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Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:39 pm
by 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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:12 pm
by 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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:26 am
by MediumTex
About half of all Rush songs up through the Signals album
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:18 am
by 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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:59 am
by 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
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:03 am
by 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".
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:44 pm
by AdamA
notsheigetz wrote:
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).
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 2:34 pm
by 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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:32 pm
by MachineGhost
notsheigetz wrote:
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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:53 pm
by BearBones
Benko wrote:
Radar Love... Turn the Page...
Ah, I thought I had all of the classics. But nope. Thanks.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:16 pm
by Reub
"I am stuck on a Band-Aid."
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:12 am
by Bob
"Pop pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is...."
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:06 pm
by colorado4
'Fairytale of New York' by The Pogues - one of the great Christmas songs.
Van Morrison's 'Into the Mystic'
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:15 pm
by MediumTex
"It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:32 pm
by annieB
"Who'll Stop the Rain" by CCR...
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:00 pm
by Alanw
"Creep" by Radiohead
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:22 pm
by notsheigetz
annieB wrote:
"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'
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:30 pm
by MachineGhost
"Cheeseburger in Paradise" by Jimmy Buffet
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:55 pm
by MediumTex
notsheigetz wrote:
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.
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:27 am
by 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
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:45 am
by l82start
Re: Awesome songs you completely forgot about
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 10:53 pm
by 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.