Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

The Toadies ...

 

Someone Like You and Into the Mystic, Van Morrison

 

Heaven 17 "Let Me Go"

 

That's a great call. I've always loved this line:

"Mario Andretti would've sure been proud/of the way I was movin' when I passed that crowd."

Thought of some more...

"Dang Me" by Roger Miller
"Lincoln Duncan" by Paul Simon
"Billy the Kid" by Billy Joel
"Long, long, long" by the Beatles
"Triad" by CSNY
"Blowin' your mind" by Gordon Parks - Shaft's Big Score! theme song, which is WAY better than Isaac Hayes' version
"Picture Book" by the Kinks

Now I've got to check my mp3 list.....

 

My favorite DM song ...

 

Including the immortal "Goodbye, Goodbye", played over the closing credits in Fast Times.

 

Don't know if I can consider Picture Book a "long-forgotten" song since it was just used in a commercial last year.

 

My first show was Oingo Boingo at the Palladium in L.A. Best energy of any group I've ever seen.

Favorite video by OB (I bear a heavy resemblence to Danny Elfman. People always asked me if I was his younger brother.)

 

What commercial was that? I've never heard it anywhere else but XM. Actually, just about every song I've listed I've come across on XM. All the more reason why satellite radio rules.

Some more...

"We gotta get you a woman" Todd Rundgren
"Nostradamus" Al Stewart
"Brother Louie" Stories

 

"Tupelo Honey" - Van Morrison
"Crazy Love" - Van Morrison
"Jackie Wilson" - Van Morrison
"Around the Dial" - The Kinks
"Stop Your Sobbing" - The Kinks
"Misfits" - The Kinks
"Dead Flowers" - Rolling Stones
"Crush On You" - Springsteen
"Racing in the Streets" - Springsteen
"Night" - Springsteen
"Be True" - Springsteen
"Janey Don't You Lose Heart" - Springsteen
"I Don't Want to Go Home" - Southside Johnny & the Jukes
"Every Grain of Sand" - Bob Dylan
"Desolation Row" - Bob Dylan
"When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" (bootleg series version) - Bob Dylan
"Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts" - Bob Dylan
"All Just to Get To You" - Joe Ely
"Gaelo Del Cielo" - Joe Ely
"Dallas" - The Flatlanders (or Joe Ely solo, take your pick)
"Homo Erectus" - Kinky Friedman
"They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore" - Kinky Friedman
"Asshole from El Paso" - Kinky Friedman

 

HP used it in one (or more) of their commercials.

 

My favorite Petty song and all-time video ...