Who's great but under-appreciated in music?

[barrymarshall]

The other thread is mostly full of the usual crowd: Bowie, Elton John, Prince, Jagger/Richards, etc. They're great but it's not as if we didn't already know that.

So who is a favourite of yours that no-one else (or few others) know about? Who deserves more recognition?

Not necessarily the Best of All Time, but who do you like that generally gets overlooked?

[mockney piers]

Jeff Mangum gets my vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mangum

[Brendan]

Sublime

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_%28band%29

Slightly handicapped by the fact that the lead singer died 12 years ago.

Their self-titled and last album is one of the top 5 albums of the 90s

[Cassius]

Genesis P Orrige and the awesome Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats......

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Dory Previn for lyrics

Rosie Hardman for timbre

Noddy Holder - vastly underrated - what a voice.

[Gerrard]

I had dinner with Noddy's wife a few years ago... Woops, wrong thread.

Elbow. Fantastic live band. Love 'um.

[benjaminty]

Willis http://www.amazon.co.uk/Come-Get-Some-Willis/dp/B0000CDLKD/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1201715136&sr=8-1

[SeanMacGabhann]

Easy Peasy. Piers knows what's coming from me (and won't agree) but...

Cathal Coughlan

Check out the 5 star reviews across the board

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skys-Awful-Blue-Cathal-Coughlan/dp/B000066RIQ

[Keef]

Bristol Lass called

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[blinder999]

This will be huge when some 'advertising creative' sticks it on an advert:

The Beauty Shop

[lozzyloz]

A bald Norwegian jazz musician called Bugge Wesseltoft

[blinder999]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> A bald Norwegian jazz musician called Bugge

> Wesseltoft

You reminded me of a bald Norwegian REM-ish bloke:

William Hut

[Domitianus]

Leonard Cohen - I am always amazed at how people dismiss him as some suicide-inducing gloom-monger. There are many artistes whose music is much more dreary and yet never receive the same label. He has been around for ages and is still producing utterly jaw-dropping stuff.

Neil Hannon as well.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Dom - 2 great choices - but are they underappreciated? Probably considering how good they are. But compared to most others on the list they do ok..

[cookie]

Mark Stewart. His version of Jerusalem shattered my musical boundaries as a youth.

[barrymarshall]

For me, when I lived in Stoke, we used to see a ska band called the Skalinskis. I think a good way to describe them would be a bit like the Specials crossed with a bit of Brecht & Weill (yeah, a bit oompah), and wrapped up with a kind of Eastern European vibe.

I used to go see them often in a pub called the Talbot, in Stoke, and the Full Moon, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Good memories! Not been back up that way for ages, and when I started seeing them in 2000 or so they had a female singer, but she left. Still great fun though. There are MP3s and stuff on their site

www.skalinskis.org.uk

[PeckhamRose]

YES yes yes yes Cassius and what's more I used the opening of JUST DRIFTING in my play to introduce the theme of painful love....

For myself - XTC and Andy Partridge. I absolutely love them. I am a member of their forum, too!

Cassius Wrote:

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> Genesis P Orrige and the awesome Psychic TV and

> Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats......

[Cassius]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> YES yes yes yes Cassius and what's more I used the

> opening of JUST DRIFTING in my play to introduce

> the theme of painful love....

>

> For myself - XTC and Andy Partridge. I absolutely

> love them. I am a member of their forum, too!

Thanks PeckhamRose - thought I was alone with this one....

[mockney piers]

Is the Full Moon the one opposite Sainsbury's? Did it used to be call something else, the Drowned Rat or something?

[lozzyloz]

is probably the best Soul singer this country has ever produced and the voice of British Acid Jazz. Remember "Family" on the Rebirth of Cool series?

[atila the gooner]

Tim Hardin

[barrymarshall]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Is the Full Moon the one opposite Sainsbury's? Did

> it used to be call something else, the Drowned Rat

> or something?

Indeed it is! Before it was the Full Moon it was called The Holy Inadequate and was a proper rock/biker pub. Before that I don't know...

[david_carnell]

Ann Peebles - great soul singer with a bigger back catalogue other than "I can't stand the rain". Check out this cover of Don Dryant's "99lbs"

Candi Staton - ditto and again only remembered for "Young hearts..." Here is a great cover of the country classic "Stand by Your Man"

Susan Cadogan - great female reggae vocals.

Adam Masterson - young British singer-songwriter who now mainly works iin the States but is currently touring. Catch him if you can.

[atila the gooner]

Darrel Banks, Emanuel Lasky, David Ruffin, Delroy Wilson, Gene Dozier.