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Underrated
A film premieres on the wrong weekend. An album drops in the wrong year. A song fades away before anyone finds it. We’re here to share these underrated gems with everyone else.
It’s Underrated is a place for the music and cinema that deserved better. These are the movies and music that we are obsessed with and feel the need to share. We make the case and you decide if we’re right (we’re right).
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Recent Reviews
Stop referring to Empire Records as just a Cult Classic
Why didn't "Plowed" get the respect and recognition it deserved?
How did we collectively forget "Hanginaround" was a great song?
Jump in a time machine back to the 90's, when record stores really mattered.
"Plowed" was lost to the 90s as just another grunge song, but it should be remembered as a fast-paced 90s classic
Everyone remembers “Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby.” Almost no one talks about “Hangin’ Around.”
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Simple Minds
Alive and Kicking
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: Simple Minds are one of the most misremembered bands in the history of pop music. Most people have a version of them stored somewhere in their brain and that version is almost entirely built on one song they didn’t even write. A song recorded as a favor, released reluctantly, that went on to define them permanently in the eyes of everyone who wasn’t paying close enough attention. The song from The Breakfast Club is good, but this song is great...
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