Recently discovered the recordings of Ryo Fukui and picked up a “Ryo Fukui in New York” newly issued vinyl. Beautiful.
Suggest one obsure album we all should hear
I love when I discover an album that's new to me, and great.Please share one so we can all broaden our musical horizons.
Mine is:
Wishbone Ash 'Argus'
Mine is:
Wishbone Ash 'Argus'
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Roy Orbison - In Dreams : the greatest hits (1987) It's not obscure but I don't see this record mentioned anywhere close to enough as to what I feel it should be. In my experience this is one example where digital and analogue virtually coincide. If there is a better sounding Roy Orbison album out there, then I haven't heard it. |
Bryan Ferry "Boys and Girls": All star lineup. Used to play this on a long trip when we needed to go that last hour. Kraftwerk: 3-D Catalogue. Reworked old favorites. Amazing sonics. King Krimson Live in Montreal: Especially "Sartori in Tangier". Tony Levin bass line alone is enough. Throw in Fripp and Belew. Epic Gong: Shamal. Mid 70’s space jazz. Steve Hillage guitar! System 7: Their best album is out of print and not even on Amazon. Listen to what you can. Guitar synthesizer and deep house(I think). Weather Report Black Market: Jazz fusion. Jaco Pastorius on bass. Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell: Trittico. Great orchestra with stunning sonics. That’s all I used to buy was "not commercial" so let me know if you want more. LOL |
Some excellent bands (from a 2016 post): https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/obscure-bands/post?postid=1346137#1346137 Particulars (since you removed the one album rule): Bardo Pond / Dilate Swans / Glowing Man Tanakh / Ardent Fevers Lambchop / How I quit smoking moe. / Wormwood Alex Chilton / High Priest Blitzen Trapper / Fur Mark Lanegan / Has God seen my shadow Nico & the Faction / Fata Morgana Brian Eno / My squelchy life Spiritualized / Ladies & gentlemen we are floating in space Tortoise / TNT Thurston Moore / Demolished thoughts Acid Mothers Temple / In search of the lost divine arc Stone Jack Jones / Love & torture Low / Drums & guns Eels / Electro-shock therapy Larkin Grimm / Parplar Magnetic Fields / 69 MV & EE / Space homestead Jenny Lewis / Acid tongue Forest for the trees Calexico / Spoke Mono / Under the pipal tree Mazzy Star / She hangs brightly Devendra Banhart / Mala Castanets / Cathedral Sparklehorse / It's a wonderful life APSE / Climb up Elizabeth Viagic / Stand with the stillness of the day Industrial Tepee / What divine engine Pere Ubu / Pennsylvania Beth Orton / Trailer park Orso / Long time by Tunng / Good arrows Grails / Black tar prophesies There are many more (obscure music is my forte)... But that should keep you busy for a while :-) |
The Mysterious Flying Orchestra A 1977 album from Bob Thiele https://somehowjazz.com/mysterious-flying-orchestra/ |
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The Bodeans, only one album that I used to own. They opened for very first U2 Joshua Tree tour I got to go to, WOW! Was that a GREAT concert!!! They, I believe, are Irish as well, REM type of sound, they were EXCELLENT!! Cannot find their CD album I bought, but they were VERY GOOD!! Also, I bet you guys haven’t heard of the Coor’s. Another Irish band, three sisters, one brother. The drummer, Caroline, was a SMOKE’N HOTTIE!!! And was an EXCELLENT drummer!!! They did an album with covers sung with: Bono, from U2, Mick Fleetwood, on the drums with Caroline (TOO COOL!), and lastly, Ronnie Woods of The Rolling Stones, AWESOME album, A+ SONICS!!! Some of the Bono songs were acoustic. AWESOME album! Pop-rock band. Still love them. Sharon Corr is SMOKE’N HOT as well!! Model quality, stunning woman! So talented!! Hell, all of them were! Caroline, the sexy baby sister, played: drums, piano, and the bodran, an Irish drum, One one of their albums, Sharon and Caroline do an acoustic duet, “No Frontiers”, sounds like two angels singing, no joke! Check them out on YouTube! Especially the MTV “Unplugged” album, and the live album. BRAVO to whoever mic’ed and mixed their live/Unplugged albums! AWESOME acoustics/sonics!! |
BoDeans are indeed from Wisconsin. Great band. Kind of an Americana-ish rock band, with Midwestern influences similar to Jayhawks, Bottle Rockets and Rainmakers (all brilliant bands). If you like BoDeans, check out their live album - "Joe Dirt Car". Contains all their best material and the live versions are superior to the studio versions, across the board.... All IMHO, of course. |
Not very obscure....... the Humble Pie - live at Fillmore 4-5 cd set from Japan from several years ago. Has all 3 shows, unedited, and is amazing, makes the regular US version sound terrible, cut up, censored, etc, This ultimate edition is simply stunning, sound, performance, extras, etc. gets 2-3 X monthly play, sometimes more. The Pat Travers Japan Mini LP releases, the sound quality and packaging is perfect. |
A great reference track for checking out amps/speakers is “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo” on the album of the same name by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Not only is this a great track to put a speaker through some paces, the group is quite good to hang with a beer of glass of wine, being a blue-grass fusion band. |
This thread is clearly far advanced and there are many of both albums I love and music I don't know but here are a few that I haven't seen that always hit me where I live.1) the oldest maybe- Running, Jumping, Standing Still by Spider John Koerner and Willie Murphy.2) Journey To The End Of The Night by the Mekons3) The Graceless Age by John Murry a descendent of William Faulkner's4) the 2nd Soft Machine album -the band was mentioned before I think but their first two albums are unlike their later stuff with Robert Wyatt drumming and singing before he broke his back and became paraplegic.5) From Sweden With Love by the Art Farmer Quintet, when Art was playing with Jim Hall it was music to melt by as was Undercurrent when Jim was duo with Bill Evans and any of the Paul Desmond albums with Jim Hall.By the way there was a little confusion above as there was the American band BoDeans and there was a maybe better band in the U.K., the Bodines.I never saw the Velvet Underground (I grew up in Southern California) but in 1967 my best friend as a freshman at Pomona College started playing the Velvet Underground with Nico which we listened to endlessly.Lastly 3 quick others6) Tim Buckley - Happy Sad (I know he is not obscure but this was stunning to me and I was already a fan7) Town And Country by Humble Pie - not like the bombastic Pie that most people heard but really showing Steve Marriot could sing8) One For The Road by Ronnie Lane's Slim ChanceGolly I could go on and on |
@sima01 ... shame the other Hank Dogs 'Half Smile' is half as good, only 2 or three songs of note on that one. Steeleye Span's first album 'Hark the village wait' features two killer female vocals too, for some unknown reason one of them dropped out leaving Maddie Prior as the sole voice. But check out that Hark .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRb6GSj12wU&list=PL8a8cutYP7fq33lL2OuaEh2872Qy-NFhA&index=2 |
A few more? "The Use Of Ashes" Pearls Before Swine, "Young Brigham" Ramblin' Jack Elliot, "A Genuine Tong Funeral" Gary Burton Quartet, "Not In Our Name" Charlie Haden & Liberation Music Orchestra, "God Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise" Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, "Gossip" Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls (the Aus. double LP) and "Comedy" Paul Kelly & the Messengers (same band different name). "John Simon" John Simon (1st album), "Nashville" Ian & Sylvia, "Great Speckled Bird" Great Speckled Bird, "East West" Paul Butterfield Blues Band Hmm. Better stop for the moment. Wife is complaining of me pounding on the keyboard. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMipm_SlhK4 Buddy Rich and Alla Rakha Interesting album Many thanks i will go for it... |
When I read the title of this thread the first album that immediately came to my mind was "Blue Maqams" by Anouar Brahem. I discovered it last year. It’s a fusion of jazz and Middle Eastern. I always knew I was searching for this album without ever realizing that I was searching for an album that fused jazz and middle eastern. If you’re picking up what I’m putting down... |
https://raymondrichards.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-art-of-wandering Raymond Richards - The Lost art Of Wandering |
I reckon a lot of A goners will like this... https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/floating-points-pharoah-sanders-london-symphony-orchestra-promises-luaka-bop/ |
