“Weird Al” Yankovic

Chronic Future-they did make a comeback in ‘04,especially with “Time And Time Again”,but I haven’t heard any more feedback from the nmedia.The last album was just hard hitting,visionary,rap rock…With even more morals and opinions than when rap rock first jumped off(for the record)

Oh yeah,and Bran Van 3000.They were a good,artistic collective in their heyday,plus Stephanie was fine!

Pavement.
Glen Campbell.
Velvet Underground.
Wire.

Anton from the Brian Jonestown Massacre. He is not only one of the most underrated geniuses but one of the greatest minds in music in the last twenty years. Anyone that has listened to any of his music cannot deny this. Therefore he should be your next coverboy, if you can contain him

have not seen wilco on the cover yet

trust me, anton has all the groupies and coke he wants! and he dont want to be hanging with no loser like bono

Antony (and the Johnsons)
Rufus Wainwright
Ryan Adams
Jeff Tweedy

Queens of the Stone Age
Sigur Ros
Wilco
Trail of Dead
mono
explosions in the sky

Fergie
Britney
Lindsay

Mink/Willie Deville

i’ve got two at toataly different ends of the spectrum:1) the replacements 2) tommy lee. the replacements were hugely talent and never got the recognition they diserved and the moderately talented tommy lee is getting more attention than he ever diserved now in middle age. what other hair band legends have pulled that off?

it has to be jeff lewis band. u cannot understand the beauty of hippy/realistic/folk/punk /pych edelic songs with real educational value and illusrations.

Rufus Wainwright
Manu Chao
Nick Drake
Wolf Parade
Hayden
Craig Cardiff

Most of these acts have hardly been overlooked! Wilco? Velvet Underground?!! No, the answer is easy. Bruce Cockburn. A great talent over 35+ years. A fine melodist and top flight lyricist who touches on spirituality, politics, and romance – pretty much everything worth talking about really – with creativity, warmth and poetic insight. I’ve never understood why he isn’t as well regarded as, say, Neil Young. Better late than never – Bruce is the man.

Jules Shear. Please, please, please listen to a 1990 album called ‘The Great Puzzle’ and tell me it didn’t change the world without the world even knowing.

Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman

RUSH and YES. Easy…

Daniel Johnston, hands down

Lee Mavers

Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers! They’re so under-rated they are the best band in rock ‘n’ roll’s existence but blew it all away.

Although I love the Johnny Thunders/ HeartBreakers call (you could include anything by Richard Hell there too) I’m gonna have to go with Hanoi Rocks. Of all the ways that Vince Neil has pissed me off over the years, killing Razzle and therefore Hanoi pissed me off the most.

“Remember the days we wrote up on the walls that punks never die!”

isaac brock from modest mouse is definitely the most overlooked genius, the guy just blows me away.

My favorite band that is nearly as heavy as Zeppelin and almost as trippy as The Dead . . . the MC5 with Fred “Sonic” Smith on guitar

Rush of course, because all the world recognize them the last 30 years, except the moles form Rolling Stone.

Neither Rush nor Yes lacked attention…get a grip. She’s asking for an obscure act that has made a difference to a large number of people, but were alluded by fame for one reason or another.

My vote goes to Jane’s Addiction. “Ritual de lo Habitual” was prime to break the band open onto the plane of rock stardom, but the band broke up too early to enjoy it. And, unfortunately, the reunions never kept the momentum up.

the dudes from can, mark e. smith & lee ’scratch’ perry.

Tears for Fears, Yes. AS good as they are, TFF probably still has their best music ahead of them. Goldfrapp is a pretty good off-spring, I would say.

Bruce Cockburn is definately one of the most underrated rockers ever. And for some reason Rolling Stone and America still don’t appreciate the genius of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip – the greatest rock band in the world.

Elliot Smith

Richard Thompson

There are so many! Even though many think Chis Isaak has ‘made it big’ – in my estimation, he could be bigger. He’s great, his shows are spectacular and he’s a great musician and write.

Wayne Perkins… a go to session guitarist for the likes of Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell, Lynyrd Skynyrd among others. He also writes some great songs.

Sunny
Day
Real
Estate

The quintessential pioneers of what is now known as emo rock. They rawked with raw power and emotion. Not just to sell records. They brought about emo rock when emo rock was on the precipice of standing for something tangible and real.

has the velvet underground ever been on the cover? or lou reed?…either one of those

tom waits?

The The
Matt Johnson is a brilliant lyricist who hasn’t made a bad album but has faded into obscurity due to record company issues.

Jeff Buckley

Ooh, one of my favorite topics! I see many good artists listed. Here are my additions:

Rocket From the Tombs and/or Pere Ubu
The Shoes
The Pretty Things
Rites of Spring
Slint
Glenn Branca

The individual who mentioned the late Jeff Buckley is so right. i vote for Jeff anyday. Great choice!

velvet underground low reed was on the cover but thats different i mean like in 67 or 68.

big star
nick lowe

nick drake i mean not nick loew sorry brain-fart

butthole surfers,no contest.

I really think they missed the boat with Britney Spears.

Once again most of the people here have proven how stupid they are, so I say we move on. I think a much better question is who’s been on the cover and REALLY should not have been? I thought of it as I was looking through the back issues and saw Creed on there. (No one say Counting Crows though….I like them.)

Rush. Even now they sell more records than the most popular indie stars of the minute.

or Mike Patton.

Someone said Anton from BJM…good call.

Jeff Lynne or Ronnie Lane

Definitely Chuck Norris. He should be on the cover of every magazine

dinosaur jr.

Radiohead, i mean come on!!!!!
JEsUS christ, they’re the greatest band on earth.

Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley.

Slayer (just kidding)

Queen Latifah – She’s been too important for too long, has made a succesful transition to acting and only receives recognition from the black community for being progressive, smart and beautiful. And she’s done it all while being plus-size.

RZA needs his own cover. He’s got to be a genius…Tarantino only exploits and rips off geniuses right?

The Monks. Black Monk Time was, I believe, the world’s first punk album, in 1966, and nobody seems to give them any credit. Of course, it was only released in Germany, so it was very difficult for people here to hear it back then. And people in Germany didn’t really hear it much either. It’s been reissued on CD with bonus tracks (which are sometimes awesome, sometimes hilarious).

Some good choices, Wilco for sure, criminal that the Velvet Underground never made it, but for me 3 words MOTT THE HOOPLE!!!

IAN HUNTER has never graced the cover of Rolling Stone. An original member of the comsumate Engish Glam Rock and early punk band – Mott The Hoople, Hunter’s solo career was often much aligned with premier guitarist Mick Ronson (of David Bowie fame). This world class singer/songwriter is still the rocker on guitar or piano in 2007. He is readying a new studio release for this coming year entitled “Shrunken Heads” with international tour to follow. Always overlooked by the greater music public but revered by music critics, his work has been often covered by superstar artists like Ozzy Osbourne, Great White, Barry Manilow, Billy Idol, Def Leppard, Mountain, Queen, Meatloaf and others. Definitely deserving of a Rolling Stone cover and article.

todd snider

Has Stevie Ray Vaughan ever been on it?

weird al

the mc5 they have influenced most of the rock bands out there today and they had a lock of gall to say what theyve said

Izzy Stradlin

Brian Jones

Radiohead
Radiohead
Rad iohea d
Radiohead
Radiohead
Radio head
Radiohead
Radiohead
Ra diohead
Radiohead
Radiohead

skerr, I’m with you man/woman. Bruce Cockburn is the choice to be reckoned with!

The Fall.

Mark E Smiths brilliantly mental band have been going for 30 years and outside of a hardcore of fans in the UK and suitably smug Journos who know what a national treasure Smith is The Fall are are generally unknown. It’s a crime I tell ya!!

Conor Oberst

RADIOHEAD. SLEATER-KINNEY.

Jayhawks
Wilco
Radiohead
Ai r
Jellyfish

Has that Springsteen fellow been on the cover?

Metallica on every cover – any questions?

if metallica was on every cover i’d kick my own ass!

Zack de la Rocha and/or Rage Against the Machine
yes i know they’re history now, but they’re legendary and everyone knows it… there’s a LOT i could say about RATM, including zack’s timelessly scatching lyrics and vocals or morello’s insane guitaring, but i think there immortality in the music world can be summed up by a simple fact: every one i’ve ever known of my generation agrees to rage – no matter whether their primary preference of music is rock/rap/reggea/blues/pop/tran ce/WHATEVER… its about time that this cult movement got recognized.

from a true american idiot: “Neither Rush nor Yes lacked attention…get a grip.” and then goes: “My vote goes to Jane’s Addiction.”… do you really think that Navarro and Farrell deserves more attention? … c’mon. they’re been doing only crap since jane’s addiction broke up. Reality tv and Lollapaloza overexposed them only to show that their talent dissapeared years ago.

DUDE! Daniel Fucking Johnston!

the beatles

I like michael johnson and jills answer….but I have to say nick drake

This might be considered a odd choice but here goes:

Bill Haley and the Comets.

“Rock Around The Clock” is quite possibly the greatest oldie that ever existed, and while Haley’s work is not the absolute beginning point for rock it is quite close, yet this man is NEVER, EVER MENTIONED AT ALL. He did have several smaller hits around the same time as well. I know he’s not perceived as the smoothest dude around, but is that totally necessary?

cheesecrop- A worthy consideration in Bill Haley!

Donny Hathaway and Sly Stone. Both are innovators, great players, writers and producers. Both are more influential than people could ever realize.

John Manning and Bazaar

The Kinks (they never get the respect they deserve) or Brian Eno.

The whole genre has largely been overlooked since A Tribe Called Quest fell off, but numerous artists could be included in this discussion:

Blackalicious (progressive-hip-hop at its best, amazing flow, progressive beats)
Jurassic 5 (especially the first two albums)
Common (starting to get his due, but “Electric Circus” is still one of the most overlooked hip=hop albums)

the violent femmes. i think they deserve a long article outlining there influential career.

1) XTC-Pop music’s cleverest songwriters.

2) Brian Eno-although not overlooked, his influence is perhaps understated.

3) Roxy Music-the timing was slightly off for this ground-breaking band who set the tone for the eighties, but never quite got the recognition they deserved.

Hieroglypics
Atmosphere
Elli ot Smith

Arctic Monkkeys, My Chemical Romance or Wolfmother need to be on the cover of Rolling Stone at one point–and not one of those joke covers–a full-fledged cover with articles within it!