# Obscure bands/music that you like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180 "2008-07-11T20:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/1 "2008-07-11T20:56:47Z")
_Cuillin_, a Canadian band (I think from Nova Scotia) that infuses rock and Celtic-style music. (Imagine a tamer version of _Dropkick Murphys_.) Can’t seem to find their music anywhere, though. _Minibosses_, a band that rocks out old school Nintendo music. I actually first heard of these guys through an [SDMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273940&highlight=minibosses) a while back. What non-mainstream bands or music do you like? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/2 "2008-07-11T21:16:33Z")
[Yell County](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=473907) (link to previous SDMB thread) - great rock n’ roll from one of our own!! ---
**Author:** ![HeadNinja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@HeadNinja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeadNinja)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/3 "2008-07-11T21:25:49Z")
The Weakerthans. The perfect band for a certain phase of life. The part where you just got out of college and got nothing going on and it seems like you’ll be stuck in that mode forever. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/4 "2008-07-11T21:26:12Z")
**Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band** - only one album and now dissolved, but man, I loved this group. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/5 "2008-07-11T21:37:16Z")
Years ago I picked up a tape called [World Entertainment War](http://www.freewillastrology.com/cds/) in a bargain bin for 50 cents. Really blew me away. Kind of a cross between Sly and the Family Stone and Steely Dan. _The Marlboro Man can spit in to the wind and not get sprayed He smokes and smokes and smoke but he never coughs Loves martinis with his brown rice and sex with his TV Comitting crimes that don’t break any laws No truth or consequences!_ ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/6 "2008-07-11T21:48:07Z")
[Atherton](http://www.athertonmusic.com) I met the lead singer at **Wilco** concert, when he took my picture with Jeff Tweedy (I did not have my camera as I never expected to meet Jeff Tweedy) and he was hanging out backstage, too. They’re an alt-country band, so their genre isn’t obscure, but I doubt too many people heard of them. I adore them, though. I think **Skyline Motel** is one of the best albums I’ve heard in the past two years. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/7 "2008-07-11T22:03:17Z")
_The Atomic Bitchwax_: a former side project of Monster Magnet’s lead guitarist Ed Mundial who’ve gone forward on their own: loopy, improvisation-heavy hard rock with a profound stoner-rock influences (naturally) and many lyrics about science fiction, fast cars, and getting high. _The Flesh Eaters/The Divine Horsemen/Stone by Stone_: various musical incarnations of the incandescently talented, incredibly prolific Mr. _Chris D_(esjardins) --an undeservedly obscure songwriter, singer and poet who’s been doin’ it since the late 1970s. _High On Fire_: holding the fort in the SF Bay Area for the last several years,with a mean-metal crunch and moan that’s hard and evil and frighteningly beautiful. \*Roky Erickson! ROKY ERICKSON! \*\*ROKY ERICKSON! \*\*\* ---
**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:** [July 11, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/8 "2008-07-11T22:20:04Z")
Oh, man. Where should I start? **McDonald and Giles Emitt Rhodes Kak Renaissance** (their first album, which is an entirely different group from what anyone knows) **Hayes Carll The Anemic Boyfriend The Flying Lizards Soft Machine The Bonzo Dog Band Python Lee Jackson Jeremy and the Satyrs Blotto The McKrells** (local band) **Loudon Wainwright III Otis Taylor Deborah Coleman** Just as a start. ---
**Author:** ![unstrung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a698b9/32.png) [@unstrung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unstrung)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/9 "2008-07-11T23:39:23Z")
You people give me way too much homework. (thank you) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/10 "2008-07-12T00:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=unstrung] You people give me way too much homework. (thank you) [/QUOTE] I assume you know about \*\*Big Star \*\* - too obscure to start; now too well know as a cult influence. Amazing, influential music… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/11 "2008-07-12T01:20:05Z")
[QUOTE=LilShieste] _Cuillin_, a Canadian band (I think from Nova Scotia) that infuses rock and Celtic-style music. (Imagine a tamer version of _Dropkick Murphys_.) Can’t seem to find their music anywhere, though. [/QUOTE] You’ll find a lot of those down East. [The Punters](http://www.thepunters.com/about.php), for example, are very good. > [@](#): > > _Minibosses_, a band that rocks out old school Nintendo music. I actually first heard of these guys through an [SDMB thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273940&highlight=minibosses) a while back. And for video game music, you can’t beat [The Black Mages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Mages) - although they have a more restricted list of music, sticking to Final Fantasy tracks. (Nobuo Uematsu, who wrote the music for most of the FF games leads the band, and is the organist.) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/12 "2008-07-12T01:28:31Z")
Thanks, **WordMan**! Your set of autographed Yell Co. pom-poms are in the mail! 😃 I’ll add the **Loud Family** (and **Game Theory** from the 80s), both bands featuring Scott Miller, one of the best songwriters I’ve ever heard. If you like Big Star, this is kind of like them on steroids. The albums _Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things_ and _Interbabe Concern_ are must-haves by LF, along with _Big Shot Chronicles_ and _Lolita Nation_ by GT. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/13 "2008-07-12T01:38:46Z")
Pretty much everything I listen to these days. It’s my job! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/14 "2008-07-12T02:40:48Z")
The Asylum Street Spankers One of the greatest bands ever out of Austin. And now on tour! Go listen, they got a jukebox on their website: > **[Asylum Street Spankers](https://asylumstreetspankers.bandcamp.com)** > > The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers stand as one of America's most distinctive groups. Defiantly acoustic, fiercely independent and absurdly good, one reviewer aptly described them as "a roots-rock riddle, nestled in a satirical... Saw them at “Eddie’s Attic” last Saturday night – man, what a show! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/15 "2008-07-12T02:43:45Z")
Ever hear of the Jags? I think they were better known in the UK; they only put out two albums. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2y8JKBFQ0MI/hqdefault.jpg "The Jags - Back of m hand") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8JKBFQ0MI) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/16 "2008-07-12T02:50:45Z")
[Crack the Sky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_the_Sky) ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/17 "2008-07-12T02:53:53Z")
I really dug a band called [Sanctuary](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGupfeDAek). Their first album, called Refuge Denied, was produced by Dave Mustain and rocked. The band split or something and some of them are now in a band called Nevermore. Not huge Nevermore fan though. Side note, I saw Sanctuary in a little place in New Mexico. They apparently were not exactly happy with the sound in the place. For the last two or three songs the sound man cranked the PA. He just cranked all the knobs all the way up. It was insanely loud. The back wall of the theater was bouncing. It was nuts. There was another band called 9.0 that I got into. They had a great guitarist named [Craig Small](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t52pdB3d0iE). The band was on Shrapnel and never got very big. One day I was at my apartment which I shared with a guy named Bryan. I was in the kitchen and had a 9.0 cd on while I was doing dishes. I heard someone come in and I walked into the living room. Bry walked in with Craig Small. I said ‘Dude, your Craig Small!’ and he said ‘Dude, your listening to my cd!’. Another band that kicked ass was [Savatage](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJHbKvwTeQ) . The guitarist, Criss Olivia had a great tone and a great feel. He died, which really sucks. The vocalist takes a bit of getting used to though… I am a huge Fates Warning fan. They have been around forever and have changed a whole lot along the way. I think they had one song that made MTV. Another great band is [New Model Army](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgQOEyxeeKg) . I don’t know if they would qualify as obscure, 'cause I think they are reasonably big in Europe, but no one in the U.S has heard of them. Back when I was like 18 the toured and I met the band. We all got drunk on wine and argued politics. They are a bit to the left. Slee ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/18 "2008-07-12T03:52:58Z")
Yes, I will fight for my country! I dig NMA; I saw them in Atlanta with like 10 other people in the audience back in '87-ish. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/19 "2008-07-12T05:09:55Z")
Check these out: Current 93 Nurse With Wound Inade Fire & Ice Lucisferrato Residents Cyclotimia Lunar Abyss Quartet Reutoff Beyond Senory Experience ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2008, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180/20 "2008-07-12T06:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=Biotop] Check these out: Current 93 Nurse With Wound Inade Fire & Ice Lucisferrato Residents Cyclotimia Lunar Abyss Quartet Reutoff Beyond Senory Experience [/QUOTE] YAY! There’s omebody else on this board besides me who likes straight-up **NOISE**! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-bands-music-that-you-like/456180.md?page=2)