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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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I have a few but to narrow it down: Al Stewart- Past Present and Future. This is an earlier stage album when Jimmy Page was still doing guitar work and Alan Parsons was entering the frame and it's rich in historical reference and just incredible every listen. The Church- Heyday. Just before their commercial success and it's an album that keeps rewarding you with sonic bliss over and over. |
stilljim and Reubent, I must agree. I bought Puzzle when Dizz Knee Land was getting limited airplay and was blown away by the shear number of great tracks, SQ and great engineering. I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to get it on vinyl as well. |
More obscure than Puzzle: Toy Matinee: "Toy Matinee" Lot of good tracks. Best known for: https://youtu.be/6MN0V4Te94k |
Face To Face (Boston) - "Face to Face" & "Confrontation" Fetchin' Bones (Charlotte) - "Monster" The Reivers (Austin) - "Saturday" & "End of the Day" Rhythm Corps (Detroit) - "Common Ground" & "The Future's Not What It Used To Be" These four bands probably arrived on the new wave scene a little too early for their own good.. Lori Sargent (Face To Face) might be better known as the vocalist of Twinemen, the group Mark Sandman formed after Morphine broke up. Face To Face also had to deal with a Washington DC punk band taking over their name and becoming much better known. Talk about adding insult to injury! Rhythm Corp and The Reivers had to change their names (from Rhythm Method and Zeitgeist respectively) because two other bands beat them to their original names. |
Thanks again for opening my eyes to all this great stuff. Shout out to Toy Matinee. Just listened again last night. Hard to find, but worth the hunt/expense. And DaDa, Wow I forgot just how good they were. Took me this long to realize I misspelled Obscure in the original post!one more suggestion: Emitt Rhodes. |
Townes Van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Tx 1973. Obscure? Maybe . . . Certainly didn't sell like Abbey Roads or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I have it on CD but expect vinyl would sound decent if you could find it. Kind of a spare arrangement, and as a vocalist he was a good songwriter, but he is in pretty decent voice here. |
dbp24 -- Not that Song Cycle is my favorite LP of all time, but when I lived in the San Fernando Valley in L.A., I'd regularly drive down Laurel Canyon to Vine street to go my barber, who alternately worked on Melrose Avenue and Beverly Blvd. Every once in a while I'd also drop in at a high-end stereo shop that was on one of those streets. At any rate, the Van Dyck Parks record would be coursing through my brain the entire time. I'd put on my most nasal voice and intone, "Nyoral Nyanyon." |
@edcyn, small world: I too lived in the Valley for years. Sherman Oaks, Burbank, and Glendale, mostly. I then bought a house up in the Foothills above Glendale, in Tujunga. A lot of musicians live up there. Van Dyke’s Song Cycle is an acquired taste, way too odd for most folks I imagine. It was his inclusion of Randy Newman’s "Vine Street" on the album that alerted me to Newman’s existence. Thank you VDP! @1111art, good choice in Emitt Rhodes. His debut is a perfect album, after which the brutality of the music business soured him. He finished a couple more okay albums, then retreaded to his home studio, making a living recording locals. I did a session with him in the late-90’s, and one live show, his first in a quarter century. You know he died last July, right? I have his last album (issued on LP in 2016), but have been afraid to listen to it. ;-) |
"Timeline" by Kerry Livgren Livgren is a former member of Kansas. This is his second solo album recorded in 1984 featuring mostly prog rock music. I purchased the CD in the 80’s, but recently found it on vinyl and was surprised by its expansive sound; its become one of my better sounding records. It has great harmony vocals and stimulating lyrics. First tracks are 80’s synth pop, but the album hits its stride by the time you get to song three. Give it a try. ~Tom in Sacramento |
For Al Stewarrt fans-https://thestrangebrew.co.uk/interviews/al-stewart-past-present-and-future/ A lot I didn't know and will be buying Past,Present and Future. |
New York Mary- mid 70’s jazz/funk/fusion http://https//www.discogs.com/New-York-Mary-New-York-Mary/master/879903 |
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