The msot underated pop band / artist of all time are

[Uncle Spielberg]

A-Ha

And I being absolutely serious about this.

They did some superb pop song and some excellent Albums with some awesome mature tracks.

I can list a whole host of quality songs for you.

Anyone else A-Ha fans or who do you nominate for this accolade.

 

[Safeway]

Had a feeling you'd been at the plonk from a couple of your earlier postings. This confirms it.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

No seriously Safeway have you heard any of their albums its really is quality pop.

 

[Safeway]

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of pop, especially 80s pop. It's one of the reasons my sexuality is constantly questioned.

Just not sure that A-Ha are the 'msot' under-rated pop act of all time. Have you never listened to the Brother Beyond album?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Educate yourself. They were much more than the pretty boy Morten Harket although he has a magnificent falsetto voice.

And by the way I have had a fair few glasses of wine. But I will still maintain this cold and sober tomorrow morning.

 

[Wilko]

My older sis was a big A-Ha fan and I did always find myself liking some of their tracks.

Safeway will hate this but Coldplay have done a cover version of 'hunting High and Low'which is rather good

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Take on Me
Hunting High and Low
The Sun always shines on tv
Stay on these roads
Manhattan Skyline

Classics each and very one and many more besides.

 

[Safeway]

Yeah, BOLLOCKS. Coldplay have NEVER done anything 'rather good'. Apart from be WANKERS.

 

[Juan Albion]

Bucks Fizz. Not a shadow of doubt...

 

[Trigger]

Bucks Fizz. Not a shadow of doubt...

That'll give Safeway an erection ya know...

 

[Safeway]

Bucks Fizz. Not a shadow of doubt...

NOW you're talking. I was practically brought up on Bucks Fizz (the band, not the drink). Jay Aston, mmmmm. Shame she was sacked for posing in her hospital bed after the coach crash. Shelly Preston never really filled her f***-me boots.

 

[Trigger]

I told you...

 

[Safeway]

 

[NMH]

Gareth, you might enjoy Scottish band THE ADVENTURES 'Drowning In A Sea of Love'.
Another Swedish band who are destined to be under-rated, are named KENT . The album 'Vapons and Ammunition' is rather good, though not as poppy....and I should warn you is all in Swedish language.

A couple of Aussie bands that never did anything outside of their homeland were NOISEWORKS and the brilliant NOT DROWNING WAVING, the latter being practically unheard-of even in their homeland!

RED KROSS, DIG, THE SCREAMING TREES (not the uk band, who are shite), and THE MEAT PUPPETS in the US are all worthy of attention, yet the grunge 'trend' was to overshadow them in favour of Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

Sophisticated yet dark, high-brow yet gothic - THE DEAD CAN DANCE aren't actually 'under-rated' as such, but where can you even hear their music? A collaboration between a Scots girl and an Australian fellow, they sent each other tapes across the World, and put the results together. Try 'Within the Realm of A Dying Sun' by them, - or for their 'eclectic classical' side either 'Aion' or 'Serpent's Egg'.

From the UK, the later albums of THE BLUE AEROPLANES, some of SCORPIO RISING, anything by PORCUPINE TREE.

'154' by WIRE was, to my ears, as good an album as any at that time - at least on a par with Joy Division . The Bauhaus offshoot TONES ON TAIL were excellent, pre-Love and Rockets ('Express' was outstanding by them). The DAMNED have had a couple in 'Phantasmagoria' and now 'Grave Disorder' that were not much talked about.
'Megatop Phoenix' by B.A.D. was unfairly overlooked, imho.
Not sure if I'd recommend, but for me 'Up', the latest album from PETER GABRIEL, is one that nobody cared about but I like as mush as any by him.

For the early-seventies prog fan, STRAY had the album 'Mudanzas' which sold none. Before that SPRING had a brilliant self-titled LP that went the same way.

I'm sure I'll think of others, surely there must be more under-rated bands than successful ones or 'over-rated' ones!

 

[Juan Albion]

Yeah, agreed, as pop bands go, the Adventures were quite good.

Not a band, but currently playing John Dowie - Another Close Shave E.P. (Do youngsters have any idea what an E.P. is ?)

 

[Drips]

Pointer Sisters

 

[bhaexpress]

No seriously Safeway have you heard any of their albums its really is quality pop.

Hmm, you don't often hear the word 'quality' and 'pop' in the same sentence. I would have said the most sigificant thing about Aha was that remarkable video they did for 'Take on me'.

There's a host of misunderstood bands who earned cult status for being strange. You could number the likes of PIL, The Cramps, Captain Beefheart (was was he on ?) and god knows how many more. Trouble is that the truth of the matter is that most of them were just plain crap.

 

[El Presidente]

The Chameleons, never had a sniff of the charts, were never the darlings of the NME, but absolutely superb and passionate band from Manchester in the 1983-7 period

 

[NMH]

The Cahmeleons 'In Shreds' was the most angst-filled 7" slice of vinyl I ever bought.

 

[Rougvie]

Gareth, you might enjoy Scottish band THE ADVENTURES 'Drowning In A Sea of Love'.

Slightly pedantic, but they were from Ireland, agreed tho, The Adventures were fantastic, especially 'Broken Land' one of my favourite tracks of all time.

Another couple of totally underated pop bands from that era were 'The Big Dish' and 'Hipsway'