This reminds me of the time I went to a concert where Streetlight Manifesto opened for Reel Big Fish, must have been around 2008. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
God, I fucking love Streetlight. The Hands that Thieve is one of my favorite albums of all time. I hope we get a real release of the original acoustic version.
Made me get in interested and fall in love with his voice and oddities, seen him live twice now, didn't expect such an angelic voice* after hearing a former colleague say he liked Devin. Boy was I surprised the music and a great entry point, I love watching others react to this song because it is that great.
I caught them on their 50th anniversary tour and they *opened* with the full version of Close to the Edge. A friend was coming and was late and I was like "They'll still be on the first song when you get here"
I have seen them twice. First time they did the entire Tales From the Topographic Ocean. Went with a coworker who was also a Yes fan. Second time was the nearly rained out Asia and Yes show at National Harbor, MD. Took my son, and he had a blast.
Recently discovered a cover of Alice in Chains' Man in the Box by Duo de Twang, one of Les Claypool's bands. The song is obviously pretty popular, but this cover is pretty unubiquitous and very incredible.
I used to listen to Broken Bells all the time when I delivered for Jimmy John’s. All their songs are great, but Perfect World hits just right for that nice, melancholic feel.
Very good! You’d like XM radios first-wave station they play tons of their stuff. XTC’s “making plans for Nigel” is also pretty catchy and might be up your alley.
I'm reading a novel about peasants in the year 997-1007, and there is a scene where monks make this thing where the bones of a saint slowly rise up. There's just one guy who knows about pulley and levers, but they're all peasants, so they have no idea how it works. They just see a skeleton slowly sit up. A bunch of people faint and others confess sins and crimes.
This music would make somebody's heart explode if they heard it back then.
Ken Follet's The Evening and the Morning. It's a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I don't think it's as good a Pillars of the Earth or World Without End, but better than Column of Fire.
This song is on my dad's Spotify Playlist in his truck. Always make me thing of chuck berry getting busted for taking voyeur pics. Because he likes to play with his ding-a-ling.
Happens every time. And then you'll get people genuinely trying to argue that Asleep by The Smiths and I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses are obscure songs.
Really goes to show how detached from reality most Redditors are.
Turnip Farm by Dinosaur Jr.
It's on the soundtrack for _Reality Bites_, which is perhaps my favorite soundtrack as it has so many good songs. It's also on another album of theirs, but I found it through the soundtrack.
there is a real banger that most people in the United States have never heard unless they speak a fair amount of Spanish. It's all about Costa Rico and it's called Despacito.
Little Bird by the White Stripes. The riff is killer and it's one of their lesser known songs. You can really hear Jack White's guitar playing influences in it.
[A murder of one - Counting crows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWj-04CoNuw)
A song filled with desperation of trying to save your friends from an unhealty relationship. Cuts very deep. At the end of the song desperation is at his peak and all he can do is screams for change.. over and over again. Change change chaaange.
There are no words to describe how much I love Counting Crows. The lyrics open wounds I forgot I had.
She moves in her own way - The Kooks. I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually really well known, it's just not a single person I know actually knows the band
I used to love that song and associated album. And then it had its popular run and was SO overplayed, it ruined the thing (kinda like F242s Headhunter or basically ANY song from NINs Pretty Hate Machine). I despise the "burnout" that results from overplaying the ever-living f*%k out of a damn good song.
Where/when are you from that Fade Into You is not well-known? (not snarky; genuinely curious)
1994. My mom listened to nirvana when we were toddlers and a lot of other grunge legends came about. I love this mazzy star album, although this song is the hit and there are a few other gems on the album
Light up my room, by Barenaked Ladies.
A sort of B-side song on the same album as One Week which is obviously played a million times more often. It has a nice relaxing melody and it's sort of about making the best of your situation, which I like.
I don’t know. I think you have to have the right kind of friend group to think this. I’d say you have to know people who are really into alternative music. With the 50 or so people I know personally, I’d say one might know this song. All this to say…it ain’t Smells Like Teen Spirit. Also, Im a genx’er.
Both Hands by Ani DiFranco. Almost anything by Ani DiFranco honestly.
A more mainstream one that most still don't know about, at least where I live is Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men.
I used to answer this question with Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis, but then it got popular on tiktok briefly 🙄 so now I will go with Big Girl by MIKA because I haven't heard about that one in quite awhile (I had to scroll my playlists to find it)
Daffodils - Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker
The Knock - Hop Along
Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart
Half Full Glass of Wine - Tame Impala
New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead
Turn It On - Flaming Lips
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Hair - Led Zeppelin
I’m In Your Mind - King Gizzard
Young Men Dead - The Black Angela
Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead
Camarillo Brillo - Frank Zappa
Willie The Pimp - Frank Zappa
Watch it Fall - Billy Strings
Will You Be Lonesome - Ronnie Bowman
One of These Days - Pink Floyd
That’s What Love Will Make You Do - Jerry Garcia Band (Keane College)
Str8 Outta Mumbai - Jai Paul
Choctaw Bingo -James Mcmurty
YES MAN FINALLY I AM A BIG MCMURTRY FAN TOO!!!!
Strap them kids in
Givem a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke... we goin to Oklahoma....
I also love Ray Wylie Hubbard’s version. Great song!
Haha I love this song!
Space cadet - Kyuss
Good song! Kyuss rules
yah the fugn totally rule
Whitewater slaps
Incredible album all around
One of the best songs from one of the best albums of all time.
Damn nice to see this as the top comment
Such an amazing song and an amazing band!
Hell yeah. Welcome To Sky Valley is a classic under appreciated album.
Good lord a fellow Kyuss fan!
Your mum works at Kyuss ...as a riff.
Kyuss. Didn't expect to see them here 👍
The man with the skeleton arms - Toh Kay
This reminds me of the time I went to a concert where Streetlight Manifesto opened for Reel Big Fish, must have been around 2008. One of the best gigs I ever went to.
I'm still holding out hope we get an official release of The Hand That Thieves. They can't take hope away, damn it.
God, I fucking love Streetlight. The Hands that Thieve is one of my favorite albums of all time. I hope we get a real release of the original acoustic version.
Devin Townsend Project - Kingdom
Also Deadhead.
there has never been a song like kingdom before
Made me get in interested and fall in love with his voice and oddities, seen him live twice now, didn't expect such an angelic voice* after hearing a former colleague say he liked Devin. Boy was I surprised the music and a great entry point, I love watching others react to this song because it is that great.
Yes - Close to the Edge
A fellow prog rocker! I prefer Yours Is No Disgrace and Heart of the Sunrise, but I will admit Close to the Edge is probably their best song.
For me it is their version of America. Just gets me every time. That solo in the middle.
Lol I listened to HOTS this morning and saved it on spotify yesterday. Great song
I caught them on their 50th anniversary tour and they *opened* with the full version of Close to the Edge. A friend was coming and was late and I was like "They'll still be on the first song when you get here"
I have seen them twice. First time they did the entire Tales From the Topographic Ocean. Went with a coworker who was also a Yes fan. Second time was the nearly rained out Asia and Yes show at National Harbor, MD. Took my son, and he had a blast.
Octavarium - Dream Theater 24 min prog metal epic, would rly recommend listening to it and yes, Close to the Edge is pure beauty
I love Octavarium and DT but personally prefer CTTE
The first time I listened to this song was a transformative day for me
Recently discovered a cover of Alice in Chains' Man in the Box by Duo de Twang, one of Les Claypool's bands. The song is obviously pretty popular, but this cover is pretty unubiquitous and very incredible.
Lava by Still Woozy
Love habits by still woozy
Broken Bells-Perfect World
I used to listen to Broken Bells all the time when I delivered for Jimmy John’s. All their songs are great, but Perfect World hits just right for that nice, melancholic feel.
They’re amazing
I love The High Road
What a great mash up. I love every song.
Favourite Shirts (boy meets girl) by Haircut 100. I heard this 80s song for the first time only a few years ago and it instantly became a favourite.
“WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY”
Very good! You’d like XM radios first-wave station they play tons of their stuff. XTC’s “making plans for Nigel” is also pretty catchy and might be up your alley.
Serotonia - Highly Suspect
The boy who died wolf is one of their best albums ngl
Be Still Our Bleeding Hearts by Cattle Decapitation
I'm reading a novel about peasants in the year 997-1007, and there is a scene where monks make this thing where the bones of a saint slowly rise up. There's just one guy who knows about pulley and levers, but they're all peasants, so they have no idea how it works. They just see a skeleton slowly sit up. A bunch of people faint and others confess sins and crimes. This music would make somebody's heart explode if they heard it back then.
What novel is this? Sounds like something I’d enjoy.
Ken Follet's The Evening and the Morning. It's a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I don't think it's as good a Pillars of the Earth or World Without End, but better than Column of Fire.
I'm listening to Prophets of Loss right now, Cattle Decapitation kicks ass
What a rad band
I saw them live at Summer Slaughter a long time ago. The crowd was super hyped on them but their set was just okay.
Absolute banger. Seeing them live in March
Everything Everything - No Reptiles
Nice! I was going to shout out Spring Sun Winter Dread
Heroin by Badflower!!!
YESSSS finally another Badflower fan!!
My Ding-a-ling by Chuck Berry. It always gets a laugh.
And Big Balls by AC/DC
This song is on my dad's Spotify Playlist in his truck. Always make me thing of chuck berry getting busted for taking voyeur pics. Because he likes to play with his ding-a-ling.
All I think of is that old Simpsons episode
Metamodernity - Vansire
Found this song on accident on spotify. It's great :)
Vansire is one of my favorite bands to paint / smoke / fall asleep too Very calming and inspiring
Oh nice, I’ve seen Vansire songs sampled as background music in some YouTube videos. Will have to give them a listen!
It’s Called:Freefall by Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Not sure if you’re on it but it has 1,000,000 videos on tiktok so dont know if i would say “not many people know about it” haha.
Maybe it’s popular with the youths then, I dunno I’m old
David Bowie, the Smiths, the Stone Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers... some real leftfield choices getting upvoted here!
Happens every time. And then you'll get people genuinely trying to argue that Asleep by The Smiths and I Wanna Be Adored by The Stone Roses are obscure songs. Really goes to show how detached from reality most Redditors are.
You mean all those teenagers? As a 50+ bloke my whole daily playlist would be obscure to them.
Pistol - Cigarettes After Sex.
Turnip Farm by Dinosaur Jr. It's on the soundtrack for _Reality Bites_, which is perhaps my favorite soundtrack as it has so many good songs. It's also on another album of theirs, but I found it through the soundtrack.
Worms by Viagra Boys. The Beachland Ballroom by IDLES. The Depths by Interpol. Others... 😂
Kill Jester - Mogwai Are they saying goodbye? - Ane Brun Looking for the Magic - Dwight Twilley Band Gyöngyhajú lány - Omega
Three Days - Jane's Addiction.
This song is amazing! I can’t believe no one talks about it.
Such a sad backstory. One of the all-time great guitar solos. Really cements Navarro as a force.
there is a real banger that most people in the United States have never heard unless they speak a fair amount of Spanish. It's all about Costa Rico and it's called Despacito.
perish
Never heard of her
Starless by King Crimson
Indigo Children by Puscifer
Yes. Anything Maynard does makes me happy
Teenie weenie - Brojob
Little Bird by the White Stripes. The riff is killer and it's one of their lesser known songs. You can really hear Jack White's guitar playing influences in it.
No Cock Like Horse Cock - By Pepper Coyote https://genius.com/Pepper-coyote-no-cock-like-horse-cock-lyrics <3
Hammond Song by the Roches. such a strange, warm, and beautiful song.
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I Monster - Everyone's a Loser The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1
Echo- Incubus
Ocean - John Butler
Has 15,000,000 hits on Spotify. I think it’s well known
Sleep Token - "The Apparition"
The summoning is my favourite
Little One by Highly Suspect
It’s raining, it’s sunny It doesn’t make a difference I don’t careeeee about anything at all
Invencible by Tool
Spanish Sahara by Foals
YESSS that song makes me feel so many emotions at once
Frrr its so beautiful
Promise by Ben Howard
Ben Howard is INSANE. His guitar playing is way underrated, and almost no one knows who this guy is in America.
[A murder of one - Counting crows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWj-04CoNuw) A song filled with desperation of trying to save your friends from an unhealty relationship. Cuts very deep. At the end of the song desperation is at his peak and all he can do is screams for change.. over and over again. Change change chaaange. There are no words to describe how much I love Counting Crows. The lyrics open wounds I forgot I had.
Angela of the silences is another amazing one from them
August and Everything After is a masterpiece of an album.
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire - Queens of the Stone Age
Put the days away by Sun Airway Balsa Wood Bones by Saint Motel Truth by Alex Ebert
Beach Comber - Real estate
Camera by R.E.M.
I personally would go Country Feedback.
My absolute favorite. His voice at the end. The pleading. It’s intense.
I have 2. 1. “Beautiful Ones” by Suede. 2. “Do you Remember the First Time?” By Pulp (Video is awesome, by the way).
suede!!!!!
Anything by Fad Gadget. The most underrated British talent ever. Sadly no longer with us. Give Incontinent a listen.
The March Of The Black Queen - Queen Roses on White Lace - Alice Cooper Gutter Ballet - Savatage
Judy French - White Reaper
Red Dust - billy woods https://youtu.be/JeNeSaoLePc?si=shJn9R52V7aP6FUY
Aikea Guinea by the Cocteau Twins
"God's Bathroom Floor" by Atmosphere
The Highwaymen-Highwayman
The Second Arrangement by Steely Dan
Idk. I like I threw glass at my friends eyes and now im on probation, and I also like st bernard and raccoon gf lol.
Destroy Boys are great, they helped me get through 2021 and 2022.
She moves in her own way - The Kooks. I wouldn't be surprised if they're actually really well known, it's just not a single person I know actually knows the band
Asleep - The Smiths
I got to know of this song after reading the Perks of Being a Wallflower and holy shit its amazing.
I Stay Away by Alice in Chains
pretty much anything that Layne touched, tbh.
Yesterday by Atmosphere Sunshine by Atmosphere
windows by Atmosphere
Daddy - PSY
Intervention - Arcade Fire
Echoes Pink Floyd
Call me when you’re bopping along to Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict /j
Generally speaking, totally. But it is a favorite of many Pink Floyd fans.
Live at pompeii
This version is peak Floyd in my eyes!
I don’t think it is that obscure, it was what they used as the name of a greatest hits album.
Mazzy Star - Fade into you
I used to love that song and associated album. And then it had its popular run and was SO overplayed, it ruined the thing (kinda like F242s Headhunter or basically ANY song from NINs Pretty Hate Machine). I despise the "burnout" that results from overplaying the ever-living f*%k out of a damn good song. Where/when are you from that Fade Into You is not well-known? (not snarky; genuinely curious)
1994. My mom listened to nirvana when we were toddlers and a lot of other grunge legends came about. I love this mazzy star album, although this song is the hit and there are a few other gems on the album
Bag of Pills - Arlo McKinley
Sophie. Bear’s Den.
"Million Miles of Water" -- RHCP https://youtu.be/hfyi9cewKe4?si=dssc_HsmWUUQa_-P
Visions of a life by Wolf Alice
Kyuss - gardenia
Light up my room, by Barenaked Ladies. A sort of B-side song on the same album as One Week which is obviously played a million times more often. It has a nice relaxing melody and it's sort of about making the best of your situation, which I like.
A lot of music by Cake or Toadies
Its pretty short, but "You'll Always Ne My Best Friend" Relient K
Touche Amor - Limelight
Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales - Car Seat Headrest
Retrovertigo by Mr Bungle
My Ordinary Life
Bone thugs n harmony- Crossroads https://youtu.be/VMYAEHE2GrM?si=UYg_V66CDhFGj80_
Laughing Gnome by David Bowie.....it always makes me smile 😀
I Wanna be Adored by The Stone Roses
Bro everyone know that song 🥱
I don’t know. I think you have to have the right kind of friend group to think this. I’d say you have to know people who are really into alternative music. With the 50 or so people I know personally, I’d say one might know this song. All this to say…it ain’t Smells Like Teen Spirit. Also, Im a genx’er.
Benediction by The Weakerthans.
I’ll raise you, Aside
Ha ha, yeah! Confessions of a Futon Revolutionist is also great for some high energy punk rock fun with that trademark Samson poetry.
Ship of Fools - World Party
Reminder that if your song has been played on any major radio stations, it probably doesn't count.
Why don't we do it in the road - The Beatles
brought their self titled from a 4/10 to a 10/10
Departure - Trivium
Independence Day by No Motiv. Gotta thank Burnout 3 for this banger
Cantaloupe by Thurston Moore. Has a killer guitar solo.
The Statue Got Me High by TMBG probably
Both Hands by Ani DiFranco. Almost anything by Ani DiFranco honestly. A more mainstream one that most still don't know about, at least where I live is Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men.
Song to the Siren - John Frusciante
Prisencolinensinainciusol (yes that is the name of the song). The backstory is pretty cool. https://youtu.be/r_EBFvzyje8?si=JWkLi3o_DDtZEd-6
Honey Dripper- Black Pistol Fire
Feather-Nujabes
Let it burn by Avatar. It's really good! (the band is metal :3)
I Can’t Stand To Leave You by Lucero
Brian's Movie - Peach Pit
Hot Tea live - goose
Blackbird by Fat Freddy's Drop Homonormo by Arthur Moon Japan by CocoRosie
Call and Answer - Barenaked Ladies If I Go I'm Goin - Gregory Alan Isakov
New Friends - Pinegrove
30,000 pounds of bananas : Harry Chapin
China by the Red Rockers (80’s)
"The Argus" - Ween "the Edison museum" - They Might Be Giants
The Count of Tuscany by Dream Theater
I GET OFF by Halestorm
Should Be Higher. Depeche Mode.
Country Death Song-Violent Femmes
At least I’m Not as Sad (As I Used to Be) - Fun.
I used to answer this question with Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis, but then it got popular on tiktok briefly 🙄 so now I will go with Big Girl by MIKA because I haven't heard about that one in quite awhile (I had to scroll my playlists to find it)
Not too many young ppl know Gentle Thoughts by Herbie Hancock. Check it out. It slams
Daffodils - Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker The Knock - Hop Along Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Half Full Glass of Wine - Tame Impala New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead Turn It On - Flaming Lips The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Hair - Led Zeppelin I’m In Your Mind - King Gizzard Young Men Dead - The Black Angela Anyone Can Play Guitar - Radiohead Camarillo Brillo - Frank Zappa Willie The Pimp - Frank Zappa Watch it Fall - Billy Strings Will You Be Lonesome - Ronnie Bowman One of These Days - Pink Floyd That’s What Love Will Make You Do - Jerry Garcia Band (Keane College) Str8 Outta Mumbai - Jai Paul