[Music] thread of "the greatest song you've probably never heard"

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Tonight's favourite appears to be 'chillstep' artist CryMeAn. I know some of you have trouble navigating the youtube so here are a few more of their lovely things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0v2KL7_ACc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3t-fzRx9QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Aq47EKiMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvchXar8hFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJFlH3pDgHo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espbbyT97Jk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY4KlKo2c0A

 

[Grombleton]

And if you are ever feeling low, just listen to these boys. Absolute mock 80s FM Heaven. I hated real 80s FM shite. I bloody love this rehash. Turn up to eleven. And prepare to shed a tear for a nostalgia for a time you shunned and can now recalim. Or maybe you simply loved it then anyway .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntIyNtoxvwQ

Okay, that's the second absolute BANGER i've found on this thread. Gonna check out more of their stuff.

 

[Pevenseagull]

The greatest band on the planet .... ever
GUIDED BY VOICES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB7r6Xo5Vqw

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Got Krautrok?

https://youtu.be/Rar5yx5ZTWo

 

[Gwylan]

This one does.

Oh yes, good spot. And another fine song.

It's not commonplace though

 

[jimhigham]

This looks like my sort of thread.

But I need to post something that @<u><a href="https://www.northstandchat.com/member.php?u=13715" target="_blank">jimhigham</a></u> doesn't have on his iPOD....

I think you’ve pretty much got this thread covered.

My go to place for the unheard of...

 

[Mellotron]

[yt]M80-Bjsupeg[/yt]

His voice.
The lyrics.
The music.

It’s spellbindingly beautiful and brilliant. The closest we have to a Nick Drake or Jeff Buckley now. And he drives a battered Ford Galaxy to gigs and barely anyone has heard of him, in the grand scheme of things.

 

[jimhigham]

I hadn’t looked at this thread until HWT chucked a mention my way. This likes like an absolutely enormous rabbit hole one can disappear down and emerge days later.

 

[jakarta]

My favourite song of all time, as I may have mentioned before. Robert Wyatts final ever vocal with the Softs.

50 years ago, I'm starting to feel very old...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JrPnep5Aw

 

[Timbo]

A few decent tunes so far but some absolute rubbish as well! There’s a reason you’ve never heard some of these songs.

(I know music is subjective and there’s no such thing as bad song)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My favourite song of all time, as I may have mentioned before. Robert Wyatts final ever vocal with the Softs.

50 years ago, I'm starting to feel very old...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JrPnep5Aw

Great track (and on my iPod) but not obscure. I've been struggling to think of anything from the late 60s and early 70s that is good (IMO) and obscure. I wonder how many fold the number or artists recording there are now compared with then.....

 

[Hu_Camus]

I have a whole album that sits nicely with the title of this thread, that it never sold and I think it so brilliant probably sums up why I've come to believe I must be well up 'the scale'.
I've picked out my two favourite tracks (which are in reverse order on the album itself)
Stick with it for less than a minute if you're struggling.....it's worth it



You can see the full tracklist here ...I'll never know why this was never a world-beater of an album

EDIT:.....Jeez, I'm repeating stuff now - where's Matron when you need her?

 

[Acker79]

(you can also tell that his first language isn't English by his perfect grammar - what other pop songs contain the word "whomever"?)

https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/Whomever

11 pages! (Though, I think if you took out all the different recordings of 'Don't Worry 'Bout Me' it would only be one page).

 

[Seagull kimchi]

https://youtu.be/Y4uk-wJJlPI

 

[jakarta]

[yt]M80-Bjsupeg[/yt]

His voice.
The lyrics.
The music.

It’s spellbindingly beautiful and brilliant. The closest we have to a Nick Drake or Jeff Buckley now. And he drives a battered Ford Galaxy to gigs and barely anyone has heard of him, in the grand scheme of things.

That is lovely, will have to see what else he has done!

Many thanks, this is a brilliant thread, I know being an oldie most of the stuff I have posted is late 60's and early 70's but hope some of it is appreciated as well...

 

[Seagull kimchi]

https://youtu.be/Np0-rk3vW50

 

[jakarta]

A few decent tunes so far but some absolute rubbish as well! There’s a reason you’ve never heard some of these songs.

(I know music is subjective and there’s no such thing as bad song)

Of course there are bad songs and crap music in general, that is the reason I used to cringe through Top of the Pops back in the day and even yawn through a huge amount of Old Grey Whistle Test. You are right about personal taste, as you may have noticed I have a love of Krautrock and Mrs Jakarta absolutely hates it. As I do with her Phil Collins collection...

 

[jimhigham]

Ooh, I love this one. Seen these guys live a couple of times. This one’s driven by the bass line, which is always a good thing, and the drumming is like machine gun fire in the final section. Always near the top of my running playlist for when I need to get a shake on.

 

[Acker79]

https://soundcloud.com/spitliptheatre/dear-bill-live-new-diorama

 

[Gwylan]

https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/Whomever

11 pages! (Though, I think if you took out all the different recordings of 'Don't Worry 'Bout Me' it would only be one page).

I've never seen that site before - what a useful find. Thanks for that.

In the first two examples, whomever is used incorrectly - I wonder how many more of them are like that