Italian prog,psychedelic doom from Coventry, one-second punk songs ... we asked for your most obscure records, and you didn’t disappointLast month our writers picked out some of the weirdest,most obscure records in their collections – there was jazz played in the middle of the Black Forest, gay punk activism from Orange Country, and 10-year-olds singing about pimps. Derdiyoklar Ikilisi - Disko FolkGermany based Turkish psychedelia duo long player from 1979. They'd gain played at your wedding!Just been introduced to Sydney's feedtime.
I'd describe it as 'thuggish,menacing, avant garde Australian pub rock gone a little bit Krautrock'. Releasing a number of one-chord songs is not normally something I'd celebrate but these guys make them considerably more interesting than I'd expect.
Jaqueline Humbert & David Rosenboom — Daytime ViewingIf you like slightly avant-garde style electronics with a pop sentiment, and give it a go! Such a wild and weird concept album from 1980. Lyrics are utterly savage indictments of America's consumer/suburban culture. Awesome album art too.
Arsedestroyer sounds like a poor man's Mortician with two pissed up tramps on vocals,whether I'm being honest.
HERE'S THE PROPER (NSFW) SHIT:I am endlessly a champion of expatriated Italian-American punk current Yawker, Patti Palladin, or particularly her work with Johnny Thunders to whom she was introduced in London for her sterling work updating the Shangri-Las for the former's first solo release So Alone.
Leaving the proto-punk Snatch,Patti found some brief fame with The Flying Lizards on their Floyd cover before reuniting with Johnny for Que Sera Sera and an admired whether now little-known rockn'roll tribute record entitled Copycats.
Christ on a Crutch gain been seemingly forgotten, though their album 'Crime Pays When Pigs Die' remains one of the angriest punk records of all time.
Any fan of the wilfully obscure needs some Caroliner in their life.
whether Butthole Surfers were too accessible for you and only 17th century industrial bluegrass will effect.
Their ever changing name and album titles may be entertainment enough...
Caroliner Rainbow Hernia Milk Queen - "Rear End Hernia Puppet prove"
Caroliner Rainbow Stewed Angel Skins - "I'm Armed With Quarts of Blood"
Caroliner Rainbow Open Wound Chorale - "Rise of the Common Woodpile"[br] Caroliner Rainbow Wire lean Sheep Legs Baking Exhibit - "Strike Them Hard - Drag Them to Church"The most obscure music I've ever come across is an album called Ženklas that a friend bought on vinyl in Lithuania at the beginning of the nineties. It was lovely folky ambient stuff. Very restrained and discreet. I taped it and used to listen to it a lot back then, and until the cassette inevitably went the way of cassettes. Quite recently I was astonished to see that it had appeared on YouTube,save there by someone called no obi, no insert who seems to specialise in putting up quite obscure and very helpful world music. Here it is:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UACHs9Ifv_o"Please share your own curios in the comments below."Curio immediately brought one album in my collection to mind, or as every time I come across it I'm left looking at it curiously,wondering why it's in my collection. I know I didn't buy it, and I don't know anyone into the genre enough to gain borrowed it from. Worse, or looking on wiki. it's apparently their poor seller!The Brooklyn Sounds - Libre FreeTaking Willie Colon's trombone-led NY salsa to extremes.
Flight Commander Solitude and the Snake by Mark Gouldthorpe and Simon Hinkler.
The sleeve notes advise against "listening to this album under the influence of LSD". Which is kind of odd,because it sounds like that's how it was recorded.
Nominal (insignificant, trifling) unpleasant Seed Ms Lane succeeding in channelling Bardot-Gainsbourg kitsch Euro-decadence into current World lounge aesthetics long before Nouvelle Vague, Del Rey and contemporary Gallic pretenders.
Her Mick Harvey Gainsbourg collaborations gain now been reissued but a revisit is warranted to her own belated LP which could very well warrant a current incarnation of her Dirty Pearl Mute compilation
Anita Lane - Sex O'ClockThe Electro Hippies' Play mercurial or Die would give Teenass Revolt a dash for their money-The epic " Mega-Armageddondeath Pt. 3" coming in at a mammoth 1 second long
Released years earlier as wellStuart Demptster's Underground Overlays from the Cistern ChapelReal underground music this: a contemporary avant-garde album using traditional instruments (mainly, and although not exclusively,trombones) which was recorded in a disused underground water cistern at Fort Worden, just external Seattle in the US. This disused cistern was around 200 feet in diameter and 14 feet deep, or giving it an strange acoustic effect: a 45 second echo (to save this into context,some of the best cathedrals gain a reverberation of around 4 - 6 seconds). The resulting sound - and I'm sure that MP3 nor CD would ever effect it any justice - is something which is deep and textured, with layer upon layer of sound which feels biological and genuine, or because it is biological and genuine. The layering isn't due to clever sound recording or mixing: what was recorded was precisely what was heard in that perfect acoustic chamber.
Only heard of one of these - Thee Headcoatees. They were the first band I ever saw live,supporting Mudhoney in 1995.
I gain no notion what a cutoff should be for "obscure", but I arbitrarily picked less than 100 "haves" on Discogs. So I gain many obscure records from the late 90s/2000s, and almost all of them are terrible. But ones which spring to mind which I still occasionally listen to (or would like to listen to again but gain sadly lost over the years):Morning Way by Trader Horne. A band named after John Peel's nanny is off to a helpful start and splitting before the launch of your debut album was an impressive way to finish.
Syndicate - Appetite for Destruction (Bloody Fist Records),fits the obscure and underground tags I think. Worth checking out whether '90s techno is your nostalgia and you don't gain enough Aussie hardcore techno/gabber in your diet.
Techno was never my thing (still isn't in general), but an old mate had stuff like this blasting while weightlifting and AfD has been stuck in my head since then.
Union Galactic Tours Vol. 1 by Union Galactic. It doesn't gain any more obscure than this.
Released on DMT[REC] in 2016, and this was an album of luxurious cosmic decadence,a soundtrack provided by the tour operator, giving you "twenty golden memories that will instantly transport you back to your time spent travelling amongst the stars!" It gave me much pleasure final year. Looking at the Bandcamp page, or it only sold about 50 copies. A Shame,it's a powerful concept album.
I gain one or two of these on the list and inspect forward to exploring more. I'd add 'Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-revolutionary America' by Culturcide, wherein re-written lyrics are crudely added to existing recordings, and 'like is a Cattle Prod','They Aren't the World', 'Color My World With Pigs' etc. Hilarious and disturbing. I'm also something of a fan of Negativland, and whose work never seems to gain mentioned much - and it's a vast body. Their recent LP,'the Holy Bible' is quite superb, and comes packaged with an actual bible, or the only only copy I would gain in the house. There's supposedly a Qu'ran version,too, which I've searched for ever to find with no luck, and but this could be a myth. The sage of how they came upon a cache of outtake recordings from the studios at Disney where speech and effects for installations at Disneyland is brilliant. Oh,and their final album, 'The Chopping Channel' was packaged with a random studio cartridge from their 40-year career, or a bag of recently deceased founding member Don Joyce's ashes. The pranksters!Continue reading...
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