Great Rare Songs from Amazing Bands
 

You know those songs that seem to be little hidden treasures in a band's catalog. Like they release some huge mega selling album then they release this great song on some random compilation that only the most die hard of fans will ever track down. It could be a b-side to a single or a never officially released live or home demo song.

This thread is dedicated to those little known songs from great bands.

The whole idea of this started today when I heard MBV- We Have all the time in the world (a louis armstrong cover) it's so euphoric and shows a more symphonic side.

Other great rare gems:
Nirvana- Do Re Mi
Dead Kennedys- Pull my Strings
Beatles- Rain
Pink Floyd- Candy and a Currant Bun (originally a song about syd's favorite pastime called "lets roll another one)
Replacements- Nowhere is My Home, If only you were lonely
Flaming Lips- Jets

the same way of saying-Pavement
Scared Stiff-the Wipers
I've Got a Right-Meat Puppets (cover of the Stooges)
Mistake-Fela Kuti
Istrumental-Pavement
Obscured-Smashing Pumpkins

oh yay candy and a currant bun
"i'm high, don't spoil my fun!"

black flag-southern rise
mars-the immediate stages of the erotic

thats all i feel like thinkin about for now

a number of Radiohead songs; Meeting in the Aisle, Follow Me Around, etc.

Numerous Pavement songs:
Mussle Rock (Is a Horse in Transition)
Strings of Nashville
Texas Never Whispers

I could go on for days.

There are great songs on the Velvet Underground's VU and Another View.

namely "ocean" and "foggy notion"

fix me and dehumanized by mudhoney

None hold a candle to "For Sale: The Preston School of Industry" or "Easily Fooled".

Bright Eyes have some danceable tunes in their rare catalog- "True Blue" being one of them, with it's flamboyant trumpeting. Ahh yeh. Violent Femmes have TOO MANY unreleased/rare tunes- "How Do You Say Goodbye?", "In Style", "Johnny", "Girl Trouble", the demo-only "Waiting For The Bus"... :(

Not forgetting that almost none of Daniel Johnston's back catalog is readily available anymore, making all that songwriting gold very rare.

I posted this in the "Rare/OOP" thread, but this Velvets tune "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore" has pretty awesome riffage and for a VU live recording it sounds pretty good too.
HERE

I was just gonna post that the new Velvets tune floored me, together with the quality of the sound (always painful listening when it comes to their bootlegs) and the gobsmackingly good first performance of ''Sister Ray''. Life's super great when stuff like that comes along. Thanks for posting it. And yes, that riff is totally, totally awesome.

...Maquiladora, A Reminder, Faithless the Wonder Boy, Talk Show Host, Bishop's Robes, India Rubber, Pop Is Dead, Permanent Daylight, The Trickster, Lozenge of Love, ...

i'm a sucker for two

Ferryboat Bill and Coney Island Steeplechase (bias on the latter probably, because i'm from brooklyn)
good songs.


I would add "Saturday Night Holocaust" to that.
shit, more than half the songs on "Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death" qualify.


The Inner Light - Beatles
Sleepwalking - Currituck Country
The Girls are Naked - The Creation
Turtles Have Short Legs - Can
Lagoon - Devendra Banhart
How I Wrote Elastic Man - The Fall
Memento Mori 7'' - Ghosts and Vodka
Relations - Jackson C. Frank
Hidden Wheel - Rites of Spring
Memories of You - Ryan Adams

**Hard Times in New York Town- Bob Dylan
(nothing remarkable, but in my opinion one of Bob's most catchiest folk ditties.
the thought of Bob reporting/singing about his experiences in NYC in Dave Whittaker's Minnesota house -late December 1961. beautiful.)

I immediately thought of Ferryboat Bill...I love that song!!!

Animal Collective - Safer

Lots of old unreleased Husker Du songs, many of which can be heard on my husker youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/HUSKERchout
private hell
won't say a word
sexual economics
call on me
drug party
today's the day
won't change

Minutemen
covering Fortunate Son
Songs that were cut from the Double Nickels CD version:
Mr Robot's Holy Orders
Little Man With A Gun In His Hand (blows the Buzz or Howl Version away)

REM -
When I Was Young
Dangerous Times
Body Count

Lots of unreleased police songs from the Ghost In The Machine demos
that can be found on my police youtube page http://www.youtube.com/POLICEchout
Don't you believe me
It's Never Too Late
Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends

That's it for now...I'll think of more.

Is there anywhere to get these two Double Nickels songs? I've been really interested in hearing them. I love that album but only have the cd version.

If it's not SY, Husker Du, Minutemen or R.E.M, CHOUT doesn't want to hear it.

Hot Snakes - U.S. Mint and various Ikara Colt b-sides were always really great... (especially in the case of Ikara Colt, who had enough b-sides to fill an album and many were better than the songs on the albums they released!) McLusky and Coachwhips had lots of excellent "rare" tracks too...My favorite Bad Religion song is on that "short songs for short people" thing, that 101 bands doing 30 second punk songs. They do a 36 second song and it seriously sums up every punk song ever, efortlessly.