OT: Favorite Obscure Song from Great Band

[Northbound]

Conway Twitty-That's My Job
Willie Nelson-Mendocino County Line
GD - Looks like rain, Built to last, Keep your day job,
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Ballad of Curtis Loew, Comin' Home

 

[Dove]

Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Easy Skanking"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Nightwatchman"
Beastie Boys - "Rhymin' and Stealin'"
The Jerry Garcia Band - "Stop That Train"

 

[Gutter King]

Stones have a decent collection of country songs.

Absolutely. Here is a GREAT version of a song I was unaware of before I head this. Not sure what's going to happen here but it's at 44:45. "Sway" by the Stones.



Pink Floyd - "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play" this is Barrett's stuff. Usually lesser known.

The Highwaymen - Highwayman (Great song about Reincarnation). I suspect that this is obscure, it may not be though. You don't get much bigger than a Nelson, Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson supergroup.

 

[tdrink]

David Bowie - Queen Bitch

Yes - The Gates of Delerium

Allman Brothers - You Don't Love Me

Frank Zappa - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up

The Who - Young Man Blues

Led Zeppelin - We're Gonna Groove when the studio version was released on Coda it was easy to see why the song didn't make the cut for Zep II - but live it was their opening song in '70/'71' - the Royal Albert Hall version holds an almost cult like status among Zep fans for establishing Plant's vocals and Page's signature tone.

 

[Northbound]

The Highwaymen - Highwayman (Great song about Reincarnation). I suspect that this is obscure, it may not be though. You don't get much bigger than a Nelson, Cash, Jennings, Kristofferson supergroup.

The highwaymen was a #1 country song. It's a great great song, but well known IF you have any familiarity with country music which I suspect that most here don't. Even my reference to Conway Twitty''s "Thst's my job" isn't really unknown it was a top ten song.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Conway Twitty-That's My Job
Willie Nelson-Mendocino County Line
GD - Looks like rain, Built to last, Keep your day job,
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Ballad of Curtis Loew, Comin' Home

Agree with this one. Lynyrd Skynyrd-Ballad of Curtis Loew, Comin' Home

I struggled on this topic. I would say Happy Jack by the Who if that is considered "obscure" enough.

 

[elmcityboy]

first thing that comes to mind for me is 'polyethylene' by radiohead. b-side during the ok computer era that is probably one of their best.

 

[Husky25]

"Mama Kin" was my dark horse favorite on that album:

IMHO, Mama Kin is far too well known to be considered "Obscure." It didn't chart in 1973, but like Stairway to Heaven, most people know what Mam Kin is and who originally put it out. I used to be a much bigger Aerosmith fan and have every album on either cassette or CD up through Big Ones (and not a single one after that, though I like a few tracks). Truth be told (while I originally liked them), the overplay and saturation of the three ballads off Get a Grip and I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing actually turned Aerosmith off for me. That said, I can think of at least one song from each non-greatest hits album prior to Big Ones that I really like and that wasn't released.

 

[Dogbreath2U]

Here's a couple:

Van Morrison: Philosopher's Stone

Steely Dan: Almost Gothic (very funny lyrics). I doubt it would be obscure to Dan fans, but Bodhisattva is another great song that comes to mind (Buddhism meets rock and roll).

 

[prankster]

Here's a couple:

Van Morrison: Philosopher's Stone

Steely Dan: Almost Gothic (very funny lyrics). I doubt it would be obscure to Dan fans, but Bodhisattva is another great song that comes to mind (Buddhism meets rock and roll).

If you are interested in obscure Steely Dan. They have an entire album that almost no one knows about. You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It Or You Lose That Beat!

 

[8893]

Speaking of the Dan, Meg Griffin just spun one of my favorite rarer ones, off their debut:

 

[meyers7]

U2 - "Red Hill Mining Town"

I do like that one.

Always really like this one. Especially this live version.
Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel

 

[NorwalkHusky]

Springsteen- I'm Goin Down
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lodi
Billy Joel- The Downeaster Alexa
Elton John- Take me to the Pilot

 

[NorwalkHusky]

A few more current ones:

The Black Keys - Unknown Brother
Arctic Monkeys - Secret Door
The Killers - Losing Touch
Blink-182 - Please Take Me Home
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Especially in Michigan

 

[G0UCONN]

Springsteen and E Street - The Promise

Lynyrd Skynrd - Ballad of Curtis Lowe

Santana - Winning

 

[storrsroars]

Queen - '39

I know it makes no sense that my favorite Queen song is not sung by the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time for all you kids out there) but here we are.

I'd agree with you there. In fact, I hate the vids where Freddie is singing this. I loved Queen's earlier stuff, but generally liked May's and Taylor's compositions more than Mercury's. My three favorite songs on ADATR are two by May, ('39 and Tie Your Mother Down), and Taylor's lone entry (Drowse). I found Mercury's stuff overly campy. That was the last Queen album I enjoyed listening to.

Most of the music I've listened to the past 30 years has not been by bands that BY would probably call "great". But these would be my choices off top of my head:

Kinks: Waterloo Sunset (not obscure in any part of the world except the US) and Rats
Waterboys: The Pan Within, A Life of Sundays
Bowie: All the Madmen
Alice Cooper: Ballad of Dwight Fry, Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)
Radiohead: Electioneering (really doesn't fit at all on OK Computer, but a great song)
Led Zep: Ten Years Gone
Replacements: Red Red Wine (IMO, the last pure slopfest the Mats put on vinyl as they were trying to go more commercial)

 

[mauconnfan]

Great guitar solo, excellent rock vocals/belching and just an excellent weed smoking song in those days

 

[mauconnfan]

But this one win's this EASILY, just listen if you never heard it.......whacked!!




Bloodrock 2 and D.O.A.[edit]
Bloodrock 2 was their most successful album peaking at #21 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1971 mostly on the strength of their single "DOA" which reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 6, 1971. "DOA" also gave the band considerable regional exposure throughout the Southwest and West, particularly in Texas and Southern California. "DOA" was probably the band's most well known and well remembered single. The motivation for writing this song was explained in 2005 by guitarist Lee Pickens. “When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot,” Pickens said. “I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed.” The band decided to write a song around the incident and include it on their second album.[2]

 

[J187Money]

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