Counterpoint: Bands you love that other people don't get.

[Pars]

The Dandy Warhols

Curve

Secret Machines

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

and even A Flock of Seagulls (love the guitarist)

[The Monkey]

and even A Flock of Seagulls (love the guitarist)

Ah, I will second that one. Have always been a fan.

[Pars]

are there really people who don't like either of those? hell, now here is nowhere is one of my reference discs!

I never hear anyone talk about them, even on HF, so I assumed I was a minority...

Speaking of now here is nowhere, what is your impression of the recording quality? I think it is very good, devoid of much of the compression plaguing most modern recordings, yet i do detect a bit of clipping.

[boomana]

Diamanda Galas. Freaky and amazing. My friends run away.

[Dusty Chalk]

She is an acquired taste (and in the interest of full disclosure, one I have not fully acquired yet).

Curve are great.

[boomana]

I've seen her live three times. That changes thing.

[Thelonious Monk]

Diamanda Galas. Freaky and amazing. My friends run away.

she's great. apparently a guy that works at a record store here was drunk after a concert of hers and said he loved her -- she tongue kissed him; he lived to tell the tale.

[boomana]

She's extremely nice in person, and not the persona she puts out there. Still, a little scary. She goes for it. I like it. Stunning vocals. She can split her voice.

[boomana]

Yup. Overtones shrieking. You must check her out.

[Upstateguy]

Whoa, she's something isn't she..... definitely an acquired taste...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWR1SesqM0

[Dusty Chalk]

I've seen her live three times. That changes thing.

Yeah, I imagine it would -- she strikes me as the sort of musician that one "gets", live.

[jinp6301]

Whoa, she's something isn't she..... definitely an acquired taste...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWR1SesqM0

i likey!

[postjack]

Whoa, she's something isn't she..... definitely an acquired taste...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMWR1SesqM0

x2, this is good.

[Salt Peanuts]

Cake.

[Salt Peanuts]

For some reason, most of my friends don't care for them, not sure why, though my best friend does like them.

[John D.]

Mothers Of Invention

[boomana]

at least on this album, she kind of scratches the same itch that Tom Waits scratches.

I certainly never would have come up with this association on my own, but it makes sense. Both are very soulful in atypical ways. I forgot to mention that she is a pretty impressive all-around musician as well as singer.

[ph0rk]

A Diamanda Galas rendition of "I put a spell on you" was mixed into the version of "sex is violent" on the natural born

killers soundtrack - very cool (and well done, imho), if you are in to that sort of thing.

I think I like that soundtrack more than the movie, actually.

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More bands people just don't get:

The Supersuckers

Man... or Astro-Man?

[Chekhonte]

Glenn Branca is a big one for me. I can't play him at all at work with out eliciting a few sighs.

[Elephas]

I like Dead Can Dance. "Sanvean" from the album Wake is one of my favorites.

But I also like a lot of other stuff, such as Rihanna's Umbrella song.

[aardvark baguette]

Frightmare.