We know all the overrated ones.

What are your favourite bands, ones that you think deserve iconic status, even though you will never see their names in any 'best of.....' or 'greatest albums of.....' lists?

The Wildhearts and Thunder for me.

Carter USM

New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Mazzy Star
Husky Rescue
Pooka
Ultramarine

Just off the top of me head. I'd need to haev a rake through me vinyl for a comprehensive list.

Longpigs.

Green On Red.

Pop Will Eat Itself.

Cinerama.

I've got hundreds!!!

What did they sing?

Lake of Tears

Hey, Mr Elvis, musical encyclopedia, what do you know about a band called "I've got hundreds" ??

Nowt, you sarky get. If you don't behave I'll list them all and bore you to death....

Diesel Park West? Enlighten me, Phil?

Did they tour with I KNOW HUNDREDS in the early 80s?

They played at the Frog and Nightgown (honest) in Worksop a couple of years ago. Still going to my knowledge.

Has Radio 5 being going that long? I thought it was only since about 1993. I used to listen to 'Out on blue 6 ' with Mark Radcliffe around that time.

Sounds good, i'll give 'em a listen.

sublime are a cracking band if you like that sort of thing very underrated

Neds Atomic Dustbin, and The Osrich Tentacles are two crackingly underrated bands.



I've heard some promising comments regarding I've Got Hundreds too.

I'm hopefully going to see the Ostrich Testicles, sorry Ozric Tentacles in October.

Brilliant live.

Saw them in Wolverhampton a few years ago.

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts are/were very good.

Kingmaker.

Straw.

Budapest.

Hundred Reasons.

Mind, owt after 1988 is totally derivative.........

Sebadoh
Sparklehorse
Meconium

Little man tate

The Wedding Present

Wishbone Ash
Lamb chop
The Levellers

Belle and Sebastian

The Bees

Gomez

Spiritualized

Bright Eyes

Some good bands there. In the circles I mix in Ozric Tentacles are considered to have made it big time, that is they have been going for a fair time now, have had several albums, get good reviews, get plenty of gigs and are full time.
Most of the bands that the late John Peel championed were underrated and that includes Picture Center, Plone, Prolapse, Pale Saints, Pere Ubu, Paino Magic, Punishment of Luxury and Piledriver and that's just the P's. Going back some I was always amazed that Red Lorry Yellow Lorry never made it bigger and I'm sure my current favourites Alex Delivery will never make it into the mainstream, however I'm sure that's fine by them.

The Frank and Walters. Most of their stuff is truly superb and an excellent live band.
Stereolab - Consistently excellent. Also excellent live.
The Decemberists - Beautiful.
Teenage Fanclub - Great songwriters and an impressive back catalogue.
Mull Historical Society - Colin MacIntyre is a great songwriter and they were also brilliant live.
The Man From Delmonte - Great musically and lyrically.
Pale Saints - Brilliant. Especially The Comforts Of Madness.
Ian Brown - Although not massively underrated, he still produces quality material which always sounds fresh.
Pele / Amsterdam - Ian Prowse was / is an excellent songwriter.
Phil Collins - Only kidding, he's an irritating tw@t!

Pale Saints

Dinosaur Jnr

The Beat

5:30

depeche mode (later)

cabaret voltaire

thousand yard stare

ride

the aloof

morcheeba

durritti column

forgot TFC

I'm liking some choices here. In particular..

New Fast Automatic Daffodils
P.W.E.I
The Wedding Present / Cinerama
Voice Of The Beehive
Weezer
10,000 Maniacs (How good is Natalie Merchants voice? Amazing)
Neds Atomic Dustbin (God Fodder era)
Kingmaker
Gomez
Spiritualized
Dinosaur Jr
Ride

I can see a compliation for the Jishmobile coming on

Erasure

The Wannadies

Underworld

Pet Shop Boys

Sleeper

Lightening Seeds

Pink

Cascadia

Monkeyhangerz - especially the top notch drummer who did a fine job.

Yo La Tengo
Mekons
Big Star
Blasters
Los Lobos
Brinsley Schwartz
The Colourblind James Experience
The Go Betweens
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
The Triffids
Best of all: Robert Wyatt absolutely immense and do The Fall and The Gang Of Four (Leeds Leeds Leeds) count?.

Concur with MHS - saw Colin live at Liverpool Academy 3 a few years back, just after the release of Us - in a smallish venue he was excellent. Slightly ironic in that his support was an unknown Liverpool band that I thought were interesting but others didn't rate. They played about a 30 minute set. The Zutons......

Not listened to much TMFD what liked what I heard.... "I don't go out with her anymore but..." still sticks in the mind.

Back in my Uni days I saw both the Neds and Carter live. The Neds were excellent, had a decent support (Irish band called Power of Dreams) and did a 70-odd minute set before coming back on to do two encores. Carter.... well, the support band was Holy Joy (formerly Band of Holy Joy) who went down like Led Zeppelin at a Billy Graham meeting, while Carter played a set that was about 50 minutes, no encore. They were good while they were there, but compared to the Neds.....

which band chip?

Biffy Clyro - getting a bit big now like.

Death from above 1979

Test icicles

My Vitriol

YOU WERE IN PINK??????

roddy frame
the coral
little man tate
the supernaturals
decemberists
richard hawley
beirut
orange juice
get cape.wear cape. fly.

Richard Hawley of the Longpigs!!!

He's the darling of radio 2 at the moment, his singles getting MASSIVE airplay and his album is out as of yesterday.

Radio 1 takes a lot of stick but I went to Radio 1 Sound City in Sheffield Leadmill in about 93 and the bill was Kingmaker, Pulp and The Wedding Present.

Beat that for seven quid!!

Frank and Walters were on over the road at the Students Union as well same night.

wasn't he in pulp for a bit as well? wasn't aware about the radio 2 thing,only ever listen to macconie on there. Hawley's voice is sublime

He was yes, Steve Mackie left Pulp and Richard went on tour with them and then more or less joined full time although he had already started doing his solo stuff. Crispin, the singer with Longpigs moved to Los Angeles and wrote most of the second album himself. It was very disappointing. Little known fact, Richard and Jarvis Cocker produced Nancy Sinatra's last album.

If you want a pint with Richard he drinks in the Washington on Sheffield Green, or he did when Pulp's drummer owned it. Very nice bloke.

loved the longpigs track, she said.

How are many of them underrated

When I am at work we have Metro Radio on and during the day Pink must be on at least 4 or 5 times

Off to see the Wedding Present in Manchester in October, doing the George Best Album, can't wait!!!

The entire first album is sublime. 'One Dozen Wicked Words' is a particular favourite. Mr Haircut I am immensely jealous!!

i was in a band called the picture center, mentioned by hawklord. made 3 albums and a handful of singles. played a lot by john peel, and remarkably ricky gervais on his xfm show, critically acclaimed, and sold virtually no records whatsoever. which bothers me not one jot. sometimes writing songs you like yourself is all that matters.

can i also point out that i thought sleeper were over-rated rather than under-rated.[/quote]

Agree. She was fit though!

Her tits were the only saving grace in a very well sponsored but very poor band.

If you strapped spoons to two skeletons wrists and got them wanking in a biscuit tin, the noise would be better than Sleeper made.

Hefner
Catherine Wheel
The Pale
Urusei Yatsura
Gorky`s Zygotic Mynci
China Drum
Fatima Mansions
Woodentops
World of Twist
Superstar
Dawn Of The Replicants
Cud
Paris Angles
Slow Bongo Floyd
Northside Take 5 classic song
The Real People
Husker Du
The Primitives
The Stairs.

The Woodentops
The Triffids
My addition is The Auteurs and I think its indicative they havent been mentioned already. Oasis are huge. Most people I know have never heard of The Auteurs. Its criminal.
They have ten times the talent of Oasis at least, lyrically and musically.
Up there with the best of them...

New Wave what a brilliant album.

How about Black Box Recorder.
A House

paris angels - class
northside - very of the moment - very liked here