I dunno if it would be classed as obscure any more seen as it now has over 2m plays, but when I first heard it 4 years ago it was for sure obscure.
I also remember when it was obscure but i keep seeing it pop up as a meme of absurdity, which it is, of course. I think most people don't realize the level of virtuosity on display.
This is hilarious, i love it. My favorite Jonathan Coulton song is Sticking It to Myself.
That one is great!
I keep mis-remembering one line as "I'm not unreasonable, I mean at some point you're gonna hafta die"
Yine, by Kurban (Turkish band) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edxm5-boYGA&pp=ygULeWluZSBrdXJiYW4%3D
I don't know how obscure this is because it was on the Skate 3 soundtrack. However, I've never met a person that knew the song, and it's not on any music streaming services, so I think it's a little obscure.
A great one for your Halloween playlists is "The Crazy" by The Children MacNuggits.
But if you want even more obscure, a college friend of mine started a homebrew record label and got every band on campus to submit their best track for a compilation... and then he did it five more times
Twenty years later, I still listen to some of these songs daily, but especially: (warning, these are download links, not streaming)
Cold Heaven - "Eurydice"
The Heavy Pets - "(A Dragon's Just) A Dinosaur in Drag"
Zinc Finger and the Major Groove - "Too Much of a Girl"
The Passerines - "Young"
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uhfJ11SoxlwREvTV80QA5? Lucy(Hurt People Hurt People) by Olivver the Kid
Been following this band for a while now and every now and again they release a banger.
They never draw huge numbers which doesn't make sense to me given their songs.
Burrito Mojado, the Fabulous Hedgehogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfanMci3-A&t=0
This is hilarious, i love songs that are silly and fun while still being good.
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
You can thank ~~me~~ Bo later.
With 145M views and like thousands of variations I wouldn't call this obscure. Great song, but not obscure.
LOL, fair enough I guess. 🤷♂️
I've never heard this before, Bo sure does know how to send a message.
I'm also learning this is where the piano and laughing meme came from. lol
Probably not obscure per se, as it is the main theme of Raziel and Kain's conflict in Soul Reaver, but Ozar Midrashim - Information Society, is one piece that I deeply enjoy.
There's a metal cover of the game's music, "Between the Zones", with Wasteland Midrashim and Forgotten Lament being some I enjoy a lot.
There are so many:
Kind of well-known these days, but also obscure as we literally don't know who made it or even what it's called: "The most mysterious song on the internet"
My favourite "obscure" artist right now is a Vancouver band called Slightest Clue. Post/Punk alternative group.
Idk how obscure it is but FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND by Snake Pool
This is a fun one. The driving beat from the drums and the bouncing bass make me smile and it's impossible not to tilt my head back and forth to the beat.
Yes, of course! Half of the music i listen to is instrumental.
That was a good song. It gives me vibes of melancholy and longing.
Shefferville, le dernier train by Michel Rivard
Not sure if the last one counts as a song since there's no singing, but Def one of my favourite musiques ever.
Alopecia by Why? (Surprise it's an entire album)
But if you only want one song from it try Torpedo or Chron's
The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith
The snare on 2 and 3 really adds to the military theme the artist is painting. Very cool. I feel like this song is a small piece of a larger story.
The Forgetting Room by Seeming
The build in the beginning of this song is so good. It's also interesting how vocals-focused the mix is, that's something i'm not used to.
Sleepwalking by the Jaguar Club. https://youtu.be/EZU3zV33tYM
One Must Fall 2097 theme. https://youtu.be/pdVnKYcYi3g?si=g3DMymI7KQV8Vifh
Anything from the 1974 anime Jack and the Beanstalk OST but this: https://youtu.be/Ehqopzmx258?si=jQaKJRglCZkSLwFt
Abortive Gasp - Psychogod. Someone posted this to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world last year. I was the only person to upvote and comment on it. 1K people upvoted it on youtube, but that's over 6 years. I don't know anything else about this group.
This is interesting. It's like dark-trance music. Also, is it Psychgod or Psychogod? Sounds like they're saying Psychgod and that's what's in the background as well.
Memo From Turner from the soundtrack of the movie Performance.
It sounds like The Rolling Stones but it's only Mick, plus Ry Cooder on slide guitar.
I like the mix of speaking voice and singing here. Also the pitch "issues" of both the slide and Jagger add to the song---almost microtonal vibes.
Showbread - Mouth Like a Magazine
https://youtu.be/RPviF7Wp_bw?si=pv5vnQFFPNRMoD1o
The band dropped off the map years ago. I barely understand the words, and that's when I read the lyrics. But from the chorus, I gather that the song is about hypocrisy, and that scratches an itch of yelling at people for being hypocritical
Isotopic shift
By pyromed
This almost gives me horror vibes due to being very busy and the wavering pitches on the synths. Reminds me of Stranger Things. lol
Abney Park's Airship Pirates.
Every time it comes on in the wild I get excited.
Anxiety - Optimus Rhyme
Wheelie Cyberman is one of my favorite obscure artists, and both Optimus Rhyme and his current band Supercommuter are great if you're into nerdrap and/or chiptune music (Supercommuter is much more chiptune than Optimus, but there's still a lot of influence there)! A couple more good tracks from both:
Unusual habits - Supercommuter
Bad ideas - Supercommuter
Reel Estate - Optimus Rhyme
Coded and United - Optimus Rhyme
CunninLynguists - "The Format" (Feat. Masta Ace & Mr. SOS)
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