Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

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.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Sunday, August 8, 2010 2:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KCCVZHJWL._CR0,0,300,300_SS105_.jpg

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