Song you like that no-one has ever heard of

[Elpenor]

I was listening to an obscure album from the 90s the other day. One of the songs on it, well I really like it but having searched the forums I think I’m the only person to have ever mentioned the bands name on urban a few years ago. Either no one knows who they are or no one cares - or both.

So it made me think, what’s the song that you love and probably no-one else has even heard of?
This is mine:
Number One Cup - Malcolm’s X-Ray Picnic

 

[May Kasahara]

The Sun - Do The Sucker



From their album Don't Let Your Baby Have All The Fun, which is wall to wall brilliant off-kilter tunes, and which no one else ever seems to have heard or heard of.

 

[Knotted]

I've long really liked the political post-punk/avant band The Work. Really difficult to find their songs on eg youtube, because most of their material isn't on there plus they don't have a search friendly name. This one's a good one though

 

[Steel Icarus]

The last three minutes of this are spine tingling.

 

[SpookyFrank]

You're better off not understanding the lyrics tbh.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Weary morning traveller, another weekend gone
Billboards  paid a better picture than where you come from
You  don't want to talk about it
You might as well talk to the wall
Isolated in your newspaper-crossword puzzle-Page Three Girl

Try  to find a reason try to find a cause
Why  everyday a thousand footsteps cross this dirty floor
A sea of cigarette ends and giveaway magazines
Ticket  seller's purple hangover-usual morning scene

And you Jimmy what's that song that you play
Makes me feel happy helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my lungs burn
Think  I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve to burn

Turn around and change this empty life
Nine to Five is killing me, there must be more in life
I can't seem to understand it
I don't know what to make of it all
Then I hear your sweet song loud and strong echo
Down the tunnel wall

I know that some throw you silver
Some just walk on by
When you play the Central Line
I can feel my anger slide


And you Jimmy what's that song that you play
Makes me feel happy, helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my heart burn
Think I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve to turn

I can see you crouching there your head bent low
You never seem to notice all the people come and go
Makes no difference to you
Just another way of passing the time
Can't remember how it used to be
When you weren't there on the Central Line

Jimmy what's that song that you play
Makes me feel happy, helps me forget the day
All the smoke and dust makes my heart burn
Think I've had a bellyful don't have the nerve to turn

Oh, Jimmy what's that song that you play
Makes me feel so happy
Makes me want to break away

 

[rubbershoes]

Had this one on vinyl but didn't hear it played out once and no one else had ever heard of it. It wasn't on youtube till a couple of years ago

It's a real grower



All their other tracks are terrible hip hop

 

[Pickman's model]

Skrewydriver by dog on a rope

 

[DaveCinzano]

Always love the opportunity to drop some Madnomad

 

[danski]

It’s the b side I wanted to post but this’ll do

 

[DaveCinzano]

I used to find so many great tracks on Julian Smyth's Unknown and International compilation tapes, but virtually none of them seem to have found their way into the interwebs. But I found this one from International Volume 3, which was always a big favourite, a jangly pop-punky indie singalong about hair dye, 'K2000' by 67

Listen to K2000 by 67 on #SoundCloud

K2000

Toby Burton and friends Mike Wilson and Gavin Richards had played in bands together, under various names and with other musicians, since studying together at sixth-form college in Godalming, Surrey. A

on.soundcloud.com

 

[hitmouse]

First thing that came to mind was Sailor Tongue, but apparently they're obscure enough to not have any trace of them on youtube. Jean Genet probably even more so, I think their music only ever existed on MySpace. But as quality obscurities found on compilations go, I have a big soft spot for this fantastically teutonic tune:


Oh, and I remember this being fantastically nasty:

 

[Elpenor]

I shall have a listen to some of these in the next week or so

 

[DaveCinzano]

I saw Papa Brittle, there was a cyberpunk goth band called Terminal Power Company supporting them, and they were really good, and I bought their tape, but since then heard nothing about them and never met anyone who'd heard of them

 

[DaveCinzano]

Mooz were quite a big local band in Bristol for a short while but never met anyone further afield who knew them - a shame, they were great

 

[editor]

She has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard but barely a soul has ever heard of her

 

[krtek a houby]

Love this guy. If you have any interest in contemporary folk, he's worth checking out

 

[DaveCinzano]

Sugar Bullet were signed to Sony and there definitely seemed to be a marketing push behind them (I remember an album review in The Observer) but they didn't seem to do anything or get anywhere. I didn't really like the album but I loved this Graeme Park-produced B-side, so much energy and righteous anger

 

[belboid]

The drummer went on to be in Sugar, but otherwise, massive obscurity.

One great new wave power pop song though

 

[planetgeli]

Most things by Six by Seven who nobody appears to have heard of besides me.

 

[krtek a houby]

Jacob Golden.

If you approve of Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley, he might be your cup of tea. Not as intense, perhaps.

 

[belboid]

Most things by Six by Seven who nobody appears to have heard of besides me.

One of Nottinghams finest bands (not that Nottingham had many fine rock bands). Great first album.

 

[albionism]

 

[Steel Icarus]

Lovely, bitterly ironic punk/reggae thing from Clive Pig & The Hopeful Chinamen:

 

[rubbershoes]

Sugar Bullet were signed to Sony and there definitely seemed to be a marketing push behind them (I remember an album review in The Observer) but they didn't seem to do anything or get anywhere. I didn't really like the album but I loved this Graeme Park-produced B-side, so much energy and righteous anger

I remember that, but preferred the A side

 

[Serge Forward]

I bought this when it came out in 1977. I still have it in my vinyl collection.

 

[Winot]

This was well-known at the time but everyone seems to have forgotten it. The most banging of banging 1990 indie-dance imho:

 

[Magnus McGinty]

This was well-known at the time but everyone seems to have forgotten it. The most banging of banging 1990 indie-dance imho:

First heard it coming up on some drug or another. Played it as recent as last year round my mate’s when putting on some memory lane stuff. Not sure it steals the crown of Kick Muck although tbf that was 1989.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Got The Table & Clive Pig ones, here's one from Akron, Ohio from the year before it became a briefly famous music scene:

 

[DaveCinzano]

I remember that, but preferred the A side

Hippie