Hidden Youtube Gems - 10/10/11

I tend to wander around Youtube incessantly listening to music.  So sue me.  I have various playlists that I like to listen to whenever I get tired of Pandora or streaming radio.  I thought I would do a blog post of some of the best videos that have very few views.  I tried to keep them under 1,000 views but some might be just over.

Kowloon Walled City - "Bone Loss"

In the grand tradition of playing noisy music to piss off your parents comes Kowloon Walled City. This song, "Bone Loss", comes from their 2009 album, Gambling On The Richter Scale.  This video currently stands at 535 views on Youtube.  Surely, I can get this up to 540 by the end of 2012.

Saloon - "Le Weekend"

Now, this one is a little bit of a personal story for me.  I was in Japan once upon a time and happened upon a record store on one of my walkabouts.  I went in and started looking around.  It was a fantastic store that had tons of stuff that I wanted to buy, but knew I couldn't blow my wad too early, or try and carry all the stuff home.  So I just got a few things as I was browsing.  While I was looking around, they had a fantastic CD playing in the background that was very pop-y, trippy and generally happy sounding.  When I ask what music it was, the lady pulled out (This Is) What We Call Progress by Saloon.  They were a band that had already broken up by the time I picked up the album, but I still enjoy listening to it today.  This video is at 1438 views at this moment.

Nerdkween - "I Wish I Was Your Cloud"

Nerdkween is a singer-songwriter that performs here in Atlanta.  Her latest album, "Synergy", was put out by Stickfigure Records.  (You should definitely go the Official Stickfigure Homepage and buy one of everything)  I have no idea why this video sits at 279 views, it's a fantastic song and she is extremely talented and does her best to challenge the audience.

Elision - "Escapist of..."

 

When Krautrock isn't Krautrock.  Elision was from Germany but they are most definitely not the Krautrock made famous by Faust, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk.  They played a pretty straight forward hard-rock and loved to get sweaty.  You can listen to some more of their songs on their Myspace page.  This video is at 798 views... AND CLIMBING!

Botch - "Micaragua"

Surely, you've heard of Botch?  (yes I have and don't call me Shirley)  Now I've gotten that out of the way.  Botch were a pretty influential band that were tagged with the Mathcore label.  They only had 2 full albums in their 10 years, but they had a hell of an output anyway between their EPs and split albums.  This particular song was off the Anthology of Dead Ends EP.  For some reason, they named all the songs after countries and replaced the Ns with Ms.  This video is only at 485 views, but is sure to be pulled at some point due to the image and/or copyright stuff.