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After my delve into my record collection last week, just wondering what peeps fave obscure bands are, I mean stuff that just just fit in with the normal dry ice, dark shades and doom

here's some of mine

Stump (tupperware stripper is a classic)
Berlinda Carlisle
Dawn After Dark
Aqua :oops:
Anti Nowhere League (not the punk band, but the band that did 'Perfect Crime' never did find anything more, shame)
Fiona Apple (mad as a bag of badgers, but yes I still would)
oh and my Paul Mckenna - Sleep like a log CD, doesn't do what it says it does but it's boring as feck and sends me off, that and a couple bottles of wine.
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Roy Harper (don't be confused by the folky, hippy looks, this bloke was angry and a brilliant lyricist)
Todd Rundgren (see above sans the angry bit)
Head Of David (awesome live, never transferred to vinyl)
Entombed (the acceptable voice of Scandinavian Death Metal)
Shriekback (until Dave Allen, ex Gang Of 4 split)

Onna Stump tip six always had a liking for Charlton Heston and its b-side Angst Forecast :D
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Dead Can Dance
Robyn Hitchcock
The Merry Thoughts

Plus many others......
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Bongwater
King of the Slums
Destroy all Monsters
Loop (never used to be obscure but no fekker heard of them these days)
Come/Thalia Zedeck

Anyone got a copy of XC-NN's (nee CNN) second album. Never came out here. I love the first. Not obscure to you lot I know...
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melanie c!!
rem
dream syndicate
gun club
robbie williams
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i m sure there s more...
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Red_Kola wrote: Loop (never used to be obscure but no fekker heard of them these days)
I've got Eternal the singles 1988 :D collision is still a great song.

oh by the way, was anyone lucky enough to ever visit PlanetX in Liverpool?
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Dishwalla - check 'em they're really good.
Sugababes
Holly Valance - her last album has some fantastic songs on it.
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sisxbeforedawn wrote:
Red_Kola wrote: Loop (never used to be obscure but no fekker heard of them these days)
I've got Eternal the singles 1988 :D collision is still a great song.
I recall 80s drone masters supreme Loop coming on way too late at a Glasgow Tech gig, tuning up for about 15 mins, saying they weren't happy with the sound mix and that they'd be back later. I was somewhat inebriated by this stage, so wandered off into the night.
Only own Fade Out, Collision and Thief Of Fire are class.
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Red Sunsets wrote:
sisxbeforedawn wrote:
Red_Kola wrote: Loop (never used to be obscure but no fekker heard of them these days)
I've got Eternal the singles 1988 :D collision is still a great song.
I recall 80s drone masters supreme Loop coming on way too late at a Glasgow Tech gig, tuning up for about 15 mins, saying they weren't happy with the sound mix and that they'd be back later. I was somewhat inebriated by this stage, so wandered off into the night.
Only got Fade Out and Collision is class.
it could have been worse, I saw Jesus and Mary Chain walk on stage, feedback for about 10 minutes then walk off claiming the set was completed!!! riot then ensued :twisted: not that I endorse violence, but they had the cheek to call that a gig???!!!
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That was 'art' six :D
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Along with another Heartlander who frequents these shores occassionally, I'm a big David Sylvian fan. Japan made me curious but his solo stuff is out of this world. The man's a genius. :notworthy:

Japan 1977 demos bootleg - Punk/glam rock meets disco/funk on speed. I defy anyone to be able to last more than three tracks in a row. But someone, somewhere saw a glimmer of hope. And the boy done good, as they say.
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Red Sunsets wrote:That was 'art' six :D
:lol: I'm not sure the venue owners called it ART :lol: when the seats went flying out the windows. Although they did sell a cheap'ish pint of guinness
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Red Sunsets wrote: I recall 80s drone masters supreme Loop coming on way too late at a Glasgow Tech gig, tuning up for about 15 mins, saying they weren't happy with the sound mix and that they'd be back later. I was somewhat inebriated by this stage, so wandered off into the night.
Only own Fade Out, Collision and Thief Of Fire are class.
You realise that was the night they came back on and did an acoustic set. A LOOP ACOUSTIC SET. It worked, though f**k knows how...
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Johnny Boy wrote:Japan 1977
That incarnation supported Kiss FFS!
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snubnoseuk wrote:Dishwalla - check 'em they're really good.
Sugababes
Holly Valance - her last album has some fantastic songs on it.
I had high hopes for Siobahn Doherty. The first Sugababes LP is actually OK and her first single was in the same vein. Record company gave up on her alas. She is a babe.

Overload should have been written by Eldritch. Same train/fate metaphor going on...
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Red Sunsets wrote:
Johnny Boy wrote:Japan 1977
That incarnation supported Kiss FFS!
Thank God they discovered suits and powder puffs.

But then at least I'm not admitting to having seen Kiss live ... :innocent:
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Red_Kola wrote:The first Sugababes LP is actually OK
Run For Cover on that album is a great song, quite depressing actually!
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Wedding Present ("I just decided I don't trust you anymore!")
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Milltown Brothers
Intastella
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Strangelove

Now I think about it, what the feck happened to Strangelove? they were top!
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Black Shuck wrote: Strangelove

Now I think about it, what the feck happened to Strangelove? they were top!
I remember them...mid to late '90s? Without looking it up, I recall that they only had one big song (air-play-wise). How many albums did they make?
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CUSM, obscure?
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Red Sunsets wrote:CUSM, obscure?
Still avoiding the 'I saw Kiss live admission' I see ... :wink:

I don't blame you. :urff:
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Queen Sarah Saturday
Bif Naked
Tyketto
Tattle Tale (Jen Wood and Bonfire Madigan)

Paddy.
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VNV Nation
Dark side cowboys
Mike Oldfield
Mel C

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charlie daniels band - deffo, love that song

colourbox,
ac marias,
ancient beatbox,
the young gods - on agood day
lard
, that'll do for now

i also, have a loop session hidden away somewhere, found it the other day. JP introduces with set the controls for the heart of the sun :notworthy: :notworthy:
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