Your favorite band or album that nobody ever heard of

[CreamyGoodness]

Arrogant Sons of *******- Lets go Nowhere.

 

[Homercidal]

Concrete Blonde... the one with bloodletting... a black album cover with a red rose(?) on it....

Aslo... the Young Einstein movie sound track and hell, why not go deep... the Bill and Ted Excellent Movie soundtrack.

Oh yeah, with Extreme!

DO YOU WANNA PLAY?

 

[DromJohn]

I've liked "Atomic Rooster" above.
I'm a big "Uriah Heep" fan, especially "Salisbury" but obscure? Not really.

Egg
Contemporary Noise Quintet/Sextet
O'Donel Levy

 

[TxBrew]

I used to listen to Uriah Heep back in the day! It's been about 35 years since I've even thought about them.

I'll have to pull out some of that music tonight because I do think it will bring back a ton of memories!

I don't really listen to anything "unknown" but I'm sort of stuck in 90s grunge and someone at NHC told me that I needed to listen to Porcupine Tree so I've been into them lately. Otherwise, I listen quite a bit to Mark Lanegan (from the Screaming Trees).

Other than Tom Waits (my all time favorite) and some Neil Young (Bob's favorite), I don't usually listen to much besides 90s grunge too often.

We have a lot in common.

I was coming here to list Alice, the greatest album ever written.

Aside from that Frank Zappa is the man and Apostrophe changed the world. Just no one noticed.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

There is apparently a bronze statue of Frank Zappa in Latvia.

I love the world sometimes.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mamma just might be the greatest song ever, followed very closely by Cosmic Debris!

 

[mbach72]

Man, it didn't take long for people to hit most of my choices. Drive By Truckers, Lucero, Baroness, and Clutch.

I'm not sure Clutch fits the bill anymore as they've been steadily gaining popularity for the last 5 years or so. Everyone that likes heavier, riff-based rock should listen to Blast Tyrant once. There's no going back to a Clutch-free existence after that.

In keeping with the spirit of the thread, I guess I should name someone that hasn't already been listed. Christopher Parkening. A big name in his genre, but nobody in my circle has any clue who he is. When he still played it was like he had talent on loan from God. I guess that's why he was such a devout Christian.

 

[the_bird]

We have a lot in common.

I was coming here to list Alice, the greatest album ever written.

The Tom Waits album? I used to sing pretty much that whole album to my daughter, to get her to sleep when she was little.

 

[TheZymurgist]

I always go back to my late '90s pop-punk/emo or ska. Ace Troubleshooter, Five Iron Frenzy, Saves The Day, Relient K, The Ataris.

From what you guys have listed, not sure any of this will interest you.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik- Outkast

For hip-hop fans out there, anyone unfamiliar with this earlier album (but familiar with the more recent Outkast stuff) will notice Outkast figured out something that the Eminems of the world completely forgot. WHEN YOU MAKE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND CONTINUE TO ACT ANGRY YOU SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT.

Southernplayalistic- "I live in a gritty neighborhood and the only things that make me happy are smoking weed and chasing women"

Speakerboxx- ******* life is good now!

 

[h4mmy86]

The Olivia Tremor Control - Music From the Unrealized Film Script Dusk at Cubist Castle


...the now super hip Neutral Milk Hotel is comprised of members of this band.

 

[Schemy]

I love Cross...not sure what in hell Cody is doing now but it quit being bad @ss Texas rock and roll! Carney Man just gets the party started!
I'll add Bleu Edmondson, Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, Stoney LaRue, Kevin Fowler (Beer, Bait, and Ammo), and Jason Boland and The Stragglers to the list of great music that's obscure if you don't live in Texas! Everyone knows them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong...

I introduced all my CO friends and family to the TX/Red Dirt scene. I really don't listen to much of it lately. Seemed to get stale to me. Ragweed is really the only original scene band I still listen to.

Here are some newer guys that I've been checking out though.

Whiskey Myers


Johnathen Tyler & the Northern Lights


Uncle Lucious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pYdvxBxHX2U

 

[splattsmier]

Back in high school it was Osker & Driver Friendly. That was when I was into punk/garage rock and skateboarding.

Nowadays I listen almost exclusively to Texas/OK Country, Bluegrass, & Folk/Americana.

The Steeldrivers, JB & The Moonshine Band, Lost Immigrants, Slaid Cleaves, Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show, Avett Brothers, Todd Snider, Lucero, Casey Donahew to name just a few.

 

[Shooter]

Concrete Blonde... the one with bloodletting... a black album cover with a red rose(?) on it....

Aslo... the Young Einstein movie sound track and hell, why not go deep... the Bill and Ted Excellent Movie soundtrack.

I'm pretty sure I have at least several cuts, if not the entire song list, from each of these albums on my iPhone.

 

[Shooter]

Ween - The Mollusk

I celebrate their entire catalog!

 

[splattsmier]

Oh, almost forgot the old(er) guys -

John Prine, Guy Clark, David Allan Coe ... not obscure per se, but most folks in my age group & friend circles haven't heard of them.

 

[AlexFlinchum]

Reckless Kelly
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Casey Donahew Band

These, as well as Carolina Still. And some
Hank III.
Leaving Tennessee by Cross Canadian Ragweed is an amazing song.

[ame]http://youtu.be/ftOG50p85sE[/ame]

 

[rjbank]

Super joint Ritual

 

[Whsoj]

I love Cross...not sure what in hell Cody is doing now but it quit being bad @ss Texas rock and roll! Carney Man just gets the party started!
I'll add Bleu Edmondson, Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, Stoney LaRue, Kevin Fowler (Beer, Bait, and Ammo), and Jason Boland and The Stragglers to the list of great music that's obscure if you don't live in Texas! Everyone knows them boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong...

I also love old punk and thrash. Suicidal has already been mentioned (You Can't Bring Me Down is still my F U anthem) and I'll add the Vandals (The Mullet Song and John Wayne Was a Nazi are personal favorites) and my all time favorite band, The Cramps! Lux Interior is Elvis on acid psychobilly at its finest. Bikini Girls with Machine Guns, Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon, I Wanna Get In Your Pants, Sheena's in a Goth Gang, Daisies Up Your Butterfly, All Women Are Bad, Human Fly...they all rock!

"There too damn skinny or way too long, but I aint no holy roller so I just use a bong"

I wish we all had Texas Radio pisses me off someone like taylor swift would even get enough fans to do anything

 

[rjbank]

King of swing Wayne Hancock

 

[chezhed]

Interesting....I don't know who 80% of these bands are I spend my radio time listening to "oldies" from the 60s & 70s. Music kind of died in the late 70s with disco for me anyway.....got back into some things this century but I still don't know what half of you are talking about....

I'm in the same genre as the OP, Yooper, cluck, etc.... I think I saw Uriah Heap in Knoxville in 1970....I can't remember a lot of those concerts

Barefoot Jerry...wow...now that's a flashback.....used to see them all the time and the members changed, depending upon who was in town.

ah but enough of my wasted mind.... I guess my most favorite obscure band is 8-1/2 Souvenirs. Just sort of gets to me for some reason.

 

[butterpants]

Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being

Now the Canadians will know them but in the US they are pretty much unheard of. I listened to their earlier albums a ton during my college years....mid-late 90'ies. Great mix of super relaxing, witty songs with uplifting anthems that get your mind racing.

Listen to "The fall of man". Incredible song and songwriting.

 

[TNGabe]

Every record by:

The Avett Brothers
The SteelDrivers
Old Crow Medicine Show

Did you not read the thread title?

 

[TNGabe]

These guys are by far my favorite band. I can't even single out a specific album.

Lucero -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp4_rViKi8w&feature=player_detailpage

It's got to be Tennessee or Women and Work. They got a little whiney on the middle albums. Saw them twice on the last tour, I hope I get to see them again before someone ODs.

 

[TNGabe]

Not exactly someone you've never heard of, but a more obscure album: Herbie Hancock's Sextant is a personal all time favorite. I love older electronic music: Beaver & Krause, Tangerine Dream, and Gong all come to mind. Also a huge TSOP fan. That's 'The Sound of Philadelphia' for my non-soul loving friends on here. Teddy Pendergrass can sing about doing it like no one else.

I never got Zappa. Not that I don't think he a talented musician, composer, and arranger, but I never understood why his music is so complicated or such a mish-mash.

 

[Schemy]

It's got to be Tennessee or Women and Work. They got a little whiney on the middle albums. Saw them twice on the last tour, I hope I get to see them again before someone ODs.

I saw them last year and the show was really tight. Ben didn't even get that messed up. I had heard about him being epically high/drunk in shows. I really don't understand why they don't get more pub. See, I can't single out one album, as I think they all have a uniqueness. Maybe that's just the fanboy in me.

 

[Shakybones]

For those with a taste for alt country/Americana/good hard-drinkin' music (much of it obscure, so I'm still slightly on-topic), may I recommend Boot Liquor Radio (streaming):

http://somafm.com/bootliquor/

In just the past hour, they've played -

Stacey Earle, Beautiful Loser Society, Victor Mourning, Sara Petite, Fred Eaglesmith, Jinx Jones, Scott Miller, Hank Williams III, Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men, Hot Texas Swing Band, Gas Money, ThorNton Creek, Ernest Tubbs, Country Fried, Beat Farmers, Black Boot Trio, Refreshments, Chicken Coupe Deville

I also hear a lot of Drive-by Truckers, Derailers, Meat Purveyors, Bob Wills, Wailin' Jennys, John Prine, Blind Corn Liquor Pickers, Townes Van Zandt, Folk Uke, Gram Parsons, and many others that you may or may not have heard of.

 

[TNGabe]

For those with a taste for alt country/Americana/good hard-drinkin' music (much of it obscure, so I'm still slightly on-topic), may I recommend Boot Liquor Radio (streaming):

http://somafm.com/bootliquor/

In just the past hour, they've played -

Stacey Earle, Beautiful Loser Society, Victor Mourning, Sara Petite, Fred Eaglesmith, Jinx Jones, Scott Miller, Hank Williams III, Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men, Hot Texas Swing Band, Gas Money, ThorNton Creek, Ernest Tubbs, Country Fried, Beat Farmers, Black Boot Trio, Refreshments, Chicken Coupe Deville

I also hear a lot of Drive-by Truckers, Derailers, Meat Purveyors, Bob Wills, Wailin' Jennys, John Prine, Blind Corn Liquor Pickers, Townes Van Zandt, Folk Uke, Gram Parsons, and many others that you may or may not have heard of.

Nice! Thanks.

 

[Clef051]

Another band I haven't seen on the list but is awesome is the birthday party. A early nick cave band.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

King of swing Wayne Hancock

First time I met Wayne the Train he was crashing on a buddy of mine's couch! Damn...that was almost 20 years ago!