Obscure bands

good list bondmap--i still listen to robin lane and the spinanes. i've never heard of some of yours--any of 'em especially worthy?

Twelfth Night - I have a live CD by them "Live and Let Live" that I bought on impulse and it's great, but I previously haven't been able to find any other recordings, except for a CD by their vocalist Geoff Mann - "In One Era" that's equally good.  They have a web site (http://twelfthnight.info/) now and sell their albums there. 

I'm not sure that Richard Hell & The Voidoids qualify for this thread (they were a pretty high profile band in the punk scene), but they surely qualify for the thread about best song titles:

"Love Comes In Spurts"

One curious tidbit about the band:. In the punk world at that time, there was a certain pride in a band's inability to actually play their instruments.  It lent a certain DIY authenticity to the music as a kind of craftless "primal scream".  The Voidoids featured both Robert Quine and Ivan Julian on guitar, and both guys can play the sh*t out their instruments.

Anyone remember the English blues rock band Chicken Shack?  They featured a great guitarist called Stan Webb.  Their pianist, Christine Perfect, later married into Fleetwood Mac (becoming Christine McVie) and raised her profile quite a bit over the next five years, or so.

Hey Marty - 
Remember Chicken Shack?  No....
Aware it was the band Christine McVie nee Perfect came from?  Yes.

Here's another from around that time: Killing Floor.  
Of note to me because that's where Lou Martin (pianist with Rory Gallagher) came from.  Check out the RG Irish Tour '74 movie.  Lou is killer on electric piano.

But here's a track from a Killing Floor LP that features Lou.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHPSKL2Z2Mw