Do you know of any songs that an average person wouldn’t easily find on the internet, but is still worth listening at least once in a lifetime. I highly encourage music that isn’t in English.
Peel Dream Magazine - Pad https://youtu.be/rAssFZs5oZU This song reminds me a bit of Toro y Moi, but the next song is pretty different.
Peel Dream Magazine - Reiki https://youtu.be/gPsnUnHQR0g
Prince Rama - Your Life in the End https://youtu.be/jmA1cI1Uxew
Rahill - Growing Pains https://youtu.be/Tx3y83lu3P0 I love this song and despite Rahill collaborating with Beck on a song, this one seems relatively rare.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Upb8b9YEBdpF4p8OO51Qh
From a long gone local Denver band. Saw them play live a few times in bars around town and this track hit me just right.
Instrumental only so it qualifies as non-English. :D
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Song by Gordon Lightfoot
Not sure if this counts as “obscure”, but one of my favorite songs is Itte by Yorushika. Not only is it a bop, but the lyrics are surprisingly melancholic and dark for such an upbeat song.
As for a band I think is criminally underrated, perhaps check out Evening Light by Vansire.
I’ve been listening to a lot of post-hardcore punk lately. To cherry pick a few of my favorites from lesser known bands:
Altin Gün - Taltı Dile Güler Yüze
Let me know what you think @[email protected].
+1 for Dripping Sun, fucking incredible
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s cover of The Meter’s Cissy Strut, with Robert Randolph on pedal steel.
It’ll shake the funk out your ass.
Johnny Society’s Blue Plastic Bag. https://open.spotify.com/track/5YamzI4sBZryYiNe36EkGN?si=I9US7MfaSmOZfRcdv7UVFw
I remember hearing this band on CBC radio 3, years ago, and I thought they had a bunch of catchy songs. 36 views on YouTube and not much on Spotify.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_qHzeHZtG7A
This is a song I heard randomly once and instantly fell in love with. I don’t think the band is that well known.
Here is a little bit of older Canadian indie music you might enjoy. “Local Rabbits - Sally Anne’s Style Denial”
If you dig that try “Stomp your British knights down” same band
Okay these are ‘obscure’ in the fact that not a lot of people know of these particular performances or remixes/covers.
Bluegrass instrumental cover of “Taylor” by Jack Johnson that is a very beautiful version. If I ever got married, I’d probably want this to be the song playing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23KUT6W8HA
Another amazingly beautiful song: Roads Must Roll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DYYQ4q4Go
This remix of “Sound of Silence” used in this emotionally powerful video for hearing impaired that I stumbled into over 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7fAjfp098
This guitar instrumental cover of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson that this amazing kid does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVqX0a49HM
Throwing Fire by Ronald Jenkees You wanna get pumped listening to a guy rock out on a keyboard? This dude has some amazing jams. (I also recommend Disorganized Fun, Stay Crunchy, Guitar Sound, etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2aH4XLbto
Destiny by Zero 7 before they were really big, and before Sia blew up as a pop artist. This particular version is really tight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxx_MwcfbEs
Hip Hop violin by Paul Dateh and Inka One. Its old, the video quality is awful, but the music is. Amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM
I’ll probably add some more as I think of them because I love music.
Lebanese Blonde by Thievery Corporation Okay this is a well known song because it was used in a popular movie called Garden State, but not many people know the band outside of ‘oh yeah that cool song from Garden State!’ But this is such a talented band, if you can see a live show of theirs, do it. One of the best concerts I’ve ever been to in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7W6NtTKAw
Cover of No Diggity by The Regulars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1be7E48Yhas
Broken in All the Right Places by I Am Jen A woman I found on YouTube over 10 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832YvQHzFqg
1976 by RJD2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC-FGtZrPkU
Staying’ Alive instrumental cover by Luca Stricagnoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buH9qCgK_Qk
Thievery touring member Frank Orrall is also the lead singer for Poi Dog Pondering, which has a totally different take on world music. Their Pomegranate album is absolutely great, and a notable song from it is Complicated: https://youtu.be/-KLZMKNs7qY
For a cover, they have an awesome version of That’s the Way Love Is: https://youtu.be/k7iaA7x9oc4?si=aHd5ZJsR7KbqFy7o but I haven’t found a high quality audio YouTube version of it.
Man, I have not heard the name “Ronald Jenkees” for years.
I love his enthusiasm for music so much, makes me smile to this day.
Change by Oingo Boingo. One of my favorite songs of all time. It really should be more well known. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z7kVtw-rFFk
I’m not sure if this counts as obscure as its easy to google and someone who knows of ocremix.org might stumble across it, but its a remix of a boss battle song from the end of an almost 25 year old Kirby game, so I think normal people today would never come across it. I’ve never played the game its from, yet this is still one of my favorite songs of all time
https://youtu.be/eSkrKgqCi1c?si=imEpXyLoSgkxte7VI play it when I’m really stressed and it helps me calm down (it is not calming music, I don’t know how to explain why it helps me)
Another name I haven’t thought of in a long time. I’ve always appreciated Acrophobia, if for nothing else just for how took the melody from the original and just… ran with it.
