I have many but one I was just listening to is Theme From Boat Weirdos by Joe Walsh.
Favorite Obscure Rock Song
What is your favorite obscure Rock Song?
It's hard for me to pick just one, but my favorite pick is Fleetwood Mac's song Station Man from the album Kiln House. That song's rolling twin guitars just hit me the right way. It has a JJ Cale type of vibe with a biting lead guitar. I have liked that song since I was in college in the mid seventies. I borrowed Kiln House from a room mate and never gave it back to him. Granted, I much prefer the earlier Peter Green Fleetwood Mac albums, but the Jeremy Spencer/Danny Kirwin era Fleetwood Mac created a some excellent songs on middling albums.
I am interested in learning what your favorites are.
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I love "Station Man" and love Danny Kirwan’s playing, both from that period and earlier with P. Green. I’ve started working it out on guitar several times but never managed to learn it all the way through. Not really sure what qualifies as "obscure" but a few more, off the top of my head: "Seasons" by Steve Miller Band, "Someday World" by Wishbone Ash, "In the Kingdom" by Hot Tuna, "Winter" by the Stones, "Each Morning" by Les Dudek, "I Fall Apart" by R. Gallagher. . Here's the R. Gallagher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxi9QgAKYQ
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@rick_n You are "spot on" with that one. Listened to it again last night along with "Cinema Show". I still go back to "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here" by Porcupine Tree from time to time. It has a nice complexity and depth.
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Great thread. Here's a couple of songs that I think are pretty obscure that I just love. These date from the early 70's. Caravan: Memory Lane/Hugh Headloss (from "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night"). The song is available on Qobuz on the Caravan Anthology album but the original album is not on Qobuz. The original album is one of my Desert Island Discs. Savoy Brown: Ooh What a Feeling (from "Wire Fire"). Album out of print and not available on Qobuz but this song is available on YouTube. This is a great party album. |
Great thread overall, thanks @flyfish77 Here are two that have been front and center the past several months. Will be interesting to see if someone can pick up the thread of how I discovered them. That's OK, He'll be our Brother Someday - Barefoot Jerry (1971, the best year ever!) Oh Lord - Geordie (Brian Johnson's first band)
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How obscure are we getting... some of these are obscure for a reason, lol. Free, "Mr Big" off Fire & Water The Modern Lovers, "Pablo Picasso" off The Modern Lovers Blue Mountain, "Let's Ride" off Dog Days Grant Lee Buffalo, "Mockingbirds" off Mighty Joe Moon Hanne Boel, "Still Shines" off Outtakes Ruston Kelly, "Blackout" off Dying Star I dont know how obscure these are but they're no Saitisfaction, Purple Rain or Walk This Way... just my opinion
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I hate to be that guy. But the state of present day rock is pretty bad if Supper’s Ready is considered obscure. But I am not that guy, since there is an ongoing supply of great modern music. But as a huge fan of prog, I can go way more obscure. Since most prog bands did not have writing hits, or radio friendly songs, as a goal, the vast majority of prog, present and past, is obscure, Back in the 70’s, prog rock from Italy was considered equal in quality, based purely on the quality of the music, so the list of brilliant obscure prog from Italy is long and deep. Premniata Forneria Marconi - Dove...Quando, Impressioni di Settembre, Per un Amico Banco del Mutuo Socorrso - Canto Nomade Per Un Prigioniero Politico, Metamorfosi Arti e Mestieri - Articolazioni I could seriously list dozens more Italian prog songs, that are the equal or near the equal of most of their Brit contemporaries. And that is not even going into prog from France, Spain, the US, Japan, Canada, Poland, that was also at an extremely high level. More current stuff: Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Elemnt, Beyond the Pale, Inside Out / near brilliant Swedish prog-metal. Riverside - Egoist Hedonist, Second Life Syndrome, Deprived (Irretrievably Lost Imagination) / Great Polish prog/prog-metal band. Steve Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing, Luminol, Raider II
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@mitchagain Trapeze... the most underrated album of the 70's. I remember that nobody knew this album even back in the day. My pick would be the song Jury. |