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Thought this would be a cool topic. Post your favorite obscure/underrated songs by your favorite artists. Here's some of mine:

 

The Beatles - Glass Onion

 

 

Frank Ocean - Dream Killa

 

Kanye West - White Dress

 

 

Michael Jackson - Price of Fame

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7RPaSGAh-8

 

The Smiths - Nowhere Fast

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VVVqN_PJ4

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MC5 - Gold (from the soundtrack of the same name)

 

Morrissey - I'd Love To (B-side to the "The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get" single)

 

Darkthrone - God Of Disturbance And Friction (from the Moonfog 2000 compilation - the last great Darkthrone song)

 

Love - A House Is Not A Motel (mono version - a bit different from the more widely known stereo version from "Forever Changes")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAFr0DQF6GM

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - This Velvet Glove, Midnight, Save the Population, I Could Die For You and Minor Thing

Queens of the Stone Age - Mosquito Song

Disturbed - Bound, Breathe and Devour

Celldweller - Afraid This Time

Alter Bridge - Make It Right

StoneSour - Socio

Nickelback - Another Hole in the Head

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Nas - No Ideas Original

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPYF6tnoy8

 

Stevie Wonder - Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away

 

 

Roberta Flack - Gone Away

 

 

Curtis Mayfield - The Making Of You

 

 

James Brown - Payback

 

 

Eminem - Any Man

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Lg0EDz8QE

 

Big Daddy Kane - Come On Down

 

 

Not her song, but I LOVE her rendition.

 

Aretha Franklin - How I Got Over

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg5PZtSTTN4

 

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Foghat - Drivin' Wheel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzf7X9dzQaE

 

Fogat - Rock and Roll Outlaws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083r15NysHM

 

Foghat - What A Shame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=083r15NysHM

 

Alice Cooper - Man With The Golden Gun (what was supposed to be the theme song for the 007 movie of the same name)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg7i0goY_sg

 

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Great topic.

 

The Kinks - "Skin and Bone" from Muswell Hillbillies

 

 

 

Harry Nilsson - "Goin' Down" from Knnillssonn

 

 

 

Lou Reed - "Wait" from Street Hassle

 

 

 

Roxy Music - "Would You Believe?" from Roxy Music

 

 

 

Tom Waits - "I'll Shoot the Moon" from The Black Rider

 

 

 

Tyrannosaurus Rex - "Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat)" from Unicorn

 

 

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An abnormality in the BB's discography.

 

 

Love that Tom Waits stuff too. Really like the Russian Dance song, The Briar And The Rose. Probably my favourite Tom Waits album.

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An abnormality in the BB's discography.

 

 

 

 

Love that Tom Waits stuff too. Really like the Russian Dance song, The Briar And The Rose. Probably my favourite Tom Waits album.

Wonderful pick. I absolutely love all the work that came from the "Smile" sessions. "The Elements: Fire" has such a childlike dementedness to it that I adore so much. Great backstory to the song, too.

 

Regarding Waits' "The Black Rider," have you seen the musical the album is based upon? Currently the original Magic Bullets production is on YouTube, but I've held off watching it until someone translates all the German dialogue into English. What I've heard and seen, though, is fantastic.

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With you on the Smile stuff. I was very happy for Brian, tears in my eyes, that he was able to finish it but I still remember my excitement in the late 90's when the only way to hear it was by pieced together fragments on tape.

 

Haven't seen the Black Rider musical, it's been something that I've been meaning to check out but I think as a stand alone album it works quite well.

 

Some lesser known Beatles stuff

 

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^ Ha! Nice! Ray Davies' wit is to be admired that's for sure.

 

Brian Eno's first, underheard single (w/ a goofy performance to boot):

 

 

Poor Eno. heh...

 

I always found Eno a bit goofy until he found solace in keyboards and ambient music.

 

I think anyone who isn't familar with Eno might know this bit of music he created.

 

 

"The thing from the agency said,’We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,’ this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said ‘and it must be three and one quarter seconds long.'"

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6A6oTFdcw

 

Highlight from a so-so album. There's an earlier version out there that he did during the After the Gold Rush sessions that has a sweet piano riff, but I prefer this rockabilly version slightly more.

 

Heh...that's a funny song.

 

 

 

In November 1983, following the commercial failure of Everybody's Rockin', Geffen sued Young for $3.3 million, on the grounds that this record and its predecessor were "not commercial", and "musically uncharacteristic of [his] previous recordings." Young filed a $21 million countersuit, alleging breach of contract since Young had been promised no creative interference from the label.

 

:lol:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-MeRMgTQQ

 

 

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