Underrated Songs

[marothisu]

One of my favorite topics on music (that doesn't include performing). Let's hear it, and I'm going to start with some of mine...underrated/forgotten/unheard of/etc. Bolded are my top picks:

A-Ha - Summer Moved On
Aerosmith - Combination
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
The Band - Whisphering Pines
Beck - Already Dead
Beck, Bogert & Appice - Lady
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Combination of the Two
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles
Black Sabbath - Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wears Boots
The Blind Boys of Alabama - I Shall Not Walk Alone
Blind Melon - Soak the Sin
Blind Melon - Change
Blur - There's No Other Way
Budgie - Napoleon Bona Parts 1 & 2
Bush - Distant Voices
Bush - Letting the Cables Sleep
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
Candlebox - Cover Me
Candlebox - 10,000 Horses
Captain Beefheart - This is the Day
Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa
Catherine Wheel - Waydown
Chambers Brothers - I Can't Stand It
Corey Glover - April Rain
Corrosion of Conformity - Heaven's Not Overflowing
Country Joe & the Fish - Flying High
Cracker - The Good Life
Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses
Cream - Deserted Cities of the Heart
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair
Dave Mason - World in Changes
Days of the New - Face of the Earth
Doobie Brothers - Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels
The Doors - The Spy
Dream Theater - Through Her Eyes
Drive-by Truckers - Daylight
Duncan Sheik - Wishful Thinking
The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You
An Emotional Fish - Celebrate
Flaw - Endangered Species
Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi (Peter Green's FM, not Stevie Nicks)
Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (see above)
Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad (see above)
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Daddy
Foreigner - At War With the World
Foreigner - Starrider
Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day
Free - Heavyload
Grand Funk Railroad - Heartbreaker
Grand Funk Railroad - Can't Be Too Long
Grant Lee Buffalo - Might Joe Moon
The Great Society - White Rabbit (yes, the same White Rabbit as Jefferson Airplane "covered")
The Guess Who - Sour Suite
Incubus - Echo
Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide
James - Sit Down
James - Sometimes
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Jane's Addiction - Just Because
Jason Mraz - Absolutely Zero
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver
Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Jerry Cantrell - Hurt a Long Time
Jimi Hendrix - Pali Gap
Jimi Hendrix - Driving South
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Love or Confusion
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Miss Strange
John Butler Trio - Ocean
John Butler Trio - What You Want
John Butler Trio - Pickapart
Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire
Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
Keef Hartley Band - Leavin' Trunk
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Deja Voodoo
King's X - It's Love
King's X - She's Gone Away
Kula Shaker - Govinda
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Kula Shaker - Great Hosannah
Kula Shaker - Hurricane Season
Kula Shaker - Dr. Kitt
Labelle - Are You Lonely?
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonne Leave You
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Lenny Kravitz - Believe
Leslie West - Dreams of Milk & Honey
Live - Operation Spirit
Living Colour - Love Rears Its Ugly Head
Lo Fidelity All Stars - Battleflag
Long John Baldry - Flying
The Longpigs - On & On
Love - Alone Again Or
Love - A House is Not a Motel
Madonna - Rescue Me
Mamas & the Papas - Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)
Mamas & the Papas - No Salt on Her Tail
Mamas & the Papas - Words of Love
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
The Mayfield Four - Summergirl
The Mayfield Four - 12/31
The Meters - It Ain't No Use
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow
Miles Davis - Recollections
Mountain - Theme From an Imaginary Western
Muse - Falling Down
The Music - Turn Out the Light
The Music - Fight the Feeling
The Music - Take the Long Road and Walk It
Nas - Let There Be Light
Neil Young - Running Dry (Requiem For the Rockets)
Nevermore - Sell My Heart for Stones
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Nick Drake - Day is Done
Oasis - Masterplan
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Oasis - Cast No Shadow
Oasis - D'you Know What I Mean?
Opeth - Burden
Ours - Sometimes
Pearl Jam - Present Tense
Pearl Jam - Garden
Pearl Jam - Indifference
Pearl Jam - ImmortalityA Perfect Circle - Passive
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
Pink Floyd - MaroonedPolice - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Porcupine Tree - My Ashes
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak
Porcupine Tree - Waiting
Porcupine Tree - She's Moved On
Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons
Porcupine Tree - Always Never
Pushmonkey - HandslideQueen - White ManQueen - Who Wants to Live Forever?
Queensryche - Della Brown
Queensryche - The Right Side of My Mind
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
R. Kelly - I Wish
R.E.M. - Ignoreland
Radio Moscow - Frustrating Sound
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Rage Against the Machine - New Millennium Homes
Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Shallow Be Thy Name
Rolling Stones - Anybody Seen My Baby?
Rolling Stones - Ventilator Blues
Rolling Stones - Under The Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Rolling Stones - Out of Tears
School of Fish - Euphoria
Scorpions - I'm Goin' Mad
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Silverchair - Shade
Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spirit - Nature's Way
Stevie Wonder - It Ain't No Use
Stone Roses - Driving South
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Stone Sour - Zzyzx Road
Temple of the Dog - Reach Down
Ten Years After - Nowhere to Run
Thievery Corporation - State of the Union
Third Eye Blind - Darkness
Tim Buckley - I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
Tim Buckley - No Man Can Find the War
Tim Buckley - Strange Feelin'
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life
Tool - Jimmy
Tool - Pushit (live)
Tool - The Patient
Tool - Swamp Song
U2 - Surrender
Vanilla Fudge - Thoughts
Vanilla Fudge - That's What Makes a Man
VAST - Thrown Away
VAST - Dirty Hole
The Verve - Blue
The Verve - The Rolling People
The Verve - Lucky Man
Wanderlust - I Walked
Whitesnake - Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
The Who - Young Man Blues (live)The Who - Run Run RunXTC - Dear God


...and so on, lol

[HawkfromNorwalk]

Judas Priest - A Touch of Evil
Black Sabbath - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Virtually any Sabbath from the Ronnie James Dio era.

[WalkingCY]

Lenny Kravitz blows.

[marothisu]

Lenny Kravitz blows.

Believe is a pretty good song if you've never heard it. Sounds a lot like the later Beatles.



Captain Beefheart is absolutely horrible, but the song I listed is still pretty good.

[WalkingCY]

Lenny Kravitz should never-ever be in the same sentence as the best band ever, The Beatles. Nor should his music ever to be compaired. Come on.

Except for that last one I wrote to make a point.

[CYKID]

Sweet Caroline.

[marothisu]

Lenny Kravitz should never-ever be in the same sentence as the best band ever, The Beatles. Nor should his music ever to be compaired. Come on.

Except for that last one I wrote to make a point.

Almost every musician has exceptions FYI. I don't think Kravitz is great by any means, but Believe is still a good song. It sounds nothing like almost any of his other songs ever recorded. The solo at the end is pretty cool.

Anyway it's besides the point..you picked one song out of like 100+ i listed.

[nj829]

Anything by Hootie and the Blowfish...

[marothisu]

Oh, and by the way...artists do change over time. Prime example is Scorpions. Here's a song from their debut album which sounds ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like what people know them for (cross between Black Sabbath and early-ish Iron Maiden):

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxnaK2RN_Fw]YouTube - Scorpions I'm Going Mad[/ame]

[Al_4_State]

I would say that any song from an underrated artist is underrated (like Drive-By Truckers or Lucero), so I'll go underrated songs from reasonably popular artists...

"Sway" Rolling Stones
"Sweet Virginia" Rolling Stones
"Rebels" Tom Petty
"Straight into Darkness" Tom Petty
"Had Me a Real Good Time" The Faces
"Little Mascara" The Replacements
"I Could Have Lied" RHCP
"Come Back" Pearl Jam
"Satan's Bed" Pearl Jam
"Barstool Blues" Neil Young and Crazy Horse
"Time to Kill" The Band
"Ophelia" The Band
"School" Nirvana
"Rudderless" The Lemonheads
"Cherry Bomb" John Cougar Mellencamp
"Into the Mystic" Van Morrison
"Next Year" Foo Fighters
"February Stars" Foo Fighters

[heitclone]

Bob Seger Fire Lake
Anything by The Band....they dont get near the respect they deserve
G'N'R Rocket Queen- has everything ya love about G'n'R but gets overshadowed by other popular songs on Appettie.

[HawkfromNorwalk]

Oh, and by the way...artists do change over time. Prime example is Scorpions. Here's a song from their debut album which sounds ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like what people know them for (cross between Black Sabbath and early-ish Iron Maiden):

YouTube - Scorpions I'm Going Mad

That's crazy! Never seen or heard that before. You're right, if you didn't know that was the Scorpions it would be very easy to believe it was Sabbath.

[heitclone]

I would say that any song from an underrated artist is underrated (like Drive-By Truckers or Lucero), so I'll go underrated songs from reasonably popular artists...

"Sway" Rolling Stones
"Sweet Virginia" Rolling Stones
"Rebels" Tom Petty
"Straight into Darkness" Tom Petty
"Had Me a Real Good Time" The Faces
"Little Mascara" The Replacements
"I Could Have Lied" RHCP
"Come Back" Pearl Jam
"Satan's Bed" Pearl Jam
"Barstool Blues" Neil Young and Crazy Horse
"Time to Kill" The Band
"Ophelia" The Band
"School" Nirvana
"Rudderless" The Lemonheads
"Cherry Bomb" John Cougar Mellencamp
"Into the Mystic" Van Morrison
"Next Year" Foo Fighters
"February Stars" Foo Fighters

Sweet! You gave some love to The Band, Van Morrison doesn't get enough credit either....most people aren't aware of anything other than Brown Eyed Girl.....nice list

[cycopath25]

One of my favorite topics on music (that doesn't include performing). Let's hear it, and I'm going to start with some of mine...underrated/forgotten/unheard of/etc. Bolded are my top picks:

A-Ha - Summer Moved On
Aerosmith - Combination
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
The Band - Whisphering Pines
Beck - Already Dead
Beck, Bogert & Appice - Lady
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Combination of the Two
Billy Preston - Will It Go Round in Circles
Black Sabbath - Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wears Boots
The Blind Boys of Alabama - I Shall Not Walk Alone
Blind Melon - Soak the Sin
Blind Melon - Change
Blur - There's No Other Way
Budgie - Napoleon Bona Parts 1 & 2
Bush - Distant Voices
Bush - Letting the Cables Sleep
The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
Candlebox - Cover Me
Candlebox - 10,000 Horses
Captain Beefheart - This is the Day
Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless
Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa
Catherine Wheel - Waydown
Chambers Brothers - I Can't Stand It
Corey Glover - April Rain
Corrosion of Conformity - Heaven's Not Overflowing
Country Joe & the Fish - Flying High
Cracker - The Good Life
Cream - Tales of Brave Ulysses
Cream - Deserted Cities of the Heart
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair
Dave Mason - World in Changes
Days of the New - Face of the Earth
Doobie Brothers - Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels
The Doors - The Spy
Dream Theater - Through Her Eyes
Drive-by Truckers - Daylight
Duncan Sheik - Wishful Thinking
The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You
An Emotional Fish - Celebrate
Flaw - Endangered Species
Fleetwood Mac - Green Manalishi (Peter Green's FM, not Stevie Nicks)
Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman (see above)
Fleetwood Mac - Need Your Love So Bad (see above)
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Daddy
Foreigner - At War With the World
Foreigner - Starrider
Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day
Free - Heavyload
Grand Funk Railroad - Heartbreaker
Grand Funk Railroad - Can't Be Too Long
Grant Lee Buffalo - Might Joe Moon
The Great Society - White Rabbit (yes, the same White Rabbit as Jefferson Airplane "covered")
The Guess Who - Sour Suite
Incubus - Echo
Inspiral Carpets - Two Worlds Collide
James - Sit Down
James - Sometimes
Jane's Addiction - Three Days
Jane's Addiction - Just Because
Jason Mraz - Absolutely Zero
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver
Jefferson Airplane - 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds
Jerry Cantrell - Hurt a Long Time
Jimi Hendrix - Pali Gap
Jimi Hendrix - Driving South
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Love or Confusion
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Miss Strange
John Butler Trio - Ocean
John Butler Trio - What You Want
John Butler Trio - Pickapart
Jose Feliciano - Light My Fire
Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death
Keef Hartley Band - Leavin' Trunk
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Deja Voodoo
King's X - It's Love
King's X - She's Gone Away
Kula Shaker - Govinda
Kula Shaker - Tattva
Kula Shaker - Great Hosannah
Kula Shaker - Hurricane Season
Kula Shaker - Dr. Kitt
Labelle - Are You Lonely?
Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonne Leave You
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
Lenny Kravitz - Believe
Leslie West - Dreams of Milk & Honey
Live - Operation Spirit
Living Colour - Love Rears Its Ugly Head
Lo Fidelity All Stars - Battleflag
Long John Baldry - Flying
The Longpigs - On & On
Love - Alone Again Or
Love - A House is Not a Motel
Madonna - Rescue Me
Mamas & the Papas - Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)
Mamas & the Papas - No Salt on Her Tail
Mamas & the Papas - Words of Love
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
The Mayfield Four - Summergirl
The Mayfield Four - 12/31
The Meters - It Ain't No Use
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Michael Jackson - Stranger in Moscow
Miles Davis - Recollections
Mountain - Theme From an Imaginary Western
Muse - Falling Down
The Music - Turn Out the Light
The Music - Fight the Feeling
The Music - Take the Long Road and Walk It
Nas - Let There Be Light
Neil Young - Running Dry (Requiem For the Rockets)
Nevermore - Sell My Heart for Stones
Nick Drake - One of These Things First
Nick Drake - Day is Done
Oasis - Masterplan
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Oasis - Cast No Shadow
Oasis - D'you Know What I Mean?
Opeth - Burden
Ours - Sometimes
Pearl Jam - Present Tense
Pearl Jam - Garden
Pearl Jam - Indifference
Pearl Jam - ImmortalityA Perfect Circle - Passive
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Pink Floyd - Keep Talking
Pink Floyd - MaroonedPolice - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Porcupine Tree - My Ashes
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Porcupine Tree - The Sound of Muzak
Porcupine Tree - Waiting
Porcupine Tree - She's Moved On
Porcupine Tree - The Rest Will Flow
Porcupine Tree - Piano Lessons
Porcupine Tree - Always Never
Pushmonkey - HandslideQueen - White ManQueen - Who Wants to Live Forever?
Queensryche - Della Brown
Queensryche - The Right Side of My Mind
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
R. Kelly - I Wish
R.E.M. - Ignoreland
Radio Moscow - Frustrating Sound
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Rage Against the Machine - New Millennium Homes
Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Shallow Be Thy Name
Rolling Stones - Anybody Seen My Baby?
Rolling Stones - Ventilator Blues
Rolling Stones - Under The Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
Rolling Stones - Out of Tears
School of Fish - Euphoria
Scorpions - I'm Goin' Mad
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Silverchair - Shade
Soundgarden - Fresh Tendrils
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spirit - Nature's Way
Stevie Wonder - It Ain't No Use
Stone Roses - Driving South
Stone Roses - Love Spreads
Stone Sour - Zzyzx Road
Temple of the Dog - Reach Down
Ten Years After - Nowhere to Run
Thievery Corporation - State of the Union
Third Eye Blind - Darkness
Tim Buckley - I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
Tim Buckley - No Man Can Find the War
Tim Buckley - Strange Feelin'
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crazy Life
Tool - Jimmy
Tool - Pushit (live)
Tool - The Patient
Tool - Swamp Song
U2 - Surrender
Vanilla Fudge - Thoughts
Vanilla Fudge - That's What Makes a Man
VAST - Thrown Away
VAST - Dirty Hole
The Verve - Blue
The Verve - The Rolling People
The Verve - Lucky Man
Wanderlust - I Walked
Whitesnake - Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
The Who - Young Man Blues (live)The Who - Run Run RunXTC - Dear God


...and so on, lol

Too much time on your hands?

[jpete24]

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