Reccomend an obscure album

[Taverner]

I'll go first: Greg Allman's "Laid Back." His first solo effort post-Allmans, this album has a little bit of everything. Gospel, Blues, Country - all in all it's a great album. And it has the slow version of "Midnight Rider" on it.

[Broken_Hero]

1. River Runs Red, Life of Agony

there Ugly cd is pretty good too...most people I know, never heard of them...

[AngryAmish]

70. Life of Agony was ok

but, honestly, they had no sense of humor. But they had a great sound.

[PittPoliSci]

101. that's my favorite Life of Agony cd.

[mark414]

2. this one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5728650&mesg_id=5728650

[bif]

3. Anything by Bark Psychosis

I'm sure they're pretty hard to find. But a very cool group.

[BarenakedLady]

4. Hmmm

The Perishers, Let There Be Morning.


Zox, The Wait.


I'm not sure if those would be considered obscure though.

[nosillies]

5. Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch

Not too obscure, it's actually find-able. New Agey, no lyrics, really cool music. Listen to clips here:
http://www.raylynch.com/albums/deep1.html

[SlavesandBulldozers]

78. great album.

haven't heard that one in a long time.

[fudge stripe cookays]

107. Gah. That album gives me hives.

I had a drawng teacher at UT who ALWAYS put on that or "White Winds" by Andreas Vollenweider.

Still can't listen to either.

[taterguy]

6. Otha Turner and the Afrossippi Allstars

Otha Turner is a bluesman from the Mississipi hill country that plays blues fife. Some rich white guys took an interest in him and had contacts with African musicians. They flew them to Mississipi for a fusion of American blues music and tribal beats.

[Richard Steele]

7. Shriekback's "Oil and Gold"

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/shriekback/oil_and_gold/]

An AMAZINGLY great album from a band that went
straight to shit afterwards. I guess they gave this
one everything they had.

[Va Lefty]

8. The Rainmakers (The Good News and the Bad News)

[anarch]

9. Pale Saints -- The Comforts of Madness

and for extra credit, Chris Bell I Am the Cosmos

[taterguy]

19. How good is I Am the Cosmos?

The only thing I've heard is the title track which I like a lot

[anarch]

23. I think I actually like it better than the first Big Star record

Well, sometimes anyway...and I am a huge Big Star fan.

There are some really amazingly beautiful songs on it...some of them heart-breakingly sad, but beautiful. The title track is, in my opinion, probably the strongest song on it, but there are several gems. Alex Chilton sings backup on "You and Your Sister". I think it's worth trying to find, personally.

[taterguy]

27. Thanks for the tip

I'll keep an eye out for it when browsing at music stores. I guess I could find it online if I really wanted to but I prefer getting music the old fashioned way, for now.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. That I can do.

A few, in varying styles, just to give you some selection:

Acoustic indie type shit: The New Amsterdams - "Story Like A Scar" (Recommended song: "Turn out The Light")


Hardcore punk type shit: Every Time I Die - "Gutter Phnomenon" (Recommended song: "Apocalypse Now And Then")


Fancy prog-based kinda-post-hardcore type shit: The Mars Volta - "Amputechture" (I don't even know what to recommend here, it's all awesome.)

[Maestro]

112. I second The Mars Volta!

Really cerebral stuff...

[mainegreen]

11. Young American Primitive

Group & album name.
Simply divine ambient.

[Elidor]

24. Fuck yeah!

That is some great stuff.

Your taste is divine as well. :D

[Katina]

12. McKendree Spring

saw them way back in college live, have enjoyed this album ever since. Here is a link to hear their music.

http://www.mckendreespring.com/?content=music2

[Shakespeare]

13. David + David's Welcome to the Boomtown

[Common Sense Party]

71. David + David was one KILLER 80's album. I'm sad we never

heard more from those guys.

[fudge stripe cookays]

106. David Baerwald had 2 solo albums...

that sound almost exactly like David + David.

FYI. :shrug:

[blockhead]

109. I love Baerwald

he has three solo albums plus some soundtrack material. Boomtown was an excellent album.

[fudge stripe cookays]

111. I quit keeping track...

after Triage. Didn't like it as much.

And I'm still annoyed at him for foisting Toni Childs off on the American public. Because of her, Natalie whats'herpickle from 10,000 Maniacs got famous. That warbling out of the back of her throat thing....(cringe).

[blockhead]

116. I not big on Triage either but

you should buy David Baerwald 'Here come the New Folk Underground', I don't think you'll be disappointed.

[Patiod]

14. John Klemmer's "Barefoot Ballet"

You've heard it, you just don't know it.

Back in the college, when I actually had a love life, "Barefoot Ballet" was its soundtrack.

[Phillycat]

15. Noise Addict - self-titled.

They were good.

[Cygnusx2112]

16. Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On

Great blues album before Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie.
Not what you're expecting when thinking of FM but a very nice surprise.
The lead guitarist (Peter Green I think) was considered viruoso material at the time.

[speedoo]

51. What about "Bare Trees"

Bob Welch - Guitar, Vocals
Mick Fleetwood - Drums
Danny Kirwan - Guitar, Vocals
Christine McVie - Keyboards, Vocals
Jeremy Spencer - Guitar, Vocals
John McVie - Bass, Photography, Cover Photo
Peter Green - Guitar

[begin_within]

62. Damn - I was going to post "Bare Trees."

[REP]

104. "Bare Trees" Is Obscure?

It's one of my favorites. Either I'm reeeeally old or have unusual tastes.

[speedoo]

115. Well, I'm glad you like it, as do I.

But these days everyone thinks that Fleetwood Mac is Stevie Nicks and a bunch of back up dudes. They have no idea....

[Guava Jelly]

17. Frente "Marvin the album"

[Deja Q]

18. Soho - Thug

[paulk]

20. Comsat Angels - "sleep no more"

http://www.comsatangels.net/


"Comsat Angels were a highly influential but commercially overlooked post-punk band from Sheffield, UK. Active (in various incarnations) from 1978 to 1995, the band were responsible for some of the most atmospheric music of the first half of the 80's. Their work earns its place alongside Joy Division and The Cure and their influence can be felt (directly and indirectly) in later neo-punks like Bloc Party, Interpol, and in earlier acts like Curve and Catherine Wheel.

Named after a short-story by J. G. Ballard, the foursome (lead guitar and vocalist Stephen Fellows, bassist Kevin Bacon, drummer Mik Glaisher and keyboardist Andy Peake) debuted with an EP, released in 1979, named "Red Planet". This release atracted Polydor A&R man Frank Neilson and the band signed a three-album deal. These three LPs, Waiting for a Miracle (1980), Sleep No More (1981) and Fiction (1982), are regarded as their best, but failed commercially and to achieve press coverage."

[driver8]

43. I love the Comsat Angels...

or CS Angels, as they were later called.

Check out youtube for some Comsat Angels videos.

[paulk]

87. they were one of my favorite bands

back in the early eighties - I was always trying to get people to listen to them. Definitely one of the best bands that no one's ever heard of.

----------------


ps - "My Mind's Eye" is worth a listen.

[GumboYaYa]

21. Anders Osborne, Ash Wednesday Blues

I was standing in a club around 4:00 in the ,morning after a too long night out, barely able to keep my feet, when I heard Anders Osborne play the first time. I ended up seeing the sun rise that morning. His show was so good that it overook the tired and put pep in my step like I was fresh from a nap.

[RetroLounge]

22. What's The Story Morning Glory

By the Beatles...

RL

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Score one for...umm...wait...ummm (Warning: post below is pretty gruesome)

[datasuspect]

25. okko - sitar and electronics

[Initech]

28. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

These guys are an amazing folk-metal band from Portland, Oregon and this is their most recent album. Simply put, it's awesome.

[Maestro]

113. Got it and it is very good!

They have the got the goth/black metal thing going good!

[RevolutionaryActs]

29. Electric Mistress - Zen Cowboys.

:hi:

[Kutjara]

30. The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony - David Greenslade

http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=5276

It comprised two LPs and a 200 page book full of trippy space-opera paintings by Patrick Woodroffe. The whole thing apparently told the story of an ancient spacefaring civilization that met it's doom through hubris and environmental collapse. You've guessed it, it was a 'progressive rock' album. Even worse, Phil Collins played drums on it.

[maxsolomon]

31. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information

the song you know is "Strawberry Letter 23".

[idgiehkt]

32. Lunachicks -- Binge and Purge

Dude, like, these chicks can totally shred.


Plugg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHUFlcnlvPs

What a drag, what a drag, what a fucking drag
What a drag, what a drag, what a fucking drag
to be on the rag.

[boolean]

33. Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

Also:

Hawkwind: Hawkwind. (The first album)

[Tikki]

34. Primordial Ooze Flavored......The Unclaimed....

Tikki

[Lethe]

35. Cannibal Ox, The Cold Vein

[ghostsofgiants]

37. Good choice!

Just about any Definitive Jux release is worth mentioning, really.

[mark414]

38. hell yes

one of the best rap albums of the last 10 years

[mainegreen]

88. Oh, that is a good one.

[greendog]

36. Danko, Gravenites, Bloomfield

[swag]

39. Young Marble Giants - "Colossal Youth"

Unheralded minimalist masterpiece of the so-called "post-punk" era.

I don't particularly like the repackaging with "bonus tracks" (and if you're repackaging, where the fuck is "Final Day"?), but at least it's in print again (it seems to be out of print every couple of years). When it's in print, I tend to give it a lot as a gift to friends who don't have it.

[bridgit]

40. Ekova ~ Heaven's Dust...

[benny05]

41. Captain Beyond

Sufficiently Breathless by Captain Beyond



by one of the renegades of Iron Butterfly..

[chaska]

80. Seconded. First album too.

[dolo amber]

42. ...

Awesomely creepy record from The Auteurs' Luke Haines. It's basically about what was going through the minds of the middle class art students who became the German terrorist group Badder-Meinhof in the 70s. Super funky bass, eerie minor-key violin, African drums, sick lyrics. I give it two (2) thumbs way up. See? ------> :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[driver8]

44. The Power of Love -- Captain Sensible

I like the Damned, but I like the Captain's solo stuff more.

As far as I know, this album is not available on cd. His greatest hits cd has most of the songs, though.

[PittPoliSci]

102. i've got the greatest hits.

it's a pretty solid cd. i really like smash it up part 4

[driver8]

105. I made a mistake. The one I have is called "The Collection."

Smash It Up part 4 isn't on the one I have.

[PittPoliSci]

120. I've got "the best of captain sensible"

and it's subtitled "Sensible Lifestyles"

good stuff!

:hi:

[bridgit]

45. Capt Beefheart ~ One Red Rose That I Mean...

:thumbsup:

[blindpig]

77. Damn that is obscure

I've been a Beefheart fan since before the beginning and I don't think I've heard it. When did it come out?

Shame old Don quit playing, I'd thought he'd hit the high point of his music with Doc At The Radar Station, the best batch yet, indeed!

If I remember correctly that title tune is on the relatively recent new Magic Band album, Back To THe Front.

[bridgit]

85. dunno, early 70's i think, and you're right, it's off of 'decals'...

but here's a tube in the meantime click clack (paris bataclan 1972) :)

[momophile]

46. Darius "Cardboard Confessional"

can't find a picture.... but it is available on amazon!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

47. Yo la Tengo -- I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Beat Your Ass

Great album with all kinds of sounds, from 10-minute guitar feedback jams to soft acoustic ballads to ultra-catchy pop.

[izzybeans]

52. They beat my ass about two times a day with that album

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. I've already played it at least 10 times.

:thumbsup:

[izzybeans]

55. I am inspired to listen to a few more songs before I retire.

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

48. Ok buddy, you asked for it!

Antonio Bribiesca, the guitar that cries...

[blitzen]

49. Doug Sahm....The Genuine Texas Groover

http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Texas-Groover-Doug-Sahm/dp/B0001MMGCW/sr=1-3/qid=1160788865/ref=pd_bbs_3/002-3637248-7743228?ie=UTF8&s=music

besides the one and only Sir Douglas, the band on these recordings includes Dylan, Dr. John, David Bromberg, Flaco Jimenez...

It's very hard to find and it ain't cheap--although I did recently get it for about 60 bucks...a cheaper alternate would be to get the soon-to-be released "Doug Sahm and Band"--it has twelve of the 42 cuts from "Groover"

[benny05]

50. That's a good one

I've forgotten that one.

[izzybeans]

53. The M's-Future Women

They sound like the Beatles might have if the Beatles were American post-punks. Most people I know liken them to T-rex.

Good stuff.

[Ron Green]

56. Chico Hamilton - "Man From Two Worlds"

[Pale Blue Dot]

57. Aztec Camera - "Dreamland"

Dreamy, hypnotic pop music produced by film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and heard by almost no one.

[many a good man]

58. One Nation Under a Groove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38SikbZ0x0w

[REP]

59. Danielle Dax - Dark Adapted Eye

An oldie but a goodie.

[Okiojira]

75. Wow, a fellow Danielle Dax fan!!

I too love Dark Adapted Eye, particuarly the songs toward the end of the album ("Sleep Has No Property", "Hammerheads", "Pariah" - amazing song!! - , "Funtime").

Haven't heard anything new out of Ms. Dax since the mid/late 90s; a song by the name of "Defiled", which was apparently her attempt at sounding like NIN/Ministry.

[CanuckAmok]

92. Make that three fans!

I have most of her catalogue, including her work with (Alternative TV's) Karl Blake under the name "Lemon Kittens".

If you like "Hammerheads" and "Pariah", keep your eye peeled for her second solo record, called "Jesus Egg that Wept". Its the original release of those two tracks, and four others which kick equal amounts of ass. That EP is pretty rare, however, and was never released on CD. I could send you a copy on MP3 if you want to PM me with your email address.

http://www.hrmusic.com/reviews/ddjesrev.html

Defiled was a sort-of tongue-in-cheek riff on "alternative" radio. She actually samples Ministry's "NWO" in it.

As far as what Dax is doing now...

Her last commercial release as a solo artist was 1990's "Blas the Human Flower", which was pretty pop-ish but still very good. She has since turned her attention to her family, and to her own elite landscape-design business. She also released an independent solo album called "Timber Tower" in 1995, but I have never been able to find a copy.

[REP]

103. I Have "Jesus Egg That Wept"!

Also have "Blast The Human Flower" and most of her other stuff. No Lemon Kittens, though.

[bicentennial_baby]

60. Dr. Octagonecologyst by Dr Octagon

[TheMightyFavog]

61. The Moog Cookbook

Basically it's two guys who do covers of songs using old school analog synthesizers.

[begin_within]

63. For a laugh...

[HughBeaumont]

64. Van Der Graaf Generator - Remastered PAWN HEARTS!

Pete Hammill - guitar, lead vocals, electric piano.
Guy Evans - Drums
David Jackson - all woodwinds
Hugh Banton - organs

[begin_within]

65. Here are two great live recordings:

[begin_within]

66. "Thirds"

[gmoney]

67. Anything by The Jazz Butcher

Not so much Jazz, but shimmering Brit pop. Can be hard to find, but you can download some goodies at www.jazzbutcher.com

Condition Blue is one of my favorites, but there are several compliations worth looking at, like this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Draining-Glass-Jazz-Butcher-Conspiracy/dp/B000063VDK/

[marzipanni]

68. I haven't heard the album, "Sailover", but I like the songs

in this vignette on YouTube.... Whose "album" is it? P.F.Sloan's, and he wrote "Eve of Destruction" in 1964, which Barry McGuire made famous.
Because of that controversial song, Sloan was rejected by his music publisher back in the mid-sixties and quit music. After thirty years he was convinced to pick up a guitar and sing again, and in August his album "Sailover"came out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJQ7YS4QDaM

Article about P.F.Sloan in the San Francisco Chronicle because he was playing there at a club at the end of last month-
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/24/PKGCBL2U9V1.DTL&type=music

[AngryAmish]

69. Odessa- The Handsome Family

May be obscure but it is a great record. Really, I would rather listen to Odessa than any Beatle record. It is that good.

[Common Sense Party]

72. The Del Fuegos: Boston, Mass.

Excellent disc. Out of print, I believe. I only have it on a crappy old cassette.

I would LOVE to have it on CD.

[gmoney]

76. Del Fuegos "The Longest Day"

For some reason, I've always preferred their debut disc over the more celebrated Boston, Mass.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Q566/

[tkmorris]

73. Roy Clark & Gatemouth Brown- Makin' Music

Amazing record. All over the map stylistically, country, blues, swing, whatever. It MAKES you move though. Fantastic record when you want to liven up a party or just need a lift yourself.

[SoyCat]

119. Gatemouth--R.I.P.--definitely a legend.

[Okiojira]

74. "I'm As Mad as Faust" by Zen Frisbee...

...a band of some renown in Chapel Hill, NC back in the early 90s; one of my top ten fave albums ever!

Sorry, but I'm too lazy to post a picture of the album cover - it's pretty surreal.

[peekaloo]

79. Native Place by the Railway Children/High Land, Hard Rain by Aztec Camera

[chaska]

81. Baby Grand - 'Ancient Medicine' The Hooters previous band.

[chaska]

82. Automatic Man, 1st and 2nd. Featuring the greatest rock guitarist ever....

Pat Thrall

[Stockholm]

83. Tom Levin

Me, My Band That I Älskar, Kasper and a Bunch of Friends

My friends dragged me along this wednesday to his concert here in Stockholm. They told me he is great, mixing roots, bluegrass and country. They were actually right.

Loved it, bought the album right there - here is a new artist that will go far.

[chaska]

84. Mahogany Rush - 'Child of Novelty'

[mvd]

86. I could mention a lot

But I'll just randomly pick Bonnie McKee's Trouble. This CD is special, even in my big collection. VERY talented young singer/songwriter.

[Capn Sunshine]

89. 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus -Spirit

Their opus work, not many youngsters have heard of these guys.

[yorgatron]

90. 801 Live

[Mendocino]

97. Randy Kalifornia

RIP

[bluedogyellowdog]

91. Iron City Houserockers. "Blood on the Bricks"

Springsteen meets Seger meets the Clash, and much more polished than their first two albums. Somebody needs to release this on CD, or at least make mp3s available, like yesterday.

[sakabatou]

93. Elfen Lied OST

[wildhorses]

94. Stir self titled by the group Stir

"Ten Dances" is one of my all time favorite songs, last cut on the cd. Rest of the cd is pretty rocking too. I can not find the lyrics to that song (dammit) also I think they are better known for a song called "Looking For" which I also can not find the lyrics. Here are the lyrics to "One Angel" which is a nice tune. I also can relate to a tune called "Nephews"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You walk into the room with a smile
Only heaven knows what you do to me
And there's no tellin why you've come at all
Cause I can't be seen or heard as the seconds fly...minutes go
Something crazy's comin' over me
It's you I'm missin, and I thought it'd be easier
Like sunshine chasin clouds away

She walks in the room with a smile
Only heaven knows what she's bringing me
And there's no tellin why she comes at all
Cause I can't be seen or heard as the days fly, and the years go
Somethin crazy still comin over me
She's one hit, one smile, after all I'm to blame
But I want more than I thought I would
But then I guess, she came straight into my heart

Now she floats just like the angel from up above
One angel, watching over me
She's my fallin angel and we're in love
One angel, what you do to me

One more, been chasin her day long
And now here I go out again
Said I'd be there, cause I got nowhere to go
I wanna be there, cause I got no one

Now she floats just like the angels from up above
One angel, watching over me
She's my fallin angel and we're in love
One angel, what you do to me
One angel, she's my one angel
She's my one angel

[CanuckAmok]

95. "Die Puppe", by Die Form, and "Heartbeat", by Chris and Cosey:

Two early "electronica" albums. Both are recorded entirely on analogue equipment, using tape loops and rack effects, as well as haunting, sterile vocals.



http://www.dieform.net/audio/release.php?releaseID=38

Die Puppe was remastered and released as "Die Puppe II" on CD, with some tracks omitted and others added. I prefer the original, unremastered, vinyl version (I have both).

http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+%2526+Cosey/_/Heartbeat

This is the first post-Throbbing Gristle release by Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni-Tutti. It's dark, but not as intentionally abrasive and confrontational as Throbbing Gristle were. It had a vast influence on the direction many more-popular synth-based artists later took, such as Depeche Mode, Human League, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

[Heidi]

96. Prairie Home Invasion, featuring Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra

(with the Toad Liquors), 1994 Alternative Tentacles Records

-Track listing:
1. Buy My Snake Oil
2. Where We Gonna Work (When the Trees Are Gone?)
3. Convoy In The Sky
4. Atomic Power
5. Are you Drinkin' With Me Jesus
6. Love Me I'm A Liberal
7. Burgers of Wrath
8. Nostalgia For an Age That Never Existed
9. Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster
10. Mascot Mania
11. Let's Got Burn Ole Nashville Down
12. Will The Fetus Be Aborted
13. Plastic Jesus

[Mendocino]

98. The Basement Tapes-Bob Dylan and The Band

Gilded Palace of Sin-Flying Burrito Brothers
Dixie Chicken-Little Feat
Happy Trails-Quicksilver Messenger Service
Ballad of the Easy Rider-Byrds

[Chan790]

99. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish

Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes released this album under a different band name due to its vastly-different style and strong, sometimes violent political content. The words sometimes get lost in the shuffle but are amazingly powerful. Oberst, if not a musician, could have a promising career as a poet. Besides, it includes this song...possibly my favorite song Conor Oberst has recorded under any band name. (Desaparacidos, Bright Eyes, Commander Venus, Conor Oberst)

The Happiest Place On Earth

I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live
I don't want to be ashamed to be American
but opportunity
no it don't exist
it's the opiate
of the populace
we need some harder shit now
the truth's getting around
and each public school is a halfway house
where the huddled masses sober up and up
enough? There's not enough
to fatten the cows and feed all of us.
It's just a rationing of luck
what can't be bought gets raffled off.
oh god good god shed greed on thee,
your shining sea turned a dirty green
from the industry
off the shores of New Jersey
I got a letter from the army so I think that I'll enlist
I'm not brave or proud of nothing I just want to kill something
too bad that nowadays you just point and click
swing low satellite, hot white chariot
in the computer's blue glare
the bombs burst in the air
there was a city once now nothing's there
our freedom comes at their expense
it makes sense does it?
Dollars and cents
they're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence
that's surrounding your housing development
in case you lack the confidence
oh god my god give strength to thee
these amber waves purple majesty is nothing but
backdrops for Disney
look up close it's superimposed
on a blank blue screen yea its fantasy
fucking magical
the dream floats like a chemical
through each snapped synapse
our television past that is beautiful
no more
no more

[NewWaveChick1981]

100. Lene Lovich - Stateless

I'm a big Lene Lovich fan, and this is one of her best. :D

[bertha katzenengel]

108. Larry Norman - Upon This Rock

one of the first i ever owned

[blockhead]

110. Dr. Hook: Bankrupt. n/t

[Maestro]

114. Here are a few from different genres.

In the really hard to classify(sort of mixture of techno, latin rhythms, rock, jazz and funk)genre.

Reina by Kinky

Metalcore
The Fall of Ideals by All That Remains

Black Metal
The Great Cold Distance by Katatonia

Techno (Very obscure but good stuff)
Expreso_Elektro_Congo on Intone records by Richard H Kirk

[alittlelark]

117. Concrete Blonde - 'Bloodletting'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIlUHBNkEc&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlBx4-7hqW4

[Lisa]

118. Monkey Bowl's "Plastic Three-Fifty"

This is the one where Al Gore (really!) shows up at the end of the song that bears his name. The other songs are pretty good too.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5382710


The song:
http://www.cartoonbank.com/newyorker/slideshows/040913algore.html

[enigmatic]

121. "The Spirit Of Eden"- Talk Talk

One of the 10 greatest albums ever made..

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/t/talktalk-spirit.shtml

[Evoman]

122. Jordy, the 4 year old with hit single about a fake, colouring book girl

he drew. Its a french 4 year old kid tone deaf kid singing ridiculous songs about how its "tough to be a baby"....how could I not recommend it.



Seriously..I hope the people who put this thing together are paying for the suffering they inflicted on the world.

[GreenTea]

123. Mingus, Mingus, Mingus.

[Fuzz]

124. Miracle Legion - Drenched

[enigmatic]

137. Fantastic choice

Miracle Legion is one of my all-time favorite bands; "The Backyard" is probably my favorite EP of all-time. And their version of "A Heart Disease Called Love" off the Glad EP is in my top 10 favorite songs, too..

[smitty]

125. Ry Cooder, "Get Rhythm"

[FredStembottom]

126. Wow! I have a deeply obscure album on right now!

Before a Word is Said (1981)



by Alan Gowen (R.I.P.), Richard Sinclair, Phil Miller and Pip Pyle (R.I.P.)

It is wonderful, quiet but adventurous, melodic and esoteric all at once.

One-of-a-kind Jazzish, calm, Rockishness with Classical presentation. Just try to categorize this!

Thoroughly out of print for 20 years - but now available at eMusic online.

I love it!

[judaspriestess]

127. Pissant n/t

[landdaddy]

128. Stones: Jamming with Edward

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1033073/a/Jamming+With+Edward.htm

[Chemical Bill]

129. It's a Beautiful Day.

First runner up - McDonald and Giles.

[cemaphonic]

130. Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

Totally unique album that sounds like nothing else, yet with a lot of noodly charm, and approachable from decades of prog rock and electronica artists aping his techniques.

[Zhade]

131. Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew - "Authentic Pirate Hip_Hop".

Hey, you said obscure.

(They ROCK!)

[derby378]

132. NANI NANI by Dekoboko Hajime and Yamantaka Eye

Dekoboko Hajime is a non de plume for avant-garde jazz saxophonist John Zorn.

[izzybeans]

133. The Oblivians-....play 9 songs with Mr. Quintron

forerunners to the Reigning Sound and two other recommendable album(s)-Time Bomb high School and Too Much Guitar

[YDogg]

134. Semiconductor, by jr. james & the late guitar

http://atonemusic.com/

My favorite track: I Just Want To Loop Beats With You

[Radical Activist]

135. 10cc - The Original Soundtrack

I have it on vinyl. I don't know if its available on CD. Cheesy 70's lounge music sound but very well done.

[Strawman]

136. The Complete Works of Goober and the Peas

[donheld]

138. Love Will Keep Us Together - The Captain & Tennille

:hide::evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

139. The Up Escalator by Graham Parker and The Rumour

edited to add: Flown This Acid World by Peter Himmelman.

[blonndee]

140. Julee Cruise Floating into the Night n/t

[regnaD kciN]

141. Big Daddy: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

This is not a joke. Well, O.K., it is, but the band is in on the joke.

Big Daddy was a novelty group from the late '80s - early '90s. Their supposed "backstory" was that they were a early rock'n'roll band from the 50s who got captured by the Communists while on a U.S.O. tour of Southeast Asia. Finally freed after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., they returned home determined to continue their interrupted musical career, but there was one problem -- they were incapable of playing in any style later than '50s rock. So, they issued a few discs of "current" hits done as if they were from, say, 1958.

Eventually, they wound up releasing a complete cover of Sgt. Pepper, with every song done in the manner of one or another '50s performer. You get "With a Little Help from my Friends" done in the style of Johnny Mathis, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" as a Jerry Lee Lewis rocker, "Within You Without You" recited as beat poetry with jazz accompaniment, "A Day in the Life" as Buddy Holly's last record, and so on. A perfect work of affectionate parody, and an amazing bit of musical invention. Even die-hard Beatles fans (especially die-hard Beatles fans) love it.