鴉PieFedWhat hidden song gems would you recommend people check out?
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TehBamski@lemmy.world
Include the year it was released.
Kashus Culpepper - Who Hurt You
Basically the whole, 'How I Learned To Love Our Robot Overlords" album by Raggedy Angry. (2010) here's my favorite song from the album:
YouTube link, Easter Island Radiation
Also very good, but German, also much more popular: "Du stirbst aus" (2011) by Straftanz, which I'm currently obsessed with.
YouTube link
An oldie, but one few people seem to know about.
The Cult - The Witch from the *Cool World* soundtrack. Fuck me that song jams out.
Beast by Rabbit Junk - 2015
Oh hell yeah! Another Rabbit Junk fan!
Solid song.
Have you heard their song called Power? it's one of my favorites.
Oh I’ve heard them all, they’re like my favourite band.
Cuntry Boner - Puscifer (2008?). This was a silly side project from the frontman of Tool (Maynard James Keenan). Maybe not a "gem" but it definitely is hidden and the song pops into my head roughly once per week.
Puscifer is still around and is currently the most active of his projects. This song is an outlier in the discography.
The latest full studio album *Existential Reckoning* is fantastic, check it out! Actually I think I'm going to put it on right now as I get ready for work :)
Ezra's Ghost - Moccassin
I found Moccassin years ago, can't really remeber how, that's the only album they ever made (to my knowledge), it's from 2006 and it's amazing. I'd say it's psychedelic rock as genre, and the whole album is very interesting.
ASG is another band who, in my opinion, has a lot of hidden gem. It's a stoner rock/metal band, and while their faster/heavier tracks are good, I find these two giving me chills everytime I listen to them
Good Enough to Eat - ASG
Blues for Bama - ASG
Moccasin reminds me of Black Mountain: https://youtu.be/ujpJ-3W9z-s
No Money by Wild Ones 2017. This song is really good but the whole album just has this cohesive vibe that I wish more people knew about.
Yasuyuki Suzuki - Discovery
From NOTAM of Wind, a 1997 hot air balloon sim for the PlayStation that didn't have to slap this hard.
I'm looking forward to playing all these tracks at work today.
Whoa, I was not expecting that song to be so good. Thank you for this.
Sang Real - Dredg (2005)
I believe Dredg are an alt rock band but they are hard to describe. Some tracks are more like math rock (not this one) and others are more like straight indie. This is probably their catchiest track.
Please - Flashlight (2024) https://youtu.be/sSkcsuv_A8I
Trippin Like I Do - Blackfeet Braves (2011). They changed their name to Mystic Rabbit for releasing their first album but I don't think they ever found mainstream success. This is a really good 60s revival band. I think their first LP as Mystic Braves suffered from being over-produced but their older stuff as Blackfeet Braves is all sensational.
Playtone - Sleep on Sunday (2006?)
An excellent song that I first came upon downloading a demo album from
download.comback in the day when they hosted music albums. I can't find anything about this song online anymore except for this YouTube upload and in my personal mp3 archives. If you know more about it, I'd love to hear it!Dead World Reclamation - Embrace The Hive (2021)
Imagine my surprise that shoegaze is still thriving after 35+ years and is harder than ever.
Were you intending to link a song, or reply to someone besides OP?
The markup works in fedia, weird it doesn't work on Lemmy, https://youtu.be/uhQhiIVjNf8?si=vAVgS2IWa_UQ67V8
John Butler, Ocean - 65m views isn't all that hidden but I'm sure there are a lot of people who haven't heard it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYJf_ybyVo
Mirel Wagner - Red (2011) https://youtu.be/WgKQueNc7SY
Crazy Fuckin' Robot Body by Snowblood [2020] https://g.co/kgs/T1jQWzG
Maybe 'gem' is a bit of an overstatement (depending on your level of musical snobbery 😋) but I stumbled across this song/artist through Spotify at one point and ended up really digging it/them. They have another song I'd give honorable mention to as well, 'Freaky Freaky' I think is the name.
These certainly aren't what I'd call 'masterpieces' or anything, but they're fun songs I enjoyed and you might too if you can listen without thinking about it all too hard
The Fear - Ben Howard [2011]
Wisely & Slow - The Staves [2012]
Bad Things - Milky Chance [2017]
Release Your Problems - Chet Faker [2014]
Nameless Path - Marcus Foster [2011]
I’ve been slightly obsessed by Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix) by Alice Smith from 2014, Golden Fool by Gnome (and indeed the whole album), and Cabin Fever by Slomosa (and indeed almost everything they’ve done), both released last year
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oGM4LIuCrXG5aYOAu6ANJ
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bc3ADDXY0JKUPPJ3AXYBp
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lmnpR0Z7kc7ktKOwlPFsi
Blinded - The Bots (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ7K1IO_k_c
Andy Stott - Violence (2014)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PL41EXic65g
TISM - "Greg, the stop sign!" 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re9s8iFyPuQ
I like this little known gem called Anthropocene by Samsa, I like the message of how even tho we fucked the planet up, we can still do stupid shit together.
There are far too many, but here's a couple:
David Ramirez and Kalu James - Dark Star (from Song Confessional) (2022): https://youtu.be/lSg9qsBgfgs
Song Confessional is a podcast that collects anonymous stories then has artists make songs for it. This is my favourite song from that.
Great Caesar - Hey Mama (2016): https://youtu.be/fCnSEsx6Cp8
I don't even think they're a band anymore, or at least they haven't released anything in quite while.
Ladyhawk - New Joker (2006): https://youtu.be/4hUnygYXvfs
A rough sounding Canadian band that has disbanded, but actually had a documentary made about their second album creation process. Saw them live once and they were great.
Big Trouble - Mamalarky - 2020
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8tNxl2Q2hzw
500 Seconds Before Sunset by David Maxim Micic - 2015
Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75
It's always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who've only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one's a live performance for a track that doesn't get a lot of radio play.
Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one's great as a one-shot.
Just a handful of my lesser known favorites. All different genres.
RŌHKI - VERMILLION 2024
Arden Jones - parachute 2024
Natalie Walker - Mars 2012
Trevor Something - Enjoy The Silence 2014
Labyrinth Ear - Snow White 2011
BlackBraid - barefoot ghost dance on blood soaked soil 2022. Black metal
Whirlwind - The Gits (recorded in 1993 released in 2000)
The Gits are one of the best bands to come out of Seattle in the early 90s. I feel like they could have been up there with the greats if their lead singer Mia Zapata wasn't murdered.
This song in particularl is a perfect example of how awesome they were. It has that early 90s Seattle grunge sound but with a more punk edge. They never officially recorded this song and this live recording wasn't officially released until 2000.
Default by Atoms for Peace. I was recently reminded of how good that song is, hadn’t listened for years 😃 (am a big Radiohead fan, but tend to forget side projects)