An album you wish more people knew about

Stereolab - Sound Dust (2001)

List your's......

 

Doris Duke I'm a Loser (1969)

 

is it the Beatles version?

 

So many...but here's one:

Harold Land - Choma (Burn)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0qFWZYfI0

People who have heard of Harold Land usually know him only for his work with Clifford Brown in the 50s...this album is a far cry from that and is for lovers of 1970s funky/free/cosmic/soul/jazz/groove/whatever-you-wanna-call-it.

In fact, check my "Harold Land appreciation thread"...link in signature below.

 

Doesn't have a title track.

 

Since 1971...

 

Colin James Hay - Looking For Jack

 

Heron - Heron (1970)



Maureeny Wishfull - The Maureeny Wishfull Album (1968)

 

wasn't Homer saluting Slayer, and someone photoshopped Govt Mule?
just sayin'......perfectly fine

 

("Live Johnny Winter And") - Hell Yeah!!

 

Here's another...

The Amazing - Gentle Stream



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3uwTBjPjI

Incredible mellow psych band from Sweden. Found out about them right here on this forum, but still don't see much about them at all. Well worth checking out.

 

actually both are probably photoshopped....he was saluting Smashing Pumpkins or Cypress Hill!

 

Los Vidrios Quebrados - Fictions (1967)

Happy Stars - Punk 'n Soul: Ballad of the Electric Sheep (1999)

 

Ask Warren...I got it from him.

 

Could care less if more people knew about any record I love.

Their loss.

 

Oh man, that's a great one.

I wish more people knew every Waterboys album, but I think the world would be a better place if more people could at least hear Chief Waterboy Mike Scott's beautiful first solo album.

 

Jane Kelly Williams - Tapping the Wheel

 

Another vote for Heron - actually for both of their albums. What great music!

 

Another Stereolab album. An even more obscure album by an already obscure band - Aluminum Tunes. A fascinating and sprawling two hour journey.

 

Michael Brook-Cobalt Blue.

 

Okay, I know this is my 3rd pick, but I can't believe I almost forgot this:

Francis Dunnery - Let's Go Do What Happens



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgoODettps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSvSpgxjeSA

This would definitely appeal to a lot of people here...do yourself a favor and check out the YouTube clips. This CD didn't leave my player for about a year when it came out. Can't believe more people don't know about this album. Absolutely brilliant.

 

Well, I came across them via fairly favourable to very high ratings on RYM, but I rarely see them, or in many cases their artist for that matter, discussed, and they're the kind that cause me to think "I just can't believe so many people are missing out on all this great music":

Any of Brian Eno's 70s albums
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Faust - IV
Wire - 154
Doves - Lost Souls
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Madvillain - Madvillainy
PJ Harvey - White Chalk (completely overshadowed by most of her 90s albums, Stories from the City etc and Let England Shake)
Muse - HAARP - their studio albums (notably Absolution and Origin of Symmetry) get talked about enough, but very rarely this one, which shows just how much a force Muse were on stage
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Joanna Newsom - her first and last albums

And much of Chick Corea's ECM work definitely warrants more attention, particularly his more classical stuff for solo/chamber ensembles, such as the Children's Songs, Septet (for French horn, flute, piano and string quartet) and especially the beautiful Lyric Suite for Sextet with Gary Burton.

 

Inara George - All Rise

For me, this is better than any of the Bird And The Bee albums.

 

"Let Her Dance" alone, is worth owning this record. IFTL is here and so is "Julie" which could have been a smash.