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@@edwardg9321 The Small Faces were massive in the UK and Europe from mid '65 to '68, with their album that final year, 'Ogden's Nutgone Celebrated Flake', topping the charts. In North America they had only one hit, 1967's 'Itchycoo Park'. They and the Who were the Mod bands - both raised on American soul music (the Mod preference). They were a much-loved band with other musicians, with Robert Plant borrowing the vocal styling and lyrics from the band's version of Willie Dixon's 'You Need Love' for Led Zep's 'Whole Lotta Love' and Pete Townshend borrowing from the intro to their 'E to D' for his intro to the Who's 'I Can See for Miles'. Sadly, when the other three lads declined singer/guitarist Steve Marriott's request to have Peter Frampton in the band, he lost interest and quit, going on to join Frampton's new band, which became Humble Pie. Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, both great in the Jeff Beck Group, saved the careers of the remaining Small Faces by transforming the remnants into the Faces. But that was nowhere near as exciting and original. The power pop of Todd Rundgren, Paul Weller, and the Raspberries came from the Small Faces, though they weren't the only ones under the influence. Hendrix was another big fan. Go listen to 'You Need Loving', 'I Can't Dance With You' (a B-side), 'Tin Soldier', 'Afterglow', 'I Can't Make It', 'All or Nothing'....all great stuff.
Every time I hear Badfinger, it makes me so sad. Such a tragic story. They were swindled out of their royalties. Two members took their own lives, one directly as a result and one indirectly. Great band with several classics.
Their manager, Stan Polley, stole all their money. That’s why Pete and Tom chose to end their lives. His grave is in Riverside National Cemetery. If you are in the neighborhood, feel free to stop by and leave a message.
This list is great. Didn't screw much anything up but for the order or song selections, I suppose, as Love would be much higher. I would add the Feelies, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lloyd Cole and Graham Parker and the Rumor, and great Replacements, though maybe these did have too much success to make this particular list. Don't know the Groundhogs.
Paul McCartney gave them "Come and Get It" that could have been on "Abbey Road" album. I heard Paul's version for the first time when I bought a triple LP "Anthology 3" in 1996.
Badinger STORY was one of the Saddest TO BE totally ripped off BY Their Own Manager , Badfinger was and is a breathe of fresh air , a very unique cool Rock Band Handled so Wrong🎼 Rock On 🎵🎶🎹✌👍
Badfinger were a superb band that should have been massive they were robbed by an American manager a crook then two of them comitted sucide a tragedy they were a very talented band so sadly missed immensely talented.
I’m 60. Some of these bands I don’t know about, but I’m glad these names are mentioned because now I’m going to go listen to some of them. Btw, this indeed sounds like a tragic story. What a shame.
Long time ago, 1975, I was totally confused by their album "Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" . We took lsd whiel listening, and it's still in my top10 of albums ever.
Some of these, like Television and Velvet Underground were really not the sort of music that ever would have wide appeal, but among serious fans even today they are still hugely admired.
Yeah they got a bunch wrong. Fun to see Television high on the list. Saw them at CBGB's 75 or 6. The Move, Nice, Nazz, Flying Burrito Bros. Bad Finger great songs very sad story. At the time they reminded people of the Beatles. Thinking about that sound Emett Rhodes, great songs if you like pop. First two albums just one after the another. A really great talent!
I'd add Camel to that list. They made some of the finest progressive rock for over 30 years (some would rate them as the very best prog rock band ever, myself included) but, despite decent album sales and a loyal fan base, they never reached the heights of band like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull.
@@underwoodvoice9077 Camel was not a Canterbury band. They had strong links with Caravan after Doug Ferguson left, but the band was actually from Guildford and never part of the Canterbury scene.
We were jipped out of a giant band like Badfinger, they strarted out with a bunch of huge hits, only to be swindled, and derailed early on. We can only wonder, what awesome music, we will never get to hear from them.
I think it all comes down to one word--HITS. Many of the bands named here actually achieved considerable fame and are not forgotten. But, producing hits month after month, year after year, even decade after decade is strictly for the superstars.
A few bands I discovered that were awesome, but not famous enough: Ursa Major, The Left Banke, Lucifer’s Friend, Gift, The Chocolate Watchband, Mountain. There are others, but these are the ones I feel needed some serious love.
What about "Family"(Roger Chapman), "Richard Hell", "Caravan" (Canterbury Soundscapes), "Brian Jonestown Massacre", "The Outsiders"(Wally Tax)... to mention some to add...
The idea that the Velvet Underground, one of the most famous bands of all time, didn't get the fame they deserved is an interesting take on rock history.
@@teastrainer3604 Lots of bands with hit songs were snubbed by the Hall, so your reasoning is flawed. Simply for being the first all-female band to secure a major contract should be good enough. And they did have good songs and great talent.
Got to agree with those picks. I read somewhere that BOC was blacklisted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of Richard Meltzer's criticism of the R+R hall's board when they started inducting Rap artists.
Velvet Underground and the Small Faces do not belong here. Both bands got the recognition they deserved. They were big! But I agree about the Zombies and the Pretty Things. 2 very talented bands who deserved fame. The Pretty Things made what is possibly the first rock opera, SF Sorrow. This album and the next, Parachute, are real gems.
Finally a.list of this nature that not only mentions bands that deserve to be on it but actually mentions one of the best most underrated bands of all time THE GROUNDHOGS!!! Great vid and thank you STRAY also need to be acknowledged
If I remember rightly, Soft Machine were the first modern band to play at the Proms (an iconic annual classical music festival held at London's Albert Hall).
I think that was around sixty nine or seventy, I remember my dad being none too pleased about it as he thought that sort of "rubbish" had no place in a serious music concert. Needless to say he'd never actually heard them play.
They are not forgotten. The Beau Brummels had a couple of hits and should have been bigger. Though during a time with Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane. The big flood. The wonderful flood. My local music appreciation looks back to discover a lot of bands we missed. Bands, artists, singer songwriters. Music was a hobby for me during my working career years. In retirement I have more time and got good at guitar and singing. I sing and play at community events and open mics. Not for money just to have fun sharing music. 73 and still rocking. I sing and play several Beau Brummels songs. The Beau Brummels recorded several albums and appeared as The Beau Brummel stones in a Hanna-Barbara Flintstone Cartoon.
Wonderful bands that deserved more recognition, for sure. Excellent video. Here's another band that never got their due. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. From the late 1960's.
Check out the albums "Sea Shanties" by High Tide, "Dark Shadows" by Cold Sun, "Mournin'" by Night Sun and "Moon Blood" by Fraction if you like Heavy Psych/Proto-Metal.
Brian Eno reputedly said this about the Velvet Underground: "Their first album sold only 30,000 copies in 5 years. But everyone who bought a copy went out and started a band".
Some of my favorites from the 70s and early 80s in no particular order: The Sweet, Slade, The Jam, The Sonics, Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, Pop Group, The Gun Club, Cabaret Voltaire, Concrete Blonde, Uriah Heep, Dr. Feelgood, Cocteau Twins, The Stranglers, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Chameleons, The Cramps, Throbbing Gristile, XTC, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Joan Armatrading, Bauhaus, Replacements, Husker Du and Waterboys. Local Boston bands: Human Sexual Response and The Sheila Divine. I am sure that I am missing many
Like the Burrito Brothers, Poco never got the recognition that they deserved. If you describe to a a random rock fan about a group comprised of two members of Buualo Springfield whose first two bass players would later move on to the Eagles, the respose would be to ask what super group that you were referring to.
Very US orientated. Nobody in the UK could ever say The Move and The Small faces didn't get the fame they deserved but, to be honest, their music and songs were very very English orientated. The Zombies, while never first rank, comprised musicians who went on to great things and with Colin Blunstone one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
Badfinger's "Staright Up" album was the first that I actually bought. I had just turned 10 years old and before that my small record collection was stuff I had gotten from my older brother and Uncle. I played it over and over and still have them on my favorite USB drive in my car.
A great list, albeit from the American perspective. Other great bands: Procol Harum, Electrric Flag, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Amboy Dukes (American with early Ted Nugent and Rusty Day, not the British band w/same name), Colosseum (British jazz-rockers, not Scandinavian metal band), Tower of Power, Edgar Winter's White Trash, the Easybeats.... So many, some of whom had hits, some with substantial followings and tour successes. But none really made and stayed big. Mind, that's not necessarily a bad thing, as most bands who made it 'big' tended to lose their magic.
In the 1960s we were big fans of Love long before the Doors. A great kind of psychedelic jazz rock band. I still have their cd Da Capo in my car today. Got to see them play in our High School gym one afternoon. How that happened I still don't know. Used to see them out and about around LA and the Valley.
George Martin (yes, THE George Martin) said Stackridge were his second favourite band. Every song on every album was different. Check them out! Gentle Giant were the most extraordinary musicians, which may be why they weren’t more popular - their music was incredibly complex, not easily accessible, but well worth exploring.
@@TooSkinnyKenny I assume you're not from the UK or are too young to remember because both of those bands where huge in 1970s Britain, Roxy are still well respected today not just because of Brian Ferry but because of Brian Eno and Phil Manzaneras connection to the band. Mott The Hoople ran out of good songs and ideas. But yeah, they were a great band while they lasted.
Badfinger - reverse the order....terrible financial management is what lead to the 2 members unliving themselves....make a whole video about the many many bands ripped off by managers
The list is extremely long. The Beatles signed a ludicrous contract at the beginning of their career. However, because they had such immense success, they still came out on top, even though others (B.E. D.J. and C.S.) were making a fortune off them too, until the end.
I have some of those albums. I have 4 Love albums; "False Start" has Jimi Hendrix on one of the songs. Another group for consideration is Wishbone Ash.
I hate AI narration, it gives itself away with weird mispronounciations. Big Star's debut should be called Number One Record (#1 Record), not "Hashtag One Record". The title of the Zombies album is pronounced Odyssey and Oracle. Yes, Odyssey is mispelled on the album artwork as "Odessey" which led to the bit of nonsense the narration uttered. Doesn't anyone check these things before uploading? Something positive? It's great to see The Groundhogs.
I like a lot of the bands featured here but first, The Small Faces and The Move were huge bands in their native UK but as their songs were heavily oriented to British and particularly English culture it is perhaps no surprise they weren't bigger in the States. The reason that some of these bands weren't bigger was because their music never got played that much on the radio, in late sixties UK bands like the Velvet Underground only ever got played late at night and songs like Heroin and Venus In Furs never got played. No Spotify back then. Also a lot of the music those bands played either sounded ordinary or only appealed to a narrow market. If Pink Floyd had continued doing stuff like Atom Heart Mother, they would have probably been on this list. The difference between Soft Machine and Floyd can be summed up by one album, Dark Side Of The Moon. Back in the day Soft Machine were usually considered to be better musicians but they never got near to making an internationally acclaimed album. The Pretty Things might have done themselves a favour back in the sixties by not getting in the press so much for all the wrong reasons, by the time they took themselves seriously with S F Sorrow, a lot of people didn't. The Nice were a great band and had they stayed together would probably have been as big as ELP during the seventies. Basically if you don't release records that are likely to appeal to a wide audience, you are never going to make it to the top no matter how good you are. I love the Groundhogs, one of my favourite bands but they never released a song with the wide appeal of Smoke On The Water, Paranoid, Whole Lot Of Love, Thunderstruck, Comfortably Numb etc.
@@Richard-ic3ix No, he said that in the late '60s UK, bands like Velvet Underground only got played at night. It was poor punctuation but I got his point.
Spirit rocked. If anyone can tell me where I can see a clip of, or even hear, Handguns please do. I saw them perform it on OGWT circa 79/80. I think it was a one off because I can't find the song anywhere. It made a pretty deep impression. I can even remember some of the lyrics. "Handguns, oughta be banned. Handguns, are ruining America's promised land". It was on the same OGWT session as, Turn To The Right, which is on UA-cam. Anyone any ideas where I can find it? Google and UA-cam don't help.
My List include: Help Yourself The Zombies Jo Jo Gune Captain Beyond UFO Thin Lizzy Wishbone Ash Caravan Nektar Triumvirat The Babys Starz Angel ( US) American Tears PFM Le Orme Eloy Small Faces The Watch Black Bonzo King´s X Tygers of Pan Tang Girlschool Potliquor Molly Hatchet
The bands listed may not have got the fame they deserved but 16 out of the 19 bands listed had members who went on to have successful solo careers, joined more popular bands, or collaborated with top musicians. The video did name check most of these musicians. Most notably, the video forgot Rod Stewart who sang with the reformed Faces. Also, Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes of Spirit formed Jo Jo Gunne and Jay had a big hit with "Thunder Island."
"The Niece": very funny. ;-) You could add so many bands to this video, that it would last 30 minutes; just for example: Be Bop Deluxe, Pavlov's Dog, Metro, Sniff 'n' the Tears, Vanilla Fudge, Gentle Giant, Splinter, Hudson-Ford, New England, Lake, Moon Martin, Barclay James Harvest, Spring, Spooky Tooth, Angel, Renaissance, Illusion, Klaatu, Sailor, City Boy, Horslips, Radio Stars, Kayak, Fischer-Z, Firefall etc.
I'd add the Canadian band Prism for their first 4albums, then tragedy struck them too. Lost their lead singer in a cycling accident and never seemed to totally recover. Some good songs on later albums but not quite up to the earlier stuff.
The Beau Brummels. They were the first American folk rock band to hit the top 40, even before The Byrds. Their early hits were produced by a San Fransisco DJ named Sylvester Stewart, who went on to later fame as Sly of The Family Stone. They even guested on The Flintstones as "The Beau Brummelstones," doing their hit Laugh, Laugh.
Rare Bird Rare Bird and rare bird. They are one of the most talented with a selection of the best songs of any of the progressive rock groups however they get very little love if any at all😢
No Poco? If you're talking bands that didn't have the success they deserved, then are they number 12, or something? Their one of the first I think about when I think about bands that deserved more.
RIP Eric Carmen, 2024. 40 years 🎂 since he and Dean Pitchford wrote Almist Paradise. ➕ Prism (from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦). Late Bruce Fairbairn and Jim Vallance were members. RIP Rocket Norton, April 2024 and Ron Tabak, 40 years in December 2024 since his death.
The flying Burrito Brothers were massive the best country rock band of all time. Achey Brakey heart was garbage compared to the Burrito's The small Faces had great success, but were ripped off by management
Great list, I would have definitely added the Edgar Broughton Band, perhaps Wishbone Ash, and maybe Be Bop Deluxe. The only band I would have omitted was the Groovies I never got the attraction to that band but hey that's me...
I noticed that Jeff Lynne was included in two of these bands that "never got the recognition they deserved". And if they had received that recognition? There probably never would have been an ELO. This applies to several of the other bands mentioned. The late 60s and early 70s were a time of musical exploration and great ferment. Those bands were the incubators of future greatness. Think of The Yardbirds. They were pretty successful but they didn't last. What came out of The Yardbirds? Hmmm...Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Eric Clapton, Renaissance...
Once you get into the '80s, radio airplay, television appearances and decent album sales no longer defined success. You just needed a modest but devout following. The attitude is retroactive - no music fan would consider the bands in this video to be failures.
Others I remember : The Castaways. I still listen to "Liar Liar"; it has the most electrifying scream of relationship anguish I have ever heard by any rock or pop group. The Standells...Love their sleazy-sounding single "Dirty Water. To me it's a stone cold classic. The Outsiders got me with "Time Won't Let Me" but I never heard anything else by them here in America. Mott the Hoople got acclaim and recorded the classic single "All the Young Dudes" but also never heard anything else from them or at least anything else I liked as much. Count Five, the band that did "Psychotic Reaction" (one of the wildest singles you will ever hear!)... Everyday People was a hippy-pop group in the early '70s but as far as I know they had their greatest success with a fantastically funky dance tune called "I Like What I Like" (also covered by Mama Cass) that was embraced by the gay community as an underground dance floor anthem.. My fave band on your list is The Zombies, who got lots of critical acclaim but didn't rise to the level I thought they would but they gave us 3 wonderful singles and probably more I'm not aware of.
The Electric Prunes released a brilliant psychedelic version of the Latin Mass (in F minor), sung in Latin. Has to be a first! I'll add Vanilla Fudge, Dream Academy and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Lords! I saw them in 1966, in Germany. Some great tunes, though the outfits and hairstyles didn't hold up very well against all the cool new bands like the Small Faces, Move and Cream. But the hits like Poor Boy and Poison Ivy were great - they were played everywhere in Germany - as were lesser known ones like 'Don't Mince Matter' and 'Late Last Sunday Evening'. Thank you for mentioning a band that always deserved greater recognition.
You still don't get it. As you kept saying, these bands didn't become superstars. They achieved something better. Not only deep respect from their peers, but they influenced so many musicians, who went on to advance the music into the mainstream.
Yeah I don’t the Velvet Underground cared if they ever had commercial success, in fact I will argue they are the most influential bands of the 60’s they are reason Punk Rock, Grunge, and even modern alternative even exist.
With two stellar guitarists in John Renbourn and Bert Jansch, with the inimitable Jacqui McShee on vocals... (apologies to all if I've made typos) Basket of Light was literally life-changing for me.
I became fans of The Move and The Small Faces while stationed in Germany. One act that should have been on this list is "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich." Great, interesting catchy songs. Eight "Top 10" UK hits including "Hold Tight" "Legend of Xanadu" I couldn't believe it when I got back to the States and nobody had ever heard of these groups.
As 'yesman2755' notes here, Wizzard was formed by Roy Wood after departing ELO, which he conceded was more Jeff Lynne's vision. Wood's perspective was obvious to those familiar with the Move's 'Mesage from the Country' album.
"The Velvet Underground... were largely ignored by the mainstream". Which was exactly how they wanted it, as did quite a few of other bands here. I'd put Family on this list.
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Another reason to hate AI. Can't pronounce.
I was thinking the exact same thing
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Hash-One Record, my favorite Big Star album.
Zombies made the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame so I think they were somewhat remembered
Correct, and the Velvet Underground are also in the Rock n Roll HoF.
So are the Small faces (and I have no idea why really)
@@edwardg9321 The Small Faces were massive in the UK and Europe from mid '65 to '68, with their album that final year, 'Ogden's Nutgone Celebrated Flake', topping the charts. In North America they had only one hit, 1967's 'Itchycoo Park'.
They and the Who were the Mod bands - both raised on American soul music (the Mod preference). They were a much-loved band with other musicians, with Robert Plant borrowing the vocal styling and lyrics from the band's version of Willie Dixon's 'You Need Love' for Led Zep's 'Whole Lotta Love' and Pete Townshend borrowing from the intro to their 'E to D' for his intro to the Who's 'I Can See for Miles'.
Sadly, when the other three lads declined singer/guitarist Steve Marriott's request to have Peter Frampton in the band, he lost interest and quit, going on to join Frampton's new band, which became Humble Pie.
Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, both great in the Jeff Beck Group, saved the careers of the remaining Small Faces by transforming the remnants into the Faces. But that was nowhere near as exciting and original.
The power pop of Todd Rundgren, Paul Weller, and the Raspberries came from the Small Faces, though they weren't the only ones under the influence. Hendrix was another big fan.
Go listen to 'You Need Loving', 'I Can't Dance With You' (a B-side), 'Tin Soldier', 'Afterglow', 'I Can't Make It', 'All or Nothing'....all great stuff.
Every time I hear Badfinger, it makes me so sad. Such a tragic story. They were swindled out of their royalties. Two members took their own lives, one directly as a result and one indirectly. Great band with several classics.
Their manager, Stan Polley, stole all their money. That’s why Pete and Tom chose to end their lives. His grave is in Riverside National Cemetery. If you are in the neighborhood, feel free to stop by and leave a message.
This list is great. Didn't screw much anything up but for the order or song selections, I suppose, as Love would be much higher. I would add the Feelies, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lloyd Cole and Graham Parker and the Rumor, and great Replacements, though maybe these did have too much success to make this particular list. Don't know the Groundhogs.
Stan Polley was the sort of guy that make Simon Cowell look like a quireboy
@@oppothumbs1 I don't think it's a 'in order' thing, just a list of 19 bands in no particular order.
@@secondchance6603 That makes sense.
As far as I am concerned, Badfinger should have been number one
did you hear their James Brownish funk song "Matted Spam"?
Paul McCartney gave them "Come and Get It" that could have been on "Abbey Road" album. I heard Paul's version for the first time when I bought a triple LP "Anthology 3" in 1996.
@@TooSkinnyKenny I preferred their hard rock on "Constitution" and "Suitcase"
Badfinger were ripped off by their evil manager, who stole all their money.
Badinger STORY was one of the Saddest TO BE totally ripped off BY Their Own Manager , Badfinger was and is a breathe of fresh air , a very unique cool Rock Band Handled so Wrong🎼 Rock On 🎵🎶🎹✌👍
First line from the song, “Day After Day” says, “I remember finding out about you.” How prophetic!
Badfinger were a superb band that should have been massive they were robbed by an American manager a crook then two of them comitted sucide a tragedy they were a very talented band so sadly missed immensely talented.
I’m 60. Some of these bands I don’t know about, but I’m glad these names are mentioned because now I’m going to go listen to some of them. Btw, this indeed sounds like a tragic story. What a shame.
I never travel far without a little Big Star
Spirit was awesome! I never could figure out why they were not more popular; however, I had all of their albums so could enjoy their music any time.
Randy California is a great musician
Long time ago, 1975, I was totally confused by their album "Twelve dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" . We took lsd whiel listening, and it's still in my top10 of albums ever.
@@trikkik pleas tell me the lsd has worn off .lol
@@Ron-yd3fn There are still some waiting for me in my secret drawer...
Some of these, like Television and Velvet Underground were really not the sort of music that ever would have wide appeal, but among serious fans even today they are still hugely admired.
Both great bands
True.
How about 19 bands who never deserved the fame they got
Cruel Buddy !!!!
Footage of bay city rollers instead of raspberries 😢
Yeah, that goes to show you just how good they really were. They could be both!
@maxwebowden9961 The best part of Bay City Rollers was a short stint by David Paton from Alan Parsons Project and Kate Bush.
That's what I thought too
Yeah they got a bunch wrong.
Fun to see Television high on the list. Saw them at CBGB's 75 or 6.
The Move, Nice, Nazz, Flying Burrito Bros. Bad Finger great songs very sad story. At the time they reminded people of the Beatles. Thinking about that sound Emett Rhodes, great songs if you like pop. First two albums just one after the another. A really great talent!
@@locatefastballchange Badfinger's "Constitution" was like "Helter Skelter" with proper guitar solos.
Interesting video, but try to use a real narrator next time. The A I narrator is SO obvious.
Either that or just someone who knows nothing about rock music.
I'd add Camel to that list.
They made some of the finest progressive rock for over 30 years (some would rate them as the very best prog rock band ever, myself included) but, despite decent album sales and a loyal fan base, they never reached the heights of band like Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull.
Are you a founding member? Sorry, but nobody else would put them above Yes, Floyd, Tull etc.
@@davidmacdonald1695 There's a very large number of people who would tell you that you're wrong.
I'm more of a Caravan fan, but all the Canterbury sound bands had great material.
@@underwoodvoice9077 Camel was not a Canterbury band. They had strong links with Caravan after Doug Ferguson left, but the band was actually from Guildford and never part of the Canterbury scene.
... or the best prog band, Rush.
The Zombies became Argent "Hold your headup"
Really? Wow, I didn't know that.
Now that you say this about The Zombies, I think I recall hearing of this. “Hold Your Head Up” is a really good song.
First line from the song, “Day After Day” says, “I remember finding out about you.” How prophetic!
Songs written by Argent’s Russ Ballard have been covered by everybody
We were jipped out of a giant band like Badfinger, they strarted out with a bunch of huge hits, only to be swindled, and derailed early on.
We can only wonder, what awesome music, we will never get to hear from them.
Glad to see some appreciation for The Groundhogs, Flamin Groovies, The Move, and for the S.F. Sorrow album.
Groundhogs were phenominal. Tony McPhee might be the most overlooked guitarist, songwriter, singer, performer on either side of the Atlantic.
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Velvet Underground are notorious, and very highly respected. What more do you want?
Shiny shiny shiny boots of leather please 😂
I think it all comes down to one word--HITS. Many of the bands named here actually achieved considerable fame and are not forgotten. But, producing hits month after month, year after year, even decade after decade is strictly for the superstars.
This video needs alot of corrections,
A few bands I discovered that were awesome, but not famous enough: Ursa Major, The Left Banke, Lucifer’s Friend, Gift, The Chocolate Watchband, Mountain. There are others, but these are the ones I feel needed some serious love.
What about "Family"(Roger Chapman), "Richard Hell", "Caravan" (Canterbury Soundscapes), "Brian Jonestown Massacre", "The Outsiders"(Wally Tax)... to mention some to add...
The idea that the Velvet Underground, one of the most famous bands of all time, didn't get the fame they deserved is an interesting take on rock history.
Badfinger also wrote one of the greatest love songs ever written , Can't Live, covered by both Mariah Carey and Harry Nilsson.
That would be Without You.
Carey ruined it.
The correct title of the song is Without You, not Can't Live....
Nilsson had the only good remake.
@@malcolmharing3744 Like she always does 😁
The first all-female band to win an American recording contract was FANNY
Were they open to offers?
Fanny was great, too!
They were OK but they never recorded a song that should have been a hit. They got all the attention they deserved.
@@teastrainer3604 Lots of bands with hit songs were snubbed by the Hall, so your reasoning is flawed. Simply for being the first all-female band to secure a major contract should be good enough. And they did have good songs and great talent.
@@MacDaddyBanks Nobody without one hit record should be in the hall.
Blue Oyster Cult, Atomic Rooster, Robin Trower, Budgie, Be Bop Deluxe
Blue Oyster Cult gets played a lot in classic rock station
@richbillionair the same two songs. Reaper & Burnin'. After 52 years they have more.
@fenderchamp8241 actually 3 with Godzilla. My favorite is "Hot Rails from hell".
Got to agree with those picks. I read somewhere that BOC was blacklisted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of Richard Meltzer's criticism of the R+R hall's board when they started inducting Rap artists.
Robin Trower ("For Earth Below") was barely known in the US. And then, only if you listened to "underground" radio.
Velvet Underground and the Small Faces do not belong here. Both bands got the recognition they deserved. They were big! But I agree about the Zombies and the Pretty Things. 2 very talented bands who deserved fame. The Pretty Things made what is possibly the first rock opera, SF Sorrow. This album and the next, Parachute, are real gems.
I love Parachute so much! ♥️
Finally a.list of this nature that not only mentions bands that deserve to be on it but actually mentions one of the best most underrated bands of all time THE GROUNDHOGS!!!
Great vid and thank you
STRAY also need to be acknowledged
They should have had Angel on their as well
ditto on the Groundhogs!
and stray
Why, when talking about The Zombies are you showing a picture of The Box Tops?
Because the intelligence of this video's producers is incredibly low. Should anything be trusted by them?
If I remember rightly, Soft Machine were the first modern band to play at the Proms (an iconic annual classical music festival held at London's Albert Hall).
I think that was around sixty nine or seventy, I remember my dad being none too pleased about it as he thought that sort of "rubbish" had no place in a serious music concert. Needless to say he'd never actually heard them play.
They are not forgotten. The Beau Brummels had a couple of hits and should have been bigger. Though during a time with Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Jefferson Airplane. The big flood. The wonderful flood. My local music appreciation looks back to discover a lot of bands we missed. Bands, artists, singer songwriters. Music was a hobby for me during my working career years. In retirement I have more time and got good at guitar and singing. I sing and play at community events and open mics. Not for money just to have fun sharing music. 73 and still rocking. I sing and play several Beau Brummels songs. The Beau Brummels recorded several albums and appeared as The Beau Brummel stones in a Hanna-Barbara Flintstone Cartoon.
Wonderful bands that deserved more recognition, for sure. Excellent video. Here's another band that never got their due. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. From the late 1960's.
In 1969 4 members of teh Zombies formed Argent and had some success. Kiss got famous for an Argent song - God Gave Rock And Roll To You.
None of these are forgotten.
R-E-M, not Rem.
Do not question AI. It knows what it is doing. hehehehehe
I almost stopped watching at this point. I'm so tired of horrible AI narration.
fun video to watch and play along with my addition would be Blue Cheer. good comment section with lots of great additions.
Check out the albums "Sea Shanties" by High Tide, "Dark Shadows" by Cold Sun, "Mournin'" by Night Sun and "Moon Blood" by Fraction if you like Heavy Psych/Proto-Metal.
Brian Eno reputedly said this about the Velvet Underground: "Their first album sold only 30,000 copies in 5 years. But everyone who bought a copy went out and started a band".
Yeah, that Oh Dessy And Oracle is great, right up there with Hash Tag 1 by Big Star.
God bless AI narration...
Some of my favorites from the 70s and early 80s in no particular order: The Sweet, Slade, The Jam, The Sonics, Pere Ubu, Gang of Four, Pop Group, The Gun Club, Cabaret Voltaire, Concrete Blonde, Uriah Heep, Dr. Feelgood, Cocteau Twins, The Stranglers, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Chameleons, The Cramps, Throbbing Gristile, XTC, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Joan Armatrading, Bauhaus, Replacements, Husker Du and Waterboys. Local Boston bands: Human Sexual Response and The Sheila Divine. I am sure that I am missing many
That's the video of Bay City Rollers, not the Raspberries.
I noticed that too. I am a big Bay City Rollers fan and I think they covered many of the Raspberries songs.
@@studykorean4989 the editing here is appaling, shots of bands of no relation to the list appear for no reason at all.
Like the Burrito Brothers, Poco never got the recognition that they deserved.
If you describe to a a random rock fan about a group comprised of two members of Buualo Springfield whose first two bass players would later move on to the Eagles, the respose would be to ask what super group that you were referring to.
Very US orientated. Nobody in the UK could ever say The Move and The Small faces didn't get the fame they deserved but, to be honest, their music and songs were very very English orientated. The Zombies, while never first rank, comprised musicians who went on to great things and with Colin Blunstone one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
No Pink Fairies?
SOOOOOOOO many comments but I'll be banned for life.
Badfinger's "Staright Up" album was the first that I actually bought.
I had just turned 10 years old and before that my small record collection was stuff I had gotten from my older brother and Uncle.
I played it over and over and still have them on my favorite USB drive in my car.
@Philtration I got into Badfinger much later. In the early '70s I was all Black Sabbath etc.
A great list, albeit from the American perspective.
Other great bands: Procol Harum, Electrric Flag, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Amboy Dukes (American with early Ted Nugent and Rusty Day, not the British band w/same name), Colosseum (British jazz-rockers, not Scandinavian metal band), Tower of Power, Edgar Winter's White Trash, the Easybeats.... So many, some of whom had hits, some with substantial followings and tour successes. But none really made and stayed big. Mind, that's not necessarily a bad thing, as most bands who made it 'big' tended to lose their magic.
Colosseum: Those Who About---, Valentyne Suite & Daughter of Time!
Talent and succes are two different things.
In the 1960s we were big fans of Love long before the Doors. A great kind of psychedelic jazz rock band. I still have their cd Da Capo in my car today. Got to see them play in our High School gym one afternoon. How that happened I still don't know. Used to see them out and about around LA and the Valley.
George Martin (yes, THE George Martin) said Stackridge were his second favourite band. Every song on every album was different. Check them out!
Gentle Giant were the most extraordinary musicians, which may be why they weren’t more popular - their music was incredibly complex, not easily accessible, but well worth exploring.
The Zombies were one of the first psychedelic bands.
13th Floor Elevators as well. Roky Erickson was such an incredible talent.
Not the first, but early Pink Floyd and early Status Quo are some great Psychedelic Rock!!!
THE LIVERBIRDS were great also from England
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Oh yes: legendary Big Star debut “Hash” 1 Record. Good work, AI.
2 bands who deserved all the fame in the world but got little to none: Roxy Music and Mott The Hoople.
@@TooSkinnyKenny I assume you're not from the UK or are too young to remember because both of those bands where huge in 1970s Britain, Roxy are still well respected today not just because of Brian Ferry but because of Brian Eno and Phil Manzaneras connection to the band. Mott The Hoople ran out of good songs and ideas. But yeah, they were a great band while they lasted.
please. c'mon man
How big do you prefer Roxy Music? I travelled to see them in a 20,000 seat venue in Chicago. Ya, they were pretty big in The States too.
@@KevinRudd-w8sthey were big in the states also.
Both were successful in the UK, but were an afterthought in the US. They did have some success.
Badfinger - reverse the order....terrible financial management is what lead to the 2 members unliving themselves....make a whole video about the many many bands ripped off by managers
I suspect many on that list, anyone managed by Don Arden for a start.
@@KevinRudd-w8s Definitely Big Star too, and The Turtles
add the grateful dead and elvis to the list
The list is extremely long. The Beatles signed a ludicrous contract at the beginning of their career. However, because they had such immense success, they still came out on top, even though others (B.E. D.J. and C.S.) were making a fortune off them too, until the end.
I have some of those albums. I have 4 Love albums; "False Start" has Jimi Hendrix on one of the songs. Another group for consideration is Wishbone Ash.
saw them live supporting ten years after the Jam Session with Alvin Lee,Andy Powell and Ted Turner was amazing
I remember their mysterious hidden album: "Hey! We're the Monks!"
The Zombies and Velvet Underground were great
I hate AI narration, it gives itself away with weird mispronounciations. Big Star's debut should be called Number One Record (#1 Record), not "Hashtag One Record". The title of the Zombies album is pronounced Odyssey and Oracle. Yes, Odyssey is mispelled on the album artwork as "Odessey" which led to the bit of nonsense the narration uttered. Doesn't anyone check these things before uploading?
Something positive? It's great to see The Groundhogs.
I like a lot of the bands featured here but first, The Small Faces and The Move were huge bands in their native UK but as their songs were heavily oriented to British and particularly English culture it is perhaps no surprise they weren't bigger in the States. The reason that some of these bands weren't bigger was because their music never got played that much on the radio, in late sixties UK bands like the Velvet Underground only ever got played late at night and songs like Heroin and Venus In Furs never got played. No Spotify back then. Also a lot of the music those bands played either sounded ordinary or only appealed to a narrow market. If Pink Floyd had continued doing stuff like Atom Heart Mother, they would have probably been on this list. The difference between Soft Machine and Floyd can be summed up by one album, Dark Side Of The Moon. Back in the day Soft Machine were usually considered to be better musicians but they never got near to making an internationally acclaimed album. The Pretty Things might have done themselves a favour back in the sixties by not getting in the press so much for all the wrong reasons, by the time they took themselves seriously with S F Sorrow, a lot of people didn't. The Nice were a great band and had they stayed together would probably have been as big as ELP during the seventies. Basically if you don't release records that are likely to appeal to a wide audience, you are never going to make it to the top no matter how good you are. I love the Groundhogs, one of my favourite bands but they never released a song with the wide appeal of Smoke On The Water, Paranoid, Whole Lot Of Love, Thunderstruck, Comfortably Numb etc.
Did you say UK bands like Velvet Underground? Oh man you must be joking!
@@Richard-ic3ix
No, he said that in the late '60s UK, bands like Velvet Underground only got played at night. It was poor punctuation but I got his point.
Spirit rocked. If anyone can tell me where I can see a clip of, or even hear, Handguns please do. I saw them perform it on OGWT circa 79/80. I think it was a one off because I can't find the song anywhere. It made a pretty deep impression. I can even remember some of the lyrics. "Handguns, oughta be banned. Handguns, are ruining America's promised land". It was on the same OGWT session as, Turn To The Right, which is on UA-cam. Anyone any ideas where I can find it? Google and UA-cam don't help.
My List include:
Help Yourself
The Zombies
Jo Jo Gune
Captain Beyond
UFO
Thin Lizzy
Wishbone Ash
Caravan
Nektar
Triumvirat
The Babys
Starz
Angel ( US)
American Tears
PFM
Le Orme
Eloy
Small Faces
The Watch
Black Bonzo
King´s X
Tygers of Pan Tang
Girlschool
Potliquor
Molly Hatchet
Pretty good list.
Helluva list, was expecting to see Good Rats and Crack The Sky...
Yes ANGEL indeed gonna go see them again this coming summer in Vegas
@@psasso76was the word Helluva a nod to Angels epic album Helluva Band
@@normangeleri1522 I love Angel. Helluva Band is an excellent album. One of the best of the 70s.
From the title I was expecting bands I'd never heard of. I don't know the stats as far as sales or revenue, but to me most of these bands were HUGE
Great list. Add Magazine, Ultravox, Free, Captain Beyond, UFO, China Crisis, The Teardrop Explodes, The Reivers and Aztec Camera among others.
UFO: THE premier British rock band.
The bands listed may not have got the fame they deserved but 16 out of the 19 bands listed had members who went on to have successful solo careers, joined more popular bands, or collaborated with top musicians. The video did name check most of these musicians. Most notably, the video forgot Rod Stewart who sang with the reformed Faces. Also, Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes of Spirit formed Jo Jo Gunne and Jay had a big hit with "Thunder Island."
And Jay composes music for TV and movies
Mark Andes also played in Firefall and the 80's version of Heart. I think he stills plays with Firefall. I saw them about 10 years ago.
"The Niece": very funny. ;-) You could add so many bands to this video, that it would last 30 minutes; just for example: Be Bop Deluxe, Pavlov's Dog, Metro, Sniff 'n' the Tears, Vanilla Fudge, Gentle Giant, Splinter, Hudson-Ford, New England, Lake, Moon Martin, Barclay James Harvest, Spring, Spooky Tooth, Angel, Renaissance, Illusion, Klaatu, Sailor, City Boy, Horslips, Radio Stars, Kayak, Fischer-Z, Firefall etc.
I'd add the Canadian band Prism for their first 4albums, then tragedy struck them too. Lost their lead singer in a cycling accident and never seemed to totally recover. Some good songs on later albums but not quite up to the earlier stuff.
Barclay James Harvest were big in Europe, but yes, a brilliant band who produced consistently beautiful records, of which I have many.
The Beau Brummels. They were the first American folk rock band to hit the top 40, even before The Byrds. Their early hits were produced by a San Fransisco DJ named Sylvester Stewart, who went on to later fame as Sly of The Family Stone. They even guested on The Flintstones as "The Beau Brummelstones," doing their hit Laugh, Laugh.
Awesome picks!
Spencer Davis Group, Nashville Teens, Atomic Rooster, Aphrodite's Child
to name a few more...
Badfinger sold millions of records. They weren't forgotten.
You forgot Trooper. Amazing band from Canada
Raise a little hell
Rare Bird Rare Bird and rare bird. They are one of the most talented with a selection of the best songs of any of the progressive rock groups however they get very little love if any at all😢
You are absolutely right about that,a great group,the album "As your mind flyes by" has been my favorite for almost 50 years!
'Somebody is Watching' obviously didn't tranlate into 'somebody is listening'.....
Spirit 🔥👍
No Poco? If you're talking bands that didn't have the success they deserved, then are they number 12, or something? Their one of the first I think about when I think about bands that deserved more.
Heartily agree! Love the Burritos but Poco really broker the ground for Eagles and all others
RIP Eric Carmen, 2024. 40 years 🎂 since he and Dean Pitchford wrote Almist Paradise.
➕ Prism (from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦). Late Bruce Fairbairn and Jim Vallance were members. RIP Rocket Norton, April 2024 and Ron Tabak, 40 years in December 2024 since his death.
Love Prism as do quite a few friends and my daughter as well.
I still have a Flamin' Groovies album on vinyl.
The flying Burrito Brothers were massive the best country rock band of all time. Achey Brakey heart was garbage compared to the Burrito's The small Faces had great success, but were ripped off by management
Spirit...........been a fan for 55 years. Such a great band
Same here
Didn't they come up with the most played guitar riff of all time
@@normangeleri1522 "I'm driving a Ford Taurus to heaven".
This list needs a Vol. 2. Include:
Sonics
Fugs
MC5
Stooges
New York Dolls
Dictators
Runaways
Barnabas
Except that the Dolls and Runaways didn't even have an EP of good songs each and the Dictators just plain sucked.
Add Slade to volume 2
SLADE AND Angel
MC5
Stooges
New York Dolls all got plenty of recognition
@@jamieflowers1493 NOT while they were active!
Let's never forget 'The Hot Water Band' and 'Fay Wray' both from Bangor, North Wales
Great list, I would have definitely added the Edgar Broughton Band, perhaps Wishbone Ash, and maybe Be Bop Deluxe. The only band I would have omitted was the Groovies I never got the attraction to that band but hey that's me...
Gentle Giant and Mother's Finest two more great bands that never caught on big in the US. I think MF still tour.
Ten Years After; The Turtles.
(They each punched above their fame, I thought.)
Avin lee could play with the best of them.
@@Ron-yd3fn Yeah, there's a video up that compares Clapton/SRV/Van Halen/Alvin back to back. Alvin had a great ear for sound, I think, besides speed.
You can put Buckacre from the 70s on that list probably not many have heard of them check them out. There's some UA-cam stuff out on them
I noticed that Jeff Lynne was included in two of these bands that "never got the recognition they deserved". And if they had received that recognition? There probably never would have been an ELO. This applies to several of the other bands mentioned. The late 60s and early 70s were a time of musical exploration and great ferment. Those bands were the incubators of future greatness. Think of The Yardbirds. They were pretty successful but they didn't last. What came out of The Yardbirds? Hmmm...Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Eric Clapton, Renaissance...
HELL !!!Jeff was in the MOVE and that didn't get mentioned🤨🤨
Once you get into the '80s, radio airplay, television appearances and decent album sales no longer defined success. You just needed a modest but devout following. The attitude is retroactive - no music fan would consider the bands in this video to be failures.
I thought that The Soft Machine, Spirit and The Velvet Underground were quite big in the underground music scene.
Don’t sleep on rem
Bad finger will be remembered for Baby Blue being the song for the final scene on breaking bad and the movie Departed then hitting the UK charts again
Others I remember : The Castaways. I still listen to "Liar Liar"; it has the most electrifying scream of relationship anguish I have ever heard by any rock or pop group. The Standells...Love their sleazy-sounding single "Dirty Water. To me it's a stone cold classic. The Outsiders got me with "Time Won't Let Me" but I never heard anything else by them here in America. Mott the Hoople got acclaim and recorded the classic single "All the Young Dudes" but also never heard anything else from them or at least anything else I liked as much. Count Five, the band that did "Psychotic Reaction" (one of the wildest singles you will ever hear!)... Everyday People was a hippy-pop group in the early '70s but as far as I know they had their greatest success with a fantastically funky dance tune called "I Like What I Like" (also covered by Mama Cass) that was embraced by the gay community as an underground dance floor anthem.. My fave band on your list is The Zombies, who got lots of critical acclaim but didn't rise to the level I thought they would but they gave us 3 wonderful singles and probably more I'm not aware of.
Great bands and great songs!
Others include The Creation, The Flame, Four Jacks and a Jill, The Liverbirds, The Lords, Tangerine Dream, The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes released a brilliant psychedelic version of the Latin Mass (in F minor), sung in Latin. Has to be a first! I'll add Vanilla Fudge, Dream Academy and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
The Lords! I saw them in 1966, in Germany. Some great tunes, though the outfits and hairstyles didn't hold up very well against all the cool new bands like the Small Faces, Move and Cream. But the hits like Poor Boy and Poison Ivy were great - they were played everywhere in Germany - as were lesser known ones like 'Don't Mince Matter' and 'Late Last Sunday Evening'.
Thank you for mentioning a band that always deserved greater recognition.
You still don't get it. As you kept saying, these bands didn't become superstars. They achieved something better. Not only deep respect from their peers, but they influenced so many musicians, who went on to advance the music into the mainstream.
Yeah I don’t the Velvet Underground cared if they ever had commercial success, in fact I will argue they are the most influential bands of the 60’s they are reason Punk Rock, Grunge, and even modern alternative even exist.
What about the Electric Prunes and The Misunderstood, another two great bands
A great, great, GREAT band most people have never heard of is Pentangle.
With two stellar guitarists in John Renbourn and Bert Jansch, with the inimitable Jacqui McShee on vocals... (apologies to all if I've made typos) Basket of Light was literally life-changing for me.
Big star was a great band - Alex Chilton was a great talent
So was Chris Bell.
None of these bands are forgotten. Another loss for AI
Be-Bop Deluxe. Most underrated band ever.
I became fans of The Move and The Small Faces while stationed in Germany. One act that should have been on this list is "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich." Great, interesting catchy songs. Eight "Top 10" UK hits including "Hold Tight" "Legend of Xanadu" I couldn't believe it when I got back to the States and nobody had ever heard of these groups.
After The Move broke up Wizzard were formed before ELO.
Roy Wood formed Wizzard AFTER he left ELO. So The Move, ELO and Wizzard in that order.
Flowers in the rain was the first song played on Radio 2 when it first started broadcasting.
As 'yesman2755' notes here, Wizzard was formed by Roy Wood after departing ELO, which he conceded was more Jeff Lynne's vision. Wood's perspective was obvious to those familiar with the Move's 'Mesage from the Country' album.
Didn't help that Big Star were on Ardent Records (?) whose total promotional budget probably equaled one Beatles recording session!
"The Velvet Underground... were largely ignored by the mainstream". Which was exactly how they wanted it, as did quite a few of other bands here.
I'd put Family on this list.
Crack the sky and NRBQ
There we go...Crack the Sky!
I may be wrong, but I think a couple of the shots in #15 are actually the Bay City Rollers