Favorite song that no one has ever heard

[usregimechange]

Mine is "ask the dust" by Dada.

[benevolent dictator]

1. "Soulfully" by Catie Curtis

either that or "Radical" by Catie Curtis.

Actually I could name dozens of awesome songs/artists that no one has ever heard of.

[benevolent dictator]

2. "Soulfully" by Catie Curtis

either that or "Radical" by Catie Curtis.

Actually I could name dozens of awesome songs/artists that no one has ever heard of.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. "Punched in the Head" by Drunks with Guns.

There has to be at least one other DU who could extoll the virtues of Drunks with Guns...

[RandomKoolzip]

28. Yo! Over here!

Drunks with Guns, headed by Mike Doskocil, from St. Louis.

They had a few good tunes, but I never heard too much by them...I just remember a great interview they did for Forced Exposure where the interviewer (Suzy Rust) tried to get them to admit tht they forced bong hits on six-year-olds. Funny stuff.

[Beware the Beast Man]

30. They were the prototype to the Melvins and such.

totally sloppy, untalented punk. they played slow because they sucked so bad. their album is a classic.

[elshiva]

4. "Gimme Dat Ding" by The Pipkins!

[1monster]

24. you mean

gimme that ding
gimme gimme gimme that
gimme that ding
gimme gimme gimme that
gimme that ding

[elshiva]

26. YES! I LOVE THAT! Very English music hall.

[Kire]

5. 'Gracias a la Vida' by Mercedes Sosa

well, no one I know has heard it, lots of people in Argentina have,it's great

[ghostsofgiants]

6. "End Of The Line" by Murder By Death

Or just about any song by those guys really.

[ghostsofgiants]

21. "Danse Macabre" by Wintersleep is another one

Though choosing just one song is hard.

[Steve Nash is god 13]

7. has anyone heard "an Honest Mistake"? by the bravery or

"tessie" by dropkick murphys?

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. They play "An Honest Mistake" a lot on XM.

It's a catchy song, but there was a while there where you couldn't get away from it.

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Honest Mistake is great

I love the video for it.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. "How Can I Miss You (When You Won't Go Away)"

by Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks

[evlbstrd]

35. Yes!

And "Dancin' in the Nude."

[MrScorpio]

9. UR by Allison Crockett (Yam Who?/ Remix)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007TV66G/102-4396600-7653710?v=glance

Number 2!

[Redstone]

11. "Rugged Road" by Judee Sill.

Used to sing that one back when I was a musician, but even that didn't much raise awareness of it.

Redstone

[carpetbagger]

12. "Bridge Under the Sky" by The Plastic Cloud

There was a recent re-release of the CD ("The Plastic Cloud"), so you don't have to troll ebay for months on end.

The Plastic Cloud was a Canadian psychedelic band. I'd describe them as somewhat like The Byrds, albeit without Eight Miles High, which is in a class by itself.

[BiggJawn]

13. "J'Attendre" by Rina Ketty

Now watch 200 people come out of the woodwork and say "Oh! I got THAT on a 78!"

[ovidsen]

14. John Kongos - "He's Gonna Step on You Again" (1971)

A jump up and down dancing fool kind of song by a groundbreaking artist.

He pioneered sampling!

But the songs that got by far the most attention were the two hit singles*, based around far heavier, almost jungle-like rhythms. "He's Gonna Step on You Again" used a tape loop of actual African tribal drums, and was eventually cited by The Guinness Book of Records as the first sample ever used on a record. Recognizing a good thing when he found one, Kongos's follow-up single "Tokoloshe Man" was also anchored by tribal stomp beats and almost disembodied, half-shouted vocals.

http://www.richieunterberger.com/kongos.html

*hits in the UK, but not the US.

[WindRavenX]

15. "Crests of Waves" by coldplay

Ok, you've heard of Coldplay, but probably not this song. It's easily one of their best- I have no idea why it was a B-sides...

[jobycom]

16. "Must be something in the rain--" Tish Hinojosa

Off her Culture Swing CD.


SOMETHING IN THE RAIN
By Tish Hinojosa

Mom and dad have worked the fields, I don't know how many years
I'm just a boy but I know how, and go to school when work is slow
We have seen our country's road, Bakersfield from Illinois
And when troubles come our way, oh yeah, I've seen my daddy pray.
There's something wrong with little sister, I hear her cryin' by my side
Mama's shaking as she holds her; we try to hold her through the night
And mom says close you eyes mijito, dream of someplace far from here
Like the pictures in your schoolbooks, someday you can take us there
There must be something in the rain
I'm not sure what that means
Abuelita talks of sins of man, of dust that's in our hands
There must be something in the rain
well what else could cause this pain
Those airplanes cure the plants so things can grow
Oh no, it must be something in the rain
Little sister's gone away. Mama's workin' long again
And me I think I understand about our life about our land
Well, talkers talk and dreamers dream; I will find a place between
I'm afraid but I believe that we can change these hurting fields
Cause there's something in the rain but there's more here in our hands
'Buelita's right about the sins of man who's profits rape the land
And the rains are pouring down from the growers to the towns
And until we break the killing chains
There's something in the rain&

[graywarrior]

17. I'm From Lynn, What Can I Say.

Don White

[leftofthedial]

19. "When THere's No Money Coming In"

Walt Wilkins

[derby378]

20. "Brain Confusion" by Lenny Dee and Ralphie Dee

[1monster]

22. I haven't heard this song since the mid to late sixties and can't find the

rest of the lyrics anywhere. So if any of you out there have heard it or know where I can find it (lyrics or recording), please let me know. (calyso)

Day after day
More people come to LA
Shh! Don't you tell nobody
Da whole place shakin' away
Where can we go
When there's no San Francisco?
Ooo ooo What can you do
With a bushel of wet gold?

Do you know the swim?
Ya betta learn quick kid!
Those who don't know the swim
Betta sing the hymn.

[GiovanniC]

23. "Ariel Ramirez" By Richard Buckner

Actually, everyone has heard it... it's in a Toureg commercial.

But nobody knows what I'm talking about until they listen to it.

[RandomKoolzip]

25. "Sad Sad Sad" by The Multiple Cat...

There's about 6000 more I could list right now....maybe I'll start a seperate thread.

[swag]

27. "Cock in My Pocket" by Iggy and the Stooges

[mitchum]

29. "Clean The Dirt" by Tex & The Horseheads

[last_texas_dem]

31. "Tell Me Heaven Is Here" by the Buoys

Yeah, the same Buoys who did the best song about cannibalism ever, "Timothy." But this one is an excellent sad love song. Starts off pretty, slow, sad with some really cool guitar work; and by the end explodes at a fast tempo with a great guitar solo. Really cool song, IMHO. I'm not sure if it's available in any format but vinyl, though... Most likely it's not as I doubt their old album was ever released on CD and they didn't have enough hits to have a greatest hits compilation CD.

[PittPoliSci]

32. "The Darkest Red" by The Agony Scene

Currently, one of the best songs (and CD by the same name) that I've heard in a long time. If you like metal at all, I'd recommend you pick it up. By metal, I'm referring mostly to new thrash metal, like Darkest Hour and Unearth.

[SarahB]

33. "Kiss Your Tears Away" by The Smithereens

[Fridays Child]

34. Salve by Ronan Hardiman ( you probably never heard of him, either).

[u4ic]

36. Blind by the Icicle Works

[enigmatic]

37. "When You Make Up Your Mind"- Gutterball and....

"Postcard"- Uncle Tupelo, though just about every song that's in my top 100 is obscure, I guess...

[NMMNG]

38. "The Pink Room" by Angelo Badalamenti

Though technically it's a tune, not a song.

[saltpoint]

39. Livingston Taylor's "Lost in the Love of You" or

Don Lange's tune, "Santa Barbara":

I walked down the beach near Santa Barbara
Ducked into a cave
Half of my heart said head for home
The other half said stay...

[Lady Effingbroke]

40. "Man On A Window Ledge" by The Judys.