Obscure/forgotten music.

[vmax]

I still get all excited when I hear this classic and for some reason, I still remember the words

 

[MikePotts]

Peter Sarstedt:

Peter Sarstedt ~ Where Do You Go To My Lovely (with lyrics) - YouTube

 

[Byrd666]

How about just a simply happy and simple song. One of my personal favorites.

 

[London]

Forget gangster rap, forget Satanic metal, forget even GG Allin. This is the filthist song I've ever heard in my life, and it was recorded in 1935!

NSFW:

 

[London]

If you're into electric guitars, it is certain you have heard the name Les Paul. But how many people these days have actually heard his music? He and his wife Mary Ford were once so popular they had their own television show. But alas, since good music is dead in this country so go the tunes of Les Paul. And a shame, too, as he is in my opinion the greatest American guitar player ever to live.

Despite eventually developing crippling arthritis in both his hands which only allowed him the use of one finger, Les Paul kept right on playing every week in a NY night club, and people still drove from all around the country to see that one famous finger play. His fans were as devoted as they were small in number. Les Paul recently passed away; being remembered mostly by musically diligent rock, jazz, and country stars, a few die-hard fans, and grandparents who forgot about him for decades until reading his obituary.

 

[London]

What a weird show; one of less than a handful of things MTV ever did that was cool. Of course it was quickly canceled:

 

[AcidFlashGordon]

If you're into electric guitars, it is certain you have heard the name Les Paul. But how many people these days have actually heard his music? He and his wife Mary Ford were once so popular they had their own television show. But alas, since good music is dead in this country so go the tunes of Les Paul. And a shame, too, as he is in my opinion the greatest American guitar player ever to live.

Despite eventually developing crippling arthritis in both his hands which only allowed him the use of one finger, Les Paul kept right on playing every week in a NY night club, and people still drove from all around the country to see that one famous finger play. His fans were as devoted as they were small in number. Les Paul recently passed away; being remembered mostly by musically diligent rock, jazz, and country stars, a few die-hard fans, and grandparents who forgot about him for decades until reading his obituary.

My parents had a Les Paul/Mary Ford album and as a child I remember sitting at my record player listening to it over and over again. Definite classic.

 

[benenglish]

...Les Paul. ...in my opinion the greatest American guitar player ever to live. ...

I remember him for being *the* pioneer of multitrack recording. He developed a tool and used it well. It's too bad so many thousands of hacks have, in the years since, used that tool to produce truly lousy music that would not have been otherwise possible.

The longer version of the video you posted is one of my favorites since we get to hear him and Mary Ford talk about their then-radical multi-track technology on British television:

 

[London]

There's a cool Youtube video of him in his later year using a "Les Pulverizer" to do all sorts of fun things.

 

[London]

My girlfriend loves this album; almost makes me wish I had never introduced her to it:

 

[London]

At least Donita Sparks from L7 is still making listenable music these days:

 

[London]

And speaking of L7:

 

[BIGPAPIGREG]

does this count.....

 

[London]

Back to movie music:

 

[London]

I have no idea why this movie was so hated. A great song for a great movie:

 

[London]

Something relaxing. Elmer Bernstein did the soundtracks of TWO of my favorite movies of all time: Robot Monster and..... Ghostbusters!

 

[London]

Not a movie but still a great song. The final extended version (with real cello) seems to be impossible to find on youtube (the versions they have are keyboard demos despite what the titles say). It was included on a rare Millenium Season 1 soundtrack under the title "Gehenna."

 

[Tejano Scott]

 

[London]

I refuse to let this thread die. There's too much good music no one listens to anymore.

Let's go way back to that three month period in 1997 when David Bowie was popular again (thanks to piggy-backing on Trent Reznor):

 

[London]

And while we're speaking about Trent Reznor in 1997, here's a song that was big but now forgotten. At the time it was released it was the most expensive music video ever made.