Most Under-rated Art Rock Group of All Time

[CanuckAmok]

Poll question: Most Under-rated Art Rock Group of All Time

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. 'Pink Flag' is a masterpiece

I love Wire.

[MoonGod]

18. I saw Wire live...

... they opened up for Depeche at the Rose Bowl back in 1988, along with Thomas Dolby (who pretty much got booed off the stage) and OMD.

:)

[ForrestGump]

2. The Banana Splits

Sublime....

[NightTrain]

3. Why do the Talking Heads qualify as underrated?

They've even been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

[CanuckAmok]

5. Yes, but is that enough? n/t

[GreenArrow]

8. overrated to me

I'll take the Ramones.

[roughsatori]

4. I use to be a huge Throbbing Gristle and later Psychic TV fan

I remember a friend playing a 45 of ZYKLON B ZOMBIE for me when it first reached NYC. I love the song "God-star" by Psychic TV.

[CanuckAmok]

6. My Godstar single came with a...

..."Brian Jones Died For Your Sins" bumper-sticker.

That turned a few heads!

[roughsatori]

7. LOL, I was telling a friend about Genesis leaving

a track open when he recored and played the clicks of Brain Jones' spirit on the Godstar single. He was not amused.

[DBoon]

9. Television

I'd vote for them any day.

Without Television there would be no Sonic Youth.


And what about the Minutemen?

[mitchum]

15. Another vote for Television...

and a side vote for MX-80 Sound. Without those two there would be no Sonic Youth.

[solinvictus]

10. Throbbing Gristle but

I am a huge Coil fan.

[CanuckAmok]

16. Your nick goves you away... n/t

[oustemnow]

11. Where the fuck is Hawkwind

or, for that matter, Helios Creed, on this poll?

I refuse to reply unfer duress!

on edit: but I am voting for MX-80 Sound: "It's not love, it's a fascination...."

[DBoon]

14. Hawkwind!!

I got stoned too many times to "In Search of Space"

[Quahog]

12. Other

I'd have to go with Fad Gadget or Dalek-i.

Edited to add Suicide. Duh!

[roughsatori]

13. I had a roommate who played the songs Lady Shave

and Back to Nature all the time. He alternated that with Cabaret Voltaire.

[CanuckAmok]

17. Dammitt...no room for Television, Chrome, Hawkwind/Hawklords...

But I voted for MX-80 Sound, too.

Fuck they rock.

[Maccagirl]

19. The Bonzo Dog Do-Dah BAnd

Gawd-I've just shown my age.

[Ellen Forradalom]

20. When I saw 'Art Rock' I thought you meant prog rock

not proto-punk.

If you wanna talk about prog-rock how about Hatfield and the North? Richard Sinclair went to be in the better-known National Health along with drummer Pip Pyle. National Health was a bit too 'noodly' for my taste.

[Bake]

21. The first person who says Kiss DIES

Bake