Obscurantist collecting: Search & Destroy

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yeah? how many copies of "Pl Joey" have you got?

― duane zarakov, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oops thats"PAL Joey" I mean. Is that thee most common record ever everywhere else too?

― d.z., Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Walking On Mainstreet" by Tarras. Folk band from Carlisle, new album, a couple of really stunning songs.

Shuko Mizuno, Jazz Orchestra Vol 1 (I think that's what it's called). Imagine Buddy Rich's orchestrations at the end of The Beat Goes On in the style of a 70s cartoon theme.

― John Davey, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

tracer hand - supply me with bobby conn information! i saw 'never get ahead' on VH1 (really! it was a show called 'video nasties') and it's spectacular, but never managed to come across anything else, and i've no access to napster right now

― matthew james, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Most obscure group I own music by is Tiger Trap. So, so sad. I'm not a very good obscranist. The Tiger Trap album is pretty good, though (submissive posture here).

Oh, wait! Hugo Largo was almost obscure. And their two albums were almost good. But any REM freak knows who they are. Dammit! Okay, I'll go buy something obscure to impress you guys.

― Blake, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bobby Conn (can't remember real name right now) -- big in Chicago "demonstrative noise rock" scene, was tight w/the "Milk of Burgundy" crowd (Quintron, etc.) in Wicker Park before M.O.B. got closed to make way for yet another Alley franchise (the Alley sells mirror sunglasses, tasteless slogan t-shirts, etc.).... as far as I know he's still terrorizing young teenagers in Chicago with his malevolent supervillain alter-ego. Google turned up this among other things.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anyone heard The Tinklers? Not sure if they're too obscure, but it's certainly the maddest music I've ever heard. Especially after a large helping of magic mushrooms.

― Johnathan, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's pretty funny how everybody temper their answers with "it's not very obscure, I know" for fear of getting stomped on by other obscurantists.

Has anybody heard the Nihilist Spasm Band? I love those guys. The AGO had a retrospective exhibition of Greg Curnoe which I thought was fantastic.

― Dave M., Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

'kozmonautz', a group consisting of key kool and dj rhettmatic, who released one self- titled in 1995 which nobody has ever heard of this record and is totally fantastic. a posse cut with ras kass (damn!) and a social conciousness track about japanese internment camps ('reconcentrated') top off some the best shit, but really it's all good. it's really one of the first underground albums of the late 90s to already be focused on the early 90s, complete with references to de la (who wish the japanese mcs on 'long island wildin' had shit like this), ice cube, and leaders of the new school.the single was 'can u hear it', which is a nice catchy summer jam about people who don't care about lyrics, people who say every joint is wack, and other bitch-ass haters. a slept- on classic.

― ethan, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

er, 'which nobody has ever heard of and is fantastic'. i hate when when you restructure a sentence on the fly and accidentally leave part of the original. damn.

― ethan, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Best records that no-one's heard of but I have: my ones.

Best records that no-one's heard of, including me: I don't know. I haven't heard of them.

― the pinefox, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Other obscure records I fondly own:

1. Massey-Ferguson tractors

2. Bernard Cribbins on Hornby trains

3. Tizer 1987

― the pinefox, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

aah, but Mr. Pinefox sir, I own a tape of Noel Edmonds on Hornby trains - surely this is more obscurantist in a way, as it features who for many people is the devil incarnate?

Bill

― Bill, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anything by Eyeball Hurt and the Medicine, or Gigvest.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Beatles' "White Album." Apparently pretty obscure to some members of this group! (Busy wiping the grin--or is it a grimace?-- off my face... )

― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Re: Der Plan: The albums are quite unlistenable, but they have their moments. A friend of mine taped me a "best of" some time ago and it was good, lots of humor on it.

― fernando, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four months pass...

Love a bit of Terry Allen (him of the Pan handle band fame) but not sure how much i really value my battered copy of his work backed by a a vietnamese gamelan orchestra

― simon beswick, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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