Miss.Mendo

The offspring is so ridiculously underrated, The rock so hard, they have put out several albums even one earlier this year, but no one really talks about or listens to the offspring anymore. Makes me wanna go back to the 90's

scottsy

I dunno, I don't think the Offspring are underrated in any way shape or form.. they seem to be highly rated by Alot of people and have more than their fair share of success and recognition....

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littleknowitall

The Enemy. I don't think they'll go any further than they are now and in some way I find that to be a little bit of an injustice.

Necromancer

I think that 'Oasis' is underrated. The WallFlowers (Jacob Dylan). the band 'LIVE', also underrated. Throwing Copper - 'LIVE'. is a classic album.

ElephantSack

Oasis? Underrated? I don't know. They seem to be held on a high echelon by a large number of people worldwide.

The Wallflowers were terrible pop-rock. No offense.

Live? They had energy, at least, and they had their time. It's over now, but they got a lot of attention when they were hitting their stride.

Yeah. I don't know about all that. Smash was their best album, and after that they went downhill with a quickness.

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Necromancer

I agree with you on Oasis, but I really liked Jacob Dylan's vocals with (WallFlowers) alot more than anything by his father, Bob Dylan. just my personal opinion. And you hit it right on the button when you quoted that Live (had energy) as a band. One of the best bands I ever seen in concert was LIVE. Great preformance on stage. Thanks for the input ElephantSack.

scottsy

Live's first four albums were great, but then they just.... I dunno.... lost it. The Distance to Here was the last musically, lyrically interesting thing ttthey made. Some good concepts, thoughts and spirituality could actually be found on all those first four records. And boy did Throwing Copper have some gusto to it. Still love it today.

But then they released V, and aside from a few tracks it was plain awful. Overcome was a great song, which unfortunately got qwrapped up in the tragedy of 9/11. I don't think the original meaning of the song matched the tragic circumstances under which TV networks aired it.

Then along came the terminally boring Birds of Pray. The riffs were just like anything around at the tme, the lyrics were tired and too overtly religious and just reeked of boring day to day sentiment. Where was the intensity? Sure ed could hoot and holler all over tracks but it didn't hide the fact that the songs themselves were limp and lifeless and drained of all that made the band great.

I think that pared it back and made an accoustic flavored pop / rock album with eds vocals very suble, not very growly or intense, and I heard a few tracks and instantly lost interest. I believe they added lyrics of the same sentiment as Birds of Pray.

without thew intensity and energy behind them the xongs I heard were limp and undercooked sounding.

Such a shame, so much lost potential. Hopefully they find their way back.

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Spring Hall Convert

Has XTC been mentioned yet?

A Million times XTC.

Bulldog

A few times, and rightfully so. The amount of people who don't know who they are in the big wide offline world is astonishing. Funnily enough, everyone I introduce them to goes on to absolutely love them, which says a lot really.