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!
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
It’s been a long, unscheduled hiatus for OoO, but here’s a morsel of what we’ll talk about in OoO EI4, currently being edited. The albums up for arrangement from most to least famous in this quiz are as follows:
A. Dandy Warhols - "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia" (2000). B. The Apples in Stereo - "Fun Trick Noisemaker" (1995). C. The Vryll Society - "Course of the Satellite" (2018). D. Doleful Lions - "Out Like a Lamb" (2002). E. Gentlemen - "Secret Memories" (2020). F. The Everly Brothers - "Roots" (1968). G. Guided by Voices - "Bee Thousand" (1994).
By the guest’s request, I cross-checked the number of reviews on AllMusic Guide with the number on rateyourmusic.com . Impressively, the rankings were exactly the same in terms of comparing the number of user rankings for each album. Furthermore, the most-ranked album for each artist (which is usually the one chosen for the Obscurity Quiz) was also the same as on AMG. Let’s hear it for intercoder reliability or at least internet statistics generally! Woo consensuses!
On Discogs, it’s much more labor-intensive to find out which of a band’s albums has the most ratings. The albums in this quiz differed slightly there, with The Dandy Warhols more popular relative to GBV & The Everly Brothers more popular relative to The Apples in Stereo. I probably won’t do this much follow-up after every Obscurity Quiz going forward, however fascinating these subtle differences may be.
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