Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

Still more of this:

Millworker -- James Taylor
All The Young Dudes -- Mott
That Lady (Parts One and Two) -- The Isleys.

 

Great call. Awesome, stuttering guitar riff in that one. "Mystery Achievement" from that album and "Cuban Slide" from their EP would be two other Pretenders' classics.

 

"Fonder & Blonder" - The Refreshments
"Do What I Say" - Waco Brothers
"Melt Show" - Old 97s
"Can't Smile Without You" - Barry Manilow
"Musta Gotta Lotta Notta" - Joe Ely
"The KKK Took My Baby Away" - The Ramones
"Sheena is a Punk Rocker" - The Ramones

 

On the Billy Joel stuff -- "Until the Night" is probably my favorite song of his and I've never heard it once on the radio. Both "Zanzibar" and "The Night is Still Young" are in my top 5 of his.

Off the top of my head:

"Shine Silently" -- Nils Lofgren
"Just Coolin" -- Levert
"Distant Lover" -- Marvin Gaye
"They Reminisce Over You" -- Pete Rock and CL Smooth
"Grandma's Hands" "Use Me" and "Who is He" -- Bill Withers (a truly underrated artist)
"Love TKO" -- Teddy Bear (another guys who was lost in the shuffle)
In the inevitible Bruce division -- "Shut out the Light", "Long Time Comin'" and "Thundercrack" to name 3

 

10cc.

"Dreadlock Holiday"
"I'm Not In Love"
"Reds In My Bed"

 

Great choice... I can't believe I forgot to mention it.

 

Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul
"Until the Good is Gone"
"Inside of Me"
"Out of the Darkness"
"I Am a Patriot"
"Trail of the Broken Treaties"

 

I'll echo "Fade Into You" and "Laura."

"The Sweetest Decline" and "Couldn't Cause Me Harm,'' Beth Orton.
"2 Kool 2 Be 4Gotten," Lucinda Willaims (even if I hate cutesy-poo spellings like that).
"Go Down Easy," "Latter Days," and "Faithfully Dangerous,'' Over The Rhine.

 

Sorry to continue the Billyjack, but I've always really liked "This Is The Time."

 

And my fave, "Lyin' In A Bed Of Fire"

 

Penned and sung by Dave Davies, correct? (And it is "Living on a Thin Line")

 

--I Don't Wanna Grow Up, Ramones.
--Break Out, Shooting Star.
--Black Star, Touch.
--No Time to Lose, Tarney Spencer Band.
--Rather Be Rocking, Tantrum