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Title: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: underground on September 15, 2006, 10:28:33 pm: I've just spent the evening investigating this site http://www.thecrimea.net/uk/index.php?region=uk (http://www.thecrimea.net/uk/index.php?region=uk) and it struck me that I'd like you lot to hear their music. I've been an avid listener for ages; I knew Davey the singer whilst at uni in Aberystwyth (at the time he and Owen the drummer were with others as The Crocketts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crocketts)

So of course I got the album. What I was unaware of was the background of the lyrics on Tragedy Rocks until I read the notes on the About Us bit...

Anyway, I think they're underrated, you can listen to some songs on the site, etc.

Anyone have any more nominations?
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: fatneck on September 15, 2006, 10:40:53 pm: I think the Electric Soft Parade have been neglected. There was some fuss made by Peel when they first kicked off and I was inspired to buy their music when I saw them rock Later with Fools Holl-twat. Recently dug out the albums I bought (as the missus is down in Dorset for the End of the Road Festival this weekend and they're playing) and have thoroughly enjoyed them again.

I rate this album;

(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:PHyJ8oeKDxo-HM:http://www.musicomh.com/albums/electric-soft-parade.jpg)

But this is better;

(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:XofHM8fBpEP5NM:http://img.verycd.com/post_thumbs/0512/post-217074-1133707988_thumb.jpg)

May I also mention Biffy Clyro, a cool sound and interesting interesting art work;

(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:7zjaiVfd9u2XgM:http://www.comfortcomes.com/images/biffy_clyro_glitter.jpg)

(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:H3WrlsDAmFXvdM:http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/2033/biffyclyrotheidealheight5vm.jpg)

(http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:JhrF4LUN_WGolM:http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009028H.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 16, 2006, 04:15:48 pm: BIG'N (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=93977700) - Discipline Through Sound LP (2 LP's & a handful of 7"s They are long dead.)

(http://www.skingraftrecords.com/graphics/minicatcovers/GR23mini.gif)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Monolith on September 16, 2006, 06:17:35 pm: I've mentioned them before,

www.myspace.com/thelaze
www.thelaze.com

If you like what you hear, come to Zanzibar in Liverpool tonight for the Valhalla rock night if you're in the vicinity. The guys put the night on and it's always popular and a good time had by all. They'll also be playing.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 16, 2006, 06:38:01 pm: Killdozer.

(http://www.tgrec.com/images/bands/full/50-1.jpg)
Commie-pinko rock @ it's best. They had a terrific sense of humour & really knew how to hurl the bile. A great 3 piece. (All on Touch & Go Records.)

In particular the LP's:

12 Point Buck.

(http://www.tgrec.com/images/catalog/fullsize/209-1.jpg)

Intellectuals are the shoeshines boys of the ruling elite.

(http://www.tgrec.com/images/catalog/fullsize/208-1.jpg)

Uncompromising war on art under the dictatorship of the proletariat.

(http://www.tgrec.com/images/catalog/fullsize/210-1.jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: mark on September 16, 2006, 10:19:57 pm: Killdozer did an awesome cover of Sweet Home Alabama, didn't they? What album's that on?
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 16, 2006, 11:14:09 pm: (http://www.earthstores.com/pinewoodrecords/images/killdozercd.jpg) Hey! I ain't ya google-bitch!? ;)

Killdozer had many hilarious covers.

PS. Both Microdisney & The Fatima Mansions were underrated in their time.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: mark on September 16, 2006, 11:40:49 pm: Quote from: Houdini on September 16, 2006, 11:14:09 pm
Hey! I ain't ya google-bitch!? ;)

Thank you. To make amends for my laziness, anyone who wants a 30 second clip of many Killdozer tracks can do so from here: http://www.emusic.com/artist/11599/11599725.html
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 17, 2006, 09:59:35 am: Ivor Cutler - Jammy Smears.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Jammy_Smears.jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 17, 2006, 10:09:13 am: The Ex (http://www.theex.nl). 27 years and still going strong. Dutch-punkrock at it's best and bloody underrated. They'd put on a great show in a vacuum or underwater.

Tracks here. (http://www.theex.nl/exradio.pls)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 17, 2006, 10:21:22 am: Those familiar with Shellacs' Terraform LP will be aware of Chesley Bonestall.

(http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Conquest1.jpg)

(http://www.dreamstone.com.au/artists/chesley_bonestell_images/conquest%20of%20space.jpg)

(http://www.plan59.com/images/JPGs/olin54.jpg)

(http://www.novaspace.com/LTD/BONESTELL/PIX/Mimas.jpeg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 17, 2006, 11:58:25 am: Here's some Ivor Cutler for those that have never heard of this deeply strange but loveable Scotsman:

The River Bends. (http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/for/ivor/The%20River%20Bends.mp3)

A real Man. (http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/for/ivor/A%20Real%20Man.mp3)

Once A Fortnight. (http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/for/ivor/Once%20a%20Fortnight.mp3)

A Cowboy Song. (http://niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu/for/ivor/Jackfish%20-%20A%20Cowboy%20Song.mp3)

More @ www.ivorcutler.org
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Bubba on September 17, 2006, 12:14:03 pm: I've got quite a few Cutler albums - amazing bloke, can be totally hilarious but also just totally mind boggling.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 18, 2006, 11:38:55 am: Finally tracked down Dan Yagmin. I knew he dabbled but not quite this much. He's very modest. The portraits are fine.

www.danielyagmin.com
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: SA Chris on September 18, 2006, 12:14:06 pm: No idea how well known they are in the UK, but I really like Sublime. Well known in the US and SA, but normally resulting with a shrug of the shoulders in the UK.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: soapy on September 18, 2006, 12:31:45 pm: erm, guilty pleasures thread thataway ->

:P
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: SA Chris on September 18, 2006, 12:52:14 pm: :-[

Could probably be both, for all I care.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Pantontino on September 18, 2006, 01:19:54 pm: Wow, Killdozer, there's a blast from the past. I've got a copy of Little Bay Buntin somewhere in my record cupboard - must dig it out.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 18, 2006, 01:31:33 pm: I just love the vocal delivery of Killdozer, in particular on the track Towering Inferno when he growls: It's a Man against Nature fight for survival. Fantastic irony in their songs
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 18, 2006, 02:19:10 pm: Lorenzo Bartolini: The Nymph and Scorpion (probably can't count as underrated as it's in the Louvre - but I'm a big fan so I'll post regardless).

(http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/imgs_En/04/b2005/hm4_1_15_3_big.jpg)

I can't steal the pic I want but visit here (http://www.dorothyalexander.com/bartolini.htm) for a close up of her brow. She is sublime.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: soapy on September 18, 2006, 02:35:36 pm: and what a brow it is:

(http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kahlo/images/homepage_image.jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 19, 2006, 07:58:11 am: More Bartolini:

La Ficucia in Dio

(http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/sch00246.jpg)

(http://www.cultura.prato.it/musei/alberti/img/fidugr.jpg)

My lass sculpts. I tell her she is underrated daily. C'mon baby, pick up ye chisel again!

La table aux Amors:

(http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Galleria/Bartolini%20Lorenzo/images/Bartolini%20-%20La%20Table%20aux%20Amours%20(Metropolitan%20Museum%20of%20art%2C%20New%20York%2C%201845).jpg)

Dirce'

(http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Galleria/Bartolini%20Lorenzo/images/Bartolini%20-%20Dirce'%20(Parigi%2C%20Louvre).jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 19, 2006, 08:11:38 am: (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e67/houdini2/brokenglass.jpg)

Background info. (http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/spring01/032210.htm)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: soapy on September 19, 2006, 08:20:17 am: i love sculpture too

(http://www.bigtallk9.com/gifts/baldwin/90635.jpg)

got simply loads of lovely ornaments on my mantlepiece
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 19, 2006, 08:30:42 am: I saw that and thought - strewth, that hounds' got a big gob... Looks like he's about to consume the poor lamby-whammy. Kinda as if the dogs' bottom lip has been stretched like those tribes who put those wooden plate in their mush.
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: soapy on September 19, 2006, 10:52:14 am: i fail to see the connection, she's blatantly showing off, the dawggy is doing a good deed

(http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/webgraf/photos/features/74Ethiopia2.jpg)

whatever next; labial circumcision..?!
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Pantontino on September 19, 2006, 01:20:10 pm: Soapy, have some waddage for the dog sculpture - I nearly pissed myself laughing. ;D
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Monolith on September 19, 2006, 01:22:45 pm: Hahaha that is grotesquely sublime! Perhaps a new thread for hideous antiques!?
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: soapy on September 19, 2006, 01:30:13 pm: Quote from: Pantontino on September 19, 2006, 01:20:10 pm
Soapy, have some waddage for the dog sculpture - I nearly pissed myself laughing. ;D

you're laughing at me, oh.. :(

i had hoped that here tolerance and open minded debate were freely exercised, yet i'm mocked for my tastes..

(http://www.we-exist.com/assets/product_images/product_lib/34000-34999/34331.jpg)
Title: Re: This is a thread for the Underrated artists
Post by: Houdini on September 19, 2006, 04:13:48 pm: Sort it out Soaps! The Pic.

Mostly known for just this (http://scotland.imeem.com/music/I_wtg1pq/cure_for_pain_live/) but I think they did good work across the board. Gentle sound they had.