Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

"Rocket Queen" by Guns 'n Roses (particularly the final two minutes after the tempo change) is their best song, IMO

 

and you are entitled to that opinion, as wrong as it may be.

 

Rocket Queen is OK, but the two most underrated G'N'R songs are Mr. Brownstone and My Michele.

 

a coupla good calls there zeke.

i'm not one to bust anyone's ass for taking drugs, i mean shit, do what ya gotta do, and if it hurts nobody else, more power to ya. but damned that axel rose for screwing me out of another decade of quality tunes.

 

--All Night Long, Rainbow
--Cinderella Man, Rush
--Jimmy Jones, The Vapors

 

I'm not sure it's possible to underrate the greatness of Mr. Brownstone. I know it was never a single, per se, but it has gotten loads of airplay even nearly 20 (!!!!) years later. That song...that's another top five song all-time. I was in the middle of a long drive last week and was fading fast when Mr. Brownstone came on. It fucking jacked me up like you wouldn't believe. Awesome, awesome, awesome song that builds and builds and builds. Fuck. I'm all jacked up now.

As for November Rain as Stairway to Heaven...very interesting. I can see that. I can't see it as a last dance staple at high schools around the land, but it's definitely an epic on par with STH.

 

Absolutely. I have most of those first albums ... EJ and Bernie Taupin had to be fertile music minds to crank out two albums a year as per their record deal in the early '70s. Some really incredible stuff. None of those early hits were merely "so-so" and many of the deep cuts already mentioned are well worth the price of admission.

The remasters of those early albums were well worth it because of some of the extra cuts. I wasn't the biggest fan of "Skyline Pigeon" on harpsichord - the way much of "Empty Sky" was performed - but the piano version as one of the bonus cuts on "Don't Shoot Me - I'm Only the Piano Player" is superb.

 

Marseilles by Angel City

 

In my time of dying - Led Zeppelin

 

California - Zep

 

Two great songs I heard on XM Fred that I had forgotten:

"Who Wants To Go To Heaven" - Gene Loves Jezebel

"Metropolis" by The Church

And thanks to Mr. Friend O' for steering me (inadvertently) back to Graham Parker. I'd forgot what great songs "Discovering Japan" and "Saturday Night Is Dead" are.

 

"Feed the Tree" and "Slow Dog", Belly
"Now It's My Turn", Berlin
"Rocky Mountain High", John Denver (I'm serious!)