best songs no one has ever heard of
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This should be in the Obscure Song Hall of Fame (and sounds way ahead of it's time in some respects — released in 1972).
Might as well start with a couple from Nova Scotia’s finest, Sloan (first song was top 10 in Canada — didn’t chart in U.S., so it counts)
The Good in Everyone
Don’t You Believe a Word
The Good in Everyone
Don’t You Believe a Word
Time for some way old school. Herb Alpert was a good decade+ ahead of his time, and was making music videos well before it became popular to do so. The following is from his 1968 NBC TV special, which was comprised of music videos. He set an original Tijuana Brass tune Slick to a series of high school athletic activities as a tribute to his high school. It's probably my favorite TJB tune, but it was never one of his hits. If you played in a jazz band, you might have played this.
It was probably pretty cool for the high school kids, and it's an interesting look at the late 1960's. Herb nearly gets his head taken off at 1:46. The video won't embed, but you can watch it on vimeo.
[video=vimeo;57665380]https://vimeo.com/57665380[/video]
Good quality audio version on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reb8hgeBecg
It was probably pretty cool for the high school kids, and it's an interesting look at the late 1960's. Herb nearly gets his head taken off at 1:46. The video won't embed, but you can watch it on vimeo.
[video=vimeo;57665380]https://vimeo.com/57665380[/video]
Good quality audio version on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reb8hgeBecg
[video]https://youtu.be/Lur7cI1Sq4Y[/video]
Israel Nash-Rain Plans. Reminds me of Cowgirl in the Sand era Neil Young.
Israel Nash-Rain Plans. Reminds me of Cowgirl in the Sand era Neil Young.
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You're right, that does sound like Neil Young from that period. That song could be mistaken for a lost track from "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere."
MGMT
"Destrokk"
Good shite.
[video=youtube;hqLwILBZZRc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLwILBZZRc[/video]
"Destrokk"
Good shite.
[video=youtube;hqLwILBZZRc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqLwILBZZRc[/video]
Mark Knopfler
"Yon Two Crows"
More good shite.
[video=youtube;q7CyPyn_ec0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7CyPyn_ec0[/video]
"Yon Two Crows"
More good shite.
[video=youtube;q7CyPyn_ec0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7CyPyn_ec0[/video]
It has over 3 million views on YouTube as well as being a pretty big hit at the time of its release. I dunno if I'd call it obscure. It was big around the net a couple years ago as "what english sounds like to non english speakers" or something like that.
