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Define "underrated". But I'll throw something into the pot. Riffing off the first item on the list (Roger Miller/Waterhole #3), The Ballad of Cat Ballou (film
by flir 3y ago
Define "underrated". But I'll throw something into the pot.
Riffing off the first item on the list (Roger Miller/Waterhole #3), The Ballad of Cat Ballou (film released after Nat King Cole's death): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghnpUNTR1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghnpUNTR1I and Idle On Parade (Anthony Newley was a strong influence on David Bowie, and you can really hear it here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qbkKICmO_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qbkKICmO_Q
Dunno if it's underrated (2.7m views), but while Donna Summer's I Feel Love is numinous, Venus Hum's cover with Blue Man Group is just suffused with joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFBXjRbVl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFBXjRbVl0
Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRDvwsSLKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkRDvwsSLKY (album it's on didn't nearly get the attention it deserved, possibly because they were thought of as a novelty act)
Oh, and I did a deep dive into British cinema in the past two years, and the best little-known thing I came back with was Angels One Five (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_One_Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_One_Five). There's a whole genre of British films that are obviously working out the trauma of WWII (much like America's run of Vietnam War films a couple of decades later), many forgettable, all of their time, but this one's small, quiet, and has an upper lip so stiff you could use it as a ruler. It's Brief Encounter with Spitfires. Standout performance by Jack Hawkins.