Bands and songs that are really great but not many people here know about

for me its

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnbVp-M5Vw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6erl4_mEtg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKt0wVrfEVI

what are yours?

ah yeah that machinarium game has some great music in it

Aphex Twins - Come to daddy

Alphabet Backwards are a new band emerging from Oxford, ive seen them play in a couple of pubs and they are really great live. Kinda like Supergrass in a way but very happy vibes.

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Stornaway are another Oxfordshire band that are pretty good, getting some radio support now too. Kinda folky, mellow

Associates (up until and including Sulk)

Simple Minds (pre Sparkle In The Rain)

papertiger

Intelligent Dasein

DAISY CHAINSAW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ8pDt2Rdlc

SPACE STREAKINGS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZsan0t3os

TULSA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InUQcKMAnXo&feature=related

Nothing electronic but concerning guitar bands I would say Celtic Frost and Warrior Soul. Even my metal-head mates don't really know anything about them.

Also early Black Sabbath. Countless metal-heads I know don't know anything but Paranoid which in my eyes is heresy.

If your "metal head" friends don't know Celtic Frost, they are not metal heads.

  On 2/18/2010 at 4:21 PM, beerwolf said:

Nothing electronic but concerning guitar bands I would say Celtic Frost and Warrior Soul. Even my metal head mates don't really know anything about them.

I just started getting into Celtic Frost a few months back. To Mega Therion is incredible.

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do you like

Strange but true!

And yes To Mega Therion is brilliant. Most of their records are apart from Cold Lake.

Trs-80, Automatic Tasty

Durutti Column, anyone? My personal favourite group.

Sketch For Summer (1979):

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Opera (1989):

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gorky's zygotic mynci, although they are hit-and-miss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6yOcUfjO8

spanish dance troupe is an altogether perfect album

I dunno how many of you know them but I am rather quite a big fan of Stars of the Lid. Almost all of their shit is really good, but especially check out The Tired Sounds Of and The Ballasted Orchestra. Great albums, both.

easily 'the paper chase'. pretty much nobody i know has ever heard of these guys, but it's some of the most out-there, insanely genius music i've ever heard.

i'll admit it takes a little getting used to - at first, john congleton (the singer) seems to have no singing ability whatever, but for me, there's a genius to his lyrical and songwriting that is unmatched.

he claims a lot of roger waters influence, which is a bit evident, but the music is epic, with string arrangements, fantastically uncharacteristic production for this genre, tapeloop style stuff... just fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMwhrMA-jYo

there seems to be less of their stuff on youtube lately, but i can't recommend them enough.

  On 2/18/2010 at 5:35 PM, vproc said:

I dunno how many of you know them but I am rather quite a big fan of Stars of the Lid. Almost all of their shit is really good, but especially check out The Tired Sounds Of and The Ballasted Orchestra. Great albums, both.

i haven't liked what i've listened to of stars of the lid... it's just not for me i guess

dildo mania

google it

  On 2/18/2010 at 6:44 PM, maus said:

easily 'the paper chase'. pretty much nobody i know has ever heard of these guys, but it's some of the most out-there, insanely genius music i've ever heard.

 

i'll admit it takes a little getting used to - at first, john congleton (the singer) seems to have no singing ability whatever, but for me, there's a genius to his lyrical and songwriting that is unmatched.

 

he claims a lot of roger waters influence, which is a bit evident, but the music is epic, with string arrangements, fantastically uncharacteristic production for this genre, tapeloop style stuff... just fantastic.

I used to have God Bless Your Black Heart but I never got into it, so I got rid of it. Perhaps another album would be more to my liking, I don't know. The song you posted is not bad but wouldn't particularly motivate me to check them out, either. If I did want to, what album would you suggest?

Hyu, F.x. randomize, Lithops, Reformed Faction, Nommo Ogo, Dalglish, PXP, Terminal Sound System, Tomoroh Hidari

all electronic

i'm sure some people here are familiar with 2 Many DJs by the belgian Dewaele brothers, but other they are mainly in an alternative rockband called Soulwax, and in my opinion they have some good songs

(all dj's in the video are actual dj's picked out of the phonebook)

The Viennagram:

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  On 2/18/2010 at 11:59 PM, triachus said:

i'm sure some people here are familiar with 2 Many DJs by the belgian Dewaele brothers, but other they are mainly in an alternative rockband called Soulwax, and in my opinion they have some good songs

 

 

(all dj's in the video are actual dj's picked out of the phonebook)

Are you taking the piss? Theyre fucking massive.

British punk rock is sadly overlooked, even in Britain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9zUlqPSSk

  On 2/18/2010 at 11:29 PM, Awepittance said:

F.x. randomize

does this project have anything to do with mouse on mars?

smoke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaSLSCXOZLQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGE_LX5nO54&feature=related

soisong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdA_KA_JwA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJlDaZ7jmI&feature=related

I love Soisong! T-Hu Ri Toh is like nothing else ever.