Bring on the Night, Sting
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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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 |
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. |
Always Heavenly: The Paris Sisters Anthology Apart from I Love How You Love Me the rest of this very listenable collection was unknown to me. Here’s a great 2016 write-up courtesy of Kris Needs at Record Collector Magazine. "Girl group dream-pop has rarely sounded so exquisite as when San Francisco sisters Albeth, Priscilla and Sherrell Paris, who had been performing and recording since childhood, saw their supernatural harmonies hotwired by Phil Spector and sent to new levels of sensual heaven on 1961’s sublime I Love How You Love Me. As this fabulous collection (unbelievably their first due to the number of labels they recorded for) shows, the sisters recorded many more gems through the 60s – the desolate What Am I To Do epitomising their rare depth and billowing maturity. From Priscilla’s spectral sigh to the time-stopping starbursts realised with producers Jack Nitzsche and Terry Melcher on outings such as He Knows I Love Him Too Much and their stellar version of Bobby Darin’s Dream Lover, there’s much here to savour." https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/always-heavenly-paris-sisters-anthology |
Lux Prima - Karen O + Danger Mouse Likely obscure around here since most people seem to dislike new music. Best album in the last decade. I listened to this one everyday for a month or 2 when it came out in 2019. Today I listened to it with my new fibre streaming. The sonic quality was incredible compared to the previous listens. |
This link may work if you just click on it. If not, Copy/Paste this link in your browser if you want to read them. I photographed the back of the album. Hope it works. You have to wait a few seconds before it shows up. (don’t do it with the wife around-seems there’s some ’adult’ type ads to entertain you while you wait)... https://imgbox.com/qVElRHCa |
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Bear with me, it’s worth it. This is the coolest ’liner note’ I’ve ever read.Exotica music was a big trend in the 60’s. Les Baxter’s ’Original Quiet Village’ was one such album. A condensed version of the liner notes: Three different men are mentioned, a bank manager, an airline pilot, and an actor, all who simply vanished from their respective lives. The only thing they had in common was the fact that this Les Baxter album was spinning on all of their turntables. I’m listening to it now, so if I never respond again, you’ll know why. |
50 years on after the breakup of the Beatles and no one ever seemed to capture the same magic. Or maybe they did. What about the group that featured Stig O Hara, Dirk McQuickly, Ron Nasty and Barry Wom? Collectively known as the Rutles. With songs penned by Neil Innes their self titled album was recorded in a mere 10 days. Innes was even taken to court some time later over copywright infringements by the owners of the Beatles catalogue. It's certainly an album any Beatles fan should be familiar with. The Rutles - The Rutles (1978) Of all the songs perhaps I Must Be in Love gets closest to that of the fab four. https://youtu.be/54KBPA20b9Q |
@1111art, Thanks, man. This has been my favorite post in this Forum since I joined Audiogon. I've seen some great new music, and hidden gems I found I actually had in my 50+ years vinyl collection. I'll throw out a couple that I have not seen mentioned. "Bedtime Stories", the first solo album by David Baerwald, released in May 1990. Baerwald was one of the "David's" in the band "David + David", who released the Platinum selling 1986 album, "Boomtown". "Bedtime Stories" is a romantic album based on tales of suburban ennui and decay, featuring Joni Mitchell on guitar and backup vocals -- an amazing sounding album and incredible songwriting. In 1992, he co-founded the "Tuesday Music Club", a collection of Los Angeles musicians and songwriters that were the creative force behind Sheryl Crow's debut album, "Tuesday Night Music Club". https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0nm9YD0EsNrj5JwVKHMBqPYljy0oiyW9 Another is the self-titled debut release by "Satellite Paradiso" in May 2016, an all-star project from John Ashton, formerly the lead guitarist of The Psychedelic Furs. The core band is Ashton, vocalist Fred Schreck (The Ancients, Crush), bassist Robert Burke Warren (The Fleshtones) and drummer Frank Coleman (Jayne County, Bentmen). Additional musicians includes bassists Sara Lee (Gang of Four, B-52s) and Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz); drummer Paul Ferguson (Killing Joke); guitarist Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs); Mercury Rev's Anthony Molina and Jonathan Donahue; Flo & Eddie’s Mark Volman (The Turtles, Frank Zappa, T.Rex); and original Furs members Duncan Kilburn (sax) and Roger Morris (guitar, keys). Brilliant album. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mobNlHBhgILTWaVoCAwuhsvTLLSjBHVIA |
Vinx - Rooms in my father’s house. .Neo Calypso? Nice transparent recording with a big stage and some nice bass dynamics when called. https://youtu.be/222kfNI3rlE Chico Freeman - Tangents (w/Bobby McFerrin). All time great free jazz recording. Turn this song to 90+ dB to see what your system can do! https://youtu.be/7LWpsfKlAR0 |
Obscure? Crawler. Behold! No, seriously, listen! @millercarbon, Haven't heard Crawler in at least 20 years....way too long. I saw them live twice -- in 1977 as the opening act for Robin Trower and in 1978 as the opening act for Kansas. "Stone Cold Sober" was getting massive airplay on FM stations across the country, and Crawler was on tour for almost a straight year opening for Robin Trower, Cheap Trick, Foreigner, and Kansas. After the Kansas tour, the keyboardist quit to tour with The Who and the band folded. Although I was nothing close to stone, cold, sober both times I saw them, I DO REMEMBER they put on one hell of a live show. Geoff Whitehorn, their guitarist, had an amazing "Santana-like" playing style. After Crawler, he played with Paul Rodgers and Bad Company, Roger Waters, and since 1991 he has been the guitarist for Procul Harum. I always found that ironic, since Robin Trower established himself with Procul Harum, left them to form his own band, and Whitehorn played in a band that opened for the Robin Trower Band and then he joined Procul Harum. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane. |
OK, here's a different take on "obscure". Lots of stuff already mentioned are older, forgotten bands/albums, or lesser/not well known bands/artist. My next offering is a newer offering from a well know band from the past. It's obscure only because the band has fallen out of favor (for some unknown reason I cannot understand). Without further ado........ The Alarm - "Equals" This 2018 release is not quite the "equal" of some of the early Alarm albums. But heck, not many newer rock records can match vintage The Alarm IMHO. All I can say is that I own 1000+ LPs and this I've played this one as often as any of my others over the last 2 years. Highly recommended for any fans of The Alarm, or anyone else for that matter. Link to a review that pretty much mirrors my feelings: https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/the-alarm-equals-album-review |
Here's a haunting song from a haunting album. The lyrics are just...lovely and creepy. Great sonics too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGWRrIlz68 Aqualung (no not that one) 'Strange and Beautiful' |
Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters Space Rock at its best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPDs36n2Mw&list=PLWfGw2maX1M6P7xh930Kp1wpvvTPKD-yf |
William Topley... prolific during the late 90's and early 2000's and is still at it today. Much of his catalog is available on Tidal and the recording quality for most of his material is quite good. Some samples from different albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmeHGVLQpqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bIgYrQOMNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avl9HsOc4bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dSZyah83tg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX8ewhLZkqU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkEGneWhhQ with the Blessing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3APxo336o |
While T Bone Burnett is a pretty well known name, it is more for his production work (the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, Elvis Costello's King Of America album, Peter Case's debut, many others) than his own albums. The first I heard of Burnett was when he was a member of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue. He was then in The Alpha Band, a trio whose other members were the great musicians David Mansfield and Steven Soles. They made three albums for Arista in 1976/7/8, then called it quits. The LP's are not hard to find, and reasonably priced. T Bone's debut solo album is the little-known J. Henry Burnett: The B-52 Band & The Fabulous Skylarks, released by UNI (MCA) Records in 1972. Good luck finding a copy of THAT LP! Mine's not for sale. ;-)
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