People don't seem to take Three Dog Night very seriously. It's not all walrus mustaches and chest fever...they had such a great run of singles. And they chose the best songwriters of the time. Eli's Coming is so frenetic and creepy.
Cher and Cass Elliott are eternally underrated. Also, Joe South is a lot more interesting to me than most of the new Dylans types who came after him. Except Loudon Wainwright, whose sad songs aren't given as much attention as his goofy/witty ones, I don't think, which is a shame cause they're so much better.
As for things a bit more obscure,I think Marilyn's album Despite Straight Lines sounds really great. He tried so hard w/the Was Not Was people and all.
The Pulsars record from 1997 is my favorite synthpop record since the mid Eighties.
― Arthur, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 06:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Blue Hippos -- Late-80s Twintone trio.
Spastic and angularly hepped-up joints and r-rated rants
― christoff, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Binary Star
― talrose, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Claude Delcloo
― ian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
hot 8 brass band rebirth brass band new birth brass band free agents brass band soul rebels brass band
― Jordan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
NO-MAN
― Gendou Ikari, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Nortt
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
hell yeah on the eddy grant love. http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a359/ettiem/killerontherampage.jpg good tunes, great legs!
hell yeah, too, on the ray parker jr. love. been picking up raydio records on sight the last year or so. evey one has at least a few fantastic tunes. favorite at the moment is "more than one way to love a woman." the chorus is almost steve millerish.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"Michael & His Slipper Tree" rules!...one of those tunes that burrows into your head after just one listen...
my fave underrated artist is Scott 4...(the band, not the LP)...motorik country/western, don't know how they slipped through the cracks...
― henry s, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Ashlee Simpson
Guns N' Roses (very underrated on ILX)
Buckethead
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Nate Carson, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 02:59 (Yesterday)
I'll admit, Projekct 2 is my least favorite of them all. 3 and 4, on teh other hand stand out especially to me considering it sounds like nothing they've done previously and was only touched upon on THE POWER TO BELIEVE. Projekct One is excellent but is reminiscent of some of their previous work.
I hear Tony's back in the band so I'll see how it goes from here.
― Cliftonb, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
In some strange alternate universe, maybe.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
this will probably cause an explosion of laughter but I really liked the one New Radicals album
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Suzy Mangion, as well as her band George.
early Piano Magic.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 05:50 (sixteen years ago) link
" 'Guns N' Roses (very underrated on ILX) In some strange alternate universe, maybe."
they're evaluated fairly in the posts from 5+ years ago, but not now. The response to the leaked Chinese Democracy tracks is particulary bad (maybe I should have listed nuGNR as underrated too).
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
eX-Girl Smile Like Dog Salk Vacchin Luminous Orange
― Jack Burton, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Monroe Mustang particularly their first album on Trance Syndicate. Silkworm Unwound
― Souvarine, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I found Killer On The Rampage by Eddy Grant in a Scope shop a month or 2 ago :)
I like eX-Girl. That's a good one.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 09:44 (sixteen years ago) link
THAT FIRST URBAN VERBS RECORD IS SO FRIGGIN' GOOD. IT'S LIKE A DOLLAR RECORD.
SAME WITH HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE RECORDS. SO GREAT AND SO UNDERRATED OR WHATEVER.
SAME WITH THAT FIRST TRANSLATOR ALBUM. PEOPLE MIGHT REMEMBER EVERYWHERE THAT I'M NOT BUT THAT ALBUM IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
BUT THAT URBAN VERBS RECORD, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR...ROCKS SO GOOD.
― scott seward, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link