Deep Cuts

[Freypower]

Hearing one of the greatest 'deep cuts' of all time, Bad News From Home from Randy Newman's wonderful Land Of Dreams album, and discussion about this elsewhere has led me to start this topic where you can list your favourite non-Eagles deep cuts.

As Mr Newman has come up I will start with him. Apart from Bad News From Home, which I love with a passion, some others are:

You Can't Fool The Fat Man
Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier)
Christmas In Cape Town
The Blues (with Paul Simon)
Four Eyes
New Orleans Wins The War
My Country
Big Hat, No Cattle
A Few Words In Defence Of Our Country
A Piece Of The Pie

I haven't included anything from his Songbooks Vols 1 & 2 because these all seem to be well known. At least they are well known to his fans. I haven't actually got his early albums before Little Criminals.

[chaim]

Seems to me that Little Criminals is considered a lesser record, by even Randy himself, I think. I guess it has more to do with lyrics than music. There are some "lazy" lyrics on he album I guess, but musically it's great. You Can't Fool The Fat Man doesn't do much for me lyrically, but musically I love it. And the lyric kind of works too, because the music's so great. In Christmas In Cape Town I love the line "they love our music" when the guy in the song has mentioned "Dancing queen". I think this might be a joke, meaning that the guy doesn't seem to know that ABBA is from Sweden - or in his mind all white people are the same? The Blues is hilarious, but I think it's the only song Randy ever regretted doing. He feels it's unnecessary, because if songwriters get solace out of writing about their own life, they should be allowed to do that. Four Eyes is fantastic. New Orleans Wins The War is hilarous ("They're gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he's saved" ). A Piece Of The Pie is fantastic ("The rich are getting richer - I should know." ). Some people, probably myself included, initially thought that the Jackson Browne reference was a shot at him, but it was the opposite. Randy respects the fact that out of the songwriters from that era Jackson still seems to stand behind stuff he stood behind then.

One of my favorite Randy Newman songs is I Want You To Hurt Like I Do.

Some amazing deep cuts by other bands....

Genesis: Mad Man Moon, Evidence Of Autumn, Me And Sarah Jane, Silver Rainbow, The Brazilian
The Move: What?
Queen: Tenement Funster, plus a few dozen other songs
Procol Harum: Too Much Between Us, About To Die, For Liquorice John, This World Is Rich, The Thin End Of The Wedge
YES: South Of Side Of The Sky (which fortunately isn't as deep a cut anymore as it used to be), Astral Traveller
Moody Blues: Out And In, Eternity Road, Candle Of Life, Twilight Time, Sunset, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, Running Water, Want To Be With You (to name a few)
KISS: Strange Ways, Coming Home, Anything For My Baby, Baby Driver, Mr. Speed, Almost Human, Larger Than Life, Charisma, Dirty Livin', Naked City, Just A Boy, A World Without Heroes, Under The Rose, Partners In Crime, Saint And Sinner, Killer, Not for The Innocent, Young And Wasted, While The City Sleeps, Secretly Cruel, Good Girl Gone Bad, Hell Or High Water, Betrayed, Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell, The street Giveth And The Street Taketh Away, Seduction Of The Innocent, I Confess, Childhood's End...
Pink Floyd: Let There Be More Light, Sysyphus (the Ummagumma version), The Narrow Way (especially the song part), Green Is The Colour, Cymbaline, Crying Song, A Pillow Of Winds, Burning Bridges, The Final Cut, The Gunner's Dream...
David Bowie: After All, Wild-Eyed Boy From Freecloud, Cygnet Committee, Sweet Thing, Lady Grinning Soul, Win, She'll Drive the Big Car, Always Crashing In The Same Car, Scream Like A Baby...oh there are SO many......
Beatles: Glass Onion, Hey Bulldog, Dig A Pony, Blue Jay Way, I Need You, She's Leaving Home, Because

I won't even start on Neil Young!
(I'll probably add more...)

[UndertheWire]

Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows (Ummagumma)
It conjures up that hot, lazy afternoon even down to the swatting of a fly.

[NightMistBlue]

"Awaken" by Yes, a multi-climactic epic to end all epics. Most prog music leaves me kinda cold, but not Yes. I think it's because, while they're technically brilliant musicians, they don't neglect the emotional and melodic aspects of the songs.

[Freypower]

Only one per artist?

Then I should mention my favourite Mark Knopfler deep track, Silvertown Blues, which is from Sailing To Philadephia & has never been played live. I love it so much I regard it as my 3rd favourite of his songs after Why Aye Man & Sailing To Philadelphia itself.

If you want to hear Phil Collins still In The Air Tonight, i.e. dark & cynical & more like Gabriel, I recommend Thru These Walls from Hello I Must Be Going!

I would nominate That Voice Again from So for Gabriel himself, along with Washing Of The Water from Us.

[WalshFan88]

How about one per top 10 favorite artists!

Rolling Stones: Monkey Man

AC/DC: Have A Drink On Me

Aerosmith: Lord Of The Thighs

Lynyrd Skynyrd: On The Hunt

Led Zeppelin: Houses Of The Holy (arguable, but to me it's underrated)

Fleetwood Mac: Second Hand News

Guns N' Roses: Mr. Brownstone

Heart: Heartless

Journey: Anytime

Def Leppard: Animal

[MortSahlFan]

Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows (Ummagumma)
It conjures up that hot, lazy afternoon even down to the swatting of a fly.

Did you ever see Roger AND David doing it? Best one is on KQED, sure it's still on youtube.

I never knew the song "Too Much Between Us" - thanks! I'll proceed to listen, I love this thread.... Now what for me to put..

Supertramp - Words Unpsoken
John Lennon - Out The Blue
Paul McCartney - Old Siam, Sir
Pink Floyd - Wot's... Uh The Deal
David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
ELO - Rain Is Falling

Please keep them coming! Every great song makes life happier

[WS82Classics]

Atlanta Rhythm Section: "Neon Nights."
Beatles: "Rain" and "The Inner Light."
Blind Faith: "Presence of the Lord."
Box Tops: "The Door You Closed to Me."
Buffalo Springfield: The full 9 minute version of "Bluebird."
Eric Carmen: The full 7 minute version(classical jams and all) of "All By Myself."
CSN: "49 Bye-Byes."
Deep Purple: "Lazy."
Derek & the Dominoes: "Key to the Highway."
Bob Dylan: "Joey."
ELO: "Boy Blue."
Foghat: "That'll Be the Day" and "Take Me to the River."
David Gilmour: "Mihalis" and "So Far Away."
James Gang: "Tend My Garden."
Billy Joel: "Miami 2017."
Dee Dee King: "Funky Man."
Don McLean: "Winter Wood."
Moody Blues: "A Simple Game," "Beyond," "Eternity Road," and "The Dreamer."
Tom Petty: "It Ain't Nothin' to Me," "Needles & Pins(live)," and "Built to Last."
Pretty Things: "Walking Through My Dreams."
Rolling Stones: "Rocks Off" and "Rip This Joint."
Thin Lizzy: "Romeo and the Lonely Girl" and "Emerald."
Thunderclap Newman: "Hollywood #1," "Accidents," and "Wild Country."
Traveling Wilbury's: "Rattled."
T. Rex: "Raw Ramp."
Joe Walsh: "All-Night Laundromat Blues."
Who: "The Song is Over" and "Now I'm a Farmer."
Richard Wright(Pink Floyd Keyboardist): "Against the Odds," "Summer Elegy," and "Waves."
Neil Young: "Don't Cry No Tears," "Danger Bird," and "Barstool Blues."

[Jonny Come Lately]

I won't be doing a revised list just yet, but I should be able to participate more fully in this discussion in a couple of weeks time when my life is less hectic. What I will say now is that I think some absolutely great deep cuts have been mentioned since the thread was restarted.

Neil Young: "Don't Cry No Tears," "Danger Bird," and "Barstool Blues."

Very glad to see these get a mention! I love the Zuma album, which I find tends to be somewhat forgotten amongst the other classic Neil Young albums (save for the rightly praised Cortez the Killer) even though it offers a very strong set of songs. When I went to see Neil play with Crazy Horse in Liverpool in 2014 he played Don't Cry No Tears and Barstool Blues and I loved both. I see you mentioned the title song from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Out On The Weekend - these are also favourites of mine.

With Led Zeppelin, this is a bit naughty as it's strictly a B-side not a deep cut but I definitely want to mention Hey Hey, What Can I Do (originally released on the Immigrant Song single), which is a great track. I really like For Your Life from Presence (great riff). From Physical Graffiti, I absolutely love The Wanton Song and I think Bron-Yr-Aur is just beautiful. I also don't think Your Time Is Gonna Come and What Is And What Should Never Be (in both cases, I love the dynamics, especially the latter) get the praise they should.

Of the early Genesis songs mentioned, I like Can-Utility and the Coastliners a lot. I also think Moonlit Knight is great although I don't personally consider it to be a deep cut, as it is effectively the title track of the Selling England by the Pound album. The only real difference between it and Hotel California (the song) is that it wasn't released as a single, both are equally important to their respective records, whereas Can-Utility is a track that most people wouldn't immediately think of when they think of the band, more like say Bitter Creek or King of Hollywood.

I'll revisit some of the other artists I like when I have a bit more time, so watch this space!

[Freypower]

Did you ever see Roger AND David doing it? Best one is on KQED, sure it's still on youtube.

I never knew the song "Too Much Between Us" - thanks! I'll proceed to listen, I love this thread.... Now what for me to put..

Supertramp - Words Unpsoken
John Lennon - Out The Blue
Paul McCartney - Old Siam, Sir
Pink Floyd - Wot's... Uh The Deal
David Bowie - Lady Grinning Soul
ELO - Rain Is Falling

Please keep them coming! Every great song makes life happier

I thought I was the only person in the world who knew & loved Old Siam, Sir - 'she waited round in Walthamstow'! I like Rain Is Falling as well. And you mention Rocks Off in another posts. What a great song. I don't have time now but will post more later.