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Author Topic: What are your favorite hidden musical masterpieces? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-02-2009 07:17 PM                        True, Rush is not a singles band but they sure have some great singles. My favorite is "Distant Early Warning." More obscure faves of mine: "High" - Cheryl Dilcher (sort of an early Pat Benatar-ish sound) "Bongo Rock" - Incredible Bongo Band (corny instrumental but it kicks for me) "Pinball Wizard/See Me, Feel Me" - The New Seekers (Yes, the awful "I'd Like to Teach The World To Sing" band covered two of the Who's greatest songs and did them justice. Miracles do happen!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-02-2009 07:34 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley Pinball Wizard Yea, that 1972 release was very good, yet can we all remember when Elton John did this version for the movie "TOMMY?" Even though it was a huge hit that spring of 1975 on the airwaves, it never was released as a single - only showed up on the soundtrack and his "Greatest Hits Vol. III" album.  |  IP: Logged Alastair Comrie Film Handler Posts: 28 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: May 2007 posted 06-02-2009 07:36 PM                     Mine would be: Quixoticelixer - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication B-Side) and Sikamikaniko - Red Hot Chili Peppers (BloodSugarSexMagik B-Side) Yes i'm a Chilis fan  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-02-2009 07:49 PM                     "Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends.." ELP - The 1973 "Father Christmas" song. Then, we had the one ELPowell album from 1986: "Love Blind" - being a pianist, I loved Keith Emerson's piano in that piece. Keith Emerson's "The Three Fates" with the organ piece in the 1st movement "Clotho" On 1977's "Works,Vol 1" was Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto. ..lol...don't get me started with ELP... Remember in Christmas of 1985 when a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 was released on 12inch single came out: "Do they know it's Christmas?" Band-Aid? - Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-02-2009 09:09 PM                     OK, friends, lets really get strange here. These are among my all time favorite (and VERY unknown) musical pieces: Bach - FUGUE from TOCCATA, ADAGIO & FUGUE IN C-MAJOR Maynard Ferguson Orchestra- EVERY DAY I HAVE THE BLUES Stan Kenton Orchestra- HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY (My personal favorite song) Hi-Los - Molly Malone Carmine Coppola - SCORE FOR NAPOLEON Some of the more recognizable: Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen - HOT ROD LINCOLN Elton John - DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME Beach Boys - SLOOP JOHN B Roy Rogers/Dale Evans - HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU Donna Summer - LAST DANCE On the bad list...anything by NEIL YOUNG. OH, and for Mike B....Bongo Rock RULES! It's in the same class as BABY FACE by the Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps!  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 06-02-2009 09:09 PM                        Queen/It's Late/News of the World Brian Eno/Julie With.../Before and After Science Eels/My Descent Into Madness/Electro Shock Blues U2/Stay(Far Away So Close)/Zooropa and about 3 other OST's(all diffrent version, and all I love) Pink Floyd/Poles Apart/Division Bell Leonard Cohen/Tower Of Song/I'm a huge Cohen fan, but the version that always gets to me is the Martha Wainwright verson on Leonard Cohen:I'm Your Man OST. Hawkind/Running Through.../Zones Thats 7 out of 50+ I could choose. Speaking of Rush, here are my Rush choices: Rush/ A Farewell To Kings/same album Rush/The Camera Eye/Moving Pictures Rush/Natural Science/Permanent Waves Rush/Ghost of a Chance/ RTB (great choice Bobby!) Rush/Circumstances/Hemispheres Victor (Alex Lifesons solo CD)/Strip and Go Naked- just a good guitar driven instrumental  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-02-2009 10:44 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley True, Rush is not a singles band but they sure have some great singles. My favorite is "Distant Early Warning." I saw Rush perform that song live on the Power Windows tour in 1986 (Capital Center in the Maryland suburbs of DC). It was freaking awesome. They had this big projection screen showing an animated version of the Grace Under Pressure album cover and showed footage of the Distant Early Warning music video. They had lasers and all sorts of other wild lights in the performance. I liked the image of kid riding the nuclear missile -reminiscent of Doctor Strangelove. Still, my favorite tracks from Grace Under Pressure are The Body Electric and Red Sector A. However I pretty much love that entire album. It's one of perhaps a couple dozen or so in my CD collection that I can listen to from start to finish without any temptation of skipping to other tracks.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-03-2009 01:52 AM                     ..and sadly, "Grace Under Pressure" wasn't one of my favorites even though "Red Sector A" and "Body Electric" were good songs. "Signals", "Power Windows" and "Hold Your Fire", to me was definitely excellent RUSH for Lee's OBX synthesizer era in the mid to latter 80's...and the way Neil Peart hammered on the 'skins' in these albums...Excellent drum techniques! quote: Allison Parsons Pink Floyd/Poles Apart/Division Bell Mine was "High Hopes" off that album - being their last studio album in 1994, until the famous P.U.L.S.E live a year later. Okey, here's an hidden masterpiece single: 1981's John Stewart's: "The Queen of Hollywood High". Hit the airwaves in my area for only two weeks and then disappeared. I managed to snag the "45" of this at our local music store. How about the self-titled 1974 album of Albert Hammond? Contains the hit "It Never Rains in Southern California" "I'm a Train" "Air Disaster" ... and others. GONE off the face of the earth!  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-03-2009 03:08 AM                     I've got Albert Hammond's second album - I THINK it was his second - titled The Free Electric Band. I thought It Never Rains was on an earlier one. Was it only released as a single and put on his 1974 album with Air Disaster and I'm a Train? Maybe Free Electric Band was his first album... Another missing great is Eric Carmen, formally of the Raspberries. His self-titled album from 1975 has the LONG version of All By Myself, which is not easy to find. I'm assuming both of these yahoos are still alive...? *goes off to Google to check*  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 06-04-2009 10:53 AM                     quote: Tony Bandiera Jr Muse/Knights of Cydonia/Black Holes and Revelations The first time I heard this song on XM, I thought it sounded like something that belonged in a campy '80s sci-fi flick. It's very catchy. I like it. Another treasure: Tori Amos and Maynard James Keenan doing a live duet of Muhammed My Friend. Please dismiss the gaggle of screaming teen girls.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-07-2009 09:57 PM                       I Feel Like a Bullet (in the Gun of Robert Ford) Elton John, "Rock of the Westies" (1975). Git Fiddler Jefferson Starship, "Red Octopus" (1975) My brother gave me these two LPs for Christmas in '75, and they were the first albums I ever owned.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-08-2009 01:32 AM                     Elton John's Tiny Dancer. I found the sheet music to this song and it was fun to play on the piano. One of the great tunes from the 1971's "Madman" album. "Red Octopus" .. best album from JS and "Miracles" played the airwaves that hot summer in 1975.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 06-08-2009 02:03 AM                     Albert Hammond and Eric Carmen are still alive and well. Hammond has a son who is also a performer. Mad Man Across The Water also sported the classic "Levon", which I personally feel is the better song on the album, though Tiny Dancer was what drew me to it. Numerous cuts on The White Album by the Beatles have several favorite tracks, including Bungalow Bill and Why Don't we Do It In The Road. The White Album also has Revolution 9, which sometimes I cannot tolerate and will cause me to get up and "skip" that track on my CD player (I often lose the remote) and straight to Good Night.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-08-2009 05:14 AM                     I'm really into 'cinematic' jazz fusion right now. Loving David Axelrod's work, especially the "Song Of Innocence" album. Every single track is great, sampled to death, but the original is the best. Here is Holy Thursday from this album. Amazing music.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-08-2009 02:42 PM                       quote: Monte L Fullmer "Miracles" played the airwaves that hot summer in 1975. Yes, it did! I remember my brother (a popular ladies man) told me (an awkward, unpopular teen) that whenever I made time with a girl, all I had to do was play that song and she'd melt for me. Problem was, I could never get a girl into the park... much less to first base!  |  IP: Logged

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