Wilfully Obscure

From 1996.  "Hey, you've got your Britpop in my power pop!" "No, more like you've got your power pop in my Britpop!...

I like this one, even if it's a little non-descript, an ironic circumstance considering the era.  "Just a Movie" exudes a hype...

Liverpudlians Glass Torpedoes only stuck around long to give us three singles, this being the first. Nestled in a near-perfect sweet spot b...

A seminal 1987 barnburner paired with this band's preceding album on one handy compact disk. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!*...

This was a pleasant surprise, even though the album as a whole is a bit inconsistent.  First and foremost, Go Man Go's "25 Years...

A solo debut from 1980. In fact, this was his only proper solo album while he was still with us. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!*...

Slowest Clock were denizens of Dublin, IE, and while there may not be a "Dublin sound," this album barely suggests the quartet in...

Gambled a dollar on this one, and it was a hundred cents well spent.  Despite the fact this coed Minneapolis trio once referred to themselve...

Heavy alt-rawk from 1993. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

So, for the better part of ten years, some slug on a certain online auction site (take a wild guess) has been asking $100 for the very recor...

From 1990.  This is the OG version with no supplemental material. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

As much as I enjoyed and appreciated Versus'  compilation of early singles & odds and ends, Dead Leaves , right from the get go it ...

Please tell me there's more where this came from!  A local record shop slapped a handwritten sticker on this one indicating The High Be...

From 2020.  Silky-smooth synth pop that frequently bumps up against yacht rock and downtempo R&B.  I couldn't love this band more. *...

This is quite the 180° from what I offered last night.  Details on Tiny couldn't be more sparse, but a correspondence address of Champa...

Not a particularly notable hotbed for music, Fort Pierce, FL did manage to produce (the) Symptoms . I wasn't sure what to expect, delvin...

From 1993.  Relatively common in terms of Mystery Monday fare...but don't let that stop you. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!*...

Not quite sure how to approach this one, but I'll start by mentioning I don't have a physical copy of this one, at least not yet.  I...

From 1978.  **Please do not reveal artist in comments!** Hear

And here's yet another one I definitely did not come across in the pages of Maximum Rock n Roll .  Relax, it sounds considerably better...

It really was a simpler era, wasn't it?  Ok, maybe it didn't feel that way at the time, but let's face it, forty years ago mains...

From 2014.  Though I'm not much of an aficionado of the frontman's more renown endeavors, this was a really rewarding detour, freque...

In spite of the water damaged record sleeve to your left, I'm that much closer to completing my Rifle Sport catalog.  A few years ago I...

Inevitably, if you heard the lone LP by this Winnipeg troupe it left you craving a bit more.  Transistor (using an alternate spelling here...

Four eps from four decades.  A few of these folders contain some of the most listened-to songs in my entire music library. **Please do not r...