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  • dirt
    dirt Posts: 398
    How about Leaf Hound? I have a CD reissue of their album Growers of Mushroom.
    drive less - RIDE MORE!
  • StoneG82
    StoneG82 Posts: 806
    Guided by Voices - best indie band of all time.

    these shoegazer bands are all amazing:

    slowdive - "souvlaki" is their masterpiece. the song "allison" brings me to tears

    my bloody valentine - check out "loveless". greatest shoegazer record ever made.

    ride - "nowhere" - second best shoegazer record. check out the song "vapour trail"

    spiritualized - another good shoegazer band. check out "ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space"

    the verve - most people know them as the band that sings "bittersweet symphony", but their best record is "A Storm in Heaven"
    "What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater with a lit firecracker in his ear." - Tom Waits
  • Sathogwa
    Sathogwa Posts: 227
    off_the_record wrote:
    the kinks and steve miller are obscure?


    EARLY Steve Miller Band, homeboy.

    Most people are completely unaware of what he was doing at the begining of his career, and how vital and real that music was. Very different from the stuff that made him popular.
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  • BeBe
    BeBe Posts: 229
    psycosmic wrote:
    not obscure but totally underappreciated:

    THE KINKS

    ray davis is a songwriting genius (at least he was in the 60s and early 70s, i can do without most of his 80s stuff)

    if you don't agree that "waterloo sunset" is a masterpiece chances are you might be deaf...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psj4an971NA

    What a way to celebrate my 200th post! GREAT SONG!!!! Check out also Chrissie Hyndes' version of it at the Hall of Fame ceremony.

    The Kinks...I agree...

    I will add Blur to the list.
    Where is Lowlight?
  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    Quicksilver, Spirit and Procol Harem. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Quicksand
    Heatmiser
    Sunny Day Real Estate
    Hammerbox
    Paw
    Sweaty Nipples
    NERDS!
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    as far as older musicians/music,

    i'd have to go with ian hunter http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=27867260

    and mick ronson http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=57781294

    yeah.... ;)
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • Ebizzie
    Ebizzie Posts: 240
    The Paul Butterfield Blues Band -- i love this shit

    Son House -- i love this shit too

    Nick Drake -- great shit

    The Stooges -- early punkish shit


    check 'em out
    "Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains." -- Abraham Lincoln
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Kevin Ayers, of the original Soft Machine:

    http://www.myspace.com/clariettarag
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    StoneG82 wrote:
    Guided by Voices - best indie band of all time.

    these shoegazer bands are all amazing:

    slowdive - "souvlaki" is their masterpiece. the song "allison" brings me to tears

    my bloody valentine - check out "loveless". greatest shoegazer record ever made.

    ride - "nowhere" - second best shoegazer record. check out the song "vapour trail"

    spiritualized - another good shoegazer band. check out "ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space"

    the verve - most people know them as the band that sings "bittersweet symphony", but their best record is "A Storm in Heaven"

    Now those are some AMAZING bands.....

    I would also include:

    the Cure - anyone who doesn't own Disintegration is missing out on one of the best albums of all time, takes me to places that no other CD ever has

    Cranes - check out the album Loved (Shining Road is a good song to start with), the girls vocals are a little different but I love 'em

    Mojave 3 - Neil Halstead (from Slowdive - i LOVE that they got recognition here, Souvlaki is one of the best albums EVER)....amazing new album just came out called "Puzzles Like You"

    the Jesus and Marychain - Honeys Dead....so good its scary

    Spiritualized - good call, one of my all time favourites....Cop Shoot Cop (from Ladies & Gentlemen....) is incredible, although my favourite albums are Laser Guided Melodies and Pure Phase
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  • psycosmic
    psycosmic Posts: 504
    StoneG82 wrote:
    my bloody valentine - check out "loveless". greatest shoegazer record ever made.

    agreed!
    this is one of my favourite songs ever...
    only shallow
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB8nCE2EoIw
    ~~~
    Some days you wake up and sit on a park bench next to an eighty year old Russian architect, and some days you don't. I think this is my new life philosophy.

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Anyone who likes acoustic guitar music should hear Davy Graham. Without him, there'd be no Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, John Martyn, Nick Drake, or acoustic Jimmy Page.


    Try track three, Sunshine Raga:

    http://www.myspace.com/davygraham
  • caifan82
    caifan82 Mexico City Posts: 321
    The Gathering:

    http://www.gathering.nl

    Awesome dutch band. I would say it's a mix between Radiohead, the Cranberries, Garbage and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Hehe, I don't know how to describe them. Check the following songs to get an idea: "Your Troubles are Over", "Shortest Day", "Mosters", "Black Light District", "Travel", "Saturnine"... and many others!
    Mexico City - July 17th 2003
    Mexico City - July 18th 2003
    Mexico City - July 19th 2003
    Monterrey - December 7th 2005
    Mexico City - December 9th 2005
    Mexico City - December 10th 2005
    Mexico City - November 24th 2011
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    olderman wrote:
    Ten Years After

    one of the highlights of the original woodstock film is "I'm Going Home" by these hard rockin sonsa bitches. awesome stuff.

    Thanks Olderman. I can see the album cover in my mind's eye, but couldn't remember the band's name for the life of me. Too many fuzzy days back then. :)
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    olderman wrote:
    Ten Years After

    one of the highlights of the original woodstock film is "I'm Going Home" by these hard rockin sonsa bitches. awesome stuff.

    Thanks Olderman. I can see the album cover in my mind's eye, but couldn't remember the band's name for the life of me. Too many fuzzy days back then. :)
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    olderman wrote:
    Ten Years After

    one of the highlights of the original woodstock film is "I'm Going Home" by these hard rockin sonsa bitches. awesome stuff.

    Thanks Olderman. I can see the album cover in my mind's eye, but couldn't remember the band's name for the life of me. Too many fuzzy days back then. :)
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    olderman wrote:
    Ten Years After

    one of the highlights of the original woodstock film is "I'm Going Home" by these hard rockin sonsa bitches. awesome stuff.

    Thanks Olderman. I can see the album cover in my mind's eye, but couldn't remember the band's name for the life of me. Too many fuzzy days back then. :)
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    sorry for all the posts, the servers where I work SUCK THE BIG ONE!!!!
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • Jamal
    Jamal Posts: 2,115
    Okay, as we're obviously going for the good old days (which I have sadly not lived :()

    - Jethro Tull ... : pure genius
    Surf little waves big... Charge big waves hard

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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    psycosmic wrote:
    not obscure but totally underappreciated:

    THE KINKS

    ray davis is a songwriting genius (at least he was in the 60s and early 70s, i can do without most of his 80s stuff)

    if you don't agree that "waterloo sunset" is a masterpiece chances are you might be deaf...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psj4an971NA


    I love the Kinks and have been on a huge Kinks kick lately. Most underrated British explosion band by far.

    Anyone know Pond? I keep trying to bring them up in posts like this and no-one ever says anything. Their first 2 albums are awesome but were just lost in the grunge-era shuffle. The 3rd album is ok, but it's all about the first 2.
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