Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

For all of the guys here who, like me, fell in love with Devin.

 

Some great Petty obscurities:

"Rockin' Around With You"

"A Thing About You"

"King's Road"

"Century City"

"What Are You Doin' In My Life"

 

"He Will Break Your Heart" by Jerry Butler
"You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore
"Pretty Flamingo" by Manfred Mann
"In My Room" by the Beach Boys
"Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)" by the Shangri-Las
"Shakin' All Over" by the Guess Who
"To Love Somebody" by the Bee Gees
"Jingle Jangle" by the Archies

 

Springsteen does an amazing cover of that, so that jarred my memory on a few more..
"Let the Four Winds Blow" - Fats Domino
"Everytime You Walk in the Room" - The Searchers
"Then He Kissed Me" - The Crystals
"I Want You" - Bob Dylan
"Mountain of Love" - Johnny Rivers

 

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the great Tom Waits yet... for starters there's
"Ol 55"
"Heart of a Saturday Night"
"Hang Down Your Head"

 

Can't forget the Psychedelic Furs ...

 

More from The Kinks:
"Dandy"
"Little Miss Queen of Darkness"
"Two Sisters"
"Lazy Old Sun"
"Death of a Clown"
"When I Turn Off the Living Room Lights"
"Did You See His Name?"
"Polly"
"Wicked Annabella"
"Big Sky"
"Do You Remember Walter?"
"Big Black Smoke"
"Get Back in Line"
"This Time Tommorrow"
"20th Century Man"
"Oklahoma USA"
"Muswell Hillbilly"

 

I'm headed down to the City soon. This'll be the first song as I pull onto the big road.

 

Some of mine have already been mentioned, but here's a few more

"Life in a Northern Town" - The Dream Academy
"So Like Candy" - Elvis Costello
"Skateaway" - Dire Straits
"Vincent" - Don McLean

 

Dream Academy ...

 

Yes, "Don't Answer Me" was the comic-book style animated video. When I was a kid I was mostly captivated by the video, not the song. And when I went back to seek out the song years later, I really loved it.

"There is no God" was indeed on Extreme's fourth album, "Waiting for the Punch Line." It opens the album and has a nice hard riff...Nuno works it well on this one.

 

Concrete Blonde