# Your favourite CD no one has ever heard of **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067 "2001-11-07T22:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/41 "2001-11-08T15:28:20Z")
_I Love My Job_ by [Vinx](http://www.vinx.com). He was on the Olympic team (triple jump) in '80, when we boycotted the Moscow games. He was discovered by Sting. And he makes some of the most original music around. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/42 "2001-11-08T15:45:37Z")
Vinx sang a cappella at a close friend of mine’s wedding. The man is good, good, good. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/43 "2001-11-08T15:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > \*\*Vinx sang a cappella at a close friend of mine’s wedding. The man is good, good, good. \*\* Dadgum, that’s awesome. I’m extremely jealous. I just wish he’d play a club in Dallas sometime. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/44 "2001-11-08T16:54:13Z")
**Ashley MacIsaac** - Hi ™ How are you Today? Long live scottish canadian fiddle-rock! ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/45 "2001-11-08T16:58:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mudshark \* > \*\*West Coast Pop Art Expieramental Band > > Any one heard of them? No? I didn;t think so. > > They are an old 1960’s hippie band from San Francisco. \*\* Yeah, I remember them. I never had the album because my brother had it. But I think they were an L.A. band. ---
**Author:** ![Fibonacci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Fibonacci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fibonacci)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/46 "2001-11-08T17:06:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > \*\ ***Ashley MacIsaac** - Hi ™ How are you Today? > Long live scottish canadian fiddle-rock! \*\* Got this one too. A couple years ago he was on tour opening for Nancy Griffith and I think the Chieftains. He was apparently a little too wild with his balls out (literally) rockin’ act, with his kilt and high kicks. Nancy thought this was a bit too much to expose her audience to she she dropped off the tour. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/47 "2001-11-08T17:14:25Z")
> [@](#): > > A couple years ago he was on tour opening for Nancy Griffith and I think the Chieftains. He was apparently a little too wild with his balls out (literally) rockin’ act, with his kilt and high kicks Yeah, something similar happened to him on Letterman or Conan, I think. They had to mosiac it out. 🙂 I’ve had the pleasure of seeing him live 3 times. (twice with the band, and once without) A great performer. The new album **Helter’s Celtic** is really good too, but I’d suggest HHAYT to start… ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/48 "2001-11-08T17:40:49Z")
[Atlantic Soul Classics](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002LV0/qid%3D1005240649/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-3998351-4782547), one of my first CDs. The songs are (mostly) ones everyone knows well, but this is a great early compliation disk. The one semi-obscure track, “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell & the Drells, is my favorite song on the album. [aside]It still blows me away that I can go to Amazon, right now, and buy this album. I still say they should charge more, not less, for their service[/aside]. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/49 "2001-11-08T17:56:02Z")
For dark, depressing music you can’t beat _Ecto_ by **Happy Rhodes**. I have yet to figure this out, but somehow it winds up in pawn shops all over my neck of the woods… I’ve got 3 copies of it “just in case.” -BK ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/50 "2001-11-08T18:14:33Z")
One of my favorite(and hardest to find) albums is **"Catholic Boy"** by The Jim Carrol Band. It’s an awesome album that I seem to ‘lose’ about every 2 years. If you’ve never listened to the album, I whole-heartedly suggest that you do. Man…I’ve loved that album since it came out. ---
**Author:** ![ndorward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@ndorward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ndorward)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/51 "2001-11-08T18:37:02Z")
_Great Uncles of the Revolution Stand Up!_ by Downing, Turcotte, Zubot & Dawson (Black Hen). Quiet chamber music that in the manner of Bill Frisell, Bar Kokhba & Dave Douglas splits the difference between jazz, folk, country & klezmer. The instrumentation is: trumpet, Hawaiian guitar, fiddle & bass. _Canvas in Quiet_ by Yosuke Yamashita (Verve). I’m sure this is familiar to Japanese jazz fans, but I don’t know too many Yamashita fans in North America. This is solo jazz piano performances of Corsican folksongs. _All About Ronnie_ by Ronnie Ball (Savoy). This should be easy to dig out of delete bins. An English pianist who studied under Lennie Tristano, & seems to have dropped out of the jazz scene after the 1960s–I think he’s still alive, but I’ve no idea if he’s performing. This 1950s disc has him with tenorist Ted Brown (who recently resurfaced on Lee Konitz’s _The Sound of Surprise_) & the great, ill-fated trombonist Willie Dennis–probably only familiar to most jazz fans from a brief appearance in the Mingus canon. This is some of the most astonishing trombone playing ever committed to record–it has a fluency that rivals even JJ Johnson. _Dance, World, Dance_ by Rodney Kendrick (Verve). This seems to have been already deleted, even though it’s only a few years old–if so it’s a disgrace. A very idiosyncratic pianist whose style owes something to Randy Weston & Thelonious Monk but sounds very much his own man. He’s got a first-rate band on this disc too, with Arthur Blythe & Graham Haynes. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/52 "2001-11-08T18:59:34Z")
Do many people know about Sepultura’s Roots? If not, I’ll say that I love this album. The vocals and melodies are your usual heavy metal crap, but the rhythms are incredible. This band interwove traditional Brazilian and native drumming into a metal album. They’ve even got a couple of chants on the CD. It’s wonderful stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Phoebestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Phoebestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoebestar)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/53 "2001-11-08T19:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WordMan \* > I am not typically inclined to pure pop, but a couple of great but not well known CD’s include > > **Utopia Parkway** by Fountains of Wayne - great, catchy music, thoughtful lyrics - addictive (you have to hear “Red Dragon Tattoo” then you’ll understand) Ok, oddly enough, five seconds before I read this, I started playing _Utopia Parkway_ on my computer cd player. _cue spooky music_ My cds that no one has heard of but I love: The Push Stars, _After the Party_ Moxy Fruvous, _Live Noise_ Rasputina, _How We Quit The Forest_ Great Big Sea, _Road Rage_ ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/54 "2001-11-09T01:42:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fibonacci \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Mudshark \* > > \*\*West Coast Pop Art Expieramental Band > > > > Any one heard of them? No? I didn;t think so. > > > > They are an old 1960’s hippie band from San Francisco. \*\* > > Yeah, I remember them. I never had the album because my brother had it. But I think they were an L.A. band. \*\* Could be, I can’t remember what album said. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/55 "2001-11-09T02:19:42Z")
Anything by the V-roys, especially “just add ice.” Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/56 "2001-11-09T03:27:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Phoebestar \* > Moxy Fruvous, _Live Noise_ Hey, finally someone mentioned a CD I have. Great choice, too. For me: Mel Cooleys, _Live? in Seattle_ John Wesley Harding, _Here Comes the Groom_ Cub, _Box of Hair_ and _Come Out, Come Out_ Shonen Knife, _Rock Animals_ Jane Siberry, _No Borders Here_ ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/57 "2001-11-09T05:22:47Z")
Terry Garland: “Trouble in Mind”- One of my all time favorite CDs. This guy is THE best slide guitarist/singer I’ve ever heard. Gut bucket blues with class. This particular release is basically only Terry on guitar and vocals. He has another musician play some awesome blues harp on a few songs but otherwise it’s all Terry. Sharp looking white guy in a suit who plays the meanest National possible! What a musician. If you dig blues, get it. Don’t worry so much about his other releases, this is the one you need. John Campbell: “Howlin’ Mercy” - Another fabulous bluesman who is now gone (RIP) but left us with this masterpiece. He has another CD (“True Believer”) which is great too but I prefer HM. This guy is a cross between Stevie Ray Vaughan/Jim Morrison and Dr. John all in one. Sounds like the devil himself. Campbell is from the darker side of the blues and he certainly evokes whole crossroads/soul sellin’ creepiness ala Robert Johnson. Love his stuff, but wouldn’t have wanted to meet him in a dingy bar on a bad night! ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/58 "2001-11-09T05:29:46Z")
“Kids in Philly” by Marah. Local Philly band. Excellent live show. ---
**Author:** ![Darkrabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Darkrabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkrabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/59 "2001-11-09T05:55:33Z")
“Blueshift” by **Splashdown**. The band has been screwed over by a major record label and it’s doubtful the album will ever see wide release. “Bonk” by **Big Pig**. An Australian band with a bizarre combination of elements … two drummers, two singers, harmonica player, etc,… their only claim to fame is the theme song to 'Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure"; the album that song (‘Breakaway’) is excellent but never sold well. “Naked Self” by **The The**. Never had a top 40 hit but had a couple of decent sellers in England. He (the frontman, Matt Johnson) has been bouncing around labels for at least seven years now. His latest, “Naked Self”, is an awesome album. **DarkRabbit** ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Damage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Mister\_Damage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Damage)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067/60 "2001-11-09T08:26:18Z")
Well, I could list stuff that I **feel** like no one’s heard of, because no one around here knows them (e.g., The Angels, Steeleye Span), but for truly obscure stuff, I’d have to go with these two: **Fischer-Z** , _Going Deaf For A Living_ **The Horse Flies** , _Gravity Dance_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-cd-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/92067.md?page=4)