# Favourite obscure rock songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337 "2013-05-25T19:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/1 "2013-05-25T19:50:38Z")
What are your favourite lesser-known rock songs? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/2 "2013-05-25T20:16:45Z")
[Transfusion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojuPQXMm44), Nervous Norvus ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/3 "2013-05-25T20:22:14Z")
Montrose - [Starliner](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZworWYv9Lg). Wore out my cut of this. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/4 "2013-05-25T20:27:59Z")
[Diesel “Sausalito Summernight”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxTDqKee5J8) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/5 "2013-05-25T20:31:44Z")
Donovan [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92HjH1GG3ro) Season of the Witch ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/6 "2013-05-25T21:17:33Z")
Pearl Harbour, from her album _Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost Too_: [Everybody’s Boring But My Baby](http://www.myspace.com/pearlharbortheexplosions/music/songs/everybody-s-boring-but-my-baby-album-version-31866293) (Warning: MySpace link) ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/7 "2013-05-25T21:34:40Z")
Gruppo Sportivo [Dreamin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f225UhYF_Hg) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/8 "2013-05-25T21:39:21Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Donovan > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92HjH1GG3ro&sns=em](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92HjH1GG3ro&sns=em) > Season of the Witch I’m pretty sure that was a popular song that charted back in the day. The album it came from was a smash hit, so the song got wide play. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/9 "2013-05-25T21:40:09Z")
Ed Hall [Jungle Labototany](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmT0_G_kGHQ) (trust me, the youtube vid has the title wrong, I own the album) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/10 "2013-05-25T21:43:01Z")
[13 Women](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzL8n5_OOkA), Bill Haley & The Comets. It was the B side for _Rock Around The Clock_, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/11 "2013-05-25T21:47:13Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Transfusion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojuPQXMm44), Nervous Norvus Danm, don’t how I haven’t heard that one, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/12 "2013-05-25T22:24:08Z")
There are so many. Just for a start: Spirit – [Prelude/Nothing to Hide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7RlTGA1Ak4) Kak – [Electric Sailor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHHhtWQanA) Renaissance – [Kings and Queens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRyaO02KlMs) The Anemic Boyfriend – [Guys are Not Proud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odZ99QCxmuI). ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/13 "2013-05-25T22:38:52Z")
A great surf tune in the Dick Dale tradition: [The Red Elvises - El Niño](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JodrQ_ybF5E) I’m linking to it because of _Them Changes_, but his version of _Dreams_ is pretty great too. I shouldn’t temp fate, but I haven’t heard a version of _Dreams_ I didn’t love. Plus, enjoy Hef’s early 70’s Playboy lifestyle. [Buddy Miles - Them Changes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIT0t9Zu_4) Edit: not rare tunes, per se, but I haven’t heard anyone ever mention Miles’ versions. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/14 "2013-05-25T22:56:57Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > [Diesel “Sausalito Summernight”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxTDqKee5J8) That song was a big hit around the time that I graduated from high school. Here are a few others most, if not all, of you have probably never heard. “The Voyager” - Gamma “Anagram (for Mongo)” - Rush “The Daily Planet” - Love “Combed Earth” - Drasbury ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/15 "2013-05-26T00:12:46Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > [Transfusion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojuPQXMm44), Nervous Norvus Trivia note: this song appeared in an episode of _Leave It to Beaver_. Sort of. Lumpy Rutherford was seen singing the “Zoom, zoom, zooma-zooma-zooma-zooma” refrain to himself while waiting in a car. ---
**Author:** ![Glazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@Glazer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glazer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/16 "2013-05-26T01:34:06Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyA0-N3UZ1Q) Like that’ll ever happen. [Love and Death of an American Guitar.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIu1BZC0zTg) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/17 "2013-05-26T07:35:14Z")
“Desperados Under The Eaves”-Warren Zevon ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/18 "2013-05-26T11:58:07Z")
Mink De Ville - She’s So Tough [Willy de Ville -- She's so tough - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOjH_lT2jKI) A completely tight piece of rock and fairly obscure. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/19 "2013-05-26T12:03:09Z")
> **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/?app=desktop)** > > Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. **Mobile** link to **Don Dixon - Praying Mantis**. Mid’80’s song by a guy who was one of the first producers for R.E.M. Sounds a bit like Joe Jackson’s Is She Really Going Out with Him, with fun lyrics about how the guy can tell that this girl he met eyes him the way a PM would. First song that came to mind - but there are so many… ---
**Author:** ![stolatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@stolatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolatt)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-obscure-rock-songs/659337/20 "2013-05-26T13:34:22Z")
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