Recommend a deep cut

[jr/shotglass]

One that came over the iPod yesterday: "Brave Strangers" from Seger's Stranger In Town. Just love that song.

A lot of people missed that because the first side of the original album was one of the best album sides of all time. But that is a great cut.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Some more after farting around on iTunes ...

"When I Kissed The Teacher" - ABBA (gulp)
"Please Let Me Wonder" - The Beach Boys
"There's A Place" - The Beatles
"The Ballad Of El Goodo" - Big Star
"Have You Seen Her Face" - The Byrds
"Oh Candy" - Cheap Trick
"Stay Free" - The Clash
"The Best Way To See America" - Lou Christie
"Drive-In Saturday" - David Bowie
"Man Out Of Time" - Elvis Costello
"Off The Wall" - Michael Jackson
"See The Sky About To Rain" - Neil Young
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking" - Rolling Stones
"It's Late" - Queen
"Girl Afraid" - The Smiths
"In Quintessence" - Squeeze
"Found A Job" - Talking Heads
"Rockin' Around (With You) - Tom Petty
"Hung Up On A Dream" - The Zombies

 

[doubledown68]

Don't know if they're considered deep cuts or not, but Dustbowl Dance and Blank White Page are two of my favorites off of Mumford & Sons' Sigh No More. In fact, the whole ****ing album is a gold mine.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.... Janglin. Up From Below is catchy too.

 

[rmanfredi]

Cheap Trick: "Downed" - pretty much the perfect example of the synthesis of big rock hooks and Beatlesesque melodies that Cheap Trick came to embody in their first three albums.

XTC: "No Language in Our Lungs" - it's still the highlight of "Black Sea" for me, and maybe Andy Partridge's best lyric.

X: "The Have Nots" - you can almost hear them exhaling at no longer having to be the standard bearers for whatever people expected the LA punk scene to be and where they were able to expand their sound to include more roots and straight rock.

The Replacements: "Little Mascara" - one of the three great songs of Side B of "Tim" and the one people mention the least.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I bow in the general direction of the last three posters. Nicely done.

 

[crimsonace]

Anything Bruce Hornsby has released in the last 20 years probably qualifies .

One that's stuck in my head: Moody Blues' "Vintage Wine" from Long Distance Voyager. Catchy song if you're in the right mood.

 

[MonsterLobster]

I suppose most of the bands I listen to don't have hits or singles, so saying there are deep cuts isn't really accurate. But I suppose these are a few songs I think are underappreciated.

At the Drive-In - Rascuache


ALL - Vida Blue (got a baseball reference onto the list)


Bruce Springsteen - Talk to Me


Bruce Springsteen with the Seeger Sessions Band - Bobby Jean (I didn't think it was possible to make this song better, but the Live in Dublin EP version gives me chills)


Dinosaur Jr. - I'm Insane


The Replacements - My Little Problem


Against Me! - Sink, Florida, Sink (electric version)


Small Brown Bike - Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy cover)
No one has ever bothered uploading a video for this, but it's awesome

Steely Dan - Kings

 

[jr/shotglass]

Eric Carmen - Boats Against The Current

 

[Quakes]

I don't know if these qualify as deep cuts, but I suspect most people haven't heard of them or overlook them in favor of other songs by these artists:

Bruce Springsteen, "Lift Me Up"
The Decemberists, "Sons and Daughters"
Foo Fighters, "The Last Song"
George Harrison, "If Not For You"
Iron and Wine, "Love Vigilantes"
Jaymay, "Gray or Blue"
Mirah, "Sweepstakes Prize"
Otis Redding, "Tennessee Waltz"
Rolling Stones, "Moonlight Mile"
She & Him, "Change Is Hard"
Tom Petty, "The Apartment Song"
U2, "Original Of The Species"

 

[doctorx]

Ooops, I thought this thread was about newspaper salaries. Glad it isn't. Carry on.

 

[Cosmo]

Ween -- "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony."

 

[Huggy]

The mention of "Rockin' Around With You" - a great Tom Petty song - brought to mind my fave deep cut of TP's, "A Thing About You" from Hard Promises. "King's Road" was a great rocker from that album too.

 

[Dick Whitman]

My favorite TP deep cuts are "When the Time Comes" (on a very early album) and "The Apartment Song" from Full Moon Fever.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I have always maintained that the best Stones song that has not been beaten to death by classic rock radio (and there are a bunch to choose from) is "Sway". "No Expectations", "Stray Cat Blues", "Salt of the Earth" and "Jigsaw Puzzle" would be some others from the Beggar's Banquet days.

Probably debatable whether any Stones song qualifies as a deep cut. Although perhaps so, since a lot of casual rock radio fans probably know them as merely a hit-maker.

Almost everything on "Exile on Main Street" qualifies, but in particular "Rocks Off," "Torn and Frayed," and (most of all) "All Down the Line."

 

[Captain_Kirk]

My favorite TP deep cut: "Deliver Me" from Long After Dark.

And you can parlay that if you want with the very next song on the album, "Change of Heart".

 

[lesboulez]

lucero's last november...available only on the import version of "that much further west".

 

[Captain_Kirk]

I have always maintained that the best Stones song that has not been beaten to death by classic rock radio (and there are a bunch to choose from) is "Sway". "No Expectations", "Stray Cat Blues", "Salt of the Earth" and "Jigsaw Puzzle" would be some others from the Beggar's Banquet days.

Probably debatable whether any Stones song qualifies as a deep cut. Although perhaps so, since a lot of casual rock radio fans probably know them as merely a hit-maker.

Almost everything on "Exile on Main Street" qualifies, but in particular "Rocks Off," "Torn and Frayed," and (most of all) "All Down the Line."

Love all three of those songs, but to your point, not sure they would qualify for deep cut status. Certainly not 'Rocks Off', the opening song of the album.

I'll try a couple that could qualify

'Child of the Moon', the b side to JJ Flash.

'High Wire', a studio song from the live album, Flashpoint. Since it was released as a single, maybe more a forgotten cut than a deep cut. In any event, well worthy of a download.

 

[Double J]

"There's A Place" - The Beatles

A hugely underrated album cut/B side, as is "Ask Me Why."