Obscure bands

bdp24,
             I understand your reasoning for a hit taking a band out of obscurity.
But in the case of Golden Earring having 2 hits in the course of 55 years! and 25+ albums? Makes them pretty obscure to me.
Everyone has their own definition of obscurity for sure and that's ok😎
Thanks for your input and I will be checking your references.

Shonen Knife and Terry Reid.

loomis:  If you like the Spinanes,  you will likely enjoy a lot of Riot Grrl bands.  Frogpond in particular, The Amps, and 100 Watt Smile should ring your bell.  Looker is more recent, but excellent in this genre.  The Dishes is a great B-52s style band with original material.  There are so many bands from the 1990s and on that flew mostly under the radar.  A good internet radio station and Pandora are good ways to explore.  Start on Pandora with something like 100 Watt Smile, and you should end up hearing all sorts of great bands that you might never have heard of.   

Love Terry Reid, and actually have an old Shonen Knife record. The Terry stuff I still listen to- haven't pulled out that Knife record since what- the '80s?