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.

[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!

[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!

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

Originally posted by corkhead0
Hole - Celebrity Skin

"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.