Most underrated "Musical" acts

[Byzantine Prince]

What are the most underrated musical acts. Here's mine:

1. The cranberries. Yeah that's right. How can one not like them.
2. Franz Ferdinand. Best band I listened to in a long time.
3. Oasis. The coolest and most real group anytime.
4. Radiohead. Awesome music.
5. Dido. Really good music. Not many people my age know anything abouther though.

[Ronin]

bands that deserved more recognition that they have/had

-Queens of the stone age.....best rock band...ever
-Danko Jones.....these guys should be huge!...but hey..mtv´s buzy pushing britney
-Moonspell....deserve even more credit than what they get
-Kyuss....they´re gone...but they kicked ass
-Nightwish and Lacuna Coil....both these bands make great music and have beautifull women that can sing as hell....are they supported?...no....mtv pushes a teeny bopper knock-off evanescence....

[InsaneApache]

The Waterboys.....

[Gawain of Orkeny]

The Kinks

[InsaneApache]

The Kinks

Underrated!!!! Ray Davies is a GOD.....imho

[InsaneApache]

not fotgetting of course...the one and only unforgetable Rutles

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077147/

[Quietus]

Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) backed by the Dennis Bovell Dub Band. Only because they aren't very popular. The tightest band on the planet (especially with drummer Paul Blake who just left the band; Daniel Spahni is a great drummer but not nearly as excellent as Blake). This band is the epitome of 'Quality over quantity'.

LKJ - vocals
Dennis Bovell - bass
Daniel Spahni - drums
John Kpiaye - guitar
Johnny T - violin
Steve Gregory - horns
Nick Straker - keyboards


Burning Spear - Tons of sublime music.
Peter Tosh - Not as prolific as Marley or Spear but his music is superb.

[the Count of Flanders]

bands that deserved more recognition that they have/had

-Queens of the stone age.....best rock band...ever
-Danko Jones.....these guys should be huge!...but hey..mtv´s buzy pushing britney
-Moonspell....deserve even more credit than what they get
-Kyuss....they´re gone...but they kicked ass
-Nightwish and Lacuna Coil....both these bands make great music and have beautifull women that can sing as hell....are they supported?...no....mtv pushes a teeny bopper knock-off evanescence....

I certainly wouldn't call Moonspell or Nightwish underrated. Both are held in very high regard by just about the entire metal community (I love them both) in the whole world.
Underrated does not equal selling no albums to snot-nosed 16-year olds which only like simple music.Actually I think that's a very good thing, when I go to a Moonspell concert I only see people that are genuinly interested in the music, not some little punks being there only because it's "cool".

[Axeknight]

Guns N' Roses - They aren't exactly an unknown band; you don't have to sell less than a dozen records to be underrated.

Once there was this rock'n'roll band rolling/On the streets/ Time went by and it became a joke/We just needed more an' more fulfilling/But check it out
All anyone remembers GN'R for is screwing up everything they had. Nobody remembers what they acheived; five street urchins who moved to LA with no money in the hope of 'making it' who wrote probably the best debut album ever in Appetite for Destruction and almost single-handedly destroyed hair-metal and put rock'n'roll back into credibility. Appetite was special because the band weren't faking at any point; this was their life. Their living together wasn't some "Let's live like The Monkees" naffness; they had no money. Tracks like Mr Brownstone and It's So Easy said more about the rock'n'roll lifestyle than anything since. And yet in between songs like Nightrain and You're Crazy was Sweet Child O' Mine, a tender love letter to Erin Everly, Axl Rose's then girlfriend, with a truly beautiful riff and what I think is the best hard rock guitar solo ever recorded.

They later recorded Use Your Illusion I and II. There were the rockers and the ballads, the Izzy and the Axl so to speak, the power ballads with the massive production and the raw, gritty tracks. There was Estranged (huge production, horn section, choir, pianos) and Coma (10 minutes 15 seconds with no chorus, defibrilator noises, countless chord changes, possibly Slash's best arrangement ever and some of the best lyrics Axl Rose ever wrote), and then tracks like Get in the Ring and Garden of Eden. Flawed and patchy they may have been, but Appetite and the Illusions remain a virtual how-to of hard rock.

Sure, it all came to a highly undignified, messy end - and you could say Axl, Slash, Duff, Izzy et al brought it all on themselves, but they lived the lifestyle to the full, and then some more. Say what you wish of who fired who, caused whch riots, failed to turn up to which gigs, and snorted up what, but in their day they were the biggest, baddest rock'n'roll band on the planet, and that, to me, is all that matters.

This fire is burning and it's out of control,
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock 'n' roll

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Skynyrd.

[Big_John]

the beatles

[Ronin]

I certainly wouldn't call Moonspell or Nightwish underrated. Both are held in very high regard by just about the entire metal community (I love them both) in the whole world.
Underrated does not equal selling no albums to snot-nosed 16-year olds which only like simple music.Actually I think that's a very good thing, when I go to a Moonspell concert I only see people that are genuinly interested in the music, not some little punks being there only because it's "cool".

of course i´m talking about the mainstream......

the real fans are allways gonna support these and other bands...but they could be huge beyond what they allready are if they were more supported.....

it would just be cool to see the teenyboopers being runned out of business.....like a wise man once said........"i have a dream" :P

P.S.-you´re seen moonspell live?...they´re great.....but i´m from their own country and i´ve never seen them.....everytime something allways stops me from going

[PanzerJaeger]

Led Zep..

[The Tuffen]

-Queens of the stone age.....best rock band...ever

Have to agree with you, Queens of the stone age are excellent. Just wish I saw them at Reading every time they played and i was there (instead of getting drunk and being too lazy to walk to the areana.

At the drive in were an excellent band too, pity they split up just as i was introduced to them

[JAG]

Would have to agree with Ronin on the Nightwish and Lacuna Coil front. Both are GREAT, GREAT bands who not only play unbelievably good music but have damn hot woman singing the tunes.. But if people were to mention their names no one outside those who listen to metal would know them. They deserve more really.

If you look especially how recognised crappy bands like Franz Ferdinand and the Strokes are, you would have thought Nightwish and Lacuna Coil would be more recognised.

[the Count of Flanders]

P.S.-you´re seen moonspell live?...they´re great.....but i´m from their own country and i´ve never seen them.....everytime something allways stops me from going

Yep I saw them live at Graspop, probably the best metal festival in Europe (the line up is world class every year) and only 20 km from my house. I hope they'll come again this year as 'The Antidote' is their best album so far IMO (absolutely, flawlessly brilliant). Saw Lacuna Coil there too two years ago, heck I saw just about every good metal band there is there (Slayer, Iron Maiden, Arch Enemy, Judas Priest, Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Therion, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Motorhead, Cradle of Filth, Life Of Agony, My Dying Bride, Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Iced Earth, Biohazard, Tristania, ...).
If you ever have the chance again to see Moonspell definately do it!!

[DemonArchangel]

Nine Inch Nails: Yes. Trent Reznor is underappreciated considering how much he has done for music.

KoRn: They are NOT nu-metal trash. They're the fathers of Nu-Metal. They still rock hard, as do their disciples System of Down, Disturbed, Dry Cell, Staind, etc. (Limp Bizkit doesn't count, cuz they suck).

Children of Bodom: Why the HELL are they so totally unknown?

[the Count of Flanders]

Children of Bodom: Why the HELL are they so totally unknown?

The reason why CoB will never be mainstream metal like Metallica or Rammstein is because Alexi's vocals are as raw as they come. Whenever he "sings" he reminds me of a hungry pack of wolves tearing apart an innocent lamb. Personally I think it fits 100% with their music and wouldn't like that to change (in fact CoB is my fave band).
But for most people it's too much, they just can't handle it. Whenever my alternative rock-loving friends hear a CoB song they say something like "wow, that riff really rocks" or "damn, this song is awesome"...untill Alexi starts singing and you can see their faces going from "WOW!" to "WTF???" . CoB is not for the weak of heart.
Same deal with Arch Enemy btw.