Most under rated?

Posted by: woodface on 15 May 2002

I just had to start this sister thread! My two nominations would be Nick Lowe and Johnny Hodges. I feel that Nick Lowe doesn't get anything like the same level of adoration/respect as lesser talents such as Elvis Costello. I think Lowe is one of the best songwriters around and should be lauded from all corners. Johnny Hodges, well, like a lot of Ellingtonians they reside under the shadow of the great man but lets not forget that Hodges was one of the first saxophone stars. No other player brings a tear to my eye in quite the same way and rings raw emothion out of each and every solo.
Posted on: 31 May 2002 by fred simon
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Originally posted by hockman:
My contention is that Dave Brubeck would still be playing in cocktail bars if not for Desmond.



As truly great as Desmond was, it's a shame he isn't around to refute this because he would surely be first in line to do so.

Here are some of his comments on Brubeck from an interview with Nat Hentoff in Downbeat magazine, April 18, 1952:

"Since then, [Dave Brubeck has] been the greatest, as far as I'm concerned. When Dave is playing his best, it's a profoundly moving thing to experience, emotionally and intellectually. It's completely free, live improvisation in which you can find all the qualities about music I love -- the vigor and force of simple jazz, the harmonic complexities of Bartok and Milhaud, the form (and much of the dignity) of Bach and, at times, the lyrical romanticism of Rachmaninoff."
Posted on: 31 May 2002 by ejl
I think that The Hal al Shedad gets my vote for the most unfairly ignored rock act of recent years.

Their compilation album "Singles and Unreleased Recordings, 1995-1999" is still available and well worth hearing, imo.
Posted on: 21 May 2003 by bigtrak
My 2 pence worth..
loudon Wainwright III firts 2 albums (Loudon Wainwright III & Album II) are pure class. Yet the only place you can get hold of them is from Rhino Handmade ltd to 5000.

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk. Probably my most played album. Powerpop at its best! Andy sturmer's voice is superb and the music 1st class. There is so much going on on that CD that you here something new everytime you play it.
Posted on: 22 May 2003 by Kevin-W
Really unnderrated

Vini Reilly (The Durutti Column) - probably the world's most underrated guitar player and definitely one of its worst singers. His instrumental work is exquisite, esp on the first album (1979).

Always gets classified as an oddball who was once on Factory Records.

Kevin
Posted on: 22 May 2003 by steveb
in response to Sproggle

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Midnight Oil

After making good music for two decades they made one retrograde step - after which they seem to have been ethnically cleansed from the record shops and radio stations of Britain.


Agree, great band who have made some wonderful music. Latest and last ever album 'Capricornia', as band has officially disbanded, is superb, a real throwback to the Diesel & Dust era, got for £6.99 from Cd-Wow, Australian Pressing, not sure if it got a UK release. From the thread on gigs the Oils gig at B'Ham NEC on the Blue Sky Mining Tour was excellent, LOUD and rocked plus brilliant support slot by another Aussie band 'Hunters and Collectors', also well worth a listen, also now sadly disbanded.
Try Oil website www.midnightoil.com

Gday fellow Bruces

Steve