Must have obscure songs for the new iPod?

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:04 am

Still have some kb's left, what are some of the really great one hit wonders and obscure musicians I may have forgotten? Any genre is fine, but please NO gimmicky comedy tracks, The Beer Song and Dear Penis are funny and all, but I want real music.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 12:19 am

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oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:42 am

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you can thank me later.

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:03 am

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Now see what you've done LS

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:55 am

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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:01 am

QNTAL
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lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:37 am

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oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:41 am

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1durphul · Post by **1durphul** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:23 pm

lonestoner916 wrote:Still have some kb's left, what are some of the really great one hit wonders and obscure musicians I may have forgotten? Any genre is fine, but please NO gimmicky comedy tracks, The Beer Song and Dear Penis are funny and all, but I want real music.

Strangest Thing by George Michael

Really the entire Older and/or Listen Without Prejudice (Vol I) albums. I'm sure some "too cool for pop" person is going to reply with a chortle or two, but musically they are both amazing albums. Lyrically they are almost without comparison.

The Listen Without Prejudice album is George Michael's attempt to leave behind vacuous corporate pop music. At the time he was still in the closet, and despite that many of the songs make references to a great love and those references are often masculine in nature.

The Older album came out some six years later and in the interim the great love referenced in Listen Without Prejudice had died of AIDS. Most of the album is about the passing of that great love, and dealing with the death, as well as the attempts to replace that love with strangers. Few lyric writers can manage to write a pop song that can manage to have a surface appearance of being about hooking up, but in context to the rest of the songs on an album is really about the difficulty of trying to fill the emptiness left by the death of a great love with casual sexual encounters.

Those two albums really are amazing works.

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:18 pm

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Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:45 pm

Anything at all by Nina Simone
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LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:16 pm

Theyâ€™re not one hit wonders, but I just discovered the Carolina Chocolate Drops today. Very good new old-time Americana roots type stuff. They are now on the iPud.

ETA: Their name is a nod to a early 20th century group by the name of the Tennessee Chocolate Drops. Good to hear this music being given some due.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:29 am

Thanks Ellorum and LeChat! Good stuff!

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:33 am

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lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:49 am

So damn nice I had to post them twice!
Notice how they switch up instruments! Love the jug and spoons!

Ladies and gentleman, Carolina Chocolate Drops!
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Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:41 pm

spoons! tumbled in kryptonite, shot to the moon and down to the bottom of the Marianis trench. the man is Artis. I can't say any more. I saw him around California at summer festivals in 95 or 96... finally remembered to search for him on you tube.

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LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:13 pm

That was really wonderful.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:06 pm

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:26 am

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RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:04 am

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goathead · Post by **goathead** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:41 am

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Blurt · Post by **Blurt** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:50 am

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One of the best bands ever. Don't know whatever happened to them.

lonestoner916 · Post by **lonestoner916** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:47 pm

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One of the best bands ever. Don't know whatever happened to them.

"Better to burn out than to fade away."

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:36 pm

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RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 6:37 pm

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RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:02 pm

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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:28 pm

Let me know if this is too weird for you.
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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:31 pm

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Dad · Post by **Dad** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:47 pm

RingO'Fire · Post by **RingO'Fire** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:53 pm

None of these are super-obscure, but...

They've been playing this a lot on PBS between shows:
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There aren't too many songs about cannibalising your buddy, like this classic:
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And this classic:
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Must have obscure songs for the new iPod?

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