# Great songs you hadn't heard in ages! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679 "2000-02-10T14:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/1 "2000-02-10T14:55:00Z")
Post them here, folks. This morning, when I switched on my alarm clock radio, I heard the most fantastic song - and it must have been at least 4 years since I heard it the last time. So, that’s what prompted me to start this thread. My song was _ **A Gentlemans Excuse Me** _ by _Fish_. What’s yours? * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/2 "2000-02-10T14:59:00Z")
## SeeSaw by the Moody Blues. In fact, I just pulled out my CD so I can listen to it. You better be nice or I’ll sic my lackeys on ya. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/3 "2000-02-10T15:00:00Z")
[bold]Baba O’Reilly[/bold] by the Who. I heard it on the Radio about a week ago and it inspired me to but the CD. what a great song. And I found by David Bowie 69-74 compellation after it was hidden under my bet for 5 months. \*didnt know what time it was the lights were low-ow-ow… * * * J “We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible” Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman. Sean O’Casey ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/4 "2000-02-10T15:02:00Z")
Against the Wind - Bob Seger. Love that song! * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/5 "2000-02-10T15:03:00Z")
Ice Ice Baby… ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Basil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Sweet\_Basil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Basil)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/6 "2000-02-10T15:07:00Z")
That’s gotta be “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”. I bet it’s been a real long time since you heard that on the radio… Sweet Basil ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/7 "2000-02-10T15:10:00Z")
> [@](#): > > SeeSaw by the Moody Blues. Wow, I was just listening to _In Search of the Lost Chord_ yesterday. The Moodies are one of the greatest bands of all time. For something I haven’t heard, at least on the radio, in quite a while is, Robin Trower’s _Bridge of Sighs._ I think I’ll have to pull that CD out and give it a spin tonight. ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/8 "2000-02-10T15:12:00Z")
Heavenly Pop Hit, by the Chills. It’s heavenly. * * * **Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee doh** [http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/](http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/) ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/9 "2000-02-10T15:20:00Z")
Lonely Boy, Andrew Gold I LOVE that song. Zette 🙂 * * * Love is like popsicles…you get too much you get too high. Not enough and you’re gonna die… [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html)[Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**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:** [February 10, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/10 "2000-02-10T15:20:00Z")
Many of them (I probably haven’t heard some of these since before some of you were born). “Hush, Hush” – Siegel Schwall Band “Kings and Queens” – Renaissance (not the one you’re thinking of) “Electric Sailor” – Kak “21st Century Schizoid Man” – King Crimson “Ducks on the Wall” – Kinks “I am the Walrus” – Lol Coxhill “Darling If” – Spirit “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” – Martin Mull “The Soft Parade” – Doors “Out-Bloody-Rageous” – Soft Machine “In a Broken Dream” – Python Lee Jackson (with Rod Stewart’s best singing ever). “Wall Street Shuffle” – 10cc “Maple Leaf Rag” – Scott Joplin “Tent” – Bonzo Dog Band “Room to Move” – John Mayall “White Bird” – It’s a Beautiful Day “Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder” – Quicksilver Messenger Services (and Nikki Hopkins). “Sally Go Round the Roses” – Pentangle “Song Cycle” – Van Dyke Parks “The Blimp” – Captain Beefheart “Woe-is-a-me-bop” – Captain Beefheart “Merry-Go-Round” – Wild Man Fischer “Guys Are Not Proud” – The Anemic Boyfriend “Christmas Rapping” – The Waitresses ## That should be enough for a start. “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/11 "2000-02-10T16:08:00Z")
Being an Old Fart like RChuck, my list is similarly rooted in the '60s…here are six lovely tunes I’ve heard over the past two weeks in my local butcher shop in Brooklyn, whilst waiting for the pork chops and chicken wings (my butchers favor Oldies stations): DIRTY WATER by the Standells MR. APOLLO by the Bonzo Dog Band ALONG COMES MARY by the Association POISON IVY by the Coasters DID YOU EVER HAVE TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND? by the Lovin’ Spoonful MILLION DOLLAR BASH, a Dylan “Basement Tapes” tune covered by Fairport Convention * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/12 "2000-02-10T16:30:00Z")
My CD of Alan Parsons Project _Tales of Mystery and Imagination_ had been put away for a long time but I pulled it out when I got a CD player in my truck last month. “Concept rock album” may seem jurassic these days but it’s stil and all time favorite especially _Tell Tale Heart, The cask of Amontilado_ and _The System (of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether)._ lately my morning commute finds me with the stereo cranked up rocking to that or rocking out to morning edition new on NPR. “Just what you need to make you feel better…” * * * …tunes his radio to KFSL, the fossil, all dinosaur rock, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/13 "2000-02-10T16:31:00Z")
“Tonight”, original cast, West Side Story. That song just transports me to another dimension. “Love Shack” by the B-52s - how can you stay unhappy cruising down the highway with that song blasting out the window. “Der Commissar”, German group from the 80’s. “Red Red Wine”, UB40. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/14 "2000-02-10T16:36:00Z")
“Der Kommissar” was done by Falco, who is Austrian. Carry on 😉 * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/15 "2000-02-10T16:37:00Z")
…who is Austrian, AND dead. Just thought I’d add that… * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/16 "2000-02-10T16:53:00Z")
I liked Falco, he also did “Rock Me Amadeus” is that obscure or what? But Der Commissar was by, I think, After the Fall - After the Fire - something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/17 "2000-02-10T17:00:00Z")
No, it was Falco…And that makes me think of “Jeanie” by him also. What a beautiful song. I was thinking about “Angel of the Morning” (not sure if that is the title or who does it. Anyone have this on MP3?) Also, I’ve been having a craving for “D’yer Maker” by Led Zepplin. What a happy, kickass song… * * * “Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around!” -TMBG ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/18 "2000-02-10T17:02:00Z")
Salinqmind, Falco wrote it and recorded it first. After The Fire covered it later. [http://www.postalnauts.com/newwave/98-09-19/atf.html](http://www.postalnauts.com/newwave/98-09-19/atf.html) You’re welcome 😉 * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/19 "2000-02-10T17:02:00Z")
## A song I think is called **The Dutchman** by Mason Williams, **Deep River Blues** by Doc. & Merle Watson, **Go down ol’ Hanna** by Lightning Hopkins, The whole **Songs for Aging Children** album by Dave Van Ronk. \

          **Tris** \ There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. – \*\*Hodding Carter \*\* ---

**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/20 "2000-02-10T17:06:00Z")
“Rasputin” by Boney M. * * * J “We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible” Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman. Sean O’Casey [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679.md?page=2)