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name me the most obscure band in your library...?

looking to expand. Person with the most bands I don't know gets best answer..

Update:

I must say, i'm extremely impressed with this. Only four answers were full of stuff I'd already heard of, and at least two of those people were trying.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Trying to stay within the spirit of the question I'll stick with stuff that you can find in the iTunes store or on amazon or something like that. There are some local things that you won't be able to find anyways. Just to get some names there I'll list a couple of those:

    Wartime President

    7 Live Cobras

    b0n0tr0n

    JC and the Illegitimate Kids

    Skinny Legs and All

    Decorative Edison

    Hitherto Bastardwing (totally good band)

    Phooey (a real shame about those guys, they were totally good only had an album and an ep on vinyl)

    anyways, onto the spirit of the question...

    Eric Volcano

    Franklin For Short

    the Spires

    the Elusive Parallelograms

    Jeff Grimes and the Broken Strings

    Polvo

    the Pope

    the Rattlesnakes (the ones from Corona, CA)

    Sam Prekop

    the Starlight Mints

    Tall Tales and the Silver Lining

    Tapes N Tapes

    the Teeth

    the Tyde

    ************

    Maybe...

    Godheadsilo

    Karp

    the Tight Bros From Way Back When

    Miracle Chosuke

    Beachwood Sparks

    Crispin Hellion Glover

    David Ackles

  • vtd288
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Naked Raygun

    Green on Red

    Breaking Circus

    The Wipers

    The Long Ryders

    Scruffy the Cat

    The Dogmatics

    Blood on the Saddle

    Articles of Faith

    Big Black

    Young Fresh Fellows

    The Wild Seeds

    The Silos

    The Leaving Trains

    The Reivers

    Yo La Tengo

    Guadalcanal Diary

    The Feelies

    Mission of Burma

    Volcano Suns

    Fairport Convention

    The Flying Burrito Brothers

    The Embarassment

    Scratch Acid

    Squirrel Bait

    The Del-Lords

    The Pontiac Brothers

    The Lyres

    DMZ

    Let's Active

    The dB's

    Moby Grape

    That Petrol Emotion

    The Celibate Rifles

    Died Pretty

    Salem 66

    The Dream Syndicate

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Van Der Graff Generator

    Triumvirat

    Nektar

    The Fents

    Passport

    Breathe

    Kazu(Later the Kazu Matsui Project)

    Mahogany Rush

    New Riders of the Purple Sage

    Quicksilver Messenger Service

  • 1 decade ago

    I'm fairly mainstream but here's a few...

    The Blue Magoos

    Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen

    Dino, Desi & Billy

    Hedgehoppers Anonymous

    The Human Beinz

    The Jimmy Castor Bunch

    Leapy Lee

    Max Frost & The Troopers

    Sailcat

    Shorty Long

    Sopwith Camel

    The Stone Poneys

    The Swingin' Medallions

    The Third Rail

    Wadsworth Mansion

    We Five

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Rompeprop

    Hieronymus Bosch

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    Mutyumu

    Star Of Ash

    Cult Of Luna

    Sky Eats Airplane

    Psychotic Waltz

    Frantic Bleep

    Explosions In The Sky

    Mono

    Deadsoul Tribe

    Alarum

    The Mars Volta

    Ott

    HORSE the band

    Coil

    Fear Before The March Of Flames

    Burzum

    The Arusha Accord

    myGrain

    Sculptured

    Dance Gavin Dance

    Manes

    Eyes Set To Kill

    A Thorn For Every Heart

    Orphaned Land

    OSI

    Greeley Estates

    Transatlantic

    Melvins

    Mnemic

    Mors Principium Est

    OOMPH!

    The Old Dead Tree

    Pain Of Salvation

    Powerman 5000

    The Prizefighter Inferno

    Professor Fate

    Psyclon Nine

    Rolo Tomassi

    Saosin

    Scar Symmetry

    Shpongle

    Solace

    Solefald

    Spock's Beard

    Strapping Young Lad

    Subterranean Masquerade

    The Sound Of Animals Fighting

    Ulver

    Vulture Industries

    Winds

    yelworC

    Yezda Urfa

    American Head Charge

    Armor For Sleep

    Cavalera Conspiracy

    Chimaira

    Coal Chamber

    Control Denied

    Crossbreed

    Current 93

    Death In June

    Cynic

    The Dillinger Escape Plan

    Disarmonia Mundi

    Drop Dead, Gorgeous

    An Endless Sporadic

    The Fall Of Troy

    The Gaslight Anthem

    Gojira

    The Human Abstract

    I Am Ghost

    Insomnium

    The Knife

    Kyuss

    L'Ame Immortelle

    Lawnmower Deth

    London Elektricity

    Marmaduke Duke

    Whew... I really want those points y'know.

    How dare you copy my list Janice, do you know how long it took me to write?!

    Edit: These are all on Wikipedia except about five.. and I really don't see how this is helpful... I gave him a big list of bands to expand his music... It's what he asked for...

  • .
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Mount Eerie/Microphones

    Ariel Pink

    Adrian Orange and Her Band

    Karl Blau

    The Gothic Archies

    Magnetic Fields

    The Cystal Stills

    Bryan Scary & the Shredding Tears

    Akron/Family

    I have a lot more lol

  • 1 decade ago

    Modest Mouse

    The Bravery

    Cold War Kids

    Sum 41

    Pendulum

    Night Wish

    Rammstein

    Action Action

    AFI

    Aiden

    Afroman

    Alanis Morissette

    Andrea McArdle

    Anna Nalick

    American Hi-Fi

    Ansty Pants

    Bloc Party

    Ben Lee

    Anti-Flag

    The Bouncing Souls

    Blooudhound Gang

    The Caesars

    Coheed and Cambria

    Goldfinger

    Fiest

    Funeral For A Friend

    Haddaway

    I Hate Kate

    Interpol

    Jack Johnson

    Keane

    The Kooks

    Kaiser Cheifs

    Lostprophets

    Matt Kearney

    Mika

    Moby

    Motion City Soundtrack (a band)

    Paulson

    Pepper

    The Shins

    Silversun Pickups

    Silverchair

    Sister Hazel

    Uncle Kracker

    We the Kings

    Tribal Ink

    Mono

    Deadsoul Tribe

    Alarum

    The Mars Volta

    Ott

    HORSE the band

    Coil

    Fear Before The March Of Flames

    Burzum

    The Arusha Accord

    myGrain

    Sculptured

    Dance Gavin Dance

    Manes

    Eyes Set To Kill

    A Thorn For Every Heart

    Orphaned Land

    Slayer

    3OH!3

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Acid Bath

    Big Black

    Husker Du

    Shocking Blue

    Butthole Surfers

    Electric Wizard

    The Vaselines

  • 1 decade ago

    The Boomtown Rats

    Rose Tattoo

    Split Enz

    The Cult

    The Specials

    Gamma

    Hunble Pie

    Romeo Void

    Sweet

    The Vapors

    Tygers of Pan Tang

    Witchfynde

    Viloent Femmes (not real obscure but good non the less)

    Doctor's of Madnesswere

    *I know some people will disagree and that's fine, I think you should check them out though : )

  • 7 years ago

    Before "The Four Seasons" was "The Squirrels." That's from where Frankie Valli, et al got their "sound." Easy to cop music back then from a small, unorganized group.

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