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07 May 2008

Have you heard? →[More:]The rules are simple: post a link (either youtube or, uh, you know) to a song that you think most of us won't have heard before. (Preferably a song that you actually like, rather than obscurity for obscurity's sake.)

Here's your starter: the late Irish blues rocker Rory Gallagher's "Brute Force & Ignorance".

post by: bmarkey at: 22:03 | 24 comments

My friend, Jeremy Mix.

posted by LoriFLA 07 May | 22:15

Ah...Hombres G

Marca tiene un marcapasos

posted by Stewriffic 07 May | 22:15

Tom Robinson - Grey Cortina. I love it, but most of you won't understand a word.

posted by dg 07 May | 22:31

How could I forget? My lovely neighbors and friends (lead singer and keyboardist).

posted by LoriFLA 07 May | 22:36

This is a brilliant idea, bmarkey.. I hope this'll become a recurring (just every so often) thread.

Here's an old favorite that I've been playing a lot lately, "Tesla Girls" by OMD. It sounds like Cole Porter as written by a big 1960s mainframe computer, with spinning tape reels and typewriter keys rattling along with the plastic horns and sampled voices. It came out in 1984, but it wasn't really new wave... I don't know what you'd call it except "pop" in the classic sense. It's a longtime favorite, though.

Lori, I like Jeremy Mix so far, even though his MySpace page is a wreck in my Firefox.

posted by BoringPostcards 07 May | 22:41

Peter Brotzmann, William Parker and Hamid Drake - Never Run But Go, pt. 3

posted by box 07 May | 22:45

Love Affair - Rainbow Valley. Great '60's power pop.

posted by jonmc 07 May | 22:45

Some of you have probably heard Sky Cries Mary, but I'm betting a lot of you haven't.

I know nobody outside of Seattle has heard All Time High. (Disclaimer: I know steb, the bass player.) I'm pleased to see that they've finished an album. Woo hoo! More stoner rock, please.

On preview: hey, it seemed like a good idea.

posted by bmarkey 07 May | 22:47

(I am a fan of Sky Cries Mary, though I haven't heard from them in eons)

posted by BoringPostcards 07 May | 22:49

Yeah, they put something out just recently. (Science Girl went to school with Roderick way back when and saw the performance art piece that started the band.)

posted by bmarkey 07 May | 22:52

Mines a bit left-field, I think. I love the movie Liquid Sky. A friend and I love the track Me And My Rhythmbox. It brings back great memories of clubbing in NYC. We sing the tune at the top of our lungs.

posted by MonkeyButter 07 May | 22:56

I'm not sure what people are hearing in the U.S., but I'll give it a go... A couple of nice uptempo things:

1 Giant Leap, Braided Hair (with Neneh Cherry)

Pinker Tones - Love Tape

Nice for the morning listening, which is what I'm doing now.

and, are you guys stateside hearing Duffy - "Mercy" [youtube]? Big earworm here, and in the UK, I know. I love the dancing guys in the video. ah. I see it has like 8,000,000 views, so I'm guessing you know it.

posted by taz 08 May | 00:06

Critters Buggin Mounta Blasta. Seattle psycho jazz.
The Octopus Project Truck.
Mindless Self Indulgence Shut Me Up. Just some fun head bobbing quasi speed metal.

posted by doctor_negative 08 May | 00:19

Funny, I did this already, went back to my post and YouTube'd set all the links were to private posts!? What the hell. Nobody commented, so perhaps no one saw it? Who knows.
So, again, a 60's rock & roll group from The Hague featuring members of Indonesian and Surinamese origin.
The Crazy Rockers - The Carioca. Friend of mine found this and got me interested, as the guitar work is something else. Ladies - dig that smoldering look at 1:09.
The Third Man.
Mama Papa Twist. Maybe he's not really playing drums in this one, but he's got the moves down.
As I said before; these cats are go!

posted by Zack_Replica 08 May | 01:21

The Tragically Hip - Born in the Water a song about my home town.

posted by arse_hat 08 May | 01:34

El fallo positivo from Mecano. One of the most important AIDS songs of the 90s.

posted by Wilder 08 May | 03:14

I'm in Latvia, so I have no clue if these are already popular in real countries.

Mayra Andrade's Lua. She's from Cape Verde, which I would LOVE to visit.

Alphabeat's Fascination. This song will make you bounce off the walls and is getting a lot of play on MTV Baltic. The "the word is on your lips" breakdown thing is my favorite thing in music right now.

posted by mdonley 08 May | 04:45

Ah - a little Wikiresearch shows me that Alphabeat is from Denmark, so I'll assume our Stateside bunnies probably haven't been fascinated yet. They'll be playing the Roskilde festival this summer.

posted by mdonley 08 May | 04:47

taz, Mercy was a free download a couple months ago on iTunes. And essexjan introduced us to it. I love this song. I walk to it all the time. But I probably wouldn't have known it if it weren't for essexjan.

posted by LoriFLA 08 May | 06:54

Phoenix, AZ band Turning Point

Spain
Estrella
Thanatopsis
Hot 'N Spicy

posted by netbros 08 May | 07:36

The Passions - I'm In Love With A German Film Star.

posted by essexjan 08 May | 11:47

Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (NSFW version by John Valby).

posted by Doohickie 08 May | 21:24

Another NSFW.... Joy to the World

posted by Doohickie 08 May | 21:31

I was never a big Smoking Popes fan, but their supposedly imminent reunion album supposedly opens with "Welcome to Janesville", a sort of tale of Midwestern demi-urban angst named after my hometown.* As at least one of the Popes is from Grayslake, a stone's throw across the state line, I'm pretty sure it's my Janesville that's intended.

In its own way fits together with another favorite obscurity from Peoria band The Forecast, "These Lights".

* Although I can claim Chicago birth, so there.

posted by stilicho 08 May | 23:04

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