# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Electrical\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ac8455/32.png) [@Electrical\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electrical_Storm)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/41 "2007-04-25T17:25:01Z")
Don’t know how obscure you all would consider it, but I highly recommend to my fellow headbangers - and everyone else, of course 😃 : Tool “Undertow” (1993…I think.) The whole album is bitchin’. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/42 "2007-04-25T17:41:05Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] Raincoats, **Odyshape**. In between their first record (amateurish but charming girlpunk) and their third (almost-professional off-kilter worldbeat), the all-female Raincoats released a record where they hadn’t quite learned how write songs or play their instruments in a normal matter, but this record has the power to scare the shit out of me for some reason. The ticking alarm clock gamelan of “Only Loved at Night” especially. [/QUOTE] **Odyshape** is a really cool record; I never got into the original Kurt Cobain name-checking punky violin Raincoats, but then I progressed to Odyshape. I love when bands go weird. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/43 "2007-04-25T17:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] Well, then, don’t leave out [The Compleat Dancing Master](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m/103-3188890-1464639?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=compleat+dancing+master). Mostly the same lineup as “Morris On,” it offers a wider range of music (including Renaissance and Medieval), with short readings by superb actors interspersed. [/QUOTE] So–I’m not the only one who bought that record! (Or CD.) Great choice. [_Anthems In Eden_ is also very fine.](http://www.amazon.com/Anthems-Eden-Amaranth-Shirley-Collins/dp/B00000JTB4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-6060729-8091140?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177523088&sr=8-2) British folk with (slightly) Renaissance instrumental backing. My LP was destroyed & I was quite happy when it appeared on CD. Another vote for Willis Alan Ramsey’s first (& for so many years _only_) record. For anyone who likes singer/songwriters. And he can actually sing better than many of them. And for _Forever Changes_… (Need to check out my LP collection. However, some of the obscure ones are obscure for a reason.) ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/44 "2007-04-25T18:06:05Z")
**Robert Gordon with Link Wray** (Private Stock 1977) I saw Link Wray do a surfer guitar show in 2003, two years before he died. He was in his 70s and he had a blond bimbo playing tambourine. He confided in me that he had her in the band “as a way to get into her pants”. hehe. The album has Robert Gordon’s hit, _My gal is red hot, your gal aint doodly squat_. A great album. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/45 "2007-04-25T18:12:08Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] So–I’m not the only one who bought that record! (Or CD.) [/quote] Indeed you’re not. I’ve told my _Compleat Dancing Master_ story here before–that it had been a huge favorite of mine since the mid '70s, but when it came out on CD a few years ago I discovered that the LP I’d been listening to all those years (even getting it autographed by John Kirkpatrick) had the wrong music on side two! It was actually side one of _The Compleat Dancing Master_ backed with side two of the very similar Ashley Hutchings project _Rattlebone and Ploughjack_. > [@](#): > > [_Anthems In Eden_ is also very fine.](http://www.amazon.com/Anthems-Eden-Amaranth-Shirley-Collins/dp/B00000JTB4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-6060729-8091140?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177523088&sr=8-2) Exquisite. ---
**Author:** ![rhythmonly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee59a6/32.png) [@rhythmonly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhythmonly)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/46 "2007-04-25T22:10:00Z")
“How The Other Half Lives” by The Crybabies. I heard their cover of “Man With Money” on the Underground Garage, and bought the CD. One of the few CD’s that I’ve listened to from start to finish, and enjoyed every single track. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/47 "2007-04-25T22:11:05Z")
I’ve done a few of these “obscure” threads before, and I hope I don’t repeat myself. **Lowell George** - Thanks I’ll Eat It Here **Cephus and Wiggins** - Guitar Man ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/48 "2007-04-25T22:12:17Z")
[QUOTE=koeeoaddi] [Morris On.](http://www.amazon.com/Morris/dp/B00000063T) Traditional British folk songs with a raw Steeleye span kind of vibe. Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, John Kirkpatrick, Shirley Collins – what’s not to love? [/QUOTE] On the subject of folk and folk-rock, Bob Pegg is one of the most woefully neglected artists ever, first as a member of [Mr Fox](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Join-Us-Our-Game-Gipsy/dp/B00063ZQ1Y/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-0743758-0523622?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177538579&sr=8-1), Then with Nick Strutt both unplugged and with an electric band (The Shipbuilder is one of the best concept albums ever) - [all of his post-Mr Fox stuff finally re-released](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeper-Fire-Anthology-Bob-Pegg/dp/B000FUU2KI/ref=sr_1_1/026-0743758-0523622?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177538840&sr=1-1) - and, most recently, [solo.](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Wolf-Bob-Pegg/dp/B0000081AJ/ref=sr_1_2/026-0743758-0523622?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1177538840&sr=1-2) The man deserves some recognition (and a new album would be nice, too!). ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/49 "2007-04-25T22:18:48Z")
**Clinic** - _Internal Wrangler_ - Can’t describe them, but freakin’ awesome **K-Os** - _Joyful Rebellion_ - My favorite hip-hop album ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/50 "2007-04-25T23:16:13Z")
[QUOTE=Jackknifed Juggernaut] **Clinic** - _Internal Wrangler_ - Can’t describe them, but freakin’ awesome [/QUOTE] I call them “the band that Radiohead should be, making the albums that Radiohead should be making at this point in their career.” _Internal Wrangler_ is already a classic, and they haven’t topped it since. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414/51 "2007-04-25T23:38:10Z")
**The Swollen Monkeys** , _Afterbirth of the Cool_. If you just really need to hear how insane a horn band can get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-albums-that-you-would-recommend/401414.md?page=2)