agreed

maybe

half japanese?

i'd say they are not only underrated but mostly ignored. a lot of other good bands too, but I NEED COFFEE!!!!!!! i gotta go...

MCLUSKY

big time underrated.

I think Big Audio Dynamite, in retrospect, deserve a little more credit for fusing rock music with different styles, including hip-hip aspects, before it was the done thing. They also largely started the trend for inserting dialogue from films etc into music.

And they were good.

apparently they have a myspace

http://www.myspace.com/sixbysevenmusic

the material on there isnt their best though, the early stuff is alot heavier and rawer my favourite of their albums though is 04, its just perfect from start to finish,

THANK YOU!!!

pfffffffff there are so many underrated bands i wouldn't know where to begin..

Modest Mouse is amazing

I'm not sure about that - I think those apply to any albums/tracks that are widely available. I'm more than happy to upload them, but I don't want to incur any administrative wrath.

Can you send massive files like that over MSN or Yahoo? I can't remember my damn soulseek id. I really have no business using a computer.

Tim Buckley

How about Thinking Fellers Union Local 282?

Thanks for the reply. I'm checking it out now.

I'd like to niominate Nine Black Alps, who rock out rather well in my opinion.

Slowdive
The Frogs
Windy & Carl

Definitely Can. Best band of the 70s.

The Wipers

I never ever hear this band talked about and they're great. Their first three records are classics with some amazing guitar work on them. The only time I've ever seen them in print is when people say that Nirvana and Dinosaur Jr were influenced by them.

solex as she is an unrecognized sample master

windy and carl. i'm surprised they don't get talked about more now that drone is semi-fashionable.

i don't think public enemy are underrated as Nation of Millions is the regarded as the undisputed greatest hiphop record ever made (or at least whenever there's a poll it always wins, and is usually the only rap record to show up on mainstream polls)

I think Keiji Haino should be crowned spiritual guardian of the planet earth.

And Sun Ra should be widely recognized as being on a par with any of the great musical minds of the 20th century.

Windy and Carl are two of the sweetest people on earth.
They rule the style they play in.

I don't think Can is underrated; they are highly regarded and have a much deserved reputation/legacy as one of the most seminal and influential stylistic innovators of their era, whose ideas have stretched farther than they could possibly have imagined at the time.

Animal Collective
Slowdive

It's probably been said but...POLVO

loop

third eye foundation/matt elliot

a couple of late lamented scottish bands:

The Yummy Fur (including members of Franz Ferdinand, split in early 2000's. check out Male Shadow at Three O Clock)

The Delgados (Hate is a great album)

haha
I said it just like you did.

a CAPITAL POLVO

It looks a lot better that way....

...POLVO

Can have a solid little fanbase, but outside that fanbase no one really pays attention to them, or even know who they are.

Oh yeah, and Glenn Branca is underrated.

Crass and pretty much the whole Crass Records/Anarcho-Punk scene that grew around them. The Mob, Rudimentary Peni, Amebix, Poison Girls, Zounds, etc.

One band completely ignored is Flowers in the Dustbin, who've recently had a myspace made up: http://www.myspace.com/fitd. The first song is one of their new ones, it's not bad but I would recommend the others first. Also, they've also put their entire discography up for download on their website: http://www.flowersinthedustbin.co.uk, I would probably recommend "Freaks Run Wild in the Disco" as a starting point.

SADUS (pioneers of death metal), PRONG (pioneers of industrial metal), CORONER (pioneers of something that wasn't metal enough for the average metalhead but surely makes me feel good everytime i listen to GRIN)
COCTEAU TWINS, BLONDE REDHEAD, SMALL WHITE... heck, RECS OF THE FLESH

In my opinion:

The Kinks
Neutral Milk Hotel
the Descendents
Unwound
The Wrens
Olivia Tremor Control

godflesh
techno animal

maybe also:

Ida, Shipping News, Idaho, Francois Breut, Disco Inferno and Girls Against Boys.

And of course the mighty japanese CORNELIUS!

my band is pretty underrated here in Bulgaria. these kids want only metal, and catchy punkish shit.

pere ubu
neu

Woody Guthrie

...and another vote here for the mighty POLVO.

And Pere Ubu, Thinking Fellers Union and Fly Ashtray.

Good call on Pere Ubu, and good username.

Public Image Limited. Way better than the pistols, way less respect.

Yeah I'll second Pere Ubu also, though the only cd i have from them is Apocalypse Now (it's live, btw).

But my vote would go to Jaga Jazzist.... these guys churn out some awesome complex music that always sound good, miles away from that crappy electronic jazz of a few years ago.

And I'd say Darkthrone too, just to add some classic black metal to the list....

I've got one, a very good one indeed in my opinion, how I forgot them I don't know.

Gomez. I appreciate they might not be alternative enough for some of the tastes here, but they've done four studio LP's, all good. They experiment in their own way and have written a lot of excellent songs. Three different vocalists helps make them intersting too. Songs like Here Comes the Breeze, Revolutionary Kind, Shot Shot, Drench, Where ya Going? and many more dhould not be neglected the way that they are!

Muffler Crunch

I prefer them waayyyy more than Against Me!

Agree on PiL. The first 5 albums (including Commercial Zone) are gold.

For me, add: Curve, Essential Logic, Severed Heads, Lush, Cocteau Twins, The Fall, My Bloody Valentine, TISM, Spizz, The Chameleons (UK), The Pop Group, Go Betweens, Devo, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult....

I could go on and on, so I'll stop there and won't bore you.

oh no no no. Gomez really are one of my all time pet hates, a bunch of oxbridge stoners who sing with stupid fucking voices.