zero information albums

I have some albums I bought in Peru that fit this criteria, but the only ones in my "regular" collection are:

a 7" single by Lizard Water

and

a cassette by related band The Dragon King's Daughter

the housing works near me regularly gets CDs like this and I am always too chicken to pick them up, maybe I should start

This is the most obscure record I own (I bought it for a few bucks, years ago, b/c I thought it looked cool... it’s not): https://www.discogs.com/Machingbyrd-The-Road-To-Forbidden-Ecstacy/release/3788519

There’s basically no info on it online, just blurbs on a few blogs... tho obviously it’s on Discogs and I see copies are being offered for $$$.

It sucks? Can’t listen now what’s it like

If I recall, it’s heavily indebted to the style of Don McLean (indeed, the mystery dude included this note in the artwork—“Dedicated to my heroes: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and Don McLean”).

I've got a professionally recorded and pressed CD that I received for free from a radio show in 2001. The artist is Partyfinger and the album is entitled either Ugie Chile (according to the picture on the front) or Uggie Chile (according to the spine). The music is kind of like the Residents-with-a-sampler meet alt-country, and I believe the pseudonymous musicians were part of Toronto's free improv scene.
The only indication online that this group or album ever existed is a mention in a radio playlist from 16 years ago. I'm mostly making this post on the off chance that someone else will search for it someday.

There must be any number of CDs from the CD Baby / MySpace era that future generations will marvel over, god knows how you find out which ones though.

Hope this counts.

When I was little we had a record kicking about the house I used to listen to a lot, it was written and recorded by my Dad's work colleague sometime in 1976, a fella named George Grant. I remember it as being very plaintive, kinda Roy Harper-ish and a lot of it seemed to be about trains. It was released on some local Scottish micro label called Deeroy, its called 90768.

Sometime in the mid-nineties I'm wandering about at one of those massive Wembley Record fairs on a gloomy Saturday with my Pink Floyd obsessed housemate and I see George's record on the pin board at the stall of a Psyche/Folk/Prog seller guy, It was fun to chat with him and his wife about the record letting him know what little details I could, cause he knew nothing about it. It was on sale for £75 iirc.

One day, years later I searched for it on the net to see if how much it might be worth, I get only a couple of hits but one of them is from an Italian Psyche/Folk collector's wants list, offering 500 euro for a copy.

I get the word back to George through my Dad as I thought he'd be tickled by the info, he was of course and I even idly chatted to a guy from Cherry Red about a reissue one time. Nothing came of it as I didn't have a copy of the record to send him, George still has the 1/4 inch masters though.

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 21:08 (nine years ago) link

A copy of this record came through my place of employ... it's really good! Still virtually zero information out there, BUT there is a Japanese CD reissue now.
Damn I want this LP pretty bad tho.

Wow!

I still listen to the record, well the Japanese CD version, it's embedded in me from a kid. I think my Dad's vinyl copy is pretty thrashed from me playing it as a youngster.