An album you wish more people knew about

Here's a song that shares a name with a band featured above.

From their 1987 LP If You Want to Defeat Your Enemy, Sing His Song, in my opinion the best track on the LP Sweet Thursday, by the Icicle Works:

 

Doll by Doll - s/t
A Band Called O (or The O Band) - The Knife

 

Snarky Puppy - Sylva

(I know it won a Grammy but it's still not widely known)

 

Popol Vuh - Affenstunde

Ambient/electronica from 1970. Can be regarded as one of the earliest examples of 'space music'. Also early use of the Moog synthesizer.

 

Wino & Conny Ochs-Heavy Kingdom(a track from it above), such a fantastic record, I wish more people were aware of it. Also Wino's solo record Adrift is great. Both records hold up to many repeated listenings, I know, I have played them to death. Wino and Conny's second record Freedom Conspiracy is also good, but I don't think it stands up to Heavy Kingdom. All worth having.

 

Wes Tucker and the Skillets: The Scorpion and the Dove

Great song writing, well recorded and excellent musicians. Folk rock is how I would describe it, if I had to.



♫ The Scorpion and the Dove - Wes Tucker & The Skillets. Listen @cdbaby

 

Any and every album by Lights Out Asia.

 

The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built



In addition to the great songs How You Like Me Now? (used in commercials) and Short Change Hero (used in video games and TV shows, like the main theme in Cinemax's Strike Back) the whole album is great. Forget that Kia used How You Like Me Now? ...it's a great song on a great album. Oh, and the rest of their albums are fantastic, too. Awesome live band...saw them twice. When they were on Late Night, Dave Letterman asked them back for an encore.

 

The Four Horsemen ~ Nobody Said It Was Easy. Kick a** rock album that is both hard hitting and impactful. Sadly, they never caught the main stream and their subsequent albums never got any traction

 

Under The Red Sky by Bob Dylan springs to mind: underrated songs with a pretty good production - better than Knocked Out Loaded, Empire Burlesque, etc from the 1980s.