# What is the most underrated band ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627 "2003-04-05T03:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/1 "2003-04-05T03:38:19Z")
I’m thinkin STP. (Stone Temple pilots) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/2 "2003-04-05T03:47:31Z")
The Beatles. Honestly, did you know there are kids today who don’t think that they are the greatest and most influential band that ever walked the earth? How you can top that for being underrated? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/3 "2003-04-05T03:50:23Z")
XTC ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/4 "2003-04-05T03:51:10Z")
Maybe I should have rephrased the question to “most underrated band of our generation.” ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/5 "2003-04-05T03:53:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Maybe I should have rephrased the question to “most underrated band of our generation.” \*\* Ah, in that case… XTC. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/6 "2003-04-05T03:54:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaCocaCola \* > \*\*Maybe I should have rephrased the question to “most underrated band of our generation.” \*\* “Our generation”? Well, that would have to be the Glenn Miller Band. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/7 "2003-04-05T03:55:05Z")
😛 Awww, I thought you were gonna say Rammstein. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/8 "2003-04-05T03:57:01Z")
STP enjoyed **HUUUUUUUUUGE** fame and success in the early and mid nineties. I think it was around '96 or '97 when their third album _Tiny Music…Songs from Vatican City_ (or something along those lines) came out and everyone began to realize that grunge was dead and Weiland was too deep in a drug induced coma to realize it. Their second album, to me, is a classic. But they’re done now. Not underrated, just done. The Beatles being underrated is of course a joke. My vote for the most underrated band ever: Sublime. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/9 "2003-04-05T03:59:14Z")
Good point, **Cisco** , but I believe STP continues to make good, underappreciated music. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/10 "2003-04-05T04:41:40Z")
I liked Weiland solo, and I liked Talk Show (Everyone in STP minus Weiland), but, really, I could not STAND STP. _I am, I am, I am, I am, I am Pearl Jam!_ I don’t think Atari Teenage Riot got nearly enough credit for making punk scary again. Fountains of Wayne and Imperial Teen are both woefully underrated power-pop bands. Mr. Bungle and Tom Waits are both great, but, unfortunately, it seems that the only people listening are other people in bands. The Pixies. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/11 "2003-04-05T04:48:33Z")
Crap. I knew this was going to happen. I hit submit, and then remember The Kinks. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/12 "2003-04-05T04:59:54Z")
aren’t there like at least 3 threads about this topic already? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/13 "2003-04-05T05:54:18Z")
Hands down: **Wilco** The Tragically Hip Colin James Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/14 "2003-04-05T05:59:00Z")
Oops. Bands only. Okay, eliminate Zevon. But leave Colin James, because he’s part of the Big Band. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/15 "2003-04-05T06:16:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HalberMensch242 \* > \*\*aren’t there like at least 3 threads about this topic already? \*\* This is not at all a flame, but I am guessing you were perhaps the type who reminded the teacher that she forgot to give us homework? ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/16 "2003-04-05T06:20:46Z")
**HalberMensch242** beat me to noticing that. And actually, I was the kid whose mom was the teacher and was bribed to get her to forget about homework. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/17 "2003-04-05T06:24:17Z")
grrrr ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/18 "2003-04-05T06:32:36Z")
yep Lola they’re right, and i even flamed in the other one, but thats ok i will flame here too. none of the bands you can think of are underrated, they’re all overrated. all the udnerrated bands are the ones you never heard ( and i did ). and NO i dont like indie crap, i can’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/19 "2003-04-05T06:50:30Z")
Okay, I can take it… Maybe I am a little outdated… I am willing to let this bad boy die… My apologies ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627/20 "2003-04-05T07:41:39Z")
PENTANGLE. If you do not know of them, you are bereft. Mingus, baroque or renaissance dances, American or British folk, blues, jazz, pop and modern rock, all in one set. You have yet to live. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-underrated-band-ever/166627.md?page=2)