An obscure song i like is Library Takeout by MicrOpaqu3.
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I’m slowly going through the comments and enjoying a variety of good and interesting music!
I dunno if it would be classed as obscure any more seen as it now has over 2m plays, but when I first heard it 4 years ago it was for sure obscure.
Burrito Mojado, the Fabulous Hedgehogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfanMci3-A&t=0
I’ve always been into freeform radio stations that color outside the lines, college stations like WPRB from Princeton, WFMU from NY/New Jersey, KFJC near the Bay Area, etc., have discovered a ton and a half of stuff that’s way off the beaten path and has caught my ear.
Here’s a good example I picked up around twenty years ago from KFJC, it could have been any one from too many choices to count, but for some reason this was the first song to pop into my mind right now.
If memory serves, I believe it’s a field recording taken in the Sahara Desert, a nomadic people from around Morocco or Tunisia, and can only imagine the magical environment, close my eyes to try and visualize the crisp dry Saharan air at night, a large bonfire, the sky exploding with stars above, and this trance-inducing, mystical chanting.
I like a number of songs by Sid Maudlin. However, some years ago she and her music entirely vanished from the internet. From what little information I could find, she retired and tried to erase that part of her past, along with every single one of her songs.
She was super aggressive with DMCA takedowns and would hit just about anything and everything that mentioned her name or her music. But the internet being what it is, it never truly went away. I think she’s either relaxed a bit or given up trying to take everything down.
First thing that came to mind is a song by a band that I can’t even find online. I have the song as an .mp2 file. How’s that for obscure?
Here’s one that is online: Technical Jelly (Live) - Honor Among Thieves
do you have a name? or could you share the file? I don’t know why but it sounds so interesting and now I wanna hear it…
The song is “No Mercy in June” by a band called Hot D.A.M. I’m pretty sure that I got the song by piecing together a multi-part, MIME-encoded Usenet posting. Somehow, I have a whole album by the band in my collection that I found somewhere on the seven seas years ago. I don’t recall when or where now. The best information that I could find back when was that Hot D.A.M. was one of those local bands that stayed local, perhaps one of the many that bubble up out of the musical quantum foam, and disappear just as quickly.
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
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meBo later.With 145M views and like thousands of variations I wouldn’t call this obscure. Great song, but not obscure.
Memo From Turner from the soundtrack of the movie Performance.
It sounds like The Rolling Stones but it’s only Mick, plus Ry Cooder on slide guitar.
I like the mix of speaking voice and singing here. Also the pitch “issues” of both the slide and Jagger add to the song—almost microtonal vibes.
Agreed. I love the drums too, really loose vibe to them.
