The Underappreciated

[DarthAsthma]

Well let's post some songs of artists here that you believe don't get the love they deserve in here.

I'd like the format to be:

Genre: (Because it makes it easier to quickbrows throught he thread, also makes it easier to appreciate that hardmetal song when you know that it's one before you click the link.)
Songname - Artist: (Because Youtube has region specific blocks so interested can google themselves.)
Link: (doesn't need explanation)
Comment: (If you want to write something about the song or the Band here.)

So when people can refrain themselves from posting stuff from foo fighters or similar popular bands I hope people can find some new interesting artists here.
So I'll start of with…

Rap/Rock

The Circle In The Square - Flobots

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Well they're one of the few rap centric bands that I really enjoy. Without wanting to sound super pretentious I kind of enjoy
the added layer of political/worldy statements that they make within their songtexts. Somewhat similar to how Rise Against does it.

[Monkey King]

Songs? Man I have whole albums in mind.

Hip-Hop
Boogiemonsters - Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album

Example Song

Greattttt production on this, the bass is amazing. And the atmosphere of the whole album is fantastic. One of the few genuinely psychedelic sounding rap albums. Nothing else quite like it.

[Sakonosolo]

Indie Folk Rock
If You Need Me Back in Brooklyn - River City Extension
http://soundcloud.com/rivercityextension/if-you-need-me-back-in

Ballad of Oregon - River City Extension
http://soundcloud.com/rivercityextension/ballad-of-oregon

I've posted this band over and over again because I do think they deserve more recognition than they get. Last time I checked they don't even have a Wikipedia page.

Black Metal
Carrier of Wounds - Ved Buens Ende

Black Metal
Infinity of Ghost's - Whirling

I don't think metal in general is very appreciated around here, though there are a few people. Black metal is my current favorite so here you go.

[Wagomu]

Progressive Rock/Jazz Rock

X-Legged Sally

This band is incredibly silly, crazy and catchy. They have a sense of musical humor and playfulness very reminiscent to Frank Zappa in my mind, though. This is one really fun gem of a prog band.

[Sarfallet]

@Wagomu:

This band is incredibly silly, crazy and catchy. They have a sense of musical humor and playfulness very reminiscent to Frank Zappa in my mind, though. This is one really fun gem of a prog band.

I checked them out when you posted them somewhere on the forums a while back. I haven't connected with the band as a whole but some of their songs are on the mindblowing level.
They do sound a bit Grand Wazoo to me.

• Progressive rock? :S
• Richard Lionheart - Hansson & Karlsson

This is some sort of early progressive rock, maybe, with drums and organ. The drummer, "Karlsson" in the band name, is acctually Janne "Loffe" Carlsson, an actor famous in Sweden. When visiting Sweden Jimi Hendrix jammed with them a couple of times, he also covered one of their songs.
The band split with "Loffe" starting his acting career. Hansson continued making music though and made his, probobly, most famous album "Lord of the Rings".

• Proggressive rock
• The Black Riders / De Svarta Riddarna / Flykten Till Vadstället - Bo Hansson

From the album "Lord of the Rings". A musical interpretation of J.R.R Tolkiens novel of the same name. Yeah, it's pretty psychadelic stuff.

[The Laughing Man]

Genre(s): Heavy metal, speed metal, power metal
Innocent by Rage:

Comment: I just found/heard this band today while at pandora.com. At first I wasn't so sure, but, after more than 1 listen I started to really like, not only the song, but the band. They sound the same live as they do in studio.

Genre(s): Alternative metal, power metal

Fury by Machinae Supremacy:

Comment: I actually first heard a sample of this band while watching a "Let's Play…" video at youtube.com about...a month or so ago. They call themselves "SID metal", because, they use a SID chip from the Commodore 64 in some of their songs; but I just labeled them alternative--instead of SID--and power metal--which they are listed as as well.

[Tijnn.]

@Wagomu:

Progressive Rock/Jazz Rock

X-Legged Sally
This band is incredibly silly, crazy and catchy. They have a sense of musical humor and playfulness very reminiscent to Frank Zappa in my mind, though. This is one really fun gem of a prog band.

Aww yeah, X-Legged Sally is great!

As for my own recommendations, Hammers of Misfortune is probably my favourite prog metal band ever

stellastarr* is a fun little indie rock band, nothing too amazing but really enjoyable to listen to.

Ganglians are a great psych pop band

Kent is an interesting and very diverse Swedish band that ranges from alternative rock to electropop

And of course I have to promote one of my favourite artists of all time, even though he's getting much more recognition lately.
It really doesn't get much better than The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle is, in my opinion, the best songwriter alive.

[Sakonosolo]

If you like Hammers of Misfortune I highly recommend Slough Feg. The singer from that song is the singer for this band. He left Hammers of Misfortune but is still with Slough Feg.

[Huon]

@The:

Fury by Machinae Supremacy

Hey, this is pretty cool stuff, thanks for sharing! Though, at times the singer sounds a bit… odd, but I can live with that.

Here's something (completely different) from me:

Genre: To be honest, I don't really know what I should call this. Some kind of creepy folk-gospel-country-rock, but that makes it seem kinda different from what it actually is. At least I can say it's not Jazz, Hip-hop, Metal, Electronic music, Blues, etc. :P. Sorry for not being more accurate.
Link:

Comment: If anyone likes this, check out their first two full albums ("Black River Falls" and "Our Lady of the Broken Spine"), their later stuff is a bit different.

[The Laughing Man]

@Huon:

Hey, this is pretty cool stuff, thanks for sharing! Though, at times the singer sounds a bit… odd, but I can live with that.

Here's something (completely different) from me:

Genre: To be honest, I don't really know what I should call this. Some kind of creepy folk-gospel-country-rock, but that makes it seem kinda different from what it actually is. At least I can say it's not Jazz, Hip-hop, Metal, Electronic music, Blues, etc. :P. Sorry for not being more accurate.
Link:

Comment: If anyone likes this, check out their first two full albums ("Black River Falls" and "Our Lady of the Broken Spine"), their later stuff is a bit different.

The singer of Machinae Supremacy actually sounds better live then in studio. But yeah, he does sound…odd at times; but I think it adds to the unique sound.

[Huon]

@The:

The singer of Machinae Supremacy actually sounds better live then in studio. But yeah, he does sound…odd at times; but I think it adds to the unique sound.

I see; well, I probably won't have a chance of seeing them live anytime soon, but I'll be sure to look for some more of their stuff on youtube.

[The Laughing Man]

Genre(s): Power metal, hard rock

Delirium Veil by Twilightning:

Comment: Sad to say…the band is no longer around, they broke up in 2009. But, the material they did put out when together is pretty excellent. They were somewhat underrated in the power metal community, and the metal community in general, too.

[DarthAsthma]

Well well well. Really some good stuff in here. Especially on the metal side. Although I enjoy some metal songs with screaming parts I only do so in certain moods.
So I'm happy to find some new songs sung with a powerfull voice and really energic melodies.

The mountain goats song is also pretty nice it kind of hits my mood right now. Very peacefull and soothing.

Rock n' Roll

Umbrella - The Baseballs

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They're a cover band that does take modern songs from a variety of genres and give them an old school(probably not quite the right term to use but you understand when you hear them) rock feel. They hit it off around europe with their umbrella (Rihanna) cover (I probably like their song monday morning more).
But they have lately sunk a little bit into oblivion although they've just released a new album last year. So if you're in a light hearted mood this song might be pretty entertaining.

[Nex 0]

Genre: Rap
Artist: Hopsin
Sing Name: The Ill Mind of Hopsin 4

Comment: This is just something. I mean, I'm pretty sure I love it, but I don't know if I should. Hopsin is finally starting to pick up steam as an artist (though you can tell he still does everything himself–especially in this video), and while most of his stuff is good to great, in my opinion nothing comes close to this.
I get that he's not going to be for everyone, but I urge you to check him out and listen all the way through.

[elzhi]

Hip Hop

The Life And Times of Peter Nelson-Copywrite

I feel like he epitomizes the word underappreciated in the hip hop community, as he rarely even has a strong cult following. And he should as on paper he's the perfect rapper (great delivery, flow, wit/wordplay, lyrics, rhymes) though he isn't without his flaws (he overloads some of his songs with wordplay and doesn't understand the concept of less is more, and has some filler) but the good definitely outweigh the bad by a fair margin.

[The Laughing Man]

Genre(s): Experimental rock, electronic rock, electronica

Back on My Feet by Boom Boom Satellites:

Comment: First heard the band when watching the anime Xam'd. LOVED their song Shut Up and Explode, which was the first opening song, and decided to look up more of their material. I like them; pretty underrated too, outside Japan anyway.

Genre(s): Melodic death metal, progressive metal, power metal

Morphogenesis by Scar Symmetry:

Comment: I absolutely LOVE this band. A melodic death metal band from Sweden–like normal--that, though not really underappreciated, IS underappreciated to other melodic death metal bands like In Flames, Amon Amarth etc. In my opinion, they are just as good if not better than some of the top names in melodeath.

[DarthAsthma]

Genre: Chiptune Rock

I fight dragons - The geeks will inherit the earth

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A really unusual band. Haven't found anything else like that yet. They do catchy rock songs mixed with chiptunes, I like them!

PS:
I also think it's better to put the videos in spoiler tags to make loading the pages a bit faster for browsing. Going to reedit my earlier posts.

[Wagomu]

Here's one for you guys:

Shoegaze

Whipping Boy

Irish shoegaze stuff that's got just the right amount of edge and hooks. The album this song is off of, Submarine, is orgasmic front through back.

[hcat]

Genres: 90s rock, Power Pop

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

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Comment: Teenage Fanclub is actually well-known within the power pop genre. This is more a case of the genre in itself not being very cool anymore, so a lot of bands aligned with this sound go undiscovered.

[DarthAsthma]

Genre: I'm not sure

Plasma - Crazy

This band has a really weird vibe to it. Crazy was the only song I could find on youtube which is kind of okay. If the sound ist interesting listen to twilight on their myspace site http://www.myspace.com/plasmach which is probably my favourite.

[Pochipochi]

Back in 1967 or so, much like many of the all time greatest (underappreciated) psych pop bands, Blossom Toes showed up one day to record an album or two and then promptly disbanded, because rock history generally has awful taste in music. But at least Blossom Toes got further than Millennium (another A+ album by a short lived group), or the even shorter-lived Turquoise

Here's their masterpiece, imo

But this album was pretty much as beautiful as psych pop could be. It could be hard rocking, technically efficient, dreamy as shit, catchy; all the marks of the best.

If you think you like rock music history you have to love these guys or I'll kill you

Because I cannot for the life of me think of a psych pop song that demonstrates the highs better than this

The Richie Havens version of this is also ok

[Sarfallet]

• Electronica
• Electric to Me Turn - Bruce Haack

From his "The Electic Lucifer" album. Early electronic stuff with the moog.

[StrawHatJedi]

Artist: The Gaslight Anthem
Genre: Rock, Punk

[jiung0416]

This group is ok

[The Laughing Man]

Welcome to Mercy Falls by Seventh Wonder
Genre(s): Progressive metal, power metal, art rock

Comment: A VERY underrated progressive metal/power metal/art rock band. Found them, because, Kamelot's–another power metal band I really like--new singer is also the singer of Seventh Wonder. This has actually given Seventh Wonder quite the spike in popularity recently.

The Words Unspoken by Andromeda
Genre(s): Progressive metal, avant-garde metal

Comment: Yet another…underrated progressive metal band. (Most people think of Dream Theater when they think of progressive metal, and assume every other prog metal act is copying them). I found them randomly on youtube.com one day, and have enjoyed their music ever since. Their music sounds very...spacey.

[StrawHatJedi]

[Sakonosolo]

I was listening to Jam On on my satellite radio, which I hadn't listened to before, and this song came on. This isn't the version that I heard but it should be similar. I looked them up on Last.fm and their most listened to song only has 76 listens and everything else is way lower.

[Corson D. Burley]

Genres: Power Pop, Alternative, '90s Rock, Singer/Songwriter

Sick of Myself - Matthew Sweet:

Comment: Matthew Sweet, with all the melodic touch of Brian Wilson and the hard edge of Neil Young, has consistently churned out album after album of catchy, crunchy Power Pop ditties like this for the better part of thirty years. Though he has only grown as a songwriter (in my opinion), his audience seemed to be lessening until his recent tour, where he played his most popular album ("Girlfriend") from start to finish. Loads of people kind of rediscovered him as a result. I thought it was a little sad though, because the new album he had last year ("Modern Art") was, again in my opinion, possibly his best to date and he only played one song from it live.

@hcat:

Genres: 90s rock, Power Pop

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

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Comment: Teenage Fanclub is actually well-known within the power pop genre. This is more a case of the genre in itself not being very cool anymore, so a lot of bands aligned with this sound go undiscovered.

It's nice to see a fellow Power Popper!

[Sarfallet]

• Electronica / Modern Classical
• Licornes - Igor Wakhévitch

I posted another song from the same album of this guy in the Forced Listening Thread, but I'm having an Igor phase.
Have listened to pretty much all his stuff and most of it is great. Only thing I haven't heard is the score he made for one of Salvador Dalís movies. If you like experimental stuff that mixes sorta electronica, sorta rock and sorta classical you should definitely check him out!

[Sarfallet]

• Progressive Rock
• Halifax - Hampton Grease Band
  

It's been said that the album this is from, Music To Eat, is the second worst selling album of Columbia Records… The songs on youtube have a few thousand views. Which is wrong! It should have tens of thousands at least! So definitely not duly appreciated.
It's a great album with Zappa sort of progg rock, the lyrics are nonsense but that fits pretty well into the music.

[Senshi Mizaka]

For me, a lot of songs from Queen's A Night At the Opera are criminally underrated. Sure, it's got You're My Best Friend and Bohemian Rhapsody, but not a lot of people talk about Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon, '39, and Seaside Rendezvous.

[ShinigamiKing]

Genre: Latin Pop (to an extent, her music usually sounds much different than her contemporaries)
Singer: Shakira
Song: No Creo

Shakira herself is under appreciated in my opinion. She's created tons of wonderful songs (I think her album "Donde Estan Los Ladrones?" is one of the best albums of the decade, if not the best of the whole decade.

Original:

MTV Unplugged version (It's even better. The whole concert itself was fantastic.)

Of course, part of it is because a lot of her recent songs have her focusing on her sex appeal and she's singing a bit differently now for some reason. That could be because of how her former boyfriend and her had an unfavorable and almost bad relationship (I think a few of her songs on the album "She Wolf" and "Sale El Sol" show this) towards the end of it. Her best songs are usually when she's happy at the time (Late 90's to Mid 2000's), and can often be some of the best songs ever, or at least of the last 20 years IMO. Hopefully her upcoming album smashes.

[Kubihige]

Genre: Scottish Folk Jazz
All albums by Colin Steele

Variations on a Dream is a lot closer to jazz than Scottish folk, but it was the only tune I could find on YouTube. Of his 5 albums, 4 are in my top 10 of all time , with his last album, Stramash, topping my list by far. From his first album, which is a tribute to Chet Baker, to his last, the Scottish part really starts to take over and he eventually incorporated stings and pipes for the greatest music of all time. I highly suggest at least going onto Amazon and listening to samples from Stramash, so you at least have an idea of what I'm talking about. And then buy all of his albums :ninja:

But more than just having great players and solos and genre, I really enjoy that each tune feels like it has its own personality. It's hard to describe what I mean by that, but just feel like I'm taken into a different world by each tune, no matter how simple it may be.

And the pianist, Dave Milligan has some incredible solo breaks, just mind blowing.

[Sarfallet]

• Experimental Rock
• Orbit Around the Moon - Joe Meek & The Blue Men

So this hear song is from the album "I Hear a New World" which was recorded in 1960 but only released in full in 1991. Crazy ahead of it's time it was made by Joe Meek who's famous for being the producer of The Tornados and their big hit "Telstar"… and murder-suiciding himself and his landlady.
I always start to worry if it's like ethically correct to listen to music by murders and such. I dunno... :S
That aside though, it's a great experimental rock album with electronics and stuff. There's "chipmunk" vocals in it which some people find annoying but, eh, I think they kinda fit. They aren't in all the songs either.
(Also, it could totally be an Adventure Time album! Glob-bots and whatnots! :silly: )

[Jewelery Bonney]

@Kubihige:

Genre: Scottish Folk Jazz
All albums by Colin Steele

I'm loving the drumming in this, thanks for posting this haha.

Anyways as for mine I got a Jazz/Funk band who delve into other genres sometimes as well (hip-hop/RnB/Latin) ect.
Saw them play live twice they were just unreal!

Celebrity by Snarky Puppy

[JourneybyTrain]

Jangle Pop
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever by Orange Juice