Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums

Can -- Chain Reaction and the rest of their discography

Led Zeppelin -- Kashmir and pretty much an entire Physical Graffiti album

I think songs like Stairway to Heaven, Hotel California are not hidden gems. They're mainstream exposed gems or maybe just stones:)

Not sure if you'd consider some of this "classic rock" but it's all old:

• REM - Begin the Begin from Lifes Rich Pageant (actually that entire album is great)
• 10,000 Maniacs - Verdi Cries from In My Tribe (another great record and what a voice)
• Blue Oyster Cult - Black Blade from Cultisaurus Erectus
• Bob Segar - You'll Accomp'ny Me or We've Got Tonight (Bob Segar had so many hits but you really don't hear much about him now)
• Chickenfoot - not classic rock but if you like classic rock, both records are really good
• Cream - Swlabr from Disraeli Gears
• Iron Maiden - Murders in the Rue Morgue from Killers (both Killers and Number of the Beast are great back to back albums with different singers)
• Jeff Beck - Thelonious from Blow by Blow (another great album back to back)
• Jeff Beck - Star Cycle from There and Back
• Ozzy Osbourne - S.A.T.O. from Diary of a Madman (that album and Blizzard of Ozz are both great records)
• Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes from In Absentia
• Queen - Long Away from A Day at the Races
• The Police - So Lonely from Outlandos d"Amour
• Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song (but the best version is when they combine it with The Boys are Back in Town from Live and Dangerous.  Boys are Back in Town is not really a "hidden" gem.  Just a gem.)
• Van Halen - Ice Cream Man from Van Halen 
• Anderson, Bruford, Wakemen, and Howe - Brother of Mine

Rickie Lee Jones - Night Train from self-titled album, more of a slow jazz feeling unexpected
Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone from Physical Graffiti, such great 12 string work here 
John Mellecamp - Last Chance from Whenever We Wanted, moody with good guitar licks

and shout out for Cowboy Song

Van Halen: Little Guitars, Cathedral, Secrets, Big Bad Bill (all from Diver Down!)

AC/DC - Shake a Leg (Back in Black)

Rush - Lessons (2112); Beneath, Between & Behind (Fly By Night)

Steely Dan - I Got the News (Aja)

@mwinkc 

I’m totally with you on Holland. Sail On Sailor and California on side one. Side two is a classic. The Trader, Funky Pretty, Leaving This Town, all fantastic. The vinyl version I have is poorly recorded.