Favorite underrated band.........

[CrownPrinceBandar]

Name a favorite band, who have the moves and sounds, but gets ZERO mainstream respect. (Yeah, yeah... I know this has been done a zillion times before, but please indulge me)

Mine: Los Lobos

[Ramsey]

1. Placebo

Awesome band, really original. Nobody in the US has heard of them.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Placebo are great...

I owned "Sleeping With Ghosts" until my cd wallet met an unfortunate demise.

[flvegan]

16. Good call! Placebo opened for Stabbing Westward

a couple years back, and they were awesome! I hadn't heard of them before then. Flick also opened, and they rocked too.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Jesus, we could be here for months...

But I'll narrow it down to five:
The Mars Volta
Head Automatica
Muse
Rise Against
Cursive

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. The Alarm

[Zomby Woof]

5. Los Lobos is amazing

I have been a fan since "How Will the Wolf Survive?" caught my attention in high school. I have manged to see them at least once every decade since the 80's... I have loved watching (listening) to them evolve and grow with each album - I even named my cat Kiko because that is my favorite album (so far) of theirs.

A few years ago I was pleased that their original local release of "Just Another Band from East L.A." was reissued. They keep surprising me.

[Floogeldy]

6. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

[brentspeak]

7. Styx

I'm a childhood fan of "Pieces Of Eight" and "Cornerstone"

[mvd]

8. I have a different one each day it seems

Today I feel like mentioning the Jayhawks.

[taterguy]

9. mine

There’s a band that wrote some of the most right-on songs I’ve ever heard about social issues. Long before sprawl became a buzzword they wrote the lyric: ‘I can see the concrete slowly creeping. Lord take me and mine before that comes.’, and included a plea for people to stop and think about the air they’re breathing. They wrote about a man falsely accused of robbery who would rather die than continue being locked up in a barbaric prison. They asked the question: ‘How much does money mean?’ in an indictment of greed where the song’s narrator offers his guitar to a banker, if he would just loan him the money to bury his father. They wrote about befriending the dregs of society, because everybody has something to offer.

The band was Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[WCGreen]

10. Saw them about 15 years ago in a converted movie house

here in Cleveland....

Crowded House and Buckweat Zydeco.....

Great bill...

[taterguy]

11. The Five Royales

I only know about them because of their inclusion in the Greil Marcus anthology Stranded but their influence was immense. One of their founding members died this week.

[Initech]

12. Queens Of The Stone Age

They've put out three extremely kick-ass albums in the last five years:







Yet somehow they strangely get lumped in with all the sludge that gets played on mainstream radio. But they did play the cowbell with Will Ferrelll on SNL.

[Wapsie B]

13. Leo Greco and his Pioneers

;-)

[flamingyouth]

14. I have lots of them

Most of my favorite bands wallow in obscurity.

Lately I've been listening to the Fleshtones a lot. They were the first band I saw live (opening for the Go-Go's) and I think they never got the respect they deserved.

I'd also add bands like the Modern Lovers, DMZ and the Lyres to my list.

[izzybeans]

15. Too many Indie bands to name. Personal fav. The M's.

For perusal:

http://www.wearethems.com/splash.html

[datasuspect]

17. the blue cheer

[Floogeldy]

18. The what?

[datasuspect]

19. 10-4

roger roger

[sendero]

20. The Wolfgang Press..

... made a bunch of pretty good records in the 80s then 2 phenomenal records ('Queer' and 'Funky Little Demons' (I think FLD was called 'Christianity' in the UK)) in the early/mid 90s.

Think noise pop with Motown and 70's soul flourishes and cynical and interesting lyrics. Really indescribable, as all really great music is :)

They finally threw in the towel about a year after FLD.

But they did come to Dallas and I saw them and they were great.

Both Queer and Funky Little Demons are in my top 50 of all time!!!!!

Bet you never even heard of them :(