[Closed] Best band/album no ones heard of before?

mikey74 - Member

Crippled Black Phoenix

Love this one... Think it was the Mogwai connection that led me to them probably.

mikey74 - Member
Crippled Black Phoenix

Love this one... Think it was the Mogwai connection that led me to them probably.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOU-LpNKonw

They are very good. I've seen them live a couple of times too. They seem to have lost their way on the new album though, although I'm not that familiar with it yet.

Resurrectionist is very good, as is I, Vigilante, and (Mankind) The Dirty Ape.

I like Moe and Umphreys McGee.

Well congratulations to all of those who *have* heard of Tool. You win 6 Internet Points each.

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And The Three Johns were supposed to be headlining a gig my mate put on in the 80s but pulled out at short notice.....

In an areoplane over the sea - by Neutral Milk Hotel
In some album charts its in the top 20 ever.....ever!
Fantastic band and album

I'd kinda agree. A good album. I saw them support Sparklehorse whilst touring for this album. The was a pretty good gig.

For me albums by Christie Front Drive, Mineral, Texas is the Reason and Cap'n Jazz still blow me away nearly 20 years later.

Texas is the Reason. Great band.

Drugstore and their eponymously titled album. A real gem of an album. Melancholy, dark, raw and melodic! Not too keen on much of their other stuff though.

Zero 7 - simple things. Although you will of never heard of the band, you WILL of heard most of the songs on the album.

chojin - Member

Well congratulations to all of those who *have* heard of Tool. You win 6 Internet Points each.

I've even seen them live. Well, I say live, Maynard spent the whole gig hiding up the back of the stage looking away from the audience. In his pants. As far as I could tell they were just playing the CD. It was like watching David Guetta except you weren't allowed to smile. Oh and the pants thing. How many points for that?

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Vatican Shadow - Kneel before Religious Icons
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
Goat - World Music

Try them. Brilliant.

bjj.andy.w - Member

Zero 7 - simple things. [u]Although you will of never heard of the band, [/u]

Seriously?

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Thee Faction - War of Position - small socialist R & B (in the old sense of the phrase) band.

Earko - self titled debut (probably only available at the club night of the same name about 10 yrs ago...)

Bob L Sturm - music from the ocean

Eleh - Location momentum

USK Muusic is my girlfriend

Gas - Nah Und Fern

Jacaszek - Treny

MWVM - Rotations

Vladislav Delay - Demo(n) Tracks

You made them all up!

bjj.andy.w - Member
Zero 7 - simple things. Although you will of never heard of the band,
Seriously?

Alright, probably 😀

I've even seen them live. Well, I say live, Maynard spent the whole gig hiding up the back of the stage looking away from the audience. In his pants. As far as I could tell they were just playing the CD. It was like watching David Guetta except you weren't allowed to smile. Oh and the pants thing. How many points for that?

I'll allow an extra bonus point, for the pants though and nothing else.

The extra point now means that you're winning the internet! \o/

bjj.andy.w - Member

Alright, probably

They did have a song on the Garden State soundtrack, which won a Grammy award and such. Pretty underground 😆

You made them all up!

All but two of them are in my Itunes - can screen shot!

Garden State soundtrack

And totally unrelated this is pretty good too
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Mono - I remember when Mark and Lard played Life in Mono on Radio 1 back in the day when they did a lunchtime show, and (they said) got the engineer to turn the transmission over to mono.

http://www.myspace.com/sinestarproject

Although, I've heard of them 🙂

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On an opposite note - has anyone ever seen a Babyshambles CD? I mean in the wild, in a CD collection - not in the dusty bins of a closed down HMV...

Sleeping States - [url=

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I've heard and the album's great.

Sixtoes - Low Guns

Obscurity- there's a glasgow band called Dolby Anol. Now that's not that obscure- what's obscure is that they got their name after an Art Brut show in Edinburgh. Art Brut do a thing in their song We Formed A Band where Eddie Argos points out random members of the audience and orders them to form bands. You, you you and you, you're now The Angry Flock Of Odin. You and you, you're a brother/sister blues band called Brut Art.... And you, you, you and you- you're Dolby Anal.

As far as I know, this is the only time it's ever actually worked

Some stuff I like (that some of you may not have heard of):

Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun

That first HIFH album is so very very good. Hundred Reasons made a bit of a tactical error bringing them out on tour last year 😆

We're all Soft Pink Truth fans, aren't we?

I had tickets to see HIFH and HR in London.. ended up selling them as HR played a warm up gig at the Cavern in Exeter instead.. 200 capacity, was awesome.. I presume HIFH were good? gutted I missed them..

Best gig I've seen for years tbh! 100R were excellent (of course!) but I thought the setlist hampered them a bit, HIFH were absolutely as good as it gets I reckon. 100R felt like a fitting farewell, HIFH felt like they should go on and take on the world. Worth the trip from Edinburgh to London!

(I guess the "first album" thing flatters HIFH)

The Union.

Hunners and hunners of you will definitely have heard this, but I occasionally still stick on "Pure" by "The Times", which was one of Ed Ball's side projects.

I still love it, and the way it bizarrely corkscrews its way through some classic British influences- The Who, the Jam, etc, then goes onto covering "Blue Monday" in French, before side 2's Anthony Burgess-inspired bits.

Possibly not obscure enough for here, though.

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Electronic gorgeousness so wonderful it's like an hour long hug for your ears.

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Hmm, had a listen to that Neutral Milk Hotel album, recommended at the start of the thread.

Not that impressed really. Sorry.

The Neutral Milk Hotel album is amazing, one of my favourites.

How about Spiderland by Slint if you like your music dark and brooding.

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Junichi Watanabe

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My band 😀

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/risk-it-all/id595356552
http://open.spotify.com/track/4hue7XRAU19ki8Y76HfjWc

Also, I really like a free album made on the Tenorion by a guy called Norman Fairbanks.

http://www.normanfairbanks.com/blog/?page_id=12

Richmond Fontaine - I really wish he'd lighten up a bit... 😉
How 'bout Nortec Collective
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Murcoff
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aP - I'd image everyone posting on STW has heard of Murcof. Purple stuff, cleans yer bike, innit.