OT: underrated rock and rollers

[Viccer31]

Los Lobos
The Cult
Charlatans UK
Dada
Cracker
Tragically Hip
Lone Justice
Scruffy the Cat

 

[BriarwoodBash]

the kinks?!?!? UNDERRATED?!?!????
YGBFKM

Dude, they are early enshrinees in the (of dubious merit) RRHOF , and widely recognized as hard rock pioneers and a keystone of popular music

Anybody remember when they played The first show in the new Eisenhower Auditorium? It was epic and the first and only rock show ever held there, if I’m not mistaken. Admin was not happy when Ray Davies sprayed the fans and brand new cloth theater seats with Heineken Dark!

 

[Sif]

Pavement



Matthew Sweet

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Pavement is so f cking great

 

[ManxomeLion]

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Seeing these cats end of month.

 

[bbrown]

Seeing these cats end of month.

Nice.
This is one of my favorites by them...

 

[DM-Burg Lion]

Seeing these cats end of month.

That should be a great show. I'll be seeing these fellas at the end of the month following a long hiatus.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

I’ll check them out

 

[Thorndike2021]

I could spend a few hours putting together a list. Seems nearly every artist I prefer is at best marginally popular. The first one that popped into my head though is...

 

[Thorndike2021]

More recently...

 

[psu31trap]

There was a group called Sweet that had a few top hits, but never really got recognition.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

The Sweet actually

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Wrong! no the

 

[ODShowtime]

In the days before you had to pay for samples from an album, these guys used the riff from that song on theirs

Oh wow. Never heard this sample source before.

I love how they overlap two kick *** Beatles tunes on Sounds of Science.

 

[Nitt1300]

 

[Nitt1300]

 

[bbrown]

Nice. Haven't heard that in years. Thanks.
Another of mine from the late 70's

 

[Daveb9127]

Mother Love Bone

 

[K-Live]

Hot Tuna

 

[Nitt1300]

The HUGELY underappreciated Rory Gallagher, doing it live with no studio tricks: