Curve were one of the worst live bands I have ever seen.

Game Theory, haven't any of you dumb fuckers ever listened to Game Theory? Seek them out. Late 80's pop perfection from the bay area.

I remember them. My college roommate LOVED that stuff.

sonicdeathmonkey are you named after jack blacks band from high fidelity?

That's so mean! Gomez are wonderful, they've got a new LP out in May How We Operate and the songs I've heard so far are ace. Gomez's myspace site, which people should check out, because they are really nice. They experiment a bit with unusual instuments and the like, and they have three vocalists, a bit like you-know who!

They come from the same part of the world as me, too.

So, yeah, they must be good!

Gomez are loathsome initally, but they do get a lot better once you accept that they're not going to stop doing what they do and doing it well. I likes 'em. I also want them to get enormous so my vinyl copy of their first single goes up in value.

The Feelies (why are all their albums out of print!)
O.C. "Word...Life" (ditto)
My Dad is Dead
J.J. Fad
MX-80 Sound
Ciccone Youth (i'll fistfight ya' over this one! AND i'll win!)
Freddy Foxxx

Freddy Foxxx aka Bumpy Knuckles? Man I was just thinking about how bad ass that dude is yesterday

Vibracathedral Orchestra
they are wonderful

Underrated bands (at least to mainstreem audiences who largely seem to have no clue about who these people are): The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Neutral MIlk Hotel (and the other Elephant 6 bands), Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, the Velvet Underground, Abandon Jalopy, Comets On Fire, The Frogs, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jesus Lizard, Pillows, Sebadoh, Husker Du, Vaselines, Flipper, the Raincoates, Blind Melon (does no one else remeber/care about this band besides me?), Sunburned Hand of the Man, the Feathers, Lightning Bolt, Lambchop, Yo La Tengo, Wylde Ratttz, Witch, SRC, 13th Floor Elevators, MC5, Television, Glenn Branca, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and I guess that's all i can think of right now.

oh and the Magik Markers and Mission of Burma.

umm The Dirtbombs, New Blockaders...

i agree totally with mission of burma and the dirtbombs.

How about Donovan, i always ignored hime until recently and i think he is pretty good

vibrators, adverts, notwist, hm...POLVO, pop group, love & rockets, consonant, firehose, joggers, beat happening, serena-maneesh, dresden dolls, wilderness, new zeland's pop/post punks: chills, clean, bats, verlaines, straitjacket fits..., glenn branca, josef k, achers of loaf, x-ray spex, wipers, feelies, nick drake... and mission of burma!

blonde redhead, dead boys, the sonics, dictators.

this is a ambiguous term depending on what you are basing the underrating by: mainstream or extremely knowledgeable/extensive music fans. I think to mainstream folks a lot of the bands everyone has named are unheard of instead of underrated, then again to the average alt/indie fan maybe not, maybe they are underatted. Who knows, but to me it seems aparent that when you get a group of people who KNOW their music, a lot of the bands everyone has named get their deserved credit and accolades. Thats my 2.0 cents.

Every band is overrated or underrated to someone.

I second that. Too bad they split up. They were something new, interesting and original in modern music. Their live shows were very intense and exciting, their songs were powerful and funny. RIP

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Threads like this would be much more interesting if the reasons
why
a band is underrated were given rather than offering a compilation of obscure bands.

Magoo

band profile :
A long time ago ( about 1992 ) in a village far far away, a band called Magoo was formed. Influenced by bands such as Guided by Voices, Stereolab, Pavement, The Flaming Lips and a healthy dollop of radio Peel, the band took its first steps towards being able to play. This achieved they set about writing, recording and playing local gigs in and around norwich.
After releasing three singles on Noisebox Records they were snapped up by those canny scots Chemikal Underground, where they released two albums : The Soateramic Sounds of Magoo and Vote The Pacifist Ticket Today.

During this time Magoo played all over Britain, did some European jaunts, played CMJ festival in New York and at Glastonbury in Glastonbury. fun fun fun...
After parting ways with the Chemikals the band started recording their third album Realist Week at their own Sickroom Studios, eventually releasing it on London labelGlobal Warming to great reviews but little else.
2003 / 2004 saw Magoo recording their fourth LP.The All Electric Amusement Arcade and 8-track mini LP. Popsongs. Magoo live in norwich and surrounding areas and London and are still wowing audiences up and down the country.

Geraldine Fibbers