Thanks for the link, Ike. I hadn’t heard of Sohlberg before. His paintings are beautiful. I’m partial to Caspar David Friedrich myself, although he’s probably not as underrated as Sohlberg. You can see where Sohlberg’s work would appeal to me, though.
Chum, if you want to check out some Placebo things look my website and use the links to get to their official website “The Brick Shithouse”(can I say that?). I might have turned another person onto this band. Yay!
Well I’m from Minnesota, and I met Rufus at Nye’s Polonaise Room after a Fine Line show a couple years back. I knew who he was when he walked in that door to the bar.
Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Great Hungarian photographer who challenged the notions and precepts of composition and advanced the art of photography. And pre-Wim Wenders, I would have said Ibrahim Ferrer, but he’s gaining in popularity steadily.
Canadian: Sloan
British: Gene
Christian: Switchfoot
US: Guided By Voices
Ivar, I really walked right into that one. Fine: “Most people from Minnesota don’t even know who he is.” I feel stupid :o.
Micheal Bedard, for visual artists.
As for musical…
British: Muse (Placebo is better known, aren’t they?)
Scotish: Transister
Canadian: Matthew Good Band
German: The Notwist
Australian: I don’t know…Grinspoon, I guess.
Irish: … just about all of them; I can’t think of any besides the Cranberries or the Corrs, and I don’t like the Corrs.
US: take your pick of these Oleander; Guster; Dishwalla; Possum Dixon; Splender, Mighty Joe Plum
Moholy-Nagy? I woulda called him a designer, primarily, rather than a shutterbug. Whatever; his stuff IS great. If only he’d changed his name to Jones, schoolboys across America would be pasting copies of his works up in their lockers.
Strainger: I love Friedrich, too. Some claim that his landscape painting prefigured the sort of “mountain art” that Hitler was so fond of, but I figure if you strike everything from your life that Hitler enjoyed, you probably wouldn’t be able to dance the waltz or eat potato chips.
Uke
Nor could we drive our VW bugs to see a performance of any given opera within the Ring Cycle (to be even more blunt).
I agree. That’s an unfair criticism to place on Friedrich, especially considering his works were done over 100 years before Hitler came into power.
Most underrated visual artist: Rosemary Covey.
Most underrated singer: Patricia Kaas. Not known in the US very much, but actually not underrated at all in Europe. What she can do with a song is amazing.
Most of the Irish Traditional musicians I listen to are so underrated that you will not even recognise their names. How’s that for underrated?
But some of you (the Loudon fans?) may have heard of this absolutely stunning singer/songwriter: the late great Townes Van Zandt. He can go into the "sings that make me bawl category with about half his repertoire as well, especially the song “Marie”.
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