Top 5 obscure albums

[the_bird]

Oh yeah, Johnny Cash is good drinking music - but not exactly obscure.

I'll listen to some bluegrass, but don't own much other than a David Grisham / Jerry Garcia collaberation and a couple random things. Still, *good* country music, old school stuff, is cool with me.

 

[Kevlar]

I never thought of Johnny Cash as being obscure either, but when the movie "Walk the Line" came out half the people I work with have never heard of him!!!! That was when I really started feeling OLD!!!!!! I'm listening to "John Henry's Hammer" as I type this.

 

[Ize]

Amen on the Zebra you crazy Monkey. and DP's Perfect Strangers is an amazing album... :rockin:

Kevlar you bring up a point tho. I thought of this one a couple of days ago when Cheese started this but forgot about it. Mine isn't on the list of artists you mention so score for the obscure part, and another score is the listenability...

Top to bottom, Jerry Jeff Walker's "Ridin' High" is hands down the SH*%

Check out the last song, "Pissin' in the Wind" and you get the idea...


Ize

 

[The Happy Mug]

VERY hard to choose just 5. In no particular order:

Assemblage 23: Contempt
Fr/action: Last Man Standing
L'ame Immortelle: In Einer Zukunft Aus Tranen Und Stahl
Wumpscut: Evoke
Juno Reactor: Odyssey
Mortiis: The Sound of Rain.

I know, I know. I said it was hard.

 

[Kevlar]

I got hooked on Wumpscut while I was stationed in Germany. That is some awesome stuff

 

[Caplan]

I'm late to this thread - Good work Cheese - Great idea!
Spyk'd has come through with one of my fave bands so far - The Clash. Great band. Hit and miss in the studio but check out the live CD 'From here to eternity'.

Television self titled (late 70's early 80's post punk)

Plus this beauty of a suggestion from Bjorn - Stunning! I own it on vinyl but not on CD (shopping note to self....)

I'll add (and they may be thought as 'mainstream' to you US guys but not here in the UK)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (RIP Jeff)
Wheat - Hope and Adams - ('Don't I hold you' hopefully earnt them a few quid in a movie last year. It's a great song anyway)
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to find a friend (with tracks like 'Big Trucks', 'Bad Diary Days' and 'When they really get to know you they will run' as some of the highlights this is a must!)

 

[kaptain_karma]

olivia tremor control - dusk at cubist castle
unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone
new pornographers - electric version
kings of leon - aha shake heartbreak
stereolab - sound dust

 

[sudsmonkey]

Kevlar-I can appreciate the nod to Buck Owens, but where is David Alan Coe, or Porter Waggoner ? Don't try to claim Redneckism without those two !

 

[Catfish]

Morphine- Cure for Pain
Trailer Bride- Smelling Salts
The Super Suckers- Must Have Been High
THe White Stripes- Elephant
Tom Waits- Rain Dogs

 

[the_bird]

Good to see that there are three or four other Tom Waits fans kicking around.... don't see that all that often. Is there something about homebrewing that attracts Waits fans, or vice-versa?

 

[Kevlar]

Check again, Dave Coe is there, I did forget the Porter Wagner though. I don't have much of him in my library which is probably the cause of the oversight. Another name that I left off that kinda upset me was Johnny Paycheck.

 

[AHammer16]

KLF- The white room

James Browns funky people

Leftfield- leftism

still working on the next 2

Pigface- FOOK

KMFDM- Angst

 

[AHammer16]

More...

6. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - "Purple Onion"
7. Ministry "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste"
8. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult "Confessions Of A Knife"
9. Widespread Panic - "Widespread Panic"
10. Buju Banton - Every album he's put out.

Cheese get a hold of Ministry's "In case you did'nt feel like showing up-LIVE. f'ing awesome!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AHammer16]

And from Bauhaus, there was Love and Rockets...


I don't mean to blow your mind...really!


How about some Siouxsie and the Banshees? Maybe Bow Wow Wow?


Let us not forget
They Might Be Giants or Devo


Back on topic:

Crowded House - Woodface

Siouxsie is great but the only album i think that qualfies is a comp called twice upon a time the singles. Now that album is awesome!!

 

[AHammer16]

Ok, I am new to this forum, and I do listen to some of music posted in ths thread (especially Danzig), but after quickly running through the thread there isn't any country??? (At least real country that was recorded before 1980 with few exceptions). I have listen to hard rock and Metal for many years but when it comes to beer drinking nothing goes better than

Jonhnny Cash
George Jones
Tom T Hall.
Keith Whitley
David Allen Coe
Loretta Lynn
Patsy Cline
Marty Robbins
Vaghne Monroe
Red Sovine
CW Mc Call
Buck Owens


Just to name a few. Am I really that big of a redneck or does anyone listen to this music???

I just saw DAC in southern IL. The show was crap! He looks like he will die at any minute. He is a big bigot but when he isn't singing about that stupid **** he is great.

 

[AHammer16]

Ohh Ohh

Faith no more- Angel dust

Cannibal Corpse- The Bleeding

 

[freebird]

The Super Suckers- Must Have Been High

Scott Churilla is now playing drums for The Super Suckers. You should go see him live. Best live drummer I"ve ever seen.

5. Mojo Nixon - Wherabouts Unknown
4. Stephen Simmons - Last Call (personal friend of mine, www.stephensimmonsmusic.com) <--- shameless plug
3. Webb Wilder - About Time
2. Area Code 615 - Area Code 615 and Trip in the Country (double on 1 CD)
1. The Reverend Horton Heat - <any of his albums!>

However th' Legendary Shack*Shakers might worm their way into this list.

 

[Ize]

I just saw DAC in southern IL. The show was crap! He looks like he will die at any minute. He is a big bigot but when he isn't singing about that stupid **** he is great.

Did you come down and see him at the Macon County Fair a week ago? I blew off the show, and the fair. Too many years working it with the radio stations I used to be with...

Ize

 

[Cheesefood]

Pigface- FOOK

KMFDM- Angst

Gub is probably my fave Pigface. Good call though.

 

[Cheesefood]

Cheese get a hold of Ministry's "In case you did'nt feel like showing up-LIVE. f'ing awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Shot in my hometown of Joliet, IL. Unfortunatly, it was literally 3 days before I first heard (and fell in love with) Ministry. I can point out about a half-dozen friends who are in the video stage diving or in the mosh pit.

 

[AHammer16]

Gub is probably my fave Pigface. Good call though.

Hips Lips Tits Power!!!!

 

[Cheesefood]

Hips Lips Tits Power!!!!

Suck, suck, suck.

 

[1ill_Biscuit]

1) The Rev Horton Heat - Full Custom Gospel
Jim Horton has the biggest guitar in music
2) The Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
Juvinile, immature and stupid; How can you not love it?
3) Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
A great musician cut short by drugs
4) Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off
No explaination of this on, I just like it
5) Warren Zevon - Genius
It's all the Zevon you'll ever need, minus his final album

 

[Wolf]

3) Sublime - 40 oz to Freedom
A great musician cut short by drugs

I thought about putting this on my list but decided it might not be 'obscure' enough. Great Album!

 

[The Happy Mug]

KMFDM- Angst

Good call. I was blasting ATTAK from my car earlier this week. I can't seem to get enough of Risen (track 10). I was pretty hooked on ADIOS when it first came out too.

Where's my CD's? I'm craving some KMFDM right now.

 

[Axegod]

Thats great there are some Misfits fans here.
I was on holiday for over a week and couldnt post.
Unfortunately, after seeing Poison Idea on the Feel the Darkness LP tour (1989 or 90?), nothing else compares....I have seen the promised land in that album, and nothing elsereally measures up. I have found some decent bands/tunes albums since then....its like drinking great homebrew for years, and then having to switch back to some discount tallboys. But, tallboys are still beer, and sometimes one has to make due.

 

[mysterio]

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Elliot Smith - XO
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Closer
Operation Ivy - Energy

Ministry played here a couple of years ago and they were awesome.

 

[ultralord]

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
Aztec Camera - Stray
Heatmiser - Mic City Sons
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Aimee Mann - Lost In Space

 

[Spyk'd]

Nice one ultralord!

How about:


Hot Action Cop - Hot Action Cop


Great, now I have the feva for the flava...yO!

 

[the_bird]

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom

I remember when this album came out. "Screenwriter's Blues" was one of the most original-sounding songs I'd heard in a long time. Maybe it was just that time of life for me, but it seems there were a LOT of really, really good - original sounding - bands coming out around that time.