Thread: Rare and Obscure bands

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Death From Above 1979
Deerhoof
The Eels
Fantomas
Hope of the States
Pedro the Lion
Appleseed Cast
Dargaard
Louis XIV
Pavement
Souls of Mischief

Wow, haven't seen this thread in a long time.

Here are some of the new bands I've been listening to since last time I posted here.

John Mayer Trio
I Am Kloot
Okkervil River
Little Barrie
American Analog Set
Andrew Bird
Antony and the Johnsons
Animal Collective
The Arcade Fire
The Bees
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bloody Hollies
Buck 65
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah <-- takes some getting used to
The Constantines
Dresden Dolls
Editors <-- If you like Interpol, you'll love them
Elbow
The Fiery Furnaces
Fruit Bats
The Go! Team
Gogol Bordello
The Greenhornes
John Vanderslice
Lightning Bolt <-- amazing
Mark Lanegan Band
Metric
The New Pornographers
The Rakes
Robbers on High Street
Shout Out Louds
Sleater-Kinney
Sons and Daughters
Spoon <-- very, very good
Stars
Sufjan Stevens <-- album of the year (Illinois), easily
Wolf Parade
Wolfmother

Buckethead
Faxed Head
Deiselhed

Zoogz Rift
Zip Code Rapists
Zip Code Review

Secret Chiefs 3
3 Doctors Band

Great choices Brady, Gezus, and O'nus

A lot of people my know of these bands but never actually listened to them so:

The Flaming Lips
Apollo Sunshine(Check This Out Now)
Broken Social Scene
Valent Thorr
Rooney
Secret Machines(GREAT for Pink Floyd fans))
John Butler Trio
Danger Mouse/ Danger Doom
Butthole Surfers
Ben Harper
Elliott Smith
Jamiroquai
Kasabian
Modest Mouse(older stuff)
Stephen Lynch
Reel Big Fish
Skunk All-Stars
Catch 22
Von Bondies

Okay, I dont know if you guys have heard of these so just bare with me here:

New Zealand Bands

Black Seeds - Dub/ Chill Out.
Salmonella Dub - (Guess)
Shihad - Awesome Rock (these guys changed their name to Pacifier when they tried to make it big in America, apparently becuase Shihad sounds too much like Jihad)
Shapeshifter - Drum 'n Bass

Other Bands

A Tribe Called Quest - Hip Hop
Aphrodite - Jungle Drum 'n Bass
J 5 - Hip Hop (you've probably heard of them)
Method Man & Red Man - Hip Hop
Dark Tranquility - Heavy/Death Metal (Best albulm is Damage Done)
The Commodores - Funk Baby! (you must have heard of them)

Well I'm sure there are heaps more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.

If I were to pick any of these bands, I would go with Shihad and Black Seeds, they are the shizzle my nizzle.

The first one that comes to mind is Hawkwind. They were big in the early 70's in Britain, but not so big in the U.S. They were absolutely incredible, at least the early line ups were. They were a psychedelic, heavy metal, jazzy, space rock band that did all kinds of bizarre things with their music, and they did it very well. Lemmy, the lead singer of Motorhead, was their bass player for a while, and Ginger Baker, the drummer for Cream and Blind Faith, was their drummer for a while. Their best albums are In Search of Space and Space Ritual Live. Excellent music. But their 80's and 90's albums sucked.

The Insect Trust- obscure psychedelic rock band from the 60's

Ashra Temple- obscure space band

Camel- Trippy rock band from the 70's. Their leader apparently knew alot about how to do strange things with rock music. I highly recommend them.

Very good recommendations by O'nus!

here are mine. All electronica, but all very good (even if you don't like electronica)

Boards of Canada: You'd never believe it on first listen, but this is the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Enigmatic Scottish duo Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison create music out of every day type sounds, which they've distorted and mangled using analog audio tricks. When you listen to it, it sounds familiar, even reminds you of things from your childhood you'd forgotten about. Not only that, but the structures of the songs are mathematically interesting in many ways. Any lover of music should check out this band, thoroughly.

Aphex Twin: Another good electronica artist. If you have a good way of getting music, check out the album 'melodies from mars'

Mouse on Mars: Very bizarre and awesome electronica group. I prefer their older works, personally. Good ambient music for those introspective journeys or acid trips.

Originally posted by Yume
Gob: A rocking punk band from BC. They have many hits like \"I Hear You Calling\" and \"Give Up the Grudge\". They have sweet guitar lines and the drumming is crazy. It makes some sweet listenings. Thier soft hard switch makes everything they have new and exciting. My favorite CD is \"The World According To Gob\" and my favorite song is \"144\".

hey, i've been to a Gob show. It was pretty sweet. small venue in my hometown, with about 200 teens crammed into a community hall.

There's some awesome recommendations here. i've written down some of the ones i haven't heard of to check out tommorrow.

If you check out any of the following, check out:

Shpongle- amazing organic trance. they very well may change what you thought was musically possible

check out the songs "Dvine Moments of Truth" "Around the World in a Tea Daze" "The Sixth Revelation" "Room 23"...



and some others.

Infected Mushroom- just plain trippy

check out the songs "The Shen" "Tasty Mushroom" "Sailing in a Sea of Mushrooms"...

Dillinger Escape Plan- (mike patton) experimental metal- ONLY the album Irony is a Dead Scene

Aesop Rock- one of the few "hip-hop" artists i listen to. completely original.
check out the songs "Water" "Float" "Antisocial"...

Bjork- pretty mainstream, but her newest album Medulla is done completely with voices (no instruments). absolutely mind-blowing.
check out the songs "Mouth's Cradle" "Triumph of a Broken Heart" "Who is It" ..

Apocalyptica- adding my vote

Blonde Redhead- Melody of Damaged Lemons, AND Misery is a Butterfly albums

Mr Bungle-adding my vote

John Zorn-avant guarde

Mars Volta-adding my vote

Yes- psychadelic rock band from the 70's.

Aphex Twin-adding my vote "Outside Kick Ass Violin Solo" is amazing

Opeth- semi-mainstream metal band. the Blackwater Park album is killer, and the Damnation album has amazing ballads

The Flaming Lips- Yoshima Battles the Pink Robots album

Puya- Spanish Metal Band

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum- experimental metal/everything "Sleep is Wrong" and "Cockroach" are good songs.

Coal Chamber- metalish band

Philip Glass- modern composer- has some fresh stuff

that's all i can think of for now..

Originally posted by Kula
BOMFUNK MC'S
These guys aren't too popular in the UK and US (at least to my knowledge. *If i'm wrong, someone please correct me)

Duely corrected

"Other Emcee's" & "Rockin' the Spot" are two of the best songs I've heard from them
I think everyone's heard "Freestyler" & "Up-Rockin'", they were done to death

Dillinger Four
Algebra one
fifteen
falling sickness
kid dynamite
hep cat
choking victim
F.Y.P.
first step to fuailer

most of them can be found here www.hopelessrecords.com they have some free downloads and some people i did not mention there

Therion

Lake of Tears

This is some good shit:

http://www.kimyadawson.com/

http://www.kimyadawson.com/audio/kimya%20d...20-%2012_26.mp3

!!! <---- spell it like that, pronounce it "chk chk chk" or "pow pow pow"
Sufjan Stevens <---- Best album of 2005, hands effin' down.
7 Shot Screamers
Thee Shams <---- that's thee, not the
Lee County Killers
North Mississippi All Stars

Originally posted by bradybaker

Lee County Killers

Is that a different line up than The Immortal Lee County Killers II?
I have the "Love is a Charm of Powerful Trouble" album.
Very gritty, you have to be in the mood for it. Btw, Brady, you would love this
bowling alley by my place. Vintage early 60's, pretty much untouched, and the
middle 3 lanes are covered by a stage. All sorts of obscure punk / rockabilly /
garage bands from around the world come to play. $10 cover, $7 all night bowling,
diner food and a bar. Plus you can bowl while the band is on. My favorite joint
for most Fridays, currently.

www.asburylanes.com

Originally posted by R.Carter
Is that a different line up than The Immortal Lee County Killers II?
I have the \"Love is a Charm of Powerful Trouble\" album.
Very gritty, you have to be in the mood for it. Btw, Brady, you would love this
bowling alley by my place. Vintage early 60's, pretty much untouched, and the *
middle 3 lanes are covered by a stage. All sorts of obscure punk / rockabilly /
garage bands from around the world come to play. $10 cover, $7 all night bowling,
diner food and a bar. Plus you can bowl while the band is on. My favorite joint
for most Fridays, currently. * *

www.asburylanes.com

Yeah that's it, but they're the Immortal Lee County Killers 3 now, they got a keyboard player. I saw them at some tiny bar a while back.

That bowling alley sounds incredible though, I wish we had a place like that around here.

Adding my vote:

Secret Chiefs 3 +++yesyesyes
Mr. Bungle
Fantomas
The Mars Volta
Lightning Bolt
Dillinger Escape Plan (Calculating Infinity is amazing too)
Buckethead
Primus

And then:

The Cancer Conspiracy
Kaada
Tomahawk
Squarepusher
Ruins
Jim O'Rourke
ISIS
Faust
Estradasphere
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
John Coltrane (Interstellar Space)
Cornelius

And if anyone is interested in modern classical:

Morton Feldman
Steve Reich
Gerard Grisey
Phillipe Hurel
Salvatore Sciarrino
Giacinto Scelsi
Beat Furrer
Helmut Lachenmann
Brian Ferneyhough

Deerhoof
Eels
L7
Fantomas
Eyehategod
Shihad
Supersuckers
The Dude
The Lawrence Arms
Zeke
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

broken social scene
matthew good band
sloan
primal scream
my bloody valentine
the stone roses
interpol
the screaming trees
mark lanegan
mudhoney
the inbreds
jeff buckley
flaming lips

k, not that obscure. but totally unknown compared to many inferior & popualr acts.

Like razorback mentioned, Elliott Smith. He's sorta known, but not enough for how awesome his songs are. Listen to some of his songs, you won't regret it

The Dismemberment Plan you can go to their website and hear some of their stuff www.dismembermentplan.com


Also if you are looking for a really nice calming band search up Iron and Wine they ( I don't know if I should refer to the band as a he or they) are very nice. Sort of known. Not sure.

Originally posted by Stanzmastertron3000
my bloody valentine

Saw them in City Gardens, Trenton, NJ when they were promoting " Loveless "
Good CD, Great live show.

You keep bringing up bands I love and haven't listened to in awhile, thanks !
RC.

Anyone that likes extreme metal:

Necrophagist (can't stop listening to them at the mo)
Deeds Of Flesh
Visceral Bleeding
Insidious Decrepancy
Gorerotted
Suffocation
Severe Torture
Behemoth
Dying Fetus
Age Of Suffering
Beheaded
Guttural Secrete
Severed Saviour
Disgorge
Decapitated
Desecration
Brutus
Devourment
Malevolent Creation
Vader
Disavowed
Gorgasm
Sarpanitum