re: Underrated or largely forgotten bands

Posted by lsu2006

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 4:39 pm to White Shadeaux

Moby Grape

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Posted by Poodlebrain

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 4:54 pm to Casty McBoozer

MC5
Taste
Beat Farmers

Posted by McLemore

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 4:57 pm to ForeLSU

quote:
Terry Kath

i'd forgotten about his f'ed up (in many different senses of the term) death. tragic.

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:25 pm to lsu2006

quote:
Moby Grape

well duh

Posted by TheDoc

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:40 pm to Poodlebrain

quote:
MC5

Hardly underrated

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Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:47 pm to TheDoc

quote:

quote:
MC5

Hardly underrated

ok now we're gettin' some action

How many people do you know who have even heard of The MC5, much less heard them?

How in the hell can anybody describe Chicago as "underrated"?

And what authority is it that rates people? The computers? The human polls?

I got my sleeves rolled up and I'm READY TO RUMBLE

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Posted by titmouse

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:53 pm to Kafka

Ruth Ruth
Menthol
Girls vs. Boys/Sammy
Brainiac
MU330

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Posted by OldTigahFot

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:54 pm to Kafka

quote:
MC5

raises hand

Speakeasy - 1970 or 1971 (maybe)

Brothers and sisters, . . .

Posted by TheDoc

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 5:54 pm to Kafka

quote:
How in the hell can anybody describe Chicago as "underrated"?

No clue

Posted by Brosef Stalin

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 6:31 pm to Casty McBoozer

Hum

Posted by danman6336

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 6:48 pm to Brosef Stalin

The Modern Lovers

Posted by bearhc

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 6:55 pm to Casty McBoozer

The Kinks!

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:00 pm to Kafka

Posted by Bamatab

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:08 pm to Casty McBoozer

Would J.J. Cale be considered underrated? I know some of his songs that other people cover get played on the radio, but I hardly ever hear him on the radio.

Posted by MountainTiger

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:11 pm to Bamatab

quote:
Would J.J. Cale be considered underrated?

Yeah, I would think so. He wrote a lot of Clapton's best stuff but hardly anybody knows that.

Posted by Sayre

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:28 pm to MountainTiger

Failure
Townes Van Zandt
Zebra
Snot
13th Floor Elevators
Savoy Brown
Whitesnake

Posted by dexy82

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:09 pm to Sayre

I'd like to also add Lionel Richie

I know he gets decent radio play with the commodores, but I have to say, he never gets muttered much in music circles these days and he's an absolute music hit machine.

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Posted by Ray Penpillage

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Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:51 pm to dexy82

I was deployed (kinda, it was the AF) a few times in SWA. The Filipinos that ran the rec center (again, AF) played Richie's greatest hits all the damn time.

I will add Mr. Bungle and to a lesser extent XTC and Squeeze.