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pusMonkey wrote:I don't think the Cramps were that obscure.

Of course The Cramps are an obscure band, even though they did the very ocassional TV appearance, they never had a hit, they never a high selling album and even though they influence a crap load of people and practically invented a genre (psychobilly) they are barely acknowleded.

So yeah, I would definately consider them as obscure.

Dr. Anubis Blackward wrote:the misfits!

The Misfits were not meant to be a best-selling band. And yes they played some heavy sh*t. They influenced a lot of thrash metal and speed metal in the mid 80s-90s.
Everyone must've listened to at least one Misfits song, one way or another. If it's not the fck-you-up-the-ass attitude, then it's the haircut.

. . . DEVO . . .

definately obscure

Of course The Cramps are an obscure band, even though they did the very ocassional TV appearance, they never had a hit, they never a high selling album and even though they influence a crap load of people and practically invented a genre (psychobilly) they are barely acknowleded.

So yeah, I would definately consider them as obscure.[/quote]

last time i checked the original inventors of psychobilly happened to be the meteors. the cramps were just a horrorpunk band and the very concept of psychobilly hadn't come around until the early 80's when the meteors started taking rockabilly and throwing in sci-fi and horror themes.

There is band called Sikth from th UK, they just broke up but they had some real magic going on.

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. . . how about Budgie . . . Y'all ?

I had seven of their Lps . . . back in the `70s. I liked their music . . . they were different Rock . . . but Heavy.

Warrior Soul ... Metal Church ...

The Mars Volta! First three albums inspired by odd trips on acid. Album 4 inspired by a whole LIFE inside a ouija board.If thats not odd, i dont know what is.

Having said that, The Mars Volta have had THE biggest influence on my drumming in the last 12 months, so on that note, i take my hat off to Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Cedric Bixler Zavala, Thomas Pridgen and the rest of TMV for coming up with some of the most inspiring music ive ever heard in my life!

Hey I know Metal Church [thrash metal] and Mars Volta.. well I can't put that in a genre, but it's kinda shoegazing/alternative spacey pop?

Jimmy's Chicken Shack

The Angry Inch (heh heh heh)

morbid angel (blackened death metal)

Dude, Morbid Angel is so not obscure. They've been one of the leading death metal bands since the 90s I think.