Little known artists and songs are like gems that you want to show off.   Why not tell IRON all about them?  I'll try anything once, maybe twice even.  So share your hidden gems.

 

 

The band Madison Rising.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/MadisonRising/feed

I was listening to Itunes on random and Sister Machine Gun came on.  I LOVE SMG!  I saw them live about 8 tears ago at a tiny club and ended up in the tiny, not very violent mosh pit (I don't mosh - ever, but it was worth it).  Chris Randall, essentially is SMG, although he did work with other artists, who's name I can't remember.  Chris's voice is like pure sex.  I'm very aurally oriented, so if someone wants to get me in the mood, the right music goes a very long way  helping that along.  Chris Randall singing End of me, is a very good bet.  Not his best song, by far, but OMG that voice!  Those lyrics!  Give me some fur-lined handcuffs and put End of Me on and, well, things might get very sticky.

 

 

"End of Me" Warning, lyrics NSFW:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuiF0eMZYAc

 

 

 

"Loser"  Not sexy, but lots of fun to dance to. "Brand new sugar coated peppermint whore" Is a great line IMO.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRO0KN_9fTI

 

 

 

 

"Burn." Very old song, but definite "melt me" material:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP6pT0aYsdE

 

The band Madison Rising.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MadisonRising/feed

Which song should I start with?

Take your pick. I haven't heard a ton from them, but what I've heard is pretty good.

 

Maybe their rendition of the star spangled banner...

 

Their lead singer recently left the band, so I haven't heard anything with the new guy yet.

I know them!!! A friend sent me a bunch of their stuff on Facebook.  Not my normal taste, but I like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dP7iZv9K0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO_u-EkJZ8E&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmO_u-EkJZ8E&has_verified=1

 

 

Probably aren't into melodic dubstep much, but lately I've been pretty into MitiS and MaHi. Probably my two favorite artists ATM, although my favorites in music change at least once a year or so. Two different artists, but friends IRL and similar in sound. They also have several songs together. I just really like the mix of classical with modern sound. 

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Ahaha, was wondering if this sort of thread existed. Unfortunately it's dead. 

Lets try and fix that. 

 

 

Ever sat there with a rock or metal song or whatever going run  dun dun dun dun diddle dun dun dun to the guitar.

 

Yea so did Van Canto. And then they turned it into a band.  Have some Metal Acapella, for it is glorious cheese. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiESgYr35gA

 

 

To Sister Midnight... I'm sending you a gift. Try it with espresso in the morning, wine at night, or background music when you have guests. It won't hurt... I promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdbp8MTmhRw&index=8&list=PLk1XJn9Z-FoIlEhIKMTSbgUaUexsX708F

To Sister Midnight... I'm sending you a gift. Try it with espresso in the morning, wine at night, or background music when you have guests. It won't hurt... I promise.

 

 

Pretty.

https://youtu.be/zKe8jze56Vg

 

 

or if you like live music.....

 

 

https://youtu.be/OPzTG-SZxLk

Mmmh, welder posting metal bands. Someone, help me to the fainting couch, I'm in shock

 

 

And now for something completely different. 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfO_xb9124U

 

I..honestly know jack shit about this band, but i've not been able to stop listening to this song for a while now. Like when I try to go to youtube, chrome thinks what i really want is that video and gives it to me as my first autocomplete. It's quiet and bitter and melancholy and just damn perfect. it also earns itself a stop on the list of covers I like better than the original. 

 

 

Also live version because why not be a copycat:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35QHFEn5fk

Hey Random I really like it, but I kept waiting for the big hook that never came. I remember the first time I heard "Round Here" by Counting Crows way back in the 90's on VH1... it began like that, but by the first chorus I was on my way to buy it. Thank you for sharing.

I've actually got a lot of shit to post here, but i'm limiting myself to one a week or so. 

 

If you like that version, this is the original 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NXxQbtjChQ

 

It's a lot faster and the chorus theme is a bit hookier. I don't like it as much as Girlpools cover, but it's still good.

 

 

Also bonus round entirely because this one is new new to me as of 20 minutes ago and ahhhhhhh. I'll probably post some more of Meg Myers stuff in the future because holy shit is she awesome and this is breaking that one a week rule, but fuck it she released a new single recently and now I have something to listen to on repeat until i hate both it and myself.  

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFCfprPGMI

 

 

Meg Myers stuff in the future because holy shit is she awesome

Completely agree with you on this

Ben Folds is not an unknown gem, but he is one of my all time favorites, and much of his talent goes unnoticed. Maybe you guys have not heard as much from him as you should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mbYgTftVNk

mmh Ben Folds. Talented, but I cannot with the guys voice. Dunno why. 

 

It's been a week, so new song. Actually planned on some screaming females anyways so the fact they've released something new in the last couple days is good.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJ0n5G5jCo

 

I don't know if it's my favorite thing they've done that'd be this , but marissa paternoster  does pectualar things with that guitar of hers. Not cutting loose nearly as much as they did in the past which makes me kinda sad. Does have the advantage of being rather more listenable  than some of their past stuff though....

 

the cover/colab of Because the Night with Garbage  that sold me on the band however, and I bascily didn't stop listening to it on repeat for a good month.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmKGjy-Ct0

 

because anyone who can stand up next to Shirley Manson like that is impressive as shit and quite frankly that solo might just qualify as pornographic in parts of the world. 

Wow! Shirley Manson!.. singing a Bruce Springsteen song. In the 90's my eldest daughter had a couple favorites. Garbage and No Doubt... when she was listening to Shirley, I was listening to Justin Currie and Del Amitri. Great memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnyycPLJrSY

I keep forgetting how cheesy the late 80s early 90s alt-rock scene got at times. It's good, but jfc it really puts in hindsight all the people bemoaning the existence of the spice girls and what not. Del Amitri gets a pass cause at least they got their early, but if we'd gotten another decade of "Man singing way to earnestly over a distorted guitar" *shudder* 

 

 

Speaking of Del Amitri, "Nothing Ever Happens" came up on an oldies station kinda recently and...no. I just refuse to accept that. 1990 was 10 years ago damn it. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUd2eXk-6U

 

Have some motel lullaby, because it's quiet, lovely and sharing it with someone else made them spend 20 minutes hunting the internet for a physical copy of the album. 

 

 

 

Also hey, lurkers. It can't just be me and Lys posting back and forth. Get in here and tell us what we should be listening to.

 

 

Have some motel lullaby

I really like that. I'll share another old favorite... I was in Southern California, and wore this record out during the summer of 1990.

It's the B-52's if you can believe it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI3Ru3UYdgw

Oh yea no I wasn't kidding when I said linking the song send someone out to buy the album. Like literally, 15 minutes later, dude headed out the door to see if he could order the album in. 

 

So B-52s. I entirely forget how it happened or why, or if there even was a why, but at one point Love Shack was something of an unofficial theme song for the alliance or some like that. Lulz were had. I think we may have got BnT to sing a drunken rendition of it?. I swear there was a recording of something like that kicking around somewhere?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs

 

 

*brandishes cattleprod at lurkers*

Wow! Shirley Manson!.. singing a Bruce Springsteen song. In the 90's my eldest daughter had a couple favorites. Garbage and No Doubt... when she was listening to Shirley, I was listening to Justin Currie and Del Amitri. Great memories.

 

I’ve always liked del Amitri.

 

Here’s an old Nine Inch Nails song, that isn’t loud and is very touching and powerful. The Good Soldier is very under played, despite being generally considered a great song by fans and critics.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu3VFqPEJTk&feature=youtu.be

Here’s an old Nine Inch Nails song

You don't have to sell me on NIN... I prefer more melodic material, but Trent Reznor is pretty much legendary.

 

This is a little song, one of hundreds from my most favorite singer/song writer/musician, of all time. Todd Rundgren

This is one song of many he did with his band, Utopia. Too many really great songs to post, so it's a taste

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d285t1pft68