Under-appreciated groups? List them!

[rushmore]

Here are a few of mine:

Poster Children
Girls against Boys
Paw
Quicksand
Jawbox
Fugazi
Volbeat (though catching on now)
Feeder
Trail of Dead
Jason Falkner


I could keep going, but those are some that stick out in my little mind

 

[tube517]

Kyuss

 

[9to5cynic]

Bomb the Music Industry!
Tom Waits
Operation Ivy (really paved the way for a lot of bands)

 

[TJGoSurf]

Paper Tongues. I have to support the hometown guys.

 

[B2L]

The HAARP Machine
Son Of Aurelius
Rings Of Saturn
Animals As Leaders

 

[CDPlant]

John Fahey (folk 1960s-1990s)
Boards of Canada (Electronic/IDM 1990s-present)
Neutral Milk Hotel (Lo-fi/Indie 1990s)
Actress (IDM/House/Techno)
Nicolas Jaar (House/Dance)
Estradasphere (Avant Garde/Experimental)

 

[Angus19]

Bonobo
Jack White (he's underappreciated until he's accepted as the greatest guitar composer ever)
Boards of Canada
Bon Iver
Girl Talk
Buck 65

 

[argedion]

Tangerine Dream
Traffic

 

[BS1397]

Tangerine Dream
Traffic

I see somebody got good taste... Now lets add to that;

Camel
Caravan
The Strawbs
Wishbone Ash

 

[argedion]

I see somebody got good taste... Now lets add to that;

Camel
Caravan
The Strawbs
Wishbone Ash

Wheres the RUB loved that album

 

[Bob Maxey]

Here are a few of mine:

Poster Children
Girls against Boys
Paw
Quicksand
Jawbox
Fugazi
Volbeat (though catching on now)
Feeder
Trail of Dead
Jason Falkner


I could keep going, but those are some that stick out in my little mind

1910 Fruitgum Company . . . they rule. Or ruled. They were under appreciated, so they be gone.

 

[mc48]

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree - Trains (In Absentia) - YouTube

Lazarus- Porcupine Tree (Lyrics) - YouTube

 

[vercingetorix]

I'm a massive queens of th

 

[vercingetorix]

Porcupine Tree

Porcupine Tree - Trains (In Absentia) - YouTube

Lazarus- Porcupine Tree (Lyrics) - YouTube

Great shout fear of a blank planet is a fantastic album ,great band .

 

[Rippin508]

Stir
Over It

 

[JunBringer]

Hanson


no I'm not joking their past 2 albums are good as balls.

 

[pbf98]

The Answer
He is We
Marianas Trench

a few I listen to that not many people know of

 

[Davdi]

Stray
Blodwyn Pig
Edgar Broughton Band
Melanie Safka
Locomotive

 

[huh]

Derek Trucks band aka Tdeschi Trucks Band
Joshua Radkin
Damien Rice
JJ Grey and Mofro

 

[general eclect]

Jeff Lang
Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson
Darren Jack
Phil Emmanuel (Tommy's older brother)
Clayton Doley
Lachy Doley

Just a few quality local acts I enjoy seeing when I can afford to go out...

 

[SiempreTuna]

Reading these I realise I don't know anything about music recorded after 1995.

And I only have a passing familiarity with stuff from the decade before that.

To think - I used to be so clued up ..

 

[9to5cynic]

I think Squirrel Nut Zippers are pretty underrated.

 

[septembergurl]

Big Star
The Replacements
The Runaways
Wire
Pixies
Fleetwood Mac (over-appreciated for the wrong reasons, under-appreciated for albums such as Tusk)
Jeffrey Dean Foster (look him up, you won't be disappointed)
Roxy Music
The Black Angels
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Smog
Bon Scott era AC/DC... no, sorry, Back in Black is not their best album
The Troggs
Blonde Redhead
The Hives
Adam Ant
Tom Waits
Badfinger
all local bands that deserve to be famous in place of the myriad of shitty bands both past and present that made it big

... I could go on and on.

(obviously these are bands that are under-appreciated by "the mainstream")

 

[saptech]

Grand Funk Railroad
Humble Pie
Wish Bone Ash, we used to call them Wish Bone Hash!
Uriah Heep
Mountain

Just to name a few...

 

[rushmore]

I agree that Grand Funk is underappreciated now, but in most of the 70s they were bigger than LedZep in the US.

Others underappreciated now:

Stray
Ten Years After
Mott the Hoople
The Stooges
The Groundhogs

A lot of groups copy these groups now since a generation of time to wait and copy and sound "new" again.