Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

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

Anyone remember "The Town Of Forgotten Talent" by Foster Pilkington?

Ned raised some good points up-thread, especially about file-sharing. This piece also suggests that nothing is obscure in the digital music age. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html

I think he's Christy Moore's half-brother.

There's nothing totally obscure that I love, but some semi-obscurities:

Cheri Knight, The Northeast Kingdom
Juana Molina, Segundo
The Low Road, Demolition
Stretch Princess, Fun With Humans
Emm Gryner, Girl Versions
ReBirth Brass Band, Hot Venom
El Gran Silencio, Chuntaros Radio Poder
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Meets King Pennet
Genya Ravan, Urban Desire

for my entry i would have originally put 1000 Years of TRouble by Age of Chance, as i seriously thought no-one else loved it .. but following the creation of the website and assoc AOC discussion group i found folks all over the world were still up for trouble .. so now i have to scratch my head and come up with :

ingo star cruiser - ps i cuddle a box

first lp release on the wonderful moshi moshi label .. and one i hold very close to my heart. twisted lo-fi pop madness that dreams of better production, but sounds better cos it doesn't have it.

Apparently, I'm the only person who thinks MC Lyte's Eyez on This is one of the best rap albums ever released.

I used to get all stroppy about Belfegore by Belfegore, but there is a group of ILX'rs who share my appreciation for it.

Beyond that, maybe You Suck Crap by Babyland? The Criminal Special by Senator Flux? I dunno.

That could have been The Tube. He performed "I've got no chicken but I've got 5 wooden chairs".

He did also do some 'surreal Nationwide type'stuff for Tony Wilson's "The other side of Midnight"

Hi there!

And me, as I've repeatedly wibbled on ilm about. That Kev Hopper homepage is indeed pretty interesting.

I would never deny the power of appearances.

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