult album to like but anyone with 'Surfer Rosa' will have it anyway (it comes on the same cd).

[PoofBird]

Originally posted by [murray]

Poofy, taking back sunday are nothing like something corporate :p

meh, you're right... There are a lot of weird band names around, which seems to be very hip in emo-circles...

taking back sunday
jimmy eat world
texas is the reason
give untill gone
King for a day

i get them confused.

anyway: they're mostly the emo bands i don't like, which is why i confuse them

good emo bands: Get Up Kids, Pedro the Lion, Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate (okay, they have silly names too.)

[Flack]

Originally posted by PoofBird
Where are you people from?

Rammstein get way to much attention as it is...

Doesnt mean they arent underrated...

[BigShimmeryWall]

Puya and Die Ärzte are incredibly underrated, I haven't met anyone who's heard of either before I've introduced them to them. Shame really, they're both ace.

Ooh as are Plus-Tech Squeeze Box and Cornelius :)

[matt el bassist]

underrated eh? erm...definitely a little-known band called DragonForce, who have one of the fastest shredders in the world in Herman Li. theyre touring, and for those of you in london who know a good thing when it's described vaguely to you, check them out at the Mean Fiddler on the 9th of.....either september or october, i forget. one of the two. look at the website: www.dragonforce.com

[woobi]

My awesome complimation
Halfwayhome

Not metal but punk

[The Magik Pear!]

Feeder- I know for a fact that just about everyone has heard at least one of their songs, probably Buck Rogers or Just A Day.

They have many songs which people just havnt heard of though, for example.
Satillite News- This is a great feel good song, one of my all time favo's.
Oxygen- Very relaxing, its very cleaver in the way that it sounds very airy, if that makes any sence... meh
I cant be bothered to list any more, but Feeder are an Indie/Rock band for those who dont know.
*shuts up*

[Spratley]

Roy Wood is seriously underrated! The guy is remembered for 'Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' and not much else besides. That was a silly track intended to get commercial attention. His serious stuff was art itsself but not that many people have recognised it. A lot of people won't know that when he was in the Move in the late 60s his song 'Flowers in the Rain' was the first song ever to be played on radio 1 (presuming you live here in the UK) And his back catalogue through the 70s is stunning, makes prog rock into an artform. He made christmas no. 1 in 1968 with 'Blackberry Way' as well, and then formed ELO with Jeff Lynne (also underrated, but you'll have heard his songs a million times on the radio).
Roy hasn't had the recognition he deserves.