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'
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+1 on Bruce Cockburn: I like "High Winds, White Sky : 1971 : early, happy, trippy, folky

Obscure

Ann Richards & Stan Kenton : Two Much : 1961 : slowburn jazz vocals

Sea Level : (self titled ) 1977 : smooth and funky jazz fusion, a great lineup.

Sea Level: One the Edge : 1978 : funky and musical jazz fusion, wow!

The Beau Brummels : Bradley’s Barn : 1968: early San Fran folk Rock

Ron Elliott: The Candelstickmalker : 1969 : only sole effort of Beau Brummels member : Dark and musical

Poi Dog Pondering : Pomegranite : 1995 : sonically interesting and intense release from the Austin-based musical "family’ that featured Frank Orall


Heatmiser - Mic City Sons (Eliot Smith's former band)

Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister (pure low-key R&R pleasure)

A Man Called E  (Eels frontman - prior to)
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Elf by Elf all three of there albums are good.
Robert Johnson Close Personal Friend
A Texas band Baby on Lone Star Records
URSA Major is also good 
Willie basse (Black Sheep) “Trouble in the streets LP. 

 Good rock/hard rock album!  
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BAND; JAPAN
ALBUM; TIN DRUM
FAVORITE SONGS;
STILL LIFE IN MOBILE HOMES
CANTON
CANTONESE BOY
ART OF PARTIES
TALKING DRUM
VISIONS OF CHINA

REASONS; PERCUSSIVE INSTRUMENTS.
 RECORDED ROOM  ACOUSTICS.
SIMPLE PLACEMENT.
PLACEMENT OF INSTRUMENTS; YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SEE THE DRUMMER AND HOW FAR OR NEAR HE IS...
AS WELL AS THE SINGER AND THE ECHOES OFF OF THE WALLS.
PERCISSIVE QUALITIES OF EACH STRIKE PARTICULARLY THE DRUMS YOU CAN HEAR THE SKIN.. 
INSTRUMENTS;BIANZHONG / STONE QING  / JIANGU /   YUE GONG / LARGE SYMBOLS / SET GONGS / CLAPPERS / YUNLUO.

YOU MIGHT FIND THIS MUSIC UNAPPLEALING BUT THE ACOUSTICS ARE UNMISTAKABLE.
I BELIEVE ALL THE SOUNDS OF THE PERCUSSIONS ARE NATURAL
.AT LEAST I CAN HEAR THE ROOM THAT IT WAS RECORDED IN.

Classical - Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, 1973 recording by Andre Previn and the London Symphony, Angel

Rock - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (maybe not so obscure anymore?)
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An excellent live album from an underappreciated musician: 
Taj Mahal - The Real Thing
Gabor Szabo Mizrab
John Abercrombie Timeless
Wipers Is This Real
Gene Clark White Light (seconding previous mention)
Judee Sill euphonious 
Hard to narrow down without repeating. +1 on Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane
Also
Amon Duul II - Dance of the Lemmings
The Freeborne - S/T - 
Circus 2000 - S/T
The Gerbils - 2nd
The Treniers - I only have the 78’s but I think they were brought together on an album in the 60’s - 
Gonna emphatically second Al Stewart's "Past Present and Future" and Graham Parker's "Squeezing Out Sparks".
To many these won't be obscure but these came to mind. "Hats" by  The Blue Nile along with other offerings by them. "The Duhks" by The Ducks. Can't recommend these more highly.
@hbarrel  - Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express -  “Closer to it” is a GREAT album. Have loved it since I first heard his version of "Inner City Blues" back in the '70s and bought the album (I still have that original). A classic IMHO.
"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
Jim Carroll - "Catholic Boy"
Shoes - "Present Tense" & "Stolen Wishes"
Sidewinders - "Auntie Ramos' Pool Hall
“Closer to it” Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express 

Showing my age with this one.
bdp24 and edcynI too used to live near there. In the Valley, near Disney studios (who I worked for). Small world.
Didn't know Emitt died.
I'll throw one more band out there, Sneaker Pimps, kind of Punk mystical.

Elysian Fields “Bleed Your Cedar”

Jason Molina “Songs:Ohia”

Caamp “Caamp”

The Cruel Sea “Where’s the Smoke”

Dead Man Winter “Wolves”

@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. ;-)

Maryann faithful Blazing Away live album has a fantastic band and I had some very emotional singing here. Wonderful fun 
The Spring Standards - Yellow/Gold 
The best band not many know! Cheers,
Spencer
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."
Michael Stanley-“Friends & Legends”
Ozark Mountain Daredevils-“It’ll Shine When It Shines”
Rare Earth-“Get Ready”
William Topley-“Black River”
Pousette-Dart Band-“Amnesia”
Gram Parsons-“Grievous Angel”
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.  
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.
Esther Satterfield :) you can only find her on used vinyl but she has sang with Chuck Mangione. Beautiful voice and talent that disappeared. 
Yeah, Frank Zappa... Such clean recordings, true genius. Anything Direct to Disc just for the sound QUALITY!
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.