OT: Favorite Obscure Song from Great Band

[Dove]

AC/DC - "Have A Drink On Me"

 

[8893]

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

 

[Huskies4ever]

Pearl Jam - Wash
RHCP are great, especially with John Frusciante. Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, By The Way, and Stadium Arcadium are perfect albums.

You forgot Mother's Milk.

 

[Huskies4ever]

My only point of departure with Meg is Rush. Except for a brief infatuation with "Tom Sawyer," I never liked them.

Not a big Rush fan, but my favorite is The Working Man.

 

[alexd]

A cover of the early 60's Rufus Thomas nugget...also from Aerosmith's first LP....

 

[epark88]

Fearless - Pink Floyd
Be Ever Wonderful - Earth Wind & Fire
Memories - Temptations

 

[epark88]

Zoom - Commodores
Black Steel (In The Hour of Chaos) - Public Enemy
High Speed - Coldpay
And You And I - Yes

 

[Huskies2324]

Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter. Originally just a B-side.

My favorite PJ song

Great call

 

[Huskies2324]

Van Halen. "Ice Cream Man" (amazing guitar solo in there)

 

[August_West]

Rolling Stones - torn and frayed
Dylan - abandoned love
Paul Simon - my little town
Marshall tucker band - this old cowboy

 

[Waquoit]

Paul Simon - my little town

That was actually Simon and (your boy) Garfunkel

 

[7774]

My favorite PJ song

Great call

Definitely a great song. My only problem is that it doesn't really belong in this thread because it's not obscure. It's probably one of PJ's 10 most famous songs.

 

[August_West]

That was actually Simon and (your boy) Garfunkel

Yup.

But it's on still crazy.

 

[Waquoit]

Yup.

But it's on still crazy.

And Garfunkel's album

 

[Chin Diesel]

Rolling Stones - torn and frayed
Dylan - abandoned love
Paul Simon - my little town
Marshall tucker band - this old cowboy

Stones have a decent collection of country songs.

 

[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!