I love Grooveshark but disagree that it's any good for finding obscure music. For instance, Rare Essence is the most popular Go Go (a DC genre) band of all time excluding Chuck Brown and his band (the Soul Searchers), Brown having created Go Go. If you aren't from DC then this probably sounds like nonsense, but you really can't underestimate how big these bands are in the city, along with Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, and the Northeast Groovers.
For Chuck Brown, I see 21 songs. I have double albums of his with more songs than that. For Rare Essence, there are 17 songs, including a couple duplicates and a misattribution ("One Leg Up" is by Pure Elegance). BYB has 11 songs, NEG has 6, Junkyard has only one (!). These are very prolific bands that have produced tons of records sold in the DC area.
The thing is, nobody ever really "pirated" Go Go music, that is, put it on the internet. Just lots of bootleg cassettes and CDs.
I find Grooveshark to be limited to fairly mainstream and popular music, the kind that at one time or another could be found in record stores across the US/Europe or at least over a very large region within those places.
For Chuck Brown, I see 21 songs. I have double albums of his with more songs than that. For Rare Essence, there are 17 songs, including a couple duplicates and a misattribution ("One Leg Up" is by Pure Elegance). BYB has 11 songs, NEG has 6, Junkyard has only one (!). These are very prolific bands that have produced tons of records sold in the DC area.
The thing is, nobody ever really "pirated" Go Go music, that is, put it on the internet. Just lots of bootleg cassettes and CDs.
I find Grooveshark to be limited to fairly mainstream and popular music, the kind that at one time or another could be found in record stores across the US/Europe or at least over a very large region within those places.