From oblivion to... What's the top 10 artists in your music collection that nobody knows of but you?

Question

Forget "underrated", we're talking not even on the radar. List the top 10 most unheard of artists in your collection. Let me know if you recognize any of these.

In no particular order:
1) Kicking Giant
2) Crayon
3) Pain (Ska band)
4) Engine Kid
5) Hungry Crocodiles
6) Tattle Tale
7) Village Idiot
8) Dirt Fishermen
9) 764-Hero
10) Filibuster

Answer 1

The Besties
The Sugars
Babe Ruth
The Homewreckers
Julie Ruin
The No-Talents
The Frumpies
Chocolate Watchband
Demolition Girls
The D.icks

Answer 2

1. A Day Away
2. The Photo Atlas
3. Pinback
4. The Confession
5. Rockett Queen
6. Hundred Reasons
7. Everybody Else
8. Spiderbait
9. The Fold
10. There For Tomorrow

Answer 3

I could come up with 100's since my main forte is the obscure.

also in no particular order
1. Red Guitars
2. Turkey Mallet (Ska)
3. The Method Actors
4. Middleclass
5. Swollen Monkeys
6. The Mad Turks
7. Nova Mob
8. The Nails
9. Watermelon Men
10. The Zimmermen

Answer 4

Amon Duul
Ars Nova
Au Pairs
Autosalvage
Eden's Children
Help Yourself
The Plastic People of the Universe
Ultimate Spinach
The United States of America
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Answer 5

1) Tommy Dempsey
2) Population 1
3) Mourning Widows
4) Mongrel
5) Leaving Eden
6) Pig Vomit
7) Cornershop
8) William Elliott Whitmore
9) Easy Tiger
10) Hash & Pop

Answer 6

I don't know if anyone has heard of them. Not sure if I can come up with 10...but I'll try! =)

Dog Day Sunrise
STEMM
Liquid Violence
Zero Intent (my band...haha!)
Ball Cheese Psychotics
Counter Offensive
In This Moment
Opiate For The Masses
Skinbound
Dope

Well, a couple of them are becoming kind of popular. So, people might have heard of a few of them. Some aren't together anymore. But, those are the most un-mainstream ones I could come up with! =)

Answer 7

Is this for your top 10 favourites that no one's heard of, or just 10 bands you own that no one's heard of? (You mentioned both.)

1) Morcheeba
2) Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger composer)
3) JA Seazer (anime composer)
4) Eccentric Opera
5) Gandharvas
6) Toxic Narcotic
7) Stricken (defunct Vancouver-area band)
8) Michael Jones (Muzak composer)
9) Sinergy (Power metal from Finland)
10) Dukes of Dixieland (Self-explanatory)

Honourable mention goes to a band I've never heard but have wanted to hear since college:

11) She Stole My Beer

And because my fiance had to get in on the action, here's his (more impressive):

1) Bunchofuckingoofs (Toronto Hardcore Punk)
2) The Crumbsuckers (Early NY Hardcore)
3) Bile (Industrial hardcore)
4) DHI (Death and Horror Incorporated) (Industrial Dance)
5) Left-hand Solution (Gothic)
6) JP5 (Turbo Revvin' Rawk Band)
7) AMQA (Apple Maggot Quarantine Area) (Defunct Hardcore/Thrash Indie band from Phoenix, AZ)
8) Screaming Beavers (Hardcore Punk band from Niagara Falls, ON)
9) Extra Hot Sauce (Taco of Death) (NY Hardcore)
10) Tin Machine (with David Bowie)

Answer 8

I can't come up with 10, but here is one:

The Derek Trucks Band

Derek has been playing with Clapton's current tour, playing in the Allman Brothers Band for a few years, but the guitar work on his stuff with his own band is amazing, and yet practically unheard of.

Answer 9

01) Catherine Wheel
02) Stage
03) Mad Season
04) Therion
05) Stabbing Westward
06) The Union Underground
07) Flaw
08) Unloco
09) Trust Company
10) Lo-Pro

Answer 10

1) Static-X
2) Chevelle
3) Ghostless
4) Shadows Nekeon
5) NightWish
6) Jake 973
7) Quake Blue
8) Blindside
9) Aches-A-Day
10) Evil Twin