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ATM : Your 5 Most Underated Bands/Artists.
Posted by hey_mr_c on 20 December 2011 - 10:35pm.
1.Foxy Shazam.
2.Redd Kross.
3.The Elected.
4.Fountains Of Wayne.
5.Farrah.
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Also fun!
It's immaterial
The Style Council
High Tide
Wings
Canned Heat
Wings...
Have an up.
maybe
by Wings is as good as any Beatles song. The Frog Chorus, perhaps less so.
Another up
For the mighty Council!
Yes!
It's Immaterial
And another up
For what might be Weller's finest hour.
Come to think of it...
I think I'd scratch High Tide (very good indeed but perhaps a tad obscure for our purposes here) and insert ... Deep Purple.
I've been listening to DP in the car this week and have concluded that they were, across their many incarnations, excellent and could certainly give the more lauded Led Zep a run for their money.
I should say that this Purple patch was brought on my reading genn Hughes' autobiography. Crikey. Just say 'no', kids!
Criminally (not really) underrated
1. The Jayhawks
2. Aimee Mann
3. Ron Sexsmith
4. Robert Cray
5. The Drive-By Truckers
..
The cardigans
Psychedelic furs
Pete wylie
Josh rouse
Dean wareham
Here's mine...
OMD - there at the start, but never mentioned in dispatches
The Damned - like the Pistols or the Clash, but with songs
Chumbawamba - one hit wonders, with a fantastic back (and forward) catalogue.
Carter (USM) - liked, yes, acclaimed, no.
Thompson Twins - short hand for awful 80s. One great and two 75% great albums says otherwise.
Yes!
OMD
Carter
Big country. There. I said it. And I'm wearing my 'Alone' T shirt as I write.
Del Amitri.
Lloyd Cole. I am amazed that the last two don't get more love.
Carter
The unstoppable sex machine are both great and underrated. I cannot sing their praises enough. Clever lyrics and catchy tunes. And a funny name should have been way bigger.
Ahem...
Supertramp
Rush
Venom
Wings
Bee Gees
Venom !
Are You and Uncle Wheatey the same person ? It would answer a lot.
Venom!
I thought it was just me. I'm off to give Countess Bathory a quick spin..
*yawn*
Does it matter?
Nope.
Won't solve that eurozone crisis. No siree.
Yep.....
....and the financial crisis and the people who largely caused the financial crisis are, of course, so very, very, very interesting!
The Yuppies of the rubbish 1980s.....fascinating company.
I'm of the opinion that the most inane and pointless thing, occupation, hobby, someone can do or practice in 2011 is the way to go.
So, for that matter, I'll nominate The Shadows who, clash fans, actually sold singles that did really well in the charts, and influenced a whole load of brilliant stuff (e.g. The HJHs) rather than a heap-load of s****!
Feel better now!
Of course not..
..but what's your point?
Merely a comment about the....
.....'does it matter' line.
What does?
It might as be this thread.
No
I am hey_mr_c and it was my son who started this thread using my account. No, it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but it is not the job of the 'Massive' to sort out the worlds ills. As Word is a music and media related magazine , surely there is nothing better than a bit of mindless musical preference debating - and who knows, by checking out some of the bands other people like you may also discover a new favorite band in the process.
Which ever way you look at it, I am proud of my son, young_mr_c, as he elicited a greater response than my pathetic Planet of the Apes post a couple of weeks ago !
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/planet-apes
It's a great thread.
Your boy has his head screwed on - I like it!
Underated by who exactly??
The Clash
Dexys Midnight Runners
Japan (Sylvian et al.)
James Yorkston
Secret Machines
5 of my faves who I think should be more widely loved
1 - The Fleshtones
2 - Joe Ely
3 - Nat Birchall
4 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce
5 - Alice Coltrane
Ooh,
Fleshtones and Jeffery Lee. Well noted. Up your post.
OK ...
1. House of Love
2. Pete Wylie
3. Yoshinori Sunahara
4. Carter USM
5. Jamie T
I've made them today's rest day playlist
Family
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The Mutton Birds
Gentle Giant
and, yes, Del Amitri
I will nominate
Super Furry Animals
The Coral
These Animal Men
Kenickie
Black Grape
Up for SFA
S*M*A*S*H* were better than TAM though!
Mine
Larrikin Love
UNKLE
Zombina & The Skeletones
The Tiger Lillies
Buffalo Daughter
Nice counterpoint
Clem Snide-Not a bad album to be found
Wayne "the Train" Hancock- Doing it as it should be done.
DeVotchka-simply stunning
Gregory Page -incredibly talented man
Helen Shapiro - People nowadays fete anyone who can just about carry a tune. This lady can sing....
btw Her interview with Danny Baker was a joy. Incredibly humble and interviewed by a fan.One of the hours of the year.
Okey dokey
House of Love
Pete Wylie
Yoshinori Sunahara
Petula Clark
Hawkwind
Not underated by their fans...
...there just aren't enough of them...
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
The Len Price 3
Shack
Screaming Blue Messiahs
The Blue Aeroplanes
Nice to see The Muttonbirds, Cardigans, Redd Kross, Fleshtones and Jeffrey Lee mentioned above...you see how I twisted the rules there to shoehorn in another five!
oops, wrong thread
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Very subjective of course...
Tackhead - The greatest live band ever.
That Petrol Emotion - They should've been huge.
Jonathan Richman - Has some profile but, apart from a few novelties, his vast amount of great songs remain largely unknown.
Roddy Frame - Appreciated by those who know his stuff but not appreciated by the general public as the genius he is.
Momus - An eccentric and frequently obscene talent who remains a well kept secret.
5 from me
TPE - seconded. I loved the Undertones and TPE should have been bigger than U2
Roddy Frame - where has he been the past 20 years?
The Go-Betweens
Microdisney
King Cresote - because I only found him this year, and I should have heard of him before.
Have an Up
for Roddy Frame
looking at your list
most of whom i agree with. Should we add Microdisney?
If you mean my list Alex...
While I liked Microdisney particularly Loftholdingswood, I was a much bigger fan of The Fatima Mansions. What a band. Looking back on my London days, it seems like I was at Fatima Mansions or That Petrol Emotion gigs every few months. They both played a lot - Great t-shirt bands too. One of my greatest regrets was not buying a "Bugs Fucking Bunny", Fatima Mansions T-shirt with a rabbit skull with bunny ears in the traditional Looney Tunes shape. Classic.
YES
Fatima Mansions too.
Always makes me smile that when they supported U2 in Rome Cathal Coughlan mimed sticking a jesus replica up his arse whilst saying "Fuck The Pope". Now THAT'S rock and roll.
Also saw TPE a hell of a lot of times in that era too. I have Creeping To The Cross burned to my retina.
Definitely the Fatima Mansions
and CC's subsequent solo stuff. And James Yorkston who is mentioned above. Also
-Future of The Left - of any band inherits the Mansions' crown it's them. I've been playing the latest EP over and over. Much more nuanced and fun than their reputation might suggest.
-Jim Clements - some great black-hearted songwrting
-Ulysses Storm/The Hellset Orchestra - daft pomp rock with/without guitars, massive fun both.
-Champion Kickboxer - far more prog and lovely than the name suggests
-UNPOC - The Fifth Column is one of those hidden gems of an album that when you meet someone else that knows it you just exchange knowing smiles, uplifting naive pop loveliness.
Can only be
Rancid Groin
Court Jester
Floodlit Featherbed
Doom Buggy
and Stackridge
Rancid Groin were never the same...
after Brian Kecks left.
Left?
He choked on his own vomit.
They don't know it was his.
You can't dust for vomit.
Right now
My Morning Jacket
Shelby Lynne
Horse (McDonald)
Kad Achouri
The Webb Brothers
could change after lunch...........
YES
Up for the Webb Brothers, for the Maroon album alone, they deserve a greater place in rock history. Fantastic piece of work.
The answer that stares us all in the face is...
The Mahavishnu Orchestra
followed by:
Quintessence
Spectrum (70s Oz prog maestros)
Brooks Williams
Sarah McQuaid
The P()rk
The P()rk Sr@tchings
Perpetual Sideways
Aris
MC Tool
Shock Treatment
5 more:
The Hollies
A Girl Called Eddy
Christine McVie
Colin Blunstone
The Animals
In my alternative world
these three are household names:
1. David Sylvian
2. Jackie Leven
3. Jim Carroll
I'll add...
4. The Wailing Souls
and...
5. Me
to make a nice round five.
Have an up...
For the Wailing Souls. Firehouse Rock has to be one of the most underrated reggae albums ever, should have been as big as Bob.
Since you asked...
XTC
XTC
XTC
XTC
Oh, and The New Pornographers.
ok..
here are mine
Benny Profane (little known late 80's Liverpool combo who mixed Fall like lean rockabilly with Pynchon-esque lyrics).
AR Kane (sort of invented shoegaze)
Salako (Hull's greatest ever band)
Field Music (Should be household names)
The Outsiders (produced the best 60's album nobody's ever heard of)
Benny Profane
You get an up just for the mention, old boy. And how about The Room?
YES
to The Room also! Anybody reading and curious, go to Spotify and search for both bands production can get a little 80's at times, but no denying the tooons.
oh...
that up arrow also applies for Salako, Field Music and The Outsiders. Sorry I could only give the one.
Intrigued by "AR Kane (sort of invented shoegaze)"
As their only appearance on my musical radar is as part of the mighty M/A/R/R/S with Colorbox. Didn't they do more of the B-side and Colorbox the A?
Not sure who did what, especially with a DJ (Dave Dorrell?) in the mix too.
Anyway Pump Up The Volume by the inventors of shoegazing... That's some career change!
yes that's them
this from 1987 provides a decent case.
Salako
Have an up. Re-inventing Punctuation got some heavy rotation during my student years, and recently bought Musicality and the Ventimiglia EP. Both good.
In no particular order...
1. Warren Zevon - the finest songwriter bar none, so there
2. The Searchers - invented folk rock and jingle jangle and the Byrds get all the credit.
3. Steve Winwood - one of the best soul voices, plus a superb guitarist and keyboard player...and not a bad songwriter either! Seems to get airbrushed out of rock history.
4. Gene Clark - did more for country rock than anyone - yes, including Gram Parsons
5. Oysterband - a recent discovery, but I can't believe how good they are - is it because they are labelled 'folky'..??
Gene Clark
Seconded - I'm STILL waiting for the long promised re-issue of Two Sides to Every Story.
I thought it was just me...!
I keep looking out in vain for this re-issue...!!
The Searchers
Spot on, mate. Created and burnished that entire sound. 'When you walk in the room' is a classic.
Howard Tate
Don Covay
Little Willie John
OV Wright
Allen Toussaint
Don Covay!
Posted a link to
"It's Better To Have And Don't Need (Than Need And Don't Have)" on another thread - Brilliant!
Here are mine
I think these may be underappreciated rather than underrated
Sparks
Rockpile
Distractions
Big Star
Luke Haines
My Five
Elvis Perkins
David Ford
John Otway
The Handsome Family
Kristin Hersh
All should be much more famous than they actually are but in some ways it's nice to be able to see them in the smaller venues rather than paying well over the odds to see them in enormodomes.
Not sure how underated these really are
I suppose I mean should be known to a wider audience.
1. Boo Hewerdine
2. Spacehopper
3. The White Buffalo
4. The Blue Nile
5. The Jetsonics
Why no mention of
Pearlfishers
Babybird
Harvey Danger
Dodgy
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
5 fairly obvious ones from me
A Certain Ratio
Shack
Love and Money
Fun Loving Criminals
Del Amitri
Only ever mentioned in dispatches but deserve more...
Manic Street Preachers - the last socio-political commentators set to lacerating guitars and innovative arrangements.
The Style Council - Weller's Jazz Odyssey and fighting the house music corner - alienated hundreds of thousands of kids in splitting The Jam and ensured local tenpin bowling alleys could, once again, feel safe in the knowledge that their shoes wouldn't be nicked. Also responsible for decimating the UK's sta-prest industry.
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes.
Primal Scream - Yes. Underrated. So there!
The Hollies - just a great band lost in the myriad of the other beat groups. Clarke and Nash were fantastic together.
Council/Hollies
From 10,000km away I never really understood why SC were so derided by Jam fans - same singer/songwriter maturing and exploring new styles. It was obvious from That's Entertainment that PW was chafing at the bit.
A few mentions above for The Hollies, have to agree - fantastic back catalogue for an outfit generally lumped in with a legion of Beatles wannabes..
Few of mine have already been mentioned..
Go betweens, The Damned, Psychedelic Furs, but would also add -
The Triffids - Have given up waiting for the long awaited appraisal.
Cabaret Voltaire - Should be held in the same critical esteem as Throbbing Gristle.
Tuxedomoon - US avant garde/experimental popsters who defy categorization, wonderful band
Band Of Horses Ann
Band Of Horses
Ann Sexton
James Carr
Carter USM
My Morning Jacket
I am so accustomed...
...to disparagement being heaped on my musical taste that I actually have no concept of "underrated". Because there's loads of stuff I like that nobody else I know likes.
Among cognoscenti snob types, the fact that I like Pearl Jam and Rihanna lumps me in with their favourite category of person: the Tesco CD purchaser. I daresay that kind of person would love to say that I "don't even like music".
But to most people, my taste is so absurdly obscure as to invite actual derision (viz. the colleague who spent, literally, a week taking the piss out of me because I mentioned Pavement - of whom he'd never heard, not even the name - in terms that made it clear that I thought of them as an influential band).
But, you know - I like what I like. I'm alright with that. Why would it bother me? I don't care who else buys the music I like, or who else appreciates it. It's for me.
Have you bought that copy of
The Yes Album yet, Bob?
Ha!
Sorry, Foxy, I haven't. Sell it to me. Why is it good?
Easy decision in a way
I'm somewhat in the middle of the Prog/Pop Wars, in that I like Pink Floyd, Genesis and Caravan, while loathing ELP and Yes, amongst others. Bob, there are two hurdles with Yes: the music and Jon Anderson's voice. Try any song on which he sings, and if, like me, you find his voice ghastly, there may not be much point in proceeding any further - although I realise there's plenty of stuff where he's not singing (the instrumental bits that last through an entire ice age. Shame I find the music a load of old wank as well...
For some superb prog that might just be to your taste, may I recommend this vintage slice of Caravan, Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss. It's absolutely storming, with a genuine groove, fabulous musicianship without being overtly show-offy, muscular, melodic and even a bit whimsical. Whaddya think?
I've had a skip through it.
I'll listen properly later on. First impressions: started promisingly, but after a minute or two I began to wonder how this could possibly get stretched out to 9 minutes, so I skipped forward. Bit of flutey noodling. Skipped forward again. Bit groovier towards the end. The singing wasn't particularly my cup of tea - a bit lacking in oomph. But I remain open-minded.
So, you know, it didn't fill me with revulsion or anything, but I remain to be convinced that any song needs to be that long! I'll give it a proper listen later on.
Foxy - I've downloaded The Yes Album. It was four quid, what's the worst that could happen? I promise to try my best to give it a fair shot.
Under-rated
I'm assuming the definition: "You can't see why no-one else thinks their fantastic":
Henry Priestman
The Chords
Secret Affair
Len Price 3
Neutral Milk Hotel
(Carter USM would ordinarily be in this list, but has already been mentioned)
Should have sold more records -
Captain Beefheart
The Ramones
David Crosby (1st album)
The Searchers
Roddy Frame
My Five
Unkle Bob
Regina Spektor
Maximo Park
Beautiful South
Belle and Sebastian
Deserved Better
Wishbone Ash
Supertramp
Free
Gryphon
Counting Crows
Jeff Healey
lost voices
Lewis Taylor
Laura Nyro
Anne Briggs
Swamp Dogg
Terry Callier
Not exactly underrated, just too often overlooked
Terry Callier
Not overlooked in my life. The man's got an outstanding voice.
I've got "Hidden Conversations", the album he did in collaboration with 3D from Massive Attack, and his late 90s masterpiece "Timepeace", as well as "Essential" the very best of compilation from 1998. The track I play most of his, however, is the Zero 7 Remix of "Love Theme From Spartacus", which is just sublime.
Where would you recommend going next with Callier?
if I may add on Callier
The pieces you mention are all excellent but I think his early stuff is just sublime and I would recommend the following
The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier from the early 60s. Then a hiatus until the 70s when he produced
Occasional Rain (1972)
What Color Is Love (1973)
I Just Can't Help Myself (1974)
They may be hard to find and can't check on Spotify as I'm not in a Spotify country currently but they are well worth seeking out.
The only other singers I find move me as much are Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder and Sam Cooke so you can guess how much I love his work given the exalted company.
"Ordinary Joe" and "What Color is Love?" are desert island tracks for me
I Like This
I`ve not loked at the rest of the posts but thought I`d get these in first then have a look at what the Massive have posted, here goes;
1. Shack
2. Hey Negrita
3. The Sadies
4. High Lamas
5. Waterboys
Easy this one:
1. The Waterboys (best live band around - still)
2. Tom Robinson - a lot more to Uncle Tom than 2-4-6-8 Motorway
3. 10cc - tunes as good as Queen, but refused to take themselves seriously
4. Joe Jackson - so forgotten these days
5. Tracey Thorn - great, great singer
Was listening to last year's Tracey Thorn album only today
It's a great collection of songs but what struck me listening (and I know this is obvious) is just how well she sings them...
Good example
This thread has thrown up a lot of examples of artists where we obviously find it hard to understand that they aren't better appreciated but sometimes we're blind to the fact that some people think that they're just awful and would only listen under protest. Tracy Thorn is one of those. Apparently she's actually quite well known as a Marmite artist.
Gosh
That is a surprise right up there with finding out not everyone likes Motown. I thought everyone loved Tracey. Two great solo albums, four great band albums, and all the rest are merely pretty good. IMHO. In future i shall ask before putting her on in front of guests. And add her to the list of underrated.
'Fraid So
I'm afraid that whenever anything with Tracey Thorn on comes on the radio, the radio tends to go off. I don't dislike her or her music, just her voice - I thought it was just me, but apparently not.
There's a fair number of voices which...
...are deal-breakers for me with artists: Elvis Costello, Elton John, Amy Winehouse, that bloke in Pearl Jam... actually I could go on for some time (but won't!) on voices I find actively annoying.
The EC one is interesting, though, because I've never heard of anyone else writing him off largely because of his raspy, throaty voice. Am I alone on this?
Makes sense to me
I love EC records, I've got a very very big pile of them on vinyl and CD and many I bought several times (EC fans do that a lot!) but when My Aim Is True came out I hated it due to his annoying raspy voice! I'm glad I got over it for all the pleasure I've derived from it over the years. I don't think the same will happen with the fingernails down a blackboard voice of Amy Winehouse though. The one in your list that I find odd is Elton John. I can't see why anyone would have a problem with his voice but us humans... now't so queer as folk eh?
Elton...
...I agree, John, it's not as extreme as Amy or EC, for instance. I suppose it's as much his accentuation/expression - staccato-ish, over-emphasised - rather than any tonal quality - a bit like, say, Ronan Keating, with his phoney macho marbles-in-mouth phrasings. I can't really explain it better than that. It's just not a voices that flows well, to my ears; it doesn't soothe, it has you listening at the back like a schoolteacher barking out instructions...
My missus
Continually disparages EC on account of his voice. Unless she shapes up soon, I may have a spare ticket for the Royal Albert Hall next May.
In no particular order
1) Turin Brakes
2) Matthew Sweet
3) Blue Öyster Cult
4) Michael Carpenter
5) Gigolo Aunts
Ask me tomorrow and you'll get a different selection.
So
Does this mean that:
a) Teenage Fanclub are great and we believe have all the adulation they have received
b) Are crap and have received all the adulation they need
c) Cannot be loved more than those who know them
d) Who?
If I pick one of those at random
do I have a 25% chance of being correct?
I'd like to nominate, in no particular order...
The Left Banke
John Hiatt
Squeeze
The Flamin' Groovies
Robyn Hitchcock
These.....
South
Psychedelic Furs
Ride
Flamin Groovies
Redskins
Afghan Whigs
Fields
What indeed does "underrated" mean?
I hasten to add that I use the word often myself so I'm not denigrating it. To answer the OP I won't name anyone who is particularly well known. I prefer to nominate (ha! How pompous does that sound?) artists I think are genuinely great, have done this great work over a number of years, and who are unknown to the vast majority of people. One additional criterion, come to think of it, could be artists who have never appeared on Later. So:
Christine Collister
Ben Christophers
Caroline Trettine
Lewis Taylor
Amanda Palmer/The Dresden Dolls
Annabel Lamb (she had a brush with pop stardom nearly thirty years ago but is definitely below the radar now)
Julia Johnson (granted, she's only made one solo record, but she made three with Second Person over ten years)
My Festive Five
Stereolab
Billie Ray Martin
Blancmange
Claudia Brucken
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Somewhere there's an alternative universe with each of the above at pop's top table.
Stereolab!
Quite so. 'Refried Ectoplasm 2' is still magical, IMO.
If we mean .......
Commercially underachieving acts worthy of a much wider audience then off the top of my head;
The Pernice Brothers
Marah
David Ford
The Walkabouts
Howe Gelb
off the T of my H
Clitoris of the Brain
Adopted Shark
Felch Academy Seamstress
The Disgraceful Vicars
U2
ANd The Hits Just Keep on Coming
Delbert McLinton
Tracey Nelson
Clive Gregson
Guy Clarke
(The Late) David Ackles
a fine thread
Might I add:
Andre Williams
Caravan
Gong
Alan Holdsworth
Supertramp
The Lilac Time...
...and Sunhouse are my additions.
'Return To Yesterday'
would have been number one for about 11 weeks ... if there was any justice in this world.
Cake
Cake
Let them eat it I say! Try a nibble if you have never heard them.
My choices
Jackie Leven - RIP great man
John Martyn - Gone but never forgotten
Paul Carrack - Musical maestro
Sharrie Williams - an amazing live performer
Jesse Malin - Great guy
Ed Keupper
Listen to this track from 1985 by his Band The Laughing Clowns..Band he formed after The Saints broke up and tell me it's not one of the great "lost" tracks.Ed Keupper has a vast back catalogue of great music.
Another great "Should have been a hit"
Proper Video for this one..Sorry on bit of an Ed Keupper kick lately...;-)
Since I'm on this Australia kick..
The Saints..Chris Bailey..Just like fire Would
The Triffids...Wide Open Road
A great excuse to post this by The Saints...
... one of the greatest singles ever released - 'Know Your Product.'
Yep
All that early Saints stuff doesn't sound dated to me at all..Love this one "Messin with the Kid"
Should have been massive
10,000 Maniacs
Should have been massive
10,000 Maniacs
Deserve more respect..
Groundhogs
Carpenters
Cowboy Junkies
Kip Hanrahan
Tom Petty
Worthy of a wider audience
Duke Special
Laura Veirs
Gemma Hayes
Joan as Policewoman
Kathryn Williams
Gemma Hayes? Sounds familiar...
A picture would refresh my memory.
it's a funny old business...
Interesting band selection above. It gives one a warm feeling when personal favourites are chosen by others. These include XTC, the new Pornographers, clem Snide, Carter. I would add these:
Spoon
Trashcan Sinatras
The Blue Aeroplanes
Silkworm
They Might be Giants (in the UK)
I think of these as bands who have outstanding back catalogues that I secretly think people will eventually revere. Secretly I also want them to remain incognito, but the chap from the trashcans recently begged fans to stop accusing them of selling out as they were in serious danger of stopping altogether.
They Might Be Giants...
and what are we going to do unless they are?
I was going to query the "(in the UK)" but thinking on it, they are one hit wonders here.
I must admit even as a fan I lost track of them in recent years. My kids are re-educating me via "Here Come The ABCs". (and if anyone's read their Amazon list I created - "Here come the 123s" soon!)
Enjoy this cool yule cover...
Interesting fact about They Might Be Giants...
...in comedy-homage to The Mahavishnu Orchestra they recorded a song called 'Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love' which had absolutely nothing to do with the MO song. One has to admire the chutzpah, the subtlety or, well, something about it anyway!
Here are the two versions - see if you can spot any similarities I might have missed:
Time for a 'post-Britpop' reappraisal?
The Bluetones
Mansun
Supergrass
My Life Story
Gene
I'm going for
The Skatalites
The Meteors
all Tamla Motown artists on albums
Me'Shell NdegeOcello
and this year, The Black Keys
Off the top of me head
The Screaming Blue Mesiahs
JoBoxers
My Life Story
Beltane Fire
Gene Vincent
Metric
Not sure how familiar those in the UK are with Metric but they really are a catchy talented band...seen them live a couple of times and it's a great night out.
Great band.
Liked them ever since Monster Hospital took up semi-permanent lodging in my brain a few years back. And here it is.
I offer you...
1) Masters Of Reality
2) New Kingdom
3) James Yorkston
4) The Dubliners
5) Spiritualized
In no particular order :
David Baerwald
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Chris Whitley
Shawn Colvin
Willard Grant Conspiracy