Top 10 Underrated Alt/Indie Guitarists EVERYONE Should Know!
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- Here's 10 guitarists i think are underrated in the Alt/Indie space. Some of these are from bands that shaped my playing and then a couple of guitarists from 'newer' bands!
This came from a community post i put up here on the channel. I could have literally added hundreds more i think. Particularly from new bands that i listen to but here we are. I know some of the guitarists here are obviously revered in this space but I still think they are underrated compared to your typical Hendrix, Clapton type players. Most of the artists here shaped the music I make now with a couple of new artists thrown in for good measure. I'm sure i'll do another similar video in the future with more 'new' artists but just wanted to put this out first! ✌️
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0:00 Introduction
0:29 GRAHAM COXON
2:21 ELLIOT SMITH
3:43 JACK WHITE
4:53 BILLY CORGAN
6:09 J MASCIS
7:06 ST VINCENT
8:05 JOHNNY MARR
9:06 BRADY EBERT
10:01 ED O'BRIEN
11:13 KURT COBAIN - เพลง
Hey everyone. This came from a community post i put up here on the channel. Combined with the suggestions on here and my own thoughts I came up with these. They’re mostly just from bands that shaped my playing and not from the new bands I listen to now (bar St Vincent and Turnstile) I could have literally added hundreds more i think.Particularly from new bands that i listen to but here we are. I know some of the guitarists here are obviously revered in this space but I still think they are underrated compared to your typical Hendrix, Clapton type players. Most of the artists here shaped the music I make now with a couple of new artists thrown in for good measure. I'm sure i'll do another similar video in the future with more 'new' artists but just wanted to put this out first! «
A+ list man! Love everyone of them. Great video as always.
Oliver Ackermann from A Place To Bury Strangers. A true noise master.
Great shout!! And maker of insane pedals
@@thesethingsmakenoises actually one of my top 3 favorite guitarists, love aptbs!
James Dean Bradfield from Manic Street Preachers is the most underrated guitarist in all of alt rock. The way he blends elements of punk and even metal into his guitar playing is just mind blowing to me (also, anyone who can play Yes while singing at the same time immediately has my respect)
I stopped following Manics after Everything Must Go (the music wasn't doing it for me, if less disposable income at the time to buy as much as I may have like). However, during the-Richie-years, he was like a mix of Mick Jones and Slash and on Holy Bible was an effing god! Ditto the comment about playing and singing - like how? (practise obviously but he mustn't have had more than an hour's sleep a night)
Creo que el solo de guitarra de Faster o la intro de Motown Junk deberían tener más reconocimiento, realmente James es un guitarrista excepcional
Good one! I’ve never been hugely into the manics, maybe I should give them more listens.
When I saw the title of the video, he was the first one who came to mind. His solos are some of the best in my opinion.
i just watched this vid and my first instinct was to come comment about jdb. you are so right !! i think he’s one of the most overlooked and underrated frontmen ever . his phrasing not just in guitar but also singing is so unique and impossible to replicate . i have no idea how he could sing some of the songs on th e holy bible and still have them sound like actual songs and not books
Graham is legend. Every blur album (with him on it) has exceptional, and creative guitar work
Yeah 100%
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing this with us !
Thanks!
glad to see appreciation for Annie Clark on here. her first 4 albums are some of my favorite indie albums of all time. also Ed O’brien for sure. take songs like Blow Out, the live versions especially, he just carries the energy so much with something that serves as more of an ambient kinda thing. good vid thanks man
They’re so good aren’t they. The record shop owner in my local town introduced me to her music in maybe 2012 and I was hooked.
@@thesethingsmakenoises oh shit man cool you got into her early. a few years ago when i got into guitar i was also getting into her early stuff. idk something about it just speaks young artist trying to figure out their sound which was me at the time
Nice list. Thanks. New playlist ideas !
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I think Adam Franklin (Lead Singer/Guitarist of Swervedriver) would have been perfect for this list, but I enjoy this list
Ooooo nice yeah!
I'd mention that outside the UK that Paul Weller is a really underrated guitar player and songwriter too! great choices btw
great list
Great list, I'm a huge fan of a lot of these artists. J Mascis is the man, and the reason I love fuzz. I'd give another vote to Greg Sage too with the Wipers. I just picked up a plumes to try out from one of your videos on pedals, can't wait to try that out. Thanks for the playing tips and content dude.
Thanks mate! Ooo nice. You’ll love the plumes 🤘
Cool list! Some honorable mentions I would have included: Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo) from Ween, Doug Martsch of Built to Spill, and Chris Brokaw from Come. The guitar work on 11:11 by Come is great. Another good example of making blues riffs sound better.
And just cuz I like giving album recommendations, check out the band “Big Bite” if you haven’t already given them a listen. Their self titled is really good, very 90’s grunge revival kinda feel. The song “Old Mood” is a real banger.
Thanks again for another cool video!
Good shout mate! Some new guitarists for me there
Annie Clark is probably my top lately!!!The song "cruel" and "fear the future" are my faves.
Also Matt from Hum.👍
So good isn’t she. Ahh yeah great shout.
I’d add Matt Talbott and Tim Lash from Hum, they use similar guitar techniques and dynamics to what you’d find on Siamese Dream and somehow make them sound even bigger
Yeah great shouts mate!
Kevin Shields, he basically created the blueprint for shoegaze.
To be honest I was actually gonna add Bilinda Butcher because Kevin gets all the kudos (deserved mind you) but she often gets overlooked when she was an awesome guitarist too!
@@thesethingsmakenoises that's another great choice, Bilinda just adds so much to the mbv sound
Cool video. Your list has a lot of singers. I reckon guitarists that are also the main vocalist often get overlooked as players - unless they really present themselves as guitarists up front (Hendrix, Clapton, Matt Bellamy, the guy from Wheatus).
Another two possibly underrated singing guitarists are Stephen Malkmus (how do replicate that style? where do you even begin?) and Rivers from Weezer - I saw Weezer about 20 years ago and the entire crowd sang every note of every solo - which is very impressive but they are Weezer fans.
Keep up the good work.
Yeah I reckon you’re on to something there mate!
Joff Oddie and Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice, Joshua Hayward from the Horrors, Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman from Warpaint, Alicia Bognanno from Bully are just some of my favourites
Awesome shouts!!
Great list! I agree totally with Graham, he is one of my favorite guitar players of all time. Some others that i think are underrated:
1. Nick McCabe from The Verve, this guy makes orchestral sounds, is an ambient genius.
2. Steve Turner from Mudhoney, amazing tone and chaotic solos that i love.
3. Adam Franklin from Swervedriver, amazing songwriter that use weird tunnings.
4. Ken Andrews/Greg Edwards from Failure, two amazing songwriters, they turn on guitar and bass, and make weird melodies and ambient sounds like no one.
5. Larry Lalonde from Primus, he obviously gets overlooked because of Les Claypool bass, but he is a noise, weird melodies on guitar-genius.
Awesome!!
Cool to hear that you're late to The Smashing Pumpkins party (but not too late). He's a great guitarist, he really liked Eddie Van Halen and his playing was inspired by EVH. Later on, BC developed his own style, but what I find the greatest thing about him is that he is an amazing songwriter! I really love The Smashing Pumpkins' live version of Space Oddity. The video is from ten years ago on Guitar Center's yt channel.
Ohh cool I haven’t heard that, I’ll check it out!
From the basement is one of the greatest videos on the internet. Watching it inspired ‘tear without tears’ on the new album.
So good!
Graham Coxon is my all-time favorite guitar player, he's so incredibly versatile and unique. Blur's 3 "Briitpop" albums have some of the coolest guitar parts I've heard, but at the same time he made all of the parts on the Self Titled and 13. Also his general guitar sound is great, it's a perfect mixture of classic and modern. Johnny Marr is awesome as well.
Side note: From what I remember, Graham said Bugman was played on a DOD Punkifier with the knobs turned all the way up.
So good right! Ohh no way really?
Also, I would add Scott Cortez (lovesliescrushing), nobody pushed the sound of ethereal noise shoegaze further back then.
Ooo I’ll check them out!!
Great first 10. I would have to add Geordie Walker from Killing Joke to the list, just an insane wall of guitar and so influential on anything from thrash, to industrial and grunge, always made making a huge sound look effortless - also first band i ever saw live. My other add would be Billy Duffy from the Cult and particularly the first 3 Cult albums.
Oh Killing Joke are a really cool band aren’t they! I’ve never really listened to much of the cult. Need to change that!
Daniel Ash-Bauhaus
Nice!!
Yessss!
Dig this list but I’d add Greg Sage of The Wipers. He influenced many of the guitarists on this list. Johnny Marr used a slide on How Soon is now. STILL gives me goosebumps to hear!
Oh awesome shout. I don’t know him! Will check it out.
Kurt Cobain once said if you want the Seattle sound you have to go to Portland Oregon and the Wipers
Randy Randall from No Age. Also VERY MUCH agree with the Failure comment.
I’m so glad you put Ed O Brien, I have learned so many guitar techniques I never knew existed regarding Delay, looping, and volume swells. Ed O Brien in my eyes is the ideal electronic Guitarist.
Yeah I think he’s a wizard.
Yeah I think he’s a wizard.
Joey Santiago of Pixies, Kevin Shields of MBV for sure!
Great shouts although like I mentioned in another comment I’d probably go Bilinda Butcher in terms of MBV cos I think Kevin gets all the kudos.
dude these are the most highly rated guitarists in alt rock.
Hey mate, I get that some of them are really well known in the genre but I still think people would instantly go to Clapton, Hendrix, etc for the guitar greats and overlook some of these. Maybe it’s in a mishap with the title.
@@thesethingsmakenoises Fair enough. Also they're all fantastic guitarists that often get shunned by alt-bros in favor of more obscure musicians.
I like a lot of your choices. I'm unusual, because I'm an American, and I love Blur. Coxon is truly underrated. I prefer guitarists (and other musicians) who play like songwriters. They serve the song. I also like guitarists who are really creative. I get the feeling you would agree. Most guitarists prefer musicians who have stellar technique. Technique allows musicians to express their musical ideas, which is ultimately what playing should be about imho. So technique is a tool, not a means to an end.
I agree with everything there mate!
It was a rule for Johnny , no solo’s. He made one exception on shoplifters of the world.
Peter Kember (Sonic Boom/Spaceman 3). A True Drone/Psych master.
Awesome!
I know its probably a bit heavier than what you usually listen to, but you should definitely check out marissa paternoster from screaming females. she's an absolute badass and has been releasing consistently great albums for over a decade now. rose mountain is one of my all time fav punk records bc of her work
I’ll check them out mate!
Nigel Pulsford. His playing style is minimal, especially on the records, but live it’s quite evident how good he really is and he used to improvise a lot.
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Glad to see Billy Corgan getting some love here. I’d also throw Neil Young in there, to me he’s the bridge between classic rock and alternative. Josh Homme is pretty class too
Ohh yeah all great calls.
I think Alec O’Hanley from the band Alvvays is very underrated as well. Always adds ridiculous texture to the song and can come up with an incredibly singable lead line
curious what you think of Anton Newcombe, a bit sloppy but his leads and melodies , hooks, his tone. song "hide and seek" sticks with me after 30 years.
I would add Lee Ranaldo, Guy Picciotto and Brian Molko to the indie guitarrist list
Good call!
Brian molko had among the best down strokes hand on this genre. Days before you came live at olympia proved it!! Long last brian!!
Adam Franklin - Swervedriver, powerful, beautiful, lyrical playing
Alistair Parker - Bailter Space, monstrous, sublime, elegaic
Lee Ranaldo - the hidden melody and overtone of Sonic Youth, check out Lee with Nels Cline on "Christina as I knew her".
Yvette Young - Covet, just, wow
All awesome ideas. I think Yvette Young is an awesome guitarist but I’m not really into Covets music, I think it would be cool to see live though.
Alan Sparhawk - Low. Simple, emotive, effective and latterly experimental and incred.
Amazing band!
@@thesethingsmakenoises yes. Incredible. Managed to see them a few months before Mimi’s passing.
Yes coffee and tv. 100%
Pretty sure Johnny Marr got the sound from How Soon is Now by putting a reverb -> tremolo before a distorted tube amp. Think I read that somewhere, but I may be remembering wrong.
I was wrong. Sounds like they did a lot of heavy in-studio layering tricks. He ran his up-tuned guitar through 4 Twin reverb amps with the tremolo effects all engaged. Then pumped the reverb on each amp to give it that spread out feel to the wobble created by the amps’ trem. The one part you referenced in the video he achieved with a basic slide on a different down tuned guitar track. Then it sounds like they layered multiple tracks together to get that weird sound.
No idea how he’d replicate that live very easily.
No way that’s really interesting! Thanks mate!
I agree with you about Billy Corgan. I think he is under rated as a guitar player and by guitar players even though he’s a huge star.
Yeah I think so too!
you should listen to Italian alt rock band very verdena. they have the best guitar parts and sound in all of italy
Will do!
I definitely think Elena Tonra and Igor Haefeli from Daughter are underappreciated.
Great band
@@thesethingsmakenoises I also think Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns from Mogwai are awesome too.
Quinn Allman from the used imo was one of the better guitarists of that 2000’s scene he was in and I never hear anyone mention him I think he’s really good especially on those first two albums! I know he used a jcm 2000 and he used one of the early line 6 things to get his clean tones, all of them sound fantastic
Those emo riffs feel very nirvana like to me
Ahh that makes sense.
No way really? That’s interesting!
I’ll throw out another name: Sam Halliday of Two Door Cinema Club. His leads are always super melodic and absolutely MAKE the song, “What You Know” being the perfect example.
(Also, for what it’s worth, I’m in the US, and they could be overrated in the UK for all I know)
Yeah great shout! They were pretty big before but I’d say still underrated
Vincent accardi from the band brand new super underrated and probably the most original the leads this guy bring is just incredible between him and Jessie the song writing on the albums the devil and god and my favorite daisy are so amazing probably my favorite alt/grunge band of all time. I also love the work of Andy hull of Manchester Orchestra in the album cope. That album really made you feel something you just feel the pain he was going through with each riff and lyric.
Yeah fair play! Good shout. Cope is one of my favourite albums, so good!
Elliot Smith's Heatmiser albums remain some of my favourites as far as his minimalism go; there is def a learning curve there, as there is with QOTSA or PJ Harvey.Harvey is under rated as a guitarist as well, particularly on the early efforts.Jeffrey Lee Pierce from Gun Club falls into this " acquired taste" space as well, as much as the unique voices of Lou Reed or Iggy Pop; his song writing is seemingly effortless.
With the Smashing Pumpkins, there was never any real connection; it's funny you call him a virtuoso, because I find him largely insincere/soulless like most of those in that category.
There is finding sounds that speak to you, and then there is finding a functioning context for them, - or vice versa, either way.But for me, the way that process is approached is everything.
Yes, the mistakes you make can add to the performance.
Thanks for the comment! Some great points!
Jonny Buckland from Coldplay. Super underrated
Yeah good shout actually!
ngl very obvious, plain and boring list.. people like Rowland S. Howard, Steve Albini, Santiago Durango, Daniel Ash, David Pajo, Brian McMahan, Ian MacKaye, Guy Picciotto and lots and lots of others deserve much more spotlight in my opinion
Excellent list you got there.
Fair play mate, these are mainly just the people who shaped my guitar styles and I still think get overlooked as guitarists as a whole.
@@thesethingsmakenoises there is no way someone overlooks goddamn kurt cobain as a guitarist man... considering how many people he inspired across the globe.. this sounds more overrated rather than underrated in my perspective
Peter Krebs from Hazel
I don’t know them! Will check them out.
Creo que añadiría a James Dean Bradfield de los Manic Street Preachers, Brian Molko y Stefan Osdal de Placebo, Alex Turner de los Arctic Monkeys y Kele Okereke de Bloc Party
All great shouts!
I know underrated is the key word but I hear dudes that stop analyzing guitarrist if not tom morello or other big band guys like peark jam
Brian molko in his prime
robin guthrie?
Great shout!
James. Dean. Bradfield.
nick drake
Great shout!
Why not johnny greenwood also radiohead
I do love Johnny greenwood!
@@thesethingsmakenoises Yeah I kinda understood the operative word is underrated, so I guess between Johnny and Ed, Ed is not seen as the guitarrist he is
Hi is not underrated i guess
Enjoy your channel man but think this is a pretty obvious list on the whole. Marr & Coxon are no way underrated. Ed O'Brien is underrated but he still has a signature Strat, so perhaps he's not, I dunno.
Hey mate, yeah I know some are definitely well known in these genres but on the whole I wanted to highlight the guitarists who kinda shaped my playing that I think are underrated as a whole. Like I think if you said to most guitarists who are some of the greats they wouldn’t say Coxon and Corgan, I think they’d go Clapton or Hendrix. Maybe I shoulda gone more obscure. I’ll make another one perhaps!
@@thesethingsmakenoises yeah I hear you on a lot of that. I think a big omission here is Kevin Shields, pretty much responsible for a whole genre and a technique of playing but wouldn't get mentioned as a great guitarist like Clapton or Hendrix as you say
Jeff Buckley and Greg Sage
Good call!