Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

Drifting -- Jimi Hendrix
Song Is Over -- The Who
Blind Willie McTell -- The Master
Desperadoes Waiting For A Train -- Guy Clark
Desperadoes Under The Eaves -- Zevon
Stop Breakin' Down -- hell, that whole side of Exile -- Stones.
New World Order -- Curtis Mayfield
A Change Is Gonna Come -- Sam Cooke
King Harvest (Will Surely Come) -- The Band

 

Speaking of Dr. Hook, how about "Sharing the Night Together"? Sappy, but when you were young and in love ... :

 

To name three while I'm at work:

The Price You Pay - Bruce Springsteen
Killer's Eyes - The Kinks
Settle for Love - Joe Ely

 

Speaking of Exile, "Rocks Off", "All Down The Line:" and "Rip This Joint". Some of the best Stones songs ever.

Some other great Stones semi-obscurities: "Dandelion", "She's A Rainbow", "Little T&A"

Plant - "Burning Down One Side"

Rod Stewart - "Sailing"

 

RE: She's a Rainbow. Fucking A Right!

Add Dead Flowers to that list.

 

I'll third "She's a Rainbow". Great song.

 

"Don't Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie (on the King of Rock and Roll)" -- Long John Baldry.

 

The Kissers, a Celtic rock band from Madison, Wis., do the most ass-kicking live version of She's a Rainbow, complete with strings, a kick-ass performance by their female vocalist and damn fine version of the piano solo. But copyright issues prevent them from releasing it, dammit.

Lots of hidden gems in Who, Stones and Kinks catalogs. Even the freaking Hollies, hell yes. Recently I've been getting back into the Animals...a ballsy alternative to the cutsier British Invasion stuff. "It's My Life," "Don't Bring Me Down"...even the Hendrix-esque "Sandoz."

 

Odd, because it's a signature hit record, but...
The Thrill Is Gone - BB King.

 

Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
Respect Yourself - The Staples Singers
I'll Take You There - The Staples Singers

 

Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider
She Blinded Me with Science by Thomas Dolby
any number of Oingo Boingo songs

 

"I See You" by Yes
"This ol' cowboy" by Marshall Tucker Band
"Song for America" by Kansas
"Two of Us" by the Beatles
"Right on for the darkness" by Curtis Mayfield
"Taken at all" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
"M'Lady" by Sly and the Family Stone
"Store bought, store thought" by the Flock
"Questions No. 67 and 68" by Chicago

Classic rock rules.