A few of my other faves who were either wilfully obscure, critically acclaimed but unsuccessful, or simply never got the breaks:
The Outlaws - blistering country rock from the 70s
Audience - cult UK art rock band from 1969-72, who later reformed
Spirogyra - acid folk prog genius from the very...
Hugely agree re The Wave Pictures - we popped along to see them at Bar 42 in Worthing last Friday and they were SU-perb. Been around for around 20 years, should be huge.
Here's one of my favourites of theirs: