5 Favorite Albums that you may not have never heard of before
 

Here's mine:
Hollywood Town Hall by the Jayhawks
Sweet Oblivion by the Screaming Trees
You and Your Sister by the Vulgar Boatmen
Dulcinea by Toad the Wet Sprocket
Feel us Shaking by The Samples

Looking for great albums that for whatever reason missed mass commercial success, lets hear your recommendations.

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Before you get bombarded by the indie contingent here,

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel

Double Nickels On the Dime by The Minutemen

Mass Romantic by The New Pornographers

Stands For Decibels by The Dbs

Feels by Animal Collective

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Don't Make Me Wait by Locksley.
I'm not too into the indie music scene so I don't know how popular these guys are, but I can't stop listening to it. It's their first full-length album and came out about a month ago. Very light, catchy stuff. Sounds a lot like The Kinks or early Beatles stuff.

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The Thorns - The Thorns

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James- Laid
Pulp- Common People
Rancid- And Out Come the Wolves
Belle and Sebastian- The Boy With the Arab Strap

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M.Ward - Post-War
Jonah Smith - Jonah Smith
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
The Fratellis - Flathead

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Don't know why people are listing individual tracks, especially those that were massive... let's see:

Deltron 3030, selftitled
Daft Punk, Homework
Doves, Lost Souls
British Sea Power, The Decline of British Sea Power
Idlewild, 100 Broken Windows

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Dinosaur Jr. : Where You Been
Portishead : Dummy
Bruce Springsteen : The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
Built to Spill : Keep It Like A Secret
Liz Phair : Exile in Guyville

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Ozric Tentacles -- Jurassic Shift
Fugazi -- In on the Kill Taker
Mystery Machine -- Glazed
Dolorean -- Not Exotic
The Beta Band -- 3 EP's

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Econoline Crush: "The Devil You Know"
Pressure 4-5: "Pressure 4-5"
Union Underground: "…An Education In Rebellion"

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The Annuals: Be He Me (my favorite record right now)
Andrew Bird: The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Arcwelder: Jacket Made in Canada (or Xerxes, which is easier to find)
Blonde Redhead: Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Kevin Devine: Make the Clocks Move
Buried Beds: Po Tolo

-bb.

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Texas - Southside
Kelly Willis - Kelly Willis
Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Voice of the Beehive - Honey Lingers

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"5 Favorite Albums that you may not have never heard of before"

Seriously? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say English is your 5th language.

I'll give 5 that I've been listening to lately, none are really new, but most people probably haven't heard of them.

Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Vol. 1 + 2

The Herd- An Elephant Never Forgets

DJ Muggs vs. GZA (The Genius)- Grandmasters

Akrobatik- Balance

Jedi Mind Tricks- Legacy of Blood

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The Table Fours - 1978 Was the Year of my Life
Tennessee - Kentucky
Crashed Volvo - Number 2 on Number 1
The Plains Buffaloes - Axe + Tree
I Eat Glue - Summer Camp in Wisconsin

Hopefully these are obscure enough that no one has heard any of them but they're all really good

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The Table Fours - 1978 Was the Year of my Life
Tennessee - Kentucky
Crashed Volvo - Number 2 on Number 1
The Plains Buffaloes - 123 Fake St.
I Eat Glue - Summer Camp in Wisconsin

Hopefully these are obscure enough that no one has heard any of them but they're all really good

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There' something fishy about them all having a state or a number in their titles. I'm not buying it.

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16 Horsepower - Sackcloth n' Ashes

Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes

Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas

South Park Mexican - Time is Money

The Hickoids - Hickoid Heaven

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Only five? Jeez...where to start

Dressy Bessy - Electrified
The High Dials - A New Devotion
The Jessica Fletchers - Less Sophistication
Les Sans Culottes - Faux Realism
The Rosebuds - The Rosebuds Make Out

All of these are kinda indiepop oriented, and all are well and truly awesome.


Okay, a couple bonuses, just because I can't contain myself:

The Woggles - Ragged But Right
The Coral - The Coral
The Minders - A Bright Guilty World

Oh yeah, and quadruple props to Quinn Warren for mentioning Mass Romantic. Only reason it's not on my list is, it's already on his.

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"5 Favorite Albums that you may not have never heard of before"

Seriously? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say English is your 5th language.

I'll give 5 that I've been listening to lately, none are really new, but most people probably haven't heard of them.

Immortal Technique- Revolutionary Vol. 1 + 2

The Herd- An Elephant Never Forgets

DJ Muggs vs. GZA (The Genius)- Grandmasters

Akrobatik- Balance

Jedi Mind Tricks- Legacy of Blood

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Wow, you listen to Immortal Technique too? I thought I was the only one.

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Troll post:

Two days ago, you make your education seem like a joke in the ElD Forum:

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Today, to the OP:

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"5 Favorite Albums that you may not have never heard of before"

Seriously? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say English is your 5th language.

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litm, dude.

My five right now:

Field Music "Tones of Town"
Cold War Kids "Robbers and Cowards"
Architecture in Helsinki "In Case We Die"
Brian Eno "Here Come the Warm Jets"
Terra Naomi "Virtually"

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I downloaed 3 of Zero7's albums after hearing their song "In the Waiting Line"...good stuff, been on a constant playlist for a while now, great great background music. kind of downtempo material.

Tommy Guerrero and Theivery Corp are good as well.

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Jayhaws, dolorean,the thorns, ....i would have thought that i was the only one....couple of my fav cds, and i have heard almost all that has been listed....i almost feel cool

5 you have probably not heard of
1.Cory Branan - The Hell you say
2.Ray Lamontange - Trouble
3.Amos Lee - Amose Lee
4Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (modest mouse covers folked out)
Sun Kil Moon - Ghost of Great American Highways
5.Matthew Ryan - May Day
Matthew Ryan - Return to Me

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Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes

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No, no, no - if you're going Archers of Loaf, you've *got* to go with Icky Mettle. One of the best indie rock albums ever made. Easily their best one. Amazing. Classic. I'll throw it on right now, in fact...nice.

-bb.

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Jayhaws, dolorean,the thorns, ....i would have thought that i was the only one....couple of my fav cds, and i have heard almost all that has been listed....i almost feel cool

5 you have probably not heard of
1.Cory Branan - The Hell you say
2.Ray Lamontange - Trouble
3.Amos Lee - Amose Lee
4Sun Kil Moon - Tiny Cities (modest mouse covers folked out)
Sun Kil Moon - Ghost of Great American Highways
5.Matthew Ryan - May Day
Matthew Ryan - Return to Me

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as far as Matthew Ryan goes, I first came to him thru Concussion and that album blew me clean out of the water -

probably contributed to my drinking issues though [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I'd put these 5 down

1. - Vigilantes of Love - Summershine - available for free download 3rd link down from this site
2. - Patty Griffin - Living With Ghosts (phenom songwriter - entire album is one soaring vocal and one sparse guitar)
3. - Kelly Willis - Easy - (though Dom's recommendation is good too - saw her live in 2001 - have a boot I made of it somewhere)
4. - Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game - another great folkie who never got too much attention past his 60's fame - sounds a bit like Nick Drake -
5. - Kate Rusby - 10 -

rb

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1: John Butler Trio-Sunrise over Sea
2: Mad at Gravity-Resonance
3: Ultraspank-Progress
4: Lost Prophets-The Fake Sound of Progress
5: Socialburn-Break Back

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I downloaed 3 of Zero7's albums after hearing their song "In the Waiting Line"...good stuff, been on a constant playlist for a while now, great great background music. kind of downtempo material.

Tommy Guerrero and Theivery Corp are good as well.

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Try Tina Dico and Sia too. They both sing for Zero 7 (Sia notably on Destiny, Tina Dico on Home), and both have really good solo albums.

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Best Album that no one listens to any longer... Temple of the Dog

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Mofro - Lochloosa
The Little Willies - The Little Willies
James McMurty - Live in Aught-Three
The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals
Chatham County Line - Route 23

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The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Mad Season - Above
My Morning Jacket - Z
3 - Wake Pig
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth

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Amongst Us--The Final Approach
Blessing the Hogs--The Poisoning
Federation X--X-Patriot
Rock the Light--Let's Do Something We'll All Regret
The Spits--19 Million AC

KJS

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Canned Heat f. John Lee Hooker - Hooker and Heat
Mississippi Fred McDowell - I Do Not Play No Rock 'n Roll
Cub Koda and the Houserockers - The Joint Was Rockin'!
Chris Duarte - Romp
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes Twice!

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albums I like that MANY OTHERS may not have heard of:


Psychedelic Furs - Psychedelic Furs
Luna - Penthouse
MagnaPop - Hot Boxing
Bettie Serveert - Lamprey
Miles Davis - Doo Bop

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The Thorns - The Thorns

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That's weird, I had never heard of them and I just got the CD from a friend like 2 hours ago.

Whoever mentioned Amos Lee - Amos Lee is right, that's really really good.

Matthew Good Band - The Audio of Being; is one of my favorite rock CDs of the last 10 years, never really caught on here though.

Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South; I actually don't know how popular or not these guys are - I never run into anyone who's heard of them, but their shows seem to sell out. Kick ass southern rock, Decoration Day is really good too, and A Blessing and a Curse is not bad.

Hmm, some others, taking a quick look through my comp for music I had never heard of but had recommended to me that turned out to be really good:

Emmet Swimming - Arlington to Boston

Flaw - Endangered Species

The Slip - Eisenhower

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Protein - Songs About Cowgirls
The Hollowbodies - Lame
Heather Nova - Oyster
The Coup - Genocide & Juice
Steel Pulse - Tribute to the Martyrs

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Guster - Goldfly

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The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

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Jeremiah Freed - Jeremiah Freed (solid, solid rock album).

Dexter Freebish - A Life of Saturdays (solid pop-rock, unknown outside of TX)

Leah Andreone - Veiled (chick rock anyone?)

Our Lady Peace - Clumsy (not sure how popular this particular album is, but I definitely missed the boat on these guys for a while)

Saliva - Back Into Your System (makes me wants to kick things - great workout album)

Belle and Sebastian - Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (chill Brit-pop)

Yeah, that's six, but some of my friends would say the chick-rock doesn't count. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It's really good though, and one song (Happy Birthday) is sung from the perspective of a baby being born.

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Double Nickels On the Dime by The Minutemen



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Quinn, you are a genius my friend, or at least a corndog from Pedro. D. Boon's death has to be the most tragic early exit in punk rock history.

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PFM - Per Un Amico
German Oak - German Oak
Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison
Riverside - Out of Myself
Necronomicon - Tips Zum Selbstmord

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Dunno how many of you "may not have never heard of" these before, but here goes.

Faith No More - Album of the Year
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Elliott Smith - X/O
Chroma Key - Dead Air For Radios
Skyclad - Vintage Whine

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Double Nickels On the Dime by The Minutemen



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Quinn, you are a genius my friend, or at least a corndog from Pedro. D. Boon's death has to be the most tragic early exit in punk rock history.

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Did you the documentary from last year on them? Worth checking out.

KJS