Who is your pick for most underappreciated artist of all time?

[navamind]

Best song ever.

 

[blindbaby]

Artists:

Melvin Rhyne - organ
Joey Defrancesco - organ
Tony Monaco - organ
Kazumi Watanabe - guitar
Robert Conti - guitar
Adam Holzman - synthesizer
Ralphe Backstrom - bass
Ed Cassidy - drums

Bands:

Spirit
Weather Report (much more than - Birdland)
Jade Warrior
Harlequin (Canadian band that had a lot of songs that should have been bigger hits)

 

[DJ]

Poco. Here is a version of Gram Parsons' song Brass Buttons, which I think is better than his. And then they had the opus about him called Crazy Eyes. Poco was too rock to be country and too country to be rock. Still, the Eagles took their formula and made it work, for good or bad.

Good to see you making a cameo.

 

[BigFin]

I always thought Rob Thomas never got enough love, although I haven't like a lot of his solo stuff recently.

 

[femurov]

Otis Redding.

 

[SteelersPride]

Michael jackson

 

[DrewScott]

i'm going to go with...

Weird Al Yankovic

 

[DragonfromTO]

I haven't seen Marc Bolan's name, he always seems like a decent answer to this question.

 

[Tin Man]

@KansasSooner, when I was in college, I sang accompaniment to a friend's mash-up of Poco's Crazy Love into Pure Prairie League's Amie.
We always got free beer.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

@KansasSooner, when I was in college, I sang accompaniment to a friend's mash-up of Poco's Crazy Love into Pure Prairie League's Amie.
We always got free beer.

lol.....when I was in HS....some friends and I formed a Grand Funk Railroad/ Rare Earth type cover band that lasted all of about a year....I played bass. We never got any gigs per se...but I did get laid a lot.

 

[KansasSooner]

Bands:

Spirit
Weather Report (much more than - Birdland)
Jade Warrior
Harlequin (Canadian band that had a lot of songs that should have been bigger hits)

Eh Spirit might be under appreciated but really they did nothing more than Spooky Tooth, who also only had one album worth buying...Spirit-Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two. Of the two bands I'd say they were both about even but with just one really good album each...

 

[Voltaire26]

Harry Chapin

 

[blindbaby]

Eh Spirit might be under appreciated but really they did nothing more than Spooky Tooth, who also only had one album worth buying...Spirit-Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two. Of the two bands I'd say they were both about even but with just one really good album each...

I thought The Family That Plays Together was a decent album ( I Got A Line On You). Taurus was a pretty cool song from the first album. I wasn't much of a fan anything after Dr Sardonicus; the personnel in the band changed immensely.

 

[Thruthefog]

Whoever painted this.

 

[RobBase]

The Pixies

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Harry Nilsson

 

[Chewbaccer]

I change my vote.

My choice is now Carl Perkins

By far the most underappreciated of the Sun Records boys, but I'd argue that he did more for rock and roll than any of them.

Better in all categories than Elvis
Better than Johnny Cash in all categories except song writing(and Carl was a pretty good songwriter himself)
Better than Jerry Lee in all categories other than live performances(Jerry Lee could outperform anyone on stage when he wanted to)

One of the biggest influences on the Beatles and Eric Clapton.

Blue Suede Shoes is still one of the best songs of all time.

 

[Nosferatu]

David Ruffin
Sam Cooke
Joe Walsh
Ben Orr
Lenny Kravitz

 

[Omar 382]

i'm going to go with...

Weird Al Yankovic

I don't know if you're joking, but he might be my pick. People don't realize how hard it is and how talented you have to be to take song after song and reformulate it in a funny and musically pleasing/catchy way. It can't be too similar to the original, but you still have to get that he's referencing the original song.

Weird Al is a unique talent, and one of my top 50 musical artists of all time. As far as I'm concerned, he's as musically talented as The Who.

Anyone who has the balls to be a nobody and go on a national television program and do something like this, that's never been done before, mind you- is a god in my mind.

 

[Omar 382]

I always thought Rob Thomas never got enough love, although I haven't like a lot of his solo stuff recently.

Funny, I like Matchbox 20. Mainly because my mother, who I have seldom gotten along with great in my life, is a big fan, so I listen to them to be able to talk about them with her when I call her.

But their music is pretty good too. Formulaic perhaps, but it all sounds good and smooth, and they deal with some heavier themes than most other formulaic alt-rock bands that appeared on the radio in the '90s and '00s.