lesser known great songs from well known artists

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lesser known great songs from well known artists.
maybe they were rarities or songs only released on compilations

I guess you can do lesser known songs from your favorite artists also (even if they aren't well known artists)

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genesis - silver song, pigeons, etc..
beach boys - 'til I die, lady, lookin' at tomorrow, etc..

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

"Can You Hear the Music" - Rolling Stones
"Brettino's Bounce" - Funkadelic

― inhibitionist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, am so glad this came up 'cause I wasn't sure where to post about my new favorite song of all time, "Sandy Mary" by Fleetwood Mac (one of those tracks where Peter Green was moving towards a really interesting psych-blues territory).

It didn't even get a studio version as far as I can tell (could be very wrong about that...). The version on the BBC Sessions manages to sound like T Rex, Cream, Hendrix and The Beatles at various times, and I'm starting to think it's the best track on that CD. T Rex riff to open, verse is along the lines of one of the Beatles White Album blues raveups, very Cream sounding guitar solo, etc. Only real problem is that I want to hear a 25 minute long version a la Rattlesnake Shake.

The White Stripes could probably score pretty big with a cover of this...

― dlp9001, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and the BBC version pretty much kills the live in Boston version.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I think "Shut Out the Light", B-side to "Born in the USA", is one of the 10 best songs Springsteen ever wrote.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

stones "heaven"
bowie "all the madmen"
iggy "dum dum boys"
blur "oily water"
talking heads "cool water"
byrds "jack tarr the sailor"
doors "peace frog"

― willem, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey Mr. Rain" - Velvet Underground
"Sunshine Day and Night" & "All Gates Open" - Can
"Sue Egypt" - Captain Beefheart
"Your Mind and We Belong Together" - Love

― inhibitionist, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

At any given time, I can be struck that any given track from 1967-71 Kinks is the best thing they ever did. But for today, I'll say "Death of a CLown."

The Who - "Water" and "Naked Eye"
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― bendy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

..whooops..
Husker Du "Erase Today"

― bendy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

to keep this thread going

Foo Fighters - Down In The Park (gary numan cover)

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Blood on the Moon" - Mercury Rev
"Lorca" - Tim Buckley

― inhibitionist, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

"A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" - Todd Rundgren
"Desert of Ice" - Terry Riley

― inhibitionist, Monday, 7 May 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

"Ik-ook" - Philip Glass
"¡Yo Se!" - Royal Trux

― inhibitionist, Monday, 7 May 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

blue oyster cult's recorded output sans "burnin' for you" and "(don't fear) the reaper"
warren zevon's recorded output sans "werewolves of london", "roland the headless thompson gunner" and "lawyers, guns and money".
prince's recorded output sans "when doves cry" and "1999".
and so on...

― violoncellos, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

gary numan's recorded output sans "cars"...

― violoncellos, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

heaven by the stones is well known and regarded, no?

as for my answer,

les savy fav - hit my car (a real subdued, spacey song by these guys' standards. but effective and moody and great)

ride - here and now (not on most versions of nowhere to my knowledge, this is really melodic and hypnotising with a great vocal line)

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

"40 Versions" - Wire
"Let Me Do It to You" - J.J. Cale

― inhibitionist, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

The Ramones - It's Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 world)

Love - I Got to Find It

Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up

John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Born in a Prison

Captain Beefheart - Yellow Brick Road

― Erock Zombie, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

The Beatles: You Won't See Me

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Depeche Mode: "The Landscape Is Changing", "Told You So" and "Fools"

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

The Beatles: You Won't See Me

The sixth grade music teacher made us sing this while tapping out the melody on tiny xylophones. It's always loomed large in my thought about the Beatle catalog. She was also really into Tomita version of the Overture from Tommy. She was Geir's kinda gal.

― bendy, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

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