[Closed] Best band/album no ones heard of before?

so when you say "no one", you mean "loads of people"?

I mean not exactly mainstream - cult - different

On all fours. by Stool

Great album, but nobody heard it because we didn't get signed.....

On all fours. by Stool

Just the name alone sounds fab I wanna hear it! Stool lol 😆

Delilah - Go

Sack - You Are What You Eat

This is alright...

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Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly. From a while back mind you.

Trick of the Night - Sixtoes
Have a listen to some of their Depeche Mode remixes - The Sinner in me is fantastic!

Mazzy Star are good.

If you're into a bit of techno, Vegas by The Crystal Method is a great album. Nobody I know has heard of them but you will have heard some of their music.

Townes Van Zandt Live at athe Old Quarter Houston

Aenima by Tool.

Great album.

Beefeater- House burning down.
Fantastic ' hardcore' album with soul and sax and bass slappin'

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The Beatles - Help!

Is there a prize, or is it not that sort of game yet?

You're going to have to try harder, I've heard of/got stuff by Neutral Milk Hotel, Mazzy Star, Townes Van Zandt, Tool.
[i]Eating February[/i], by Star 69 is a great album, the only one they did. Thrum are a great little band, Monica Queen, their singer, sounds a bit like Maria McKee, backed by Neil Young, actually Johnny Smillie. They formed in 1992, in Lanarkshire. Recorded an album in 1993, called [i]Rifferama[/i]. Broke up a bit later, and Monica went solo. I've just discovered, to my delight, that they got back together in 2011, and have an album in iTunes! I will be buying that very shortly.
Tiger were another terrific band, sort of post-punk, played drone guitars with only two or three strings, had a moderately successful album called [i]We Are Puppets[/i], and a final one called [i]Rosaria[/i].
Then there's The Violet Hour, The Julie Dolphin, 6 Day Riot, The Submarines, Sniff 'n' The Tears, Slingbacks, Drugstore, Linoleum, Sam Phillips, Redbird, Pony Up!, Oh Laura, Mulu, Monkey Swallows The Universe, Mechanical Bride... 😀

OK how about Songs on the Radio by The Geezers of Nazareth?

Liking Mazzy Star - cheers guys

Ghosts, by Nakatomi Plaza.

Sona Fariq- Sona Fariq. B-team One Minute Silence basically, but brilliant live.

Nobody else seems to remember the Slingbacks. Brilliant band, wouldn't be summer for me without a bit of All Pop No Star. And also I had a massive crush on the singer

Saw Thrum in I think 13th Note back in the day.

Band I enjoyed was called The Smiles, superb live, big sound, quirky, all dressed in crushed velvet, some cracking tunes. They got signed and the stylists got to work, stripped their personalities out, and dumbed down the sound, real shame. Think they only has 1 single.....

Not exactly unheard of but I love Cosmo Jarvis. Akira The Don is good too.

Don't know how well known these are in Britain..

Rammstein - Herzeleid

Or their second album Mutter.

Saw them in Braunschweig at the beginning of their career Probs 100 people turns up..now they fill stadiums.

An American friend of mine took me to see The Reverend Horton Heat in Oxford. Fantastic Psychobilly.

Dimestore Haloes - Thrill City Crime Control

tymbian - Member

Don't know how well known these are in Britain..

Rammstein

They're headlining Download this year with Iron Maiden and Slipknot. The good news is, you're not a hipster 🙂

The Geezers of Nazareth is a great name

Guffy Trousers - The Sound of Trumpets.

Their third album "Is that a Quacking Duck?" is also a gem.

Anything and everything by the super furry animals!

I'm going to post up Yellowhouse.

Cover's band my mate plays bass in (he may be along shortly if he sees this) but they are good and very entertaining.

Brakes - "Give Blood"

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super furry animals

Not exactly non-mainstream though are they?

'Aenima by Tool'

Which has sold 3.5 million copies in the US alone. No ones heard that then.

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Crippled Black Phoenix

The Advisory Circle....... If you like 70s ambient public information film type electronica...... Works for me though 🙂

Mando Diao. Love them, want 'Crystal' played at my funeral.

angeldust - Member
'Aenima by Tool'

Which has sold 3.5 million copies in the US alone. No ones heard that then.

I believe the OP was looking for something that wasn't mainstream. Yes they've sold sh*tloads in the US, but you'd be surprised of the amount of people who haven't heard of them over here.

you'd be surprised of the amount of people who haven't heard of them over here.

I've heard of Tool. Never heard anything [i]by[/i] them though

America Town - by Five for Fighting

Black Moth, for a bit of good old Black Country heavy rock.

I've heard of Tool and I've got this 🙂
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mikey74 - Member

Crippled Black Phoenix

Love this one... Think it was the Mogwai connection that led me to them probably.

mikey74 - Member
Crippled Black Phoenix

Love this one... Think it was the Mogwai connection that led me to them probably.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOU-LpNKonw

They are very good. I've seen them live a couple of times too. They seem to have lost their way on the new album though, although I'm not that familiar with it yet.

Resurrectionist is very good, as is I, Vigilante, and (Mankind) The Dirty Ape.

I like Moe and Umphreys McGee.

Well congratulations to all of those who *have* heard of Tool. You win 6 Internet Points each.

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And The Three Johns were supposed to be headlining a gig my mate put on in the 80s but pulled out at short notice.....

In an areoplane over the sea - by Neutral Milk Hotel
In some album charts its in the top 20 ever.....ever!
Fantastic band and album

I'd kinda agree. A good album. I saw them support Sparklehorse whilst touring for this album. The was a pretty good gig.

For me albums by Christie Front Drive, Mineral, Texas is the Reason and Cap'n Jazz still blow me away nearly 20 years later.

Texas is the Reason. Great band.

Drugstore and their eponymously titled album. A real gem of an album. Melancholy, dark, raw and melodic! Not too keen on much of their other stuff though.

Zero 7 - simple things. Although you will of never heard of the band, you WILL of heard most of the songs on the album.

chojin - Member

Well congratulations to all of those who *have* heard of Tool. You win 6 Internet Points each.

I've even seen them live. Well, I say live, Maynard spent the whole gig hiding up the back of the stage looking away from the audience. In his pants. As far as I could tell they were just playing the CD. It was like watching David Guetta except you weren't allowed to smile. Oh and the pants thing. How many points for that?

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
Vatican Shadow - Kneel before Religious Icons
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
Goat - World Music

Try them. Brilliant.

bjj.andy.w - Member

Zero 7 - simple things. [u]Although you will of never heard of the band, [/u]

Seriously?

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Thee Faction - War of Position - small socialist R & B (in the old sense of the phrase) band.

Earko - self titled debut (probably only available at the club night of the same name about 10 yrs ago...)

Bob L Sturm - music from the ocean

Eleh - Location momentum

USK Muusic is my girlfriend

Gas - Nah Und Fern

Jacaszek - Treny

MWVM - Rotations

Vladislav Delay - Demo(n) Tracks

You made them all up!

bjj.andy.w - Member
Zero 7 - simple things. Although you will of never heard of the band,
Seriously?

Alright, probably 😀

I've even seen them live. Well, I say live, Maynard spent the whole gig hiding up the back of the stage looking away from the audience. In his pants. As far as I could tell they were just playing the CD. It was like watching David Guetta except you weren't allowed to smile. Oh and the pants thing. How many points for that?

I'll allow an extra bonus point, for the pants though and nothing else.

The extra point now means that you're winning the internet! \o/

bjj.andy.w - Member

Alright, probably

They did have a song on the Garden State soundtrack, which won a Grammy award and such. Pretty underground 😆

You made them all up!

All but two of them are in my Itunes - can screen shot!

Garden State soundtrack

And totally unrelated this is pretty good too
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Mono - I remember when Mark and Lard played Life in Mono on Radio 1 back in the day when they did a lunchtime show, and (they said) got the engineer to turn the transmission over to mono.

http://www.myspace.com/sinestarproject

Although, I've heard of them 🙂

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On an opposite note - has anyone ever seen a Babyshambles CD? I mean in the wild, in a CD collection - not in the dusty bins of a closed down HMV...

Sleeping States - [url=

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Frustrating that he hasn't made much more music as he has one of the nicest [url=

I've heard and the album's great.

Sixtoes - Low Guns

Obscurity- there's a glasgow band called Dolby Anol. Now that's not that obscure- what's obscure is that they got their name after an Art Brut show in Edinburgh. Art Brut do a thing in their song We Formed A Band where Eddie Argos points out random members of the audience and orders them to form bands. You, you you and you, you're now The Angry Flock Of Odin. You and you, you're a brother/sister blues band called Brut Art.... And you, you, you and you- you're Dolby Anal.

As far as I know, this is the only time it's ever actually worked

Some stuff I like (that some of you may not have heard of):

Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun

That first HIFH album is so very very good. Hundred Reasons made a bit of a tactical error bringing them out on tour last year 😆

We're all Soft Pink Truth fans, aren't we?

I had tickets to see HIFH and HR in London.. ended up selling them as HR played a warm up gig at the Cavern in Exeter instead.. 200 capacity, was awesome.. I presume HIFH were good? gutted I missed them..

Best gig I've seen for years tbh! 100R were excellent (of course!) but I thought the setlist hampered them a bit, HIFH were absolutely as good as it gets I reckon. 100R felt like a fitting farewell, HIFH felt like they should go on and take on the world. Worth the trip from Edinburgh to London!

(I guess the "first album" thing flatters HIFH)