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themightymac
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were underrated  in your opinion.

I remember seeing The Motors live in the late 70s and when I saw there videos on youtube it brought back some very fond memories:

Everybody will remember their hit single Airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU5buMgojTo

And who can forget their legendary appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test performing Dancing The Night Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8X1EKyhLHw
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Report akabula December 13, 2018 7:46 AM GMT
Years ago I saw The Beatstalkers live and at the time wondered why they didn't make it big.
Your thread made me look them up on youtube and I got my answer, they were chyte. Laugh
Report PorcupineorPineapple December 13, 2018 9:24 AM GMT
Loads probably

60ft Dolls - like Oasis, but really good

Bomb Disneyland - Deeside thrash/hardcore band at the height of the period. Should have been huge, or at least medium.

Brakes - Debut album got Rough Trade's LP of the year. Ridiculously good. Think a British Pixies. Just pooted along and then gave up.

Cathy Davey - another one who's debut LP was sensational. Now stays at home minding the farm while Neil Hannon goes out getting paid for arching his eyebrows.

Cotton Mather - their Kontiki album is one of those almost flawless albums. Ridiculously strong song writing.

Death Angel - another thrash band from back in the day. Act III remains the greatest thrash album of all time in my opinion. Never reached the heights of less talented peers.

dEUS - Their 1999 album The Ideal Crash is - imo - the single greatest LP of all time. Heroes back in Belgium but have enough talent, style and imagination that they should be international stars.

Future of the Left - like a re-incarnated Nirvana. Falco is one of the best lyricists around.
Report Jack Hacksaw December 13, 2018 10:18 AM GMT
Everybody will remember their hit single Airport

"You've got a smiling face'

Brilliant keyboard player in the video.  Standing up and for four minutes hardly looked down at the keyboards once.
Report i_agree_with_nick December 13, 2018 11:05 AM GMT
Great band but 'Forget About You' does sound uncannily like the Grandstand theme tune.
Report blackbarn December 13, 2018 11:27 AM GMT
One for the oldies - Savoy Brown (Blues Band)

Dome in Brighton (1970?) warm up act for Jethro Tull - they couldn't get them off the stage to get Tull on

Mac - we should do a fred on bands we saw live 40 years apart - saw Curved Air a few weeks ago, 40 odd years on - they're still not very goodWink
Report Hanx December 13, 2018 11:57 AM GMT
Cecil - Supported Skunk Anansie and headined a few gigs in and around their native Liverpool back in the late 90's. Try and get a hold of 'No Excuses and 'Fishes', the latter boasting the immortal line 'I've been unwillingly screwing rabbits'

Also Flowered Up, Diamond Head, New Model Army and Callow Saints
Report themightymac December 13, 2018 3:05 PM GMT
I had to check out youtube video on Curved Air blackbarn as I couldn`t remember them. I agree. Laugh
Report morpteh mackem December 13, 2018 9:03 PM GMT
pale fountains/shack/michael head. find it astonishing bands/him werent/arent massive.

friends again/love and money/bathers/james grant likewise.

heads up for go-betweens, triffids, pearlfishers
Report RLKingPunter December 13, 2018 9:52 PM GMT
Be Bop Deluxe were the most underated Band, these days The Brian Jonestown Massacre are but I like em like that , under the radar.
Report The Dragon December 13, 2018 10:02 PM GMT
be bop deluxe no 1 underated band for sure!!!
Report invicta December 13, 2018 10:04 PM GMT
Two bands I rated but were never "big time", Brinsley Schwarz and The Raymond Froggatt Band, both excellent imo.
Report kenny mann December 13, 2018 10:11 PM GMT
Remember the forumite Yorkshire Terrier, he was a massive be bop deluxe fan.
Report RLKingPunter December 13, 2018 10:16 PM GMT
If Bill Nelson had come from London and not Wakefield he would have been as big as Bowie
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