Good albums people never heard of

[ihatejelly0]

Nominate some albums most people dont know are good..
Dont state obvious choices like the Chronic by Dr Dre or Doggystyle by Snoop. Give me obscure albums.

First 3 I can think of are

Kausion- South Central Los Skanless

AllFrumthaI-(self titled album)

Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz- Kings of crunk & Put yo hood up.
I thought their albums were all loud rapping but these 2 albums bump quite nicely in the car.

[DJHotIce]

Rush, and King Crimson albums... Its all festerhead.com plays geeze

[psyfive]

www.thebranflakes.com

they have some good music.

[SSJ4 Gogitta]

E.S. Posthumus - Unearthed

[Moved: GD > MoR --Sawg]

[Reaper]

Sinch - Sinch

The Used - The Used (semi-known, I'm guessing)

Lagwagon - Blaze

[teh Nightwing]

Aerosmith - Pump

red Hot chili peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

Buddy Rich - Big swing Face

P.O.D. - Brown

Humble Pie - Rock on

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors

[Nimelennar]

Nickelback - The Long Road (their new one)

[corkhead0]

Originally posted by ihatejelly0
Give me obscure albums.


Originally posted by teh Nightwing
Aerosmith - Pump

red Hot chili peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan

P.O.D. - Brown

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors

Originally posted by Nimelennar
Nickelback - The Long Road (their new one)

Yup, thats the most obscure music from the most obscure bands I've ever heard of... maybe I should start posting Metallica and Led Zeppelin?

Testament - The Legacy
The Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
Pigmy Love Circus - The Power Of Beef
In Flames - Jester Race
Hole - Celebrity Skin
Anthrax - Among The Living

[ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ]

Prong - Beg to Differ / Force Fed
D.R.I. - Thrash Zone / Four of a Kind
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains / Choas AD
WASP - The Crimson Idol
Kreator - Coma of Souls / Endorama
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel

...all I can think of for now....

Oh yea.. LOL @ whoever said Aerosmith, Nickelback and Rush is obscure! Must be living in a coconut.

[FesterHead]

Kung Fu Diesel - Feed and Grain
Israel Kamakawiwo`ole - E Ala E
Visual Cliff - Lyrics for the Living
Hugo Flores - Atlantis
7 Months - 7 Months
ATP (Adenosine Tri-Phosphate) - My Green Martian Baby
Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West

[Cylob]

Never heard of any of those Festerhead. :up:

[Shane M]

One Less Reason: http://www.onelessreason.net/
CPX: www.cpxrock.com (THIS one is obscure as hell) You can't get any of their music right now cause their website is under construction and they're unknown outside Detroit. But its some great punk, seriously.

[Cylob]

I've heard of CPX.

[Shane M]

Originally posted by Cylob
I've heard of CPX.

Hey, no shit? Thats sweet. They deserve a lot more popularity then they've gotten. What hurts them is they orginally were more of a christian band, although now they're holding out for a major record contract. I think I'm going to one of their shows this weekend. I'll get a CD and but up a torrent link to it. People deserve to hear this shit.

[primal scream]

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Sipirt of Eden

now although they were a chessy 80's synth pop band, in the late 80's early 90's they became a freeform ambinet band, the kinda music sigur rios make expect 10 years before. check it out, its class

[Cylob]

Cheers primal scream. I've just looked those up on AMG. Both have a ***** rating.:) I have The Colour of Spring which hinted at ambience - these must be the real deal.

[DragonSon]

Originally posted by teh Nightwing
Aerosmith - Pump


WHAT? You have to be kidding...everyone has at least HEARD an Aerosmith song, and ten to one, one of those songs had been from that album. Myself, I'm 8 or 9 albums away from having all of their work.

[Shane M]

Originally posted by DragonSon
Myself, I'm 8 or 9 albums away from having all of their work.

*cough* Bit Torrent *cough*

It's waaaaayyyy easier... :-)

[DragonSon]

What is that?

[Cylob]

Some Kraut Rock & Detroit Techno:

2-Raum Wohnung - Come Together
Adult. - Resuscitation
FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
Legowelt - Reports From the Backseat Pimp
Ellen Allien - Berlinette
Console - Rocket in the Pocket
Martini Bros - Play
Anthony Rother - Hacker
Pole - 3
W.I.T. - Whatever It Takes
Swayzak - Himwari
Tarwater - Silur
Drexciya (any album)
Tok Tok Vs Soffy O. - Tok Tok Vs Soffy O.

[Shane M]

Originally posted by DragonSon
What is that?

Bit Torrent (download a client here: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html) is a P2P client that is quite different than others. Its primarily for huge files (50MB~1GB+) and requires you first to download what basically amounts to an instruction file for whatever you want to download. These files can be found at suprnova.org (or do a google search for suprnova, since its always down but there are mirrors everywhere). The selection isn't close to Kazaa but its nice to be able to start downloading a file with every Metallica song ever recorded, and come back the next day and its done. Make sure to read about the BT protocol to get a grasp on how best to use it.


@Cylob:
Yeah, I should get more into the Detroit techno/electronica scene. I love the music, I just haven't gotten into it on a local level yet.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Shane M
The selection isn't close to Kazaa but its nice to be able to start downloading a file with every Metallica song ever recorded, and come back the next day and its done.

A whole discography in 1 file? What a concept. I take it the songs are zipped.

So you live in Detroit Shane M.:) It has a great heritage for techno & house, but you must know far more than me (at my desk 10,000 miles away). Anyway - respect!:up:

[Shane M]

Originally posted by Cylob
A whole discography in 1 file? What a concept. I take it the songs are zipped.

So you live in Detroit Shane M.:) It has a great heritage for techno & house, but you must know far more than me (at my desk 10,000 miles away). Anyway - respect!:up:

Know what, usually not. Sometimes they come as a .rar file. But for example, with the Metallica thing, I told it to put it into My Documents. When it finished, I checked it, and there were like 15 folders in there, one for each album. What happens is when you d/l the 'information header file' (.torrent) it allocates the space on your hardrive and sets up the folder/file structure before it ever downloads one byte of the actual file. So it looks right away like you just downloaded a gig of music even though its all just really 'claimed space' at the time.

Yeah, Detroit is great for techno to a point. We have the worlds largest electronic music festival (lovefest would more be strictly techno) but honestly, many clubs here don't play it like they do in the UK or eastern europe either. We get a lot of house and hiphop, whereas I LOVE trance. You can find it if you look though. In 5 years if its still like that I may try to open my own techno club. I think that would make a killing around here.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by Shane M
When it finished, I checked it, and there were like 15 folders in there, one for each album. What happens is when you d/l the 'information header file' (.torrent) it allocates the space on your hardrive and sets up the folder/file structure before it ever downloads one byte of the actual file.

Sounds impressive. I usually acquire 3 or 4 albums at a time for any given artist, it's a case of doing it track by track. The system above is a dream. I've often thought of a web-ferret program that would track down all songs by an artist and dload them. Lazy me.

[Shane M]

Yeah the track by track thing is a pain. Now its even worse because half the files don't have id3 tags, half of them are fuX0red by the RIAA and have those scratches halfway through, and I don't share on Kazaa anymore b/c of the lawsuits. BT torrent allows me to share as well as get better quality music. Its just often a little slower on average...but also easier.

[Shane M]

Anyway, to get back on the topic....

This one isn't unknown really but not widely known. Any album by Spearhead is great.

[Cylob]

Spearhead have a new album out I see (commended by AMG). I hadn't heard of them - some sort of political rap (as if rap can be anything else). Sounds interesting.

[Shane M]

Yeah its pretty good stuff. I haven't listened to much on their newer albums, I kinda lost track of him after Home. But yeah, its somewhat politically motivated but more importantly its rap with a positive message. And not stupid shit like Wil Smith either. Many people who don't like rap like Spearhead. They rock.

[zootm]

Originally posted by corkhead0
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
:up:
Originally posted by corkhead0
Hole - Celebrity Skin
:down:
"live through this" was about a million times better, imo...

and YES i'm gonna mention the bastarding album again:
SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out Wait For Something Wild

[corkhead0]

Aha! I knew there had to be someone in these forums that had similar tastes as me!

I will be sure to download the Sikth album, haven't heard of them before.

[Shenlong]

Bluetip...That's the band, don't know any of their albums, though...

[Cylob]

Clan of Xymox are a great band, but overshadowed by similar acts like New Order. They're still making great albums after 15 years. They have 10+ excellent albums to their name.

[Mattress]

Blue Six is a cool chill/house group Beautiful Tomorrow is a good album.

[NJK]

did anyone ever hear of a guy called

johan timman and his album a trip trough the body???

i think no one even knows it

[Cylob]

Sorry dude, I haven't heard of Johan Timman's 'Trip Through the Body'. But it sounds intruiging.

[NJK]

if you like electronic music like the made in the early eighties compare it with kraftwerk (that's a german band) this guy johan timman is from belgium and just made one album - if you have kazaa there's most likely someone who put it on the net

[Cylob]

Cheers spaceplayradio.:) Another artist with a low profile is Legowelt. Very distinctive electro from Holland (The Hague I believe). I would recommend the tracks:

Legowelt - Sturmvogel
Hong Kong Counterfeit - Metal Disco (Legowelt Remix)

Both widely available from your green friend.

[Clinical]

Mr.Bungle - Disco Volante (maybe not obscure in the sense of "rare" but certainly obscure musically... and Goddammit I Love That Album! ;) )
Scum Element - In The Night (I don't think too many people outside Vancouver would know this band)
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - (don't know the name of any albums but they're damn good)
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE, LTE 2
Yakuza - (also don't know the name of the album, if anybody knows it would help me out a lot, the one track that hooked me was 'Chicago Typewriter')

[nomadh]

Kings X groove metal/rock. A great album is Gretchen goes to Nebraska. Or Check out welcome to the groove machine.
Kings X is usually mentioned as the best band you've never heard of.

[Cylob]

Originally posted by spaceplayradio
if you like electronic music like the made in the early eighties compare it with kraftwerk (that's a german band) this guy johan timman is from belgium and just made one album - if you have kazaa there's most likely someone who put it on the net I see 'Trip into the Body' (1981) is quite rare. If I had it I'd definitely back it up.

Snowpony are little known. Made up of ex - Stereolab, My Bloody Valentine and Moonshake members. Their last album 'Sea Shanties for Space Ships' was very good actually. You could call it a fusion of those bands, you can hear all 3 influences in the same track.:)

[Rovastar]

It would have been nice if this thread had some discription of genres. Some people might like to check some stuff out.

Originally posted by ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ
Prong - Beg to Differ / Force Fed
D.R.I. - Thrash Zone / Four of a Kind
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains / Choas AD
WASP - The Crimson Idol
Kreator - Coma of Souls / Endorama
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel

...all I can think of for now....

Oh yea.. LOL @ whoever said Aerosmith, Nickelback and Rush is obscure! Must be living in a coconut.

hehe I rembember most of these some a little after my time Choas AD and stuff.

*Shudder* though at Kreator. :) A truely average/bad Thrash band.

Surely Testimony of the ancients (I think it was called that at the time when I had a pre-release of this it was there last album but they obviously reformed) is a better album then Consuming Impulse (there debut). A lovely album that was/is.

A lot of teh Morrisound stuff was interesting. (A studio in TAmpa Florida where 95% of all death metal at the time was recorded. Tom Morris I think was teh producer...ummh this is all from memory not followed teh scene for 10 years)

Starting with teh early stuff like

MOrbid Angel - Altars of Madness (debut)
Entombed - Clandestine (edges out ther debut Left HAnd PAth ( I think they were called Entombed then not Nilist or whatever they were before))

Then I liked

Vaders debut cannot remember the name but on Earache as the above 22.

ANd that was about the last I bought at the time.

for darker stuff try
PAradise LOst - Gothic (2nd Album)
Autopsy - Mental Funeral (2nd album)
Anethemas debut (forgot name)

hahah takes me back.....:)
---------------

ABout downbeat stuff

Walkner MOstl - Blueish (ep)
dZihan & Kamien - Freaks & Icons
Four TEt - Rounds
Underwolves - Under Your Sky

[marvinbarcelona]

Senor Coconut - El Baile Aleman (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=MISS70308230543&sql=Aa96jtrpekl2x)

From AMG - "For an absurdly comic idea, Señor Coconut proved to have more than a single note at their — or perhaps his — disposal, managing two albums and even planning a U.S. tour. German DJ and producer Uwe Schmidt(aka Atom Heart) had released dance music in his homeland under a number of different aliases during the first half of the 1990s. But he'd become bored with the European music scene and in 1996 transferred his base of operations to Chile in order to begin exploring the possibilities of Latin music, which was, he said, "a pretty much undiscovered planet to me. It unveils lots of interesting musical worlds to me." Adopting the ridiculous Señor Coconut mo****r, he first cooked up El Gran Baile, a distinctly Latin-flavored groove-a-thon, and did a remix for former Deee-Liteturntablist Towa Tei. Then he began to ponder the possibilities of a German-Latin fusion, and found his material in the unlikeliest of places — the greatest hits of man-machine band Kraftwerk, best-known for their very inhuman, unemotional approach to music — the very opposite of Latin passion. The result was El Baile Alemán. Although credited to Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto, it was purely the work of Schmidtand three vocalists, who took the Kraftwerkmachine ideal and tipped it on its head, putting in programmed cumbia, merengue, and salsa rhythms to flavor the Teutonic stew. Released as a one-off in 2000, it received a fair amount of critical acclaim in the U.S., more than Schmidthad received for any of his other work. In March 2001, Señor Coconut — now a real eight-piece band — was set to undertake a short headlining tour in North America, but visa problems for some of the Chilean musicians forced a cancellation."

Magnificent album.

[lil vixen]

Dishwalla - Opaline
Finch - What is is to burn
Theory of a Deadman - <-
Stabilo boss - <-
Mudvayne - The end of all things to come
Flaw - Through the eyes

[sidd]

ok.. heres a few that you should all try to find.

The Prayer Boat - Polichinelle
A bit like buckley, a bit like sigur ros, but very unique. An amazingly soothing voice, incredible songs.. the works.

Ours - Distorted Lullabies
Well, the main problem is that they can easily be looked at as jeff buckley rip offs, but they definatly are worthy of the comparison. And in itself, its a really really nice albumn.

Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Well, maybe not so obscure a band, but the albumn is often discarded by most people. Its my fav of theirs. Its so pure and totaly unique. Nothing i have ever come across has ever seemed similar to the aesthetic that this albumn achieves. You can sum it up in the word "horsie"

dEUS - In a bare under the sea
My fav indy albumn ever.

Dragon ash - Buzz Songs
Jap band. The name says it all.

Modest mouse - The moon and antarctica
Again, not really that obscure now. But if you havnt got into modest mouse yet, you really should. Anyone will like this band because they are so unique. It reminds me of the presidents in that both styles are just plain weird and dont seem to have any statment to make.. they just rock.

the refused - the shape of punk to come
RATM + the hives + the clash + hardcore superstar + international noise conspiracy = ???

..

jeezz.. i should stop there i think.

oh wait... heres some more great ones:

red house painters - red house painters
the divine comedy - regeneration
Tim buckley - hello and goodbye
elliott smith - figure 8


ok thats all..
for real

[Cylob]

Just a few then sidd.:)
A little known scottish band - Spirea X. Their 1992 debut 'Fireblade Skies' was virtually ignored on release. A shame, it's a great album (in the C86 vein).

[zootm]

cylob, i've never heard of them, and i'm scottish...

i suppose i was 9 at the time...

[Cylob]

Well there you go zootm.:) Just when you thought your collection was complete. One of the few Scottish guitar bands that didn't sweep the country.

[Cylob]

Soul Family Sensation were a good band circa '91. A vibrant electric sound, great vocalist, probably unique at the time. I must get hold of their album.

[Raz]

British Sea Power - The Decline Of British Sea Power
Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band: This Is Our Punk-rock Thee Rusted Satellites Sing LP

[Shenlong]

Any Millencolin album. They're a Swedish punk band that's been around for 10 years. They're not largely known in the US, although they've gotten their plug on the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 soundtrack and have toured here quite a few times. :D

The Godz. Don't know the name of any of their albums, but I've got one of them on order from Amazon. It's been delayed now, but it's worth my wait. But they've from the mid-70's to early-80's era, and they're damn good for a heavy metal band from that time too... :)

Originally posted by lil vixen
Flaw - Through the eyes

My Louisville-locals... :D

[webthing]

siddhartha_one

I tried some of your suggestions.

Downloaded some Sparkehorse and Ours And made a mixed CD.

Good stuff.

Ours - Sometimes is my favorite cut. - Thanks

[sidd]

nice picks. Im glad you liked them.
:up:

Im glad you got ours' cover of bohemian raphsody. Its probably my fav cover ever.

[nybergh]

Any Ten Years After...

[NJK]

Originally posted by nybergh
Any Ten Years After...

no heard of them and even have an album of them somewhere in this house ( kinda lost my albums -they are somewhere - wish i could remember were i putt them)

[nybergh]

Originally posted by spaceplayradio
no heard of them and even have an album of them somewhere in this house ( kinda lost my albums -they are somewhere - wish i could remember were i putt them)
You'd better take a listen to them, especially "Recorded Live" or other live rec's. Alvin Lee is an underestimated guitarist...

[Xerxes]

A Classical Album I have been heavily promoting is the Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante version of "Vivaldi's The Four Seasons". Now I know everyone knows the tune, but it is quite original interpretation- I highly reccomend it to rock and or roll fans, as the instrumentation- while classical, owes more to a modern rock and or roll sensibility.



Amazon Link (listen to the samples, as you won't find this with file sharing) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007KMRW/qid=1068540590//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl15/002-1370772-0601629?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846)

[nybergh]

Originally posted by Xerxes
Fabio Biondi/Europa Galante version of "Vivaldi's The Four Seasons"[/URL]
Yay! I have it!
My grandpa gave it to me and i use it when at night when i put a sleeptimer on in Winamp and fall asleep. (I've been soooo danm harmonic since I started to fall asleep with classical music!)

I know nothing about classical music but it indeed sounds better than some of the 5€/$ compilations by Naxos that I also own.
(Although Naxos is allways quite good - and cheap...)

[NJK]

Originally posted by nybergh
You'd better take a listen to them, especially "Recorded Live" or other live rec's. Alvin Lee is an underestimated guitarist...

the problem is that we moved 4 times in 5 years, so much of our things are still in boxes up the attick.
guess that all my albums are there somewhere, but no time for a search there's always something else to do. maybe when the bathroom is done I might have some time to do a search

[nomadh]

anything by kingsX. The best band you've never heard of.

[corkhead0]

Ion Dissonance - Breathing Is Irrelevant

/me makes official recommendation for zootm.

[Spazz333]

Originally posted by corkhead0
Yup, thats the most obscure music from the most obscure bands I've ever heard of... maybe I should start posting Metallica and Led Zeppelin?


Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Hole - Celebrity Skin


Stabbing Westward is the shinizzel. Every one of their CD's kicks ass, though I tend to listen to their last one more because it's more standard rock, less electronics in it.


PAradise LOst - Gothic


Wohoo! Someone else who listens to Paradise Lost. No one else I talk to really knows about them.

And as of my contribution. Luxx - Luxx. Good Alternative Rock/Metal chick band that is kinda like Poe or PJ Harvey with more instruments and a rock bent.

[dermot]

RJD2 - Dead Ringer

[THPSFG]

The Network - Money Money 2020 http://www.thenetworkband.com
they are a new breed of pop/punk (and yes it probably is just Green Day and Devo)