What's the best album no-one but you has heard of

For Funk, Jazz/fusion fans -
Fat Mama - Beware The Bloodborne Pathogens (you can listen to a couple tracks of their's here but you can't even find a pic of the album cover anymore!)
Deep Banana Blackout - Rowdy Duty
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non-jazz:
check out anything by Godspeed You Black Emperor! too...
they had a track that showed up on "28 days later" but that was after they were done touring, and as far as I'm aware, it's the only place mainstream that's ever shown up.

DJ micro - east coast eletronic stuff - Coast to Coast was a badass breakbeat album that came out in the 90's
 
oneswtwld said:
Prince Paul - 1997 - Psychoanalysis; What Is It?
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I haven't worked through this promising thread yet, but yeah, I love this album. When I first listened to it, I couldn't believe he sampled Bill Evans' solo from Invitation for Outroduction To Diagnosis Psychosis. My jaw hit the floor. Fucking brilliant production.

I've been seeing this album around a lot more in the last 5-7 years though. I think it was just a sleeper.

Looking forward to the rest of this thread…
 
oneswtwld said:
I had forgotten all about them!!!
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they're still touring the right-hand coast during festival season occasionally, and they've had their old lead vocalist (Jen Durkin - the 5'2" white woman that sounds like a mix between a 6' black woman and Janis Joplin) for a few years now...

If you want an album that even YOU haven't heard of, check out "On the Corner With Fuzz" (no pic for that album cover either.) It was their guitar player's (plays the best version of "Maggot Brain" I've heard - better than any of the guitar players that have worked w/PFunk IMO) side project, after Jen left to pop out a munchkin. Kick ass stuff - they played a show @ the Wetlands in Manhattan that Derek Trucks OPENED FOR! (they opened for Frogwings too - that was a badass show...)

FUNK MOB REPRESENT!

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damn that was a pre 9/11 world while Napster was still alive...


hehe... my spell check doesn't know Napster... I didn't know I was old...
 
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Teonanactylln' said:
they're still touring the right-hand coast during festival season occasionally, and they've had their old lead vocalist (Jen Durkin - the 5'2" white woman that sounds like a mix between a 6' black woman and Janis Joplin) for a few years now...

If you want an album that even YOU haven't heard of, check out "On the Corner With Fuzz" (no pic for that album cover either.) It was their guitar player's (plays the best version of "Maggot Brain" I've heard - better than any of the guitar players that have worked w/PFunk IMO) side project, after Jen left to pop out a munchkin. Kick ass stuff - they played a show @ the Wetlands in Manhattan that Derek Trucks OPENED FOR! (they opened for Frogwings too - that was a badass show...)

FUNK MOB REPRESENT!

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damn that was a pre 9/11 world while Napster was still alive...


hehe... my spell check doesn't know Napster... I didn't know I was old...
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thanx for the info
 
The Orb's Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty 1 & 2. Oh wait, thats electronic...nm

Uhm...How about a self titled And So I Watch You From Afar.
 
Far too scatterbrained to pick anything definitive at the moment, but probably one of the most obscure albums I own which I really like is Beirut's Realpeople - The Joys of Losing Weight LP. I think he was only 16 when he produced it and it was never officially released, but you can download it off the interwebs.

Also not so much obscure, but two very good albums that a lot of people seem to have forgot about, The Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land, and Gomez - Bring It On.
 
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory

They've become more popular, but when that album came out, they were fairly unknown. Most musicians are familiar with their music, but I constantly introduce this band to people.
 
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