Oh dear. This is a great song, Monkey, but I'd say the Romantics are definitely famous.

The reason I say so is that I knew about "What I Like About You" long before I joined MusicBanter, when I only knew songs or groups that were played often on mainstream radio. And "What I Like About You" has been played so often on the radio here over the last several decades that even I know all the words by heart!

Maybe they didn't or don't play the song often in Sweden?

I like this comment I read by a viewer and fan of this single on youtube.

quote: This hidden gem always rests in the back of my mind. A piece of the soundtrack of my life. Days of youth and unfettered happiness. The youngest of four watching the world unfold before him. Parents still young and hip, unmarked by time unvisited by tragedy. Guiding and gliding us along the road of life. The table always set for fun. Sounds of Miles, Monk and Ella float in the air, Sunday mornings stretched out forever in the light of the sun. The wind was our love..

1967


This particular single just "grew on me" after hearing it a couple of times. You can actually hear the cutting into and out of tracks in the original recording itself, witch makes it even more unique in its own way.

Arrah and the Ferns - Tokyo, Tokyo


I was sent this by a friend several years ago, and fell in love. I have no idea how known they are...because I've never met a single person HERE who's heard of them, but I'm sure someone has to know of them.

The concept "non-famous" is relative (as everything in this World). Do you mean non-famous spatially or non-famous chronologically? :laughing: You know, some artists were famous once, but nobody remembers them now....

Sorry, I was just kidding. :o: I don't know what "degree of fame" the following have, but I think they are not very well known. Luka Bloom: Ciara. Nightnoise:A Different Shore (instrumental).



Apart from that, I'd like to "rescue" some samples from the unknown mine of Spanish musicians singing in English:

Los Iberos: Summertime Girl (1968). L.A.: Hands (2009).

Thanks, everyone, for your contributions.

Zaqarbal, in answer to your good question about what I mean by non-famous, when I created the thread I was intending for "non-famous" to mean *never* famous (chronologically or spatially).

I was hoping this thread would be a kind of "The World's Got Talent" thread, where really unknown artists get "discovered."

By "unknown," I mean someone or some band who are, oh, making music in their basement, posting some songs on YouTube, and receiving fewer than 1000 views, until YOU listen and you think, "WOW! This guy's great!!! Why aren't more people listening to him?"

The second Red Feathers video, for example, has over 300,000 hits! Lourdes Hernández is famous in my book. Of course, maybe it just means one person (you? :p:) is listening to her song 300,000 times! :laughing: Then she wouldn't be famous, just really really popular with that one person. :D Let me check Wikipedia, though. Yep, there is an entry for Russian Red. I learned she is sometimes called the "Spanish Feist." It's nice to learn of her music, though, because I'd never heard of her before.

P.S. This (below) was a disturbing (and enticingly original!) video, Zaqarbal. I didn't know whether to laugh or cringe. It's like the embodiment of Satre's quote, "Hell is other people."

L.A. - "Hands"

:laughing: True. I guess that's what happens with certain bands: they don't mind making seedy videos because they're "not famous" enough. :laughing:

My older sister went to school with this kid - Noah Gundersen.
I have some burnt copy of his EP in my car and it makes me weep.
He is pretty incredible.

This thread has far, far, far better content than MTV.

Although I abandoned MTV years ago.

Matt Stevens- "Big Sky" from his album "Ghost."

Stevens is the new king of looping guitar techniques. He is a one man show, but he sounds like a full on band, and he can create everything live. Here is "Big Sky." Listen at the 4:45 mark, where everything is sampled on top of each other all at once. Quite amazing...

kidkanevil - The Hours


L.A - Gabriel Kahane

^Came to my school last year and held a mini performance for the music classes. Great performance. Went to go see him live again the next day too.


Caves - 200 miles


Colour - Over the Moon


Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - They will throw us to the Wolves