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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: grrraham on 30 May 2006, 23:20
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Quick!
Everyone, think about the single most obscure* band you know!
Now tell us the first one that came to mind.
It doesn't count if the band was/is obscure because either they suck or they are a little local band that no one out of their hometown has heard of.
A good example: The Residents or Os Mutantes. The Velvet Underground would have been an ideal pick if I posted this in the sixties before they'd broken up and become famous.
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Crown of Autumn or Backworld.
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the good life maybe?
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Roky Erickson (it was a photo finish between his name, and the name of the band he used to be in, The 13th Floor Elevators).
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I am bad at this kind of thing, but I am going to have a crack at it and say Strawberry Path.
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Gingerbread Patriots
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Ovo
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Buh.. The Elastik Band
Edit: Because Mr. Spinless speaks truth.
The Elastik Band only ever put out one song, called "Spazz".
But it's a fucking great song, it's in the Nuggets boxset that collects the first wave of pyschedlic garage bands, and it was my reason for getting it. The whole thing is fantastic though.
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Finding Waldo.
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Durr.... Caravan?
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edIT.
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Peelander-Z
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So if I physically own multiple Caravan and Os Mutantes cd's, does that invalidate those choices? I choose Alusa Fallax.
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I don't physically own them.
I do own several Residents cds and like to tote them whenever I can.
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The Nazgül
Tolkienloving krautrockers.
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unless you are awesomely jc/hc, i give you: blaster the rocketman.
also, i haven't heard anyone here mention french toast... but i'm not aware of their indie stats except they opened for q and not u like 2 years ago. which probably means everyone hates them.
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Th' Legendary Shack-Shakers.
Yeah, I'm not that obscure.
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Austin TV
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Gargamel!
The exclamation point is part of the name.
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Polytechnic
Good stuff, listen to "PEP" :-)
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Dantalian's Chariot?
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Destroy All Robots
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um..
No idea.
Preston School of Industry?
naaaah....
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Litttershpich
Amazing noise group from Israel. I've been to their last concert - fucking brillant.
Here (http://www.caput58.net/download/lietterschpich/) are some songs for download. WARNING: Not for the gentle.
Note the Pixis cover.
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Nimo, a Calgary based band who has....1 album. They kind of suck though.
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How about The Falcon?
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GUYS! If you wanna make this thread worth something, describe the bands you're posting, tell people how you know them, where they're from.
Otherwise this is just crap.
Also, no offshoots from bands that are huge will ever be 'obscure'.
Austin TV are a post rock band from Mexico City. They are not that obc¿scure really, easily being the mot famous post-rock ban in Mexico (yes, also the only one I know of). Their sound is close to Mogwai with use of samples a la GY!BE. They take to the stage wearing matching clothing and masks, the idea being that people will not focus on the members but on the music. One of the outfits is matching black pinstriped suits with a red mask, another is white suits with a bunny mask.
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The Jim Yoshii Pile Up.
Good band from California.
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Jim Yoshii Pile-Up. YESSS!!
Anyway. The band I said was Destroy All Robots from Ontario, Canada. They are a fun rock band with some ska influences. The singer writes really good, thought provoking lyrics. The end.
http://www.myspace.com/destroyallrobots
http://www.destroyallrobots.net
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the mean reds.
crazy arizonian teenagers who play crazy electrohardcore scream-lullabys.
their myspace lists bodom as an influence but iTunes lists them as "childrens music"
i saw them @ warped tour 2 years ago.
they recently broke up
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Hmmmm....
Say Hi To Your Mom
...maybe...
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Good band from California.
Ha, I thought you meant that "Good band from California" was the name of a band. That would be cool?
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ba dum tsh??
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the beach boys? THE BEACH BOYS!??!!
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I'll go with Pelt, the drone/psych/folk group that's been very quietly releasing works of extreme weirdness for quite some time. Jack Rose is in it. It is, for the most part, nothing at all like his solo work. Pelt's music is mostly acoustic drone and poor-recording-type noise. I find it nearly unlistenable when I am in all but the most specific moods, during which it is spot-on perfect.
A clsoe second place goes to Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, a 6-piece (drums, guitar, violin, upright bass, French horn, and accordion) band I saw play last winter. The accordionist/lead singer played feedback solos and sometimes a jaw harp. They were actually amazing.
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Heartless Bastards.
They're from...uh, somewhere in the US, I dunno. I saw them on my friends last.fm and thought that name was so good I had to listen.
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i'd say jonas. except that they recorded 2 albums and published them on lado, so they were not THAT obscure, but i guess obscure enough for international obscurity. they played one show in the usa, though. in texas.
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Well there used to be this black metal band, called Exclamatory Defecation Syndrome. They played one gig and broke up afterwards, because they didn't want to give in to the mainstream. From what i heard, they never really practised before that one gig either.
Crazy norwegians..
Anyway, returning to Caravan: It's basically 70's style prog-rock, with a heavy influence from folk and jazz (mostly jazz though). Their two albums "In The Land Of Grey And Pink" and "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night" have my warmest, heartiest recommendation.
It just has such a sweet, uplifting hippie vibe. Whenever I'm in a REALLY lousy mood, I just stick one of their albums on and feel better. If the blissed-out vibe of the music itself doesn't do it for me, the silly lyrics will.
Plus, one of their early albums has the greatest title ever: "If I Could Do it All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" :D
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Ummmm... probably the Flower Kings.
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The Flower Kings are aband you've mentioned a few times, I've meant to look into, and just never got around to it.
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Ummmm... probably the Flower Kings.
I still haven't gotten around to checking them out, but lord knows I am a total sucker for prog rock..
Another Candidate:
ARSIS!!
not much to say, other than it is just fuckin' kick-ass metal. The riffs man, the riffs!! It's ridiculous, I am listening to them right now, and it's just orgasmic. Brilliant!
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Good band from California
aside from deerhoof this may be an oxymoron.
Having heard Deerhoof, I don't think they're an exception to this.
Referring back to my earlier nomination of Dantalian's Chariot: 1960's psychedelic rock band. Given that they probably don't remember who they were, it's a fair bet that most of you lot won't either.
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Oh man, my buddy just really got into Arsis, I was meaning to bum one of their albums off him.
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Oh man, my buddy just really got into Arsis, I was meaning to bum one of their albums off him.
Do it, for gods sake, DO IT!!
"A Celebration Of Guilt" is pure fucking awrsomeness.
On paper, it should actually be totally lame:
It's melodic death metal, and the Shred-factor is completely off the scale, which could result in it ending up as a total wank-fest.
And the album doesn't have much in the way of variation at first glance, but after a few listens, the subtleties of the dynamics sink in. Still, at first listen it just sounds like 180 mph guitar-melting all the time..
But somehow, the end result is just... wow..
Sure, it is in some way a technical wankfest, but all the uber-technical riffs and complex overdubs tie in so well it's not even funny. And the biggest plus is: It's got SONGS!!
The songwriting is fucking phenomenal, and quite catchy with impeccable dynamics and flow. Everything kicks in at the perfect time. Every tempo change, blastbeat, mid-tempo breakdown, melodic harmony riff of extreme awesomeness +2 and every bitchin' solo is placed perfectly and hammered in with undeniable authority.
But don't just take my word for it, check it out for yourself:
http://www.worshipdepraved.com/sounds.cfm
"The Face Of My Innocence".. That song sums up their sound pretty well, and it just kicks off that album so perfectly.
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Roky Erickson (it was a photo finish between his name, and the name of the band he used to be in, The 13th Floor Elevators).
Coulda just said "& Blieb Alien" and you would have won. Well, except I still woulda caught you.
po' girl are a folk band. The Pizzicato Five are a J-Pop band on Matador. The Snitches are from Canada and play power-pop. Blood Meridian are country-rock and I don't know where they're from. Same with Ladyhawk.
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They kinda failed right there didn't they? I haven't heard them and I'm already more interested in what they look like. I'd ingore the music and just stare at the costumes...like that Gram Rabbit band, nobody actually knows what they sound like because they're too busy stairing at the dancing bunny.
Yes indeed. I saw them live without having listened to anything by them before and all I was thinking throughout the first sng was "Those bunnny suits are nice, I wonder how they look without the mask". I was actually corrected on this a few minutes ago, they do it so that the audience doesn't focus on any of them individually, but as a band.
aside from deerhoof this may be an oxymoron.
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Aquabats
Beach Boys
Black Flag
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Dead Kennedys
Grandaddy
Jane's Addiction
Pavement
Primus
Rilo Kiley
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Mad props for NOT mentioning Red Hot Chilli Fattyiers.
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Not to mention Testament, Megadeth, Exodus, and Dark Angel.
Except I just mentioned 'em. Because they're awesome. WHOO
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Mad props for NOT mentioning Red Hot Chilli Fattyiers.
That band does not exist, do you understand?
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Bonde do Gordao
edit: members of the PCC (Primeiro Comando do Capital) out of the coast of Sao Paulo Brazil that associated themselves with Naldinho the Fatman (O Gordao) and sing prohibidao (music that' actually against the law) funk carioca songs about murdering rival gangs and how awesome they and the Comando Vermelho (biggest criminal gang in Brazil) are
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Free Beer. i know nothing about them, save that they were named that to get people to come to their shows.
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I am pretty sure that I do not know any obscure bands at all. I mean, I love music & all that, but I'm more of a passive "listen to interesting-sounding stuff as I find it" kind of guy rather than an "actively pursue new music" one.
That said, of all the bands mentioned in this thread I've only heard edIT. Everything else is totally new. I agree with Spinless, by the way. Since people started explaining these obscure bands a bit better the thread has become a lot more useful to me.
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Ummmm... probably the Flower Kings.
I get the impression from the few times I've listened to them, as well as from a friend who has listened to them a lot that they are basically a Yes knockoff. Don't get me wrong, I really like some Yes stuff, but yeah. If you're into more of that, go for it, I guess.
Alusa Fallax, the band I listed earlier, is an Italian Prog band who only released one album before breaking up, so even among Italian Prog bands, they're pretty obscure. It's a really cool album though.
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I misread that as Free Bear. I think that's even better.
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ARSIS!!
I've been ranting about these guys for, what, a year and a half now? Their drummer is brilliant. Have you heard about that Death Metal Ballet thing they were working on?
Crown of Autumn are woefully obscure gothic/medieval metal from Italy who released one demo and an album of sheer fucking brilliance in 1997. Towers of Doleful Triumph and Thou Mayst in Me Behold are two of my favourite tracks of all time.
Backworld is an american psychedelic/apocalyptic folk artist. He was taught guitar by nuns, collaborated with JG Thirlwell of Foetus and Lydia Lunch, and he was signed to World Serpent Records back in the day. Now he's on Eislicht with other obscure neo-folk gems such as Ostara, Neutral and Sonne Hagal.
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From the ashes of Mclusky... Shooting at Unarmed Men. I was pretty shocked when I stumbled on this.
Oh, and Blood Meridian are from Vancouver and Ladyhawk are from Kelowna, which apparently has an industry solely made up of beer and boat sales.
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That said, of all the bands mentioned in this thread I've only heard edIT. Everything else is totally new. I agree with Spinless, by the way. Since people started explaining these obscure bands a bit better the thread has become a lot more useful to me.
Since you've heard of edIT I shall explain for others.
edIt is a female glitchcore artist signed to Planet Mu records. She tends to use a lot more instruments than traditional breaks/glitchcore.
How about OOO?
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not really as obscure as it is that I've noticed that no one has ever really heard of them...
Jump, Little Children.
My favorite band EVER, from the sounds of it, they are a lot different than the bands being described here. They are a very ecclectic mix of rock, irish folk, and white boy rapper who plays the accordian. They're better live than they are recorded. Their multi-instrumentialist plays the accordian, irish tin whistle, harmonica, traditional/hot pink electric mandolin, and is the aforementioned white boy rapper. Their bass player rocks the standup bass harder than I've ever seen it rocked. I guess many who know them would put them in the category of "mellowed out hippie music," although I wouldn't put them in that category.
I've always had a hard time trying to describe their sound. They're a mostly regional band, which explains why many people haven't really heard of them. Unfortunately, they've broken up, but they did just release a new live album.
I know way too much about them. I hope at least one person here likes them :-/
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Well, I figure I may as well describe Strawberry Path, since I am kind of bored.
I found them poking around Indietorrents, and when I saw "Japanese Prog Rock" I figured I could use them as some kind of elitism leverage over my circle of prog nerd friends, when I was first getting into the genre, and felt really out of place in any of their conversations about music.
But yeah, they are Japanese Prog Rock, that reminds me of a lot of different bands at points. Kinda Kansas, kind of Pink Floyd, and oddly enough, a bit of Motorhead influence (Man, I am not looking for that fancy O with the dots right now) There are also some pretty Hendrix-esque guitar solos at points.
It is pretty awesome.
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It's funny you mention Jump, Little Children as I JUST heard about them!
Just yesterday I was talking to my friend who, gigantic Leonard Cohen fan that he is, upped and decided that day to try and go find every cover of "Hallehlujah" he could. And he told me that he hit jackpot, totalled to about 50 or so. Well, he sent me some of the best, and one of them was by Jump, Little Children, a band we both never heard about but whose name we were very much amused by.
THAT'S THE END OF MY STORY, YAY
So anway, I've been meaning to find out more about them. You'll have to tell me where to start!
And adding on my own contribution:
The Elastik Band only ever put out one song, called "Spazz".
And it's a shame, because it's a great fucking song, whenenver I play it at work people are always asking who it is.
The only place it exists now is in a boxset called "Nuggets" which collects songs from the first wave of pyschedlic garage bands, and it was my reason for getting it. The whole thing is fantastic though.
Gah, sorry if some of this is wonky, sleeping pill jsut kicked in hard as I was writting it so I can't tell. Makes it hard edit
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Jump, Little Children.
I've only heard 'Cathedrals', and thought that was amazing. Any other recommendations?
Oh by the way, hello everyone.
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The Winks
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They kinda failed right there didn't they? I haven't heard them and I'm already more interested in what they look like. I'd ingore the music and just stare at the costumes...like that Gram Rabbit band, nobody actually knows what they sound like because they're too busy stairing at the dancing bunny.
Yes indeed. I saw them live without having listened to anything by them before and all I was thinking throughout the first sng was "Those bunnny suits are nice, I wonder how they look without the mask". I was actually corrected on this a few minutes ago, they do it so that the audience doesn't focus on any of them individually, but as a band.
aside from deerhoof this may be an oxymoron.
!!!
Aquabats
Beach Boys
Black Flag
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Dead Kennedys
Grandaddy
Jane's Addiction
Pavement
Primus
Rilo Kiley
X
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Awesome Jump Little Children songs...I'm really biased since they are my favorite band, and I would love to list every song they've ever made because I think they're all amazing...however, these are my all-time favorite JLC songs (sort of categorized by JLC time period), and hopefully you guys love them too! :)
*Earlyish JLC*
Dark and Lonely Man
Quiet (at concerts, everyone shouts the word quiet as loud as they can)
Because of You
Dancing Virginia
Opium (the live version is so much better)
Innocent Kiss
Easter Parade
Copper Kettle
Taibreamh (instrumental tin whistle....sooooooooo amazing)
Forget My Loss
Just a Second
*The Magazine Years*
Not Today
Violent Dreams
Come Out Clean
Body Parts (I refer to this as "Matt Being Sex on a Stick")
My Guitar (seeing this song live is quite an event....the two people/one guitar action is very exciting)
Say Goodnight (at concerts, everyone claps twice after the words "turn out the lights")
(actually, you're probably better off just buying/downloading the entire "Magazine" album)
*More Recent*
Vertigo
Mother's Eyes
Made it Fine
Overkill
Singer
Pigeon
(the first six songs on this section are their most "artsy" songs fyi)
Dim and the Dark
Rains in Asia
Broken
Requiem
Daylight
Darkest Love (the second part of this song with the spoken word/singing combo is freaking great)
By The Way They Dance (the unofficial wedding song of JLC)
They all sound a lot better live...I recommend looking them up on www.archive.org. They have about a million concerts up on there, and trust me...JLC is a better live band than they are recorded. Unfortunately, they've broken up, but at least there's the archive.
And I apologize for the length...I get really into it ;)
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Wow, thanks!
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Peelander-Z
I want to love you for that.
MEDIUM RARE!!!!
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I pick Super Butter Dog because I think they're pretty obscure, and because their name is awesome. Band from Japan whose music has a bit of a funk influence to it.
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Uh... Creed.
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Red Martian? A local band in Seattle: www.redmartian.com
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Xasthur.
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TSOL - It stands for True Sounds of Liberty, and they're a pretty decent punk band. They've got a great song called Anticop.
Jeffrey Lewis - Anti-folk artist from New York, he's on Rough Trade and has collaborated with Kimya Dawson from the Moldy Peaches. He's into telling stories in his songs, like the chelsea hotel oral sex song in which he sings about meeting a girl and talking to her about the Leonard Cohen song. He's got three albums out now.
After looking up TSOL, they look to have been pretty big at one stage, so I'm probably going to get flamed by people who think it's old hat.
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Polytechnic
Good stuff, listen to "PEP"
How can they be obscure when they're plastered all over Myspace?
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After looking up TSOL, they look to have been pretty big at one stage, so I'm probably going to get flamed by people who think it's old hat.
...me. pretty decent? tsol is old had and far beyond decent. in a good way.
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Girl(s) in a coma
is a simi-local band they have some albums out right now and they tour (mostly the southern states)
so i'm not sure if they count for this game.
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Mr. Velcro Fastener: Finnish electopop kraftwerk-esque duo (Two guys named Tatu). Otherside was probably one of my favorite albums of 2002, and Telemacho, their release this year, is on par with that. Anyone who uses a robotic vocoder in their songs is aces in my book.
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Mr. Velcro Fastener: Finnish electopop kraftwerk-esque duo (Two guys named Tatu). Otherside was probably one of my favorite albums of 2002, and Telemacho, their release this year, is on par with that. Anyone who uses a robotic vocoder in their songs is aces in my book.
It's Cynic for you dude!
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huh?
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huh?
Robotic Vocoder = Cynic :)
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haha
I'm sure he wants to jump from electropop to technical death metal.
Hell, I'll go ahead and recommend Rabies by Skinny Puppy and that last Meshuggah album.
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Louise Cyphre (http://www.geocities.com/louise_radau/start.htm)
They're a really good "screemo"/"emo-viloence" hardcore band from Germany. I just found them through the Electric Human Project Distro (which I found through Funer Diner, the band that is remotely responsible for the foufra.com 'what is emo' webpage).
Good. Good.
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Menomena - Northwestern American band that is best known for creating its own mixing program to put snippets of instrumentals together to form a song and then learning the song from the actual mix. (This is awesome in that their music plays like a recording but is all done in one bit. AKA in their first song on "I am the Fun Blame Monster," they have sudden stops like an electronica band where the song dies, but immediately picks back up again. Really fun stuff.)
That said, I'm sure someone here has heard of them as all the people I think are indie are pretty much staples here. Heh.
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Menomena -
That said, I'm sure someone here has heard of them as all the people I think are indie are pretty much staples here. Heh.
plus they're on polyvinyl and I think jeph has mentioned them once... I think. Good band tho.
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Man I give up. The only obscure bands I know are local bands thus disqualified.
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Man I give up. The only obscure bands I know are local bands thus disqualified.
well, I didn't know all the facts you posted about them! Don't give up!! I didn't mean to sound like a jerk if I did in the last post.
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Heh I wasn't offended or anything, I just really have no obscure tastes that I didn't learn directly from this forum or from a friend who basically just introduced me to the basics of indie like Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Menomena
Doo doobie doo-doo!
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Roky Erickson (it was a photo finish between his name, and the name of the band he used to be in, The 13th Floor Elevators).
Coulda just said "& Blieb Alien" and you would have won. Well, except I still woulda caught you.
po' girl are a folk band. The Pizzicato Five are a J-Pop band on Matador. The Snitches are from Canada and play power-pop. Blood Meridian are country-rock and I don't know where they're from. Same with Ladyhawk.
Do you live in the midwest? Roky is playing Intonation in Chicago later this month, and I'm trying to find someone who cares enough to come.
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Mong Hang
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Austin TV
I LOVE YOU NOW.
I'm gonna go with....
Consider The Source.
They play basically what would happen if Secret Chiefs 3 and Behold... The Arctopus had a lovechild.
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Ummmm... probably the Flower Kings.
I get the impression from the few times I've listened to them, as well as from a friend who has listened to them a lot that they are basically a Yes knockoff. Don't get me wrong, I really like some Yes stuff, but yeah. If you're into more of that, go for it, I guess.
I like them a lot more than Yes, actually, but I see where the comparison comes from. They've got the same sort of spacey, texture-based prog rock thing going on. They're more technical, though, and I like the way they manage to pull that off even though their music flows so well. A lot of prog rock is super highly structured, as in, there has to be X number of solos in a song for it to count as a good one, the guitar solo always comes first, etc. With the Flower Kings, I get the feeling they just sorta follow what they come up as long as they feel like, and it's refreshing.
Not to mention Roine Stolt sounds like David Gilmour's son if he were raised by Alex Lifeson.
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I'm gonna go with....
Consider The Source.
They play basically what would happen if Secret Chiefs 3 and Behold... The Arctopus had a lovechild.
I am so looking that up, because the description just makes me squee.
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Pronghorn. Psychobilly band in my town. They are awesome.
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Consider The Source.
They play basically what would happen if Secret Chiefs 3 and Behold... The Arctopus had a lovechild.
Sounds interesting. I'll either love it or want to kill myself; it could go either way.
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Knows Austin TV
I wasn't expecting that (although compared to any other mexican post-rock they are huge).
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Especially Likely Sloth!
Side project of the bassist from Agalloch that is weirdness for weirdness' sake: high-pitched vocals, samples, and simplistic keyboards. Also released two CDs with absolutely no music on them. No sound. Nothing. I think they might not have even contained blank CDs.
Afrirampo. They're on Tzadik, but I had to throw them out just in case, because I picked up "Kore Ga Mayaku Da" for its low price and odd cover art and found out it was really good! It's sorta a punk duo, but with lots of odd things going on, mostly from the two girls howling and breaking songs down very soon after entering them. Plus, the riffs are suprisingly good when they're playing riffs. Has anyone else heard of them? Are they actually well known? I don't know much about them...
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!! My friend just sent me some Afrirampo and I was totally blown away!
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Thalarion - Slovakian death/doom metal. Nice combaination of female and male vocals. Atmospheric and doomy.
Power symphony - Italian power metal. Think goth version of Nightwish.
Wallmen - American indie pop/rock of weirdness. Not sure how obscure they are, but i've neer heard people talking about them. They've been around since the 80s. Their music sounds like some sorts of weird garage experiments, but pretty cool.
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Tech n9ne? Hollywood Undead?
99% of people I encounter with this band name has never heard of them. Very sad. Both bands are good but way different in types of music. (I have an extremely wide range of music taste)
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Lemme preface this by saying: I've totally heard both of those. and I actually like Tech N9ne (shut up). They are not particularly "underground", if you will.
However, Hollywood Undead are FUCKING TERRIBLE OH MY GOD IT MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FUCKING JAW AND THEN URINATE IN THEIR MOUTH it's so bad.
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Trait.
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Now you see, this is why Myspace is evil. Myspace is DIRECTLY responsible for artists like Hollywood Undead and Jeffree Star actually selling records.
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Jeffree Star makes music?
...FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCK
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Kai and other person.
HOW RAD IS THAT SONG STONE THROWER?
HOW RAD.
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Page France
They are from Baltimore, MD and they are wonderful.
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Jeffree Star makes music?
He didn't say "music". He said "records".
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....What the fuck would Jeffree Star have to put on a record?
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....What the fuck would anyone have to put on a record?
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....What the fuck would Jeffree Star have to put on a record?
Fucked if I know. (http://www.bbcworldwide.com/spokenword/) Maybe the high, thin whistling sound of a meaning flying overhead?
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Now you see, this is why Myspace is evil. Myspace is DIRECTLY responsible for artists like Hollywood Undead and Jeffree Star actually selling records.
Tech n9ne has a MySpace too o_O
But that's not how I first came across them.
It was with hollywood undead.
So I can see your point.
So I can listen to them so you don't have to ^_^
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Eleanor- Crashy garagecore from MD
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Small Tribe
Long defunked alternative/indie band from LA. I have never found any of their stuff ever besides a couple songs on a compilation that has some Sugarplastic songs.
Speaking of which.
The Sugarplastic.
Doesn't count if I told you about them.
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The Space Twins
ME
The Vogue
My Complex
Minus (?) [Icelandic....not the Minus from LA]
Discount
Vessels Cast from Crippled Hands
Capsule
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Two Gallants (will probably become less obscure)
Ghost Mice
Operation: Cliff Clavin
Ted Dancin' Machine
The Devil is Electric
Michael Jordan's Touchdown Pass
None of those will be obscure if you've heard of Plan-it-X Records though.
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Two Gallants (will probably become less obscure)
The hipsters in my art class are all like WOAH DUDE about Two Gallants.
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White Mice - Noisecore that will pretty much destroy your ears. Brilliant.
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Petty Cash, The Dharma Bums, and The Unlikely Heroes: all used-to-be-local bands that recently got bigger... as in touring UK.
Petty Cash is bluesy rock with a very bitter throaty singer... lots of songs about prostitutes and cheating girlfriends.
The Dharma Bums call themselves "funk, punk, and rock n roll" but they're actually sometimes a bit synthy... in a good way. Songs like "Beer" make me happy.
The Unlikely Heroes are an Oasish sort of electro-funk stomp-rock. They do some really good floor shakers, like one called Midsummer Storm.
Also, the Duckworths.
Dirty european jazz, latina rhythms, with added guitar rock. I suggest "Ahab's Blues". They come back from Italy to the UK soon.
- ZJ
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no idea if any of these bands are actually obscure, but they're the most obscure bands I listen to (since local bands apparently don't count)
James Chance & The Contortions (old new wave/punk band)
The Back Horn (J-Rock band)
Blue States (only heard one song of theirs)
Boards of Canada (ambient type stuff, they do the music for the David Firth toons)
Chunk (rock group, came across their webpage somehow and downloaded a song, was pretty good)
Kiroro (J-pop duo)
again, no idea if they're actually obscure or not, but I never hear anything about them, so...*shrug*
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Are Boards of Canada obscure now? shit.
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Would you say The Books (http://www.thebooksmusic.com) were obscure enough...?
Mixture of instrumental and electronic samples, overlayed with vocal samples/spoken-word/ambient noise. In theory it should be a mess but it somehow works really well. They seem very fun as well.
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Are The Books obscure now? shit.
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Agonoize, anyone?
I was gonna add Gothminister but I know a few people who already know them.
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I've been listening to Gothminister for about two years now, but I think they're still pretty obscure.
Probably because, in all fairness to 'em, they're not that good. Their best song is probably Icon of Coils remix of 'Devil'. That is pretty banging.
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Are Boards of Canada obscure now? shit.
Hell, no. They fit my definition of "not obscure", which is "I own one or more of their albums". (Note that this definition doesn't apply to everyone, only to me - you lot can own albums without something not being obscure any more.)
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Two Gallants (will probably become less obscure)
The hipsters in my art class are all like WOAH DUDE about Two Gallants.
It's because they signed to Saddle Creek, now Bright Eyes scenesters will love them.
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CAQTV, hands down.
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Blue States (only heard one song of theirs)
Hell. yes.
Tin Hat Trio are still ridiculously unknown.
also,
Miasma And The Carousel Of Headless Horses
also,
Freestyle Fellowship
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Page France
They are from Baltimore, MD and they are wonderful.
Yeah, I remember you recommend them a while back. They have brought me and a friend much joy and happiness.
There's a big movement in Italy and Germany of Emo-violence. Really really good hardcore. React With Protest (http://www.reactwithprotest.org) artists Louise Cyphre, Raein, June Paik, La Quiete, and this other band Kaospilot are really good at what they do.
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The french hardcore band Amanda Woodward is quite good as well.
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Good band from California
aside from deerhoof this may be an oxymoron.
dude... pavement
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White Mice - Noisecore that will pretty much destroy your ears. Brilliant.
White Mice are awesome. They're signed to Load, so that's already a sign of quality.
The Plan. Obscure math-meets-hardcore-meets-jazz-meets-indie band from Halifax (Nova Scotia), released two albums. Defunct now. Featured members of North of America.
The Holy Shroud. Another math/indie band from Halifax, also featuring North of America members.
Halifax is pretty good source for good but obscure bands, I guess.
Also, Yacopsae. Power violence from Germany I was recently introduced to. Pretty good band.
And good bands from California? Jesus, man, think 90s San Diego scene. Drive Like Jehu, Heroin, Mohinder, Clikitat Ikatowi. Also The Locust, The Flying Luttenbachers, Burmese...
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the furious sleep. kinda cool slightly proggy indie i guess.
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Say Hi To Your Mom.
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Gorgoroth. Such a cool metal name.
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Roky Erickson (it was a photo finish between his name, and the name of the band he used to be in, The 13th Floor Elevators).
Coulda just said "& Blieb Alien" and you would have won. Well, except I still woulda caught you.
Well, either way, the set he played in Chicago on Saturday fucking ruled.
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I'd hardly call Gorgoroth obscure, 'A Sorcery Written in Blood' and 'Pentagram' are basically essential early 90's BM releases.
Misantropical Painforest is a band I'd hugely reccomend, aside from having an awesome name, this is some of the most wonderful and unique music I have ever heard. If you're even slightly curious about extreme metal I'd look into this band, you won't be dissapointed. There are some samples available from their labels site http://www.alphadraconisrecords.org/samples.html if you're interested in checking them out. I'd go as far as to say "Winds Saturate with Inhumane Longing" was the best metal release of 2005.
Other sweet and some what obscure bands are Alchemist, Divine Eve and Myrddraal.
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obscure:
'Hanadensha' maybe? proggy, psychadelic band with seichii yamamoto. I think there's a fan-made myspace with some tunes on it.
I listened to some stuff by an 8-bit band called Yupster or something awhile ago. not too interesting really, but I've never heard of them since.
Z-rock hawaii, not-so-obscure but oft-overlooked by ween fans.
is Shpongle obscure? slow eastern sounding electronica.
--note: talk about obscure bands = joygasm to a bunch of indie forumers--
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I have been doing my best to try and make Alchemist less obscure for ages now. Austral Alien is probably in my top 100.
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Jud Jud 2 men sayin jud repeatedly in stereo
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The Ladies
<3 rob crow
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Good band from California
aside from deerhoof this may be an oxymoron.
dude... pavement
Deerhoof
Pavement
Mr. Bungle
Oingo Boingo
The Residents
Estradasphere
The Mermen
The Aquabats
People Under The Stairs
Beck
Primus
The Sugarplastic
Spindle
Quicksilver Messanger Service
Rogue Wave
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Sunn O)))
Tom Waits
Two Gallants
Charming Hostess
Descndents
Dream Syndicate
The Doors
ALL THE FUCKING DESERT BANDS
Fishbone
Isis
Let's Go Bowling
Seriously don't even try it.
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TECHNICALLY
The Residents are from Louisiana.
But they started making music when they moved to San Mateo.
TECHNICALLY
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OH OK KAI THANKZ
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Dude, you forgot every thrash band.
And Sleep/High on Fire. And Saint Vitus.
Otherwise, pretty good list.
EDIT: And Possessed.
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david hasslehoff
songs: i hate my girlfriend cuz she's not edge, joshback mountain
they are a joke hatecore band. hillarious.
joshback mountian/is my favorite place to be
with my/mountain dew and me
i hate my girlfriend cuz she's not edge/when we're chillin she just wants to get in bed
its a complete joke so no hateful replies please.