Most underrated bands/artists of all time.

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I like Keane the band...never heard of any of these apart from The pet shop boys

Wang Chung? Are you serious?

King Crimson...if anyone has ever heard of them that it

Most bands in the symphonic metal genre. Mostly because Americans have too poor of musical taste to know what symphonic metal is :/

Diamond Head is the most underrated of those, Lightning To the Nations is an amazing piece of NWOBHM.

Wolfmother is not underrated at all. Dio-era Sabbath is pretty acclaimed.

never heard of any of them

None of them. Most of the ones I recognise I recognise because they're very popular (thus not underrated), the ones I don't recognise I don't know if they're underrated because I don't know them. Logic wooo.

My favourite period for music is probably the 90's and naughties so I definitely don't belong around these brown leather wearing, long haired lot... :P

the band, ratt, dio era sabbath, thin lizzy, accept, queensryche, all great 80s rock bands! also autograph, krokus, twisted sister, and dokken. I know the last four may be somewhat better known, but it seems everyone only knows one song from each of them.

Out of these, INXS and Tears for Fears.

My Morning Jacket this is a awesome band

Wolfmother... Aussie Aussie Aussie!!

I believe Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to be quiet an underrated band. They have a following that spans years, of course, but one never really hears about them. The Brian Jonestown Massacre are undervalued as well.

Frank Zappa

Not only underrated based on his entire discography....but severely underrated as both a brilliant composer and a fucking shredding guitarist. One of the best!

Problem was: most just focused on the humor and sarcasm and satire in his songs and didn't focus beyond the obvious to appreciate, recognize and understand the complexity and quality of the music as a whole....Truly one of the great 20th century composers...check out symphony or orchestrated versions of his songs.....

Culture club...I think Boy George has one of the greatest voices of all time

Contrarily, I think a lot of the artists you mentioned are rather overrated.

Diamond Head is the only one I recognized other than Sabbath.

Either The Feelies, Chameleons, or Cyne.

A$AP Rocky, or Chief Keef :D

Symphony X

Bad religion.

These all suck.

I never heard of any of these bands except Tank perhaps.

Fuck this noise. The Brian Jonestown Massacre! Greatest band ever.

Pet Shop boys.

The swans?

Though i do love Kraftwerk, I have to go with Rush...even though they are getting slightly more critical praise nowadays.

Are you joking me... most of those are really famous, and almost all of them are sh*t. I'd say that the Pet Shop Boys are over-rated, not under-rated. Diamond Head have about one good song and they are not famous, so I'll vote for them. All the others are famous and mainstream or rubbish. Queensyrche are decent, but I wouldn't choose to listen to them, and I wouldn't call them under-rated.

Thin Lizzy, under-rated. Is that a joke!? They are one of the most famous bands on the planet, I'm surprise that anybody hasn't heard of them! Seriously, I'm no hipster, but those bands are NOT under-rated.

These bands must be underrated for a reason.

Kraftwerk and pet shop boys..

But pet shop boys isn't underrated I don't think so I'm going with Kraftwerk :)

She's a model and she's looking good....

Im very sorry to say i have only heard of 2 of these

I voted for rory gallagher, best guitarist ever IMO. I suppose this question doesnt make sense because a band would be underrated because they arent well known and so would get less votes here because of that. So the one with the least votes is probably the most underrated (hmm). Although Wolfmother? they def not underrated, they are just crap.

Destroyer/Dan Bejar

And it just occurred to me as to who would be a good example for an underrated band... The Nerves!

Really, how many people have heard of The Nerves compared to the number of people who have heard the song Hanging on the Telephone? I first heard a cover of that song back in 1995, but didn't know until 2010 who was first to do the song.

They only had one song that ever broke the top 40. Silent Lucidity.

Little Richard had a shit load of hits, but I put him on the list because, like, Queensyrche, were way way more important to rock music's development than most realize. That's all.

I agree some on the list were and still are successful.

This poll is just a "They were way better than most realize" poll.

I'll agree though, I was kind of laughing at my list while I was writing it.

I mean, read some of the comments.
Two people openly admitted they had never heard of most of these artist.

It's hard to pick one with so many choices spanning so many different genres of music. I don't see how The Animals and Kix could be compared to one another in the same poll.

Many of those bands listed got their dues (love 'em or hate 'em), and I can't begin to imagine how anyone would consider Queensryche to be underrated, since they had more hits than many more of the bands featured, and literally came right out of nowhere to have Operation Mindcrime II to go high in the charts.

Job For A Cowboy

i know montrose is a different band, but i always just lumped them in with sammy hagar, because after all, he was the lead. Also, has anyone heard of the group heaven and hell? (2009) Its basicaly black sabbath, but with DIO once again as the lead vocals, until he died last year.

You can name almost any band that didn't "make it big," and consider them underrated, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they're underrated; could mean that they just suck lol. I don't know half these bands on the list. Out of all of them though, I chose The Zombies.