Obscure albums you stumbled onto that you still love today?

[John Frets]

Here’s one from the Way-Back Machine. I got this album, featuring artists on Columbia records, a long, long time ago at a cut-out bin.

It introduced me to guitarists Jessed Ed Davis (with Taj Mahal) and Peter Green (with Fleetwood Mac). The guitar playing on those two tunes (Bacon Fat and Stop Messin’ Round) is still among of the best I’ve ever heard.

 

[Mowgli]

Katharsis - Janne Schaeffer

New York Stories Vol. 1 - Danny Gatton, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, etc.

Players - Scott Henderson, Jeff Berlin, T Lavitz & Steve Smith

Celebrate Me Home - Kenny Loggins

Move - The Red Norvo Trio with Tal Farlow and Charles Mingus (obscure today but not back then).

Jazz Winds from a New Direction - Hank Garland.

 

[VWAmTele]

In the early 70's I had never heard of Fleetwood Mac. Somehow a song from this album registered on my radar and then I checked the rest out. Must've wore out three copies of vinyl the rest of that decade.

 

[tanplastic]

The city I grew up in was all about rock in the 70s and 80s.
Disco "sucked", 'punkers' were losers, etc.
My brother and I had formed a punk trio and were desperate to hear anything new related to punk music (this was early 80s).
Among the same old ten punk records at the local shop was a semi-familiar name: Meat Puppets!
We cobbled our cash and took it home.
Expecting the Meatmen, we were stunned by the bizarre psychedelia of The Meat Puppets, but quickly became fans.
I love this record to this day:

 

[Lone_Poor_Boy]

We used to trawl through second hand record stores on saturday mornings when in high school looking for something new/different/obscure...

That's exactly how it happened. In the summer, any day of the week, my freshman year give or take, we might ride our bike's to 'Bobs Be-Bop Records' in Quincy, Illinois, and come out with a hidden gem or two.

I remember doing just that for the latest rolling Stones release, as it was the first since I became a fan. And I remembered how disappointed I was... in 'Black and Blue'.

 

[Opt_234]

Im big into vaporwave and alt-electronica, so i'm constantly discovering obscure indie releases. some recent acquisition

https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/tonight

https://music.businesscasual.biz/album/arctic-circuitry

also this hip hop album is legend

https://kinggeedorah.bandcamp.com/album/take-me-to-your-leader

 

[john_cribbin]

 

[Lone_Poor_Boy]

I really love this track, especially the intro where he teaches Clapton the riff.

Awwww ****, I'll be practicing that one tonight. Very familiar with that song in many versions but I never took it on. But I've been playing all slide in open tuning these last two nights, so I'm ready to go!

 

[jaxjaxon]

1969 Black foot
Wet Willy 1971

 

[tenthstreet]

Emitt Rhodes’ first album is, along with the rest of his albums, unfortunately pretty obscure:

 

[bcorig]

The guitar work on this is amazing
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrpyDacBCh7CdXRmJyfUdRlcTeGO8NIhR

 

[mr natural]

Parallelogram by Linda Perhacs. Heard the title track on the radio once and the DJ didn’t say who it was. Took me 20+ years of detective work to find it. Amazing song and album.

 

[stxrus]

Electric Flag’s A Long Time Coming. I bought it for the album cover and have been playing it regularly ever since
I’m not how obscure it is but I had never heard of it. There were only 2 copies in the music store. I bought one and the other was still there months later

 

[RodeoTex]

Del fuegos is still cool when I'm driving at night

 

[Texicaster]

This obscure enough for ya!

Demian.


We found it in a buddies older brothers collection. We had no idea about who they were and puzzled over how good it was and how...obscure!

Classic 1970s rock!

First track is great and it gets better!

 

[Sparky472]

There are many of those for me but the first one that came to mind was Pistolero by Frank Black and the Catholics. I never listened to the Pixies, didn’t know who Black Francis/Frank Black was. Stumbled upon the album on eMusic - must have been 2000 or ‘01. Still in my top 10 favorite albums. Here’s the first track on the album, and it hooked me.

 

[Sparky472]

Mentioned Spiderland recently. These guys for sure, this album and all their other ones.

good stuff - I’ll be checking out some more of their stuff for sure.

 

[Lucius Paisley]

1994. Flipping through cassettes for something "different". There was a pretty girl on the cover. So I bought it.

 

[wacolo]

Hamell on Trial - Big as Life

 

[Timbresmith1]

Buddy Guy “I left my blues in San Franisco”. Fire. Pure fire.