Your (un)known gem!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Which song do you love which no one else you know seems to have ever heard of?

For me, Aslan “Crazy World”. Massive in Ireland but unheard of in cumbria..

https://youtu.be/fDtVbWzZatw

[vixen1700]

Probably loads, but here are some for good measure:



Anything by Tess Parks



Anything by the wonderful Prince Rama, now sadly no more.



Epic sound in a tiny club from Black Doldrums, blew me away the few times I've seen them.

[FunkyNige]

I mentioned this in the hauntingly beautiful thread, I think it's a brilliant song and deserves much more recognition than it gets - no-one I know has heard the song before.

Monroe by Sara Niemietz

I started listening to her as she was (is?) one of the regulars on Postmodern Jukebox, then this song started and it really took me back how beautiful the song is. It's also a positive song which makes a nice change.

I also love the pop-punk band Patent Pending, most of their music is as you would expect from pop-punk but they came out with this gem

[cherryowen]

Some obscure ones I've loved for a while:-

The Groundhogs : Bog Roll Blues



Brancaccio & Aisher : Darker

[StevieBee]

Liking where this thread is going!

From me - evoking memories of chilling in a bar just down from Kyrenia in Cyprus a few year back, Gypsy and the Cat - Jona Ark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YboETF6ZHQ

[lockhart flawse]

The Associates - A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-b-WJe2nmg

[lemansky]

Wow, some great stuff here I'd never heard of before.

Here's a bit of Pat Metheny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWkYPd1cAE

(I posted 'To the End of the World' on another thread a while ago (from the same album) but this opening track always gets the hairs up on the back of my neck and cheers me up instantly.)

[SAB888]

Here's three that I really like but think a lot of people will not have heard of them.

Megan McCauley - Die For You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe2q-ZYj4oc

Megan McCauley - Wonder (from Elektra: The Album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55y89jhDlEQ

Helen Shanahan - Unborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZ1SswbtHc

[Simes205]

lemansky said:

Wow, some great stuff here I'd never heard of before.

Here's a bit of Pat Metheny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQWkYPd1cAE

(I posted 'To the End of the World' on another thread a while ago (from the same album) but this opening track always gets the hairs up on the back of my neck and cheers me up instantly.)

Good album, I’ve got it!

[SomersetWestie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMvOwcYcTo&li...

Swing Out Sister............ Famed for not much more than one song in the 80's........ Or so I thought ! Seems like they have made some great albums since as I've started to delve around their back catalogue in the last few days.............. Love this track, but there are many others of similar quality........ !

[SomersetWestie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeOr-I7AxMs
A girl called Eddy - The long goodbye



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OopHFmYGrAA
Beth Rowley - Oh my life

[Kinky]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Which song do you love which no one else you know seems to have ever heard of?

For me, Aslan “Crazy World”. Massive in Ireland but unheard of in cumbria..

https://youtu.be/fDtVbWzZatw

Blimey O'Reilly ....... Someone outside of Ireland mentioning Aslan

For me it would have to be either:
Mamas Boys / Pat McManus: Runaway Dreams


Cactus World News: The Bridge


In Tua Nua: Seven into The Sea


And my personal favourite which I always enjoy watching .......

Hell For Leather: Goodbye Mick (fast forward to 2:30 to skip the 'directors cut' intro)

[Evoluzione]

For me this means unknown early gems by more well known bands, so:

Lighthouse - Pulp.

Inxs - Don't change

Inxs - To look at you.

I could go on with Inxs as they had lots of good stuff out before they were famous over here, but

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

Bubblegum pop:

I walk the Earth - Voice of the Beehive.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Kinky said:

Blimey O'Reilly ....... Someone outside of Ireland mentioning Aslan

Aye but baring in mind I spent my early adult years living in Lanzarote, what a song though! Melts my heart listening to it in the right moment.

It was what I meant with the thread though, a song that in certain parts (Ireland) that would know the song inside out but to everyone I know in England haven't a clue about.

[Kinky]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Kinky said:

Blimey O'Reilly ....... Someone outside of Ireland mentioning Aslan

Aye but baring in mind I spent my early adult years living in Lanzarote, what a song though! Melts my heart listening to it in the right moment.

It was what I meant with the thread though, a song that in certain parts (Ireland) that would know the song inside out but to everyone I know in England haven't a clue about.

Specifically kinda on that topic then, we've got Tolu Makay doing a touching cover of the Saw Doctors N17

[jet_noise]

SomersetWestie said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMvOwcYcTo&li...

Swing Out Sister............ Famed for not much more than one song in the 80's........ Or so I thought ! Seems like they have made some great albums since as I've started to delve around their back catalogue in the last few days.............. Love this track, but there are many others of similar quality........ !

At the time of Breakout one of my then girlfriend's friends was the spit and I mean spitting image of Corinne Drewery.
To the extent she was approached for autographs, sung Break Out at when on the street etc.

/as you were

[DocJock]

Alvin Lee - The Bluest Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lz3px4dTU8

[funkyrobot]

Stellardrone - Billions & Billions:



Loads of people have seen this according to the view count, but I'm yet to meet anyone in person who knows of the track.

Edited by funkyrobot on Sunday 7th February 09:15

[StevieBee]

Evoluzione said:

Inxs

Talking of which....

After Hutchence died, the band took on a new singer and released Switch, on which is a song called God's Top 10 which was written about Hutchence by the band. Only died-in-the-wool INXS fans know of the album and this song which personally, I think is sublime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zi2ZYoU9PI

[lockhart flawse]

Puressence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYdy0QV8nKU