Is there an obscure band, musician, song that you love? Share with us. Post it on this thread..

Solstafir... Moody, atmospheric, slightly doomy metal from Iceland with lyrics in Icelandic. Otta is a beautiful album. Pick any track, but I'll offer up...

 

jason falkner - another mid nineties elektra fumble

 

Songs, I got hundreds of 'em!

Here's an obscure yet brilliant Canadian effort from 1970 -

Mingles, I'm Gonna Miss You:

 

Tift Merritt - Tambourine
Americana, Country Folk, Alternative Country

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF4YrUiRI-Y - Write My Ticket

 

I've found loads of obscure tracks, especially from the '60s, on YouTube over the past 10-12 years.

Here's a melancholy one produced by David Gates -

Margaret Mandolph, I Wanna Make You Happy:

 

One more... Mykur. Danish melodic / atmospheric black metal. Amelie Braun can sound angelic and demonic in the same song. Can't go wrong with Mykur, but might as well start with "Skøgen skulle dø," the first track from her first album...

 

No longer together, but 20 years ago I was just blown away by this band.

 

1960s psych fun

 

A wonderful B-side (to Two in the Afternoon) from '67 -

Dino, Desi and Billy, Good Luck, Best Wishes to You:

 

Private press 1972 personal project weirdness

 

Any musician that can write a song called Percy Faith, and can reference artists like Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap and Lacy J. Dalton in his video, might be worth checking out. The Horizon Just Laughed got rave reviews from critics when it came out in 2018, but this song and video is pretty hard to get out of your head once you hear and see them. It has a bit of nostalgia to it, and even some biblical references, but I find it strangely hypnotic.

 

Rosie Thomas, "Much Farther to Go." Haunting and beautiful.

 

Great idea for a thread! Here's one I like. I don't know how obscure it is but I do enjoy it:

 

Lizzie Miles - A Good Man is Hard to Find

 

Wow this is really good. The type of melancholy The Avalanches have made a career out of sampling. And that's high praise

 

The Aerovons-World of You

 

One eskimO cover of Neil Halstead's Hi-Lo And Inbetween

 

Not just that song - the entire Annunciation album is an overlooked classic.

 

This is Chuck Woolery's band. Although I have fond-ish memories of the counter-culture Haight-Ashbury "scene" from a distance (and at age twelve), I have never been there and none of the major songs of that era would induce me to go there. This one, loaded with moody San Francisco atmosphere, might -

Avant-Garde, Yellow Beads:

 

Tell Tale Tit - The Roulettes

 

Here’s A Heart - mid-60s soul classic by the oh-so obscure vocal group The Diplomats.

A dearly-departed friend turned me on to this song and I get chills whenever I hear it.

 

Probably lost in the shuffle of Beatlemania, this song borrows the staccato horns from Terry Stafford's #1 hit Suspicion for equally good use but unfortunately far less success -

Keith Colley, Welcome Home Baby:

 

It Was A Dark & Stormy Night - Five Iron Frenzy