What's an obscure song you like?
What's an obscure song you like?
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!
That one is great!
I keep mis-remembering one line as "I'm not unreasonable, I mean at some point you're gonna hafta die"
This is hilarious, i love it. My favorite Jonathan Coulton song is Sticking It to Myself.
Excellent choice. I was going to go with Future Soon by Coulton.
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.
I also remember when it was obscure but i keep seeing it pop up as a meme of absurdity, which it is, of course. I think most people don't realize the level of virtuosity on display.
Yine, by Kurban (Turkish band) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edxm5-boYGA&pp=ygULeWluZSBrdXJiYW4%3D
Hell yeah, can't go wrong with hard rock.
I have a number of songs on my playlists in different languages that i dont unserstand and it's interesting how it shifts the focus away from lyrics and toward the interaction between the vocals and the instruments. The voice is another instrument, after all.This song just slaps, that's why I like it. Fun to play on guitar, too!
A great one for your Halloween playlists is "The Crazy" by The Children MacNuggits.
But if you want even more obscure, a college friend of mine started a homebrew record label and got every band on campus to submit their best track for a compilation... and then he did it five more times
Twenty years later, I still listen to some of these songs daily, but especially: (warning, these are download links, not streaming)
Cold Heaven - "Eurydice"
The Heavy Pets - "(A Dragon's Just) A Dinosaur in Drag"
Zinc Finger and the Major Groove - "Too Much of a Girl"
The Passerines - "Young"
Burrito Mojado, the Fabulous Hedgehogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfanMci3-A&t=0
This is hilarious, i love songs that are silly and fun while still being good.
Glad you like it. They made two albums, both pretty goofy. The main guy ended up in Vegas. Did some interesting stuff.
Been following this band for a while now and every now and again they release a banger.
They never draw huge numbers which doesn't make sense to me given their songs.
This fucks.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uhfJ11SoxlwREvTV80QA5? Lucy(Hurt People Hurt People) by Olivver the Kid
I like how simple this song is musically while converting multiple things behind the lyrics.
I don't know how obscure this is because it was on the Skate 3 soundtrack. However, I've never met a person that knew the song, and it's not on any music streaming services, so I think it's a little obscure.
Probably not obscure per se, as it is the main theme of Raziel and Kain's conflict in Soul Reaver, but Ozar Midrashim - Information Society, is one piece that I deeply enjoy.
There's a metal cover of the game's music, "Between the Zones", with Wasteland Midrashim and Forgotten Lament being some I enjoy a lot.
My favourite "obscure" artist right now is a Vancouver band called Slightest Clue. Post/Punk alternative group.
This is good, big fan. I like the changes in intensity throughout the song.
They have two EPs right now and I'm quite a fan of both. If you liked that one, definitely check out the rest of their discography
Decapitated Camels by Simon Swerwer
This is actually two guitars having a conversation. lol
It's interesting that the phrase-end motif has two different rhythm variations throughout the song. I wonder what that symbolizes.IIRC, it was written for Dwarf Fortress so it might just actually symbolize camels fighting in a desert and getting decapitated. lol
Transmissor - Janela
Oh i like this. I have no idea what it's about but it gives me nostalgia/reminiscing vibes. Definitely a head nodder! Also i appreciate how much variety there is even being a short song.
I messaged them and told them it should be much longer, they appreciated the comment and that they were proud of the record. The album is great. This song in particular can make me cry if I listen to it enough.
Kind of well-known these days, but also obscure as we literally don't know who made it or even what it's called: "The most mysterious song on the internet"
There are so many:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNI0Mt_kLY&t=4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8&t=26
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAexp0w3H3c&t=2
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyWNsy5Lrk&t=0
- https://youtu.be/OaSEGZ3Xe_E?si=Yp3pSZaNATdunFQu
- https://youtu.be/gZa4yre0uEk?si=LZsWU1nALkrzVECy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNn5xnRl5A&t=3
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
You can thank
meBo later.With 145M views and like thousands of variations I wouldn't call this obscure. Great song, but not obscure.
LOL, fair enough I guess. 🤷♂️
I've never heard this before, Bo sure does know how to send a message.
I'm also learning this is where the piano and laughing meme came from. lol
Idk how obscure it is but FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND by Snake Pool
This is a fun one. The driving beat from the drums and the bouncing bass make me smile and it's impossible not to tilt my head back and forth to the beat.
The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith
The snare on 2 and 3 really adds to the military theme the artist is painting. Very cool. I feel like this song is a small piece of a larger story.
Sleepwalking by the Jaguar Club. https://youtu.be/EZU3zV33tYM
One Must Fall 2097 theme. https://youtu.be/pdVnKYcYi3g?si=g3DMymI7KQV8Vifh
Anything from the 1974 anime Jack and the Beanstalk OST but this: https://youtu.be/Ehqopzmx258?si=jQaKJRglCZkSLwFt
Isotopic shift
By pyromed
This almost gives me horror vibes due to being very busy and the wavering pitches on the synths. Reminds me of Stranger Things. lol
The Forgetting Room by Seeming
The build in the beginning of this song is so good. It's also interesting how vocals-focused the mix is, that's something i'm not used to.
Abortive Gasp - Psychogod. Someone posted this to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world last year. I was the only person to upvote and comment on it. 1K people upvoted it on youtube, but that's over 6 years. I don't know anything else about this group.
This is interesting. It's like dark-trance music. Also, is it Psychgod or Psychogod? Sounds like they're saying Psychgod and that's what's in the background as well.
I have no idea what they're saying or why. That's part of the charm. I have this in my "favorites" and always get hyped when it comes on.
Alopecia by Why? (Surprise it's an entire album)
But if you only want one song from it try Torpedo or Chron's
Yes, of course! Half of the music i listen to is instrumental.
That was a good song. It gives me vibes of melancholy and longing.
Shefferville, le dernier train by Michel Rivard
Not sure if the last one counts as a song since there's no singing, but Def one of my favourite musiques ever.
eh el ibara
Nice!
Showbread - Mouth Like a Magazine
https://youtu.be/RPviF7Wp_bw?si=pv5vnQFFPNRMoD1o
The band dropped off the map years ago. I barely understand the words, and that's when I read the lyrics. But from the chorus, I gather that the song is about hypocrisy, and that scratches an itch of yelling at people for being hypocritical
Memo From Turner from the soundtrack to 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.
Nada Nada by Avial I suppose it's obscure cuz it's not in English
Abney Park's Airship Pirates.
Every time it comes on in the wild I get excited.
Not sure if it's obscure since I don't go out much, but "Tastes like Candy" by Kissing Violet and "Wolf" by AlicebanD.
Was not expecting to see anyone else talk about Library Takeout.
I like a lot of obscure songs. Here's one of my random faves: Swamp - Mid-Air Thief
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
Come Back to Bed by Valley Lodge
Maybe Tomorrow by Abby Simons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkKi4CbWN0
This is from an old Youtube channel, Abby would write, record, edit, and post a new song every week for a year... almost.
When the song pops into my head from time to time, I miss the way that youtube felt.Tythe, Rachel Dradd - The Light https://youtu.be/nx4WcxFdDns
https://open.spotify.com/track/48Wf7PdYe7oqi55nEFxTJC?si=i_LWRGENTF23CWTHG8CC2A
Anxiety attack by Jeffrey Lewis
No Life King - Black Pyramid is under 40k views so probably that.
My first thought was Cryptkey - Windhand, or some Electric Wizard, but they are definitely more popular in general.
It's super chill.
Most music I like is considered obscure by my friends...
A song about the infamous East of Adelaide area of London, Ontario which is notoriously run-down compared to the rest of the city. A lot of the things mentioned in the song will sound very familiar to others who have lived in similar trashy neighbourhoods. The song became popular enough in London that one of London's former mayors, Joe Fantana, played the song with the band on the drums.
I'm Against the Government - Defiance, Ohio
Brand New Key by The Dollyrots
and the original version by Melanie
Anxiety - Optimus Rhyme
Wheelie Cyberman is one of my favorite obscure artists, and both Optimus Rhyme and his current band Supercommuter are great if you're into nerdrap and/or chiptune music (Supercommuter is much more chiptune than Optimus, but there's still a lot of influence there)! A couple more good tracks from both:
Unusual habits - Supercommuter
Bad ideas - Supercommuter
Reel Estate - Optimus Rhyme
Coded and United - Optimus Rhyme
Not massively into D&B but this is one of my favourites:
CunninLynguists - "The Format" (Feat. Masta Ace & Mr. SOS)
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.
Little Scandinavian band called Kashmir, mommy in love, daddy in space
Showing my age here, but Michael Caine by Madness.
Ramsey Midwood, Feed my Monkey
Damn near every song by Joshua Ray Walker
Yannis and the Yaw, Clementine
I got introduced to Brazilian Disco a few weeks ago:
Native Howl - Thunderhead https://youtu.be/CvBiXBSEGDY?si=qBzVCUfOj1l9BEf6
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.
Whatcha Doin to Me by The Reds
https://youtu.be/EqG_PN6Gt3E?si=bfgDl1RkCRnID4ov
I've been listening to it for over 40 years and it still fucking rocks.