Who Is The Most Obscure Artist You Listen To?

Especially his computer music!

 

His Orchestra music has only recently been properly recorded—equally amazing.

 

I have about 6 CDs in total. Chamber music, full orchestra and of course his computer music. In fact come to think of it I found a vinyl LP of Xenakis also recently. I like all of it.

 

Ours/Jimmy Gnecco. They had a hit back around 2000/2001 that really got me interested, and I've been buying their music even since even though they've lost their label.

 

Probably Ostad Elahi. It seems he was a mystic/lawyer from northwestern Iran that was known to play really long instrumentals on his stringed instruments. I have a posthumous album from 1996 released on a French label. It consists of four solos recorded straight onto a reel-to-reel in Tehran in the period 1964-1972.

 

Rumps Werton

 

very surprised to see Jonathan Richman or the Undertones listed as "obscure"
they are mainstream to me
some "obscure bands " i was listening to recently included The Hitmen, Len Bright Combo, Bambi Molesters, The Thanes, Interstellar Villains or Lord high Fixers

 

Mallard.

But I definitely should check Bambi Molesters, I love their bandname.

 

All three bands were high profile in Ireland for quite a while, and there is still quite a lot of material available on CD.

 

Diesel park West
Cotton Mather
Gabe Dixon
Eugene Edwards
Lowen and Navarro
The Toms

 

I think the number of last.fm listeners is a good indication. We have one clear winner:

Vanessa Peters (837 last.fm listeners)
Tineke Postma (2,288 last.fm listeners)
Willis Alan Ramsey (2,483 last.fm listeners)
Krista Detor (2,496 last.fm listeners)
Diesel Park West (2,560 last.fm listeners)

 

this is probably my best response, too -- I listen to a lot bands more "obscure," and Bailter Space were pretty big in their native NZ, but I think they're one of the best of all time.

maybe I should also include the Wipers, who I know many people already like but who I think are one of the great rock bands.

 

I will have to ask the representative of Corwood Industries.

 

True, but here in the States, they're nobodies. SH may have had a minor college radio hit here but the other two never did.

 

I don't want to disregard any artist as "obscure" but there are quite many who I cannot expect to be household names (yet or just yet or ever) amongst my CD collection

Maata Haari (disbanded in 2004 or 05)
Frank Morgan (the folk singer /painter, not the jazz musician)
Kirstin Candy (pianist / singer / songwriter from California; I'm eagerly awaiting her next album but maybe she has quit recording new music?)
Indio (Gordon Peterson from Canada, and his lone album)
Mary Cutrufello (the stratocaster lady who went from being signed with Mercury Records to supporting her art as a FedEx driver)
Nathaniel Street-West (young blues great who is highly regarded amongst the LA studio musician scene but also suffers from a chronic illness)
Quiet City (the one album project of drummer Nigel Thomas)
Teye (the flamenco guitarist from the Netherlands who played on a few Joe Ely albums)
Ned Albright (co-writer of some Monkees songs; yes he has a solo career of some sort)
Noir (the duo of Sailor's Georg Kajanus and Tik and Tok's Tim Dry)
Gary Stier (former singer of the precursor of Blackberry Smoke, Buffalo Nickel)

Not obscure enough? I hope so because I wish all of these great artists and writers the best of success.

 

I don't think the Who are so obscure

 

Pat McCurdy.

 

Tonio K

 

Nothing super-obscure jumps to mind (not to these boards anyway)...but:

Imelda May
Eleven Hundred Springs
Wayne Hancock
Secret Sisters
N.R.B.Q. - The world's most famous obscurity. And speaking of World Famous...
World Famous Headliners

 

Great stuff here. I'm happy for Eugene landing a spot in Dwight Yoakam's band, but I sure wish he'd put out another album. IMO, one of the very few great power pop releases of the last decade.

 

The Nastys
The Genders
Hypnolovewheel
Hatful of Rain
Sutrobath
Stars of Stage and Screen
Giant Drag

 

I don't go very obscure, but these four are more on the fringe of fame for what I listen to most:

The Muggs
Gloritone
John Otway and Wild Willie Barrett
Lovehammers

 

Vapour Trails

One-off pop album from '79, sounding like a Bee Gees/Steely Dan cross...

 

Love this topic!

Tonto's Expanding Headband
Damnation of Adam Blessing
Max Webster (well, not obscure in Canada, but almost everywhere else)
Keef Hartley Band
Touch (lots of bands name Touch--I like the late 1960s band with Don Gallucci)
Whirling Dervishes
CCS
Jade Warrior
Crack the Sky

 

How about this one:

Nightmare Alley, Moose and Squirrell Must Die

http://www.discogs.com/Nightmare-Alley-Moose-And-Squirrell-Must-Die/release/2729621

Bought it on the street from the artists in NYC some time in I think 1982. Never knew what came of the band. Was surprised to find an entry for it in Discogs. Nice little punk/pop EP.

L.