Most underrated band of all time?

[godisinthesilences]

Oh wow yes totally awesome bands listed. I was and am a huge fan of Icehouse. Iva Davies vocals are just something else all together! I read somewhere about them reuniting to do a new cd... I read that last year somewhere....
I also love the song Politics of Dancing... what a great memory that brings back.
I very much loved the group Scritti Politti. I believe they may still be around. I thought Cupid and Psyche '85 was an awesome album at the time and Greene had such a fantastic voice.

[proggrl]

I very much loved the group Scritti Politti. I believe they may still be around. I thought Cupid and Psyche '85 was an awesome album at the time and Greene had such a fantastic voice.

I think they have something new coming out in fact. That was a great album and very under rated indeed - especially at the time.

[Astronaut]

Since my first nomination Icehouse appears to have been well received I would also like to nominate: The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth - just brilliant! The Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen :-D

It seems to me these great groups have been undeservedly forgotten and they are all fantastic musicians, their work speaks for itself, IMHO.

[Melaszka]

Since my first nomination Icehouse appears to have been well received I would also like to nominate: The Teardrop Explodes and Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth - just brilliant! The Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen :-D

It seems to me these great groups have been undeservedly forgotten and they are all fantastic musicians, their work speaks for itself, IMHO.

I LOVE both Julian Cope and the Furs! "Reward" was the first single I ever bought (well, almost - the first single I really bought (ssh!)was "What's Another Year" by Johnny Logan - "Reward" was the first CREDIBLE single I ever bought) and I think Cope was the first artist I ever saw live. "St Julian" is a phenomenal album - you can't help singing along to it at the top of your voice.

[girl about town]

Astronaut, how right you are. Teardrop Explodes - fantastic band. My you have such good taste.

I don't know whether anyone else likes them, but I was a huge Cramps fan. Quite different to most of the other stuff I like, I think they appealed to my devilish side !!!

[anortherncod]

I don't know, I spend one day zooming around from one job to another without a chance to go online, and meanwhile this debate is rolling on and no one has mentioned The Blue Nile.

Can I, therefore, mention The Blue Nile? Saw them in Belfast last October. I was speechless...

And just before I go, there's something nice about bands being underrated sometimes - Japan included. We wouldn't want EVERYONE liking them now would we...?

Natasha

[godisinthesilences]

OH MY GOD.... HOW on earth could I have forgotten the Psychedelic Furs!! I absolutely LOVE them! Midnight to Midnight is an AWESOME album and of course their song Pretty in Pink is one of my all time favourites!

[Adrian]

Bands I still haven't checked out:
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Durutti Column
Don't know if that counts as underrated though...
And also hugely underrated as a solo artist:
Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus fame)

[sisterlondon]

I very much loved the group Scritti Politti. I believe they may still be around. I thought Cupid and Psyche '85 was an awesome album at the time and Greene had such a fantastic voice.

I think they have something new coming out in fact. That was a great album and very under rated indeed - especially at the time.

They released a new album not so long ago (though the style of this one is a lot different to the previous and the 80's albums as well)

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/1004524 ... oduct.html

PS: I had a poster of Green in my wall for ages!

[krausy]

Thanks for all the responses to my questions, etc.

More posts with more great artists mentioned----keep em' comin'.

[Melaszka]

I also liked the German band Propaganda.

Plus, I liked the single "I'm in love with a German film star" by the Passions. Were they a one-hit wonder, or did they do anything else?

[anortherncod]

Of course Propaganda had a certain guest ivory-tinkler on their first album - that's if they ever did more than one as I'm not sure.

If you don't know who I mean it wasn't the obvious choice (RB) but rather David Sylvian...

Natasha

[Stoobie]

1. The blue nile
2. The furs
3. Icehouse

4. Love and Money (Scottish Band)

seen them all live and loved them all !

Stoobie

[Melaszka]

Of course Propaganda had a certain guest ivory-tinkler on their first album - that's if they ever did more than one as I'm not sure.

If you don't know who I mean it wasn't the obvious choice (RB) but rather David Sylvian...

Natasha

OMG, I had no idea! Thanks for that info, Natasha. It's amazing what celebrity Venn seems to connect different artists I like, even when they seem very disparate.

Edit: I've just checked their entry on Wikipedia, and it seems that Steve Jansen drummed for them at a gig in 1985, too.

Melanie

[anortherncod]

Oh I think I remember reading about that in Bamboo... SJ drumming I mean. Also, Claudia Bruecken, their singer, was (maybe still is) married to the journalist Paul Morley who I believe said...

1. DS was "too fragile to ****"
and 2. "Japan were crap for the first 2 [or 3, or 4] albums"

Someone will, I'm sure, correct me if I am not 100% accurate. Anyway, six degrees of separation, eh?

Natasha