Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

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.

I don't know anyone that's heard Toulouse's New Points, New Lines, but I have it and love it. I've read about two people on ilX who were searching for it, but I don't know if they ever acquired it. I can't find The Way the City Stretches at all, though...

My longtime cult record is the eponymous, lone release by Orchestra Luna. In fact, I've been meaning to start their own thread, for ILMers to recommend me anything that sounds like their prog-meets-showtunes record.

Must be loadsa peeps here who know (and love) it well enough, I believe.

6x -- Thunder Bomb Atlanta-based band (I think) on Daemon Records, yer basic pop-punk with girly vox but more sprightly and tuneful than a good many. "I'm So Tired" in particular is a song I can listen to over and over. But then, I'm a sucker for the girly pop-punk.

ILXers knowing of its existence is unquestioned - 'twas quite heavily hyped, same as the Cale/Lou Reed "Drella" thing. As for loving it...who knows? Man, I useta see that Eno/Cale record EVERYWHERE, in the racks in every single store back in '90. Which could conceivably have meant that they (the retailers) never sold any of 'em to paying customers - except just the one to Alfred! So maybe he really is an army of one.

I remember people being very dismissive of them at the time and me being at an impressionable NME reading age, having to hide the love a little. But I was going through some old tapes the other night, and found this one out again. Their later stuff dropped off pretty quickly, but this was rather lovely. Can't believe he ended up writing songs for Robbie Bloody Williams.

Sir Shina Adewale and Superstars International's first record is one of my favorites. They were a '70s Nigerian juju band formed by Segun Adewala and Sir Shina Peters.
http://africanmusic.org/artists/adewale.html

I haven't met anybody who loves this 90's industrial, at least not any more: "Engine" by Die Warzau and "Concentration" by machines of Loving Grace.

-- chris besinger (fakefak...), March 1st, 2005.

I used to have that one, and liked it okay, but didn't play it enough to keep it. It's good to see someone does, though, because I remember it being pretty neat.

my band played a show a few months ago with a band called special pillow, fronted by a guy named dan cuddy who used to be in hypnolovewheel, and they were pretty great, in a kind of vaguely americana-ish psych kind of way. i should've picked up their cd but i didn't.

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