Most underrated songs of all time

[Sharpner]

This track is absolutely wild. You can occasionally hear it on classic rock radio stations. A lot of their stuff is real chill, but this is a banger.

I thought Edgar Wright put this song to good use in that parkou-ey chase scene in Baby Driver

 

[Sharpner]

More experimental feel for sure.

You an REM guy?

UP was a great and very underrated album by them. Can’t help but think At My Most Beautiful was inspired by Feel Flows. It’s like a part 2.


Full Wall of Sound effect.

Like the song and the 25th anniversary of the album is in a month or two. I think R.E.M have a few Beach Boys influenced songs across their catalogue, but this one they're clearly leaning into it. The most blatant example I can remember of someone trying to do the Beach boys is the band the Explorers Club. They are to the Beach Boys as Greta Van Fleet is to Led Zeppelin.

 

[KI4MVP]

Out of all of the great Beach Boys songs, I think this is the best written and connect the most with it. Really good one.

Growing up I watched a movie on the life of Jan and Dean. Movie made me think The Beach Boys copied their sound from Surf City and even covered the song. It was only a couple of weeks ago when I told my wife the story and researched it that I realized Brian Wilson wrote Surf City and a couple of other songs for them.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

This track is absolutely wild. You can occasionally hear it on classic rock radio stations. A lot of their stuff is real chill, but this is a banger.

That version is massively sped up from the studio version. The background is that the show only gave them 4 and a half minutes (all they ever have anyone) for a song that went nearly seven normally. So rather than cut out more than two minutes, they said "fuck it - we'll just play really, really fast.". Pretty hilarious result.

Jan Akkerman was a hell of a guitar player, and singer/keyboardist/classically-trained flautist Thijs van Leer also is very talented. I used to have one of his flute albums that I used for studying. Pretty cool guy.

 

[The Oi]

Some more underrated REM:


And a Rob Zombie song that I’ve noticed often goes forgotten:

 

[The Oi]

The whole Genesis album Trick of the Tail is very underrated. I find a lot of people don’t even know it existed.

Scarborough Fair vibe with Pink Floyd lyrics:

The Squonk is a hairless western PA based cryptid that disappears into a puddle of its own tears upon sight of man.

Love when bands choose subjects like this.

 

[Randolphkeys]

I've been listening to a lot of The Budos Band. They aren't doing anything original, but it's that 1970s funk, jazz, brass stuff that few bands have the personnel to pull off.




They don't play the West Coast, they are New York and East Coast based. Thought I would pass it on. Makes me feel like Rocky while working out.

 

[Otsego Mar]

That version is massively sped up from the studio version. The background is that the show only gave them 4 and a half minutes (all they ever have anyone) for a song that went nearly seven normally. So rather than cut out more than two minutes, they said "fuck it - we'll just play really, really fast.". Pretty hilarious result.

Jan Akkerman was a hell of a guitar player, and singer/keyboardist/classically-trained flautist Thijs van Leer also is very talented. I used to have one of his flute albums that I used for studying. Pretty cool guy.

I knew it was sped up, but wasn’t sure about the backstory. Good stuff.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

I had that album awhile back. Warren G had some good stuff in the 90s besides the ubiquitous "Regulate."

Fun fact: he was featured on Cedric Ceballos' "Flow On" from 1994.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

More experimental feel for sure.

You an REM guy?

UP was a great and very underrated album by them. Can’t help but think At My Most Beautiful was inspired by Feel Flows. It’s like a part 2.


Full Wall of Sound effect.

Not really an REM guy although I don't mind them. Not really a BB guy either but I still have massive respect for what they were doing. Lots of people just think of the bubbly beach songs but their music was a lot more complex than just that stuff.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

The whole Genesis album Trick of the Tail is very underrated. I find a lot of people don’t even know it existed.

Always liked that album a lot - other than "Robbery Assault and Battery". But Dance on a Volcano, Entangled, Squonk, Ripples, etc. are all really good tunes. Very strong songwriting top to bottom.

I think the correct division into "old" and "new" Genesis isn't when Gabriel left and Collins took over vocals. It's really when Steve Hackett left after the next album - Wind and Wuthering. The loss of Hackett's twelve string as a melodic counterpoint to Banks' keyboards just simplified their sound too much for my taste. It's Hackett's post-Genesis music, not Gabriel's, that sounds the most like "old Genesis."

By the way, I'm going to see Gabriel next week in Cleveland, and then going to South Carolina to visit a buddy and see Hackett on his "Genesis Revisited - Foxtrot at 50" tour. Anyone who likes that old Genesis should try to catch one of Hackett's shows because they really nail it. Here's one where they lead off with Dance on a Volcano.

 

[bigking777]

Earlier this summer a buddy of mine was talking about how much he loves the Foxtrot album, but I countered with Trick of the Tail. I had it on in the background at work about a week earlier.

You Genesis fans might appreciate this. One of my favorite Yes tracks, on probably my favorite Yes album...

 

[The Oi]

Just bought Trick of the Tail on vinyl because of this conversation. It also happens to be one of my favorite covers. I LOVE the art. Tells a whole story.

While I was at it, I got Uptown Saturday Night bc the price was reasonable and Cheat Codes (which I’ve pimping to everyone on Earth).

Speaking of Uptown Saturday Night and great cover art, here’s some great underrated songs:



Dudes were already cool af, but those beats were just so catchy and they invented a whole damn language. It’s impossible to understand it unless you actually check the lyrics.

Whole story behind why they didn’t mainstream, and they prob could have, but they’re still great to revisit. I like putting them on my earbuds while I shoot.

@RchfldCavRaised knows.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

You Genesis fans might appreciate this. One of my favorite Yes tracks, on probably my favorite Yes album...

Yes isn't my favorite band, but that's my favorite single album. I personally think the first song on that album - Close to the Edge - is the best piece of music made in the last half-century plus. So it is always "underrated" in my view. It's gotten a lot of traction with reactors who'd never heard of it but were just floored by it, like this guy:


Prog does really well with reactors because they sit and actually focus just on the music for the entire song, which is really the only way to listen to that stuff. If you hear it casually, it can sound like just noise.

 

[Criznit]

TAD - one of the Seattle bands that really helped cultivate the scene/sound that never completely broke out.. 8-way Santa was a favorite back in the day...