The Good Obscure Music Thread

Morro

I've been getting into some oldies lately, and there's some good shit out there. Once you get past the crappy sitar-stoner-"ohmygodIhavetowriteasongabouthisacidtripIjusthad" sixties songs. Stupid hippies. Damn, do I hate hippies.

Anyway, I figured I'd make a thread for people to post music they like, that nobody knows about. This can be old music that our generation hasn't been told about, music from bands nobody knows, or unknown tracks from well-known bands.

Some I can think of:
Cunning Lynguists - War
The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
The Hold Steady - How a Ressurection Really Feels
The Hold Steady - The Cattle and the Creeping Things
The Hold Steady - Banging Camp
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Smiths - I Am the Sun, I Am the Air
Jurassic 5 - Work it Out
Aesop Rock - Daylight
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla
Blue Oyster Cult - Ballroom Blitz
Blue Oyster Cult - Astronomy
The Bastard Fairies - We're All Going to Hell
The Bastard Fairies - Habitual Inmate
Danzig - Mother
Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown
The Ides of March - Vehicle <--AWESOME kareoke song
Jack Johnson - Traffic in the Sky
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Live On
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - In 2 Deep
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Was
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Wild Love
Muse - Apocalypse Please
Monster Magnet - Kick Out the Jams
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang
Queen - Princes of the Universe
The Refreshments - Mexico
The Refreshments - Banditos
The Refreshments - Down Together
The Peacemakers - Jack vs Jose
The Peacemakers - Buffalo
Cake - Let Me Go
Big Wreck - The Oaf
The Tragically Hip - Cordelia
Belle and Sebastian - I Don't Love Anyone
The Decemberists - July, July!
The Trews - Cry
Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line
Wilson Pickett - Land Of 1000 Dances

Some of those might be well known in general, but I'm always surprised at the people who've never heard of the Deceberists. :o

Ether

Catch 22 - What Goes Around Comes Around.

The Pixies - Debaser

Yesca - Lost Due To Incompetence (Theme For a Big Green Van)

flo-ra

Two Hours Traffic - "Jezebel", "New Love", and "Nighthawks"

There, that's my hipster cred lol. That's the only band I really like that no one has ever heard of... I like a bunch of other stuff that they don't play on Top 40 but it's like mainstream indie, which doesn't really count as "obscure"...

Shi2

I listen to Herman's Hermits and The Carpenters.

SpectreFire

Ben Folds - "Bastard"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3i5FwLRcBI&feature=related

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0dfd_L4tDk&feature=related

Garbage - "Medication"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXICN7Ng58o

Alkaline Trio - "Help Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VGpoxTWres

Agentbob

I've been listening to the New Pornographers a lot lately. Very good band from Vancouver, Canada. Spoon, The Bravery and Doves are other very good ones as well.

EDIT: found some youtube links
New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoyKN99HjY
New Pornographers - Challengers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHWWWa8EvzI

the Bravery - honest mistake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3PZQZqsVKY

Doves - caught by the river http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7fK_weO90
Doves - catch the sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqlIFLb6jU0

vaka

Zero 7 has some good downtempo beats to relax to:
In the Waiting Line

Oh and I think this is the sexiest song ever, lol

One last song, check out Wet and Rusting by Menomena... there's a reason there's nearly 300,000 plays on that song! Give the song a full listen

IVT

Alice In Chains - Would?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6RefV1td4

Ether

Alice In Chains isn't exactly obscure.. considering they were one of the 4 most famous grunge bands in the 90's... but I really like their Jar of Flies EP. Here's Alice In Chains - Nutshell from that.

MintJam - Rival I don't speak Japanese, so I have no idea what the lyrics mean.

Cymande - Bra This was in The 25th Hour as one of the songs that was played in the club. It took me a while to find it.

Me First And The Gimme Gimmies - Country Roads A punk cover of the John Denver song.

Desolate

Random bumping of an almost two year old topic after finding it on a random forum search that was completely unrelated ftw.

ANYWAYS

Los Campesinos! - Straight In At 101
fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Closure in Moscow - A Night At The Spleen
Between the Trees - Scarecrow
Hotspur - Sold!
Volcano Choir - Still
Thrice - Daedalus
Imogen Heap - Speeding Cars
Moving Mountains - Sol Solis
The Hush Sound - Lighthouse
La Roux - Colourless Colour
Portugal. The Man - The Dead Dog

Not all of them are that obscure, but songs I love at the moment that not a lot of people listen to.

flo-ra

For hip-hop listeners:

Nujabes ft. Cise Starr - Lady Brown
Nujabes ft. Cise Starr & Akin - Feather