the trouble is with threads like this (over/underrated) is that most use it to champion their fav or least fav artists, which have little to do with being objective.

Beverly Knight has always been underated, but this last year the british public are finally catching up with her and buying more of her music. :D

lucie silvas

Lacuna Coil

Within Temptation

Nightwish

Leaves Eyes

Theatre of Tragedy

Bloody Mary

Paradise Lost

The Gathering

 

Oddly, I've never considered those bands ''underrated'' as they always seem quite highly rated in my experience. I get what you mean though. None of them get the mainstream recogniton in the UK that most get in their home countries. Shame that the British band in that list, Halifax lads Paradise Lost, are fairly unknown over here though.

 

I never thought of Maximo Park as underrated either. I like them, and I always thought they were pretty highly rated...

 

I can't think of any off the top of my head that I think are underrated, but some of the examples here are quite good. Cyndi Lauper's early stuff was much better than Madonna's, and I'm surprised that so few people have picked up her influence on Gwen Stefani's solo stuff.

 

Beverly Knight is an odd one. A lot of people seem to like her and her albums always do OK-ish, but her profile is very low. I'm surprised how well her Greatest Hits album seemed to do.

 

 

the trouble is with threads like this (over/underrated) is that most use it to champion their fav or least fav artists, which have little to do with being objective.

And why would someone say an artist they detest is underrated? It´s impossible to be objective in music. Even tough the media has an objetive view, what is liked by the critics is good...

Kosheen

I know one:

 

Nerina Pallot

 

Everybody's gone to war deserved to be a top 5 hit and the album Fires is excellent...I can just see Sophia being a huge flop too :-(

Nerina Pallot is criminally underrated.

 

Why so is Amy Winehouse who's debut album Frank was Mercury nominated but did not have the success that the very similar (but inferior) Lily Allen has had.

 

Unlike "Alright Still", "Frank" contained several great tracks & unlike Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse has a great voice & is brilliant Live.

 

Here is her new single " Rehab" out early in October, taken from her forthcoming 2nd album:

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKVbgkfFygY.swf

AMY WINEHOUSE - Rehab video

Just thought of another one: The Puppini Sisters

 

earlier in the year they released an amzing album bringing a sound back to the music scene which has long been forgotten. It charted at 16 and has fallen to around 65 now, when it should have been top 5 at least

ugh, 'The Puppini Sisters' aren't, all they did was cover a selection of well-known hits and sing them in a 30's style. They aren't very good live either. they need to write some of their own songs then maybe I'll take a notice of them :P

And why would someone say an artist they detest is underrated?

 

its called being objective :P

 

i cant stand queen, but acknowledge that they were a good band.

The Subways

Paramore

Idlewild

Thirteen Senses

Kiesha White

Tyler James

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Oddly, I've never considered those bands ''underrated'' as they always seem quite highly rated in my experience. I get what you mean though. None of them get the mainstream recogniton in the UK that most get in their home countries. Shame that the British band in that list, Halifax lads Paradise Lost, are fairly unknown over here though.

 

 

They're all highly rated by those who are involved in the Metal scene certainly, but when you consider Evanescence and The Rasmus are getting all this totally ridiculous hype by simply doing watered-down, wimpy versions of these great bands that I mentioned, then it seems a mite unfair that the originals aint getting the more mainstream recognition they deserve.... I may dislike Oasis, but at least a good many Oasis fans are aware of The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, etc....

 

The Rasmus

HIM

Stacie Orrico

Rammstein

 

Euopean Music

The Rasmus

HIM

Stacie Orrico

Rammstein

 

Euopean Music

 

HIM get a lot of cred and have done well, and have deserved most of it; The Rasmus get a lot of undeserved attention IMO because they are clearly the lesser band.... Neither of them could be called 'under-rated'. If any Finnish band of this type is totally underrated, it's the daddys of the whole Finnish "Dark Rock" scene - The 69 Eyes, they really don't get the cred or the attention they are due, and I reckon they pish all over both HIM and The Rasmus (and this is coming from someone who likes HIM....)

 

Rammstein would deffo be multi-platinum sellers both here and in the US if it were not for keeping to their principles and singing in German... But regardless of this, they still enjoy a good deal of success and their tours always sell out in the UK....

 

I agree with your general point, European Music (particularly European Rock and Metal music) does not get the recognition it deserves, and it becomse particularly irritating when you see all these bloody awful American bands who steal the styles and aesthetics of European rock/metal acts selling loads while the bands they ripped off only enjoy success amongst the already converted.... <_<

 

Kylie vocally. People say she cant sing but im sorry but she bloody can -

 

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMLG4TVSrw.swf

 

 

I know they came back as a two piece and released a single but they didn't release an album just as two did they?

 

Yes 'ETERNAL'

It got to number 87 i think. I loved Eternal but it just wasnt the same as a 2some

I agree with those who've said Beverly Knight and Nerina Pallot... also, I think Lemar, not as successful as he should be, IMHO.

Keisha White is soooooo underrated she deserves to be successful but hasn't quite made it yet :(