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  • sweetlitlrocker
    sweetlitlrocker Posts: 32
    InHiding80 wrote:
    Oingo Boingo - Private Life : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouC9pQYX4pg

    Awesome! You know...Insects, make me want to dance! :)
    "Music is excellent therapy."
  • LeilaMoonTurtle
    LeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
    http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/LeonardCohen/DearHeather/

    look for soundtrack of new movie about leonard cohen great music
    http://s278.photobucket.com/albums/kk103/Moonturltemoon/PJ MSG 6-24-08/

    Mihi cura futuri.

    The elements they speak to me.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL3gQO1WxUk
    so cute they are
  • allsacredfromyouth
    allsacredfromyouth Posts: 39
    LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:
    love sugarcubes

    betchadupa--son of lead singer of split enz is in the band anddd they like pj
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_h5PVlok6E

    Oh yeah, I hear this song all the time on retro/80's stations. I didn't like it much at first, but it's grown on me overtime. Good choice.

    And I agree, obviously, The Sugarcubes rock.
  • redsdisease
    redsdisease Posts: 147
    Mission of Burma, way ahead of their time. They've also made a comeback in recent years and released a couple of really great records.

    Here's some videos.
    http://www.missionofburma.com/home.html
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  • Yarden
    Yarden Posts: 820
    edited March 2014
    Connie Converse is an obscure folk artist from the 50's. her story is interesting as well. no one knows exactly what happened to her after writing goodbye letters to her family/friends, saying she does'nt wish to be found.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXGo2nHcCII
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksn0Wjw-EiY


    and a great folk artist some might know - Sibylle Baier
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJSxX95PH8o

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  • rmartin70
    rmartin70 Posts: 64
    Budgie

    http://youtu.be/54H3EUAzpVg
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  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,155
    MetalGod75 said:

    Heres my recommendation;)Freak Of Nature early 90's band that released 2 albums while together and 1 posthumously.Their 2nd album Gathering Of Freaks is my favourite easily as good as Ten and Superunknown IMHO:)The band featured Mike Tramp(ex White Lion) on vocals.If ya wanna know more visit http://www.miketramp.com
    The albums are now deleted but you can get a boxset of the 3 together called Freakthology from Mikes website.Classic stuff that fit in perfectly with the "grunge" scene but were never heard of outside of Europe.

    I second this, I really loved their second album too - definitely worth checking out

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  • drlovemonkey
    drlovemonkey Posts: 394
    Jimmy Newquist (former lead singer of Caroline's Spine
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppdfN-aTfKY

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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Just before Tool came on in Spokane, they played Eddie and the Hotrods 1977 release Do Anything You Wanna Do

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONqHfZzbsI

    A great tune and lost classic! Interesting it was on Tool's playlist prior to their show.
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  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    As already mentioned, Sugarcubes. Excellent band and absolutely lovely live.
    Also Nick Drake, not so obscure but he deserves a mention
    And this Australian band, pop band in the 80's, The Triffids, that's their name.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    edited March 2014
    tonadax said:

    Joy division- an old band with a great music vision and dark/depressed lyrics....

    Agreed. For those of us who were fimiliar with the band New Order, this is the band before Ian Curtis committed suicide. Joy Division is a great band. To be clear I was born in 1982, so I remember New Order on the radio as a kid. Found out about Joy Division and like it a lot.
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  • LongRoad1802
    LongRoad1802 Posts: 107
    olderman said:

    another underrated band, not totaly under the radar, was Little Feat. they even recognized this fact in that they titled what was at the time the best LIVE LP ever released, "Waiting For Columbus."

    the current edition is very good.

    sadly, however, the real deal, Lowell George (who also had been a member of the Mother's of Invention), had a big time weakness for cocaine. thus he is dead and so is the original genius of the band.

    highly recommend that you give Little Feat a listen. Mr. George played a mean slide guitar.

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  • LongRoad1802
    LongRoad1802 Posts: 107
    Milhouse VanHouten said:

    kdpjam" said:
    oh yeah!!! alex chilton ;)
    I absolutely love the #1 Record/Radio City cd.

    Concur! You gotta check out the new big star documentary, its LEGIT, currently streaming on netflix now.

  • Treyert14
    Treyert14 Louisiana Posts: 924
    He's a Christian artist so I don't know how this will do here but...
    Rich Mullins one of my favorite artists. Check out the cd "Songs"
  • Yefa
    Yefa Posts: 1,134
    Michael Stanley...the pride of Northern Ohio.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgFsiDtC2fkimage
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,821
    Ned's Atomic Dustbin!
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,541
    Big Country
    the 1st three albums are gems & Stuart Adamson was one of the best song writers to come out in the 80's ...RIP
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    josevolution said:

    Big Country
    the 1st three albums are gems & Stuart Adamson was one of the best song writers to come out in the 80's ...RIP

    I saw them a few months ago with the lead singer from The Alarm and had a great time.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,657
    edited January 2022
    A couple of coincidental indents reminded me of this terrific obscure band from the 1980's Hoboken, NJ scene, The Individuals.  I was reading about Glen Morrow who was instrumental in putting that band together while reading The Bongo's leader, Richard Barone's fine book, Frontman. And shortly after that, I learned that an internet friend who work at Maxwell's back in those days and is still friends with Morrow as well as  Bongos bass player, Rob Norris.

    The Individuals were short live and only made on EP and one album.  But that album, Fields, is one that I have enjoyed a great deal many times over the years since it's release,  It is definitely worth checking out.  And it holds up very well!  Really great song writing and a great playing.
    The Individuals BarNone Records



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNHviCB6e4

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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,489
    Heartless Bastards...so damn good.
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