I’m starting a list of underrated bands or songs that need a bit of modern day dusting off. My first contribution is Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. I would have loved to see them live, not sure what the members are doing these days or if Dr. Teeth did any solo albums, but they had some great tunes. Animal was good friends with Keith Moon, apparently.
Ha-ha, I can sing this verbatim. 
I heard that Animal was based on Keith Moon.
Don;t want to go down to many rabbit holes but one of my favourite underrated bands are The Scratch
Really talented bunch who realised that they could only make music together after attempting it elsewhere.
I really like this @Jbob - thanks for sharing.
They really are very talented!
A favourite of mine, I always chuckle at the line near the end of the song, it’s worse than that, it’s physics Jim.
Never heard of them, but this song is going on my playlist.
Going by the above, it is my umble opinion that both the band and the song were very much underrated for a long time until something happened and they got the recognition, which may yet be considered controversial on many levels.
All that said, and again imho, when peeps taak about ABBA, they talk about Dancing Queen or Mama Mia or anything other than SOS. Personally, this has been a favourite of mine since I first heard it way back when on the wireless as it was then (black and white). I don’t think I have heard it played on the radio or seen it much, but for me, this may well be a song I would take on my Desert Island Discs list, but that is a whole different subject.
For noe, hare is my contribution to your play list, should you so wish to accept it. This message will likely not self destruct in the next 10 seconds, minutes or even hours, days or weeks. For that reason, I am happy that some day someone will stumble onto this link and this component of the thread and hear this wonderful song, and for some it may be the first time they have ever heard and guess what, it doesn’t need a modern day dusting off, or does it?
You are absolutely right, and along with Super Trooper, this too was a childhood ABBA favourite of mine. A very underrated song.
Who remembers this one? Marvin the paranoid robot collaborated with John Sinclair (Ozzy Osbourne, The Cult, Spinal Tap, Savoy Brown) to produce several albums. I would have loved to see Marvin live, not sure what he went on to pursue, as mysterious as Rodríguez when it came to his subsequent creative output. This was 1981 I think.
Great question. The music of certain bands certainly helped me get through many challenging days in hospital and I found myself rediscovering the bands that first got me into music… mainly 90’s grunge and punk so nirvana, soundgarden, TOOL, stone temple piolots, all apart from nirvana were hugely underrated, but I remember discovering a new band just around the time I was first taken into hospital called Turnstile who at the time no one had heard of, it was only when I came around from my 3 month coma thst I found out that this tiny hardcore underground band were suddenly everywhere and won 2 Grammys, so they are still the little band thst I try to ram down everyone’s gullet. Them and also I have to say British metal band Sleep Token were the soundtrack to my stint at Nottingham queens medical and carried on into my rehabilitation at Lincoln county hospital, drastically underrated in my humble opinion but they are everywhere now, they are a blatant TOOL rip off but I adore their musicianship and the whole vibe of them and thst tevidedevide opinion because they remain anonymous and wear the whole masks, face paint and all black with hoods up vibe but because they’re categorised as a metal band many people just assume it’s just shouty noise but because they are actually quite ambient and incorporate electronic elements into their soundscape the metal community kind of shun them for being popular but I’m absolutely locked into their music. Also found myself returning to my favourite band called incubus, again criminally underrated but they cater for all tastes and moods. Absolutely adore them and urge anyone to explore their back catalogue. But whether old, new, heavy or poppy I’m always open to any new discoveries, as long as somethings made with honesty and passion and it’s not Coldplay, I’m in.
Hey Rupert - I hadn’t heard this before and I quite like it.
After reading your post and being intrigued, I did a bit of research and found myself back to Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide …
Very clever of you to sneak this in as another excuse to reference DA?
Can’t go for too long without mentioning Monsieur Adams somewhere along the line.
@ManjiB has prompted more geekiness from me, so here is Who is The Doctor performed by Jon Pertwee, produced and arranged by Rupert Hine (Tina Turner, Stevie Nicks, Bob Geldof &c). This was released early seventies. I once covered it live at an open mic night, many moons ago.
This song, is not only underrated but it features Ian Dury, one of the most underrated lyricists. As a lifelong Madness and Ian Dury and The Blockheads enthusiast, this was the equivalent of a supergroup in my eyes 
or 
ears. Sadly it only got to number 55 on the UK charts, and didn’t chart anywhere else. It was also the last song Ian Dury did before he died. It’s fortunate for me that he did though.
I would have hated another Yellowbeard scenario. Adam Ant was meant to have been cast the lead in Yellowbeard (one of my favourite films, if not my favourite) and because of that I feel there was a missed opportunity to make Yellowbeard the perfect film for me.
If I may be as bold to add another
Seen them live and well have no real way of expressing how amazing and underated this group is too.
Scares me I knew all the words and yet never new this thanks mum, another band I’m not a particular fan of but childhood saturation I guess,
Oooo I love Goat….heard em on the radio some months ago …got a kinda Jethro Tull thang gan a wee bit methinks
