Originally posted by kevin: Fellas, If you talk about music, it must be considered to have an the impact over time. One hit wonders, those who have zero influence, outside the very few listeners who have posted here, will not be here in another week, much less a year.
I listen to music ALL the time, and never heard of the people listed here.
Cordially, Kevin
I double-checked the title an OP - it's 'the best music you've never heard. Some 'one-hits' have been influential, even if they didn't lead to subsequent hits for the same artist.
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Originally posted by skuzzbomer:
I say we put together a list of any and all bands/groups/acts that aren't very widely known... It doesn't matter what kind of genre they play, or where they're based. If you think they're good, post it here. If you can, put up a link to a video of them playing whatever it is that they play.
Band name
Genre
Base of operations/home
What you think
Example of their work
Kind of a local VA guy, Phil Roebuck Rock-a-Billy Folk Punk? I think he rocks! - I think these are mostly variations on a theme:
live with friends locally
live again, playing a cigar box banjo:
kinda rough vid but you can't deny the energy.
Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band More Rock-a-billy Folk Punk: (crank it) From a mid-western backwash The kind of band you'd want at your hellbilly wedding and tractor pull:
From Manassass VA, Momentary Prophets Folk-Eastern Psychadellic New age really cool vibe:
Freelance Whales I forget where Hipster acoustic rock Artsy and sweet, but very sad at times:
and for you techno/industrial pop types: AWOLNation 'sail' from the future crazy groove, this video was closest to the way it makes me 'see' the music:
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Had the chance to see a friend's band a while back and these guys were also playing the show. The lead singer plays keys and guitar, the drummer programs the backing and lights, and the bassist also has a synth he plays with during the show. They set up, took stage, and absolutely owned everyone inn the building until they were finished. Absolutely amazing.
From her latest CD just released last month... A bit of a departure from her last couple CD which were more mello acoustic like. She returns with a little hint of her former Goth/Metal sounds of her early years with the band The Gathering. This latest CD leans a bit more to the Pop/Rock side of the scale but with a couple nice quiet songs too. Her voice is fantastic as always and she's looking great too!
The Los Angeles-based singer Simone White has a voice like ether. It's sweetly airy and hypnotic. Hearing it can pull you under to a strangely beautiful, glittering world where nothing seems real. On "In The Water Where The City Ends," from her latest record, Silver Silver, White's voice is at its most haunting as she recalls, in disjointed poetry, the tsunami that devastated Japan's Tohoku region last year.
The last time I worked in Colorado, the crew at the theater was playing this artist while we were setting up. I asked one of the guys to find out who it was and email the name to me.
He's James McMurtry Genre: Alternate Country Base: Austin, TX His music reminds me of some of Bruce Springsteen's "working man" side. I've promised myself I would try to see McMurtry live if I get the chance.
A little progressive rock. Anyone who fancies complex and interesting guitar work will enjoy this-
Adrian Belew, formerly of King Crimson
My roomate in college introduced this album to me in 1983. As a musician I was floored by the unique way he used the guitar to create all of the weird sounds. Adrian Belew is one of the great guitar inovators. He has worked with many artist including Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, King Crimson, Tom Tom Club, The Bears, and he has many-many solo offerings. I prefer his earlier stuff from albums like "Lone Rhino" "Twnag Bar King" and "Mr. Music Head as it has more POP influences. His later stuff is more complex and progressive.
This is one of my favorite tunes from the Twang Bar King album...
This is one of my favorite tunes from the Mr. Music Head album...
This is Looooong (about 1 hour) but if your a guitar tech freak, it's very cool to watch how Adrian creates many of his signiture sounds and his approach to the guitar.
Every so often, one of my friends will post something on Facebook that sends me off on an exploratory tangent. Here's the result of the most recent one...
Tom Lehrer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer:Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.
Really splitting the line between alt rock, shoegaze, and some fantastic bastardization of pop
Founded in North Wales, currently based out of London
I first heard them on a station I set up on Slacker and have been totally f'n hooked since. That was almost two years ago. At first, I thought, "this is kind of catchy" but I then realized I was being lulled into a false sense of security as it wasn't but a few minutes later that it reached critical mass... Oh. My. Gawd. That noise! Such a wonderful, blistering sound... Ritzy's vocals lend to a fantastic hook which lasts right up until they kick it up a notch or twelve and your damn face melts off.
Instead of a simple example, how about a half hour live set?
If you can't watch the whole thing, just check out the last ten minutes to see what I was talking about above. Holy ****ing **** , batman.
Something from their new album (the entirety of which can be heard on their YouTube channel)
Heybjorn will probably not like them... I have to see them live.
Everyone's heard the artists individually, but I doubt many have heard them collaborate:
Brian May Eddie Van Halen Phil Chen Allen Grazer Fred Mandel
This requires a little explanation though. This was a one-time deal where all the artists just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Brian invited them over for a jam session, which he recorded, intending to just stick them away, but was eventually convinced to release them. He did very little mastering and left in all the roughness. You can hear them talking in the background, and at 13:45 you can hear Eddie thrash a string and keep on going. This is not a "polished" work, it's a jam session. Additionally, if you listen to the whole thing (three songs in total on the EP and this Youtube vid) the songs were issued in order, so in the first song you'll feel the nervous energy in their music. But as the album progresses you can hear how much more relaxed they become and the tunes begin to really flow. I picked this up in the early 80's and have held at as one of my favorite albums since then.
