Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

Apologies if it's been mentioned in previous 8 pages, but how about The Housemartins' "Happy Hour Again."

 

"Don't Let Go the Coat" The Who
"Crashing By Design" Pete Townshend
"It's All Too Much" The Beatles
"Sweet Black Angel" The Rolling Stones
"Crackin' Up" The Rolling Stones
"Running to Stand Still" U2
"Out of Control" U2
"Showdown at Big Sky" Robbie Robertson (what a great song)
"Sweet Fire of Love" Robbie Robertson
"Jersey Girl" Bruce Springsteen
"World of Pain" Cream
"I Looked Away" Derek & the Dominos
"Secret Separation" The Fixx
"May This Be Love" Jimi Hendrix
"Eye Know" De La Soul

 

I'm a Springsteen fan and in some ways I like Tom Waits' original version better.

 

I agree, it seems like Bruce sings it so that the home fans can cheer at the appropriate times.

 

"Better Be Home Soon" Crowded House
"Human" The Pretenders
"Alcoholiday" Teenage Fanclub
"Buttermilk" Eugenius
"Nothing Natural" Lush
"I Need You" The Kinks
"Dandy" The Kinks
"Lost and Found" The Kinks
"I Stand Accused" Elvis Costello
"Far Gone and Out" The Jesus and Mary Chain
"Sidewalking" The Jesus and Mary Chain
"Just Like Honey" The Jesus and Mary Chain
"I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" Morrissey
"Quicksand" David Bowie
"Company On My Back" Wilco
"Alec Eiffel" The Pixies
"Spanish Castle Magic" Jimi Hendrix
"I'm Looking Through You" The Beatles
"Hole in the Sky" Black Sabbath
"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" Nirvana
"On a Plain" Nirvana
"Aneurysm" Nivana

 

--Loving Is Easy, Barclay James Harvest Band.
--Paradise Way, Lake.
--Time Bomb, Lake.
--In the Mood, Rush.
--Mindbender, Stillwater.

 

Keef, agreed on Showdown.

these may qualify more as long obscure vs. long forgotten, but anyway:

"Cold Blue Steel Town", Broken Homes
"Boys in Town", DiVinyls (before they touched themselves)
"Birth, School, Work, Death", the Godfathers

 

Gimme the Beat Boys -- Doby Gray

 

Wow. Are there any songs left?

It's Late, Don't Stop Me Now, Teo Torriatte - Queen
Lost in a Supermarket - The Clash
Sweet Talkin' Woman - ELO (yeah, it's a hit...still a great pop song)
I Wanna Be With You - Raspberries
Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
Wolfman Jack - Todd Rundgren
Which Will - Nick Drake
I Can't Take It, Auf Wiedersehen, On Top Of The World, Downed (I could go on and on) - Cheap Trick
The Police - Be My Girl - Sally
The Four Seasons - Dawn

 

keef --
Since, I suspect, we share an affection for all things Shepherd's Bush, I would add, for starters, "Street In The City" and "Slit Skirts" from Pete's solo work, and "In A Hand Or Face," "Sunrise," and "Drowned" from the whole band.

 

The version of "Do Right by Your Woman" on the anthology is awesome. It was sung around a campfire.

Yes, "Silver, Blue and Gold" is stellar as well

 

A hearty 'hell yeah' for "It's All Too Much" by the Beatles. I was going to put that on my first list, but chose "Rain" instead.