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mander.xyz

This is hilarious, i love it. My favorite Jonathan Coulton song is Sticking It to Myself.

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lemmy.world

That one is great!

I keep mis-remembering one line as "I'm not unreasonable, I mean at some point you're gonna hafta die"

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mander.xyz

I also remember when it was obscure but i keep seeing it pop up as a meme of absurdity, which it is, of course. I think most people don't realize the level of virtuosity on display.

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mander.xyz

Hell yeah, can't go wrong with hard rock.
I have a number of songs on my playlists in different languages that i dont unserstand and it's interesting how it shifts the focus away from lyrics and toward the interaction between the vocals and the instruments. The voice is another instrument, after all.

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mander.xyz

This is hilarious, i love songs that are silly and fun while still being good.

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ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
slrpnk.net

A great one for your Halloween playlists is "The Crazy" by The Children MacNuggits.

But if you want even more obscure, a college friend of mine started a homebrew record label and got every band on campus to submit their best track for a compilation... and then he did it five more times

Twenty years later, I still listen to some of these songs daily, but especially: (warning, these are download links, not streaming)

Cold Heaven - "Eurydice"

The Heavy Pets - "(A Dragon's Just) A Dinosaur in Drag"

Zinc Finger and the Major Groove - "Too Much of a Girl"

The Passerines - "Young"

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mander.xyz

I like how simple this song is musically while converting multiple things behind the lyrics.

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mander.xyz

Oh i like this. I have no idea what it's about but it gives me nostalgia/reminiscing vibes. Definitely a head nodder! Also i appreciate how much variety there is even being a short song.

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lemmy.world

I messaged them and told them it should be much longer, they appreciated the comment and that they were proud of the record. The album is great. This song in particular can make me cry if I listen to it enough.

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mander.xyz

This is actually two guitars having a conversation. lol
It's interesting that the phrase-end motif has two different rhythm variations throughout the song. I wonder what that symbolizes.

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I Cast Fist
programming.dev

Probably not obscure per se, as it is the main theme of Raziel and Kain's conflict in Soul Reaver, but Ozar Midrashim - Information Society, is one piece that I deeply enjoy.

There's a metal cover of the game's music, "Between the Zones", with Wasteland Midrashim and Forgotten Lament being some I enjoy a lot.

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mander.xyz

This is good, big fan. I like the changes in intensity throughout the song.

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mander.xyz

They have two EPs right now and I'm quite a fan of both. If you liked that one, definitely check out the rest of their discography

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That_Devil_Girl
lemmy.ml

I like a number of songs by Sid Maudlin. However, some years ago she and her music entirely vanished from the internet. From what little information I could find, she retired and tried to erase that part of her past, along with every single one of her songs.

She was super aggressive with DMCA takedowns and would hit just about anything and everything that mentioned her name or her music. But the internet being what it is, it never truly went away. I think she's either relaxed a bit or given up trying to take everything down.

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mander.xyz

This almost gives me horror vibes due to being very busy and the wavering pitches on the synths. Reminds me of Stranger Things. lol

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mander.xyz

The snare on 2 and 3 really adds to the military theme the artist is painting. Very cool. I feel like this song is a small piece of a larger story.

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lemmy.world

With 145M views and like thousands of variations I wouldn't call this obscure. Great song, but not obscure.

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mander.xyz

I've never heard this before, Bo sure does know how to send a message.
I'm also learning this is where the piano and laughing meme came from. lol

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mander.xyz

The build in the beginning of this song is so good. It's also interesting how vocals-focused the mix is, that's something i'm not used to.

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mander.xyz

This is interesting. It's like dark-trance music. Also, is it Psychgod or Psychogod? Sounds like they're saying Psychgod and that's what's in the background as well.

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lemmy.world

I have no idea what they're saying or why. That's part of the charm. I have this in my "favorites" and always get hyped when it comes on.

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mander.xyz

This is a fun one. The driving beat from the drums and the bouncing bass make me smile and it's impossible not to tilt my head back and forth to the beat.

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mander.xyz

Yes, of course! Half of the music i listen to is instrumental.

That was a good song. It gives me vibes of melancholy and longing.

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niktemadur
lemmy.world

I've always been into freeform radio stations that color outside the lines, college stations like WPRB from Princeton, WFMU from NY/New Jersey, KFJC near the Bay Area, etc., have discovered a ton and a half of stuff that's way off the beaten path and has caught my ear.

Here's a good example I picked up around twenty years ago from KFJC, it could have been any one from too many choices to count, but for some reason this was the first song to pop into my mind right now.

If memory serves, I believe it's a field recording taken in the Sahara Desert, a nomadic people from around Morocco or Tunisia, and can only imagine the magical environment, close my eyes to try and visualize the crisp dry Saharan air at night, a large bonfire, the sky exploding with stars above, and this trance-inducing, mystical chanting.

Halima Chedli Ensemble - "Touhami Dikr".

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RBWells
lemmy.world

Ramsey Midwood, Feed my Monkey

Damn near every song by Joshua Ray Walker

Yannis and the Yaw, Clementine

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mander.xyz

I like the mix of speaking voice and singing here. Also the pitch "issues" of both the slide and Jagger add to the song---almost microtonal vibes.

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midwest.social

The song is "No Mercy in June" by a band called Hot D.A.M. I'm pretty sure that I got the song by piecing together a multi-part, MIME-encoded Usenet posting. Somehow, I have a whole album by the band in my collection that I found somewhere on the seven seas years ago. I don't recall when or where now. The best information that I could find back when was that Hot D.A.M. was one of those local bands that stayed local, perhaps one of the many that bubble up out of the musical quantum foam, and disappear just as quickly.

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2ugly2live
lemmy.world

Not sure if it's obscure since I don't go out much, but "Tastes like Candy" by Kissing Violet and "Wolf" by AlicebanD.

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ArxCyberwolf
lemmy.ca

E.O.A. by Bobnoxious

A song about the infamous East of Adelaide area of London, Ontario which is notoriously run-down compared to the rest of the city. A lot of the things mentioned in the song will sound very familiar to others who have lived in similar trashy neighbourhoods. The song became popular enough in London that one of London's former mayors, Joe Fantana, played the song with the band on the drums.

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Passerby6497
lemmy.world

Anxiety - Optimus Rhyme

Wheelie Cyberman is one of my favorite obscure artists, and both Optimus Rhyme and his current band Supercommuter are great if you're into nerdrap and/or chiptune music (Supercommuter is much more chiptune than Optimus, but there's still a lot of influence there)! A couple more good tracks from both:

Unusual habits - Supercommuter

Bad ideas - Supercommuter

Reel Estate - Optimus Rhyme

Coded and United - Optimus Rhyme

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