Awesome bands that only you have ever heard of.

[IceMan In Black]

Ok kids, time for a fun ride.

Propagandhi
Down
The Human Condidtion
Shakespeare Jones
Axis & Allies
Baroness
Benjy Davis Project
Between the Buried and Me
The Post Script
The Black Keys
Black Mountain
Red Shadows
Blood Has Been Shed
Brand X
Titus Andronicus
Converge
Kingdom of Sorrow
Eagles of Death Metal
El Grupo Nuevo De Omar Rodríguez-López
The Fall of Troy
Botch
Flaw
Fugazi
Gojira
Haste The Day
The Haunted Have Heart
Verse
High On Fire
How To Destroy Angels
Hurt
Immortal Technique
Institute
iwrestledabearonce
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
One Day as a Lion
Portugal. The Man
Richard Cranium
Chemcoma
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Screaming Trees
Porcupine Trees
Zwan
Sever Your Ties
Thrice

So the likelihood that someone has heard of a a lot these is pretty high, but all of them? Probably Not.

 

[Xeros]

Aside from the Escapist, I've never met a single person that knows who Turmion Kätilöt are.

 

[razer17]

If I was going to be a little more obscure I would say, enter shikari. The only truly obscure one I could say is The Reverb.

Enter Shikari obscure? Really? They are pretty big. They have supported the likes ot The Prodigy and Pendulum, not to mention their own big gigs. They do a lot of festivals too. Even when I saw them in 2007 they still weren't that obscure.

Half the bands I have seen mentioned on here aren't really obscure. But here are mine:
Cobblestone Jazz
Mouse on Mars
Freezepop
The Beatles

 

[TheComedown]

This thread was done not even more then a week ago.

But the whole premise of the thread is flawed as every band is known, be it at least to their friends and families, tho the bands that will get mentioned here will mostly all be on one record label or another, now if they weren't known apart from just you or a very few people they wouldn't be on a label, and wouldn't be making records.

Not to mention I've, at the very least, heard of every band already mentioned cept one

Th premise of this thread isn't really relevant to it's objective, which is: to raise awareness about obscure bands that you like and feel deserve more attention.

That being said. I have one particularly little known artist in mind:

Cpen

Well then the OP should have simply said that he was looking for relatively unknown bands. Rather then phrasing a statement that is a contradiction. The only way for there to be "Awesome bands that only you have ever heard of." is if said band exists solely inside your head. Not to mention that well over half the bands are actually reasonably well known.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Streetlight Manifesto. I love that band so much but no one I know seems to have ever heard of them untill I make them listen to them in my car all the time.

This. It upsets me that so few people I've met know who Streetlight is or even know what ska is for that matter.

I shall also mention the awesome band that is Big D and the Kids Table.

Agreed! A few of my mates are into ska though (that's largely my fault though), but mostly the only two songs anyone recognises are Beer by Reel Big Fish and The Impression That I get by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

And to add to the list of awesome ska bands, Mustard Plug!


Anyway, aside from ska there quite a few bands I listen to that aren't very well known:

Stone Gods (basically The Darkness sans Justin Hawkins. Much better than The Darkness ever were)
Black Spiders
The Plight
Priestess
The Parlor Mob
Bullets And Octane

 

[Arkhangelsk]

Adversary and The Damage Addict Orchestra. I bet nobody on this site has ever heard them.

 

[Velvo]

Yes, lets all compare the sizes of our [obscure musical knowledge, not genitals].

Or, inversely, lets completely non-selfishly share our love of bands and spread the wealth of music to our comrades in audio pleasure.

Somewhere in between, but probably closer to [not genitals] waving, seems most likely.

Put perhaps there is a third axis. A "I desperately want to fit in" axis. Lets explore the psychology of wanting to seem cool and how bleakly pathetic it is in a universe that could care less if the whole of the Earth were obliterated by a white dwarf super-nova several lightyears away, which in itself is an insignificant blip in the history of time.

 

[dariuskyne]

the black mages, the gothsicles, agent orange, life of agony, nitzer ebb, vnv nation, front 242, frontline assembly, torsion, carfax abbey, x marks the pedwalk, killswitch click (not killswitch engage), Wumpscut, wolfsheim, beborn beton, apoptygma bezerk, silence, the yeah yeah yeahs, the transplants, the 5678's, 16 volt, Aesthetic Perfection, And One, Assemblage 23, Black Light Burns, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Buck O Nine, Collide, Covenant, Darling Violetta, Portishead, Sweetie, Das Ich, Dead Can Dance, Faith and the Muse, Evil's Toy, Fluke, Funker Vogt, Godhead, Gravity Kills, Gogol Bordello, Helmet, Horrorpops, Icon of Coil, Isle of Q, Jack off Jill, Kevorkian Death Cycle, Lennon, Luxt, Maximum the Hormone, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Nouvelle Vague, Of Montreal, OhGr, O-Zone (don't judge!), Pitchshifter, Squarepusher, Placebo, She Wants Revenge, Project Pitchfork, Psycic TV, Razed in Black, Revolting Cocks, Silke Bischoff, Spiderbait, Suede, Suicide Commando, The Queers, The Toadies, TISM, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Vast, XTC, Yoshida Brothers (you wii users had better know who they are!)...

yeah there's a few recognizable names in there, but you'd be surprised at how few of their songs are known, the Toadies for instance, almost everyone knows their song "Possum Kingdom", but the rest of their stuff is practically unknown, same with gravity kills (guilty) and the yeah yeah yeahs (maps)

but to each their own.

 

[TheDustyBanana]

Lights is one of the few bands I know of/listen to that a lot of people I've met have never heard of. In fact I was listening to Owl City before Fireflies became so ridiculously popular, so for a while I was the only one of two people I knew that had heard of them/him/whatever.

Redgum, though, is probably the band I know that no one I know(aside from my high school German teacher) has heard of before. My German teacher and I used to confuse the entire class sometimes talking about them.

And I'm going to go with Public Image Ltd. as well. Just because I don't know anyone else knows about them either.

 

[dariuskyne]

Yes, lets all compare the sizes of our [obscure musical knowledge, not genitals].

Or, inversely, lets completely non-selfishly share our love of bands and spread the wealth of music to our comrades in audio pleasure.

Somewhere in between, but probably closer to [not genitals] waving, seems most likely.

Put perhaps there is a third axis. A "I desperately want to fit in" axis. Lets explore the psychology of wanting to seem cool and how bleakly pathetic it is in a universe that could care less if the whole of the Earth were obliterated by a white dwarf super-nova several lightyears away, which in itself is an insignificant blip in the history of time.

someone had their daily quota of pissed in cherrios much?

though truthfully, I see your point, but is this any different than the "what anime should i watch next" or the "what game should i dig out for (insert old game system here)" type posts, those also cater to the obscure knowledge sets, and yet, no flack from you there? dude, it's harmless fun, i see less genital swinging here, and more interest in music than anything.

 

[Velvo]

Yes, lets all compare the sizes of our [obscure musical knowledge, not genitals].

Or, inversely, lets completely non-selfishly share our love of bands and spread the wealth of music to our comrades in audio pleasure.

Somewhere in between, but probably closer to [not genitals] waving, seems most likely.

Put perhaps there is a third axis. A "I desperately want to fit in" axis. Lets explore the psychology of wanting to seem cool and how bleakly pathetic it is in a universe that could care less if the whole of the Earth were obliterated by a white dwarf super-nova several lightyears away, which in itself is an insignificant blip in the history of time.

someone had their daily quota of pissed in cherrios much?

though truthfully, I see your point, but is this any different than the "what anime should i watch next" or the "what game should i dig out for (insert old game system here)" type posts, those also cater to the obscure knowledge sets, and yet, no flack from you there? dude, it's harmless fun, i see less genital swinging here, and more interest in music than anything.

No different, sir. I'm just pointing it out because I get cynical and condescending when I'm tired. It's 5:30 am here. Basically, "Oh, I don't know what music I'd recommend, so I'll rip on the whole idea and try to instill a sense of insignificance and ennui."

Oh, and no Cheerios today. Car broken, live in middle of nowhere, running out of food.

 

[dariuskyne]

Yes, lets all compare the sizes of our [obscure musical knowledge, not genitals].

Or, inversely, lets completely non-selfishly share our love of bands and spread the wealth of music to our comrades in audio pleasure.

Somewhere in between, but probably closer to [not genitals] waving, seems most likely.

Put perhaps there is a third axis. A "I desperately want to fit in" axis. Lets explore the psychology of wanting to seem cool and how bleakly pathetic it is in a universe that could care less if the whole of the Earth were obliterated by a white dwarf super-nova several lightyears away, which in itself is an insignificant blip in the history of time.

someone had their daily quota of pissed in cherrios much?

though truthfully, I see your point, but is this any different than the "what anime should i watch next" or the "what game should i dig out for (insert old game system here)" type posts, those also cater to the obscure knowledge sets, and yet, no flack from you there? dude, it's harmless fun, i see less genital swinging here, and more interest in music than anything.

No different, sir. I'm just pointing it out because I get cynical and condescending when I'm tired. It's 5:30 am here. Basically, "Oh, I don't know what music I'd recommend, so I'll rip on the whole idea and try to instill a sense of insignificance and ennui."

Oh, and no Cheerios today. Car broken, live in middle of nowhere, running out of food.

fair enough, i have weeks like that too.

as for living in the middle of nowhere, especially middle of nowhere east coast usa, i've grown up in those places, i can relate, and my only advice is get an old moped, might not go fast, but with basic mechanical skills they can run almost forever, and worse comes to worse they can be pedalled.

 

[IceMan In Black]

the black mages, the gothsicles, agent orange, life of agony....

Wow, I thought I was only one of like 5 people who knew about Of Montreal, and like 3 Americans that listened to Placebo. I thought Life of Agony was more well known. Also, good point about the random hits, but sometimes it leads people to finding out about awesome bands they otherwise wouldn't have heard about.

 

[Soluncreed]

Hurt is a band that I like, but have never met anyone else who has heard of it.
This is one of my favorites.

 

[Ickorus]

Mar
Long Distance Calling
Followed By Ghosts
Pg.lost
Beast, Please Be Still
New Century Classics
Zerova
The Seven Mile Journey
Glowworm

I'd say 'Explosions In The Sky' and 'This Will Destroy You' but they're pretty well known among the post-rock crowd.

They all deserve to be better known, especially Mar.

Spoiler: the only 3 Mar videos I could find on youtube.

 

[Lust]

Horse The Band, anyone? If not.........

Spoiler: Spoiler: Screaming Will Ensue

 

[The Bum]

Red Hot chili pepers

Joke...?

Well i only know one other person who knows they exist

 

[omega_peaches]

Crash Kings
NOBODY here knows them

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Name some awesome bands that no one has ever heard of. My favorite band is Mindless Self Indulgence. I love them. I think what really draws me to them is their unquestionable uniqueness. They specialize in the bizarre and as the topic suggests, they are totally unknown, at least they are totally unknown anywhere remotely close to my residence.

your icons awesome. u love spice an wolf

OTP; Working for A Nuclear Free City. they did the inFAMOUS ending song, 'silent melody'

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