# Obscure Albums that You Would Recommend **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414 "2007-04-24T03:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/1 "2007-04-24T03:39:22Z")
I have to put in my two cent’s worth for Rick Danko’s self-titled first, and I believe only, [album](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Danko_(album)). Songs like New Mexicoe and Tired of Waiting illustrate just how good a songwriter he was (with help of course from Bobby Charles and J. Atkinson). And that incredible voice and loping bass. I would bet that a lot of Band lovers have never heard this album, and I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/2 "2007-04-24T03:45:21Z")
I cannot imagine anyone not enjoying Willis Alan Ramsey’s first and only [album](http://www.amazon.com/Willis-Alan-Ramsey/dp/B00000JKG2). Every song is a little gem, and the performance is charming, easygoing, and occasionally edgy. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/3 "2007-04-24T04:36:04Z")
[Discover America](http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-0163989-3232765?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=van+dyke+parks+discover+america) by Van Dyke Parks. Great calypso music interpretations. [Soul of a City Boy](http://www.amazon.com/Soul-City-Jesse-Colin-Young/dp/B000002QZI/ref=sr_1_1/104-8625501-5267147?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177388839&sr=1-1) by Jesse Colin Young. Out of print (or whatever you call it), currently asking $89 at Amazon. Much better than anything he did with The Youngbloods. [Fotheringay](http://www.amazon.com/Fotheringay/dp/B0002QPT3K/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8625501-5267147?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177389178&sr=1-1). Recently back in print. One of the best British folk rock albums ever. “Banks of the Nile” alone is worth the purchase; a deep dark song that should only be played after 2:00am. ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/4 "2007-04-24T05:20:09Z")
I know that the only positive response I’m likely to get will be from people already familiar with their work via anime (that’s how I found them), but… Anything by Yoko Kanno. She’s a songwriter/composer who mostly works on soundtracks (mostly known in the US for the various anime she’s scored). I’d go out on a limb and say she’s hands-down better than any Hollywood composer I can think of (save Danny Elfman) in terms of both the excellence of her work, and the mind-boggling variety of styles she can put out. From J-pop, to rap, to country, to blues, to faux-classical, to grandiose operatic themes, to new age (tribal/world/whatchamacallit), to trance-techno… You get the idea. She’s probably most recognizeable here in the states for scoring everything in Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and the Ghost in the Shell TV series (Stand Alone Complex and 2nd Gig). You can easily get her stuff on Amazon. As good jumping off points I’d recommend _The Vision of Escaflowne: Original Soundtrack 2_ or _"-3_ (often seen as OST#) and _Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST1_ . Also, the Pillows. This is a Japanese band producing a fairly straight-forward alternative rock/punk rock sound. They’re best-known internationally because the FLCL anime series’ soundtrack was basically a best-of of their first 10-12 years. I highly recommend seeking out either FLCL OST (but especially the first one, the second has a bunch of bonus tracks of the Japanese voice-actors playing out non-canon scenes between characters, though the booklet does have translations). They’re one of the best-sounding bands in this genre, and I find myself constantly being able to listen through both albums without ever getting tired of it. Be warned, iTunes lists a band named Pillows that are completely unrelated, so don’t confuse the two. Lastly, although this is kind of cheating because they aren’t really very obscure, [the Hives](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hives) ! I cannot say enough about them. I absolutely love this punk/indie rock band from Sweden. If you’re familiar with them, it’s probably for “Hate to say I told you so,” “Two-timing touch and broken bones,” or “See idiot walk.” Or for their retro music videos where they’re dressed up like a band performing on a late-night show in the '60’s (think Mod, not Hippy ---
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Atahualpa[Ritmo & Sabor](http://www.atahualpa-music.com/Ritmo%20&%20Sabor.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Gentle\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gentle\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gentle_Robot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/6 "2007-04-24T05:40:12Z")
Possum Dixon - New Sheets ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/7 "2007-04-24T06:00:44Z")
Ryan Shupe and The RubberBand’s \* Dream Big\* album. Kick-ass bluegrass fusion. > [@](#): > > I’m a post Hee-Haw mover, a funkadelic punk-rock groover, > A cross between Bela Fleck, > And Eddie Vedder but better. > I’ll win a Grammy for the way I pick. > I’ll be an instrumental monster with tons of new licks, > And all the babes will love me, sell-out shows, > The only problem is I play the banjo. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/8 "2007-04-24T06:46:28Z")
With the understanding that this is why so many of my (non-musician) friends refuse to talk music with me (and that “obscure” is a relative term): **Abraxas Pool** This is the same band (more or less) that recorded Abraxas minus Carlos Santana. If you liked that, you’ll like this. **Allgood** - _Kickin’ And Screamin’_ good live CD by a (now defunct) jam band **Animal Logic** Stanley Clarke and Stewart Copeland playing on some chick’s album. 🙂 i kid, i kid. Try “Someone to come home to” **Automatic Man** space/rock + jazz/funk, from 1976 **Bellaphon** - _Firefly_ I don’t know anything about this Japanese prog(?) band, but I like this a lot. **Randall Bramblett** - _No More Mr. Lucky_ first call sax player makes a great solo album **Doyle Branhall II** - _Welcome_ You may know this guitarist from his other job, second guitarist in Eric Clapton’d touring band **Captain Beyond** How can you go wrong with a CD containing a song called “Dancing madly backwards on a sea of air”? **King Curtis** - _Live at Fillmore West_ This was the backing band on Aretha’s Live At The Fillmore album **Dreams** One of the first jazz/rock bands (1970) Billy Cobham and the Brecker brothers **Electromagnets** Eric Johnson and his band before he went solo and got famous (what do you mean “who’s Eric Johnson”?) **Endangered Species** One of Jimmy Herring’s projects (see, Eric Johnson don’t seem so obscure now, does he?) **Focus** - _III_ Not the album with “Hocus-Pocus”, the one with “Sylvia” \*\*Freddy Jones Band \*\* - _Mile High Live_ another now defunct jam band worth salvaging **Danny Gatton** - _88 Elmira St._ amazing guitarist who (like Roy Buchanan) was too much unappreciated (Stomu Yamashta’s) **Go** - \ as well as _Live From Paris_ (collected together along with _Go:Too_ on one CD called _The Go Sessions_) Space rock with Al DiMeola, Michael Shrieve, Pat Thrall, Klaus Schultze and Steve Winwood helping to realise Stomu Yamashta’s vision. **Boris Grebenshikov** - _Radio Silence_ Post Iron-Curtain-Collapse Russian rock **Gypsy** - \ as well as _Antithesis_ Not as obscure as I once thought. Mid-western rock and roll. **Pete Haycock** - _Guitar and Son_ Instrumental album from Climax Blues Band guitarist. Nothing like Climax Blues Band. \*\*Warren Haynes \*\* - _Tales Of Ordinary Madness_ Every home should have a copy of this. **Hughes-Thrall** well crafted mid-80’s rock from Deep Purple bass/vocalist and Pat Traver’s other guitarist **If** - \*Forgotten Roads \* (best of) “trumpet-playing” band **The Indians** - _Indianism_ well crafted pop album (not my favorite kind of music, but I like this). \*\*Jazz Is Dead \*\* - (three albums, all good) rotating line-up of Very Good Musicians playing jazz(ish) arrangements of Grateful Dead songs **Alphonse Mouzon** - _Mind Transplant_ late 70’s fusion with Tommy Bolin on guitar **Nektar** - _Remember The Future_ and _Down To Earth_ German band, followers of Pink Floyd **Nuclear Valdez** - _Dream Another Dream_ interesting album from Florida Cuban-American band **Ozric Tentacles** - (most anything but especially) _Jurrassic Shift_ I don’t know how to describe (and do justice to) this band, but I’ve bought a lot of their Cds and one DVD **Greg Rolie** - _Roots_ founding member of Santana and Journey. If you like Abraxas Pool, you’ll like this. **Screaming Cheetah Wheelies** - _Magnolia_ yet another defunct jamband \*\*Sky \*\* - _2_ Classical/rock band (as opposed to classic rock band) **Storyville** - _Bluest Eyes_ This is what Double Trouble did after Stevie died. Completely different kind of music, very soulful. **Izzy Stradlin and the Juju Hounds** What Izzy did after Guns ‘N’ Roses. Reminds me of Sticky Fingers era Stones **Strangefolk** - _Weightless In Water_ another defunct jamband (I’m seeing a theme) **The Tangent** - _the music that died alone_ (and the other two, too) There is a new kind of prog-rock in the world and this band is part of it. **Transatlantic** - _Bridge Across Forever_ And this band is one of it’s super-groups. Neal Morse (Spock’s Beard), Roine Stolt (Flower Kings), Pete Trawavas (Marillion) and Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater and arguably the best drummer alive) Not For Mass Consumption (more’s the pity) **Trapeze** - _Medusa_ Is this really obscure? \*\*The Why Store \*\* - _Welcome To …_ fairly recent band **Wide Mouthed Mason** as is this one \*\*Wishbone Ash \*\* - _Nouveau Calls_ another instrumental album from the same series as the Pete Haycock album **Zakk Wylde** - _Book Of Shadows_ I don’t really like ‘Shredders" and Zakk is very much one. He was in Ozzy’s band for cryin’ out loud. But I really like this CD. Not necessarily for fans of Black Label Society (Zakk’s current band). And this is not even considering the many overlooked or underappreciated albums by mainstream people, such as **Argent** - _Circus_ **Allman Brothers** - _Enlightened Rogues_ **Blue Oyster Cult** - _On Your Feet Or On Your Knees_ **Tommy Bolin** - \ **Deep Purple** - _Come Taste The Band_ (Bolin) and _Purpendicular_ (Steve Morse) **(Dixie) Dregs** - their entire career **James Gang** - both _Miami_ and _Bang_ (yeah I like Tommy Bolin. Why do you ask?) **Loggins and Messina** - _Mother Lode_ Yeah, I said it! Loggins and Messina. You wanna make somethin’ of it? **Marshall Tucker Band** - _Together Forever_ \*\*moe. \*\* How does Phish get famous but nobody’s heard of moe.? (not that they are alike) **Montrose** - _Warner Brothers Presents…_ **Santana** - _Welcome_ and _Lotus_ and _Borboletta_ and… **Sea Level** Okay, I understand why they were overlooked by the mainstream, but worth revisiting **Stephen Stills** - _Manassas_ (except that country side, we can overlook that, I don’t mind.) **Traffic** - _When The Eagle Flies_ Everybody luuurves Traffic, right? So how come nobody ever knows this one? **Johnny Winter** - _Saints and Sinners_ Like the Traffic album, this one seems to have come in under the radar, but how can you not like “Feedback on Highway 101” or “Blinded By Love”? Now, aren’t you glad you asked? ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/9 "2007-04-24T08:07:50Z")
I wonder how “obscure” you want to go. Stuff that I consider overplayed and overexposed in my circle, like the Arcade Fire or TV on the Radio would be completely obscure to someone that’s only a casual music listener. Here are some records that don’t get enough love and attention from even people that listen to obscure stuff and keep up with music: **Hackamore Brick** - _One kiss leads to another_ - Recorded around the same time and in the same studio with the same engineer as the Velvet Underground’s _Loaded_, this is a near-perfect slice of peacefully druggy, jangly NYC sixties/seventies transfer rock. The songs are astonishingly great and sometimes have loopy lyrics and themes (“i watched you rhumba” and “oh, those sweet bananas” spring to mind), but they manage to be completely heartbreaking at the same time in the way that only the Velvets did on their last record and maybe Big Star on their first (while being sonically cut from the same cloth). I don’t think that this has been released on CD, and that’s a crime. \*\*Chris Bell \*\* - _I am the cosmos_ - Chris Bell was half of the songwriting team in Big Star; that band is legendary, but Alex Chilton is the name that most people associate with the band because 1) he’s still alive and 2) he went on to head the band after Bell’s leaving. This is sort of a solo album and sort of a compilation of stuff that Bell did on his own, and it’s totally amazing. Especially the title track. **Jackson C. Frank** - _Blues run the game_ - Though he was friends with a young Art Garfunkel and a young Nick Drake and recorded this album at the same time that those guys were doing their best work, Frank never had the success that they did. This record is one of my favorites of all time; think of Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen at their absolute darkest, then make it a few shades darker. Immaculately recorded late-sixties english folk from the depths of despair - incredible songwriting. **Young Marble Giants** - _Collossal Youth_ - This is one of those albums that’s absolutely legendary to people that know it, and completely unheard of to most people, even hipsters that usually keep up with this stuff or at least feign attempts to. Late-seventies/early eighties minimal, melancholy pop songs made from little more than organ, dinky drum machine, and singer Alison Statten’s Nico-as-little girl vocals. “The man amplifier,” “N.I.T.A.,” “Credit in the straight world,” “Wurlitzer Jukebox” - insta-classic songs. ---
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[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] **Loggins and Messina** - _Mother Lode_ Yeah, I said it! Loggins and Messina. You wanna make somethin’ of it? [/QUOTE] Mother Lode is one of my favorite albums of all time. I’m going to go listen to it now. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/11 "2007-04-24T10:51:53Z")
**Masayoshi Takanaka** - _Rainbow Goblin Story: Live at Budokan_ Old Japanese guy in a trenchcoat performs a jazz-fusion opera based on a children’s book. If you can, get the VHS and watch it; the visuals make it even better. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/12 "2007-04-24T13:02:21Z")
**Kak** by Kak – Great little psychedelic rock group with one excellent album out. **Emitt Rhodes** by Emitt Rhodes – Billed, with some justification, as “the American Paul McCartney” – sounds a lot like Paul, and did his album all by himself at the same time McCartney was doing it. Very catchy pop songs that are never cliched. **Renaissance** by Renaissance – No, not the group that did “Ashes are Burning.” This was their original incarnation, a spinoff of the Yardbirds. One of the best ever meldings of classical and rock. **Delaney and Bonnie and Friends on Tour with Eric Clapton**. Great little blues-rock group that was the genesis for Derek and the Dominoes. **Child is Father to the Man** by Blood Sweat and Tears. No, not the David Clayton-Thomas group. This was their original incarnation, headed by Al Kooper. Excellent blues based rock, with jazz horns nicely integrated. **Flash and the Pan** and **Lights in the Night** by Flash and the Pan. Apocalyptic minor-key rock, filled with menace, from the original members of the Easybeats. **It’s a Beautiful Day** by It’s a Beautiful Day. “White Bird” is a classic, but the entire album is filled with great music. One of the few groups to highlight a violin rather a guitar. **Basket of Light** by Pentangle. British folk rock at its very best. **White African** by Otis Taylor. Taylor is an amazing blues musician, with probably the darkest vision of the blues around. **Third** by Soft Machine – jazz fusion pioneers. “Third” has been called the best rock album of all time. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/13 "2007-04-24T13:40:24Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] **Child is Father to the Man** by Blood Sweat and Tears. No, not the David Clayton-Thomas group. This was their original incarnation, headed by Al Kooper. Excellent blues based rock, with jazz horns nicely integrated. [/QUOTE] YEAH!!! Also… **Countdown Quartet** - by the Countdown Quartet. A little jazz band out of Chapel Hill, NC that pretty much plays parties and weddings (and the Flying Burrito) but they swing really hard. Their lead singer is a God Among Men with trombone chops of steel. **Oh! The Grandeur!** - by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire. Ok more jazz. Some people on the SDMB have heard of Bird. This is the band’s second album, and the first one is awesome too but this one is even better. Fiddle-based jazz with a crooning frontman. Difference here is that Bird writes great lyrics that you don’t usually find in jazz. **Heretic Blues** - by Kevin O’Donnell’s Quality Six. Also a jazz outfit. It’s a backwards mix (meaning the drummer has his name on the band) of Bowl of Fire but Andrew Bird is still the crooner and he kicks some major ass. It’s a beautiful album! ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/14 "2007-04-24T13:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] \*\*Chris Bell \*\* - _I am the cosmos_ [/QUOTE] Yes! Great stuff. I’d like to put in a plug for one of my favorite bands, Poster Children. They’ve been around for almost 20 years, making great postpunk albums in the style of early Talking Heads or XTC. They signed to a major label in the mid '90s, made a couple of alternative/grunge albums that didn’t go anywhere, then got back to self-releasing wonderful postpunk albums every couple of years. Start with _DDD_. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/15 "2007-04-24T13:54:52Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] **Renaissance** by Renaissance – No, not the group that did “Ashes are Burning.” This was their original incarnation, a spinoff of the Yardbirds. One of the best ever meldings of classical and rock. [/QUOTE] Too bad Keith tried to play guitar in the tub. This incarnation could have been superb with a little development. I always liked Jane’s voice, too. > [@](#): > > **It’s a Beautiful Day** by It’s a Beautiful Day. “White Bird” is a classic, but the entire album is filled with great music. One of the few groups to highlight a violin rather a guitar. **Marrying Maiden** is better, IMO. > [@](#): > > **Basket of Light** by Pentangle. British folk rock at its very best. Oh, yeah. For the lovers of the truly obscure, dig up [Letting Go](http://www.lorilieberman.com/discography.html) by Lori Lieberman. She did **Killing Me Softly** before Roberta Flack, and better. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/16 "2007-04-24T14:17:32Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Emitt Rhodes : Second that. “Live” is, IMO, one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. I don’t know how this guy avoided being big. Speaking of pop, I wanted to mention “All Our Own Work,” by Sandy Denny and the Strawbs. While the artists aren’t obscure, this album always seems to slip through the cracks. It has the original recording of “Who Knows Where the Time Goes,” but my favorite song is “On My Way.” Given what the Strawbs got into, it’s surprising how pop they started out. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/17 "2007-04-24T14:22:48Z")
Before **RealityChuck** nails me, I guess I’d better mention that “Live” is not on “Emitt Rhodes.” It was done by his band, “The Merry Go Round,” and can be found on “Listen, Listen: The Best of Emitt Rhodes.” ---
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Check out [http://www.anthologyrecordings.com](http://www.anthologyrecordings.com). A small but wonderful selection of obscure stuff that deserves to be preserved. I especially like the Fresh Maggots album, _[Hatched](http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=awMc2hg5Fp4)_. ---
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Schnauser - [Kill All Humans](http://theluckybishops.com/schnauzer/reviews.htm). Apparently this band is based in Armenia, though its members are British. That site compares it to early Zappa and the Beatles, which I think are accurate, but their sound is very unique and not readily comparable to anything else. You can hear a lot of their songs on their [website.](http://www.schnauser.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/20 "2007-04-24T14:44:51Z")
Dale Hawkins, [L.A., Memphis and Tyler, Texas](http://www.cherryred.co.uk/revola/artists/dalehawkins.htm). I bought this a couple of months ago and have since been playing it quite a bit, I think it’s very good swamp rock/blues. Hawkins cut the album, only his second, in 1969 in the three legendary studios of Joe Osborne’s in L.A., Ardent in Memphis and Robin Hood Brians’ in Tyler. James Burton, Ry Cooder, Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Wayne Jackson and Mouse and the Traps make contributions. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414.md?page=2)