The best albums you've never heard...

[Krayy]

I got a couple of CDs for Xmas, and I was putting them into the library (alphabetically by artist) and had to move around some forgotten classics that I hadn't listened to for a while. So heres my take on some of the best albums that you may never had heard:

The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap
Johnny Clegg - 3rd World Child
The Screaming Jets - Tear of Thought
The Cruel Sea - 3 Legged Dog
The Be Good Tanyas - Chinatown & Blue Horse

Any tips for some new sounds for the new year?

[R6_kid]

Tool - 10,000 Days

Or any Tool album for that matter, and while you are at it you may as well grab all the 'A Perfect Circle' stuff too.

[Mythical007]

Tool - 10,000 Days

Or any Tool album for that matter, and while you are at it you may as well grab all the 'A Perfect Circle' stuff too.

A perfect circle ... great suggestion... i love that stuff :)

[Big Dave]

The Jets are the sound of Newcastle NSW.

The auditorium of Toronto workers club when the Jets are paying on a hot Summer's night.....sigh.

I'll tell ya about HTFU.:msn-wink:

http://homepage.mac.com/david_cohen_design/.Pictures/misc2/jets.swf

[enigma51]

Rammstein Rossenrot
Manowar kings of metal
Black magic woman (santana)

[James Deuce]

Soulhat Outdebox.

[99TLS]

quite like wolfmother atm

[The Pastor]

everything is louder than everything else! i got it free from burger fuel. Its got some good tracks on it.

[limbimtimwim]

Biffy Clyro - All of their albums: Puzzle, The vertigo of bliss, Infinity Land, Blackened Sky.

Re-found At The Drive-In recently. 'Relationship of command' was always my favorite.

Which of course leads on to The Mars Volta. I keep coming back to their first album 'Deloused in the comatorium'.

For a bit of whimsy 'The Decemberists' are something I have taken quite a liking too.

So there you go, some albums you may not have heard of.

[HornetBoy]

RHCP Californitcation /mothers milk :niceone: and of course Jimi Hendrix lp's

[Ivan]

My Chemical Romance- I brought you my bullets you brought me your love
My Chemical ROmance- Three cheers for sweet revenge
My Chemical ROmance- THe black parade
Funeral For a Friend
Red Jump Suit Apparatus-Dont you fake it
The Used
Lost Prophets
Shihad
Breaking Benjaminn
Tool
Cat Stevens
Avenged Sevonfold
Blindspott
H.I.M
Marilon Manson
Evenescence
Seether
Mudvayne
Nirvana
Mushroomhead
Story of the year
Three days grace

[James Deuce]

My Chemical Romance- I brought you my bullets you brought me your love
My Chemical ROmance- Three cheers for sweet revenge
My Chemical ROmance- THe black parade
Funeral For a Friend
Red Jump Suit Apparatus-Dont you fake it
The Used
Lost Prophets
Shihad
Breaking Benjaminn
Tool
Cat Stevens
Avenged Sevonfold
Blindspott
H.I.M
Marilon Manson
Evenescence
Seether
Mudvayne
Nirvana
Mushroomhead
Story of the year
Three days grace
I've heard of all of those. This is supposed to be a thread about the best albums you've NEVER heard of.

Obscure stuff please chaps.

[limbimtimwim]

I've heard of all of those. This is supposed to be a thread about the best albums you've NEVER heard of.I reckon you'd like a bit of Dredg old bean.

Some good solid percussion. 'Catch without arms' would be the place to start.

But there is a whiff of 'Goth rock' (Only the tiniest of whiffs) to it that I find a little corny.

[awayatc]

Mountain queen from Alquin, timeless...

[betti]

wildhearts -earth vs the wildhearts-riffs to die for
cardiacs -anything it's all super!.
alabama 3- dancey and mad.
Tyla- life and times of a ballad monger- acoustic and ace!.
Kerbdog-Sally- rocks hard
Antiproduct- Consume and Die - bungee jumping people die may be the best song ever written.

[Gubb]

Red Tape - Radioactivist! (the first punk album released on RoadRunner, and bloody excellent)
Boysetsfire - After the Eulogy
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (The kings of spazcore)
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Dry Kill Logic - The Darker Side Of Nonense
Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
Cancer Bats - Birthing The Giant
Clutch - Pure Rock Fury

I could go on for hours.....

[KoroJ]

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Billy Was a Mountain

[devnull]

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

[homer]

I've heard of all of those. This is supposed to be a thread about the best albums you've NEVER heard of.

Obscure stuff please chaps.

Thats what ive been thinking as well jim

[Trudes]

Apathy Inc.

Good ol' Screaming Jets eh, right up there with Noiseworks.:rockon:

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Right O, try these chewy biscuits:

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing / In Absentia

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate

Air - Pocket Symphony

Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation - Mighty Rearranger

Beck - The Information

Buckethead - Colma

Can - Tago Mago

The Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines

Easy All Stars - Dub Side of The Moon (cool dub Floyd shit!)

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Vs The Pink Robots

The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities

Gary Clail and On-U Sound System - The Emotional Hooligan

Goldfrapp - Black Cherry

Strange Parcels - Disconnection

Grinderman - Grinderman

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus / Abbatoir Blues / Murder Ballads

Happy listening! :clap:

[Trouss]

The Future Sound of London
Nick Cave


^ All Good

The Phoenix Foundation - Pegasus

Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage

[Maha]

Tarot Suite....by Mike Batt and Friends
Know of only two thers that have this CD/Album, the has to be others?

[James Deuce]

I've got the hideous thing Maha.

[Maha]

I've got the hideous thing Maha.

Come on Jimmy boy...tis a masterpiece!
Song Titles...
The Night of the Dead
The Dead of the Night

What Brilliant mind would come up those? and dont get me started on ...Lady of the Dawn!....:rockon:

[Mom]

I've got the hideous thing Maha.

It is a strange and wonderful thing when you discover there are others who share a similar 'bent' in music. Maha man was the only other person I had ever met that had even heard of it..... that makes 3! Yay Jim welcome aboard you odd man :niceone:

[FilthyLuka]

Heres my contribution :)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (seen the seattle peformance on yout tube?)
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (10/8 time signature for the win! )
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (if i could marry a dead guy, it would be johnny cash)
Pantera - Cowboys from hell (enough said)
AC/DC - Hells Bells (rock and roll aint noise pollution, bitch)
Sabbath - Paranoid

and last but not least

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Oh yeah baby

[Laava]

Screaming Jets, fantastic live!
Tommy Bolin, Private Eyes
Nina Hagen, Nunsex Monkrock
Undertones, Hypnotised
Third World, Now that we found love
Selector, Celebrate the Bullet

[Mom]

Screaming Jets, fantastic live!
Tommy Bolin, Private Eyes
Nina Hagen, Nunsex Monkrock
Undertones, Hypnotised
Third World, Now that we found love
Selector, Celebrate the Bullet

Stop trying to play this game, you just made them up! :bleh:

[James Deuce]

Heres my contribution :)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (seen the seattle peformance on yout tube?)
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (10/8 time signature for the win! )
Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison (if i could marry a dead guy, it would be johnny cash)
Pantera - Cowboys from hell (enough said)
AC/DC - Hells Bells (rock and roll aint noise pollution, bitch)
Sabbath - Paranoid

and last but not least

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Oh yeah baby

The best albums you've NEVER HEARD.

Not EVER.

Those are all more than a little common.

[FilthyLuka]

haha, oops, should stop skim reading...

best album i've never heard?

err

Alice in video land - outrageous

[Laava]

Stop trying to play this game, you just made them up! :bleh:
LOL! Yeah but you gotta admit, Nunsex Monkrock is a kinda catchy name for an album!;)
I have some albums that are extremely obscure, but they suck so much I couldn't post them as it's "best" albums!

[SVboy]

The GORDONs
PIN GROUP go to town
ANDROIDDS [the nz ones]
Antipasti
Brian eno-Apollo project
Brian Eno Music for airports and Elevators
Cowboy Junkies the trinity sessions
Spiderbait spiderbait
Did I mention the GORDONS!!!!

[Gubb]

Send More Paramedics - The Awakening (Zombiecore anyone?)
Scissorfight - Jaggernaut (Deep-Fried Southern Rock)
Raging Speedhorn - We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (British Noise Fiends)
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer (Grind Revivalists)
Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica (Filthy Ragga-Punk)
Isis - Panopticon (Soundscapes)
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain (Doom Demi-Gods)
Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn (Spazcore Pioneers)
Converge - Jane Doe (Unlistenable Punk)
Turisas - Battle Metal (Vikings turning Acordians Metal)
Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes (Homo-Punk)
Viking Skull - Chapter One (The New Sabbath)
Soilent Green - Confrontation (One Album-Wonder Death Fiends)


...Always looking to find more out-there bands. If anyone recognises any of these, AND likes them, please open up my world just a little bit more.

[James Deuce]

The GORDONs
PIN GROUP go to town
ANDROIDDS [the nz ones]
Antipasti
Brian eno-Apollo project
Brian Eno Music for airports and Elevators
Cowboy Junkies the trinity sessions
Spiderbait spiderbait
Did I mention the GORDONS!!!!

Oh, come on! The Gordons aren't unheard of! I used to go to parties with those guys! Back in the days of Nellie the Elephant.

[Ghost_Bullet]

There seems to be a real style of music listen to by KB'ers,

But for me, to throw a wild card int he ring.

#1 Album would have to be THRILLER.

[James Deuce]

Gaaaah! Best albums you've NEVER heard.

Don't make me get on that boat.....

[Maha]

Gaaaah! Best albums you've NEVER heard.

Don't make me get on that boat.....

Night Fever...the Bee Gees.....:clap:

[Toaster]

Dunno where I put the old LP's.....

[riffer]

Oh, come on! The Gordons aren't unheard of! I used to go to parties with those guys! Back in the days of Nellie the Elephant.

Pah. I can beat that. John and I used to share amps. Brent was our sound guy.

anyway... best albums MOST people haven't heard (but which are in my collection):

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Dirty Boogie

[Gubb]

Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Electriclarryland is also FANTASTIC.

[Usarka]

How TF can i list the best album that I haven't heard?



heres a kuwi ones i came across the other day in the stack:
Rhian Shian - tiny blue biospheres (or sumthin)

or how bout:

Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider.

[Big Dave]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl
Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder - Talking
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South
Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Dirty Boogie

Truckers the only Artists not on my playlist. Several Ry - none talking.

[Conquiztador]

Best album I have NEVER heard? How the phuck would I know? I have never heard it!! Jezzzz.....

But some that I have and you might never have heard:

As I went rummaging through the pile of "Not played all the time" stuff, and memories came flooding back when I saw the covers of Boxer, Scorpions ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFaY9P5EKI ), Journey ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk ), Uriah Heep ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_H3IR6XBRI ), EL&P, Colosseum, Sleepy Sleepers ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIgG5yl9pGc )Herbie Hancock and many more, there was a few that I considered would fit the criteria (well, not the "Albums I have never heard" one, but...)

So here my list:
(Have added a link to music of them, but not always from that particular album)

Bond - Born. A 4 piece of classical playing girls that have some umph!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZY0xk0VeDs&feature=related

Nightwish - Once. (Could have picked any of their albums really...) from Finland playing "Symphony Rock" with Tarja as singer. Has classical and opera as background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKf1gTx7qM&feature=related
And with new singer Anette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZn7k5rZLQ

Stratovarius - The Chosen Ones. (Again, could have picked any of them, but this is a good start, has the "best" of some of their albums) Fast (without being speed) Metal. I like!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNLdTfwx5ZQ&feature=related

Astral Doors - Astralism. Hard Rock from Sweden in a 80's style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf1JHTCSysM


And some older on Vinyl:

Axe - Nemesis. Hard Rock with melody and lyrics I can relate to: " You might not remember my name, but I think you'll remember tonight..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqzi3VolYdU

Budgie - In for the kill. guitars and more guitars, add to that singing that makes my neck hairs stand up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg&feature=related

Barclay James Harvest - Everyone is everybody else. Old. From 74. But never understood why this one has not made the "Best ten albums ever made" list? Warning: If you are depressed, then this one will not help...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5pxiiZAlVs&feature=related

Babe Ruth - First Base Babe Ruth has to be the best band that never made it big. I have all their albums and they are played still in my house!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMzhaCCG1So&feature=related

Magnum - Vigilante Nice. Melodical Hard Rock that females tend to like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA3iMEfYAVA

Beggars Opera - Act One The "System of a down" of the 70-80's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXemomMifvw

Tempest - Living in Fear. What can I say? Classic!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDfsYh5eHfo

Blackfoot - Marauder At times I hear music today that I think is them. But nope. 4 Blackfoot indians playing Hard Rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVFyyXUAKls&feature=related

WASP - Winged Assasin. The FTW of Heavy Metal. My favorite is : "I wanna be somebody"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZb3Xya7jQ8

Angel - Angel (No, nothing to do with the Oz The Angels) Another one that somehow slipped between the cracks of the ones who decided what became big and what was forgotten!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n07qiAo1lM&feature=related

Black Oak Arkansas - Mutha Live All go Arkansas style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAPhLK8qdk

Yesterday and Today - Yesterday and Today Their first. But could have picked any of them. Then again I prefer their earlier stuff. If I could only pick the muzak of one band with me on to an deserted island, Y & T is it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS06pQJrZdo&feature=related

[silverado]

Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses. Nothing comes close. Every song is awesome.:headbang:

[Maha]

Enter Jim2......not literally, more of a request!....:sweatdrop

[Laava]

Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses. Nothing comes close. Every song is awesome.:headbang:
Who are they? Never heard of them!<_<

[Big Dave]

Who are they? Never heard of them!<_<

...........'Laava2'............................... .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ........is that 10?

[SVboy]

The Cure.....wait for it.....the EP "splintered in her mind" ....their best work!
Wire "pink flag"

[Zuki Bandit]

Radiohead
The Bends Album

[Badger8]

an old gem i loved growing up (had the LP back in the days) that noone has ever seemed to have heard of.
Tubular Bells - by Mike Oldfield
wasnt so much a fan of the title track (which took an entire side of the LP), but the songs on the other side were great. Standouts would have to be "Shadow on the wall" and "Moonlight shadow"
or maybe i just hang around too many young folk with no taste in music :2thumbsup

[betti]

sounds like you had a twofer deal there.. shadow on the wall and moonlight shadow were on Crises I think bout 83 if memory serves...

[Badger8]

sounds like you had a twofer deal there.. shadow on the wall and moonlight shadow were on Crises I think bout 83 if memory serves...

Crap, you're right there. Tubular bells took both sides of an LP. wrong album, heheh :)
That's what i get for posting whilst half asleep

[KoroJ]

Best album I have NEVER heard? .....

But some that I have and you might never have heard:

As I went rummaging through the pile of "Not played all the time" stuff, and memories came flooding back when I saw the covers of ........., Uriah Heep ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_H3IR6XBRI ), ....... and many more, there was a few that I considered would fit the criteria (well, not the "Albums I have never heard" one, but...


an old gem i loved growing up (had the LP back in the days) that noone has ever seemed to have heard of.
Tubular Bells - by Mike Oldfield........

You chappies are just showing your ages......Uriah Heep & Mike Oldfield were both on the Top Twenty in their time, and with Gary Thain from UH being a Kiwi boy....I'd say these were only 'Never Heard' by the younger 250cc riders anoungst us.

Manassas (Stephen Stills post CSN&Y - band and album), on the other hand, would probably be on more peoples Never Heard lists. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZ2Q3hkGNM&feature=related - Clip shows the Dble Album cover)

[James Deuce]

Enter Jim2......not literally, more of a request!....:sweatdrop
I've given up, especially after Conquey listed a bunch of top 40 artists.

[Badger8]

You chappies are just showing your ages......Uriah Heep & Mike Oldfield were both on the Top Twenty in their time, and with Gary Thain from UH being a Kiwi boy....I'd say these were only 'Never Heard' by the younger 250cc riders anoungst us.

Manassas (Stephen Stills post CSN&Y - band and album), on the other hand, would probably be on more peoples Never Heard lists. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZ2Q3hkGNM&feature=related - Clip shows the Dble Album cover)

Showing my age? erm, hate to burst your bubble but i AM one of those young 250 riders :-p
i just grew up listening to my old mans music is all, have a great appreciation for classics. guess it's just the crowd i hang around with has never heard of them, makes them feel like oddities.

[Conquiztador]

You chappies are just showing your ages......Uriah Heep & Mike Oldfield were both on the Top Twenty in their time, and with Gary Thain from UH being a Kiwi boy....I'd say these were only 'Never Heard' by the younger 250cc riders anoungst us.

Manassas (Stephen Stills post CSN&Y - band and album), on the other hand, would probably be on more peoples Never Heard lists. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UZ2Q3hkGNM&feature=related - Clip shows the Dble Album cover)

U misundersood this: Uriah Heep was not in the list. (Read again) I just mentioned them as bands that are in the pile of "not played for a looong time". The ones I considered albums that perhaps not all would have heard about started under that in my list.

But even then, one of the ones I did not include in the list, but mentioned together with UH, I am sure you would NEVER have heard about Sleepy Sleepers (Check their vid "Too Drunk To Drive" that was attached)

[Conquiztador]

I've given up, especially after Conquey listed a bunch of top 40 artists.

Top 40 artists? And they were...

[James Deuce]

33% of the entries in post #44 are far to well known to fit the "never heard of" provisio of this thread.

[Mental Trousers]

Celldweller - Celldweller

A fantastic album if you like your music a little heavier. It's an unusual mix of dance with metal that works very, very well. The dude does the entire album himself - vocals & all instruments and, despite being recorded it in his basement (hence the name being a contraction of Cellar Dweller) it's a 100% professional effort. The artist is a guy by the name of Klayton.

Contact me if you can't find anywhere to source the album.

[Conquiztador]

33% of the entries in post #44 are far to well known to fit the "never heard of" provisio of this thread.

That is your opinion. And you are entitled to it. But I disagree re the 33% tag.
So far you have added one band. The rest of your postings have been complaining re what others have added.

It all comes back to what music one listens to. Obscure to one is common to the other. And this thread was about good albums that others might not have heard about. Not just any crap that you picked up from the bargain bin as nobody in their right mind would ever have bought it.

The list I provided was on purpose made up of slightly obscure bands albums I have that I could find on the web so that, if someone wondered what the music is like, they could have a listen.

I have others. But what is the reason to blurt out some band on here that nobody can have a listen to? A little like telling the blind man about the beautiful sunset...

[KoroJ]

Steeleye Span - (I used to have) Now We Are Six http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqInvZ9hY9Y for a sample.

If longevity counts, they formed in 1969 and are still going, but it would help to be a Pom to appreciate them