OoO highlights great but under-appreciated music albums, mostly from the 21st century, as selected by host DJ Poseur and a rotating brigade of fellow obsessives. Each co-host chooses an album pick to discuss at length, including consideration of why we think it’s awesome but woefully unknown to the listening public. All picks meet stringent criteria for obscurity (Under 50 user reviews in All Music Guide, Under 100k streams on YouTube). Features include games for the listener to play along with, like “The Obscurity Quiz” (in which albums are ranked by a contestant from most obscure to most famous), “Score the List” (in which cohosts compare their knowledge and music collections to online “Top 10” lists), “Stump the DJ” (in which the cohosts challenge one another’s knowledge of obscure bands), and the occasional “Scheduled Digression” (in which we tackle a specific topic in music or the music industry). See also the companion subreddit (www.reddit.com) for links to all the albums featured in OoO episodes if you'd rather skip our yakking: r/MusicNobodyElseLikes Who should listen to OoO? Anyone dissatisfied by contemporary pop music. Anyone unfamiliar with but interested in independent music of the 21st century. Fellow obsessives who want reviews of beloved but obscure albums and find existing online resources limited. People who want something totally out of left field to spice up their music listening experience. Anyone who enjoys a contentious dialog about art. Rather than being the kind of podcast whose any given episode will be of general interest, it is hoped that with time, with an accumulated body of work, we will hit upon an album or at least a very specific style of music that is beloved by potential listeners as much as by us. Welcome to the wild, weird, and wondrous world of OoO!
Episodes
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Sunday Jun 13, 2021
Purchase our album picks on Bandcamp https://manybirthdays.bandcamp.com/album/black-mountain-blue-sea https://13yearcicadas.bandcamp.com/
or eMusic https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_3624495/13-Year-Cicada
Structure: The first album pick is an EP and the second is more of a comparison of two albums. (1:10) Robert’s discovery of & history appreciating Many Birthdays & IUMA music hosting site (5:20) turning Japanese and then less so over their discography (12:24) RIYLs (w/ whom would we “lump” MB?) (17:20) “Black Mountain Blue Sea” EP thoughts (20:42) Robert’s thoughts on Austin, TX (23:40) alternative explanations for MB’s obscurity: the importance of record label support & full albums (30:35) MB’s many genres and individual songs from the EP, comparisons to Mitchell Froom (35:37) MB’s music videos in comparison to 13 Year Cicada (41:20) Album ratings for “Black Mountain Blue Sea” & Robert’s thoughts on music reviews and “interesting failures” (48:38) transitioning to 13 Year Cicada with similarities between the groups (50:50) 13 Year Cicada’s “00YES” introduction & Robert’s introduction of the band (53:17) RIYLs & reaching for similar sounds to 13 Year Cicada, Robert compares to previous album “Totem Tongue” (57:05) Critics didn’t get the album, “Ride” compared to The Shaggs, other individual tracks from “00YES” (1:01:26) Who is the audience for this audience? Lyrics to “Squirrel”, video for the new track “What Will You Be Wearing?”, thoughts on individual songs with that song as a bridge between the quiet and loud of their two albums. (1:11:06) Why DJ Poseur prefers “Totem Tongue” & Robert’s preference for “00YES” friendly disagreement, their other music videos (1:13:52) Rating the two albums by 13 Year Cicada
Many Birthdays RIYL: The Kills, Asobi Seksu, Deerhoof, Trans Am, Sonic Youth, Parts & Labor, IQU, the soundtrack to "Zombies Ate My Neighbors" for SNES, Love Psychedelico, Takako Minekawa & J-Rock generally
13 Year Cicada RIYL: Pharmakon, Shilpa Ray, The Low Budgets, experimental punk w/ fem. vocals, Animal Collective
My favorite MB music video (for “Days Like Turtles”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGxrhFljxF0 and one I call lo-fi Cyriak, “Minnawa”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xlt5CEZ9J8
A great, new music video for 13 Year Cicada’s “What Will You Be Wearing”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCuzpYB7-E
Media on MB: https://www.sonicbids.com/band/manybirthdays/ ; https://www.facebook.com/manybirthdays
Media reviews of “00Yes”: Fuze Magazine (Germany) https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/13-year-cicada-00yes-117164 ; https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/13-year-cicada-00yes-117164
Other media we mention: IUMA
https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive
http://www.theoctopusproject.com/
Mitchell Froom -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Froom
Gram Rabbit https://gramrabbit.bandcamp.com/ (ok, maybe this connection is tenuous is best, but Gram Rabbit straddles country and electronica and occasionally punk, such as in this album)
https://gramrabbit.bandcamp.com/album/music-to-start-a-cult-to
Takako Minekawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takako_Minekawa
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