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4M? Interesting. One of the recurring themes of "long tail" discussions is that everything is requested at least once every month or so. Would like more consideration of why that's not the case here.

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I was in a band in my college years that played this "indie / experimental" instrumental rock. We only played maybe a dozen shows that were sparsely attended. There's one show we played that had at least 50-100 people, but that was because we opened for a semi-popular local band. In 2003-2004, just about when I left the band, we recorded an album in on of the band member's bedroom. I doubt more than a handful of people have ever listened to it.

This album is on Spotify. If it has any listens it's probably because I listened to it, or maybe another one of the former band members did.

Alright what is it. Now I want to hear it.

Album is _Hurt Seconds_ by The Shy Trafficker. I'll warn you that it's a long poorly recorded slog. There's a couple songs with some vocals but most of it is instrumental. Instrumental rock tends to be pretty unpopular I've found so I felt like the "warning" was needed.

Well Explosions in the Sky do pretty well.

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