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Bands you love, but no one else has ever heard of... To start: The Oysterband!!
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The Placid Casual
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Jan 19, 2004, 04:38 PM
 
The Oysterband are so, so, completely utterly cool!!

Just got another of their albums, and seen them live... It is easily the best gig in have been to in my life. I've seen all the big guys like U2, Rolling Stones, Zep etc in their prime, and these guys sheer 'happiness' and vibe beats them all!

They are all in their 40 and 50, have been going for 25 years, but not had that much commercial help... They play a blend of irish folk but with a real contemporary edge... the energy is unbelieveable!

People, check them out, epecially 'Holy Bandits'. An awesome album.

Anyone else have any favourites only they seem to know about?

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Jan 19, 2004, 04:41 PM
 
The The

REALLY cool guy.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 04:53 PM
 
Look like this thread is right up my street already!

Oysterband - have got one of their albums, the one they did with June Tabor.

The The - am a huge fan, have most of their albums on CD and saw them live about ten years ago. Wonder what Matt's up to these days?

Anyone heard of Oi Va Voi?
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 04:56 PM
 
Originally posted by engaged:
Look like this thread is right up my street already!

Oysterband - have got one of their albums, the one they did with June Tabor.

The The - am a huge fan, have most of their albums on CD and saw them live about ten years ago. Wonder what Matt's up to these days?

Anyone heard of Oi Va Voi?
No way! She was at the gig I saw... played about 6 songs with the lads. Her voice was still amazing!
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 04:56 PM
 
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Jan 19, 2004, 04:57 PM
 
Louise Attaque or Tarmac (well, people from France could know them)
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:01 PM
 
Wellwater Conspiracy

And lots of stuff from the Elephant 6 projects, especially Neutral Milk Hotel and Apples In Stereo.

Oh, and Dread Zeppelin is pure genius.
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:06 PM
 
Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
No way! She was at the gig I saw... played about 6 songs with the lads. Her voice was still amazing!
Have you got their album 'Laughter Through Tears'? It just fell through the letterbox, courtesy of play.com, this morning? Have listened to it a few times since (stopped now to watch Buzzcocks) and it's a real grower - opening track is a corker!
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:13 PM
 
Originally posted by engaged:
Oysterband - have got one of their albums, the one they did with June Tabor.

The The - am a huge fan, have most of their albums on CD and saw them live about ten years ago. Wonder what Matt's up to these days?
x2
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:25 PM
 
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:36 PM
 
One of my favorites that most people don't know about is Los Amigos Invisibles. Their album "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera" is worth checking out.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:40 PM
 
Far Too Jones...disbanded in like 2000, but they were awesome.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:42 PM
 
Red House Painters. They're on iTMS, but no one I know has ever heard of them. (Except for the person who told me about them.)
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:46 PM
 
Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
The Oysterband are so, so, completely utterly cool!!
I saw them in a small club about 13 years ago, when they backed June Tabor, who I'm a big admirer of. Great show.

My favorite unsung bands are The Feelies and The Go-Betweens.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 05:54 PM
 
The The -

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Jan 19, 2004, 05:57 PM
 
Lame Ducks

Everyone with some taste for ska-punk should check em out. Great live, and great albums!

BTW: You can order the albums directly from the label. http://www.****ingnorthpole.com/

(replace **** with the f word. It's the MacNN censorship.... )
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Jan 19, 2004, 06:34 PM
 
Originally posted by iWrite:
The The

REALLY cool guy.
www.thethe.com

and don't forget fad gadget!
These people are Americans. Don't expect anything meaningful or... uh... normalcy...
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 06:50 PM
 
Goya Dress and Hammerbox - both awesome, both unknown.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 07:16 PM
 
Originally posted by The Placid Casual:
The Oysterband are so, so, completely utterly cool!!
blue oyster cult

prairie oyster

maybe...i dunno...but not very original.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 08:20 PM
 
Emmet Swimming out of D.C./Northern Virginia... They are straight-up fantastic.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 08:26 PM
 
Oysterhead - A side project of Les Claypool and Stewart Copeland
Cocteau Twins - Moody alternative from the 80's
King Missile - For their detachable penis
Ramasutra - A Brilliant Montreal DJ
Sebadoh - The Band before Grunge
Polemir Bazar - My friend's band
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 08:29 PM
 
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Jan 19, 2004, 09:09 PM
 
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Jan 19, 2004, 09:37 PM
 
Bands I like that nobody's ever heard of... just about all of em.

OC Supertones
Bleach
Hangnail
Calibretto 13
Jeremy Camp
Ace Troubleshooter
The Undecided
Plankeye
Grand Incredible
Thousand Foot Krutch
Cadet
The Insyderz
Switchfoot
Philmore
Threadline
Alpacas For Sale
Bailey's Car
Kiros
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 10:11 PM
 
James McMutry. he's not a band but I love his music. Great singer/songwriter.
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Jan 19, 2004, 10:12 PM
 
Assemblage 23
CKY
Course of Empire
Failure
Floater
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Jan 19, 2004, 10:46 PM
 
Originally posted by Superchic[k]en:
Bands I like that nobody's ever heard of... just about all of em.

OC Supertones
Bleach
Hangnail
Calibretto 13
Jeremy Camp
Ace Troubleshooter
The Undecided
Plankeye
Grand Incredible
Thousand Foot Krutch
Cadet
The Insyderz
Switchfoot
Philmore
Threadline
Alpacas For Sale
Bailey's Car
Kiros
Maybe in your little world. Go to any Christian book/record store and you'll find all kinds of teens who know these bands and lots more like em.

Jeremy Camp even plays on mainstream radio stations around here.
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 10:54 PM
 
Heather Nova
Excellent female guitarist/songwriter. Sounds similar to Sheryl Crow, but with a harder edge and more talent.

The church
This Australian band has been around a long time and isn't too unknown. They are my all time favorite band. Kind of a cross between Pink Floyd, New Order, James Taylor, and the Replacements

The Refreshments
A Southern rock band. The have since broken up and moved on to other bands. They wrote the theme for the cartoon TV show "King of the Hill"

The Weepers
A torch and twang blue grass kinda band from Michigan. I like to say that these are the guys who Johnny Cash would like to listen Too bad they have also broken up
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 11:10 PM
 
Peter Hammill
Durutti Column
NEU!
Lisa Germano
Rachels
Azure Ray
Paula Frazer/Tarnation
Shannon Wright
Barry Adamson
Nina Nastasia

(just to name a few....)
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Jan 19, 2004, 11:33 PM
 
throbbing gristle

bolt upright and the erections
     
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Jan 19, 2004, 11:46 PM
 
The Refreshments
WOOOHOOOO! Hahahaha....post-grunge bliss! "Banditos" was such a killer single....



greg
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Jan 19, 2004, 11:59 PM
 
Originally posted by zigzag:
I saw them in a small club about 13 years ago, when they backed June Tabor, who I'm a big admirer of. Great show.

My favorite unsung bands are The Feelies and The Go-Betweens.
The CDs I have of theirs are from back when they were still called "Oyster Band". I heard their cover of Love Vigilantes before ever hearing the New Order original.

on The Feelies and The Go-Betweens too.

A few more for the pile...

Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel
Fairground Attraction (unsung in the US)
The Churchills
Sloan
Actionslacks
Deanna Kirk
Wondermints
The Hang Ups
Josh Rouse
Andrew Bird (also with Bowl of Fire)
The Mighty Blue Kings
Old 97's
The Push Kings
The Webb Brothers
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 12:05 AM
 
Sloan
Sloan are fairly unknown in most spots, but in Canada they're a household rock name.

Same thing with I Mother Earth, who I mentioned, except IME have become relatively unknown and mis-portrayed in the past few years.

greg
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Jan 20, 2004, 12:36 AM
 
I don't know what's unknown for you lot.

Down here, nobody had even heard of AFI before STS came out.

Bubble Vicious
Amon Amarth
Zao
Zombie Ghost Train
Blind Guardian
Symphony X
Angra
Assemblage 23
Tarmvred
Dulce Liquido
Nevermore
Infected Mushroom
Gridlock
In Flames
Iced Earth
Avan
Black Majesty
DJ Krush
Boards of Canada
Bond
God Module
Brainstorm
Chimaira
Death In Vegas
Hayden
Death Cab for Cutie
Earshot
Demons and Wizards
Edge of Sanity
Department
Gerling
Dryft
Infernal Method
Thirsty Merc
The Winters
Dry Cell
Eric Gofrain
Dungeon
Porcupine Tree
Powerman 5000
Edguy
Godhead
Jebediah
Royal Hunt
Sevendust
Gerling
LORD
Grinspoon
Hooverphonic
Ironware
Kamelot
Seraph's Coal
Judas Priest
Liquid Tension Experiment
Luna Sea
Meshuggah
Sigur Ros
Moonspell
M�m
Nightwish
Odeum
Quivver
Son of Sam
Star One
Stratovarius


****, long list... sorry.
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Tadpole, cool NZ band. You probably have heard of them if you live in NZ or
Aussie
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 01:47 AM
 
Originally posted by ShortcutToMoncton:
WOOOHOOOO! Hahahaha....post-grunge bliss! "Banditos" was such a killer single....



greg
Actually, I thought it was the worst song the have. I like Nada as a personal fav.
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 01:58 AM
 
Great thread idea... these bands are usually the best.

mine is: The Anniversary

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Jan 20, 2004, 03:15 AM
 
Originally posted by Kilbey:
Heather Nova
Excellent female guitarist/songwriter. Sounds similar to Sheryl Crow, but with a harder edge and more talent.
"Walk This World" off "Oyster" (weird thread title connection thing going on there!). Fine song!

I'll add

Hayseed Dixie. Bluegrass AC/DC covers!

Inner City Unit, a Hawkwind spinoff. Like a punk version of Hawkwind, good for when you're stomping around completely smashed.

When their official web site's working the entire back catalogue is available via free download, so here's a few choice songs mirrored:

Stonehenge Who Knows
Raj Neesh
Brand New Cadillac
Paint Your Windows White

(BTW, nobody said they had to be "good" - just "loved" and nobody's ever heard of them. )
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 09:55 AM
 
Elephant 6 bands

For Krusty: If you like Archers of loaf, buy the Crooked Fingers Albums and Barry Black. Both are Eric Bachman's post-AoL bands.

My quick list:
Handsome Family
The Renderers
Young Fresh Fellows (Unless you are from the Pac Northwest)
(Depending on the crowd of people) Alejandro Escovedo
Mission of Burma (an effin shame)
Calexico
Pere Ubu
Portastatic
Spent
Vic Chesnutt
Suicide

Two steps forward (six steps back)
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 09:59 AM
 
I stand by Shiner. No one seems to listen to them.
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 10:54 AM
 
beth gibbons with rustin man.
(gives me chills just thinking about it. )

postal service.
(some say they sound a lot like magnetic fields. however in a comparison, i think they drug magnetics fields out back, and beat the **** out of them. of course, thats just my opinion.)
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 01:25 PM
 
The band is Molotov.
You can find it at the iTunes music store.
Not for the easily offended.
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 01:30 PM
 
Lots of stuff from the k records stable. Mirah and the Microphones (those are two separate entities there, not "Mirah and the Microphones") are pretty incredible.

Originally posted by MacAgent:
Red House Painters. They're on iTMS, but no one I know has ever heard of them. (Except for the person who told me about them.)
Have you heard his (dude from RHPs�can't remember his name) new project, Son Kil Moon?
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Jan 20, 2004, 02:08 PM
 
Queen Adreena's "Taxidermy" album.

I can't find it in the states at the local crap music stores. I had to order it.

But it's a great CD.
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 02:40 PM
 
Originally posted by Kilbey:
Maybe in your little world.
i could have said that about The The, but iWrite would've started crying and accusing me of picking on her.
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Jan 20, 2004, 03:01 PM
 
Nearly every CD of mine that I've encoded in iTunes is recognized by the CDDB/GraceNote. If not, there's sometimes an entry in the All Music Guide.

So someone, somewhere, has what I have, and therefore my music collection is no longer obscure, unique nor even unobtainable.

That is not to say that most of you guys have heard of any of these artists.

Oh, and I like the Go-Betweens as well. 'Before Hollywood' all the way, baby!
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 03:27 PM
 

Tarmvred
Gridlock
Boards of Canada
Dryft


Beefcake
Front Line Assembly
m2 (squaremeter)
Snog
Alec Empire
Laibach
Iszoloscope
Raison d'etre
Kate Mosh
Dead hollywood stars
Needle Sharing
Panacea
Venetian Snares
L'ombre
Somatic Responses
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 03:59 PM
 
wow. a lot of canadian bands on those lists!
speaking of which, other than us Canadians, does anyone know and like the Tragically Hip outside of Canada?
incredible band that has never made a serious push into the states...I hear they're popular in europe though...
     
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Jan 20, 2004, 04:14 PM
 
Mindless Self Indulgence

I'm sure some have heard of them, but most wouldnt dare listen


Chris
     
 
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