# Overlooked/underappreciated music (rock) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 1999, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005 "1999-09-02T00:09:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/1 "1999-09-02T00:09:00Z")
Fleetwood Mac: 1970-1974 after Peter Green and the Chicago blues years (especially check out “Bare Trees” and “Penguin”)and before the Buckingham/Nicks years. J. Geils Band: 1980’s “Love Stinks”. MUCH better (IMHO) than the follow up “Freeze Frame” Please add to the list. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/2 "1999-09-02T01:20:00Z")
Rick Vito (guitar) – his solo work deserves some notice. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/3 "1999-09-02T02:11:00Z")
The Bonzo Dog Band, of course. Also: Siegal Schwall Band Kak (one superb album) The original Renaissance (the ex-Yardbird version, _not_ “Ashes are Burning”). Spirit Soft Machine * * * [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/4 "1999-09-02T03:34:00Z")
Bad Brains … see album covers at : [http://www.allmusic.com/im/amg/cov/drC300/C347/C34780YA5S6.jpg](http://www.allmusic.com/im/amg/cov/drC300/C347/C34780YA5S6.jpg) ## [http://www.allmusic.com/im/amg/cov/drC700/C729/C72925T5U5A.jpg](http://www.allmusic.com/im/amg/cov/drC700/C729/C72925T5U5A.jpg) Brian O’Neill CMC International Records [rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html](http://rockuniverse.com/cmc/cmc.html) ICQ 35294890 AIM Scrabble1 Yahoo Messenger Brian\_ONeill Note : Album cover art deleted for possible copyright violations [Note: This message has been edited by Eutychus55] ---
**Author:** ![topolino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@topolino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/topolino)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/5 "1999-09-02T03:41:00Z")
I would say the first fourteen albums on my list + XTC (well, PJ Harvey is well recognized) [http://www.iglou.com/solaris/favecd.html](http://www.iglou.com/solaris/favecd.html) I’d like to especially mention Nick Drake, Kate Bush, Elliott Smith, and XTC. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/6 "1999-09-02T04:33:00Z")
Chris Rea. I have no understanding why he’s not better known here. [Chris][http://www.helsinki.fi/~wikgren/chrisrea.html](http://www.helsinki.fi/~wikgren/chrisrea.html)]Chris[/URL"] Rea Home Page]([http://www.helsinki.fi/~wikgren/chrisrea.html](http://www.helsinki.fi/~wikgren/chrisrea.html)) And . . . Jesse Winchester. [Jesse Winchester Studio](http://www.login.net/jwinch/) That’s just rock, don’t get me started on jazz! your humble TubaDiva [Note: This message has been edited by TubaDiva] ---
**Author:** ![realm505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@realm505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realm505)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/7 "1999-09-02T04:45:00Z")
Penneywise, nofx, snuff, unwritten law, bad religion, the decendents, and all of the other punk-rock bands that are on tour 47 weeks a year. these are the hardest workers in rock n’ roll today sorry old people you are not young anymore, there is a generation gap now, now shave off your gotees ---
**Author:** ![realm505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@realm505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realm505)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/8 "1999-09-02T04:48:00Z")
I just realized I made up that quote just above, am I cool now? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/9 "1999-09-02T05:11:00Z")
Danny Gatton. He’s dead now, but man, he was good. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/10 "1999-09-02T05:13:00Z")
Joe Satriani. He’s alive, and still good. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/11 "1999-09-02T05:14:00Z")
Realm: Show some respect for yer elders. I was into Bad Religion when you were watching Sesame Street! And my first show was The Ramones, in their prime, in a small club. ---
**Author:** ![Astroglide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@Astroglide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroglide)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/12 "1999-09-02T06:08:00Z")
Suicidal Tendencies. It is an eternal mystery why they never got the recognition they deserved, esp. in guitar publications. I have several hundred guitar magazines and there is like one ST transcription and two articles. What’s up with that? Rocky George was a monster! Mike Clark was the _riff-meister_ Hetfield wishes he could be! ST in all it’s incarnations, as well as Infectous Grooves just kicks my ass. Oh, Slo Burn kicked ass too. BTW, it may interest the children on the board to note that Pennywise is charting as we speak with “Alien” - you’re not overlooked if you’re in the Billboard 100; NOFX has religiously avoided mainstream popularity - you can’t be overlooked if you are hiding on purpose, and Bad Religion fucked Epitath years ago for the infamous “major label deal” - not really overlooked, just over shadowed by fellow musical whores Offspring. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/13 "1999-09-02T19:25:00Z")
John Hiatt Delbert McClinton * * * The reason gentlemen prefer blondes is that there are not enough redheads to go around. ---
**Author:** ![MissTangerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MissTangerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTangerine)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/14 "1999-09-02T20:09:00Z")
Leslie West, the guitarist for Mountain, is overlooked, even though he was really good. And The Pretty Things are amazing. They’re this British Invasion band, and they were just as good as the Stones, the Beatles, the Byrds, etc. (no offense to those bands–I love them too) And I always really felt sorry for Christine McVie, the girl from Fleetwood Mac who wasn’t Stevie Nicks. And John Entwisle (sp?), the member of the Who who wasn’t Pete Townshed, Roger Daltrey, or Keith Moon. ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/15 "1999-09-02T21:27:00Z")
You must listen to Cheap Trick’s “Standing On The Edge”. Without Cheap Trick’s influence, many of today’s “rock” bands have said they would not have gotten into the biz. * * * “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” E A Poe ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/16 "1999-09-02T21:52:00Z")
Thanks to MissTangerine for the nod to Christine McVie. She (Christine, that is) is a brilliant songwriter/keyboardist. If you get a chance to listen to “Bare Trees”. The track “Homeward Bound” is a nice little rocker. I hope Christine will release a new solo disc. Her last one was in 1984. Even though she some of Mac’s biggest hits, she was obscured in Stevie’s occasionally hulking shadow (hint: if Stevie looks like she packing on the pounds, it usually means she’s in rehab). ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/17 "1999-09-02T22:13:00Z")
the black crowes if youve heard any of their live tapes, or seen them in concert you will know. they have over 100 cover songs in their rotation * * * Chief’s Domain - [http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi](http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi) ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/18 "1999-09-02T23:40:00Z")
Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova vocalist, known chiefly for “The Girl from Ipanema,” many other fine recordings. * * * Tim “My hovercraft is full of eels.” ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/19 "1999-09-03T01:24:00Z")
MissTangerine, how correct you are about Leslie West. Fine player, indeed. A couple of others, who are actually pretty famous, but their playing skills tend to be overlooked, are Glen Campbell & Vince Gill. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005/20 "1999-09-03T02:17:00Z")
**BLOODROCK** Possibly, just possibly, if you are old enough, you have heard their one and only seriously lucrative hit single. Cast yourself back to late 60s… ::siren sounds, of the European variety:: “I remember, we were flying low and hit something in the air…” This song [DOA] was good, if somewhat morbid, tunes; but quite aside from that, Bloodrock released 4 albums plus a greatest hits album, and the keyboard, vocals, lyrics, and overall tempo caused many of their songs to be spectacular for 1968-70. Jessica; A Certain Kind; America [“Walking in an empty cement parking lot…”]; Breach of Lease; these in particular come to mind without digging them out to read the album liners… * * * Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overlooked-underappreciated-music-rock/14005.md?page=2)