Favorite "non-hit" song by a major artist (1 Viewer)

[northern exposure]

Daily Records - The Who, off of Face Dances

Also like "Don't Let Go The Coat" off the same album

 

[got_nugs]

Pearl jam - porch

I think that got some radio play. I think it still does on occasion.

But anything Pearl Jam would be good, radio play or not.

Been a die hard PJ fan since 91. Don't think I've ever heard it on the radio. "Better man", "black" and "yellow Ledbetter" are the pj songs that have probably received the most radio play that weren't official singles.

Off He Goes

Off my favorite album by any band. Who you are was released as a single or that would have gotten my vote.

Porch has so many great live versions, I'm glad it wasn't a radio tune. Austin City Limits this October!

 

[jwb]

The Murder Mystery - The Velvet Underground

So Fine - ELO

Sick Again - Zep

The Spider and the Fly - Rolling Stones

 

[rockaction]

The Who - Jaguar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkibmgLoRa0

 

[DaVinci]

Ike & Tina Turner - Sweet Rhode Island Red

Jimmy Buffett - My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus

Sting - She's Too Good For Me

Van Halen - Atomic Punk

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Ike & Tina Turner - Sweet Rhode Island Red

Good call on the Buffett song. Was that on Havana Daydreamin'? Such a terrific album.

 

[Doug B]

Queen has several: "Brighton Rock", "The Prophet's Song", and "Don't Try Suicide" to name three.

Also: "Journey of the Sorcerer" by the Eagles

 

[JuniorNB]

Billy Joel- Vienna

Kansas- Opus Insert

Gordon Lightfoot- The Circle is Small

Matchbox 20- Shame

Supertramp- Child of Vision

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Aerosmith - Simoriah

Van Halen - Little Guitars

Billy Idol - Prodigal Blues

The Cult - Brother Wolf, Sister Moon/Bleeding Heart Graffiti

Bob Seger - Fire Inside

GNR - Breakdown

Peter Gabriel - Secret World

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The who- trick of the light

Dire Straits - Your Latest Trick

 

[D in the D]

Soulshine - Allman Bros.

Not sure if this one fits the topic, but Respectable by the Rolling Stones is another great song.

 

[Slapdash]

Pearl jam - porch

I think that got some radio play. I think it still does on occasion.

But anything Pearl Jam would be good, radio play or not.

Been a die hard PJ fan since 91. Don't think I've ever heard it on the radio. "Better man", "black" and "yellow Ledbetter" are the pj songs that have probably received the most radio play that weren't official singles.

Off He Goes

Off my favorite album by any band. Who you are was released as a single or that would have gotten my vote.

Porch has so many great live versions, I'm glad it wasn't a radio tune. Austin City Limits this October!

Off He Goes is one of my favorite PJ songs. PJ and Radiohead are both bands with such expansive catalogs that it is hard to pick one song to separate.

 

[Smack Tripper]

Soulshine - Allman Bros.

Not sure if this one fits the topic, but Respectable by the Rolling Stones is another great song.

Great one. This song is really underrated. They should have released it as a single, I think that could have been a hit. That's a song waiting to be exploited and ruined by a rom com

 

[falguy]

Supertramp- Child of Vision

love this song

also,

Eagles - The Last Resort

Hope it qualifies here, If not, it's still once of my favorite songs and got little fanfare since it was on the hit-laden Hotel California album

 

[jfranco77]

U2 Kite

Almost that entire album is criminally underrated at this point (except for Elevation and Beautiful Day)

 

[Apple Jack]

U2 Kite

Almost that entire album is criminally underrated at this point (except for Elevation and Beautiful Day)

It is a great album and might go down as the strongest tour they do.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

The Police - Voices Inside My Head

NIN - La Mer

Metallica - Orion

Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven

 

[Homer J Simpson]

U2 Kite

Almost that entire album is criminally underrated at this point (except for Elevation and Beautiful Day)

"In A Little While" is my favorite from that album. Such a great song.

 

[JuniorNB]

Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven

I'll have to check that one out

 

[Brady Marino]

Chuck Berry- "Memphis, Tennessee"

Whoa. Great song. I looked it up: It didn't chart in the States for him, which stuns me.

Yeah, but it was big in England. Go figure.

 

[Tackling Dummies]

U2 Kite

You sir are my hero, and have earned my respect forever. Such a beautiful song. I encourage all to look up the live performances from 2001. In Boston and Slane Castle. Simply masterful and emotional.

This poster captured my thoughts exactly.

U2 is the greatest rock band in the world.

Still wondering a bit why this track never clicked on a bigger level. Devastatingly beautiful lyrics, love everything about it. Chokes me up every time I hear it. Went to the Boston show in 01, whoop whoop!

 

[Sweet J]

Miss Gradenko

GREAT choice.

Are you safe Miss Gradeko?

 

[Tackling Dummies]

Huge Replacements fan, so cross of the major artist label.

Everything they've ever done is awesome sauce, but my choice would be Answering Machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ5Tv6yPE2Q

 

[Protocols of Stringer Bell]

Mayonnaise by smashing pumpkins

Sulk by radiohead

 

[Tchula]

The "Benny and the Jets" remake by the Beastie Boys. That was one awesome parody.

 

[simey]

Had I Known You Better Then - Hall & Oates.

Louisiana Rain - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Worried about You - Rolling Stones - This is my favorite song off of the Tattoo You album. It was never a single, but check out the promo video they did for it.

Death of an Unpopular Poet - Jimmy Buffett

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

"The Girl I Knew Somewhere" Monkees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW923_oO75o

 

[shuke]

Not sure what thread to put this. But until the other day I never knew Of A Lifetime by Journey existed. I don't think I even knew a pre-Steve Perry existed.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

Aerosmith -

with Breakdown. My favorite lesser-known Gn'R song.

 

[TenTimes]

Pretty much every non-hit song on STP's Core, even just the instrumental stuff. I knocked it out of the park on my first cassette purchase.

 

[Brony]

Right Said Fred - don't talk just kiss. Everyone likes to gush about I'm Too Sexy and they overlook this one.

 

[daddo39]

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Am I Losing- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv4gwK_VNd8

 

[Jules Winnfield]

Billy Joel - Summer, Highland Falls OR Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)

U2 - Miss Sarajevo (live version with Bono singing Pavarotti's part...in Italian!)

The Police - Murder by Numbers

 

[Tiger Fan]

Police - so lonely

 

[sdp1226]

As by Stevie Wonder

 

[Vike Me]

Dixie Chicks - Cold Day in July

 

[17seconds]

Nirvana - Something in the Way

 

[17seconds]

Radiohead - Let Down

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Van Halen - Atomic Punk

good one

 

[Cjw_55106]

Paradise City - Gn'R

What do you consider a hit?

 

[Righetti]

GNR Rocket Queen

 

[The General]

I've seen two Pink Floyd responses already so I'll add a third. Fearless off of Meddle. Love that song and never heard of it 'til I listened to the album. The combo of lyrics and melody are a gorgeous pairing.

Amazing song.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Beatles- one after 909Stones- memo from turner (slow version)

Zep- the rain song

Allmans- come and go bluesThe who- trick of the light

Johnny cash - redemption day

Love these. I have heard The Rain Song on the radio, though.The slow version of Memo From Turner was featured in Performance. Also, I think "Trick of the Light" is a John Entwistle song, isn't it? From Who Are You-there are several other great songs on that album.

Memo from Turner is a solo Mick song with Ry Cooder on guitar.

 

[Christo]

I've seen two Pink Floyd responses already so I'll add a third. Fearless off of Meddle. Love that song and never heard of it 'til I listened to the album. The combo of lyrics and melody are a gorgeous pairing.

Amazing song.

To me, that doesn't even sound like a Pink Floyd song.

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

GNR Rocket Queen

Another good one from Gn'R. For some reason, whenever I think of that song, I think of My Michelle. I think it has to do with the way that both songs seem to shift right in the middle.

 

[dmac37]

Downbound Train by Springsteen

nice one

 

[Christo]

Downbound Train by Springsteen

nice one

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

pearl jam - garden, rearviewmirror

Alice in chains - bleed the freak, sea of sorrow

the police - driven to tears, when the world is running down

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

U2 Kite

Muse " Falling Down" from their first album. Live version here!

Neil Young - "The Loner"

"Gods of War" - Def Leppard

http://youtu.be/EBZbO-SS-3Q

The Doors - "Love Street"

Pink Floyd - "Cymballine"

Pearl jam - porch

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OrIRE8Hzl7c

Metallica - "Orion"

Jane's Addiction - "Ted, Just Admit It"

You people have horrible taste.

 

[Riversco]

Van Halen - demo version of Somebody get me Doctor produced by Gene Simmons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mplsUNV-D8

Bass up front! That's gotta piss Eddie off!