Favourite Album that Nobody Else Has Heard Of?

[Groundhog]

I like a ton of bands that are very obscure, but perhaps none more so than Jade Warrior. Their 'Waves' album is just beautiful, and the fact that I got this and 3 other great albums of theirs in a 2-CD compilation for just $20AU seems criminal.

What are some of your favourite obscure albums?

[Easy Mac]

All the Saints - All the Saints EP

[MrIllini]

Guster - Parachute

[Sporkimata]

Ed's Redeeming Qualities- Big Grapefruit clean up

[Abe Sargent]

My favorite album - Massivivid's Brightblur. 1999. Won the Dove Award for Best Christian Hard Rock album. Not even many in the Christian music scene know it. It's amazing, and half of the songs have been available for d/l as mp3s before.

[Schmidty]

I can't just do one.

Brighten the Corners - Pavement

Just Like the Fambly Cat - Grandaddy

Ex Hex - Mary Timony

Brace Yourself for the Mediocre - Roper

Drowaton - Starlight Mints

[st.cronin]

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Ok, everybody knows Coltrane, but even some of his devotees don't know about this gem. Rashid Ali on percussion, playing mostly with his hands. Unbelievable stuff.

[Karlifornia]

Dark Side Of the Moon...it's really great and I think people should listen to it.

[cthomer5000]

that dog. - Retreat From The Sun

wiki link to the band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Dog


My all-time favorite album, period.

[rowech]

Wolfmother

Candlebox

[Groundhog]

Another one: The Coral - The Coral. Not sure how big these guys are in the UK or the States but they are basically unknown here yet every album they have released has been awesome IMO.

[Karlifornia]

Seriously, though Two Gallants-What the Toll Tells. It's two guys from San Francisco on Saddle Creek records. They don't play hippie music, though. They actually play actually country tinged rock/folk. It's awesome..here's a lyrical sample of what I'm assuming is an old blues cover:

"Well I went down to the polling place
and the white man there just laughed in my face
he said 'Boy, this ain't no niggers race..
you best get on your way'
I said 'Sir, I believe I've got the right'
he said 'You ain't got nothin if you ain't white,
and I thought I said get outta sight'
well what was I to say?"

Fantastic.

[MrIllini]

Originally Posted by st.cronin

John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

Ok, everybody knows Coltrane, but even some of his devotees don't know about this gem. Rashid Ali on percussion, playing mostly with his hands. Unbelievable stuff.

the majority of percussion on Guster's album is bongos

you might like it

[King of New York]

Band: The Mountain Goats

Album: The Coroner's Gambit

One guy who happens to be one of the world's great lyricists, playing an acoustic guitar with enthusiasm but almost no techincal ability, and singing into a boombox.

[wade moore]

Originally Posted by MrIllini

Guster - Parachute

Weird that Guster isn't considered obscure to me - but I guess they probably are.

[MrIllini]

Originally Posted by wade moore

Weird that Guster isn't considered obscure to me - but I guess they probably are.

agreed...and agreed

[Crapshoot]

Boy Sets Fire - After the Eulogy

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by rowech

Wolfmother

Candlebox

I wish I could go 10 minutes without hearing a wolfmother song...

[rowech]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

I wish I could go 10 minutes without hearing a wolfmother song...

I mention them to people and they have no idea who I'm even talking about.

The Candlebox album, there are many who will know about. I still think it was one of the best albums of the 90s. Really unfortunate this band never seemed to make it.

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Another one: The Coral - The Coral. Not sure how big these guys are in the UK or the States but they are basically unknown here yet every album they have released has been awesome IMO.

The Zutons do a better The Coral than The Coral does.

[lordscarlet]

Originally Posted by MrIllini

Guster - Parachute

Originally Posted by wade moore

Weird that Guster isn't considered obscure to me - but I guess they probably are.

Originally Posted by MrIllini

agreed...and agreed

Yeah. Not obscure to me.

I would have to say, The Avett Brothers - Four Thieves Gone (although it's tough for me to decide which album of theirs to choose)

[dawgfan]

Obscure is relative, but since most of the general music-listening population either don't know or only have a vague knowledge of him, I'll say Brian Eno's Another Green World, one of my all-time favorite albums.

[MrIllini]

Originally Posted by lordscarlet

Yeah. Not obscure to me.

I would have to say, The Avett Brothers - Four Thieves Gone (although it's tough for me to decide which album of theirs to choose)

oh, shut up, kobe sucks

[lordscarlet]

BTW... I went to a Guster show two or three weeks ago.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by rowech

I mention them to people and they have no idea who I'm even talking about.

Well, they are Australian, so as you might imagine they are massive over here. They got a song included on GH2 as well, so that might have increased their popularity abroad.

[cthomer5000]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Obscure is relative, but since most of the general music-listening population either don't know or only have a vague knowledge of him, I'll say Brian Eno's Another Green World, one of my all-time favorite albums.

brown eyes and I were tired
we had walked and we had scrambled
through the moors and through the briars
through the endless blue meanders
in the blue august moon
in the cool august moon

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Obscure is relative, but since most of the general music-listening population either don't know or only have a vague knowledge of him, I'll say Brian Eno's Another Green World, one of my all-time favorite albums.

Neat little album that one. Sombre Reptiles is one of my favourite quirky tracks.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

The Zutons do a better The Coral than The Coral does.

O RLY? I'll have to track them down. I've heard OF them, but don't believe I've actually heard any of their songs. The Coral are one of my few "must buy" bands, so if anyone else is making music like them then put me down as interested.

[Greyroofoo]

Originally Posted by Karlifornia

Dark Side Of the Moon...it's really great and I think people should listen to it.

quoted for truth

[MrIllini]

Originally Posted by lordscarlet

BTW... I went to a Guster show two or three weeks ago.

suck it

and by it, I mean Subby's half-marathon infused ballbag sweat

[Schmidty]

Oh crap, how could I forget Destroyer.

Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer

Dan Bejar has one of the coolest voices ever, and even though he's mostly known for his contribuions to The New Pornographers (rightly so), his group Destroyer is just as good in my opinion, although in a different way.

[cthomer5000]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Oh crap, how could I forget Destroyer.

Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer

Dan Bejar has one of the coolest voices ever, and even though he's mostly known for his contribuions to The New Pornographers (rightly so), his group Destroyer is just as good in my opinion, although in a different way.

hells yes.

I like some songs of his solo stuff, but cant get into him from an album perspective, unfortunately.

[LloydLungs]

I'm not sure what "nobody else has heard of" entails, exactly, but "The Execution of all Things" by Rilo Kiley just pretty much transcends music. At least for me. Honorable mention is "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel, and I found out about that on this board, so I know there's at least one other fan.

[Karlifornia]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Oh crap, how could I forget Destroyer.

Destroyer's Rubies - Destroyer

Dan Bejar has one of the coolest voices ever, and even though he's mostly known for his contribuions to The New Pornographers (rightly so), his group Destroyer is just as good in my opinion, although in a different way.

Schmidty...I must say, for some reason I never guessed you'd have such awesome taste in music...

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by cthomer5000

brown eyes and I were tired
we had walked and we had scrambled
through the moors and through the briars
through the endless blue meanders
in the blue august moon
in the cool august moon

I want to be the wandering sailor
We're silhouettes by the light of the moon
I sit playing solitaire by the window
Just waiting, seasons change, ah hah, you'll see
Some day these dreams will pull you through my door

And I'll come running to tie your shoe
I'll come running to tie your shoe
I'll come running to tie your shoe
I'll come running to tie your shoe

[Groundhog]

I've had numerous people recommend Neutral Milk Hotel to me, but I'm yet to check them out.

[dawgfan]

Originally Posted by cthomer5000

brown eyes and I were tired
we had walked and we had scrambled
through the moors and through the briars
through the endless blue meanders
in the blue august moon
in the cool august moon

Dola - I think some of my favorite Eno lyrics are from this one off of Before and After Science:

But if you study the logistics
And heuristics of the mystics
You will find that their minds rarely move in a line
So it's much more realistic
To abandon such ballistics
And resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

O RLY? I'll have to track them down. I've heard OF them, but don't believe I've actually heard any of their songs. The Coral are one of my few "must buy" bands, so if anyone else is making music like them then put me down as interested.

They sound almost exactly the same, at least the singers do. I have the second Coral album, Magic and Medicine, mainly because I heard they sounded like the Zutons. The second Zutons album sounds very much like the Coral, the first is a little more fast paced. The first is by far the better Zutons CD.

edit, if you're in the bmg music club (i am, but only use it for b-days with buy 1 get 4 free codes), the Zuton's first CD is 4.79 (including shipping).

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Karlifornia

Schmidty...I must say, for some reason I never guessed you'd have such awesome taste in music...

Thanks man. My little sister says the same thing, but as I tell her, I've never left the scene, even though I got all old and boring.

Blame it all on my sophomore year, and hearing Slanted and Enchanted.


Edit: I have no idea what "the scene" is. I just tried to sound cool.

[MrIllini]

Cowboy Mouth is good, IMO

they have a drummer for a front-man...entertaining...and he spits on people, so that's funny

[sabotai]

Psyclon Nine - Crwn Thy Frnicatr

Aggrotech. Listen to when angry.

[CU Tiger]

going back a few years but,
Sweet Vine Mountainside

[Kodos]

Def Leppard - Slang

Nobody heard it, but it was a great departure from Hysteria and Pyromania and the Mutt Lange sound.

[Young Drachma]

Aloha -- Sugar
Field Music -- Tones of Town

[thesloppy]

Silver Jews - American Water

[rowech]

It's a college band that nobody knows:

Aunt Betsy -- Water (Band--Album)

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by wade moore

Weird that Guster isn't considered obscure to me - but I guess they probably are.

I think it depends on what musical circles you hang in. If you know people who only listen to radio music and MTV, they'll never have heard of Guster. If they are somewhere with college radio or have been to college, then they'll know of Guster.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Silver Jews - American Water

Dude, you rule!!! New Orleans is one of my favorite songs ever!!!!

Davis Berman is an amazing song writer.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

Dude, you rule!!! New Orleans is one of my favorite songs ever!!!!

Davis Berman is an amazing song writer.

Oops. New Orleans is on a different CD. "Starlite Walker" I think.

[Mr. Snappy]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Silver Jews - American Water

You pulled me out of lurker mode with this one. It's one of my favorites. You combine some great Steve Malkmus guitar work with Dave Berman's dry wit (and bad singing: think Chuck Norris doing the Walker, Texas Ranger theme) and the result is perfect from start to finish.