The 'mats! A farkn band
Pleased to Meet Me and Tim are great records
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Gotta say, never heard of them. Donāt mind it. Will investigate further.
Iām gonna go out on a limb and suggest you might have been an Alice in Chains fan and possibly a fan of some of Faith No Moreās stuff. Iāll go a step further and ponder if you were a Bean Flipper fan although that might be a step too far.
A couple of other albums that i really love but forgot to mention earlier:
10 Minute Warning - S/T
Gas Huffer - The Inhuman Ordeal of Special Agentā¦
TAD - 8 Way Santa
KARP - Mustaches Wild (some seriously good noise rock)
Skin Yard - Inside the Eye
The Pleasure Elite - Bad Juju
Hammerbox - Numb
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I never go long without listening to Wire. Theyāve maintained incredible consistency in quality for 40 years since 1977ās āPink Flagā punk bursts. Theyāve mainly dabbled in punk, post-punk, art-punk, industrial sounds, and the members all have killer side and solo projects too.
Theyāre much loved by other artists, with recorded or regular live versions of some songs done by the likes of R.E.M., Lush, Minor Threat, Fischerspooner, and Spoon, with Elastica getting into legal strife for straight up ripping a riff.
Iād start with the stunning first three albums and then you could jump in or out anywhere along the next four decades and find a gem.
My faves:
Pink Flag ('77) / Chairs Missing ('78) / 154 ('79) [plus some awesome non-album singles around the same time]
Colin Newman - A-Z ('81) [lead singerās first solo album]
The Ideal Copy ('87)
Send ('03)
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That second one has to be inspired by a seriously bad acid trip.
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Wire have been one of my fave bands since the late 70s / early 80s. Loved 154 when it came out. That post punk period (78-82) was very rich. A lot of the music was crudely assembled in true punk style, but with an experimental edge that made it inaccessible to many at the time but has proved enormously influential.
The punky / reggae crossover at the time also introduced me to some great sounds from Jamaica. The Clash covered Police and Thieves by Junior Murvin, but the original is a killer as is JMās 1st album in its entirety. Check it outā¦
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The new album from Swedenās RƤttens Krater which isnāt out yet. Fantastic band. Iām releasing this album on my label.
Also Italian band Giuda whoās last album is getting an Australian release on my label.
Pious Faults from Brisbane. Young kids kinda like early 80ās DC hardcore.
Grindhouse from Melbourne
Is Fugazi obscure enough for this forum?
I know a few folk on here listen to them, but given some of the above listingsā¦
Highly ethical, never signed to a major label, dirt cheap concerts, no merchandising.
Repeater + 3 Songs is a great place to start.
Fugazi - Styrofoam
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While weāre onto DC Hardcore, a band I never could quite āgetā at the time as one poster put it was the Bad Brains. I went back and listened to them a lot last year and it just blew my mind. Then seeing some videos of their live shows itās easy to see why they were āBanned in DCā.
Bad Brains - Banned in DC
Bad Brains - I
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New Bomb Turks.
One of my all time favourite bands and in the top couple of live shows Iāve ever been too. Very thrashy garage high speed rock n roll, punk even.
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One last oneā¦but o mustāve mentioned them every music thread on blitz.
Mod Youth Crisis (formerly One Inch Punch) melbourne hardcore. Pit theyāre no more.
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Yes, I love Junior Murvinās original too. Thanks for the album tip, Iāll check it out.
That post-punk period is my absolute favourite music period. It took me till about 2001 to discover it (although I knew Joy Division, Wire, and later PiL stuff already), when newer bands like Liars and Rapture came out trying the sound, and I ran with it. This Heat, The Pop Group, Gang Of Fourā¦ just the tip of an amazingly diverse and pioneering few years of music.
Pls change thread title to āwhat variety of punk/post-punk are you listening toā
There is a whole spectrum of music out there in time and space. So far, nothing that has been mentioned here is āobscureā or ānot commonly knownā.
For example:
-music across time: Gregorian chants - popular for centuries in Europe; European āclassicalā music popular for a few centuries now; Chinese classical music - very popular with millions of people for millennia.
-across space: sub-saharan African percussive music, south pacific vocals; Tuvan throat singers.
-and what about aboriginal music which has been going ont in this continent for 60,000+ years.
Post-punk āobscureā? Spare me.
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Nah, we know all that stuff already. David Byrne and Brian Eno sampled it all on their obscure post-punk record āMy Life In The Bush Of Ghostsā. Please try to keep up.
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I remember hearing a song a while back called Alone which I really liked. It was thought by many to be a Pearl Jam/Alice in Chains song and when you hear it youāll understand why:
Turns out it was by a band called Downface, who released Confidence in 1997 and Within in 2002. The band borrowed heavily from the bands like PJ, AIC and Tool and were never really taken seriously because of that. I like 'em though, and Confidence in particular has some good tracks.
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Lol some of the examples you listed, even in your own words, arenāt very obscure.
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Even The Beatles havenāt been āvery popular with millions of people for millenniaā.
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For the past few years Iāve been listening to a lot of symphonic metal out of Europe.
Started with Within Temptation and Nightwish, then found Sirenia, Unsun and Delain.
And then a mate told me about a site called mp3million.com and how I would be able to find a heap of stuff that Iād never heard before.
From that site Iāve found Elysion, Theatre of Tragedy, Serenity, Draconian, Tristania, Trees Of Eternity, Forever Still and Leah.
Checking those artists out on youtube also brought me to The Birthday Massacre.
Iām not sure how āobscureā the artists I found via mp3million.com areā¦but Iād never heard of any of them,
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