# The "recommend an obscure CD" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892 "2003-07-16T15:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/101 "2004-03-11T02:51:36Z")
> [@The Big Cheese](#): > > This ‘band’ by the name of **‘Songs: Ohia’**. It’s mostly this Jason Molina, who seems to be covering a lot of different ground lately. > > I like ‘Axxess and Ace’ that came out in '99 I think. Kind of a cross between rock and insurgent country maybe?? “Captain Badass” is on this one, one of my favorite songs. Ack! I came to this thread expressly to recommend Songs: Ohia. I was so confident I was going to be the first/only person to mention them, too. The disc I was going to recommend was 2002’s **Didn’t It Rain** , which only gets better each time I listen to it. Jason Molina has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. I also totally second **Germ Free Adolescents** by X-Ray Spex and **In the Aeroplane Over the Sea** by Neutral Milk Hotel – both of those are in my top 5 albums of all time. As Belle and Sebastian are my favorite band, I’ll also second **If You’re Feeling Sinister**. And so I can bring something new to the discussion, I’ll recommend Throwing Muses’ self-titled first album, now found on the **In a Doghouse** comp. Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donnelly went on to have reasonably successful solo careers, but this defines their work for me. Bipolar, eccentric punk-rockabilly-country-rock-pop. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/102 "2004-03-11T03:40:57Z")
The U.K. band [Candidate](http://www.candidatesite.co.uk/index.html) is really on a roll. I love their last album of acoustic folk-pop **Nuada** , which was inspired by the cult 1973 British horror flick **The Wicker Man** and featured Pentangle’s legendary Bert Jansch. But they also have a more regular pop album coming out April 5th that’s beginning to garner some stellar notices, so… if you liked the movie or English folk music, get **Nuada**. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/103 "2004-03-11T04:34:56Z")
Bedhead - **What Fun Life Was** Bedhead are amazing, this is my favorite. Richard and Linda Thompson - **I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight** How come nobody has Richard and Linda Thompson cds? This and **Shoot Out the Lights** are their masterpieces, but they are all good. Luna - **Penthouse** Galaxie 500 is great, but I like this album better than anything by them. “Bonnie and Clyde”, a duet with Laetitia Sadier, is especially good. Pale Saints - **The Comforts of Madness** The forgotten forerunners of “shoegaze”. Better than pretty much anything that followed in that genre. ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/104 "2004-03-11T04:37:50Z")
Oops! I forgot to mention: Cocteau Twins - **Love’s Easy Tears** Probably my favorite song they’ve done. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/105 "2004-03-11T05:14:27Z")
**The Connells** - _Ring_ If anyone knows where I can get this album on CD, please tell me! My casette is dying… Awesome stuff, I wanna say released in '92. **Japan** - _Gentlemen Take Polaroids_ David Sylvian drove these guys. A little strange on first listen, but it’s New Wave synth-pop at it’s quirky best. **Paul Oakenfold** - _Tranceport_ The album that turned me on to trance music. Really really great. **Tool** - _Opiate_ “What? There was an album _before_ Undertow?” I get that a lot. Anything by **The Residents** or **Kraftwerk**. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/106 "2004-03-11T05:31:14Z")
[The Wreck of the Muldoons](http://www.themuldoons.net/buy.htm). By the Muldoons, a damn cool folk-rock band from the U.P., eh? You can listen to some of their other stuff [here](http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/muldoons) ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/107 "2004-03-11T09:20:02Z")
> [@vl\_mungo](#): > > I don’t know if it was the same band, there’s a band from Vancouver call _Circle C_ or _Copyright_. If it is the one you were thinking of, they still (quietly) exist. Check it out… > [Copyright](http://www.divineindustries.com/CopyrightStory.html) That’s them! Thanks for the link! I followed a few links from there and found a track listing of the _Circle C_ album I have, and that’s the one. It was released in 1991. A previous incarnation of the band called _Slow_ released an EP in 1985 called “Against The Glass”. After _Circle C_, they became _Copyright_, and released “Love Story” in 1997 (with videos for the songs “Transfiguration” and “Radio”), and “The Hidden World” in 2001 (with a video for the song “Rock Machine”). Unfortunately for their fans, they’ve just called it quits. I’d never heard of _Copyright_, and only knew of _Circle C_ from the cassette I found in a dollar bin. But I really like the _Circle C_ album, and really need to get it on CD. I’ll probably end up copying it from cassette to my laptop, then burning it onto disc. (Then the music police will come and get me. 😉 Anyhoo… ---
**Author:** ![horhay\_achoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@horhay\_achoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horhay_achoa)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/108 "2004-03-11T18:36:44Z")
I’ll hop in on this… Screaming Headless Torsos - I think its self titled. Very cool Funk Metal with a Jazz singer. From NYC. Oh My God - “Interogations and Confessions” - Art Rock that actually ROCKS. From Chicago. Townhall - “The New Song” - Cool hippy Soul. From Philly. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892/109 "2004-03-11T19:44:09Z")
> [@TOTBP](#): > > That’s them! Thanks for the link! I followed a few links from there and found a track listing of the _Circle C_ album I have, and that’s the one. It was released in 1991.\*\* A previous incarnation of the band called _Slow_ released an EP in 1985 called “Against The Glass”\*\*… And that sir is one of the best bands I’ve ever seen, and one of my all-time favorite albums. Unfortunately my copy was stolen… I doubt I’ll be able to find it again. You probably _should_ copy your tape to disk before it gets eaten. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-recommend-an-obscure-cd-thread/188892.md?page=5)