100 Greatest Underrated Rock Artists

[Pete]

[shadow=red,left,300]This list is concerned with those artists who were shamefully ignored and/or underrated when they should of been acknowledged for their talent. It only focuses on the quality of their music, thus proving why they should not have been underrated.
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1. Link Wray
Link Wray may never get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but his contribution to the language of rockin' guitar would still be a major one, even if he had never walked into another studio after cutting "Rumble." Quite simply, Link Wray invented the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists.
2. Nazareth
3. Ten Years After
4. Quicksilver Messenger Service
5. Deep Purple
6. The Moody Blues
7. Uriah Heep
8. The Jeff Beck Group
9. The Animals
10. Captain Beyond
11. The Great Society
12. The Mahavishnu Orchestra
13. The United States Of America
14. John Mayall
15. The Johnny Burnette Trio
16. Wishbone Ash
17. Big Brother & The Holding Company
18. Pink Floyd (early years)
19. Johnny Winter
20. Mountain
21. Love
22. KISS
23. Iron Butterfly
24. UFO
25. The Amboy Dukes
26. Rory Gallagher
27. Them
28. Montrose
29. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
30. The Byrds
31. Atomic Rooster
32. Budgie
33. Pretty Things
34. Big Star
35. MC5
36. The 13th Floor Elevators
37. Robin Trower
38. Humble Pie
39. Bloodrock
40. Professor Longhair
41. Traffic
42. Moby Grape
43. Electric Prunes
44. Paul Butterfield Blues Band
45. Blue Cheer
46. The Guess Who
47. It's A Beautiful Day
48. The Five Royales
49. Free
50. Taste
51. Rick Derringer
52. Bill Haley & The Comets
53. Savoy Brown
54. The Lovin' Spoonful
55. Sugarloaf
56. Spirit
57. Lee Dorsey
58. April Wine
59. Triumph
60. The Nice
61. Procol Harum
62. Fleetwood Mac (original band)
63. The Hollies
64. Buffalo Springfield
65. Van Der Graaf Generator
66. Argent
67. Mothers Of Invention
68. Clear Light
69. The Small Faces
70. The Zombies
71. Cactus
72. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
73. Curved Air
74. Captain Beefheart
75. Sweet
76. Spooky Tooth
77. Eric Johnson
78. Canned Heat
79. Ted Nugent
80. The Troggs
81. Billy Lee Riley
82. Foghat
83. Eddie Floyd
84. Cannibal & The Headhunters
85. Steve Vai
86. Brian Setzer & The Stray Cats
87. Badfinger
88. The Blasters
89. Dick Dale
90. Heart
91. The Groundhogs
92. Alan Parsons Project
93. Don Covay
94. Samson
95. Bobby Freeman
96. Electric Flag
97. Spencer Davis Group
98. Shadow Gallery
99. Kyuss
100. Rockpile

[Frank]

KIND OF A COOL & DIFFERENT LIST. THERES TONS OF BANDS ON THERE THAT I'VE ALWAYS LISTENED TOO THAT I STILL LISTEN TOO. AS A MATTER OF FACT NUMBER 2 ON THE LIST, NAZARETH. I JUST LISTENED TO THIER GREAT LIVE ALBUM TODAY 'SNAZ

[Rush862]

Frank said:

KIND OF A COOL & DIFFERENT LIST. THERES TONS OF BANDS ON THERE THAT I'VE ALWAYS LISTENED TOO THAT I STILL LISTEN TOO. AS A MATTER OF FACT NUMBER 2 ON THE LIST, NAZARETH. I JUST LISTENED TO THIER GREAT LIVE ALBUM TODAY 'SNAZ

Wow..alot of these bands I never considered unederrated...

I agree Frank, 'Snaz is an excellent album...one of my favorite live albums.

[Trexx]

I see many of my favs on that list. Underated is part of the backbone of my collection.

I find I don't buy it if it's getting seered into my brain by radio broadcast over and over.

[Frank]

trexx said:

Underated is part of the backbone of my collection.

I find I don't buy it if it's getting seered into my brain by radio broadcast over and over.

THATS ALWAYS BEEN MY M.O

[jaselle]

Good list and I agree with a lot of the groups the listed.