Your favorite LP nobody has ever heard of

Mine is the eponymous LP by Skip Battin, bass player for the Untitled Byrds, released in 1972 on Signpost Records. It's filled with great, quirky songs co-written with Kim Fowler, and features Clarence White and Roger McGuinn, among others. I stumbled across it in 1974 and it's been in rotation ever since. Seems nobody's heard of this one--for some reason it just sank out of sight.

it's an extreme longshot that anyone here has heard it, but i have an 80s lp by a band call sponsors (s/t) which is absolutely brilliant--ten tight, hooky sorta new wavy guitar power pop gems. from what little i've been able to glean, they were from new york and the lead singer (who's amazing) was reputedly 14 years old. there's a few videos of their songs on youtube, one of them called in and out of love.

my second pick is jules shear, the third party, which features only his voice and marty wilson piper from the church (blurred crusade connection?) on very basic acoustic. the songs are great--funny/poignant--and i like that he printed the chords on the liner notes. i read that this was was one of his label's lowest-selling albums ever, although shear was very successful as a hit songwriter for the bangles, cindy lauper and the like.

"This is, indeed, a great record--one of my favs--but it's not actually his first. That would be Wanted Dead or Alive from 1969, re-released on Pickwick in 1979, which is when I found it. A bit rough in places, but one can readily hear the artist he would become."

Wrm57...sorry, I stand corrected, thanks. I have never heard of this album. HERE is the info on this album.

It's worth checking out, Mofi, if you're into Zevon.

Typo correction in my Battin post above: should read Kim Fowley, not Fowler. He's actually same guy who started producing Zevon's first LP and then walked out in frustration, as per the link Mofi supplies.

That's easy. The long departed Norwegian singer Radka Toneff's last album, "Fairytales." Out of print but still available NOS for a reasonable price from Elusive Disc.

It's just her and a pianist. The recording, mastering, and pressing qualities are all superb, and she had a style that really gets into your head. Her rendition of Jimmy Webb's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is the best of all time and brings that song out as no one ever did.

She was a tortured soul. A year after she recorded this she walked deep into the woods, took all her psychotropic prescription drugs at once, and ended her life.

Bittersweet, but fantastic.