Awesome songs you completely forgot about

[RuralEngineer]

We've all had it happen.  You'll be driving in your car, or watching TV, or engaged in some other activity and a song will come on that is totally awesome and was completely forgotten by you.  Obviously these won't all be to everyone's taste, but I wanted to have a thread where these gems could be posted when these "holy crap, how did I forget that song!  Download! Download!" moments could be recorded and shared.  If you forgot, perhaps I did too.  My iPhone has plenty of space left for some good tunes.

Today I heard "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison for the first time in years.  Vintage 90's R&B.

[FarmerD]

I'll play.  How about "The Dream Police" by Cheap Trick or perhaps "Tumbling Dice" by the Stones. 

"Ghost Riders in the Sky" by the Outlaws is another obscure release that I like.  BTW this song was originally written in 1948 and was based on a legend the writer heard from an old cowboy back in the 1920's.  There has been folk, pop, country and western, country rock, and heavy metal versions of this song through the years since it was written.

None of these songs charted when they were released but have become of cult youtube classics in recent years. 

[MediumTex]

About half of all Rush songs up through the Signals album

[WildAboutHarry]

Ok.  I'll play (and show my age at the same time).

Liar, Liar by the Castaways.  Best wheezy organ riffs anywhere, anytime.

Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock.  Enough said.

[BearBones]

I'd Love to Change the World by Ten Years After
From the Beginning by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Almost anything by CCR
Rock Steady by Aretha Franklin
Restless by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
The Man Who Sold the World by Nirvana

[notsheigetz]

I had this happen while watching a documentary about the Bee Gees. When I was coming of age they were considered "Bubble Gum" and then later on they turned to disco so I didn't hold them in very high regard as musicians. Listening to them perform in concerts over the years however, it dawned on me that they made some really great music. I bought a greatest hits album and just about every song on it turned out to be one of the "Awesome songs I completely forgot about", from the Saturday Night Fever classics to the old tunes like "I started a joke" and "Massachusetts".

[AdamA]

I had this happen while watching a documentary about the Bee Gees. When I was coming of age they were considered "Bubble Gum" and then later on they turned to disco so I didn't hold them in very high regard as musicians. Listening to them perform in concerts over the years however, it dawned on me that they made some really great music. I bought a greatest hits album and just about every song on it turned out to be one of the "Awesome songs I completely forgot about", from the Saturday Night Fever classics to the old tunes like "I started a joke" and "Massachusetts".

I love the Bee Gees.  (I am not being sarcastic).

[Benko]

Golden Earring: Radar Love, and Twillight Zone (when the bullet hits the bone...).

Bob Seger Turn the Page (great sax solo)

PInk FLoyd e.g.  Wish You Were Here.

"Incense and Peppermints"
Oh wow. 

[MachineGhost]

I had this happen while watching a documentary about the Bee Gees. When I was coming of age they were considered "Bubble Gum" and then later on they turned to disco so I didn't hold them in very high regard as musicians. Listening to them perform in concerts over the years however, it dawned on me that they made some really great music. I bought a greatest hits album and just about every song on it turned out to be one of the "Awesome songs I completely forgot about", from the Saturday Night Fever classics to the old tunes like "I started a joke" and "Massachusetts".

I second that.  A copy of Best of Bee Gees from 1969 was the first album I ever listened to on my Walkman clone.

[BearBones]

Radar Love... Turn the Page...

Ah, I thought I had all of the classics. But nope. Thanks.

[Reub]

"I am stuck on a Band-Aid."

[Bob]

"Pop pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is...."

[colorado4]

'Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues - one of the great Christmas songs.

Van Morrison's 'Into the Mystic'

[MediumTex]

"It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy.

[annieB]

"Who'll Stop the Rain" by CCR...

[Alanw]

"Creep" by Radiohead

[notsheigetz]

"Who'll Stop the Rain" by CCR...

My favorite karaoke song!

Update: My bad. I was thinking "Have you ever seen the rain?"

But while we're on CCR Fortunate Son always gets my heart pumpin'

[MachineGhost]

"Cheeseburger in Paradise" by Jimmy Buffet

[MediumTex]

My favorite karaoke song!

"Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond.

People have told me that when they hear me sing this song it makes them no longer fear death.

[Tortoise]

Some hip-hop gems from the 90s/early 2000s that seem a bit neglected these days:

"Everyday People" by Arrested Development

"Where I Wanna Be" by Shade Sheist

"The Light" by Common

[l82start]

ode to joy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo

[Kriegsspiel]

Sister Hazel - All For You

Dion - Runaround Sue

Damn, with a few mods this would have been an awesome running cadence when I was in the Army.  Perfect rhythm.