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    Posted: November 06 2009 at 18:11
This seems to be a little popular trend over the archives, and most of you are guilty in some way. I'm talking about in listy kinds of threads when you find some satisfaction in saying that the most obscure band on your iTunes is your favourite. Don't worry, I do it all the time, and it is fun, so I made a wole thread about it. You can even call it a competition
 
Hopefully you all know what I'm talking about, I do come across as quite cryptic (unintentionally) sometimes
 
And try to mention bands you actually KNOW and not some random band off the archives listings that nobody including yourself has heard of please. I know what you internet folk are like...
 
I'll start us off.
 
Has anyone heard of that band....... Jig Ai from the Czech Republic? They are actually remarkably good.
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Awww I was hoping this would be a thread where we could bitch about people's musical elitism.  Right now im listening to Bla Vardag by Atlas which I guess is slightly obscure and its a really good album.
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You mean stuff like Epignosis, or Casualties of Applied Metaphysics?  No one knows what the hell those are.
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Posts: 11849 		  Quote Epignosis Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2009 at 18:27
Originally posted by Padraic

You mean stuff like Epignosis, or Casualties of Applied Metaphysics?  No one knows what the hell those are.


Stuff it, troll.  Angry

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How popular is Nil? I am just hearing them for the first time and wanted to say that it is awesome, I don't really care how obscure it is.

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Originally posted by Epignosis

Originally posted by Padraic

You mean stuff like Epignosis, or Casualties of Applied Metaphysics?  No one knows what the hell those are.


Stuff it, troll.  Angry

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Epignosis? Didn't they record that album Still The Waters? Man I hate that album
 
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I prefer to be pretentious by pretending that I treat all musical genres equally and overplaying how much I listen to classical music. Being elitist by being ostentatiously non-elitist is so much more satisfying.
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While I only have listened to them like once, I have some really obscure albums from eMusic, although with the new download policy I've gotten much less obscure because 4 track albums are a lot less cheap. I think DAAU, Crimetime Orchestra, Pierre-yves Mache, and Stuart Leibeg are the most obscure albums I've downloaded from them.
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Been listening to Skazy Lesa this evening and trying to decide if I like them or not.  They're definitely obscure out here in the cultural wasteland known as the American Midwest.

Apparently "Their name is well known in music-lovers circles of Russia" though, according to their bio.
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- Hannah Montana
- Selena Gomez
- Demi Lovato
- The Jonas Brothers
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I like more obscure bands than you!




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Originally posted by The Quiet One

- Hannah Montana
- Selena Gomez
- Demi Lovato
- The Jonas Brothers


Bands, Pablo.

And what?

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Posts: 9313 		  Quote The Quiet One Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2009 at 20:26
Originally posted by Ricochet

Originally posted by The Quiet One

- Hannah Montana
- Selena Gomez
- Demi Lovato
- The Jonas Brothers


Bands, Pablo.

And what?

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I'm putting Seesselberg on the table.


Okay, The Jonas Brothers stands then. Do you know them? No. Then I definitely listen to more obscure bands than you.

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Good idea for a thread but like rpe9p I too was about to launch into a close fisted slap at name dropping trendies and 'more esoteric than thou' evangelists. Bah...foiled.

As for obscure. Panta Rhei from Hungary were top notch (Organ,synth, bass & drums adaptations of Bartok on an album called erm...Bartok, not a kick in the backside off ELP on the latter's debut)

Are Russia's the Gourishanker obscure  ? (I mean I never hear them mentioned in the forums) but 2nd Hands is one of the best albums of the noughties for me.

Iceland's Thursaflokkurin are also rather unjustly neglected, being an unlikely but fascinating cocktail of Nordic folk, avant touches,symph and austere classical leanings.

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To most of the people I interact with in my daily life, my musical tastes are impossibly obscure.
 
To the people on this forum, I might as well be listening to Britney Spears.
 
 
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GREAT! now everyone knows about them! Thanks to James. AngryLOL
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Ever hear of Acid Enema?  No, not this metal band http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=10898 formed in 1995 (as I see someone else took the name), the short-lived high-school garage cum lavatory band formed in 1986.  I provided the rude noises -- it was very avant.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming



Are Russia's the Gourishanker obscure  ? (I mean I never hear them mentioned in the forums) but 2nd Hands is one of the best albums of the noughties for me.

 
I have that album and have even reviewed it. So, by definition, it can't be obscure. Or not that obcure. I'm not too much into digging, to be honest... Tongue
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the obscure bands I like are so obscure they don't exist, such as Serbia's Obeležiti zvezdama and Tch'uulim from Papuan New Guinea
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