Killer tracks that no-one knows
Hey up.

Sitting here with the old itunes playing stuff on shuffle, and my all-time fave 'song that no-one else knows' just came on. "Tinseltown in the Rain" by The Blue Nile - how can this track never have been a huge hit? It's epic, sweeping, soaring, majectic...you get the idea. Meanwhile, joe and jane public clamour to buy the latest release from whatever mong won X-factor - twunts.

What's your fave track that no-one else knows?
(Apathyman Prepare to be underwhelmed..., Thu 22 Jan 2009, 8:00, 21 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

No contest
www.last.fm/music/Blockhead/_/Carnivores+Unite

Edit: my killer track changes every couple of weeks :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 8:04, Reply)

Heh
Typed "the blue nile" into last.fm and it immediately started with tinseltown in the rain.

It's like Peter Gabriel doing a cover of "running up that hill".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 8:10, Reply)

<0))))<
Jellyfish by Punishment of Luxury
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 8:32, Reply)

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleroes
Coma Girl
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:04, Reply)

Wonderstuff
Cartoon Boyfriend. No contest.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:11, Reply)

Depending on who you ask...
I've got a few..

You Can't Fool Me Dennis - Mystery Jets
Oh Mandy - Spinto Band (Now becoming better known through the Kenco advert with things coming out of the floor)
Ranger - Machiavellian (Heavy as hell)
Wicked Wisdom - Something Inside Me

There's also an up and coming progressive rock band called Mountains Became Machines, a friend of mine is the drummer. They're well worth a listen if you're into Pelican, Beecher, Red Sparrows, and Between The Buried And Me. (I don't know any of them, thank christ for C&P)
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:11, Reply)

@ Light
Thanks for the tip on last.fm - it's cool, just selected Blue Nile radio station, there's my listening for the day sorted!

:-)
(Apathyman Prepare to be underwhelmed..., Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:15, Reply)

Because I heard it last night for the first time in a while
Rosetta West - Blue Honey

(shock horror, Sam listening to music that was only released a few years ago!)

Pretty raw hard blues rock, sounds a lot more than 4 years old. This is what the first couple of Kings of Leon albums should have been like if they were any good.

Linky
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:15, Reply)

No One Knows
by QOTSA

/took the question literally, because he's hilarious.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:23, Reply)

I thought of posting that Bert
and decided it wasn't funny enough for me, so I let you do it.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:23, Reply)

torture by the hank dogs
the recording of the heart beat at the end, low down in the mix always moves me. Cannae find a link to it, mind
(sirolimus, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:49, Reply)

Anything by Kyrbgrinder
But particularly "What about me" and "My heart bleeds".

www.myspace.com/kyrbgrinder

The tracks are not as emo as the title suggests and the lead singer is a thoroughly nice bloke who is also the drummer. He also drummed for a band called Threshhold, if anyone knows the name.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 22 Jan 2009, 9:56, Reply)

I don't care, Sam
*doo-doodly-doo doo-doodly-doo-DOO*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 10:45, Reply)

Crooked Road and the Briar
Calexico
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:28, Reply)

A minutes noise for John
by Mitch Benn
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:42, Reply)

Anthem for a 17 year old girl
by Broken Social Scene

or 'She sends kisses' by the Wrens
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:43, Reply)

Currently
Duality by Slipknot.

All time favorite;
Pretty in Pink by The Psychedelic Furs.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 11:56, Reply)

How'd I miss this one?
What about 'My Favourite Muse' by Arab Strap (the best version's off the live album, 'Mad for Sadness'). God-like genius, I shit you not.
(Apathyman Prepare to be underwhelmed..., Thu 22 Jan 2009, 12:20, Reply)

Faithless - Crazy English Summer
No radio play ever. Chilled as. Not like their other stuff. Wicked.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 12:39, Reply)

I Be An Retarded
by They Might Be Giants

Just for the lolz.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 16:45, Reply)

Difficult choice...
Possibly 'Ramafied' by Lowlife.

A floaty, guitar tinged piece of nonsense that is utterly beautiful, and which I discovered on a cassette of obscure indie stuff given away with a now defunct music magzine in 1987.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 22 Jan 2009, 20:47, Reply)