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Is it still available to buy? Can't seem to find it anywhere :s

for me, the best Joni Mitchell albums are the most jazz-influenced: Court & Spark, The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira and Mingus, the last one just few people that i met knew it about, and this album it's like all the greatness of Mitchell on her guitar-playing + more..."experimental" stuff.

Nosferatu D2 - We're Gonna Walk Around This City...
Matson Jones - Matson Jones
Army Navy - Army Navy
The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right

Millenia Nova - Slow E-Motion Sightseeing

Bran Van 3000 - Discosis

Yeah came across it through some popular blog myself a while back, underrated stuff.

Sharks keep Moving- Desert Strings and Drifters EP
Are we allowed EPs? I have their album but I dont think its nearly as good, but this EP is one i keep coming back to- interestingly Ive never taken to any of the stuff the members have done since either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8b816nb6KY (also the first thing I ever bought from the now legendary and defunct Selectadisc)

The Geraldine Fibbers- Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home
Not exactly 'never heard' -It was on virgin but I'm kinda glad this wasnt bigger or else the Carla Bozulich output of recent years might never have happened. Still its very good 90s riot grrl/alt-country/grunge crossover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibJZUXuD16s

Disco Inferno- D.I goes Pop
Simon Reynolds article on 'post-rock' namechecked these guys as an exemplar and well it might. Rock instruments being used to make sounds unlike anyone else, very ahead of their time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nu53hNzXBs&feature=related

Yume Bitsu- Golden Vessyl of Sound
Shoegaze concept album that never seemed to get as much praise as it could have done with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGFUHGtjBxQ&

Valley of The Giants- Valley Of The Giants
Really surprised more DiSers haven't heard this one; a venn diagram of Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think, Shalabi Effect, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and probably every other worthwhile Canadian band at the time sat down in a room and semi-improvised an album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUOlfnnDKs0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrzB-eLnxmU

Wilderness-Wilderness

Again, I'm not sure how well known this is but its one of the best albums of the last decade, hands down. Its like listening to an alternative history of alternative music in the 00s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4jrFE_Tn2M

Or is that too obvious? There are still far too many people who haven't heard this piece of genius.

Also When Do We Start Fighting by Seafood.

They deserve to be known for much more than the Brimful of Asha remix, this is a great party album.

Anyway yeah, I keep thinking of albums then think "but at least 10% of the boards would have heard this"... Loads have probably heard Sloan for that matter

Songs Our Daddy Taught Us - The Everly Brothers.

Often described by John Peel as being the saddest record ever made, a beautiful collection of traditional american folk and country ballads.

Save The Year - The Tenderfoot

Low-key and romantic, classic indiepop by a Brighton band that never seem to get a mention on here.

http://open.spotify.com/album/3IkTDc2hcwdzOdNVASqCzw
Worrier- Worrier
http://open.spotify.com/album/2lEAuVR9vug0RJ9wUWisBJ
The Vinny Club(bassist from adebisi shank) - Rocky IV Reckyrd
http://open.spotify.com/album/4Jar6iQfqmoIjPqJZOu1PE
Davey Graham- Folk, blues and beyond
http://open.spotify.com/album/6Mrj5jscCJH0Yoz21yLOGb
Cicala Mvta- deko beko(ghost circus is not on spotify :(
http://open.spotify.com/album/7DTV1Y65OBfFcLvHU89Rl6

Gene Clark's No Other
Black Box Recorder's Facts of Life
The Beach Boys' Surf's Up (anything that isn't Pet Sounds mainly)
Bentley Rhythm Ace's BRA
The Cars' Candy-O

Motoro Faam - And Watercycles

I mention this all the time on here. Truly stunning, the only purely instrumental album to really grab me emotional. It takes a while to get into because there's is so much happening, but it's just perfect. so so so so so so good.

Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark

My housemate was playing this last week and I forgot how good it was. One of the most overlooked bands of the past decade. Great riffs, better lyrics.

Mew - Half The World Is Watching Me

That less than 10% of people who like Mew have heard this is criminal. For a long time this was my favourite album. Chock full of hooks, some parts like Abba and some parts like Dinosaur Jr with the edges filed off.

Re-shouts for Valley Of The Giants and The Veils too. Saw The Veils in Iceland last year and they were superb.

Dusty Springfield's A Girl Called Dusty

Mínus - Jesus Christ Bobby

Got 5/5, 10/10 reviews across the board in the 'metal mags' but virtually unknown. my favourite 'heavy' album and a perfect mix of hardcore and white noise. relentless. seeing them playing half of this album in front of 10 people two years ago was one of my favourite and most frustrating gig experiences.

but Little Lights by Spy Versus Spy and the same band's self-titled EP are both pretty great and obscure.

championed by peel and lamacq. toured with idlewild.
for fans of: karate, slint, fugazi, joan of arc, etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CBD4Rs7HBU

^ yes, this is the way to rule, indeed ^

Mark Hollis' self-titled album is quite The Wonderful, too. Not sure that many people have it. He's the fellow from Talk Talk, so he is. A track (the second on said album)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0rzonn8qA

^ definitely one for you if you like bands like Low ^

One of the greatest and most beautiful ambient releases of the last decade.

Truly amazing.

The Boo Radleys - Kingsize

underrated final and epic album.

Ang bang up to date;

Duels - the Barbarians Move In

best British album for timeage.

A post-hardcore classic IMO. Sadly overlooked because apparently people only have time for Refused in the Heavy Swedish Music parts of their brains. Their prior couple of albums were great too, but this one is something else. Fucking dark.

I-f - Fucking Consumer
Nasty, head-nodding simplistic techno from the 90s that's been heavily ripped off in the years since.

Cold House, by Hood

http://perfectblackswan.com/PBS1.htm

although i heard about this record through a thread i made on the boards asking for music that sounded like this, so no doubt a few on here have heard it.

then again, seeing as it is a limited run of 500, i guess that makes it obscure enough.

most of which are in my list of the best albums ever but are unknown to many. Unfortunately not all are on spotify but I urge you all to track down:
Les Rallizes Denudes- Heavier Than A Death In The Family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Rallizes_D%C3%A9nud%C3%A9s
Flower Travellin' Band- Satori
http://open.spotify.com/album/5eH0fGXMxaE7zTxD88szGt
Far Out- Nihonjin
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=4788
Xinlisupreme- Tomorrow Never Comes
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Pw3JzF24lC3E4Dzt5hebU

Butterfly Child - Onomatopeia
Butterfly Child were labelmates to Disco Inferno at the time Rough Trade went bust, and seemed to sweep the board for singles of the week and critical hyperbole (Simon Reynolds especially). Onomatopeia was their bliss-pop child-eyed masterpiece. I had always thought Thomas Mars to be a kindred spirit to Joe Cassidy (the same joyful way of using too many words) but now I suspect that he is a bit of a fan too. Check out the similarities between 'Love Like A Sunset, Part 1' and 'Stars Light Up Orleans'.

Pan American - White Bird Release
The most recent release by Labradford's Mark Nelson and probably his best.

Brent Randall - We Were Strangers in Paddington Green
His influences are fairly obvious (Harry Nilsson, VDP, good Paul McCartney) but the music he (and an army of Nova Scotian musicians marshalled by chief Heavy Blinker Jason MacIssac) produces on this album is really quite extra-ordinary. Saw yesterday that he has just started recording his next album. Quite exciting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6w3CFg8tU

Last seen supporting their dad on tour, this is a lost classic packed full of brilliant tunes about bad relationships and rubbish drugs, hangovers and wasting your youth.

bedhead = beheaded
thee more shallows - more deep cuts
the blow - paper television

The Matinee Orchestra-The Matinee Orchestra
really hard to find much material from this online but boomkat have the album in stock. Could have been our generations Penguin Cafe- neat little hooks and naive but not saccharine instrumentation.
http://boomkat.com/cds/20154-matinee-orchestra-matinee-orchestra

Pere Ubu- The Tenement Year
Massive critical praise for this, but a seeming dearth of actual listens. For shame. David Thomas is the most distinctive lead singer ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqo5ki-vsmQ

Meneguar-Strangers in Our House
Probably no so unheard on DiS but it makes me always feel angry when bands like Wavves and No Age get praise as Meneguar linger by the comparative wayside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgBqTR0Fdpc

Wildildlife - Six
Masters of Reality - Deep in the Hole (this one's on Spotify) http://open.spotify.com/album/1534oKe66EuJrnr1AZgSQl

Coachwhips - Bangers vs Fuckers
http://open.spotify.com/album/5z4qVQ7Oov3DlJbiByiUhq
If this came out today no-one would give a fuck about Wavves and the world would be a better place.

Masterpiece imo

i love viner. was considering posting him here too. altho his new album (among the rumours and the rye) is by far his best in my opinion. produced by and featuring ed harcourt on the piano too.

he plays london fairly frequently as well.

http://open.spotify.com/album/6edzqlzwgL2GFKOE4wCw4T

Is my favourite album. Lo-fi Acoustic record, fragile and just beautiful. Infact a lot of his albums are great, ranging in genre, scope and ideas. I normally give people shadows collide with people to listen to first, as its it his 'over produced' album, but curtains, a sphere in the heart of silence, and the will to death are by far his best records.

(the real title is a lot longer than that).

It's probably my favourite album that I wouldn't expect people to have listened to much, but it's the longest album I've listened to that works together as a whole. Basically a bunch of Elephant6 Beatles enthusiasts putting together all sorts of musical adventures, with a loosely connecting theme of it being the soundtrack for an unmade film.

It also features Jumping Fences, so THERE:
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Nr6pDrcCp8ootfdDQRsH2

Never seen him talked about here but I adore this record. It's pretty much standard US singer-songwriter stuff but such lovely melodies and has a very autumnal feel to it. Just plain lovely.

http://open.spotify.com/album/4Rae0zzF37aKz7OaMSLHjA
Irish band that some might not have heard.

amazing

Oh wait, I thought of some.

Beulah - Handsome Western States
Single Frame - Wetheads Come Running
Tiger Bear Wolf - Tiger Bear Wolf
The Inbreds - Kombinator
Please Step Out of the Vehicle - Sleeping Right and the Best in Homeopathic Magic
Noah23 - Rock Paper Scissors

idk, I could do this for ages.

Gold and Green.

A 'Boredoms' side project.

Life Without Buildings "Any Other City"
A massively underated classic.

Lincoln "Mettle"
Again - what the hell happened to Lincoln?

Wheat "Hope and Adams"
So sweet.

Also - one of my favourite albums of all time.
Adam and the Ants
"Dirk Wears White Sox".
Even people who remember and love the Ants haven't heard their debut album - which is up their with the greatest post-punk.

None of these are exactly obscure, but I feel they're either much maligned, sadly forgotten, or never found a place into many peoples hearts apart from mine.

Damian Jurado - Rehearsals For Departure
Although his later albums don't always hit the mark, this (and 'Ghost of David too, actually) really, really does. He gets compared favourably to Raymond Carver, my favourite author, and there's obvious hints of Springsteen, and at times, Will Oldham too.

'Ohio' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEmSVp4b7nk

Kleerup - Kleerup

He's basically the guy who wrote 'With Every Heartbeat' for Robyn, and then saw it released under her name 'featuring' him, rather than the other way around. His self titled album is full of similarly melancholic electropop, featuring various guest vocalists.

'3am' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naj1JmBTNjA

Various - 43 Songs for 43 Presidents

Baically a collaboration between 3 guys; Christian Kiefer, Matthew Gerken and Jefferson Pitcher, but with a whole bunch of better-known guests (EG Bill Callahan, Alan Sparrhawk etc), this is a 43 track triple album, each song dedicated to each of the US Presidents, in chronological order. Pretty much every track is good, and there isn't any filler (which can't be said for similar things like Sufjan Steven and even 69 Love Songs has a few stinkers). It's hard to find any streams of this, even. But the Richard Nixon one, a 9 minute Crazy-horse style wig out waxing lyrical about Tricky Dick playing golf with Napoleon, with Tom Carter listed on the liner notes as performing "guitar freakout"

Love during WWI concept album in the Low/Galaxie 500 vein, absolutely spinechilling.

gonna restrict myself to just a few.

Marz - Lovestreams
Another beautiful ambient electronica Cassavetes-named/Beatles-sampling project by Ekkehard Ehlers and another bloke (everyone loves 'plays cassavetes don't they?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn-nhwWs0eE
...it's not youtube but I'm also a big fan of Endless House, and the stuff from his microhouse moniker betrieb.

Amp - Perception (Bliss Out Vol.4)
(if this isn't on spotify, Flying Saucer Attack's Further, or a slightly different more deconstructed note, Main's Firnament IV)

Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
Really remarkable album, mixes the sweetest conventional 'songs' with hugely immersive, powerful drone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ByjPVcTWgs

Supersilent - 6
Idk what the best jazz/improv album of the 00s is, but I think it'll have someone from Supersilent on it.

Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - Restless Faithful Desperate/Moonlight
Reissued a couple of years ago as a digipack thing, these two 80s folk lps are just about as good as the genre gets for me. The mixture of Kath's beautiful, delicate songs and Conner's sometimes odd, sometimes conventional but always effective guitar playing make it pretty darn good, really.

Starving Weirdoes - Eastern Light
epic weird folky electronics-based drone stuff. haunting and touching, pretty freeform but also really tight and controlled.
possibly the best people in the us underground who aren't animal collective.

Leyland Kirby - Sadly the future is no longer what it was
This is actually my favourite of his. Big, big ambient monolith from last year, so much to digest.

Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
just got into this again recently. saw her live over the summer, was amazing. Real fantastic woman. probably influential somewhere i don't know where.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPZ5vqaB64

Joseph Jarman - Song For
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGill79D5VM
one of my favourite ever jazz albums, from the dude from the Art Ensemble of Chicago. pivotal but kinda sideways look at free jazz really starting to happen in a big way.

Experimental Audio Research - The Koner Experiment
Could choose so many records from this sort of 'scene' but I particuarly really like this one. cba writing anymore, but yeh, it's good. dubby and nice.

that was more than a meant to do, but hey...

amazing record.

Days of Wine and Roses by The Dream Syndicate, perhaps..?

Is Grab That Gun by The Organ too, er, popular? I have no real perspective on these things.

Slightly jerky Scottish indierock.

Rain - la vache qui rit
80s revolution summer style indie rock from Washington DC. Features members of Boys Against Girls (I think). A bit like the missing link between The Replacements and Rites Of Spring. Brilliant.

I'm guessing that the majority of people have never heard this, and it's a stonecold classic.

Fridge- Semaphore
Gellers- s/t
Sweet Trip- Velocity:Design:Comfort
The Wild Tchoupitoulas- s/t

Raucous but emotionally charged 90s noise...amazing. Got me through a really shitty period of my life. No, you haven't heard of it.

Longwave - The Strangest Things
CircleSquare - Pre-Earthquake Anthem
Transister - s/t
Open Hand - You and Me
Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever or Giant Steps
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain
Mazarin - A Tall-Tale Storyline

Back In Denim and Denim On Ice.

Long Fin Killie - Houdini

Telstar Ponies - In The Space of a few Minutes

Any album by the Flaming Stars, but especially Pathway. Still hits the garage rock spot, they should have ridden the White Stripes buzz into the sunset...

Three dudes, a drum machine and a shitload of feedback. Scrappy, noisy punk rock. Plus, the album's called Superbastard. SUPERBASTARD!

Give Up The Ghost - Background Music

Epic amounts of rage/emotion/pain channeled by Wes Eisold (him of Cold Cave) in raw, throaty hardcore punk. Some of the best, if not THE best lyrics set to hardcore music (once you work out what he's screaming.)

Dillinger Four - Versus God

One of the best punk rock albums ever that most people still haven't experienced. Right combination of aggressive speed, three-part vocal harmonies, stupid lyrics and the feeling THIS IS WHAT HAVING FUN SOUNDS LIKE!

Giant Drag - Hearts and Unicorns
Black Tambourine - s/t
Carissa's Weird - Songs About Leaving
Cloud Cult - Who Killed Puck?
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman...
Flying Saucer Attack - s/t
Mahogany - Memory Column
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Jonathan Fire*Eater - s/t
Sholi - s/t
Snowman - The Horse, The Rat & the Swan
This Heat - s/t
Throwing Muses - University
YMG - Colossal Youth (was on NMEs and rightfully so)
Air France - No Way Down EP
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
Lisa Stansfield - Affection
The The - Infected

augie march - strange bird
the drones - gala mill
life without buildings - any other city

I'd second life without buildings, meanwhile back in communist russia, matson jones, murder of rosa luxembourg and add
Meet me in St Louis-Variations of swing
Looper- Up a Tree
Soap&Skin- Lovetune for Vacuum
The Pastels- illuminati
Eric's Trip- Forever Again
Frida Hyvonen- until death comes
Nation of Ulysees- 13 point plan to destroy America

It's got a pretty devoted cult, but it's one of the best albums ever recorded, so its audience should be way bigger.

Trouble Books and either The United Colours of Trouble Books or Gathered Tones.

Gathered Tones is streamable here http://ownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gathered-tones and spotifyable here http://open.spotify.com/album/4nKKyr0XrbJriHtamonhg9

They are really rather good and hopefully a few people here might back me up on them, god I started a record label to release the first album I liked it so much.

And probably coming up with loads that people already know and love, but oh well.

A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder (better than anything I've heard by the New Pornographers)

Adem - Homesongs

Alfie - Do You Imagine Things

The Delgados - Hate (The Great Eastern seems to get all the credit but, while I do like that, this is the one for me.)

Far - Water & Solutions (probably big amongst those who are into whatever genre this is, but I just know all them Brand New fans would love this.)

The Get Up Kids - On A Wire

The Jacksons - Triumph (people need to stop bumming Thriller and hear this. And Off The Wall.)

Lamb - Lamb (this might have been big when it came out, I don't know. All I know is that it's mint and not enough people have heard it.)

Either album by Monkey Swallows The Universe. They were brilliant.

Okkervil River - Down The River of Golden Dreams (so much better than their last two. And I quite liked their last two.)

Psychid - Psychid

Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport

Terris - Learning To Let Go

One of the richest, most confrontational and emotionally intense albums in hip hop history.

Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night is not widely considered to be the greatest party album of all time, so I demand a recount.

Also:

Scott Walker - Tilt
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses
Albert Ayler - Live In Greenwich Village
Parker Bailey Bennik - The Topography Of The Lungs
Hank Mobley - Roll Call
Pyha - The Haunted House
Little Women - Throat
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head

"Have You Heard...
Rykarda Parasol's Our Hearts First Meet" for example, and then a couple paragraph write-up.

(I suggested it to Colin about 6 years ago, but I don't think he liked it. *shrugs* But I still do!)

Have to agree with a lot of what has been posted already. Here is a list of ten that I could think off without trawling through my whole record collection.

Six by Seven - The Things We Make
Bitstream - Domestic Economy 7
David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name
Royal Trux - Accelerator
Charlottefield - What Are Friends For?
Distophia - Soda Lake
Ikara Colt - Chat and
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
John Fahey - America
Loudon Wainwright lll - Album 1

is a better album IMO

inspired the likes of foals, bloc party, blood red shoes, etc
post rock that doesn't make you yawn

Black Uhuru - The Dub Factor
So far ahead of the game its unreal. (Well apart from the Scientist dub albums but then he's just a genius) I'm not sure if people like Sun Araw has heard this lot, but they definitely sound like they're influenced by this remarkable album.

If any masterpieces came out of illbient, this was one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneNSwEL1xI&feature=related

If any masterpieces came out of illbient, this was one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gneNSwEL1xI&feature=related

Came across this via an Animal Collective compilation a few years back.

Justin Heathcliff is the English pseudonym of Japanese producer/musician Dr. Osamu Kitajima., its an album of psych-pop released in 1971, clearly inspired by The Beatles & Pink Floyd & it's great.

Apparently it was only ever released in Japan, so I guess it counts for this list. It can be obtained on the sly fairly easily.

Maybe not that obscure on a DiS level but Silkworm are really overlooked relative to a lot of other 90s Matador/Touch & Go bands. All their records from Libertine onwards were excellent but Lifestyle is the most punchy and concise and is a great place to start.

They were essentially a 90s alt-rock three-piece but with an incredibly rich and timeless 'classic rock' sound. Thick, melodic bass, plenty of guitar soloing, wonderfully powerful drumming and really earnest, meaningful lyrics about grown-up stuff. Steve Albini produced nearly all of their records. If i had to name my top five bands of all time, they'd be in there.

His second album, released in 2007, after his debut came out on Rough Trade in 2002. It felt like a compromised release but it was promoted and it just didn't make remotely the impact it should have. The album was recorded without any soundproofing isolation which only added to the charm for me.
Watched him play loads over here, half full gigs at The Enterprise in Camden and what have you.
In Out Come The Wolves I think he wrote the greatest song of the decade, a very bold statement but fuck me I LOVE that song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5deOrTNQwwU is his appearance on Jools Holland playing that.
Both albums are great but if you don't like that it's pointless looking into the rest.
Lovely lovely guy, wrote an amazing song about Geoff Travis breaking his heart that he only ever performed live, without amplification too.
A few SXSW's ago he performed with My Morning Jacket which would have been amazing.
Anyone, buy, buy, buy this.

Simultaneously shimmering and brooding, and produced most wonderfully. Lyrics and solos emerge and disperse as easily as mist, fading in and out of the reverb-drenched backing. Still packs a punch though, nothing flimsy or whimsical here.

Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle

This is known but still shockingly underrated. A perfect distillation of 90s indie – noisy, cryptic, tuneful, fun. Pavement re-imagined as high-school punks instead of college drop-outs

Johnny Dangerously - You, Me & The Alarm Clock

John Bramwell from I Am Kloot, back when he was but a sprightly teenager. Wordy without being clever-clever and uniformly gorgeous: “Love is built in pieces, it's made before it's strong, I said once I was leaving but I came back before too long”

Aereogramme - Sleep And Release

Equal parts brutal rock and aching beauty. Often overlooked in favour of Biffy round these parts, but easily on par with them. Craig's voice needs to be heard to be believed.

Gisli - How About That?

Quirky, self-deprecating love songs, sarky hip-hop tirades, scuzzy indie-rock and buckets of one-liners. What's not to love? Imagine a more sincere, grounded Beck, wearing his heart on his sleeve.

Centro-matic – All The Falsest Hearts Can Try

Full-blown fuzzy alt-country goodness. Reminds me a bit of Sparklehorse with more emphasis on the rock, but still with plenty of lyrical acoustic numbers.

Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish

Bright Eyes side-project, full of anti-consumerist rage and venom. Best modern punk album I've heard

or
Momus / Voyager
Disco Inferno / Technicolour
It's Immaterial / Life's Hard And Then You Die

on Spotify here:
http://open.spotify.com/album/62KiNSnJIh3tPTe3pluWQw
(check The Sweet Life)

if you like The Go-Betweens you should love it.

I think this is the most overlooked album of recent years. All the songs on it are great and instantly memorable, with nice harmonies and pop hooks. Just don't know why this band don't get more recognition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMjlFoBof7Q

'pacer' by the amps, you know, kim deal's band after the breeders stopped in the mid nineties. I have listened to it more than any of the breeders records, every single song is an absolute winner.

a no-fi record ben gibbard made inbetween death cab tours. about three quarters of it sounds like it's been recorded live into a dictaphone. great Magnetic Fields cover. genuinely love it more than just a little bit.

Took me a while to realise that I knew the name and then I realised that I listened to a few songs from the album non-stop back in 2008.

Gastr Del Sol - Upgrade & Afterlife

Probably the album I've listened the most to.

but then then Richard Reed Parry just played 'Camera' from it on BBC6

Frankie Sparo- Welcome Crummy Mystics
fucking perfect in every way this.

A Lily - Wake:Sleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1grQEGS4Yo
Ambient/electronic record from James Vella of Yndi Halda. Gorgeous record, got me through the majority of my degree when it came to essay deadlines.

Dear And The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF18Zd3fw2g
Often raucous country/indie rock with brilliant vocals, one of my all time favourite records.

Boys Night Out - Trainwreck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrGuSNfZeo
Under-appreciated masterpiece of the pop-punk genre, from the guys who mastered the pop-punk/hardcore hybrid bette than anyone else. Concept album about a guy who kills his wife in his sleep, tries to commit suicide, is nursed back to good health and eventually succeeds in killing himself. Probably the only 'concept' album I've ever heard that works superbly.

Braid - Frame And Canvas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubQnhcV1ofI
Classic emo/math rock from the late 90s. Again, one of my all time favourites. A Dozen Roses may just be my favourite song of all time, if we're gonna get all hyperbolic about it.

And as said up above, I can't recommend Catch For Us The Foxes by mewithoutYou enough - spoken word post-hardcore full of some incredible lyrics concerning Aarron Weiss' struggle with faith, and even for a 'staunch atheist' such as myself this album is impossible to ignore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NBX3qA5M7w

I want to go and live in Japan just so I can watch this band all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJE4TrgsLxc

Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance for Silence
It's sorta like the jazz equivalent of 'Metal Machine Music'. Large dissonant guitar jams with shitloads of distortion

Shield Your Eyes - Shield 'Em
One of those bands that seem to be really tight and really shambolic at the same time. This record is all kinds of genious.

Cibo Matto - Viva la Woman
Mixes jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop and indie rock into something that sounds incredibly eccentric and awesome.

Arnold - 'Hillside Album'

Signed to Creation when they had a staggering amount of money and were signing everyone, post-Morning Glory. This is a great album: a mix of some very dreamy but straight up songs (like 'Windsor Park', below) and some quite strange half-songs, little snippets and ideas that sound sort of intentionally unfinished. There's also one "sound collage" slap bang in the middle of it - lots of ambient keyboard noise, sampled chanting and spoken lyrics, performed by the gruff-voiced bassist, during which he calls the listener a "selfish bastard". They were quite hyped at the time. I remember seeing them twatting around on The Big Breakfast once, bizarrely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOPklPzJSTA

Woodbine - 'Woodbine'/'Best Before End'

These are both great. Don't know a lot about them though, to be honest. Wasn't one of them in Cornershop or something? Song below is off the self-titled album. Personally I prefer the second album, probably because it's got a song about biscuits on it. I love biscuits, me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSKhzYTcvOY

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Definitely his best album. 'art rock' I guess. Can't reccomend it enough.

Biosphere - Substrata
KLF - Chill Out

Two essential Ambient records. Both are fairly similar in structure etc. Albums I can't really get a grip on. Everytime I listen to them the whole thing kind of drifts away. In a good way.

So I will say Kickball - Everything is a Miracle...
excellent kind of jerky, melodic, inventive, vaguely Deerhoof-y band

live clip here:
http://www.grrrndzero.org/site2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=210:kickball&catid=24:video&Itemid=30

I just thought I'd stop by and recommend Geisha's Mondo Dell'Orrore, possibly one of the most amazing noise rock albums I've ever heard, featuring everything from melodic almost shoegaze numbers to sheer all out aggression.

will added some of these suggestions when i get chance and maybe try to compile a definitive 100 (not sure this is possible?!)

Excellent early 80's Cure-esque post-punk band with a bit of saxophone thrown in for good measure.

Cracking debut from deranged post-hardcore band on Dischord label. Deformative has a Pixies-at-their-most-unhinged vibe about it. A couple of members went on to form Mi Ami, worth checking out too.

It might be a bit more well-known than I think, though.

haven't had chance to compile all the suggestions into the playlist but will try to find time to do so at some point

No one's mentioned Country Teasers, so I will.

Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back. If the Fall were nearly as clever as everyone pretends they are, they'd sound like this. In terms of lyric-writing, this album is probably the pinnacle of human achievement.

Also...

Cable - When Animals Attack (the British Fugazi)
Nina Nastasia - Dogs (haunting and beautiful)
Champion Kickboxer - Perforations (odd, dark and charming Sheffield indie).
dEUS - The Ideal Crash (everyone should own this).

Ta ta.

Sammy - Tales of Great Neck Glory
Pavement-like indie pop from a man who went on to be Laptop.

Satchel - The Family
Shaun Smith schmoove vocals over a great piano ballad led album.

Posies - Frosting on the beater
For my money, still the best record released on Geffen in the 90's. Songwriting, guitar work and vocal harmonies sublime throughout. The Posies never got the props they deserved.

Solarscape - The Slow, Truth of other People's Lives
Thought out indie in the style of Hefner but with a bit more vim. Think they were Austrian, but can't be 100%.

Puressence - Only Forever
Their brief chart blip started and ended here. A tremendous late Britrock record, and one they never matched again. Yes, it's a bit everyman, yes it's a bit overly fond of strings being dubbed ontro everything, but it still works.

Marion - This World And Body
Hands down the best album from the mid Nineties from me. If you've ever received a mixtape from me, chances are it'll have a track by Marion on it. Think I wrote a gushing and crap fan review for this a million years ago. Oh, here it is... http://drownedinsound.com/releases/8217/reviews/1270532?relevant-artist

Kudos on the shouts for Script of the Bridge and Yank Crime, love those albums.

Bitch Magnet - Umber

is probably the best album a lot of you have never heard.

because I'm really ancient, so I'll list a few from my favourite era - post-punk/new wave/whatever.

The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
Punishment of Luxury - Laughing Academy
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound
This Heat - Deceit
Tuxedomoon - Half Mute
Residents - Eskimo and Commercial Album
Athletico Spizz 80 - Do A Runner
The Perfect Beat - Compilation featuring Afrika Bambaata & early hip-hop.
The Passage - Pindrop
Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex
Mission Of Burma - Vs
Christian Death - Only Theatre Of Pain
Colin Newman - A-Z

Glad to see some love for Chameleons and obviously I can't post on DIS without mentioning Cardiacs, so I'll finish with Heaven Born And Ever Bright from them.

A few from me:

The Most Serene Republic - Underwater Cinematographer
Bloody stunning debut, mus better (IMO) than their other efforts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaFxDvOVIlQ (not on Spotify)

Christ. - Blue Shift Emissions
Boards of Canada-esque lush, he used to collaborate or something, with them, I believe:
http://open.spotify.com/album/2WMDvir8QmsnHqn5SJs6gw

The American Dollar - The Technicolour Sleep
Ambient-electronica, but in a fucking excellent way:
http://open.spotify.com/album/3gKvgVtROeziKq3RnN1WT2

Magyar Posse - Random Avenger
Not listened to this in a while but I'm going to break it out later, Finnish post-rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o3LzDdA8Pg (not on Spotify)

Maserati - Inventions For The New Season
Lovely proggy sounds
http://open.spotify.com/album/5t25i7UEZvZD1TEgw4m8Lw

The Dead Texan - The Dead Texan
Dude from Stars of the Lid, amazing ambient-droney sounds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1paiE1xuk (no Spotify)

The Sound, commercial?

Try finding one of their albums to buy mate. One of the most under rated and under appreciated bands of all time in my opinion.