The best album you own that almost no one has heard

BF25394

This is sort of a companion to my post about the worst album I physically own. Proceeding through the Ms (see OP in "worst album" thread for further explanation if needed)-- today was Mad Season's Above-- tomorrow I will get to the album It's My Last Night by the band Maple, from 1995. I absolutely love this album but I don't think I own anything (other than CDs by friends' bands) more obscure. There is virtually no information about this band on the internet. Even the liner notes don't give the band members' full names. I think they''re from the Midwest somewhere, but I honestly don't know. On Discogs, a total of eight people have this album in their collections.

So, what's the best thing you own that practically no one else has heard? (And, if you know anything about Maple, do tell. Note: this is a different band than U.S. Maple.)

ZoSoTim

Jellyfish- Spilt Milk

ZoSoTim

Let me also add Ian Moore’s Got The Green Grass. 

Leezestarr313

Superwolf by Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney

Raw Love Songs by Conny Ochs

Feast of Wire by Calexico

La Llorona by Lhasa de Sela

BrainofBGA

Peeping Tom - Music Swop Shop (Not the Mike Patton Peeping Tom). Local Aussie band. Heavy grooves, bluesy, ballsy, Fu Manchu meets Kyuss. 

brianlux

BF25394 said:

This is sort of a companion to my post about the worst album I physically own. Proceeding through the Ms (see OP in "worst album" thread for further explanation if needed)-- today was Mad Season's Above-- tomorrow I will get to the album It's My Last Night by the band Maple, from 1995. I absolutely love this album but I don't think I own anything (other than CDs by friends' bands) more obscure. There is virtually no information about this band on the internet. Even the liner notes don't give the band members' full names. I think they''re from the Midwest somewhere, but I honestly don't know. On Discogs, a total of eight people have this album in their collections.

So, what's the best thing you own that practically no one else has heard? (And, if you know anything about Maple, do tell. Note: this is a different band than U.S. Maple.)

That Maple album- only eight others have it on Discogs- whoa!  That's a rarity.

Another cool thread, good job!

I'll go with:

Dimentia 13:  Mirror Mind      199 on Discogs have this

Spark 'n Cinder: self titled.  16  have it:

Pregnant: Regional Music    37 have it.

Terry Gibbs: A Jazz Band Ball (Second Set)     144 have it  

I thought this would be more rare but 2,916 have it!  Fifty Foot Hose: Cauldron:

tempo_n_groove

The Oh Sees Face Stabber.  What a great fucking album!

Marcy Playgrounds debut.  I love this album.  St Joe at the School bus should get more play.  I mean Poppies, Cloak of elvinkind, Dog and his Master, Vampires of NY are to me, all great songs...

tempo_n_groove

BrainofBGA said:

Peeping Tom - Music Swop Shop (Not the Mike Patton Peeping Tom). Local Aussie band. Heavy grooves, bluesy, ballsy, Fu Manchu meets Kyuss. 

THIS sounds friggin awesome.

Tim Simmons

State Champion - Stale Champagne


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=benJzCkgqVg&list=OLAK5uy_n9sMIMpse_pLZ4i1_m5yiymeNfFPpGLU8&ab_channel=StateChampion-Topic

Spiritual_Chaos

brianlux

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Riot Act?  Never heard of it.            

Yeah, one of my very favorite PJ albums as well!

Ledbetterman10

I had a two-disc “Jimmy Page collection” that was a collection of songs he was a session guitarist on pre-Yardbirds. 

HughFreakingDillon

https://www.discogs.com/master/245908-The-Pack-ad-We-Kill-Computers

discovered this Canadian female duo from the now-defunct iTunes Free Track of the Week. Very White Stripes-y. Their first two records are VERY bluesy, but this one they went a tad heavier, while still retaining that blues sound. I go see them live every chance I get. Me and their other 20 fans in Winnipeg. LOL

mvw

I get asked about this one a lot, but I don’t think it’s that rare.  I just think not a lot of people know of it.  MFC sounds incredible!

Gern Blansten

https://hbshepherd.bandcamp.com/album/in-deep-owl



Solo album from Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden bassist)....great fucking album

HughFreakingDillon

that is indeed a great one gern. 

Gern Blansten

HughFreakingDillon said:

that is indeed a great one gern. 

I need to get it back out....it's been awhile

BF25394

brianlux said:

BF25394 said:

This is sort of a companion to my post about the worst album I physically own. Proceeding through the Ms (see OP in "worst album" thread for further explanation if needed)-- today was Mad Season's Above-- tomorrow I will get to the album It's My Last Night by the band Maple, from 1995. I absolutely love this album but I don't think I own anything (other than CDs by friends' bands) more obscure. There is virtually no information about this band on the internet. Even the liner notes don't give the band members' full names. I think they''re from the Midwest somewhere, but I honestly don't know. On Discogs, a total of eight people have this album in their collections.

So, what's the best thing you own that practically no one else has heard? (And, if you know anything about Maple, do tell. Note: this is a different band than U.S. Maple.)

That Maple album- only eight others have it on Discogs- whoa!  That's a rarity.

Another cool thread, good job!

Even better-- I'm one of the eight, so it's only seven others. And one of the seven is trying to sell it!

mfc2006

Heartless Bastards - All This Time

BF25394

tempo_n_groove said:

The Oh Sees Face Stabber.  What a great fucking album!

Marcy Playgrounds debut.  I love this album.  St Joe at the School bus should get more play.  I mean Poppies, Cloak of elvinkind, Dog and his Master, Vampires of NY are to me, all great songs...

So I used to do a weekly list of my 20 favorite (current songs). "Saint Joe on the School Bus" peaked at No. 2 for two weeks on that chart and, on the year-end chart for 1998, was all the way up at No. 12. (Three of the top five that year of Yield were Pearl Jam songs. To be eligible, a song had to be a single receiving radio or MTV airplay, so the other album tracks weren't eligible.)

JeBurkhardt

Nice capturing of a small part of the music scene in the South Bay back in my youth. 

brianlux

BF25394 said:

brianlux said:

BF25394 said:

This is sort of a companion to my post about the worst album I physically own. Proceeding through the Ms (see OP in "worst album" thread for further explanation if needed)-- today was Mad Season's Above-- tomorrow I will get to the album It's My Last Night by the band Maple, from 1995. I absolutely love this album but I don't think I own anything (other than CDs by friends' bands) more obscure. There is virtually no information about this band on the internet. Even the liner notes don't give the band members' full names. I think they''re from the Midwest somewhere, but I honestly don't know. On Discogs, a total of eight people have this album in their collections.

So, what's the best thing you own that practically no one else has heard? (And, if you know anything about Maple, do tell. Note: this is a different band than U.S. Maple.)

That Maple album- only eight others have it on Discogs- whoa!  That's a rarity.

Another cool thread, good job!

Even better-- I'm one of the eight, so it's only seven others. And one of the seven is trying to sell it!

That's one tiny club your in there!  Kinda cool, really. 

brianlux

Almost forgot about this one, maybe the best of the obscure LPs I have, and one of the coolest covers ever:

And this one too, another cool LP"

Session (7) Featuring Azeem* – Tribute To Bob Marley

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Label:	M. AL's – MLP 728
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1981
Genre:	Reggae

GB281198

mfc2006 said:

Heartless Bastards - All This Time

Stairs and Elevators is great as well 

pjl44

White Lighter by Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons if he hadn't turned out to be a sex creep

So probably Jesus Let Me Down by Slim Cessna's Auto Club

Jupiter by Cave In if we're a little looser on "no one"

brianlux

OK, one more and the I promise, this is it.  I just didn't know this was not more common:

The Replacements – Don't Sell Or Buy, It's Crap.

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Label:	Sire – PRO-A-4632
Format:	Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Promo
Country:	US
Released:	1991
Genre:	Rock

1ThoughtKnown

BrainofBGA

tempo_n_groove said:

BrainofBGA said:

Peeping Tom - Music Swop Shop (Not the Mike Patton Peeping Tom). Local Aussie band. Heavy grooves, bluesy, ballsy, Fu Manchu meets Kyuss. 

THIS sounds friggin awesome.

They also supported Clutch when they did an Aussie tour a number of years ago. This footage is not from that tour. This is some rare footage I found of them playing the Meredith Music Fest here in Australia. 

https://youtu.be/npQeou-eLD0?si=2fWrPYwW1ZkQDpp8

Zod

Hemming - Self Titled.

I saw her open for Chris Cornell in Vancouver.   Often openers aren't that good, but she came out with an acoustic guitar and owned the place.  Bought her debut album and I still spin it quite a bit.  I recently read she's taking a break from the music industry.  It's too bad more people didn't get a chance to see her live.

BF25394

Upon listening to Maple's It's My Last Night today (the CD that inspired this post), I noticed a possible Pearl Jam connection. One of the Maple tracks is titled (and chorused) "She's Flying Home." Could this have been the inspiration for "Given to Fly"? (I mean, besides "Going to California.") I kid, of course, I never heard that alleged echo of GTC in GTF.

When I first posted about Maple, I hesitated because, as much as I love the Maple album, I also own both albums by the late, lamented Mineral, and their first album is one of my very favorite albums by anyone ever. But I figured that Mineral has enough of a cult following (and influenced enough other bands) that it wouldn't be fair to say they've been heard by no one. After this discussion, I went to Discogs and checked, and it turns out that apparently 3,053 people have Mineral's first album. Only 237 people have the original pressing of the Mineral CD, but that still dwarfs the octet of fans who own the Maple CD.

Even though Maple and Mineral do not sound alike, I always associate them together because of their one-word M names and the paucity of people I know who have ever heard of them. But on the rare occasions that I meet someone who does know either one-- and it's always Mineral, but I think it would be true if I ever met someone who's heard of Maple-- I think I can pretty much guarantee that I am talking to a person who was between the ages of 13 and 24 in the mid-to-late 1990s.

F Me In The Brain

Love (x10) this record.  Top 10 to listen to on the cans