# Blow My Mind with Some Obscure Rock and Roll **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 11, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358 "2022-09-11T02:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/81 "2022-09-13T23:01:05Z")
Ah, I was a little too young for discos in 1980 with twelve years. As for radio, it seems “Mel Sondock’s Hitparade” and “Schlagerralley” on WDR1 didn’t play her. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/82 "2022-09-13T23:14:00Z")
Ooo…the Mystic Blutstuz track by Amon Düül is pretty neat. Definitely foreshadows trip-hop. I wasn’t aware of them before this thread – will have to check out more. My Krautrock (which I really like) is limited to the usual - Neu!, Can, and Kraftwerk. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/83 "2022-09-13T23:30:56Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Ooo…the Mystic Blutstuz track by Amon Düül is pretty neat. Definitely foreshadows trip-hop. I wasn’t aware of them before this thread – will have to check out more. You can’t go wrong with any of their 70s albums, but “Wolf City”, the album “Mystic Blutsturz” is a bonus track from would be a good start. I also can recommend “Yeti”, “Tanz der Lemminge” and “Vive la Trance”. It’s all good stuff. But beware: there was a predecessor group just called “Amon Düül” that made two or three albums in the late 60s/early 70s and were rather a political commune that made music than real musicians, and I’ve heard that their music was not very good. Amon Düül II was a whole other band and the real deal. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/84 "2022-09-13T23:36:43Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > [The Handsome Family](https://handsomefamily.com/) is a Chicago-based brother-and-sister act who sound like Nick Cave filtered through the Cowboy Junkies’ _Trinity Sessions_. Eccentric, atmospheric and quietly intense. I know them since Spotify offered them up a couple years ago. Their song _So Much Wine_ hits close to the bone for one of previous relationships. ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/85 "2022-09-14T00:12:30Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kS1ouoTKXRY/hqdefault.jpg "Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix - Dodgem Dude") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1ouoTKXRY) ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/86 "2022-09-14T00:41:25Z")
Chicago’s The Defoliants “The Guy Who Got Mad” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v6EzxKvDF5U/maxresdefault.jpg "The Guy Who Got Mad") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6EzxKvDF5U) ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/87 "2022-09-14T01:01:29Z")
Maybe this counts as obscure enough. I know this song never made it far in the charts, but it became one of my favorites the first time I heard it. The guitars from 1:48 to 2:40 still give me chills. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_xEcxqBWpQQ/hqdefault.jpg "1994 - Shoot To Kill") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xEcxqBWpQQ) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/88 "2022-09-14T13:07:58Z")
Obscure rockers (The Plimsouls) covering a song by a not quite as obscure group (Flamin’ Groovies). [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TuYwoWmjfAU/hqdefault.jpg "The Plimsouls - Jumpin' In The Night") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuYwoWmjfAU) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/89 "2022-09-14T13:58:50Z")
“A Million Miles Away” got a ton of airplay when it came out. Was that just in Southern California? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/90 "2022-09-14T15:02:24Z")
Nah, it was played on MTV quite a bit, too. I think it was also in the movie Valley Girl. (checks wiki) Heh, they’re actually in the movie playing at a club. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/91 "2022-09-14T17:35:43Z")
FWIW, I think “Happy Boy” is about the dumbest of the Beat Farmers’ joke songs. “Big Ugly Wheels” and “California Kid” are raunchier and funnier IMO. I highly recommend [their live set](https://www.amazon.com/Loud-Plowed-Live-Beat-Farmers/dp/B001FLJQJO). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/92 "2022-09-14T17:38:41Z")
How funny. I know the Plimsouls and have no idea who the Flamin’ Groovies are. (I’m sure your assessment is correct – I somehow have an inverted familiarity here – probably because the latter are of my time and the former – reading Wikipedia – aren’t.) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/93 "2022-09-14T17:50:34Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > How funny. I know the Plimsouls and have no idea who the Flamin’ Groovies are. You REALLY should check out the Flamin’ Groovies! One of the great forgotten American bands. And one of the missing links between garage rock and punk. They were so prescient that they had a late comeback in England shortly after punk broke there. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/94 "2022-09-14T17:54:21Z")
Sounds right up my alley, then! ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/95 "2022-09-14T20:12:18Z")
Phantom, Rocker and Slick [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XK86vm0yMpE/maxresdefault.jpg "Runnin' from the Hounds") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK86vm0yMpE) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/96 "2022-09-14T22:06:19Z")
From what I heard, that was a good song, and anything else they put out was filler. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/97 "2022-09-14T22:26:07Z")
They came through town earlier this year and my wife and I were dithering about going. We decided not to after we discovered we couldn’t name _two_ of their songs. It’s a shame since I really dig the song @Jackmannii posted. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/98 "2022-09-15T05:22:54Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fXCq4KSL4Dk/hqdefault.jpg "Happyhead - Fabulous") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXCq4KSL4Dk) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2022, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358/99 "2022-09-15T05:32:14Z")
**The Zeros** from Chula Vista, CA. Guitarist Robert Lopez would go on to create [El Vez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Vez?wprov=sfti1), the Mexican Elvis. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a_1rS6pr3w4/hqdefault.jpg "The Zeros - Don't Push Me Around") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1rS6pr3w4) ---
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[801](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/801_(band)) were a temporary band featuring members of Roxy Music, Curved Air and others.[Their live album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/801_Live) is absolutely worth catching! A sampler: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E-6s9JlNSkU/maxresdefault.jpg "801 Live ► Tomorrow Never Knows [HQ Audio] 1976") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6s9JlNSkU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-my-mind-with-some-obscure-rock-and-roll/971358.md?page=6)