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And how did you discover it?

Do you recommend it and it’s artist(s), or is it just a funny curiosity?

Uh, lots of weird things.

Twink of an Eye from Rainbow Bright I'm guessing is fairly obscure. Just fun.

The Battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund by Clamavi de Profundis. Actually, everything by then because I don't think they are well known.

Also everything by Hedningarna.

shit, no idea here, I have a lot of really obscure ones.

I have a couple that might apply; but I can’t think of any that count more than “Inside” by Marisa Lauren. I had the inspiration for this thread after it came up on shuffle.

I got into it from a Gravitation AMV, of all things, in 2007, which was also the year the song came out. It wasn’t even the main song, it was the intro song that did the whole “this is an [insert screen name] production. I never see anyone talk about her or this song. And the Gravitation AMV is long gone, as are the other Gravitation fanvids I liked from when I was still into that anime.

It is a fun song, so I would recommend it. Even though the audio levels are a bit off, suggesting it wasn’t a professional production. It’s still not hard to make out most of what she’s saying imo.

I don't know enough about what's mainstream to know if what I like is obscure.

I have one weird song song by the Green brothers called We Are All Bat People that I genuinely enjoy but also it's a "wtf?" kind of song. But that could be because I know next to nothing about Hank and John Green?

I just found these songs about a lovely goblin by Kyle Stibbs. The first song I heard was Martin the Goblin and it's lovely and weird, but then I found there's a whole playlist set in the same fictional world and I kind of love it.

I have a ton of 80s/90s jesus rock/alternative/ska/industrial if you want it. have you even heard of 3 Car Pileup? I think not.

That said, the way I discovered Norse balladeer Jonsi is weird. I clicked on the Soundcloud account for a trip-hop artist from the 90s that I liked (also jesusy), Paradigm Shift, only to find an hour-long live DJ set that they played in the mid-00s after they had left the religious music sphere. The very last song they remixed into the set was Jonsi's "Grow Till Tall," and between the language barrier and the beats I didn't know who did the original song for another couple of years. Eventually found him on youtube. It's a nice song whether in its original form or remixed into a dance set, either way the high piercing note of the chorus is tailored to hit me right in all the feels for some reason.

Jonsi is awesome.

I haven't listened to mainstream music in over a decade. I have no idea what's obscure anymore. But probably something by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - it's a Canadian nerd Cthulhu rock band.

They have songs like "The Math Song":

Y, Y equals X over five
Five to the power of xi
Xi is the square root of three
Three is the number for me

I said X
X by the tangent of N
And, minus Pi over ten
That equals negative nine
Negative nine is so fine

You've got a brain
And nobody really needs another love song,
etc, etc

I discovered them back around 2011 or so when I started listening to a podcast that included the lead singer as one of the hosts. It's called Caustic Soda, where they pick a gross or horrible topic and discuss it, sometimes with an expert guest, like sharks, deaths on film sets, gross food, arson, radiation, etc etc. They often used DotHT songs as mid-ep breaks.

Has to be something on a mixtape from way back in the Nineties. Used to have a song by Happy Flowers that was probably the most obscure because not many people have heard of them (even me before my pen pal gave me that song!). Now it's probably something by Bootsauce, Kingmaker, Gavin Friday, Marc and the Mambas, or Scarnella.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's Big Shot is, even among my Bonzo Dog, incredibly weird (but makes me laugh every time). I definitely do recommend them-- they're not for everyone, but in addition to Big Shot, like... if you just want something silly, 'My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies'. If you are, as I am, very gay but also silly, 'Mr Apollo' or their cover of 'My Baby Shot Me Down'. Or, maybe you just want to hear the song that Death Cab for Cutie named themselves after.

'Yuppie Scum' is Tom Robinson's excellent translation of Jacques Brel's Les Bourgois, and for me it's THE english translation. While translations that go with 'The Middle Class' might work for British english, they don't work for an American audience, and Robinson really nails it in a way that works for both-- plus, his performance is spot on.

Is this the same Tom Robinson who did "(Sing If You're) Glad to Be Gay"? That one's harsh but it's a banger. So righteously angry.

Yes! That's him!

I don't even know what's obscure any more; because for the most part I keep finding new music through various fandoms over a span of 13 years lol (from downloading fanmixes from LJ to those fandom playlists on youtube now or when fanfics references music titles) or fandom made songs from years ago.

Naming a few favorites:
Werewolf - by Cocorosie
Vanilla - by Pansy Patrol
You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate - Zoey van Goey
Whatever Lets You Cope - Black Foxxes
2wo - I am a Pig (this one is a newer one for me - I found out about it after reading Rob Halford's autobiography and found out that he had done an experimental album outside of his work with Judas Priest. The album had flopped at the time because it wasn't his usual heavy metal, but I think its pretty good)

Idk probably some of the obscure indie rock/noise/punk I've bought off Bandcamp.

Off the top of my head: literally everything by Uranium Club (who I LOVE), "The Only You" by Toilet Rat, "Roller Shoes is Not a Crime" by Everybody's Enemy, "Never Trust a Man in a Suit" by Mount Pleasant, "Long Way" by Lipkandy, "The Farm" by Double Grave, "Piles" by Intercourse, "Love Is Not An Answer" by RED CRAP

I have some studio-recorded MP3s of my brother's and my friend's band from back in the mid-90s. They played coffeehouses and stuff as teenagers. Possibly the biggest claim to fame either of them got back then was opening for Pansy Division at this weird little warehouse on the north side of town, hahah.

Actually I have an MP3 of my brother's band COVERING a song by my friend's band, so an obscure musical act covering an almost as obscure musical act.

If you go by actual CDs, or people I don't personally know, the local music scene was awesome back then and thanks to the aforementioned friend always talking about some of the other bands I have a sampler of local artists, I think all of whom no longer existed by the year 2000. Some of the songs still kick absolute butt though.

nowhere by anne richardson

a manchester nightclub in conjunction with the council arranged for some homeless people and buskers to get recording time in a proper studio, as part of the investment in and redevelopment of east manchester

the resultant album was called the emma project - eastside music and multimedia access - and was never commercially released; but one of my housemates managed to snag a copy through a council affiliated charity he was working with, and that was how it came to my ears

the song popped up on youtube many many years later, but the album itself seems to be lost to the mists of time (i can't even find a track listing any more)

i like it a lot but i fully understand why a lot of people wouldn't (it was around 2000, so you wouldn't be surprised to learn that it sounds "very dido")

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