I’d eager to discover some songs I haven’t heard about.
For my benefit and that of others, it’d be nice if it weren’t very well know. For example, if one of your favorite song is Hey Jude, we can safely presume that it will not be a discovery to most people. That doesn’t mean we have to go obscure for its sake.
If you could provide a link to said song, preferably on Youtube, that’d be great.
I’ll start with some of my own:
Hydrogen: Moon M.O.O.N. - 'Hydrogen' [Hotline Miami Soundtrack] - YouTube
Skrillex: Make it bun dem: Skrillex & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Make It Bun Dem [OFFICIAL VIDEO] - YouTube
Daft punk : Get Lucky Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Official Audio) ft. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers - YouTube
Benny Goodman: Sing sing sing "SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN - YouTube
Carlos Gardel: Por una cabeza - YouTube
Thanks for Skrillex and Gardel. I had not heard those before and found them pretty good.
These are not unknown, but perhaps little known:
Sleigh bells - Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill (Official Video) - YouTube Look At Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings -BBC4 Sessions - YouTube
Roundabout:
[lots of funky goodness]
You ninja’d me, but I have to make a suggestion.
If there’s going to be a useful thread here, how about we all keep it to just our one or three best songs that we think nobody else ever heard?
2 or 3 might be too restrictive but yes, I’m afraid that if many people post 20 songs each, most people’s eyes will glaze over.
Say, half a dozen?
nachtmusick:
You ninja’d me, but I have to make a suggestion.
If there’s going to be a useful thread here, how about we all keep it to just our one or three best songs that we think nobody else ever heard?
Yeah, I kinda went overboard. My bad.
I’ll just do one. It’s one of my all time favorites:
Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold by Townes Van Zandt .
No problem.
I had to click on Gap Band first, but I really like the Quincy Jones. Never heard most of those songs before.
A Rainy Night in Georgia , Brook Benton
Magalenha , Sergio Mendes
Uma Casa Portuguesa , Amalia Rodrigues
Ai Du , Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder
I tried to jump-start links to Youtube videos over in the song lyric thread , but it never caught on.
Anything you Google from most any line of lyrics there will give you my faves.
Ponch8
April 5, 2014, 9:23pm
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So many Kesha songs that I can’t pick just one favorite. Here’s one that’s quite different from what you hear on the radio, featuring Iggy Pop: Dirty Love
Learning to Fly - Tom Petty (I know it’s well-known, but still it’s my favorite one of his songs.)
Kim - Eminem (warning: very violent lyrics)
No Myth - Michael Penn
Get Off This - Cracker
The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana’s cover of David Bowie
Warren Zevon-“Desperados Under the Eaves”
The Clash-"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
R.E.M.-“Star Me Kitten”
Pylon-“Stop It”
The Velvet Underground-“The Black Angel’s Death Song”
Bauhaus-“Antonin Artaud”
Pendulum - Propane Nightmares
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Refugee
Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade
The Tragically Hip - Gift Shop
Subsonica Istrice
Pearl Jam - Whipping
Since the OP included a jazz instrumental, I thought I’d throw in some more:
Feelin’ the Spirit by the Luis Russell Orchestra
Back Beats by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Shake It and Break It by Sidney Bechet
Bucktown Stomp by Johnny Dodds Washboard Six
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Johnny Come Lately by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Difficult to pick only six but here goes:
Maybe I’m Amazed -*Jem *version
**Please Please Let Me Have What I Want **The Smiths
**Corazon Espinado **- Santana with Mana
**Into the Mystic **- Van Morrison
The A Team - Ed Sheerhan
****Bobcaygeon **** The Tragically Hip
Woodchopper’s Ball by Woody Herman. Not done only by Woody Herman, it’s a real peppy big band song. They used to play it on The Gong Show years ago!
This is probably too well-known a song (then again, I’m really bad at judging the popularity of music) but I’ll throw in “Fly Me to the Moon” . Even if you’re not a Sinatra fan, something about the beginning intro and first few notes is just awesome.
ETA: Oh, and I have to mention the two Paul Simon songs that contain my favorite lyrics of all time: “Train in the Distance” and “America.”
Muma The Nightare - Buck Tick
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Dress - Buck Tick
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Mr Darkness and Mrs. Moonlight - Buck Tick
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