Overlooked songs....

Definitely "Blue Jay Way" from The Beatles. That's my favorite song of theirs and I've never seen it talked about... 

Two from the same album: "Abandon Ship!" and "In Babelsberg" from VdGG's reunion album "Present". When someone mentions that album it is aways "Every Bloody Emperor" and "Nutter Alert" that get the credits, but I think people are really missing out here. The self-irony of "Abandon Ship!", lyrically as well as musically (one can literally see the heptagenarians totter along to that bumbling rhythm) always gives me a laugh; who but Hammill could have thought of lines like "Oh, the heptagenarians got behind the desks" or "at the lifeboat station there's a mounting panic... they're going overboard for this one - abandon ship!". And "In Babelsberg" is a really heavy rocker, driven by the dirty guitar of Hammill and the equally dirty sax of Jackson, while Banton is pounding away on a bass guitar for a change.

Edited by BaldFriede - March 08 2008 at 02:48

Endless Wire wrote: Cylli Kat wrote: In my personal opinion (and believe me, I  have a feeling I'm gonna get bashed about for this), there's this quirky, little song on Queen's "A Night At The Opera" called "Seaside Rendezvous", which I think is an amazingly charming little gem that gets lost lost in the shuffle perhaps because it is a rather unusual and campy little tune. But it has really nicely layered vocals, clever and restrained playing (including a kazoo solo!), and, its just plain fun!  But, with such blockbusters as "Bohemian Rhapsody",  "Death On Two Legs", "The Prophet's Song", "Love Of My Life", and "I'm In Love With My Car", I can understand why no-one even remembers this one... Just a personal favorite, I guess...   I have always really liked '39, it's absolutely beautiful.  It doesn't get much attention either.

Good point, Endless Wire!
Very, very beautiful, graceful song. Plus, '39 has Brian May doing the lead vocal if memory serves...
I'd also offer "Bijou" from "Innuendo" for consideration, as the title track and "The Show Must Go On" seem to overshadow it.


Edited by Cylli Kat - March 08 2008 at 02:43

Cylli Kat wrote: In my personal opinion (and believe me, I  have a feeling I'm gonna get bashed about for this), there's this quirky, little song on Queen's "A Night At The Opera" called "Seaside Rendezvous", which I think is an amazingly charming little gem that gets lost lost in the shuffle perhaps because it is a rather unusual and campy little tune. But it has really nicely layered vocals, clever and restrained playing (including a kazoo solo!), and, its just plain fun!  But, with such blockbusters as "Bohemian Rhapsody",  "Death On Two Legs", "The Prophet's Song", "Love Of My Life", and "I'm In Love With My Car", I can understand why no-one even remembers this one... Just a personal favorite, I guess...

In my personal opinion (and believe me, I  have a feeling I'm gonna get bashed about for this), there's this quirky, little song on Queen's "A Night At The Opera" called "Seaside Rendezvous", which I think is an amazingly charming little gem that gets lost lost in the shuffle perhaps because it is a rather unusual and campy little tune. But it has really nicely layered vocals, clever and restrained playing (including a kazoo solo!), and, its just plain fun!  But, with such blockbusters as "Bohemian Rhapsody",  "Death On Two Legs", "The Prophet's Song", "Love Of My Life", and "I'm In Love With My Car", I can understand why no-one even remembers this one...
Just a personal favorite, I guess...

Cul-de sac... (genesis - duke 1980) Nobody talks about it, but it´s awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited by grimpiter - March 07 2008 at 20:52

mpomy wrote: My Floyd pick would be 'Fearless' - it's the Can-Utility of Meddle, overlooked because of 'One of These Days' and 'Echoes'.  I do agree with the statement that these sonds are talked about as 'overlooked' so much that they can't really be that overloked. Other great songs that come to mind from BIG albums are 'Epitaph' from In the Court of the Crimson King, and 'One More Red Nightmare' from Red (ferocious Bruford on the latter).

Epitaph and One More Red Nightmare overlooked?
Not at all.

The ones I'd consider somewhat overlooked are:

Genesis - After the Ordeal
Absolutely perfect instrumental, but overshadowed by the rest of the album's massive epics.

King Crimson - Pictures Of A City
Too often dismissed as a Schizoid Man doppelganger, but in my mind a great track in and of itself.

Pink Floyd - wouldn't consider anything much overlooked, although I enjoy San Tropez, Seamus, Summer '68 and a lot of other tracks that don't get as much love as some others.

Jethro Tull - possibly Cap In Hand, since it's one of two songs that I enjoy from Songs From The Wood. It seems that the folkies hold sway, though.

Yes - I think South Side deserves more love than it gets, but isn't really overlooked. I don't really consider anything of theirs particularly underappreciated.

ELP - Bitches Crystal. Absolutely classic tune, imo, but never gets any love except from me.

Speaking of The Dream, that's a band full of overlooked songs:

I think that VDGG's "Pilgrims" is a very overlooked song. It has some of the best chord sequences I've ever heard in a prog song in ages, and amongst being one of my favourite's of all time, I think it deserves gallons more appreciation than it already recieves. Van Der Graaf's greatest song by far.

My Floyd pick would be 'Fearless' - it's the Can-Utility of Meddle, overlooked because of 'One of These Days' and 'Echoes'.  I do agree with the statement that these sonds are talked about as 'overlooked' so much that they can't really be that overloked.

Other great songs that come to mind from BIG albums are 'Epitaph' from In the Court of the Crimson King, and 'One More Red Nightmare' from Red (ferocious Bruford on the latter).