An obscure song i like is Library Takeout by MicrOpaqu3.
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Thank you for sharing, everyone!
I’m slowly going through the comments and enjoying a variety of good and interesting music!
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.
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”
This is hilarious, i love it. My favorite Jonathan Coulton song is Sticking It to Myself.
Excellent choice. I was going to go with Future Soon by Coulton.
Yine, by Kurban (Turkish band) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edxm5-boYGA&pp=ygULeWluZSBrdXJiYW4%3D
Hell yeah, can’t go wrong with hard rock.
I have a number of songs on my playlists in different languages that i dont unserstand and it’s interesting how it shifts the focus away from lyrics and toward the interaction between the vocals and the instruments. The voice is another instrument, after all.This song just slaps, that’s why I like it. Fun to play on guitar, too!
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”
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.
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.
Glad you like it. They made two albums, both pretty goofy. The main guy ended up in Vegas. Did some interesting stuff.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uhfJ11SoxlwREvTV80QA5? Lucy(Hurt People Hurt People) by Olivver the Kid
I like how simple this song is musically while converting multiple things behind the lyrics.
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.
This fucks.
There are so many:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNI0Mt_kLY&t=4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8&t=26
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAexp0w3H3c&t=2
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyWNsy5Lrk&t=0
- https://youtu.be/OaSEGZ3Xe_E?si=Yp3pSZaNATdunFQu
- https://youtu.be/gZa4yre0uEk?si=LZsWU1nALkrzVECy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNn5xnRl5A&t=3
Decapitated Camels by Simon Swerwer
This is actually two guitars having a conversation. lol
It’s interesting that the phrase-end motif has two different rhythm variations throughout the song. I wonder what that symbolizes.IIRC, it was written for Dwarf Fortress so it might just actually symbolize camels fighting in a desert and getting decapitated. lol
Transmissor - Janela
Oh i like this. I have no idea what it’s about but it gives me nostalgia/reminiscing vibes. Definitely a head nodder! Also i appreciate how much variety there is even being a short song.
I messaged them and told them it should be much longer, they appreciated the comment and that they were proud of the record. The album is great. This song in particular can make me cry if I listen to it enough.
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”
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.
