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This is a weird topic and I don't know really how to best explain it, but:

What are some of the best songs and musicians that people know and like, but a lot just don't realize it?

For example:

Songs- "Under Pressure" - David Bowie, "Pasttime Paradise" - Stevie Wonder

Musicians - Van Morrison

song 2 by blur

This is a weird topic and I don't know really how to best explain it, but:

What are some of the best songs and musicians that people know and like, but a lot just don't realize it?

For example:

Songs- "Under Pressure" - David Bowie, "Pasttime Paradise" - Stevie Wonder

Musicians - Van Morrison

Slander! I do not like Van Morrison!

Aaron Copeland comes to mind, but thats lame as it's pretty obvious.

There is a guy you've heard hundreds of times and not realized he does other things, and that is Ken Nordine (http://www.wordjazz.com/). (Also less esoteric here (http://dead.net/almanac/vol1_2/Nordine_Longp4.html)

Rick Wakeman (Yes) is awesome :)

Mozart. I think you'd be stunned how many of your favorite movies have some mozart playing somewhere in the background.

Barber's Adagio for Strings (Symphony #2). For those Kleenex moments.*








*No, not those sort of Kleenex moments.

Barber's Adagio for Strings (Symphony #2). For those Kleenex moments.
If it were a fugue rather than an adagio for strings, it would give new meaning to this statement:
"I thought I saw an angel once, but it was just my husband in a druid's cloak masturbating to organ music."(does anybody know where that line came from? I forgot.)

Yes, I ignored your small print. But I just had to...

If it were a fugue rather than an adagio for strings, it would give new meaning to this statement:
"I thought I saw an angel once, but it was just my husband in a druid's cloak masturbating to organ music."(does anybody know where that line came from? I forgot.)

Yes, I ignored your small print. But I just had to...
Great line. It seems to be an Onion quote.

(I just Googled, "Druid's cloak masturbating". This is not a sentance I ever anticipated writing.)

You mena like Head Automatica??/?

Youtr Mummas got a Penis is good!

Steppenwolf
the Byrds

The Yardbirds, and Derek and the Dominos, for Eric Clapton's sake.

You mena like Head Automatica??/?

Youtr Mummas got a Penis is good!


Head Automatica is alright in my own personal taste. Saw them live once.

Ozzy Osbourne. Why? Because "Crazy Train" is played at pretty much every Sporting event I go to, and nobody seems to hate it.

Same goes for the Ramones. They play "Blitzkrieg Bop" when a team is falling behind, and sometimes even the crowd starts chanting "hey, ho, let's go!".

Capricorn- Harakiri (Secret Drum Version)

The Rolling Stones (Jumpin' Jack Flash, Can't Get No Satisfaction)
and for some reason I am tempted to say the Beegees.

The Rolling Stones (Jumpin' Jack Flash, Can't Get No Satisgaction)
and for some reason I am tempted to say the Beegees.

Those are probably of the two most well known bands for their respective genres in history.

Ozzy Osbourne. Why? Because "Crazy Train" is played at pretty much every Sporting event I go to, and nobody seems to hate it.

Let me be the first to express my dislike for that song then. If it wasn't for the first 20 seconds of that song nobody would even recognize it.

Same goes for the Ramones. They play "Blitzkrieg Bop" when a team is falling behind, and sometimes even the crowd starts chanting "hey, ho, let's go!".

This I will give that to you, it's hard not to enjoy that song. Fist pumping music at its best.

Hocus Pocus by, Focus. (Yes it really does exist, and you know it.)

Those are probably of the two most well known bands for their respective genres in history.
Okay then lets see....hmm how about the song American Woman or perhaps Dust in the Wind?

I rather like Kate Bush (I think she influenced many others like Paula Cole, Tory Amos, Sarah Slean)

V.A.S.T. is another great example of great music.

But one of the greatest composers (not the only one, mind) must be Carl Stalling. He did incredible stuff, even if it was for cartoons.

I do not like Van Morrison!

You just don't realize you like it :D

Same goes for the Ramones. They play "Blitzkrieg Bop" when a team is falling behind, and sometimes even the crowd starts chanting "hey, ho, let's go!".

I must admit, I do dust off that one every once in a while...

I know a few people who like this, its called 99 Red Balloons.

Okay then lets see....hmm how about the song American Woman or perhaps Dust in the Wind?

As for American Woman, the band the Guess Who, would probably be a band that a lot of people like but don't realize.

Another band and song that I think fits is "Werewolves of London" - Warren Zevon.

Unsquare Dance, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Apparently lots of young people think that We are the Champions is a "folk song" and isn't by a band. Lol, kids these days...
And does anyone know who wrote Feeling Good, which was done by Muse and Michael Buble? The Muse version is the shit.

Let me be the first to express my dislike for that song then. If it wasn't for the first 20 seconds of that song nobody would even recognize it.

I like the song, but I hate the tone of Randy Rhoads' guitar. It sounds simply "ick".

Youtr Mummas got a Penis is good!
Ha I'm listening to Goldie Lookin' Chain right now!

Unsquare Dance, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Nice. I remember when Take 5 was being used to sell Infiniti cars...for a brief moment I knew what it was like to be a classic rock fan with all thier music being used to advertise beer...

song 2 by blur

I like that one.
Whoo-hoo! :D

I think this is supposed to be songs that people have heard and liked, but don't know about. You've probably heard mine somewhere (Harakiri), and few people know of it. And yes, I am Gnomish Republic's secondary nation.

But Ray Barreto's version from Pasttime Paradise is best. ;)

Fran

Surf guitar-
Sleepwalker
Walk, Don't Run
Pipeline
Misirlou<-Thanks to Tarantino, it's the opening to Pulp Fiction with Jungle Boogie by Kool & the Gang. Who I assume everyone knows did Celebration....

I know a few people who like this, its called 99 Red Balloons.
Yep, so long as it's the Goldfinger version.
How's about The Clash? London Calling, Rock the Casbah, Should I Stay or Should I Go. Most people probably know the songs, but not everyone knows who they're by.

Yes, Kool and teh Gang did lots of good stuff that nobody really knows, like Duji.

Also Herbie Hancock's Cantaloupe Island since it has been remixed.

Die Fantastischen 4 also used the really good Right Down Here by Asha Puthli for Die Da, which is quite known in Germany, at least.

Fran

The theme from Carmen (the opera/musical) Oh yes.

Surf guitar-
Sleepwalker
Walk, Don't Run
Pipeline
....

I love that surf music. It's just so happy; perfect pop. It even makes me wish I was the athletic type. My favourite is the surf medley delivered by Junior Brown on Semi Crazy.

I love that surf music. It's just so happy; perfect pop. It even makes me wish I was the athletic type. My favourite is the surf medley delivered by Junior Brown on Semi Crazy.
I live in Surf City (Santa Cruz, CA) so I get a lot of it. I'm still bummed about missing a chance to see Dick Dale two summers ago......


Did someone mention Carmina Burana(sp) yet? By Carl Orff? It just occoured to me and I don't want to make two posts.

D'oh! I'm making two anyway-

Screamin' Jay Hawkins-I Put a Spell on You That dude kicks ass, and is batshit, which is part of why he kicks ass....