Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

I guess Gravatar's "Now the Road of Knives" is pretty obscure, and I like that one a lot.

only thing of this ilk that a truly truly love.

I thought I was ahead of the game when I saw Trouble Everyday but then google revealed they were getting UK radioplay and then Maria T pulled the homecourt advantage on ILX and then pitchfork reviewed them and they opened for the Killers and dagnabbit.

I always wanted to hear that....I remember he does a verse on the posse cut on Ice T's the Iceberg...Freedom of Speech....

I LOVE this album, especially since it's dunked in some deep sonic Paisley (i.e. Prince). Totally slept on record nowadays.

Off to ebay!

No, there are others that like it, I'm sure. I'd be surprised if anyone on here said they did, though. (Matos, I've seen your comments on this on here. FITE!)

Problem is that the amount of limited edition releases really opens this up to the obscurest of the obscure, though at the same time filesharing obviates that to a large extent.

If I had to pick something at random, the Lothars' second Christmas album would do it. Weird, lovely, funny and pretty damned unknown unless you know them, and even then it's no guarantee!

An obvious one I've loved for years and which I know has more of a cult following is Divine Styler's Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light, which I rave about via the AMG as well as here.

There are other choices, though. Let me think on this one. Good thread lovebug!

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Supercollider Supercollider (1991)
Supercollider Dual (1994)

I did start a thread on their being overlooked a while ago though here.

Trash Can Sinatra's - Cake

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 1st, 2005.
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Who Me? I could be making a fortune off this thing but i've not made a dime. In fact, it's only been duped once. I've got his 2003 set two on double disc. The 01 set is the best though, i've got the entire show, starts with the sound of a bong hit and ends with DJ Krush speaking into his headphones wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! What a sweaty, sweaty night that was.

Come again? ;-)

Off to ebay!

-- Austin (austin.swinburn@gyeahmail.com ), March 1st, 2005.

very silly ('if i was a country western singer / i'd cut your head off and kick it down the street / coz thats the thing ive found, living in this one-horse town / that the only thing thats dirtier than dirt, is my feet').
Oh and you won't find it on ebay. it was a handmade cd-r of a few copies only by the look of it. i stole it from my radio station - though i play tracks from it all the time anyways, so its win-win really

also:

Thank you very much for starting this thread, lovebug. It got me to google "a fierce pancake" for the first time ever, which yielded me Kev Hopper's homepage and post-Stump projects, which looks like a great new thing for my ears.

funny, i was just talking to my older brother about our early adolescent love affair with that album (goodbye jumbo). for the life of me, i can't figure out how we heard about it, why we had it or anything. but we did listen to it a lot. i don't have it now, but i kind of want to hear it again.

24 Grandes Canciones-Eydie Gorme y Los Panchos. Lots of great versions of Spanish language classics, with Eydie Gorme perhaps there to bring in the gringos, but really not watered down at all.

The Poll Winners-Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, Ray Brown. Laid back but swinging versions of standards, including "Green Dolphin Street" and "Satin Doll."

I think it's an underregarded classic of its kind.

Of course, on ILM it's probably old hat, but .....

But you have never heard of Browning Mummery. Fans of dark Eno-like ambience with a more shamanic feel (Lustmord is close) would like it.

Arnett Cobb -- Blow Arnett Blow

also the Sam Yahel Trio albums. But he definitely has a cult following of more than one, at least in NYC where he plays every wednesday night.

well, that's a great album. all of their albums are.

my cult of one: caacrinolas first cdr. weird black metal with heavy goblin influence. the band goblin. maybe real goblins, too. i think the two guys in the band were better known as members of some european free jazz unit.

-- el sabor de gene

Goblin - everyone in the local lesbian goth community here in Sydney seems to be a fan.

You've got me, moley -- haven't heard it. (Or of it.) Sounds great, though.

well, that certainly invalidates everything they've ever done.

Surely, I am the only person on Earth who worships at the shrine of Mathhew Fisher's 1st album.

I used to include Readymade, 'On Point and Red' until I started reading Ian Mathers on Stylus.

Obscure record probably never listened to by anyone in the past 15-20 years- Moral Support "Insanity"- vintage synth-pop from Quebec, sort of in the vein of Rational Youth but much dancier and very very good.

Yeah, if it has "Eager Bereavers" not "Buffalo" though.

Anyhow, my entry is for "Here is my Spoon" Ed Barton.

Carnival Art - Thrumdrone (sort-of Pixies but a nicely varied record)
Something Happens - Stuck Together With God's Glue
Overwhelming Colorfast - Overwhelming Colorfast (sons of Husker Du)
DB's - Amplifier
Cerebral Corps - Attributed To (very underrated inna proto Elephant 6 style)
Rain Parade - anything really, love them

Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians, Live from Styleen's Rhythm Lounge. New Orleans-style soul & pop from a huge band; tight, funky, and surprisingly ambitious. Also a great cheesy hard-rock guitar sound for the solos!

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charming, homespun cut-and-paste by half of Vote Robot

There's copies of the vinyl up for sale on discogs, email me if you just want the mp3s I can probably help you out.

Huh, never think to look on discogs for some reason (shipping vinyl from overseas to Aus makes me nervous anyway).

Wouldnt mind hearing even the mp3s again, hm.

Blinker the Star - "August Everywhere"

Pop with cellos. Heaven.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Brushback/liquor-giantsOle181.jpg

I really believe I am the only one who loves this album. Power pop masterpiece. Glorious.

I think I am the only one with an undying, towering, genuine affection for Deadsy's "Commencement." It is definitely my favorite Book of Urantia-themed, synthesizer-based, $2-word-using band fronted by the son of Cher. (Unfortunately their second album was not good.)

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Hardly an unknown, but I really like this record...
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I actually tried to get into a lot of stuff because of that Deadsy album, but it was all really boring. Trying to read a book about the Hittites was a bust, but reading the actual Urantia text itszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *snore*...sorry, I fell asleep remembering the time I treed to read the Urantia book.

holy shit abbott, i fucking love that deadsy record but no one else does.

wait tho, commencement is the second record by them i have, there was a first self-titled one as well

You have blown my mind!!!

You have the best taste in music (=most similar to mine) of anyone on ILM I think!

That self-titled one used to go for hella $$$$ on eBay.

"Phantasmagore" was the disappointment.

i am listening to the first one right now! lots of the stuff is on both this and commencement, but this version of cruella is def the better of the two

very glad that this is in the stuff that has been already been reloaded after hard drive crashola and recovery

yeah i have noticed that you have far better musical taste than the rest of these sucks, between this and SGM u r a#1 (something else too cant remember now)

I still think No Silver No Gold by Baptist Generals is the finest album Sub Pop has ever released.

Phantom Raiders - New Sound '67

This has been reissued recently by Norton. Its a cool garage rock gem from North Carolina that stands alongside other examples of the time, with its frenzy of energy & joy.

Idha Ovelius – Melody Inn

South San Gabriel - The Carlton Chronicles
Low Skies - All the Love I Could Find

I doubt I'm the 'only' person that loves the first one--SSG is a side-project of Centro-Matic who surely have fans on ILM. A simply excellent folk-rock album with great hooks and a late night vibe; "I Feel Too Young to Die" has become one of my favorite songs ever and is the reason I really got into the record in the first place.

being a college radio DJ at the time is the only reason I chanced upon Low Skies' third (I think) album. They broke up not too long after its release and even other folks at the station didn't take notice of the album---their loss. Melancholy folkish indie rock, like Band of Horses if they wrote dark songs and didn't suck.

probably The Brontosaur's album... I don't know anyone else who's heard it.

Someone mentioned Blinker The Star earlier and I'm pretty sure both bands have the same drummer..

I bought a $10 cd-r off the interweb directly from a nerdy girl in New England that used to record herself under the name Dinobrains. She gives her music away for free online, but for $10 she will custom-draw the cover art and mail you a cd-r.

The instructions were to choose 2 animals and she'd draw a hybrid on the cover. I asked for a Bat and a Squid and she drew one helluva squid-bat. There's a song on the e.p. called the "Picture in the House" which is inspired by the HP Lovecraft story. It's a very memorable song and makes me laugh everytime I hear it.

You can hear it here: http://www.bergmansbear.com/?page_id=129

I have to say, for all the free music I get, and the incredible devaluation that CDs have undergone in my life, this felt like the best $10 I'd spent in a while.

Boo Hewerdine, Baptist Hospital. Former Bible frontman somehow lucks into major label deal for his second solo album and makes it a sober, gorgeous delight.

I believe I am the only Depeche Mode fan in the world who considers "Construction Time Again" to be their biggest masterpiece.

Yeah that's not what this thread is about Geir, this is albums that nobody else listens to.

all-time favorites i rarely hear mentioned outside my own head:

kent 3 - stories of the new west
beehive & the barracudas - plastic soul w the white apes
superconductor - hit songs for girls (tried to make a case for this on freeform 90s poll, but i dunno that i made any headway)
magic hour - no excess is absurd (this one too)
badawi - the heretic of ether

^ imagine that people listen to all of these, despite the fact that they're seldom discussed

Hate what he's doing now, but this is actually one of my fav records:

http://www.vinylsurrender.com/Graphics/AlbumCovers2/Jimi%20Tenor%20-%20Intervision.jpg

Did I not mention "Pincer Movement" Jowe Head?

Consider it mentioned.

Jessamine - The Long Arm of Coincidence

Wow, I completely forgot Jessamine even existed! I saw them at Bumbershoot sometime back in the 90s and was completely entranced. Never sought out any of their recorded stuff, but the bits I just sampled on Amazon sound great.

beehive & the barracudas - plastic soul w the white apes

bumped a john reis thread a few weeks ago to mention how much i loved this record

I believe I am the only Depeche Mode fan in the world who considers "Construction Time Again" to be their biggest masterpiece.

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you are wrong as I also hold this opinion

xpost. Other Jessamine fans out there. "You May Have Forgotton" is one of their best. Nobody has ever really replaced them...

This one's mine. I got *this* close to interviewing the bass player, but it fell through at the last minute:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/29/1375/1024/Mass%20Tango2.jpg

Let's try that once again:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/29/1375/1024/Mass%20Tango2.jpg

Hmmm, didn't take the first time, then suddenly it did. How odd.

bumped a john reis thread a few weeks ago to mention how much i loved this record

yeah, i remember that! think i'm ranting about them in that thread, too.

also love jessamine (re: cityworker and dlp9001), especially the self-titled debut. so spooky woozy great.

dlp: If that pic shows on the original source page, it may well show here.

The rest of us continue to get redcros.

That's one of the strangest things I've seen. First it was red cross. Then it appeared. Then red cross. The internet amazes me. Anyway, Mass Tango's self-titled album.

Sagor & Swing, Orgelplaneten. Infectious Swedish Hammond-and-drums workouts.

van halen 3

I think SOMEONE else must have bought VH3!

Anyone else a fan of Shallow? Shoegazy stuff from small-town Kansas.

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xxxxxpost - I saw Jessamine and have a few of their albums. Great band. Some of them went on to play in Fontanelle.

Rex also produced White 1 and White 2 for Sunn0))) which is how I met him. I recorded the timpani part in his leaky garage.

yea but I sold it and kept it

Am I the only giant Swell fan here?

they're good, but i don't love em

I think a good best-of compilation would convert many.

well, ruling out musicians who are my personal friends, probably balcony! some guy who decided to promote his songs by putting them out on filesharing networks labelled as other musicians like david sylvian, scott walker, nick drake, etc. end result is that anybody who was on audiogalaxy in 2002 has probably heard his stuff, but nobody knows who he is. then again i thought i was the only person in the world who had heard of maschina (the band, not the smashing pumpkins record) until i randomly ran into somebody at a convention in philadelphia who was a huge fan.

I looked for Balcony stuff for a long time online bc of that promotionally misattributed track! It was a really good track IMO. Still have not managed to hear any more Balcony.

We Ragazzi -- The Ache