Underrated Crap

Here are some fairly mediocre bands that happen to get things right on more than one occasion but due to their, lets say, 50/50 crap to good ratio are often overlooked.

Kashmir. Ok...so they sound like Radiohead's younger brother if he were dropped into a vat of boiling pot of pop-music water...then nearly drowned but at the last minute were retrieved, never to be quite the same again. These guys have been around for a looong time, like...I think they were called Nirvana before Nirvana, no kiddinz!

But yeah, Zitilites was, ya know, not a GREAT album. But it had Surfing The Warm Industry and Melpomene on it and they're pretty fantastic tracks. Also, No Balance Palace was, while formulaic and a little lame, still quite nice to listen to. Sure, David Bowie and Lou Reed make appearances but we can't hold THAT against them can we?

Ah, here's a good one, Placebo: Yes yes I know, they ARE god awful. HOWEVER, Without You I'm Nothing is actually pretty good overall. Ok, so Brian Molko (or whatever) does eventually bring me to a junction whereby I have to either decide to take some drugs, have a sex change because I'm so terribly confused, or kill myself BUT I dunno, Ask For Answers and Brick Shithouse are pretty great songs. Ok, I just realized Placebo are exceedingly (and undeservingly) famous but I dunno, they SHOULDN'T be...so I'm going to treat them as if they're not...and thus deserve to be...or something. shut up.

One more, The Stills: Ok, Logic Will Break Your Heart is an AMAZING album and so I hesitate to put these guys into a "lame" category at all. Ok, so its a bit like very bland indie/alt but damn, its so good. The only reason I'm forced to condemn these fine Canadian lads to "Lame-acropolis" is because their second album, Without Feathers or something, was the most god awful trip ever. There is like ONE salvagable track on the entire thing, its sad.

Anyways, thats all from me!