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Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-01-2009, 08:24 PM:

With today's digital downloading growing and complete album sales plummeting, the treasure of finding a "deep track" and having it be one of your favorites by a particular artist is becoming more rare. I'm curious what some people hold as their "hidden masterpieces." These are tracks that never recognized the commercial success or radio play (perhaps due to length, profanity, etc.), but became a favorite as you listened to the album. These could be artists new or old. Any style of music. I am always interested in checking out more obscure tracks by bands. Often they can be better than what is manufactured for the radio to generate sales. I have listed a few of mine, although I have plenty more. My taste leans toward rock, but I listen to a lot of things. Share yours if you wish:

Format is Artist/Song/Album

Live / Pillar of Davidson / Throwing Copper
Beastie Boys / Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun / Paul's Boutique
Obadiah Parker / Hey Ya / youtube video (has gained lots of internet attention now)
Johnny Cash / Hurt / American IV: The Man Comes Around (a fantastic Nine Inch Nails song and Cash's version is priceless)
Pulp / Common People / released as a single
Cake / Frank Sinatra / Fashion Nugget

Anyway, there's a few. Now you go.

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 06-01-2009, 08:49 PM:

Celtic Tigers / I'm Gonna Be (Five Hundred Miles) / Roar

Saw these guys in Maui of all places in an Irish Pub called "Mulligans On The Blue". Since my wife is an Irish dancer, we're always on the lookout for good Irish music, and have heard quite a lot of BAD Irish music. These guys are awesome though. In fact, the whole album is great in my opinion.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-02-2009, 12:35 AM:

I Am A Camera, Buggles

Sea of Love, AB Logic

Creepin', Grand Funk Railroad

Heart of Stone, Fleetwood Mac (available only on the now-discontinued box set, "The Chain")

Odo-Ya, Sergio Mendes (a current fave)

Water Sign, Gary Wright

Rockin' Heaven Down, Heart

Parana, Airto

Doin' What I Can, Lindsey Buckingham

The Blonde In the Blue T-Bird, Walter Egan

The Sea is My Soil, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Jeez, there are dozens of my favorite songs that most people have never heard of. Those are just a few top-of-head favorites.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 06-02-2009, 08:54 AM:

quote: Chad Souder
Johnny Cash / Hurt / American IV: The Man Comes Around (a fantastic Nine Inch Nails song and Cash's version is priceless)

FYI: This did get lots of play on MTV at least.

And my entry is
Deep Purple / When A Blind Man Cries / B-side of Smoke on the Water single

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 06-02-2009, 09:11 AM:

"Less Than Perfect" by Red 7, preferably the version from the soundtrack to the Joe Dante movie "Explorers".

"Walk on the Water" by Creedence.

Posted by Andrew Bangs (Member # 4938) on 06-02-2009, 10:24 AM:

Life Is A Highway / Tom Cochrane

Roses Are Red / Aqua

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now / Starship

Let's Do It / from: Tank Girl / Joan Jett & Paul Westerberg

The Touch / Stan Bush

Only Solutions / Journey

Never Ending Story / Limahl

Caveman (End Title) / Lalo Schifrin

Into it Starship Troopers / Zoe Poledouris

Just about any orchestration by / Basil Poledouris

This is why I love Movie soundtracks... You get so much variety and you hear some things that Would never be played Main stream.

Posted by Clint Koch (Member # 1179) on 06-02-2009, 10:41 AM:

Mike,

I AM A CAMERA is actually a YES song called INTO THE LENS and was recorded when the two guys from the Buggles (Trevor Horn & Geoff Downes) were in the band. It was originally an unfinished Buggle tune that YES completed when Trevor and Geoff joined the band in 1980. This is the only YES album with out Jon Anderson singing. The Ablum in called Drama and consisted of Chris Squire (bass), Steve Howe (guitar), Allen White (drums), Geoff Downs (keyboards) and Trevor Horn (vocals).

Sorry, I am a bit of a YES fan as you might have guessed.

Anyway, I agree with you, it is a great song.

Clint

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 06-02-2009, 10:47 AM:

It's always sad when a big hit steals the thunder of another great song from the album.

Everyone's sick of Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy," but the same album ("Simple Pleasures") has great covers of "Good Lovin'" and "Sunshine of Your Love."

The B-side of "Give a Little Bit" by Supertramp has a great little tune called "Downstream."

This makes me wonder about something else: How often does a band record a song knowing that it's probably just filler and they will never play the song in a concert? Perhaps the time they recorded it will be absolutely the last time they ever play it.

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-02-2009, 11:10 AM:

A few more off the top:

Randy Newman - God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Pink Floyd - When the Tiger's Broke Free (from the movie The Wall)
Cake - Frank Sinatra
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
Beck - Jack-Ass

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 06-02-2009, 11:38 AM:

I loved the later "YES" albums "Going for the One" (which Wakeman came back to record in this one..and we can even go on a side tangent with Wakeman with all of the great solo albums that he shot out..)- "90125" (major classic album!) - "Big Generator"

Remember when Anderson went solo with his very rare "Elias of Sunhillow" in 1976 for ATLANTIC, along with him teaming up with Vangelis on two albums "Mr.Cairo" and "Jon and Vangelis"?

Can I add RUSH into this progressive rock section?

"Tom Sawyer"
"Time Stand Still"
"Big Money" (one of the best videos on MTv)

et.al.

-Monte

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-02-2009, 11:45 AM:

Hi Clint -
Right -- I knew about the Buggles/Yes connection and that Yes song, but the Buggles version was the one I heard first and I tend to like it better -- it's more pop-ish, I guess.

Here are some more of my favorite undiscovered tunes:

Sukarita - Judie Tzuke (she was very popular in the UK so some of you UK fans may have heard this)

Endings - Ambrosia (the last song on their last album)

Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away - Stevie Wonder (one of his great gospel songs)

John Cope - Talk Talk (from their Asides Besides collection)

Street Kids - Elton John (you kids who think he's only a ballad singer should check this out)

Return to Tunguska - Alan Parsons (from his latest album "A Valid Path" - featuring David Gilmour on guitar)

Fightin' It Out In The Heart Of The City - Wendy Waldman (on her rock album "Which Way to Main Street," currently not available, unfortunately)

Posted by Tom Mundell (Member # 4555) on 06-02-2009, 12:17 PM:

I'm also a big progressive rock fan (Love Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson...) Yes' album Magnification has a number of great tracks; Dreamtime is simply awesome! Also agree Rick Wakeman has a number of great albums [thumbsup]

Some of my favorite more obscure songs...

The Delicate Flame of Desire (Karnataka)
Freeeze! (Aural Vampire)
Oblivious (Kalafina)
Turn the Light On (Five Star Fall)
Dragonfly (The Cruxshadows)
Asuka (Rin')
Fall Down (Echostream)
Stigmata Martyr (Abney Park)
Double Rocker (Stereolab)

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 06-02-2009, 12:45 PM:

The album "The Trumpet Child" by Over the Rhine is like a river of awesome deep tracks.

Posted by Tony Bandiera Jr (Member # 2365) on 06-02-2009, 01:06 PM:

Muse/Knights of Cydonia/Black Holes and Revelations

One of the most awesome songs I've heard in years, I first heard it on the radio on my way to the mx track for my first ride in over 16 years. The lyrics really hit home with my state of mind at the time:

"No one's gonna take me alive, the time has come to make things right, you and I must fight for our rights, you and I must fight to survive."

Here's a link to the video of this song, it's a bizarre video.

LINKY

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 06-02-2009, 03:49 PM:

Here's a handful of rock tunes I like that didn't get much radio airplay:

Queens of the Stone Age - In My Head / Album: Lullabies to Paralyze

Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined (instrumental) / Album: The Fragile
This tune was mostly obscure until it was put in the "300" movie trailer.

The Police - Too Much Information / Album: Ghost in the Machine

Metallica - Eye of the Beholder / Album: ...And Justice for All

Blue Öyster Cult - Joan Crawford / Album: Fire of Unknown Origin

The Fixx - Deeper & Deeper (long version) / Streets of Fire movie soundtrack

Stone Temple Pilots - Silver Gun Superman / Album: Purple

Alice In Chains - Dirt / Album: Dirt
This song was the title track of Alice In Chains' most successful album, but didn't get nearly as much airplay as other much more popular songs like Would?, Rooster and Them Bones. It's still one hell of a fearsome track.

Since Rush was mentioned it goes without saying Rush is not a singles oriented band. They sure put on a hell of a concert though! So it's difficult to characterize certain songs on any of their albums as being obscure, deep or undiscovered. At best I can only offer a few album tracks I really like that didn't show up on Greatest Hits releases like Chronicles:

Rush - Witch Hunt / Album: Moving Pictures
Rush - Digital Man/ Album: Signals
Rush - The Body Electric / Album: Grace Under Pressure
Rush - Marathon / Album: Power Windows
Rush - Turn the Page / Album: Hold Your Fire
Rush - Ghost of a Chance / Album: Roll the Bones

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 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!

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 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.

Posted by Alastair Comrie (Member # 4313) on 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 [Big Grin]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 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

Posted by Mark Lensenmayer (Member # 134) on 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!

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 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: [Big Grin]

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

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 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.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 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!

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 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*

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 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.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 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.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 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.

Posted by James Westbrook (Member # 3690) on 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.

Posted by Damien Taylor (Member # 4255) on 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.

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 06-08-2009, 02:42 PM:

quote: Monte L Fullmer
"Miracles" played the airwaves that hot summer in 1975.

Yes, it did! [thumbsup]

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! [rofl]

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 06-08-2009, 03:21 PM:

quote: Allison Parsons
Brian Eno/Julie With.../Before and After Science

Yeah, Eno! I just saw him and David Byrne playing their new album at the Wellmont the other night. Great show! All his early 'ambient" albums I've played to death. Music for Films and Before and After Science are classics.

For myself:

Moby Grape: "8:05" from Moby Grape. Beautiful song with a lot of memories attached to it.

Bob Dylan: "Is Your Love in Vain" from Street Legal. Great track from one of the worst engineered albums in history.

Rolling Stones: "2000 Light Years From Home" from Their Satanic Majesties Request. Laugh if you want, but I say it's a very underrated album.

Love: "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" from Forever Changes.

Derek and the Dominoes: "Thorn Tree in the Garden" from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

Joan Baez: "Winds of the Old Days" from Diamonds and Rust.

Oasis: "Don't Look Back in Anger" from What's the Story Morning Glory".

Page France: "Chariot" from Hello Dear Wind.

Talking Heads: "Slippery People" and "Once in a Lifetime". The best and most innovative band to come out of the eighties, bar none. Stop Making Sense is the greatest concert film of all time.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 06-08-2009, 03:21 PM:

Mine is "Jazz Suite, Waltz 2" from "Eyes Wide Shut". Gosh what a beautiful tune.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 06-08-2009, 03:29 PM:

quote: Tim Reed
I Feel Like a Bullet (in the Gun of Robert Ford)
Elton John, "Rock of the Westies" (1975).

Yeah, Tim! I'm glad to find another fan of that album on here. (I mentioned the song "Street Kids" back on page 1, from the same album.) It's underrated and pretty much ignored today.

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-11-2009, 01:01 AM:

quote: Mark Ogden
Talking Heads: "Slippery People" and "Once in a Lifetime". The best and most innovative band to come out of the eighties, bar none.

One could argue about "the best" but they are certainly way up there. I was so happy when I saw Psycho Killer was on Rock Band 2 hoping it would make a few new fans. I remember first watching Roseanne and recognizing John Goodman as the guy from the Wild Wild Life video. Classic stuff.

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 06-11-2009, 01:50 AM:

Bob Dylan: "Hurricane", from the 1976 album "Desire" - Which the film that portrayed Ruben Carter with Denzel Washington in the lead role in "The Hurricane" came from the true story in this song.

Bob Dylan: "Tangled up in Blue"- from the 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks"

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 06-11-2009, 02:21 PM:

"Close To Me" [12 inch version] - The Cure [1985] (available only on a PAL-format import Video CD. The audio tracks play on a regular CD player but the video can only be played on a PAL Laserdisc player. The 12 inch version of Close To Me included there has never been put on another CD to my knowledge).

"What's Your Name" - Depeche Mode [1981] (When the individual albums like Speak and Spell disappear from availability, and all remain are greatest hits compilations, this wonderfully cute song will be lost).

"Fire In Cairo" and "Plastic Passion" by The Cure [1979] (same problem -- when the original albums become unavailable, these tracks will disappear).

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 06-11-2009, 04:42 PM:

quote: Mark Ogden
Love: "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" from Forever Changes.

That album is a small masterpiece.

Hardly unknown or hidden, but only recently caught my attention: "Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House. A great song. Am currently exploring other Crowded House stuff. Neil Finn = [beer]

I guess I was off the grid when Crowded House was big.

Evans: There's a used vinyl shop near where I work that has a ton of Depeche Mode albums, like an entire DM collection someone sold. Just for grins I'll check if they have Speak & Spell.

Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 06-12-2009, 09:35 PM:

Coyote Oldman-Silver Pearl/Dawn /Ziricote/Lunar Symphony/Night Forest (Tear of the Moon)Turtle Island (Thunder Chord)
Iron Wood (In Beauty I Walk) R.Carlos Nakai w/ William Eaton & Black Lodge Singers-Many Flags (Ancestral Voices)

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 06-16-2009, 05:59 PM:

Evans (or anyone else who is a fan) -

The only Cure album I have ever owned is Disintegration. It is amazing - a real treasure - but I never looked into them more. A recent concert HDNet was showing reminded me of Robert Smith's creepy yet somehow magnetizing personality. Please recommend a couple other albums if you would be so kind.

Posted by Joe Tommassello (Member # 4632) on 06-16-2009, 06:12 PM:

I Love To Say Fuck!

Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 - Songs From The Recently Deceased

I saw the lead singer now as a solo act open for Alice Cooper a couple of years ago. What a freak show!!!!

Posted by Dennis M Dow Jr (Member # 1970) on 06-24-2009, 12:45 PM:

There are a few songs that I found that I thought were better than the singles released.

First one was Slaves and Bulldozers by Soundgarden off Outshined

Another was Reptiles and Samurai by Oingo Boingo off Nothing to Fear

Fairies Wear Boots by Black Sabbath off Paranoid

War Pigs by Faith No More off The Real Thing

Posted by Chad Souder (Member # 343) on 07-02-2009, 10:54 AM:

quote: Dennis M Dow Jr
War Pigs by Faith No More off The Real Thing

I agree with you on that one. I wore out that CD and loved Faith No More's version. Too bad they are no more...

Speaking of remakes, I always loved Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams. Gave the song a whole new meaning. Some of my other favorite covers are Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower (duh), Chili Pepper's Higher Ground and Metallica's Sabbra Cadabra. Some of my least favorite (translated as these "artists" should be taken out back and shot for ruining great songs) are Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit, Come Together by Aerosmith and Sweet Child of Mine by Sheryl Crow. They're just awful.

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 07-02-2009, 11:40 AM:

quote:
Since Rush was mentioned it goes without saying Rush is not a singles oriented band. They sure put on a hell of a concert though!

If Anyone has not seen Rush live, put that on your Bucket List, as Rush may only be going on tour one or two more times in the near future:

SEE RUSH LIVE

I have seen them live every tour since 1985.

As far as deep tracks go:

The Mars Volta/Drunkenship of Lanterns/De-Loused in the Comatorium

Rush/Cygnus X-1/A Farewell to Kings