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An obscure song i like is Library Takeout by MicrOpaqu3.

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Thank you for sharing, everyone!
I'm slowly going through the comments and enjoying a variety of good and interesting music!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Abney Park's Airship Pirates.

Every time it comes on in the wild I get excited.

https://youtu.be/-WrPWFn7e2c?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've always been into freeform radio stations that color outside the lines, college stations like WPRB from Princeton, WFMU from NY/New Jersey, KFJC near the Bay Area, etc., have discovered a ton and a half of stuff that's way off the beaten path and has caught my ear.

Here's a good example I picked up around twenty years ago from KFJC, it could have been any one from too many choices to count, but for some reason this was the first song to pop into my mind right now.

If memory serves, I believe it's a field recording taken in the Sahara Desert, a nomadic people from around Morocco or Tunisia, and can only imagine the magical environment, close my eyes to try and visualize the crisp dry Saharan air at night, a large bonfire, the sky exploding with stars above, and this trance-inducing, mystical chanting.

Halima Chedli Ensemble - "Touhami Dikr".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Little Scandinavian band called Kashmir, mommy in love, daddy in space

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No Life King - Black Pyramid is under 40k views so probably that.

My first thought was Cryptkey - Windhand, or some Electric Wizard, but they are definitely more popular in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe Tomorrow by Abby Simons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WkKi4CbWN0

This is from an old Youtube channel, Abby would write, record, edit, and post a new song every week for a year... almost.
When the song pops into my head from time to time, I miss the way that youtube felt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Whatcha Doin to Me by The Reds

https://youtu.be/EqG_PN6Gt3E?si=bfgDl1RkCRnID4ov

I've been listening to it for over 40 years and it still fucking rocks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

E.O.A. by Bobnoxious

A song about the infamous East of Adelaide area of London, Ontario which is notoriously run-down compared to the rest of the city. A lot of the things mentioned in the song will sound very familiar to others who have lived in similar trashy neighbourhoods. The song became popular enough in London that one of London's former mayors, Joe Fantana, played the song with the band on the drums.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Tythe, Rachel Dradd - The Light https://youtu.be/nx4WcxFdDns

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I'm Against the Government - Defiance, Ohio

https://youtu.be/AT0IsmflTxs?si=eAPYyBw20BR-EQ7h

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Showbread - Mouth Like a Magazine

https://youtu.be/RPviF7Wp_bw?si=pv5vnQFFPNRMoD1o

The band dropped off the map years ago. I barely understand the words, and that's when I read the lyrics. But from the chorus, I gather that the song is about hypocrisy, and that scratches an itch of yelling at people for being hypocritical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure if it's obscure since I don't go out much, but "Tastes like Candy" by Kissing Violet and "Wolf" by AlicebanD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

First thing that came to mind is a song by a band that I can't even find online. I have the song as an .mp2 file. How's that for obscure?

Here's one that is online: Technical Jelly (Live) - Honor Among Thieves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

do you have a name? or could you share the file? I don't know why but it sounds so interesting and now I wanna hear it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The song is "No Mercy in June" by a band called Hot D.A.M. I'm pretty sure that I got the song by piecing together a multi-part, MIME-encoded Usenet posting. Somehow, I have a whole album by the band in my collection that I found somewhere on the seven seas years ago. I don't recall when or where now. The best information that I could find back when was that Hot D.A.M. was one of those local bands that stayed local, perhaps one of the many that bubble up out of the musical quantum foam, and disappear just as quickly.

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Was not expecting to see anyone else talk about Library Takeout.

I like a lot of obscure songs. Here's one of my random faves: Swamp - Mid-Air Thief

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Most music I like is considered obscure by my friends...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, of course! Half of the music i listen to is instrumental.

That was a good song. It gives me vibes of melancholy and longing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Memo From Turner from the soundtrack of the movie Performance.

It sounds like The Rolling Stones but it's only Mick, plus Ry Cooder on slide guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP0zsWupANs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I like the mix of speaking voice and singing here. Also the pitch "issues" of both the slide and Jagger add to the song---almost microtonal vibes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Agreed. I love the drums too, really loose vibe to them.

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This is a fun one. The driving beat from the drums and the bouncing bass make me smile and it's impossible not to tilt my head back and forth to the beat.

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This almost gives me horror vibes due to being very busy and the wavering pitches on the synths. Reminds me of Stranger Things. lol

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