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OT: Favorite Obscure Song from Great Band

tzznandrew said:
Nah. This works.

"Lounge Act" by Nirvana is another for me.
EDIT: Adding "Venice Queen" by the Chili Peppers. Great might be a stretch in defining them, but I like a bunch of their stuff.
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Pearl Jam - Wash
RHCP are great, especially with John Frusciante. Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way, and Stadium Arcadium are perfect albums.
 
The Beatles "I don't want to spoil the party" and "I call your name"
In spoil the party John and Paul swap voices where John sings the high lead voice and Paul sings the typical John low harmony. They switch for the chorus and switch back after.

I call your name has great cowbell
 
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CL82 said:
I'm shocked that I didn't know this song. Kind of tough to find. I just listened... not a big fan, but still it was interesting her.

My favorite less well known Beatles tune is probably Rocky Raccoon. I admit is far less obscure.
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It's absolutely mind-blowing to me how much I learned from studying the Beatles voraciously from such a young age. I pored over every lyric and every liner note, struggling to understand and make sense of it all. Looking back on it now, in my mind's eye I can almost literally see my own young mind expanding with each new discovery.

As but two small examples gleaned from reliving "I'm So Tired" and "Rocky Raccoon," I vividly recall learning about Sir Walter Raleigh's connection to tobacco through the former, as well as what the British term "git" meant; and learning what a Gideon Bible was--and the fact that they were always in hotel rooms--from the latter.

Inspired by this discussion, this morning I put the White Album on the iPod for my morning jog and it was great company, like having an old friend along.

Oh, and I'll give another plug for everyone to see the Beatles documentary out now, Eight Days a Week. It's tremendous.
 
The entire Imperial Bedroom album by Elvis Costello. Best listened from start to finish as a whole. Masterpiece.
 
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Got my mojo working (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) sung by Sam Lay (drummer)

 
Aerosmith--Seasons Of Wither
Led Zeppelin--Hey, Hey, What Can I Do
Moody Blues--The Best Way To Travel
The Who--Love Ain't For Keeping

I second Mason's Children and Dig A Pony
 
Led Zeppelin - Boogie w/ Stu (agree with a few others already listed)
Marley - Soul Rebel (probably a dozen others I can't think of right now)
Allmans - Back Where it all Begans (Probably a week entry)
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm
Beastie Boys - The Maestro (How can he be so skinny, yet live so fat?)
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
 
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8893 said:
Oh, and I'll give another plug for everyone to see the Beatles documentary out now, Eight Days a Week. It's tremendous.
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Seconded...

Also, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn. I've read about a dozen books about them, and this one is far and away the best. A blow by blow account of how every song was written and recorded, plus a ton of riveting anecdotal stories illustrating the wild, intense ride that was the rise and fall of the band.
 
Talking Heads: "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)."

Grateful Dead: "Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" and "Till the Morning Comes."

Van Morrison: "Bulbs."

The Doors: "Cars Hiss By My Window."

Dylan: "Every Grain of Sand."

Stevie Wonder: "Jesus Children of America."

Traffic: "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring."
 
Ewekon said:
The entire Imperial Bedroom album by Elvis Costello. Best listened from start to finish as a whole. Masterpiece.
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When it was brand new and I first put it on, I was hugely disappointed in a WTF kind of way. A few listens later, I arrived at an opinion similar to yours. Seeing EC & the Attractions later that summer at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium was "beyond belief."

Here's a random handful:

"Stop Breaking Down" - Rolling Stones
"Time Waits for Noone" - Rolling Stones
"Fascination" - David Bowie
"Gotta Get Better in a Little While" - Derek & the Dominoes
"You're Gonna Make it After All" - Hüsker Dü
 
Have a live version of "Like a Rolling Stone", by the Rolling Stones. Good cover, but at the end Keith Richards says "Thank you Bob". That always makes me smile.
 
St. Robinson by Counting Crows
Spoon by DMB
Suite Madam Blue by Styx
October by U2
Hear About It Later by Van Halen
 
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Eagles - Try and Love Again
Foo Fighters - Outside
Queen - Dragon Attack
Clapton - Steady Rollin Man
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
"You're Gonna Make it After All" - Hüsker Dü
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"Books About UFOs" doesn't seem to be considered one of Hüsker Dü's best songs, perhaps because it doesn't sound all that Hüsker Dü-y. That said, it's my favorite of theirs.
 
XM27 is a great channel for this thread.

Deep tracks.
 
Chin Diesel said:
XM27 is a great channel for this thread.

Deep tracks.
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No. 2 preset for me (on Sirius). No. 1 is the Loft. I follow Meg Griffin around the dial; she does the mornings on Deep Tracks and the afternoon until 6 pm show on the Loft. Been listening to her since pre-satellite radio days. I grew up on album rock radio and loved the AAA radio format that grew out of it, and she is one of the last remnants of that.
 
8893 said:
No. 2 preset for me (on Sirius). No. 1 is the Loft. I follow Meg Griffin around the dial; she does the mornings on Deep Tracks and the afternoon until 6 pm show on the Loft. Been listening to her since pre-satellite radio days. I grew up on album rock radio and loved the AAA radio format that grew out of it, and she is one of the last remnants of that.
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Funny how we settle on favorite sattelite stations. I listen to:
14 Coffee House
23 Grateful Dead
25 and 26 classic rewind and classic rock gen 2
29 Jam Band

That said, I would probably like 27 as well, just never became part of the rotation.
 
Huskybass said:
Funny how we settle on favorite sattelite stations. I listen to:
14 Coffee House
23 Grateful Dead
25 and 26 classic rewind and classic rock gen 2
29 Jam Band

That said, I would probably like 27 as well, just never became part of the rotation.
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GD is also a preset for me. Deep Tracks and the Loft are primarily due to me being a Meg Griffin junkie. She also does an occasional weekend show on Classic Rewind btw.

I grew up on DJs, and that's what I love most about the Loft and Deep Tracks; i.e., they have DJs who talk about the music the way that I think about it, and the way DJs used to. Meg Griffin is the best for my tastes because she embraces both the old and the new; but each of those stations have a few other great DJs for the format. I love Tom Petty's Buried Treasure show on Deep Tracks, too.
 
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