Which obscure music do you listen to?

Right now I'm listening to Scott Walker "Sings Jacques Brel". I guess he's pretty obscure. He was popular in the UK in the late sixties and early seventies. He did a lot of covers of Jacques Brel tunes on his regular albums. This one is a compilation that brings them all together. I listen to a lot of obscure music. I always have.

I never know how well known the music I listen to is, because I don't pay any attention to popular culture. It's happened on occasion, I'll buy a tape I heard about through an obscure source, and then find out later that musician is all over the radio. So...... I'm not saying.

The Rednex, a Swedish country/techno group.
"The first bio explained that the band was from USA and that they were found by chance in the isolated, forgotten and severely in-bred village of Brunkeflo City in Idaho, USA. The only valuable gene that had survived in this small genetically massacred community was the gene to play music. They were brought back to Sweden to record an album. This made-up story was sent out as the official biography."

Oh, the group that I put a link up for have a tour of the US East coast planned - it's on their website. Worth seeing if any of you are close - they're very funny and entertaining.

Sigur Ros
Godspeed You Black Emperor! and the various side projects
Sky Cries Mary
Boiled In Lead and Cordelia's Dad
I'm not really sure if Bongwater is obscure or not...
or Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic or Locust

Gregorian Chant. I love monks.

And there was you not into music. I listened to 'Take on Me' - they were good.

Well "obscure" maybe is not the word but I remember a survey I did about one of my favorite singers,Neko Case,and the reaction was something like "Oh,Neko WHO? Who the fudge is she? Who cares!"

I also like Ryan Adams (not Bryan),Black 47,the Pogues,The Levellers,The Mollys,Whiskeytown...really I don't consider those artists "obscure",but not known as let's say the Beatles or whatever...

Scott Engel? Scott Walker? Walker Brothers?

Oh god,I just noticed that I know a lot of your obscure music...

I didn't know I was some kind of music encyclopedia but maybe I am...

I can't really answer this because I listen to World music. The music and artists I listen to are no doubt fairly well-known, especially to fans of traditional music, in their countries of origin. Fados from Portugal and sambas from Brazil would be a couple examples, done by older artists, some of 'em no longer with us.

Do you listen to Jacques Brel too?

The one I listen to the most is probably Phil Ochs, a folk singer I like alot.

I know Matt's answer to this one

Hey...muddmen

I can enjoy music, I just don't get really into it I'd probably get bored just listening to their music, but they have a whole act to go with it impossible to explain.......Do you know that piece of music that goes "manamana, buh der buh der-der" and so on? They did that with the whole group doing the the buh der.... but just one guy doing the manamana - he did that one bit in all different ways. It was really funny, but you probably have to be there to really appreciate it!

sonik J
Gangster Hillbilly
C.I.D.
Gemini
Southern Culture on the Skids
Delirium
Thievery Corporation

I recently discovered the "White Stripes". I had never heard of them and I'm not sure how well known they are but I really like their music.

Ahh! I guess he isn't THAT obscure...

At your suggestion, I just put some on right now. I have a collection of French Pop; Brigitte Bardot, Edith Piaf, Francoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, Jacques Brel, Michel Sardou and Serge Gainsbourg. Most of it is from the 1960s.

Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor! are both right up my alley. Maarten and I were just discussing GYBE the other day...They're from Canada.

I think you win for most obscure so far. The only one I'm familiar with is Delerium. They're from Vancouver. Although I don't know Bill Leeb personally, we've been hanging in the same social scene for years, and we know a lot of the same people.

I heard the name Southern Culture of the Skids...but just the name.Zang is right you're pretty obscure!

I can't really tell. It's too...obscure, I guess, to describe.

You said, "I never know how well known the music I listen to is, because I don't pay any attention to popular culture."

I think that classifies all the music you listen to as "obscure"! My answer was similar - too obscure to tell, ha.

I know! Wacky apocalyptic Canadian music I love them

I'm a little behind ... a lot behind... on SC these days, so I probably missed your discussion

Well, I don't read every single comment either. I think you would have to do practically nothing else. I spend enough time on here as it is!

Just in case you're interested, here's the one I was talking about:

http://surveycentral.org/survey/13940.html

I see they've been mentioned other times too:
http://surveycentral.org/survey/12173.html
http://surveycentral.org/survey/8627.html

...although the first one is me, and the second one is you!

Yeah, Mudmen too

Michel Sardou and Jacques Brel are two of my favorites.

Cool!

Blind Guardian, a European Metal Band.
NOFX, punk...actually, I know quite a few people who know of NOFX, but they are all my friends, so I don't know if others would find them obscure.
Dead Prez, a New York Hip-Hop band.
Symphony X, Stratovarius, Rhapsody, Iced Earth, Demons and Wizards, Iron Saviour, Manowar and a bunch of other metal bands.

in fact, I'm in one of those! thanks for the pointers, I had missed the other two...

Yeah, I know the song. It was from the Muppet show (I had the album when I was a kid). I saw Lily Savage doing that before she became famous but she had a fox fur stole around her neck which was a puppet and she did a routine with that.

Currently, my favourite group is Anathema. No one that I told that to knows about it. It's doom metal.

One of my best friends is a fan...I gave them a quick listen...sounds good,but really I have to listen more...

i am just getting into punk. i mean, like real hardcore local band hard type of punk. yes, i know, i know, theres no real defintion of punk. i dont even know any of the names of the bands, but i am pretty sure that they are obsure.

also i listen to sonic youth, gang of four, and some other bands. and god knows how many obscure bands i have burend at least one song, even thoug i really dont listen to them. for instance, some very old band, that i think already broke up, they were called government issue. they had this song butt-hole.

"i am an butt-hole, look at me, i am an butt-hole, look at me, i think its cool to punch on them, i am an butt-hole, i am an butt-hole, i am was an butt-hole, and now i am dead."

There's an amazing band in the U.K. called Muse, but they're rapidly gaining recognition (mostly because Coldplay keeps pimping them all over the place). I'm not much into under-underground...for me, it's worth listening to once it surfaces to at least college radio.

I believe the only other I could name is my neighbor's crappy garage band, who shall remain (painfully) obscure for all eternity.

The White Stripes are not obscure, believe me...overhyped for all they're worth.

They're really good. They're metal, but they don't cause headaches.

I'm not a fan of metal,but they sounded pretty right,not too macho if you know what I mean...

Well I still like them. They're different.

Rasputina

Yeah... that's exactly what I like about them. They have really melodies in some songs. But from time to time they sound like Sisters of Mercy to me.

I listen to Swedish Folk music, the one I listen to the most is a group called Gjallarhorn

Better Than Ezra -- a well-known group in New Orleans which is played around the US.

I like listening to Manheim Steamroller (especially at Christmas- time)

Hmmmm none of the music that I listen to is REALLY obscure. Not unless you mean like Hawaiian/Japanese artists.

Then the artist are people like:

Ota San
& Sunday Manoa...etc. etc.

Would rap, hip hop, pop, rock, and country be considered obscure? Cuz that's all I listen to these days. I like all kinds of music, as you can see. But I don't think any of it is obscure. Oh well, as if I give a %*#@.

My cousin and his friend just released their first CD. They call themselves the Meisner-Haenftling Project. They are not widely known, YET! Their music is really good. One friend said they sounded like The Beatles, and another friend called them a cross between The Rolling Stones and Aerosmith!

I can't think of any music that I listen to that would be considered "obsure".

I like to listen to Manheim Steamroller--not just their Christmas stuff that seems to be popular nowadays.......its very mysterious

gjallahorn rules!! sola monday, bic runga, tim buckley, pentangle, shave the monkey, dervish, etat donnes, savourna stevenson, ann heyman, maire ni chatasaise, la camerata, blondel di nesle, guillaum machaut, my sister bay, I used to listen to her practise her violin. I'm trying to write music too, but its hard so I'm doing this for a wee break.

got a spare copy of Sjofn???

French songs of Jacqueline Francois. Apparently popular with Americans at one time, at the height of her popularity, around 1950-55.

I listen to a lot of Trance and House...

Dj's such as....

Max Graham (Canadian)
Arim Van Buuren (Holland)
Judge Jules
Mark Oliver

Gangsta Blac, Josh Wink, Nomad

Dave Brubeck

Groundhogs...King Crimson..Egg...in fact, quite a few of the 70's 'underground' rock and contemporary bands. For me, this was the sound of the '70s, not that disco crap that most people associate with that era and is always played at those so called '60s and '70s nights at your local and the club's....

When no one is around.....Barbra Striesand (sp?)

It's hard to know what other ppl listen to... I'm sure that some people will have heard of these.

Red House Painters
Magnetic Fields
Meryn Cadell
Sirensong
Groovasaurus (not so obscure to the boston folk)
Hunters and Collectors

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

im deaf i dont listen to that noise... anymore chimps can make better music clanging pots n pans togather music sucks.. your a moron if you pay for music

Tenacious D!!!!!!!!!!! They reign supreme!!!!!!!