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List some songs that you like that you think that very few people have ever heard of.

Extra credit if they're by bands that very few people have heard of.

Here's a couple:

Pali Gap by Jimi Hendrix(a groovy all instrumental piece of jazz/funk fusion.

Radio Tokyo by The Marvelous Three. (something about this song just hits me right.)

how about: Jaktens Tid by Finntroll
or: Like Fire by Bloodbath
or: Dechristianize by Vital Remains
or: Battle Song by Ensiferum

hmm, I only know about 1100+ of those... give me a minute :p

Prob pretty much anything by Frank Zappa.
My favourite band is The Young Gods, a Swiss techo-industrial outfit, and I'm probably safe in assuming few if any of you have heard them. I really like their song 'Mackie Messer', but everyone will have heard it, so it doesn't really count.
I also like Einstürzende Neubauten, especially their song 'The Garden'.

anything and everything by sphongle. anything and everything by ratatat.

I also like Einstürzende Neubauten, especially their song 'The Garden'.
I've been meaning to buy something from them. What do they sound like, and which album should I start with?

Anyway, my list, of the top of my head:
"Bound For the Floor" - Local H
"Screamager" - Therapy?
"Kill For Peace" - the Fugs
"Sleepless" - Anathema
"Tomorrow, Wendy" - Concrete Blonde

how about: Jaktens Tid by Finntroll
or: Like Fire by Bloodbath
or: Dechristianize by Vital Remains
or: Battle Song by Ensiferum

hmm, I only know about 1100+ of those... give me a minute :p

Only one of those bands I've ever heard of is Vital Remains(I don't think highly of Death Metal. But they actually do it some justice). The other three, I've never heard of before. They aren't even on Itunes.

Evolution Revolution Love by Tricky and Ed Kowalczyk
Dr Greenthumb by Cypress Hill


I must have more... I'll go check my playlist.

Hmmm, A Minute Longer by Stereophonics. Really good song from Performance & Cocktails.
Closing Time, Semisonic. Really good song.
Our House, Madness.
Coffee and TV by Blur, one of the best video clips ever and a really good song.

I've been meaning to buy something from them. What do they sound like, and which album should I start with?
Sort like early Nick Cave/Birthday Party, as you would expect having Blixa Bargeld in the band. But more Germanic sounding (shades of Laibach), also as you would expect.
"Halber Mensch" and "Ende Neu" are both pretty good imo. They may even have a best of album out, which is always a good way to get into a band.

Sage Francis - The Buzz Kill

I'm quite not sure if I could say they are the "best" I've ever heard, but at least I think those are the most beautiful I've ever heard.

Cowboy Bebop - Call me call me

Green Day - Boulevard of broken dreams.mp3

Stabbing Westward - Breathe you in

Stabbing Westward - I remember

U2 - I still haven't found what I'm looking for

U2 - With or without you

Spaceship Landing - Kyuss
Buy Me a Pony - Spiderbait
Negasonic Teenage Warhead - Monster Magnet
Stargazer - Mother Love Bone
Seventeen Years of Hell - The Partisans
Shove - L7
Crave - The Butterfly Effect
Unattractive - Toadies
Mad World - The Red Paintings
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney

Edit - Throw in Shadow of the Season by the Screaming Trees.

U2 - With or without you
Yeah. Like no one ever heard that one before :rolleyes:

Alice in Chains - Chewbacca, what a wookie
Deftones - Minus Blindfold
Descendants - Weinerschnitzel
Erst Algemeine Verunsicherung - Ba-Ba-Banküberfall
Hayseed Dixie - Hells Bells
Kyuss - Born to Hula
Nips - Private Eye
Sigur Ros - Staralfur
Slash's Snakepit - Speed Parade
Steel Dragon - We all die young
Walls of Jericho - All Hail the Dead

Yeah. Like no one ever heard that one before :rolleyes:

You never know. If someone just got back from 20 years in antarctica....

...or just gained his hearing for the first time in his life after a miraculous eight-hour long surgery....

...um... or space aliens. It might be new. :)

Hmmm, A Minute Longer by Stereophonics. Really good song from Performance & Cocktails.
Closing Time, Semisonic. Really good song.
Our House, Madness.
Coffee and TV by Blur, one of the best video clips ever and a really good song.
Not knocking your taste in music (I have all but the last Blur album and a couple of Madness albums as well a Stereophonic album), but this thread is for little-heard music. 'Our House' doesn't really fit into that, surely you agree.

Of old-school punk, I really like 'Magazine'. They had cool lyrics:
'I am angry - I am ill and I am as ugly as sin
It's only irritability which keeps me alive and kicking'

I also really like Killdozer. Their versions of "American Pie' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' rate as two of the best covers ever.

You never know. If someone just got back from 20 years in antarctica....

...or just gained his hearing for the first time in his life after a miraculous eight-hour long surgery....

...um... or space aliens. It might be new. :)
Oh yeah. I take my words back

Hmmm, A Minute Longer by Stereophonics. Really good song from Performance & Cocktails.
Closing Time, Semisonic. Really good song.
Our House, Madness.
Coffee and TV by Blur, one of the best video clips ever and a really good song.
It's possible to avoid hearing "Our House?" I mean, normally I'd fake bitch-you-out for ignoring the leading n in "never," but if it wasn't a mistake, I have to know where you live that I could possibly go a whole week without running across it on the radio, because that song gets on your nerves fast, and it doesn't get off them.

For my contribution, Sponge's "Wax Ecstatic," almost everything from said album, and especially the title song.

Y'all can look up the "Left of the Dial Box Set," it's pretty much made to be this list. Magazine's "Song from under the Floorboards" wins commendation for "least likely to be heard," yet still being in the top ten of the whole set.

Not knocking your taste in music (I have all but the last Blur album and a couple of Madness albums as well a Stereophonic album), but this thread is for little-heard music. 'Our House' doesn't really fit into that, surely you agree.

Of old-school punk, I really like 'Magazine'. They had cool lyrics:
'I am angry - I am ill and I am as ugly as sin
It's only irritability which keeps me alive and kicking'

I also really like Killdozer. Their versions of "American Pie' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' rate as two of the best covers ever.Well, that's a damned unlikely simulpost.

Only one of those bands I've ever heard of is Vital Remains(I don't think highly of Death Metal. But they actually do it some justice). The other three, I've never heard of before. They aren't even on Itunes.

damn, know Finntroll
download something NOW
like Trollhammaren or something from centurymedia.com
it's not even death metal

[Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
good call. "Superfuzz Bigmuff" is one of my all-time favourite albums.

Sort of in a similar vein, Lubricated Goat (an Aussie outfit around the same time) had some good songs. Unfortunately I've can't remember the names, lost the CDs and have yet to find any apart from "Jason the Unpopular" on LimeWire.

Off on a different vein, The Residents are a cool band.

two headed boy by neutral milk hotel

Y'all can look up the "Left of the Dial Box Set," it's pretty much made to be this list. Magazine's "Song from under the Floorboards" wins commendation for "least likely to be heard," yet still being in the top ten of the whole set.
That is a creepy simulcast. Get out of my head! Get out of my head!

Do Virgins Taste Better?-Brobdingnagian Bards

Chemical Worker's Song-Great Big Sea

The Night Paddy Murphy Died-Great Big Sea

Patriot Game-Brobdingnagian Bards

Come Out Ye Black and Tans-Wolfetones

Amores Gates-Amadan

Sawney Beane Clan-The Real McKenzies

(Except for the last one very few people know about any of the before mentioned bands)

And pretty much anything else on me playlist.

good call. "Superfuzz Bigmuff" is one of my all-time favourite albums.

It's brilliant, definitely. I saw them live this year...they were amazing. Mark and the crew might be getting a bit old, but they can still rock, let me tell you. :D

Sort of in a similar vein, Lubricated Goat (an Aussie outfit around the same time) had some good songs. Unfortunately I've can't remember the names, lost the CDs and have yet to find any apart from "Jason the Unpopular" on LimeWire.

Oooh, I'm pretty sure I have heard of them, but can't think of how any of their songs go. They might have been popular here at one stage, a lot of good Aussie bands get no.1 hits here but never scratch the market overseas.

Biffy Clyro - Wave Upon Wave Upon Wave

great wee song

also, Biffy Clyro - Toys, Toys, Toys, Choke, Toys, Toys, Toys

Fine anything by Ommph or Das Ich! :D
Awesome German Musics!

Howz about
The Wurzels: Don't look back in anger (it's a parody)
Chedar cheese

The Seatbelts: Ask DNA
Gotta knock a little harder

O-Zone: Dragostea Din Tea (I had to mention this one)

Freezepop: Science Genius Girl

The Bees: Chicken Payback

All these are both obscure and great music

also, Biffy Clyro - Toys, Toys, Toys, Choke, Toys, Toys, Toys

That title : :D

also
Short skirt/long Jacket by Cake
and
Infinite chinese box by Miss Black America

Well, that's a damned unlikely simulpost.
Yes, it is. <Making mental note to buy something by Magazine.>

Oooh, I'm pretty sure I have heard of them, but can't think of how any of their songs go. They might have been popular here at one stage, a lot of good Aussie bands get no.1 hits here but never scratch the market overseas.
Like You Am I.

Is anyone here watch a lot of Flash movies? If so, I'm probably wrong on a lot of these.

Ome Henk - Opblaaskrokodil
Kabouter Plop - De Kabouterdans
Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise
John Desire - Hot Limit
Rip Slyme - Funkastic
Imakuni - Pokemon Ieru Ka Na
Lemon Demon - Hyakugojyuuichi 2003
Lemon Demon - I've Got Some Falling to Do
PSYCHO - Miko Miko Nurse
*I don't know* - Ddautta Gunyo
Megumi Hayashibara - Sakura Saku
O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei
*still don't know* - Ultra Relax

Like You Am I.

Yeah, they're alright. I prefer (early) Grinspoon and Spiderbait though.

how about: Jaktens Tid by Finntroll
or: Dechristianize by Vital Remains
or: Battle Song by Ensiferum


I know those :D

Is anyone here watch a lot of Flash movies? If so, I'm probably wrong on a lot of these.

Ome Henk - Opblaaskrokodil
Kabouter Plop - De Kabouterdans

hehe, these songs were played on the radio over here :P

OT:
anything by Crusader

Actually, I have artists more than songs to recommend:
VAST (or Visual Audio Sensory Theatre)
Golden Palominos
Supreme Beings of Leisure
Stereolab
Jorane
Iceberg

anything by mtume, brass construction, Band AKA, Dave Grushin (Spelling?), Tako watenabe (?spelling).

Please let me know someone else out there listens to these guys.

Rodeohead by Hard 'n Phirm: the best (and only, I'm sure) bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs out there.

Prob pretty much anything by Frank Zappa.
My favourite band is The Young Gods, a Swiss techo-industrial outfit, and I'm probably safe in assuming few if any of you have heard them.

Frank Zappa is my hero musically. :D

As for The Young Gods, I used to buy their stuff through Wax Trax. Damn fine stuff! Obscure as hell, though. Looks like we must belong to the same elite club.

Anyway ....

The Judy's, especially the album "Moo". Great stuff. A bass player and a drummer make up the whole band, but they make it work.

Naked Apes of Reason. Local Houston band that actually went on to a lucrative career in Europe. Great stuff.

i love chicken payback by the bees!

im sure that a lot of stuff by bjork isn't greatly known...

my friend bob told me about a band called 'ween' or something, and also Nada Surf. a good song by them is 'popular'

listen to xfm radio 104.9fm in england- a london station. they play a lot of random stuff.
the barbs, sons and daughters, be your own pet,...erm...mad capsule markets, !!!....etc., etc...

over and out.(how clique...)

my friend bob told me about a band called 'ween' or something, and also Nada Surf. a good song by them is 'popular'

Ahaha ... Ween ....

Push the little daisies and make them come up!

I love the song they did for Chef Aid.

Seventeen Years of Hell - The Partisans


Yay! Pity the guitarist went on to form Transvision Vamp.

I also really like Killdozer. Their versions of "American Pie' and 'Sweet Home Alabama' rate as two of the best covers ever.

Entertaining, but not as good as their original tunes like Knuckles The Dog.

The Wurzels: Don't look back in anger (it's a parody)

Easily outdone by Jah Wurzel's version of 'Wuthering Heights' - a simultaneous parody of Jah Wobble, Kate Bush and The Wurzels knocked up by ex-Mott The Hoople keyboard player Morgan Fisher in the late seventies. Imagine A broad west-country accent singing about Cathy and Heathcliff over a backing track of out of kilter dub.

I'll throw some lesser known masterpieces onto the fire:

Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric - a drunken midget's timeless pop classic.
Minor Threat's first two EPs as rereleased in a single LP.
Anything and everything by the mighty Rorschach.
'Hidegen Fujnak a Szelek' by the Ex.
The KLF and Extreme Noise Terror collaborating on that apocalyptic vesion of £AM Eternal
'Kill Your Parents' by Monkhouse.
'The Wait' by The Pretenders - strange first wave of punk played in 15/16 time.
'Hops And Barley' by Snuff or Leatherface

...ah, that'll do for the moment.

As for The Young Gods, I used to buy their stuff through Wax Trax. Damn fine stuff! Obscure as hell, though. Looks like we must belong to the same elite club.
Hmmm...I wonder if Swans were fans of them, especially as Michael Gira named his record label Young God Records.

Ahaha ... Ween ....

Push the little daisies and make them come up!

I love the song they did for Chef Aid.
First The Mycon reads my mind, and now you!
Ween are awesome - especially live.
And nice to see that there's one Young Gods fan out there in NS land. I have 6 of their albums. The last album was very trancy, btw, but the one before that was typically YG hardcore.
You can find their stuff on Limewire or Shareaza. I got their whole catalogue off it, which included a live album I'd didn't know existed (they've released two, I had the other one, and judging from their live cds, they'd be an awesome band to go see). I couldn't be bothered transfering my cds over and since moving here to HK I've yet to find a store that sells their music.

tim pope (director of videas for bands like the cure) released one song 'i want to be a tree' and it was fantasticly absurd. i cant even find it on lime wire

vocalbill

Holyman by One Minute Silence.

Gwerzy by Kila.

Entertaining, but not as good as their original tunes like Knuckles The Dog.
Very true. 12 point Buck is full of great songs. Just trying hard to think of the lyrics here from their song 'The Elevator'
"He had a face like half-chewed bubblegum,
but it didn't bother him, not in the least.
With a bag on his head, he's still a sexual beast."
Then's there's the song 'Richard':
"Some people call me Satan,
some call me Lucifer
But my name is Richard,
and you can call me Dick!"

But back to covers, they also did an awesome version of Neil Diamond's "I am I said".


If we're on about parodies, Rolf Harris 'Stairway to Heaven' is a classic.

Kara's Flowers - Feeling Slow
Switchfoot - Evergreen

Anything by Bagger United :p

Well, that's a damned unlikely simulpost.
That is a creepy simulcast. Get out of my head! Get out of my head!Okay, you're I'm not allowed to be in the same thread as you anymore- the first time was kinda amusing, this one was just wierd.

Hands Up For Rock'n Roll - David Hasselhoff

"Time Flies By (When you're the driver of a train)" by Half Man, Half Biscuit :)

The "Mr Clean" jingle...

poor leno- roykspop
roygbiv- boards of canada... well anything really by boards of canada
la breeze- simian
samurai- shurik'n
everything is all right- four tet
december 4th- jayz (the remix by danger mouse)

Beautiful Day - 3 Colours Red
Paranoid People - 3 Colours Red
Twist - I Am Kloot
Evil Devolution - Ayreon
Dragons of the North - Einherjer
Last Drop Falls - Sonata Arctica

None of those are well known in the UK at least, as far as I know.

"Headless in a Beat Motel", "Burgundy Spine" and "Tina, this is Matthew Stone", all by Prolapse.

Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys is a good one, unless of course you listen to the album version (which is poorly-produced, poorly-arranged shit).

Another good one (much better, in fact) is Ghosts Of Princes In Towers by the Rich Kids, written by Glen Matlock. This is a gem of a song.

Now, there's a very obscure song that the Sex Pistols did, called Flowers of Romance. It was an improv number they did to open their sets... Good stuff.

Beautiful Day - 3 Colours Red
I'm going to give 3 Colours Red the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn't copy U2's Beautiful Day. Sacrilege against good music that would be.

I'm going to give 3 Colours Red the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn't copy U2's Beautiful Day. Sacrilege against good music that would be.

Good good...because they didn't (3 Colours Red's Beautiful Day is waaay better anyway :p). In fact, I think they may have even released "Beautiful Day" before U2...

Pali Gap by Jimi Hendrix(a groovy all instrumental piece of jazz/funk fusion.


I can't believe you mentioned that song. I have kept the album Voodoo Soup on solid rotation for about eight years and that is definitely my favorite song on it. If you get fucked up and listen to that song you will completely zone out the whole way through.

My choices:

"Waterloo Sunset" - The Kinks
"How Near, How Far" - And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

(Some of you may know those songs, though)

Sonic Reducer by the Dead Boys is a good one, unless of course you listen to the album version (which is poorly-produced, poorly-arranged shit).
Which version should I listen to, then?

Beautiful People - Sea Sounds (Hendrix Sample)

Heard it on a compilation album and it is a brilliant track.

Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

I live in the UK and Neil Young seems to be pretty unheard of, a damn good guitarist, and most of his stuff is brilliant.

The Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Relevations (Album)

I heard it for the first time the other day - and Wow!

Pali Gap by Jimi Hendrix(a groovy all instrumental piece of jazz/funk fusion.


amazing you named that song. one of my favorites. also, try Orion, by metallica.an amazing instrumental .

I'm not sure if this counts, because it is on the GT4 soundtrack, but I really like an obscure track called "Trash Technology" by Warren Suicide. Very funky.

Which version should I listen to, then?

The raw mix in the other version of Young, Loud, and Snotty.

Yoko Kanno & Seatbelts: "Too Good Too Bad" & "Bad Dog No Biscuits"
The Tubes: "Wild Women of Wongo" & "Out of the Business"
Was (Not Was): "Bow Wow Wow Wow" (w/Mitch Ryder) & "11 M.P.H."
Thomas Dolby: "Field Work", "Silk Pyjamas" & "Armageddon"
Moxy Fruvous: "The Incredible Medicine Show" & "Entropy"
The Arrogant Worms: "Jesus' Brother Bob" & "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate"
Terence Trent D'arby: "Vibrator" & "As Yet Untitled"
The Bee Gees: "I've Gotta Get a Message To You"
Super Sonic Soul Pimps: "Dangling Participle", "My High" & "Burn"
Hiromi: "XYZ"
Men At Work: "'Til The Money Runs Out" & "Snakes and Ladders"
The Bobs: "Hey Coach, Don't Call Me a Queer"
Owsley: "Oh No the Radio" & "Zavelow House"
Jill Sobule: "Under the Disco Ball", "Heroes", "Mexican Wrestler" & "Happy Town"
Tom Lehrer: "Vatican Rag" & "Lobachevsky"
Leonard Cohen: "When Love Calls You By Your Name"
Monty Montgomery: "Mirror"
Ringo Starr: "Husbands and Wives"
Harry Chapin: "The Rock", "Bummer" & "Halfway to Heaven"

......far too many fall into the "great and obscure" category. Thanks for the question, though, it made me go through my mental database, which is good for us old farts who're fighting off Alzheimer's. Now how do I turn this TV off?

Last Drop Falls - Sonata Arctica

http://www.graspop.be/forum/images/smiles/worship.gif

add any one of their songs to my list, too :D

I haven't read the thread, so some of these may have already been mentioned:

Elliott Smith - Angeles
Kings of Convenience - Sing Softly to Me
Nick Drake - River Man
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Drake
Willy Mason - Fear No Pain
Nina Nastasia - This Is What It Is
Ed Harcourt - Watching the Sun Come Up
Tom Waits - Blue Valentines
Elbow - Newborn

I've never heard the original to Paint It Black or Sound of Silence, I've only ever heard the remakes.

Ahaha ... Ween ....

Push the little daisies and make them come up!

I love the song they did for Chef Aid.

Did you hear about flap over the Ween Pizza Hut jingle?

Apparently, the execs at Pizza Hut don't think the line "Bitch, where'd the motherfuckin' cheese go at?" really promotes the right sort of corporate image.

http://www.firteen.com/articles/ween_pizza/

The Tubes: "Wild Women of Wongo" & "Out of the Business"
Was (Not Was): "Bow Wow Wow Wow" (w/Mitch Ryder) & "11 M.P.H."
Thomas Dolby: "Field Work", "Silk Pyjamas" & "Armageddon"
Moxy Fruvous: "The Incredible Medicine Show" & "Entropy"
Terence Trent D'arby: "Vibrator" & "As Yet Untitled"
Men At Work: "'Til The Money Runs Out" & "Snakes and Ladders"
Jill Sobule: "Under the Disco Ball", "Heroes", "Mexican Wrestler" & "Happy Town"
Leonard Cohen: "When Love Calls You By Your Name"

......far too many fall into the "great and obscure" category. Thanks for the question, though, it made me go through my mental database, which is good for us old farts who're fighting off Alzheimer's. Now how do I turn this TV off?

Thanks for reminding me of them... *runs to find songs in record collection*

And if you haven't heard Arcade Fire yet, give it a try. They rock in concert.
http://www.arcadefire.com/
http://www.arcadefire.net/
I like all songs from Funeral

I can't believe you mentioned that song. I have kept the album Voodoo Soup on solid rotation for about eight years and that is definitely my favorite song on it. If you get fucked up and listen to that song you will completely zone out the whole way through.

Yes, it's almost like it's communicating in a language only the primal parts of your brain understand.

I'm 13 but I have the musical tastes of a retrospective 30 year old. Therefore I doubt anyone has heard these songs (most of these I don't own but have heard on internet radio):

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Secret (My vote for the MOST DEPRESSING SONG EVER!)

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Limahl - Never Ending Story
M - Pop Muzik
Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
and more. Let me know if you HAVE heard any of these.

ooc: boooooooooooomp

Muse: Feeling Good, Darkshines, Unintended etc etc.

I listen to this song by Wyclef Jean from the dirty dancing : havana nights soundtrack and i absolutly like it. it's called Dance like this and I think its one of the best dance song I heard in a while.

And some obscure game music:

Rock City Falls (Veronica)
Walk Away From Here (is that the right name?) (Mustard Plug?)
Aisle 10 (Scapegoat Wax)
among others.

"We Dont Like You" & "Heines- 2 Apes"...Bagger United

but you will be buying their CD's one day. Dont say Peech didnt tell you so.

Limahl - Never Ending Story

the Dragonland cover of that song is SO MUCH better! (and yes, I have heard both ;) )

I'm 13 but I have the musical tastes of a retrospective 30 year old. Therefore I doubt anyone has heard these songs (most of these I don't own but have heard on internet radio):

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Secret (My vote for the MOST DEPRESSING SONG EVER!)

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Limahl - Never Ending Story
M - Pop Muzik
Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
and more. Let me know if you HAVE heard any of these.

Love OMD, especially the "Junk Culture" era stuff... I do remember Sigue Sigue Sputnik, I remember Limahl, I remember Pop Muzik... I adore Depeche Mode, although I prefer "Personal Jesus", "Home" and "In Your Room"... and love Ultravox. "Reap..." is one of my favourites... the other being "Lament".


You, my friend, have awesome taste.

On the single of "My Father's Eyes" by Eric Clapton, there's an orchestral track called "Theme from a Movie that Never Happened". I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard, but I bet almost no-one has heard of it, let alone actually heard it.

A few of my favorite songs of all time, most of them on the obscure side of things:

The Fall ~ "Theme from Sparta FC"
The Fall ~ "The Classical"
Pere Ubu ~ "Non Alignment Pact"
Xiu Xiu ~ "Ian Curtis Wishlist"
Consonant ~ "Lost Together"
Mission of Burma ~ "Academy Fight Song"
Trail of Dead ~ "Mark David Chapman"
Big Black ~ "Kerosene"
Tim Hecker ~ "I'm Transmitting Tonight"
Television ~ "Marquee Moon"
Microphones ~ "The Moon"
New Order ~ "Ceremony"
Pulp ~ "Disco 2000"

the Dragonland cover of that song is SO MUCH better! (and yes, I have heard both ;) )
Never have ==> Never really want to.

That reminds me. Is Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order in any way obscure?

"Everytime I see you falling I go down on my knees and pray."

I don't own it.

Is "Land of Make Believe" by Bucks Fizz an obscure song? I would have thought so around here because of its childish lyrics, but the song itself is one of my favourites. I love depressive, atmospheric electropop.
OFFTOPIC TIME
I have Depeche Mode's Violator, Singles 81>85 (98 edition) and 86>98, The Best of OMD, and a crappy EMI Ultravox fling. I also like Howard Jones (New Song and What Is Love?)

Well, "Bizarre Love Triangle" was a single, and I'm fairly sure I've heard it on the radio... so I suppose it's not obscure. Furthermore, the Pulp song is only obscure if you don't live in the UK.