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”
Shefferville, le dernier train by Michel Rivard
Not sure if the last one counts as a song since there’s no singing, but Def one of my favourite musiques ever.
Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
You can thank
meBo later.With 145M views and like thousands of variations I wouldn’t call this obscure. Great song, but not obscure.
LOL, fair enough I guess. 🤷♂️
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
Transmissor - Janela
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.
Excellent choice. I was going to go with Future Soon by Coulton.
This is hilarious, i love it. My favorite Jonathan Coulton song is Sticking It to Myself.
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”
Burrito Mojado, the Fabulous Hedgehogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfanMci3-A&t=0
This is hilarious, i love songs that are silly and fun while still being good.
Decapitated Camels by Simon Swerwer
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.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uhfJ11SoxlwREvTV80QA5? Lucy(Hurt People Hurt People) by Olivver the Kid
The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith
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.
Sleepwalking by the Jaguar Club. https://youtu.be/EZU3zV33tYM
One Must Fall 2097 theme. https://youtu.be/pdVnKYcYi3g?si=g3DMymI7KQV8Vifh
Anything from the 1974 anime Jack and the Beanstalk OST but this: https://youtu.be/Ehqopzmx258?si=jQaKJRglCZkSLwFt
Nada Nada by Avial I suppose it’s obscure cuz it’s not in English
I don’t know how obscure this is because it was on the Skate 3 soundtrack. However, I’ve never met a person that knew the song, and it’s not on any music streaming services, so I think it’s a little obscure.
Memo From Turner from the soundtrack of the movie Performance.
It sounds like The Rolling Stones but it’s only Mick, plus Ry Cooder on slide guitar.
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.
Idk how obscure it is but FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND by Snake Pool
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.
