Bit of an odd one to start with. Pure Shores was huge when The Beach came out and, while they were certainly mainstream, I don't remember All Saints being regarded as uncool.
Bit of an odd one to start with. Pure Shores was huge when The Beach came out and, while they were certainly mainstream, I don't remember All Saints being regarded as uncool.
Rather than the sort of more-MOR-than-cats-eyes-sub-Adele moanfests with which he made his name, he opened his career with a 3am-drunk blues-ragtime belter. Must have been so disappointing to hear this first and then follow his later oeuvre.
Talking of middle of the road, a band so middle of the road that they were called Middle Of The Road. Their third single, "Soley Soley", is genuinely brilliant. If only they'd got someone to write another verse or two rather than just da capo it.
Bit of an odd one to start with. Pure Shores was huge when The Beach came out and, while they were certainly mainstream, I don't remember All Saints being regarded as uncool.
That’s because you aren’t, and weren’t, cool.
Oh yes, of course. It's pop music, so is automatically uncool, according to people who are desperately striving to be seen as cool.
Most underrated album ever is the recipient of this Wiki entry:
"Recorded by the pair when they were mere twentysomethings, and predominantly in Eg White's home, it is nevertheless about as grown-up and elegant as pop music gets. A decade after the recording had all but vanished from circulation, rainsound.net had taken to calling it "one of the classic albums of the '90s," while Q Magazine went a step further when it placed the record on its list of best albums of the 20th century, describing it as having "the class of Steely Dan and the intriguing detachment of the Blue Nile." " [2]
Album is 24 Years of Hunger (*) by Eg and Alice . Now on Spotify and YouTube. Cannot recommend it enough.
I am very partial to Rhythym & Blues Alibi by Gomez.
First heard in 97 or 98 when my m7 "Ladies Thighs Clive" was driving me to work at my summer jold job in Amazingstoke in the mercedes slk he had for the week because he was king of the sales targets. Roof down, rolling hampshire hills. Gr7 days.
I seem to remember Gomez were massively uncool, but I sort of forget why
I seem to remember Gomez were massively uncool, but I sort of forget why
Back in the days I was a massive stoner Gomez's Bring It On was my favourite album. I still think it's an underrated masterpiece (but now I'm a straight forward drinker Frank Zappa's Apostrophe has taken the Gomez crown)
“Seasons” by Future Islands. Currently to be heard on the Avios ad that plays at every break in ITV’s Euro 24 coverage (the one with all the people on surfboards).
I seem to remember Gomez were massively uncool, but I sort of forget why‘
Probably because they looked like every student household in the late 90s. A couple of speccy blokes, a bloke with a stupid beard, one that looks like Steve McManaman and some other one that’s so beige you can’t even remember what he looks like
"Probably because they looked like every student household in the late 90s. A couple of speccy blokes, a bloke with a stupid beard, one that looks like Steve McManaman and some other one that’s so beige you can’t even remember what he looks like "
Cf Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead and oretty much every band of the britpop era apart from Elastica and Republica.*
*well I certainly never lived in a student household which looked like the last two
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aov5EYFlpzs
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Enjoyed that, Bentines.
Have to admit I was sceptical.
Write the feem tunes. Sing the feem tunes...
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It's a much better album than his first solo effort, "Waterman".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeuUwpEQfs&pp=ygUUZG9uJ3QgcGFuaWMgY29s…
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Wannadies - You and Me Song
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Kent - If You Were Here (Video) (youtube.com)
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I loved this band (now disbanded). Album Isola is fab. Swedish band
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https://youtu.be/zZBef0LyuA8?si=QEQrnwdmrJwEYHVy
Face to Face, The Devil You Know.
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Into the Mystic - van Morrison
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Bit of an odd one to start with. Pure Shores was huge when The Beach came out and, while they were certainly mainstream, I don't remember All Saints being regarded as uncool.
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I knew the Wannadies back when they were recording that.
Here's one, "The Walls - To the Bright and Shining Sun".. the girl in the video is stunning.. (which is the name of their other band)
The Walls - To the Bright and Shining Sun (youtube.com)
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That’s because you aren’t, and weren’t, cool.
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All Saints were massive when that record was released.
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Leo Sayer - The Show Must Go On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lkLa-M_anM
Rather than the sort of more-MOR-than-cats-eyes-sub-Adele moanfests with which he made his name, he opened his career with a 3am-drunk blues-ragtime belter. Must have been so disappointing to hear this first and then follow his later oeuvre.
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When he ripped off Leonard Cohen
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Talking of middle of the road, a band so middle of the road that they were called Middle Of The Road. Their third single, "Soley Soley", is genuinely brilliant. If only they'd got someone to write another verse or two rather than just da capo it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPPx55UxCUA
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https://youtu.be/gKhjaGRhIYU?si=2ueYaorJWjqk0xbe
Just because it is great.
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Heh @ Leo Sayer. sven was just about to suggest Thunder in my Heart. Another belter.
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if we're talking secret guilty pleasure songs... Sugababes Overload.
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Street Hassle, by Lou Reed
No Feelings, by the Sex Pistols
St. Louis Blues, by Bessie Smith
Discipline, by Throbbing Gristle
Rock Me Again and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again, by Lyn Collins
Wipe Out, by The Stupids
Woodstock, by Joni Mitchell
Prole Art Threat, by The Fall
Smile, by The Fall
I Kicked the Habit, by Sarah Simpson
Matchbox, by Carl Perkins
Stay With Me, by The Faces
Shangri-La, by The Kinks
A Place in the Sun, by the Marine Girls
Dry Southern Blues, by Blind Lemon Jefferson
Bullfrog Blues, by Rory Gallagher
New Dawn Fades, by Joy Division
Rain Dogs, by Tom Waits
0cc - Dreadlock Holiday
Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
Mamas & Papas - California Dreamin'
Undertones - Billy's Third
Scritti Politti - Asylums in Jerusalem
The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
Aswad - Ghetto in the Sky
Bee Gees - Stayin Alive
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
The Shadows - Apache
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - China Pig
Chuck Berry - Maybelline
Colourblind James Experience - Move to Memphis
David Bowie - Suffragette City
David Bowie - Theme from Cat People
Deep Purple - Burn
Echo & The Bunnymen - Back of Love
Stump - Bit part actor
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
Kraftwerk - Das Model
The Kinks - You really got me
Gap Band - Fontessa Fame
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Nipple Erectors - King of the Bop
Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
Spear of Destiny - The Wheel
Paul Robeson - Ol Man River
Butthole Surfers - Fast
5 go down to the sea - There's a fish on top of Shandon swears he's Elvis
Frank Sinatra - It was a very good year
Boomtown Rats - The little death
Howlin Wolf - Shake for me
Howlin Wolf - Wang Dang Doodle
Gene Vincent & the Bluecaps - Be-Bop-A-Lula
Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
David Byrne & X-press - Lazy
Fine young cannibals - Love for sale
Bob Marley & The Wailers - 3 little birds
Animals - House of the rising sun
Soft Cell - Say hello, wave goodbye
Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
Iron Maiden - Run to the hills
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
The Damned - New Rose
The Damned - I Feel Alright
Canned Heat - Going up the Country
T. Rex - 20th century boy
The Eagles - Hotel California
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sweet Gene Vincent
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - What a Waste
Iggy & The Stooges - 1970
Iggy & The Stooges - 5 feet 1 man
Iggy & The Stooges - I wanna be your dog
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Ivor Cutler - Scotland Gets its Brains From The Herring
The Troggs - Wild Thing
Status Quo - Down down
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
Joy Division - Transmission
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Motorhead - The Bomber
Led Zeppelin- Communication Breakdown
Led Zeppelin- Black Dog
Leonard Cohen - Chelsea hotel
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways
New Order - Your silent face
Nick Drake - Cello Song
Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pigbag
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Patti Smith - Gloria
Elkie Brooks - Fool if you think it's over
Eddie Cochran - Skinny Jim
Rod Stewart - You wear it well
Rod Stewart - Only a hobo
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Dawson Smith - I don't know if I can make it
Sid Vicious - Somethin Else
Skip James - Crow Jane
Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Suicide - Ghost Rider
The Cure - A Forest
The Fall - Totally wired
Pyschedelic Furs - President Gas
Pyschedelic Furs - Goodbye
Pyschedelic Furs - Love My Way
Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia
Eminem - Lose yourself
Squeeze - Up the junction
Billy Bragg - A13, trunk road to the sea
Tom Robinson - War baby
The Ramrods - Ghost riders in the sky
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Night doctor
Buddy Holly - Rave on
Special AKA - Nelson Mandela
Housemartins - Flag Day
Latin Quarter - America for beginners
This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh
Tom Waits - Gun street girl
Tom Waits - Reeperbahn
Tom Waits - Another man's vine
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
The Real Thing - You to me are everything
Lonnie Donegan - The Rock Island Line
Buzzcocks - Boredom
The Specials - Racist Friend
Wire - Dot Dash
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music For A Found Harmonium
The Beatles - Drive My Car
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
Nina Simone - Black is the colour
Frank Zappa - Wonderful Wino
XTC - Senses working overtime
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
The Bad Seeds - Saint Huck
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Wild Cherry - Play that funky music
Microdisney - And he descended into hell
Billie Holiday - You go to my head
Prince - Raspberry Beret
The Cramps - Psychotic reaction
Roxy Music - 2HB
Pink Floyd - Bike
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
PIL - This is not a love song
Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's fault but mine
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Waterloo by ABBA.
Swedish I think.
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Coldplay are massive, and massively uncool.
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She’s Everywhere by Strangelove
Virtually everything off the first Marion album
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I fvcking love Coldplay. Epic in scope, low key in delivery. Love ‘em
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Papercuts, you deserve recognition for such a thorough and well considered list.
“That’s all, I don’t think of you that often.”
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No further questions.
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Great list paper. So many bangers on there eg Psychedelic Furs President Gas
Sisters of Mercy My Lucretia
Neil Young Cinnamon Girl
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Great list paper. So many bangers on there eg Psychedelic Furs President Gas
Sisters of Mercy My Lucretia
Neil Young Cinnamon Girl
Anything by the Alarm
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That’s because you aren’t, and weren’t, cool.
Oh yes, of course. It's pop music, so is automatically uncool, according to people who are desperately striving to be seen as cool.
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Great list by Papercuts. A couple that are certainly underrated as not really mainstream
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Alice in Chains - Man in the Box
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Most underrated album ever is the recipient of this Wiki entry:
"Recorded by the pair when they were mere twentysomethings, and predominantly in Eg White's home, it is nevertheless about as grown-up and elegant as pop music gets. A decade after the recording had all but vanished from circulation, rainsound.net had taken to calling it "one of the classic albums of the '90s," while Q Magazine went a step further when it placed the record on its list of best albums of the 20th century, describing it as having "the class of Steely Dan and the intriguing detachment of the Blue Nile." " [2]
Album is 24 Years of Hunger (*) by Eg and Alice . Now on Spotify and YouTube. Cannot recommend it enough.
(my old RoF nom de plume, as it happens)
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https://youtu.be/o6SprGmHTy4?si=DwnsCwPde5d9CmTY
https://youtu.be/MKk1u5RMTn4?si=jse36-M6MP4THAmj
https://youtu.be/D1NdGBldg3w?si=C43k7GCr6nJ7iq3k
https://youtu.be/pqnMkUcTmys?si=POD36Hq1nD5zO5ef
https://youtu.be/dVvlmpo5g9k?si=RFMTSRJkyA65pzsj
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Obvious one is obvious. Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound.
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There was a proper underrated bands thread but hey
I think Queen are dropping off the radar and I’m here to say
It started off so well
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I am very partial to Rhythym & Blues Alibi by Gomez.
First heard in 97 or 98 when my m7 "Ladies Thighs Clive" was driving me to work at my summer jold job in Amazingstoke in the mercedes slk he had for the week because he was king of the sales targets. Roof down, rolling hampshire hills. Gr7 days.
I seem to remember Gomez were massively uncool, but I sort of forget why
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Sign of the times - Harry Styles.
As if he’d gone back in time and stole a classic off someone I would have in my record collection. Surreal.
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Peanut butter jelly - Galantis.
Underappreciated dancefloor stomper
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Back in the days I was a massive stoner Gomez's Bring It On was my favourite album. I still think it's an underrated masterpiece (but now I'm a straight forward drinker Frank Zappa's Apostrophe has taken the Gomez crown)
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good thread
“Seasons” by Future Islands. Currently to be heard on the Avios ad that plays at every break in ITV’s Euro 24 coverage (the one with all the people on surfboards).
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Flashbax - Oasis. How have I not listened to this more.
Might go through Papercuts' list this morning!
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And in a similar vein - Scorpio Rising - Death in Vegas
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I seem to remember Gomez were massively uncool, but I sort of forget why‘
Probably because they looked like every student household in the late 90s. A couple of speccy blokes, a bloke with a stupid beard, one that looks like Steve McManaman and some other one that’s so beige you can’t even remember what he looks like
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Politik - Coldplay
Blackbird - The Beatles
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"Probably because they looked like every student household in the late 90s. A couple of speccy blokes, a bloke with a stupid beard, one that looks like Steve McManaman and some other one that’s so beige you can’t even remember what he looks like "
Cf Blur, Oasis, Suede, Pulp, Radiohead and oretty much every band of the britpop era apart from Elastica and Republica.*
*well I certainly never lived in a student household which looked like the last two
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The Coral - Dreaming of You
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The 1998 Mercury prize didn't have the greatest ever shortlist. I think Gomez got lucky.
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Umwalt - W.O.R.D.
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Fait Accompli by Curve. Epic song.
If you like the Wannadies, you should dig Popsicle. My Swedish GF at Uni introduced me to them. "Hey Princess" is great. "Bird" is also good.
eject by Senser
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Sort of topical
July, by Munday
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Baby i dont care by Transvision Vamp
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