That was a favorite!! Again, that was a song (and an album) that I had to sneak to listen to back in the day.

I'm sure you had to do the same with DIRTY MIND unless you wanted to hear:

"Son, why are you listening to that dude wearing a thong?"

Pretty much...

A stand-out track on SYNCHRONICITY. If for sheer what the hell batshit insanity.

Composed originally for Terry Gilliam's movie TIME BANDITS which George Harrison produced. About a decade after his death, an AOL poll asked fans to pick Harrison's best solo songs...this cracked the Top 10. I think it fits right up there.

(Since I've done Paul and then George's "Dream Away," you know where I'm going with this.)

In the midwest, this might have been one of the best live acts that you could see in the late 1970's and early 1980's.



And although Rainbow's version of this next song is the more popular version, Head East actually recorded the first cover version of Russ Ballard's "Since You Been Gone."



...waiting for SC to post-up about seeing this band when he was a student at Bradley University in Peoria back in the day! I think we had this conversation once before in a similar music thread.

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From 1979 on his self-titled album, a prophecy of pop music for the next 5 years {segue to "Bambi" by Prince}.

From that same album, "Feel For You" which Ch-Ch-Chaka Khan covered a few years later. Also, "Still Waiting," an extraordinarily popular song (along with "Controversy," the title song from the album released just before 1999) in the post-disco R&B club scene in the early 1980's.

Danito -- Tom Waits' Closing Time is one of the albums/CD's that I would choose if I were trapped on a desert island and I got to pick five albums that I could bring with me....which in the era of the mp3 player, seems like a ridiculous exercise...

Snake / Lilo -- For a long time Led Zepplin's "Hey, Hey What Can I Do?" was only available as the B-side of an import 45 that featured ??? on the A-side. (I honestly can't remember what song is on the A-side...I gotta quit cooking with aluminum...and the sad part is that I just went to look for my copy of the 45 and I can't find it...maybe I came home to the wrong house...)

tony b.

According to Wiki the A-side was "Immigrant Song" but I honestly can't say for sure. I was just happy to get the B-Side.

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Most people know the "Express Yourself" song of course but "Your Love" was just as good in my opinion. It seems like it should have been a bigger hit. But it was on the last album before the core of the original Watts 103rd Street Rhythm band broke up. Several members went to play with Bill Withers.

So they covered NWA?

Oh absolutely. Charles Wright had a time machine that allowed him to travel forward to 1988, see what was popular and then return back to 1970. And the rest as they say, is history...

If this had come out in the early 1970s in the same era as "Photograph" and "It Don't Come Easy", this would've been an easy hit. But it came out in the late 70s (when people got sick of Ringo) and it failed to chart.

It might actually be my favorite solo Ringo number, bar "Photograph."



(So that takes care of them.)

I could've just done this whole thread in Clash deep cuts.

"South City Midnight Lady," an overlooked Doobie Brothers song from The Captain and Me album.

tony b.

From his obscure, out of print debut album.

(An outtake from King of Rock, later re-recorded by the Beastie Boys for their debut album License to Ill.)

Gilstrap was a backup singer for Stevie Wonder and also the singer for the Good Times theme song. I heard this on a compilation of old school music. It's from a 1975 album that did well but I don't think this particular song charted. Anyway I certainly never heard of it.

This was from their debut album. Actually Prince played just about all the instruments and wrote the music here. Prince can also be heard on background vocals. This song didn't get the attention that the uptempo and bawdy "Get It Up" and "Cool" did but it was still a decent ballad that has aged well imo.

I remember that anecdote about how The Time came about. Morris Day came up for the drumline for a funky beat which his buddy Prince wanted, and offered him a deal: Give me credit and publishing for that track (which became "Partyup"), and I'll use my Warner Bros. contract to push your musical career.

I heard that too, RR.

An artist I dont think Ive heard discussed on the boards before is the singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston. He is a relatively obscure artist and has written some achingly beautiful songs. When I have some more time I'll have to post some YouTube links.

Seriously; check this out. If you like honest music, check it.

Talk about a troubled artist; Dan Johnston could be the textbook eg.; straight up, the poor guy is, and has been for decades, dealing with some serious mental problems.

Look, I know and can respect the fact that this is not for everyone.

But there's a reason so many artists have covered his work, and why he has such a cult following; he writes beautiful songs.

And some totally kick-ass ones;



Trust me; sadly 90% of people watch this video and are like WTF. Honestly; just wait for the chorus. And remember; this aint some bum; this guy is real. He's self-released a prolific body of work without ever pandering to trends or exploiting "GarageBand" and Pro-Tools logic. He's written, played and sang every little bit of music you'll ever hear him play himself.

Dan Johston is a true artist. The guy is a legend.

My little brother dug this up with a "remember this?"

I do indeed remember this. Classic KRS

Reverend Beat Man is the Primitive Rock & Roll Preacher of Blues and Trash. He's a Swedish guy who does the whole "one-man-band" thing, sorta like Seasick Steve but, well, meaner and trashier. He was the lead singer of The Monsters before stepping out on his own.

This wont be for everyone, I know. If you like heavy and, er, trashy...check it out. Its different for sure.