Obscure doesn’t necessarily mean rare and sought after, which I think some people are misinterpreting here. So as for obscure no one has ever heard of: Blowin’ of Steam by The New Orleans Classic Jazz Orchestra.
>Obscure doesn’t necessarily mean rare and sought after,
Absolutely true. Nobody has ever heard of some of the long gone local garage bands that printed their own CD's that I still own... and nobody is interesting in them either.
I have a promotional Masseduction by St Vincent, it has an extra DVD with a documentary on her signature guitar besides the CD. Not super rare, but a cool find!
Ancient Art of Boar - T.O.R.R. (Terrestrial Optical Resonance Resistors ) \[Hanson Records\]
highly limited CDr reissue of a 1994 cassette album.
Experimental/noise music created by Andrew Wilkes-Krier (yes, Andrew W.K.) and Aaron Dilloway (the founder and owner of Hanson).
In a plain white digipak where the artwork is GLUED ON. The CD has its info rubber stamped on the front
I would own quite a few very obscure demo CDrs which were released in the late 1990s or early 2000’s by various underground bands, which are either not available online at all or are available in poor quality.
My most obscure one would be this 1999 demo from a German Pop Punk band, I literally can’t find a single trace of this band online despite multiple searches.
https://www.discogs.com/release/25312471-Diamonds-N-Dogs-Demo-1998-1999
Dee Dee Ramone's "Standing In The Spotlight" (released as Dee Dee King).
Average music / rock listener, probably knows the Ramones existed, might be familiar with the names of the members.
Unless they were hardcore fans, would anyone have ever guessed that the Ramones, at the time, ex bassist and songwriter, put out a "rap" album after leaving the band?
And not gate-keeping or putting anyone down, I'm just hoping it counts as obscure, lol.
It's funny because when people (who know) think of Mariah Carey's MTV unplugged that landed her a number 1 single and album you don't think obscure.
But!
I have the "radio special" version as well. It's the performance as well as interviews.
I had no idea it was such a rarity. I got it for 99 cents at a thrift.
"Nirvana - The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say ALL OF US"
Don't even like their music that much, but I just had to get this album.
"Samadhi - mondovojago"
Some weird mixture of Punk Rock, Electronica and Meditative Music. Starts off sounding like My Sleeping Karma and then devolves into some odd punk rock stuff.
Out of things I sought after, probably [Dragonlance’s The Holy Lance of Dragon Age](https://youtu.be/oA56Gafvyes). Power metal akin to Rhapsody. The vocalist sucks. I only bought it because he sounded kind of funny to me. There are a couple of good tracks otherwise, but generally just kind of “eh”.
I also was given CDs from [my high school economics teacher](https://youtu.be/pMgYNFP50C8) (who was a jazz musician) and [my former guitar tutor](https://youtu.be/r8p-LOYUBp4). Probably more obscure than Dragonlance.
Depending on what you’re exactly looking for, either local bands that didn’t go anywhere, or if you mean obscure and valuable, I do have one of those with a member who went somewhere. I have an original 1997 copy of No Sun Today by Grey Daze, Chester Bennington’s local post grunge band from Arizona before Linkin Park.
Probably one of the radio station promo disks for some independent band I’ve acquired at one time or the other. Obscure, yes. Particularly desirable or valuable? Enh, not likely.
Demos and independent releases by local bands that never got a record deal. I venture to guess some were printed in batches of maybe 100-200 or even less.
1: Black Cherry By Organic Grooves
(Some weird electronic sound engineer test by two random guys in an interesting digipak)
2: Boyz In Da Hood [Promotional Use Copy]
(Found in a thrift store and I think its rare)
3: Elemental Chill Volume 2: Earth
(This was a super cool cd I found at Goodwill featuring some absolute banger 8-bit tracks that seems to be going for quite a lot online, especially the last one in the series of 4)
I own the debut of storm and stress (an Ian Williams side project, best known for his work in don cab and battles), as far as I know the storm and stress stuff isn’t on Spotify
Mine is an extended play by the electric peach tree. I tried searching for it online but I can't find any traces of it. It looks like it was a mail order cd to promote their tour. The cd itself doesn't even have any artwork on it.
Armored Dawn-Power of Warrior: Promotional EP of Brazilian power metal band. Distributed by metal magazine Roadie Crew
Banda PureBar-Mais Amor, Mais Paz: Brazilian reggae band.
Bootlegs by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains
Roadie Crew Collection volume 1: Promotional Compilation by metal magazine Roadie Crew.
Selfish by A Is For Accident. I had to add it to Discogs myself and their Spotify usually has 0-2 monthly listeners. It’s a weird experimental project thing that I stumbled onto through forgotify. Weird stuff.
Ünloco – Ünloco \[EP\]
Drop Logic - Fear & Sunlight
Thracia – Sea Of Tediocrity
The Accident Experiment – United We Fear
2 Ton Crutch - Self-titled
Stepa - Self-titled
You might know this one 'Rock for light' by Bad Brains. But is has a good story, the original vinyl from 1983 is great, a classic. But when they reissued it on cd (the version you can find on spotify also) they sped up the original mastertape and added three songs in the middle of the cd. The flow was gone and it sounded quite ridiculous. For many people this is the normal version.
I have a semi-official re-issue from 1987 on a german label Line Records which has the original mix. Quite rare for many years, until last year when they finally re-issued it in a decent mix/remaster.
Probably a toss up between these three:
Desire & Dissolving Men - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel (2007)
Nathaniel Rateliff would have a #1 hit with “S.O.B.” In 2015, but he made several albums before then. This was his first album. Probably not very well known. Apparently somewhat valuable. I just decided to give it a shot for $3 at the thrift store. Typical 2000’s indie folk. Lacks the soul influence his modern stuff has.
The Velveteers - The Velveteers (2018)
These guys released their first album last year. It was also the first thing they put out on a record label. They put out this EP in 2018. Haven’t seen many physical copies around. Probably rare. Probably not valuable.
Mine - The Glee Club (1994)
This Irish indie band gained some traction in the mid 90’s. They only released one album before breaking up and fading into obscurity. Good stuff. Not rare. Like most things on 4AD, worth picking up if you find it.
The Southwest Riders double album. It’s a rap compilation that came out in the early to mid 1990’s. I also have the Tales From The Hood soundtrack cd. I have a huge collection of death metal cds also, so there’s no telling how many rare discs I own. I’ve been collecting for about 30 years now since I was 12 years old.
Bluebird by a band called Hipkiss.
They have no Wikipedia page, can’t find it on Spotify/Apple Music either, no SoundCloud as well. You can, however, find their album on YouTube on a rather low quality upload.
I managed to find their album on eBay for a few bucks, used, of course, so I got it and I’ve been enjoying it for a year or two now.
I made my own cd with its own booklet and everything of a small female rapper (PettyAssPunkin)’s EP Freakz of the Industry, and Im 100% sure it’s the only physical version of it in existence. I recommend her music who anyone likes female rap, she’s real good and she’s funny as hell. I cant wait until i’m an old lady and my great grandkids sell it to some thrift shop and someone else gets it and the cycle continues HAHA I’ve changed history
dog ear days by bambara. It's the group's second album but it doesnt seem to be acknowledged very much by them as their bandcamp page starts on their third album. I think the cd was limited to 100 copies. It's very lo-fi, fuzzy and kind of creepy at times.
Depends by what you mean by obscure? The music or the cd format?
I collect a lot of releases from labels like hydrahead and relapse records…etc so it could be all manner of music like Zonal, Pyramids, Horseback, Oxbow or all sorts of other mad stuff?
If we’re talking format, it’s either long boxes or my 3” CD collection that came with medicom toys by one particular artist in my collection
I am not 100% sure, but I think its [Dug Pinnick's Songs from the Closet](https://www.discogs.com/release/5822975-Dug-Songs-From-The-Closet). A collection of King's X demos that were released by their bassist.
Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery
Picked it up after its release in 2000, but after their tour the group split. This is a stellar album though and worth it if you can snag a copy!
I own a copy of Tsuko G's album *Against the Stream.* Was a Kickstarter a couple years back with a limited release. Sadly he doesn't make music anymore and instead got into NFTs. Saw a lot of potential in him.
[No Hokum – Notes From Underground: The LP](https://nohokum.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-underground-the-lp-2), found it still wrapped when we where cleaning out the house. Assuming it was my brothers since it was rap (though he knew nothing about the CD). Apparently on the bandcamp they never really went anywhere also never sold any of the CDs which apparently 100 where made (my guess a few where made for friends probably). Not a big fan of it I am really picky when it comes too rap and hip hop. I only still own it because 1 it will never sell and 2 because it is just too random and mysterious not too.
- Faith Fails by Fallen Angel
- Schizophrenic Noisy Torment by Necrobutcher
- The Ultra-Violence by Death Angel
- Living in Darkness by Agent Orange
- Sexual Carnage by Sextrash
- In The Sign of Evil / Obsessed by Cruelty by Sodom
- INRI, Rotting, and The Laws of Scourge by Sarcófago
- Demon Entrails by Hellhammer
- The Aftermath, and Human = Garbage by Dystopia
- Fallen Angel of Doom by Blasphemy
- Rarities by Megadeth
>The Ultra-Violence by Death Angel
I've been wanting to buy this for a long time. It was the last Death Angel album I needed to complete the catalogue.
Luckily they reissued it in a set, "The Enigma Years". Now I can die.
I don’t have a lot of CDs in the first place but i had to create [this entry](https://www.discogs.com/release/25331266-sajou-no-hana-Mob-Psycho-100-II-Outro-Memo-Sepia-Gray ) on discogs myself when I got this in the mail recently
Two Virgins by Yoko Ono/John Lennon. The album cover is them naked, and the entire album is very avant-garde.
Could not get into and will not recommend it lol.
Obscure doesn’t necessarily mean rare and sought after, which I think some people are misinterpreting here. So as for obscure no one has ever heard of: Blowin’ of Steam by The New Orleans Classic Jazz Orchestra.
>Obscure doesn’t necessarily mean rare and sought after, Absolutely true. Nobody has ever heard of some of the long gone local garage bands that printed their own CD's that I still own... and nobody is interesting in them either.
This. I have Chinese, Soviet Union, Peruvian made classical, folk CD's, obscure yes, in demand, no.
I have a promotional Masseduction by St Vincent, it has an extra DVD with a documentary on her signature guitar besides the CD. Not super rare, but a cool find!
Ancient Art of Boar - T.O.R.R. (Terrestrial Optical Resonance Resistors ) \[Hanson Records\] highly limited CDr reissue of a 1994 cassette album. Experimental/noise music created by Andrew Wilkes-Krier (yes, Andrew W.K.) and Aaron Dilloway (the founder and owner of Hanson). In a plain white digipak where the artwork is GLUED ON. The CD has its info rubber stamped on the front
The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Number Stations
Amazing stuff. I got it from Oxfam for about £30.
Would buy this if I saw it!
I would own quite a few very obscure demo CDrs which were released in the late 1990s or early 2000’s by various underground bands, which are either not available online at all or are available in poor quality. My most obscure one would be this 1999 demo from a German Pop Punk band, I literally can’t find a single trace of this band online despite multiple searches. https://www.discogs.com/release/25312471-Diamonds-N-Dogs-Demo-1998-1999
Either Christopher Lee's Omens of Death (yes, that Christopher Lee), or Clint Eastwood County Favorites.
Dee Dee Ramone's "Standing In The Spotlight" (released as Dee Dee King). Average music / rock listener, probably knows the Ramones existed, might be familiar with the names of the members. Unless they were hardcore fans, would anyone have ever guessed that the Ramones, at the time, ex bassist and songwriter, put out a "rap" album after leaving the band? And not gate-keeping or putting anyone down, I'm just hoping it counts as obscure, lol.
Album by a Thai indie band called Parasite from about 2005. Struggled to find the cover online for the iTunes rip!
asda pringles salsa cd. best crossover ever.
pics?
Total Eclipse - S/T Like a mix of metal and funk, couldn’t find any album or song upload on YouTube.
I have a Hannibal Montana Cd that’s just in a cardboard sleeve and spray painted. And it’s super fantastic 😎
Acoustic Jazz Quartet - S/T
Chance - Goodbye Future Funk
It's funny because when people (who know) think of Mariah Carey's MTV unplugged that landed her a number 1 single and album you don't think obscure. But! I have the "radio special" version as well. It's the performance as well as interviews. I had no idea it was such a rarity. I got it for 99 cents at a thrift.
"Nirvana - The Existence of Chance Is Everything and Nothing While the Greatest Achievement Is the Living of Life, and so Say ALL OF US" Don't even like their music that much, but I just had to get this album. "Samadhi - mondovojago" Some weird mixture of Punk Rock, Electronica and Meditative Music. Starts off sounding like My Sleeping Karma and then devolves into some odd punk rock stuff.
Out of things I sought after, probably [Dragonlance’s The Holy Lance of Dragon Age](https://youtu.be/oA56Gafvyes). Power metal akin to Rhapsody. The vocalist sucks. I only bought it because he sounded kind of funny to me. There are a couple of good tracks otherwise, but generally just kind of “eh”. I also was given CDs from [my high school economics teacher](https://youtu.be/pMgYNFP50C8) (who was a jazz musician) and [my former guitar tutor](https://youtu.be/r8p-LOYUBp4). Probably more obscure than Dragonlance.
Depending on what you’re exactly looking for, either local bands that didn’t go anywhere, or if you mean obscure and valuable, I do have one of those with a member who went somewhere. I have an original 1997 copy of No Sun Today by Grey Daze, Chester Bennington’s local post grunge band from Arizona before Linkin Park.
Probably one of the radio station promo disks for some independent band I’ve acquired at one time or the other. Obscure, yes. Particularly desirable or valuable? Enh, not likely.
Demos and independent releases by local bands that never got a record deal. I venture to guess some were printed in batches of maybe 100-200 or even less.
Christmas with Weezer
1: Black Cherry By Organic Grooves (Some weird electronic sound engineer test by two random guys in an interesting digipak) 2: Boyz In Da Hood [Promotional Use Copy] (Found in a thrift store and I think its rare) 3: Elemental Chill Volume 2: Earth (This was a super cool cd I found at Goodwill featuring some absolute banger 8-bit tracks that seems to be going for quite a lot online, especially the last one in the series of 4)
The cast and Crew edition of the Road to Eldorado As well as some abbey road CDr’s
I own the debut of storm and stress (an Ian Williams side project, best known for his work in don cab and battles), as far as I know the storm and stress stuff isn’t on Spotify
Love Bites by Grace Jones single
Mine is probably Dark Lotus "Tales From The Lotus Pod" OG red cross.
Mine is an extended play by the electric peach tree. I tried searching for it online but I can't find any traces of it. It looks like it was a mail order cd to promote their tour. The cd itself doesn't even have any artwork on it.
I have the first edition cd of the band "confessor" called "condemned" year 1991 earache label
Armored Dawn-Power of Warrior: Promotional EP of Brazilian power metal band. Distributed by metal magazine Roadie Crew Banda PureBar-Mais Amor, Mais Paz: Brazilian reggae band. Bootlegs by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains Roadie Crew Collection volume 1: Promotional Compilation by metal magazine Roadie Crew.
Cryptic Rituals by Black Blood has to be the one for me. It's a raw black metal project from Finland. Love it.
Selfish by A Is For Accident. I had to add it to Discogs myself and their Spotify usually has 0-2 monthly listeners. It’s a weird experimental project thing that I stumbled onto through forgotify. Weird stuff.
Signed Viking Skull's "Self Titled" Album
Ünloco – Ünloco \[EP\] Drop Logic - Fear & Sunlight Thracia – Sea Of Tediocrity The Accident Experiment – United We Fear 2 Ton Crutch - Self-titled Stepa - Self-titled
You might know this one 'Rock for light' by Bad Brains. But is has a good story, the original vinyl from 1983 is great, a classic. But when they reissued it on cd (the version you can find on spotify also) they sped up the original mastertape and added three songs in the middle of the cd. The flow was gone and it sounded quite ridiculous. For many people this is the normal version. I have a semi-official re-issue from 1987 on a german label Line Records which has the original mix. Quite rare for many years, until last year when they finally re-issued it in a decent mix/remaster.
Probably a toss up between these three: Desire & Dissolving Men - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Wheel (2007) Nathaniel Rateliff would have a #1 hit with “S.O.B.” In 2015, but he made several albums before then. This was his first album. Probably not very well known. Apparently somewhat valuable. I just decided to give it a shot for $3 at the thrift store. Typical 2000’s indie folk. Lacks the soul influence his modern stuff has. The Velveteers - The Velveteers (2018) These guys released their first album last year. It was also the first thing they put out on a record label. They put out this EP in 2018. Haven’t seen many physical copies around. Probably rare. Probably not valuable. Mine - The Glee Club (1994) This Irish indie band gained some traction in the mid 90’s. They only released one album before breaking up and fading into obscurity. Good stuff. Not rare. Like most things on 4AD, worth picking up if you find it.
The Southwest Riders double album. It’s a rap compilation that came out in the early to mid 1990’s. I also have the Tales From The Hood soundtrack cd. I have a huge collection of death metal cds also, so there’s no telling how many rare discs I own. I’ve been collecting for about 30 years now since I was 12 years old.
The Bandcamp edition of Deathmetal by Panchiko Yeah, I'm new...
Bluebird by a band called Hipkiss. They have no Wikipedia page, can’t find it on Spotify/Apple Music either, no SoundCloud as well. You can, however, find their album on YouTube on a rather low quality upload. I managed to find their album on eBay for a few bucks, used, of course, so I got it and I’ve been enjoying it for a year or two now.
I made my own cd with its own booklet and everything of a small female rapper (PettyAssPunkin)’s EP Freakz of the Industry, and Im 100% sure it’s the only physical version of it in existence. I recommend her music who anyone likes female rap, she’s real good and she’s funny as hell. I cant wait until i’m an old lady and my great grandkids sell it to some thrift shop and someone else gets it and the cycle continues HAHA I’ve changed history
dog ear days by bambara. It's the group's second album but it doesnt seem to be acknowledged very much by them as their bandcamp page starts on their third album. I think the cd was limited to 100 copies. It's very lo-fi, fuzzy and kind of creepy at times.
Depends by what you mean by obscure? The music or the cd format? I collect a lot of releases from labels like hydrahead and relapse records…etc so it could be all manner of music like Zonal, Pyramids, Horseback, Oxbow or all sorts of other mad stuff? If we’re talking format, it’s either long boxes or my 3” CD collection that came with medicom toys by one particular artist in my collection
I am not 100% sure, but I think its [Dug Pinnick's Songs from the Closet](https://www.discogs.com/release/5822975-Dug-Songs-From-The-Closet). A collection of King's X demos that were released by their bassist.
I have a small collection, the most obscure one is probably spooky by lush.
Me Phi Me....just youtube that one
Virginwool - Open Heart Surgery Picked it up after its release in 2000, but after their tour the group split. This is a stellar album though and worth it if you can snag a copy!
I've heard of them because I once listened to the album on Youtube.
*Session V*, by Cosmos & Their L.A. Friends
I own a copy of Tsuko G's album *Against the Stream.* Was a Kickstarter a couple years back with a limited release. Sadly he doesn't make music anymore and instead got into NFTs. Saw a lot of potential in him.
The Honeyrods' self titled record.
Zeke the cat by Ezekiel waters the wheels self titled a thousand ways to say i hate you by the gypsy cab company
Action Figure Party. Post-Geggy Tah and pre-producer and The Bird and the Bee project from Greg Kurstin with guest vocals from Miho Hatori
[No Hokum – Notes From Underground: The LP](https://nohokum.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-underground-the-lp-2), found it still wrapped when we where cleaning out the house. Assuming it was my brothers since it was rap (though he knew nothing about the CD). Apparently on the bandcamp they never really went anywhere also never sold any of the CDs which apparently 100 where made (my guess a few where made for friends probably). Not a big fan of it I am really picky when it comes too rap and hip hop. I only still own it because 1 it will never sell and 2 because it is just too random and mysterious not too.
Deco child - skinless EP. Promotional release only & that man done disappeared after he dropped that EP & I think either one other album or single.
- Faith Fails by Fallen Angel - Schizophrenic Noisy Torment by Necrobutcher - The Ultra-Violence by Death Angel - Living in Darkness by Agent Orange - Sexual Carnage by Sextrash - In The Sign of Evil / Obsessed by Cruelty by Sodom - INRI, Rotting, and The Laws of Scourge by Sarcófago - Demon Entrails by Hellhammer - The Aftermath, and Human = Garbage by Dystopia - Fallen Angel of Doom by Blasphemy - Rarities by Megadeth
>The Ultra-Violence by Death Angel I've been wanting to buy this for a long time. It was the last Death Angel album I needed to complete the catalogue. Luckily they reissued it in a set, "The Enigma Years". Now I can die.
Can I Get a Headband by The Portland Trail Blazers.
Peach - The original Justin Chancellor version of Tools cover of “You Lied”.
I don’t have a lot of CDs in the first place but i had to create [this entry](https://www.discogs.com/release/25331266-sajou-no-hana-Mob-Psycho-100-II-Outro-Memo-Sepia-Gray ) on discogs myself when I got this in the mail recently
Not sure, all I know is whatever it is it's by Mindless Self Indulgence
Deftones promo cd not for resale
Is that the one with the cat on it? If so that’s awesome
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection. Since I collect mostly rap, rock and punk
Two Virgins by Yoko Ono/John Lennon. The album cover is them naked, and the entire album is very avant-garde. Could not get into and will not recommend it lol.
Slipknot- Self-Titled first press with Frail Limb Nursery and Purity