# Whats a Favorite Non-Hit Song From Any Musician You Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922 "2020-06-18T19:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/21 "2020-06-22T17:15:50Z")
Bruce Hornsby and the Range had lots of hit songs, but this one wasn’t…and it damn well should have been: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C555rExz4ds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C555rExz4ds) And it only reached #21 on the Billboard, but it still my favorite [Eagles song:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hufU6MIS2vw) ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/22 "2020-06-22T20:18:45Z")
And [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH7vLvoS4M8) In response to the post above about Rose Royce. Haven’t figured out how to “reply with quote.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlax/32/2927_2.png) [@Scarlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlax)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/23 "2020-06-22T20:47:31Z")
Don’t Follow - Alice in Chains, Jar of Flies album. Take Me Down to the Infirmary - Cracker, Kerosene Hat album Spoon - Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets album ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/24 "2020-06-22T21:07:43Z")
Love “Take Me Down to the Infirmary!” I’ll nominate “Open the Door, Homer” by Bob Dylan. It’s on “The Basement Tapes,” but there’s an amazing cover by Thunderclap Newman on their criminally under appreciated album “Hollywood Dream.” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/25 "2020-06-22T21:24:58Z")
My Melancholy Blues - Queen ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/26 "2020-06-23T01:12:55Z")
[Child in Time by Deep Purple.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OorZcOzNcgE) ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/27 "2020-06-23T02:17:31Z")
[Killers](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPRyd9chlo), by Motörhead, is a great rocker that would make a good unapologetic apocalyptic anthem for a group of killers. [1916](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IuRxjjcPgOo) , also from them, is the song that happens after the killers get there, and the bravado leaves. A very un-Motörhead sounding song. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/28 "2020-06-23T03:12:54Z")
[“The Gold it’s in the …”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhOd0ENVS8) by Pink Floyd on Obscured by Clouds, which has a few other criminally neglected songs. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/29 "2020-06-23T03:40:25Z")
The smashing pumpkins had a lot of good songs that never became hits. By Starlight, for martha, luna, soma, etc ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/30 "2020-06-23T14:57:21Z")
Patti Smith’s “[Ain’t It Strange](https://youtu.be/tg7Fe_EcnRw).” It is a strange little song, but somehow emotionally compelling. It’s the song she was performing when she almost accidentally killed herself; she put herself into a trance with the music and twirled. She twirled right off the edge of the stage. Next stop intensive care. That fact doesn’t help me like the song any better, but it is genuine rock-‘n’-roll trivia. When the song’s weird atmosphere draws you in, you can understand how it put her into a trance. ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/31 "2020-06-23T15:33:32Z")
I’ve got a few, with bonus videos: Spoon, _The Underdog_ The [video](https://vimeo.com/22000862) is shot to make it look like the song was recorded live with no overdubs, with every room and corner of an Austin studio being used. Aimee Mann, _Charmer_. The [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpXTUT0-7o) has John Houseman and Laura Fuckin’ Linney. Wilco, _Outtasite (Outa Mind)_. Back when labels could throw money away making videos for bands that were never going to have number one hits, I imagine Jeff saying “Let’s shoot a video where we [skydive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcaGlJGijj0) while playing the song” and the A&R man saying, “Sure, why not?” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/32 "2020-06-23T16:18:53Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > Patti Smith I mean, look at her performing the song in 1976. I love how passionately she throws her whole self into the music like a shamaness. In this video, her dance includes three traditional ecstasy-inducing techniques: 1) Whirling your long hair about, bending from the waist, done by women in the Persian Gulf region; Patti’s hair isn’t quite long enough for this. 2) Dropping to the floor and dancing on your back. This is the tarantella spider dance done by women of Apulia and Calabria in southern Italy. 3) Twirling like the Mevlevi Dervishes of Turkey. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7PLyYCRnCEA/hqdefault.jpg "Patti Smith - Ain't it Strange - 1976 - Stockholm") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLyYCRnCEA) ---
**Author:** ![Honolulu\_Lulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/87869e/32.png) [@Honolulu\_Lulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honolulu_Lulu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/33 "2020-06-23T21:21:16Z")
Just Like That - Abba ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/34 "2020-06-23T23:07:17Z")
I can second that on the Smashing Pumpkins. To Sheila and Spaceboy are personal favorites of mine. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/35 "2020-06-23T23:12:48Z")
“[Prelude To Afternoon Of A Faun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19o90gTeJOQ),” adapted from Debussy by (Eumir) Deodato for his **Prelude** album. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/36 "2020-06-24T00:43:16Z")
Queen’s “In the Year of '39”. What’s not to love about a song about interstellar exploration and time dilation? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/37 "2020-06-24T17:23:34Z")
“Mr. Natural” by the Bee Gees. Great song, but wasn’t a hit. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/38 "2020-06-25T04:41:02Z")
From Kansas’ Point of Know Return: The Spider | He Knew –G! “WHAT?!” –Beethoven ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/39 "2020-06-25T17:01:51Z")
“Man in the Wilderness” and “Lights” from Styx are my recent obsessions. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922/40 "2020-06-25T17:06:13Z")
My favorite grunge/grunge-adjacent songs are where they ditch the nuance and do a completely formulaic soft-loud transition. So my favorite Pumpkins song is Silver\*\*\*\*, my favorite Foo Fighters song is For All The Cows, and I also like the beginning to the (hit song) Starseed by Our Lady Peace. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-a-favorite-non-hit-song-from-any-musician-you-like/855922.md?page=3)