Your favorite but unknown

For pure pop heaven and luscious instrumentation:
The Chills "Submarine Bells"

Eric Matthews "The Lateness of the Hour" & "It's Heavy in Here" How this guy has not yet become the next Burt Bacharach I just don't know. A brilliant composer, trumpet player, and singer.

Anything by Bill Nelson (formerly of Be Bop Deluxe)

harry nillson: the point.

its a love / hate album. my wife runs from it. bob crump still bursts out in song sometimes over it.

rhyno

Saw some live music yesterday afternoon headlined by Los Lobos. But--- Two other acts brought the place down: Eilene Ivers and Immigrant Soul and the subDudes.
Immigrant Soul is an Celtic/Afro-pop/Cuban band with pipes, guitar, bass, percussion and Eilene Ivers on the fiddle. She is amazing! People were dancin' their faces off. What can I say about the subDudes? Been around for years, always just under the radar but great.

Catch Immigrant Soul if they come through your town. We were at a natural grass amphitheatre, surrounded by woods on the shore of a nice lake for swimming. Beautiful summer day amazing music, small appreciative crowd. What a day with my wife and kids! Perfect fathers day 1 day early.

PS: It was the Bridgeton Folk Festival

Two incredible bands, each from a different time, that seem to be relatively well known in Europe but just never caught on in the US...

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction: Tattooed Beat Messiah (1988)

Freak Kitchen: Move (2002)

Freedy Johnston, "Can You Fly"

Just a criminally overlooked record from the early 90s. The songwriting is just unbelievable.