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Hey, I like weird obscure music, I'm sure other people do too! So post your favourite under-appricated and tragically unknown bands here! I'd like the cutoff for obscurity to be roughly has-an-English-Wikipedia-page with more content than "this is a band from a country that released an album once" and has been reviewed by any publication that matters. If a band has a wikipedia page with a table of contents or Pitchfork or Stereogum talked about them, let's please leave them out. I'd like to start off with a Norwegian band called Laura. They sing in Nynorsk, which is the lesser spoken of the two official versions of Norwegian. They made one 26 minute EP and split up. Next Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, a Godspeed You! Black Emperor-ish band that records on an eight track recorder in an attic in New Jersey. Made up of 11 people, 5 guitars, bass, drums, violin, cello, piano, bells and a harp, they sound amazing. They're released two albums, which are available for free (legally!), a single and four working versions of a song called Budapest 1956 (firing squad). This is one of my all time favourite bands and I honestly think they in many was surpass much of their inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaz-4MfHtOM Lastly, Films, a Japanese band featuring a producer and two vocalists. I don't know a lot about them other than the fact that thing sing in gibberish. They've got two albums, A Forbidden Garden and Messenger, the latter is out of print and not digitally distributed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEcY_0a0nFA Cymbal Monkey has a new favorite as of 13:14 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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They're called "Weezer".
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Apr 7, 2014 20:57
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I like Ally Kerr and 764-HERO, but I don't know how obscure either of them are nowadays. All I know is that I don't have anyone to talk about them with, and that sucks. Ally Kerr is such a sweet little fella, though! He's done nice things like taking requests from fans because it was their birthday. Um... Five Iron Frenzy is still really good, even if they are Christian ska (two things which sound like they would suck). Do the Protomen count as obscure anymore? Super nerdy, to be sure, but I would think most nerds know about them by now, right?
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Apr 7, 2014 21:14
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Cymbal Monkey posted:They sing in Nynorsk, which is the lesser spoken of the two official versions of written Norwegian. How do you sing in a written language?
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Apr 7, 2014 23:54
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The Morgans
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Apr 7, 2014 23:57
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Dope Body. Not to sure how obscure they are though.
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Apr 8, 2014 00:03
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Ćla Fuglinn í fjörunni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCNxZJiv4zc Óđur til Hinna guđdómlegu Neanderdalsmanna. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzoVHOdQlrM Love the Honey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APG4-spm128 If you like raw surf-rock influenced punk then it might be your thing.
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Apr 8, 2014 00:17
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gleebster posted:How do you sing in a written language? Bokmĺl has gramatical differences from Nynorsk, or so I'm told. I say "written Norweigan" because Norwegian has so loving many dialects it's insane. It's an official written standard. Cymbal Monkey has a new favorite as of 02:11 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 02:09
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Purity Ring - digging through the dreck that is the 'Witch House' scene there are some excellent bands that make unbelievably pretty and well made electronic music, Purity ring are a little like Ladytron. You can at least find their album 'Shrines' on Spotify. White Ring - are actually more 'Witch House' than Purity Ring by a huge margin, dragged down, lots of reverb, goth/dark/psudo satanic imagery - sound a bit like a less over-produced Crystal Castles. 'Black Earth that Made Me' is their only album I can find though. I just like diy dark electronica that only exists as files on Tumblr and names with nothing but ascii crosses and symbols instead of words like "☦☦☦"
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Apr 8, 2014 06:36
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Les Rallizes Dénudés, a Japanese psychedelic rock band probably best known for the fact that their original bassist joined the Japanese Red Army, whom he helped in the hijacking of a Japan Airlines flight in 1970 (after releasing all hostages, the plane was flown to North Korea, where the surviving hijackers live to this day, including the bassist). They've also apparently never officially released any of their own music, so their entire discography consists of bootlegs. A lot of their music is hard to listen to, generally feedback-heavy cacophonous stuff, but there are some real gems hidden there, including some of my favorite songs (such as the one linked below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWa8nEMjT4
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Apr 8, 2014 10:24
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You should change the title to "Name drop not very obscure bands"
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I'll get this thread back on track. Vision System This Swedish synthpop band formed in 1991 only had one album ('Parachutes' which honestly wasn't great), two EPs ('Olympus Mons' and 'Promise') and a bunch of tracks on various Oktober/Energy Rekords (now defunct Swedish synthpop label) compilations along with an unofficial best-of. It's good music to watch the rain and be depressed to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7S3JguY6Vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PCI6i_yu0 Back when Audiogalaxy was still a thing, I remember waiting weeks on end trying to get every single track of theirs I could. It all fits on one CD. This was before their album came out and I kind of fell out of love with this band as they changed their sound. 
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I know they're not tremendously obscure but Moby Grape are a good band more people should listen to. They were a 60s band so there is a psychedelic twinge to them, just think of it as country-rock on cough syrup. Also stick to their debut eponymous album, since the rest is pretty abysmal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkyHfnV_gYc ColtMcAsskick has a new favorite as of 12:52 on Apr 8, 2014 |
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Apr 8, 2014 12:49
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pegasuses xl are really cool. They play music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHoxMWxPFFM matson jones also play music, and are cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGT3cZAM2Tg
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jsoh posted:matson jones also play music, and are cool. They are indeed cool, thanks for this one.
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Apr 8, 2014 17:42
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The Rosaries apparently don't even have a wikipedia entry at all, despite recording probably the greatest dream/twee-pop song I have ever heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLTUkDVlPo
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Apr 9, 2014 03:33
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The Bloody Hollies are a band I think I heard of on some forum many, many years ago. Like the White Stripes but faster and meaner. I only ever found one album of theirs online. This is a very good song of theirs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2jG5C9ZEp8
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Apr 9, 2014 07:38
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Trippple Nippples are just a couple girls from Japan that don't give a gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ssEC6Y_EA Kinoko Teikoku are also from Japan but ostensibly give a couple fucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKz5bw1m_i4 snucks has a new favorite as of 07:56 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 07:52
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Two words. Radiohead But seriously, the Hades Kick is a sick postrock band from Texas in the late '90s that had one of the guys from At the Drive In in it. They had an album called "Ate" that I still listen to all the. No one else I've met has ever heard them and their stuff doesn't seem to be on youtube, but if you can dig up the album it's awesome.
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Apr 9, 2014 08:02
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Lokomotiv S.S. is pretty obscure 2 cassette demos/albums released in 198?? of about 25mins per side of dense claustrophobically produced train sounds and distortion.  
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Apr 9, 2014 17:12
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Utah Package were a Pavement-like in the mid 90s from NC who apparently stayed together long enough to be on Myspace in 2007. "Boulder Grit" is a great song, it was on the tape of theirs I had from ~1996. I wish all the rest of the songs from that tape were available, because it was awesome. https://myspace.com/utahpackage/music/songs
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Apr 9, 2014 18:46
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Jean Michel Jarre has a huge wikipedia page so I guess he isn't obscure in the least but there was only one master copy of Musique Pour Supermarche ever made. It's a pretty good album I thought though.
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Apr 9, 2014 20:29
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Obscurity is so relative. Probably one of my favorite bands ever is Giant from Greensboro,NC. Featuring members of Brave Young. Melodic hardcore at its best. But, I literally can not find anything online with them. Bummer. Friends have vinyl of theirs but the only recordings I have are on my Ipod that only works when its plugged into my car.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:29
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Omega Massif are a pretty sweet instrumental doom metal band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwWYfL6Pw6s. The Korea are from Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5fyAmAsDQ. Cloudkicker is a one man instrumental metal band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3p5GXvmU8&t=181s.
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Apr 10, 2014 17:23
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Helgi og Hljóđfćraleikararnir, which I think translates to Helgi and the Musicians, is a nonexistent-on-the-English-language-internet Icelandic folk group that did a couple songs I really like and can't track down anymore, "Kláus hákarl" and "Heitir Kolur hundur minn". Last.fm page. Ignore the broken English, it doesn't make sense and none of it is true of the music I've heard from H&H.
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Apr 20, 2014 02:15
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Henry Threadgill's Air was a pretty awesome sax/bass/drums free jazz trio. It's a shame that some of their stuff was never released on CD. This is from Air Lore, their album of ragtime covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvF-x2f9pvw
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Matt Berry, some people know him from the weird shows he's acted in (Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, The IT Crowd) but most people don't know he's also an incredible musician with five released albums as well. His music has a distinctly Modern/Jazz/Folk sound that I can't get enough of. Medicine from the album Kill the Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLLhqE37KKE Take My Hand from the album Witchazel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdqu-HObUbo
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d0n posted:Matt Berry, some people know him from the weird shows he's acted in (Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh, Snuff Box, The IT Crowd) but most people don't know he's also an incredible musician with five released albums as well. New Math were an early 80s post-punk/goth band that, as far as I can find out, did an album and a few singles and then renamed themselves to Jet Black Berries. They went on to release three more albums in the 80s that have a distinctively different country bend to them and sound not unlike The Gun Club. To this day these albums have never gotten a rerelease on CD. New Math - They Walk Among You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfEpGR5Ifkk New Math - Love Under Will - this one ended up on the The Return of the Living Dead soundtrack under the Jet Black Berries moniker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D492R_lttWE Jet Black Berries - Color Of Your Name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P67nFzQhKV8 One of my absolute favourite bands, not just obscure but overall, are Basking Sharks, an early 80s electronics band that partly built their own synthesizers. There's only one album and a few EPs and singles floating around out there, and their largest claims to fame were a John Peel session and one TV appearance that has been conserved through the magic of youtube. Basking Sharks - Theatre of War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQXt-dWlgFI Basking Sharks - Thrill of the Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_a3iE-ZcJE
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ˇTchKung! were a band from 90's Seattle whose schtick was blending industrial and world music with left-wing and deep ecology politics. Wikipedia compares them to a cross between Crass and Crash Worship, and that's about right. Their best and most varied album is Incite, which is 10 tracks that all sound quite different yet are completely recognizable as the same band and all sound like they belong on the same album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuyx5ObeCBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGHTpx4BAis
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Chthon posted:Les Rallizes Dénudés For content: Warning - Why Can the Bodies Fly These guys were a short lived German doom metal band from the 80s. Their sound is ominous, but tinged with a futuristic that now sounds pretty dated, but reminds me of a lot of Krautrock bands before them (there's a lot of synthesized drums). If you like metal, New Wave/80s synth pop, or just weird music in general, they're really worth checking out. Oh, and they styled themselves as mad men from outer space: 
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Some people on SA might know them but the most intense show I ever went to was Sunn O))). 150 dB, bass tuned so low your vision blurred and your chest rattled. Maximum volume yields Maximum Results. I went to the show on a head full of mushrooms and it was nothing short of apocalyptic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a0Z2yndlOs&feature=youtube_gdata_player  
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Blendy posted:The Morgans I was going to post this, assuming we're talking about the same obscure Morgan. Also known as The Romanovs. One album released as "Moon Was Hungry" as Morgan and then re-released and remastered as "...And The Moon Was Hungry" as the Romanovs. The King is one of my all-time favorite songs. (edit) Most of my favorite bands would be considered "obscure" by mainstream standards, but are known amongst Industrial music fans. The exception to this is Clinical Torment a single-man project. It's not studio refined because he was murdered by his older brother before he ever made it to the major studio production level.  His friends and family have kept his whole collection available free online.
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Laundry League http://laundryleague.bandcamp.com/ She's an 18-year-old living in NY, and while her music may not be the most polished, I like her. Reminds me of Grimes, and one of her songs has a distinct Kraftwerk-vibe.
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this short documentary might fit in here http://vimeo.com/58444378 "Inspector Norse" is the internet alias of Marius Solem Johansen, a failed musician living in a small town, producing dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube.
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Toe, a Japanese math-rock band with some incredible drumming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_GMdQZzsg I guess it's more popular than I thought, but I still would like to share it 
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Do you like female fronted indie pop? Boy are you in luck! Do you not like that thing? Screw you, it's my favorite genre, and that is literally all I'm gonna post about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro7-gizce_w Catnaps are a twee band from Philly and they are pretty great if you are tweexcore like me. Their bandcamp is here. This is my favorite lyric that they have written: camille suggested i start collecting something like teddy bears so instead of hugging a grudge i'd have them to hold when you're not here cause they don't get drunk and sing at karaoke bars they're hardly ever trashed and they never crash my car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qrhm4rnA2s The Summer Twins are two sisters and according to their website they "focus on singing pop harmonies atop garage rock inspired by the ’50s and ’60s". They remind me kind of Best Coast but less lo-fi and grungy. They have a website here, but it/their bandcamp only has their most recent EP. You can listen to the older EP and also their album on spotify! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFH1BBdxGjw Tacocat are a bunch of total babes who wrote this cool song about periods. Their website is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a70zvIOuxR0 Katy Goodman used to be in the Vivian Girls, and she is super gorgeous and has a very sweet voice. She just came out with a new La Sera album, like, this week, and it is more upbeat than her previous two. She has a website that is here and I recommend following her blog because she posts a lot of pictures of her cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qapnomk2sys Tennis is a husband/wife duo that started a band after going on a seven month sailing expedition and then they wrote a bunch of cute songs about boats. Alaina Moore has beautiful curly hair that reminds me of a young Bernadette Peters and she sings like an angel. They are the only band I am writing about that has a wikipedia entry.
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Not sure how obscure they are, but Battle of Mice are pretty cool. Female-fronted post-metal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wScX-ao9ZU
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May 17, 2014 09:52
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Pretty as gently caress ambient doom. Sky Burial and super nice dudes. https://skyburialtn.bandcamp.com Probably my favorite band ever. Catchy, dance-y socio-political rock similar to the Clash. Also super awesome people. Big Attack! But seriously listen to this album all the way through and I DARE you not to like it. https://bigattack.bandcamp.com
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Goddamnit, Toe, Sunn O and Jean Michele fucken Jarre are not extremely obscure!
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http://hausu.bandcamp.com/ http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/album/neo-cali They're local, because of course they are. Very chill, good for typing. Treguna Mekoides has a new favorite as of 23:32 on May 20, 2014 |
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