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Post subject: Your favorite obscure classic album?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:13 pm
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Recently, I've been going through my vinyl collection and recording some obscurities to CDR. I realized that some of these albums were really classics, even if they were somewhat obscure (meaning that they were not big sellers). These included:

Paris - Paris (the 1976 Bob Welch album)
Babe Ruth - First Base
The Dictators - Go Girl Crazy!

Other notables are: Cactus, Gypsy, Trace, Quatermass. So what albums from your collection are obscure classics?

Note: a few obscurities I transferred do not deserve the classic rating: Rough Diamonds, Riff Raff, Heavy Load.

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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:18 pm
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'The Scream' Siouxsie And The Banshees probably for me. That might not be obscure enough but i always loved it.

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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:52 pm
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That would be a very tough choice and even then it would have to come down to a 3-way tie: 1: Wishbone Ash-Wishbone Ash 2: Audience-House On The Hill 3: White Noise - An Electrical Storm.

All 3 of these albums were years ahead of their time,the Wishbone Ash album contains Phoenix which is IMHO the best song they ever did.Audience's lead guitarist/singer is Howard Werth and he's a brilliant classically trained guitarist,the title song is just plain spine chilling and their cover of Sreamin' Jay Hawkins'-I Put A Spell on You is the most sublime treatment of it I've ever heard. The White Noise album came out several years before Emerson Lake and Palmer and Kraftwerk came on the scene with their synthesizers and was done mainly by manual tape manipulation and other old analogue studio tricks but it sounds like it's all coming from a sophisticated bank of expensive synthesizers.The album is based on a series of dreams and also includes a visitation from a recently demised lover and it's not the type of album you'd listen to alone in the dark-not side 2 anyway.All 3 albums are now out in CD-which is good as I have the vinyl long worn out.

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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:00 pm
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Can't pick just one... but among the favorites of mine are:

Lumpy Gravy
Starless and Bible Black
Red
Weasils Ripped My Flesh - (especially "Prelude to the Afternoon of a sexually Aroused Gas Mask" and "Dwarf Nebula Processional March and Dwarf Nebula")
Meddle

I'll probably think of more later.

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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:29 pm
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Here's a few from my moldy section:

Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler
Mark - Almond - Self Titled
Cold Blood - Self Titled
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Man - Back into the Future
Ultimate Spinach - Self Titled

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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:47 pm
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pavlov,s dog at the sound of the bell and pampered meinial,both forgotten classics


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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:57 pm
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bebop deluxe...modern music
the mothers...just another band from L.A.
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 11:46 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:34 am
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The Madcap Laughs-Syd Barrett.

Does The Grateful Dead's American Beauty count as obscure?

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Retroverbial wrote:
"Red Tape" -- The Atlantic Rhythm Section

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uhhh... that's "Atlanta"

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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:26 am
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tough choice between:

Pavlov's Dog - Pampered Menial

Spirit - The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Good Rats - Tasty

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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:45 am
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FrankieTheKid wrote:
Retroverbial wrote:
"Red Tape" -- The Atlantic Rhythm Section

Arjay

uhhh... that's "Atlanta"


Oops!

(duly noted and emended)

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Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service from the psychedelics '60s. Dale Evans wrote the title track! Great guitar work by John Cippolina.


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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 12:02 pm
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freak out by the mothers , what an album 8) and as already mentioned
weasels ripped my flesh by the mothers 8) and i'd just like to say to some of our younger members , if you haven't listened to the mothers of invention check them out , they were something else 8) heres a cracking version of king kong from 68 . enjy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQvuIOoG1k
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