Your favourite obscure band?

[Brocken Jr]

Most of the bands that have been listed in this thread aren't obscure in the slightest.

While not particuarly "obscure", I've been listening to Algernon Cadwallader a lot recently.

 

[Ganthrinor]

At one point in time he wasn't obscure, but those times are lost to us.

I present unto you (NSWF):

Spoiler: Frank Zappa

 

[Moonpig123]

No idea how famous/popular Elbow is, but I only know one other person who knows them so...

Spoiler: My favourite song by them.

Excellent choice. That's my favourite song by them too. I have to admit, I've never really thought of them as obscure... but again, nice taste.

EDIT: Aaaaaah, you're from Canada. Elbow come from Manchester so here in the North of England they're quite celebrated.

 

[Lnc0]

Huggy Bear, a Roit Grrrl band from the UK. Unlike most Roit Grrrl bands, they don't suck! who'd of thought?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQ8Pqm1D9c

Even as a male there?s something strangely compelling about them

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

McCarthy, great indie band from England, but I've never actually spoken to anyone else who has ever heard them. Definately worth checking out.

 

[Boogieboy]

Majors

A hip hop group with some pretty solid underground names. Theyve even got a double world championship winner of dj battles in along doin the cuts

 

[Berserker119]

Anyways, Is Linkin Park obscure? I love Linkin Park.

That made my day.

OT: 30 Years War.

 

[JaffaFrost]

Alestorm, Annihilator, Claymore (I know right, same name), Coheed and Cambria, Disarmonia Mundi, Korpiklaani, Rage, Sabaton, Static-X, Waltari.

I LOVE Coheed, with a passion. Never heard of the rest though..

Awesome, my band might be playing some of their stuff soon, too. What would you recommend? =D

Depends if your singer can go as high Claudio! Haha. I would say "The Crowing", "Favour house Atlantic", "The Suffering", "Feathers", "The Running Free". I could go on.. anything by them will be good! =P

 

[JaffaFrost]

No idea how famous/popular Elbow is, but I only know one other person who knows them so...

Spoiler: My favourite song by them.

I ADORE Elbow, gotta say though... Newborn is so much better =P

 

[[.redacted]]

Alestorm, Annihilator, Claymore (I know right, same name), Coheed and Cambria, Disarmonia Mundi, Korpiklaani, Rage, Sabaton, Static-X, Waltari.

I LOVE Coheed, with a passion. Never heard of the rest though..

Awesome, my band might be playing some of their stuff soon, too. What would you recommend? =D

Depends if your singer can go as high Claudio! Haha. I would say "The Crowing", "Favour house Atlantic", "The Suffering", "Feathers", "The Running Free". I could go on.. anything by them will be good! =P

Hmm... Ok.

We are only just getting into Coheed & Cambria, so it's always nice if someone relieves us of the effort of going through all their work.

Still, we'll probably end up listening to it all, for starters, I prefer "Welcome Home" and "No World For Tomorrow" to most of those.

 

[JaffaFrost]

Alestorm, Annihilator, Claymore (I know right, same name), Coheed and Cambria, Disarmonia Mundi, Korpiklaani, Rage, Sabaton, Static-X, Waltari.

I LOVE Coheed, with a passion. Never heard of the rest though..

Awesome, my band might be playing some of their stuff soon, too. What would you recommend? =D

Depends if your singer can go as high Claudio! Haha. I would say "The Crowing", "Favour house Atlantic", "The Suffering", "Feathers", "The Running Free". I could go on.. anything by them will be good! =P

Hmm... Ok.

We are only just getting into Coheed & Cambria, so it's always nice if someone relieves us of the effort of going through all their work.

Still, we'll probably end up listening to it all, for starters, I prefer "Welcome Home" and "No World For Tomorrow" to most of those.

In that case I'd start of "The Suffering" One of my favourites.

 

[Mesca]

Huggy Bear, a Roit Grrrl band from the UK. Unlike most Roit Grrrl bands, they don't suck! who'd of thought?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQQ8Pqm1D9c

Even as a male there?s something strangely compelling about them

I like it. They sound like Bikini Kill, but have a better tune. It's 'Riot" though.

Now then..

Pin Up Went Down
Akphaezya
Descartes a Kant
Secret Chiefs 3
Unexpect
Kidneythieves
Idiot Flesh
Genitorturers
Bleach03
Birdeatsbaby
Bitter Ruin
Beat Circus
Angizia
Circus Contraption
Chaostar

 

[Moonpig123]

Wall of text incoming. Good stuff though. I hope everyone I quoted gets a notice.

A band called Grizzly Bear. They have only one song I know, but I love it to pieces. It's the most listened to song on my iPod.

I'm gonna be honest. I have a whole album of theirs here. Send me a pm and I'll shoot you a few songs. If you like it, go buy something from them. You might also like beach house. They collab sometimes in fact.

Deerhoof.

PANDA PANDA PANDA! At a concert I heard a song of theirs you will never hear. Basically the band realized it was too weird for even their fans. It went something like "He ain't got no, he got no personality!" over and over. Then they were like "okay..." *looking at the crowd* "maybe that one is a little too weird".

Beach House is the band I'm gonna go with for this topic. I mean they make it on to some best of lists, but overall whenever I bring them up in conversation no one else knows who the hell I'm talking about. Which is really frustrating considering they manage to make the world's most beautiful music with a drum machine, casio keyboard, and guitar. Don't believe me just listen to some of their songs.

They are the best man. Well I know a lot of obscure bands and they top the list for my recommendation. Victoria's pipes are perfection. I recommend you listen to silver soul right before norway cause it leads right into it. and Zebra, is a beautiful track as well.


Jeeze man I don't even know who else I'd recommend. There's so many. I mean I even know bands that have obscure in their names. (Camera Obscura for instance) Off the top of my head though if you liked "Pretty Girls Make Graves" then I present you with "The Joy Formidable":

I don't really know any obscure bands. Unless...Are the smiths considered obscure?

Fairly obscure. But Morrisey is something of a legend. Doesn't matter, your taste is good. If you liked "The Smiths" I present you with, "The Dears".


Finally, I can't say enough good things about The Fiery Furnaces. They are not for everyone, but they are for me. I don't know if Metric or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are obscure enough anymore to count towards such a list.

Genghis John... thank you.

 

[senorfatso]

A lot of the ska that's been posted has been good, but mainstream. I recommend Imperial Leisure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXG6X5xRf0

 

[Fraught]

Clutch. Skindred.

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