Post obscure music that is extremely good.

**Xox** · 06-07-2014 10:22 PM

Oooh I love this kind of shit

Crystal Castles - Affection

Crystal Castles - Empathy

millionyoung - Mien

**~Dreamer~** · 06-08-2014 08:23 PM

Okay, this one is pretty obscure in theme.
My friends were in a comedy band called The Dairy Brothers years ago.
They later formed a side project called The Beards, where all the band members had beards, and they only wrote songs about how great beards are, with the word 'beard' in every song title.
They initially performed as their own supporting act, then shaved off their beards backstage and performed as The Dairy Brothers.
The Beards became more popular, and it took too long to keep growing their beards between shows, so they took a vote and decided that they would focus their attention on writing songs for The Beards, and put The Dairy Brothers (and their other band, Bolty Bolt-Bolt & The Boltons: The Michael Bolton Experience) on the back burner.
The Beards now have 4 full-length albums, and are touring the world singing about beards.

Fun fact: The guy in this video with the fake beard also has a real beard underneath.

Here's a more... umm... 'obscure' music video. (NSFW)

**Schmaven** · 06-09-2014 05:52 AM

No one I have ever met has heard of these bands. Obviously they have their own circle of fans, but I haven't met any of them. They don't quite fit any genre, but I put my best guess for the closest one to it above the video.

Trevor Hall: House
Reggae

Dream Theater: As I Am
Metal

Built to Spill: Broken Chairs
Indie Rock

**~Dreamer~** · 06-09-2014 10:26 AM

Wow, a band I've actually heard of in this thread!

I have some Dream Theater in my iTunes but I've never really listened to them. I'll give them a go!
Thanks for the recommendations, everyone.

**TheObserver** · 06-10-2014 08:06 PM

Flying Lotus - Zodiac Shit

Flying Lotus - Until The Colours Come
Genre: Instrumental hiphop, electronic, jazz hiphop fusion

Must starts at 1:10. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
Genre: Post Rock

**~Dreamer~** · 06-11-2014 03:35 AM

More of my friends' music - this time the genre is alternative electronica.
Two of the members formed an alternative/grunge band when they were at school, but they recently switched their style and collaborated with another friend to form Flamingo.
They've started to get some airtime on Australian radio and some pretty big festival gigs, and they even ranked higher than Skrillex on iTunes a couple of months ago, so maybe they won't be obscure for long!

https://soundcloud.com/flamingoaus

**Original Poster** · 06-11-2014 06:53 AM

ITT: Hey this is post rock, that's what obscure means right?

**Schmaven** · 07-04-2014 05:50 PM

Just had my mind blown based on my co-worker's recommendation: The Paper Kites.

Try to find any song on YouTube with less than 5,000 views that's any good, let alone amazing. I can't even find them on the YouTube search without including the band name.

I thought I had heard all the best music already lol. Three particular songs immediately proved me wrong and deserve millions of views probably from me alone.

The others grow on me, but these three were already amazing the first go around. I know we all have different musical tastes, but these three are definitely on the list of the absolute best songs I've ever heard:

Living Colour: 39k views
In Reverie: 4k views
Cold Kind Hand: 11k views

There, I probably hyped it up so much that you'll be disappointed when you hear it, but that's just to make sure it remains obscure

Spoiler for Dream Theater details if you are interested and don't want to sort through the chaff for the gems.:

**acatalephobic** · 07-05-2014 01:36 AM

All I've wanted since this thread appeared was to find a video of "A Minha Menina" by Os Mutantes.

But all I can find are videos of covers or live versions. This one is pretty close to the original:

The original is even ...peppier, if you can imagine that.

And wait,

Originally Posted by Schmaven

No one I have ever met has heard of these bands. Obviously they have their own circle of fans, but I haven't met any of them.

Wait...there are people that have never heard of Built To Spill?

Honestly, sometimes I think everyone was taking a nap or something, and forgot the 1990's ever happened.

**tropicalbreeze** · 07-05-2014 03:30 AM

**Ctharlhie** · 07-06-2014 11:02 PM

My favourite artist, Phil Elverum, aka The Microphones/Mount Eerie. Lo-fi, dreamy, psychedelic. Listen to all his albums.

**StephL** · 07-07-2014 11:20 PM

Oooh - so much yet to listen to!!
And to have Laurie Anderson, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance and, and already on board is great as well!
Universal Mind - something for ya:

I love the white woman!

Tired now - but this is most definitively obscure - and I love it since so many years already...

**~Dreamer~** · 07-07-2014 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by StephL

Tired now - but this is most definitively obscure - and I love it since so many years already...

Astrosomnia will love you forever for posting Kate Bush! He's not active at the moment, but I'm sure he'll be back...

I bet he would have some obscure music to post here, too. I hope he visits this thread one day.

**Universal Mind** · 07-08-2014 02:58 AM

StephL, I'm a huge Hawkwind fan. How did you know? Is it that I had one of their album covers for my last avatar? That's Lemmy on lead vocals on that song, by the way. He later formed Motorhead. The dancer is Stacia, and she was a major trip. Hawkwind was sort of big in Britain but pretty obscure in the U.S.

**StephL** · 07-08-2014 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Astrosomnia will love you forever for posting Kate Bush! He's not active at the moment, but I'm sure he'll be back...

I bet he would have some obscure music to post here, too. I hope he visits this thread one day.

I really hope so, too - Kate Bush fans are soo rare! Honestly - now I want to get to know Astrosomnia! I adore this woman as a right out genius. She started writing songs for her first album at the age of 12 and actually brought it out age 16, having private contacts over her parents. She wrote the music, the texts which are excellent, played all instruments, wrote her choreography even, with a bit of help. Always does that.
She totally blew me away when I was 17 in the beginning of the 90s and still does.
I hope he knows, that she made a public appearance last year and brought out her new record 50 Words for Snow. So unfortunate, but also clever, that the title song is not on youtube any more - it's phantastic - she made it together with Stephen Fry intoning the "words" and I love him just as much as her, but only since my 30s...
This is also from the latest album - beautiful - you need a bit of quiet time and the right mood for it, though:

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

StephL, I'm a huge Hawkwind fan. How did you know? Is it that I had one of their album covers for my last avatar? That's Lemmy on lead vocals on that song, by the way. He later formed Motorhead. The dancer is Stacia, and she was a major trip. Hawkwind was sort of big in Britain but pretty obscure in the U.S.

Yupp - your avatar!
I don't really know a lot of them so thanks for your vids! But when I saw your avatar, shortly later I had to have Silver Machine blaring out of my boxes!

And yeah - I know it's Lemmy - and probably that's why I am so familiar with this song - such a funny guy and what a voice! He will survive us all!
My husband is a huuge Lemmy fan...

Some German obscurity for a change! Must watch, really - they are so crazy and he has such a brilliant voice - neither castrato nor falsetto - it's counter-tenor! And such a shame, that you can't understand their hilarious lyrics - so a cover-version first:

Also very energetic - Try Again
Soo hard to choose - been changing around videos per edit several times now.
This one says "Come Back Again" - taking the piss out of men - but in such a beautifully melodious fashion...

**Wayfaerer** · 07-08-2014 04:54 PM

**Cubellius** · 07-11-2014 12:02 AM

Here's some really good but unpopular ones:

And a whole list of them if you want:

Spoiler for Songlist:

**StephL** · 07-12-2014 04:37 PM

From a quite obscure French erotic science fiction horror movie with Béatrice Dalle and Alex Descas: 'Trouble Every Day' - only for those who are hard to shock, including by tragedy. I liked it a lot, but almost couldn't take it. The first video is completely harmless, the second one has only still-shots and the music is
very sad...

Closing Titles:

Something completely different and electronic - the title means "City-Child Berlin" and it's all scenes from former east Berlin:

The shiny bronze building in the end is ripped down meanwhile because of asbestos. It was the 'Palast der Republik' the "palace of the republic" - the former east Germany "headquarters". Why am I doodling about here? I wait for the darts tournament live-stream to finally begin again...

**Box77** · 07-12-2014 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Post obscure music that is extremely good.

There is a lot of really good music out there that isn't very famous. If you like any music you think fits that description, please post some here so that more of the world can know about it.

When I first read the word 'obscure' in the title of the thread, the first thing that came up to my mind was this (I think Germany is filled with this genre of dark music though):

After watching some of the posts, then I think this song is worth to mention due to apparently is known although hard to find:

The same guy who composed that song, sings in a (they say) punk rock & blues band (with some folk I think) which I think must be mentioned (They come from Peru by the way):

**Box77** · 07-12-2014 06:04 PM

Some fusion I like that comes from Bolivia:

Talking about Peru, Bolivia and strange fusions, I think this one is worth to mention (the composers are Paola Gomez and Marcel Cari although I don't have idea if they've done more works around it):