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Re: Favorite deep cuts
The Most obvious one - needs no introduction...
Alice In Chains - Sunshine
--- Criminally underrated B-side from Facelift. I remember the first time I ever went to Miami, this song immediately registered in my brain. Here you have this sunbaked, pastel-washed colorful "Paradise City", yet every fuckin' block and under the causeways, you see strung out junkies, not to mention obvious drug dealers. It used to be a wild west show down there in those days. You could be a block away from high-end homes, and see pastel-colored crack houses. Seattle in the sun.
Queen - Princes of the Universe
--- Okay, obviously alot of work went into the video on this, and it might've been a single (can't remember), in addition to being the theme to the hit film "Highlander" in 1986. But on the 'A Kind of Magic' album it was a B-side, not performed live by the band, and very much overlooked on an album which featured classic Queen tracks like A Kind of Magic, One Vision, One Year of Love, Friends Will Be Friends and Who Wants To Live Forever. I just think Princes has a fantastic hard rock energy that even metal bands would have to love, and Brian May's guitar solo in this is all friggin' time!
Dream Theater - Learning To Live
--- Closes their best album, "Images and Words", and by that point you've had your brains melted by the amazing prog metal works of so many classic tracks, especially the 1-2-3 punch of Pull Me Under, Another Day, and Take The Time to open the album. Learning To Live is an amazing epic, maybe their best, that is kind of lost and forgotton tucked away at the end of an exhausting, but amazing album. 11 minute epicnickey blissfulnesses!
Ozzy Osbourne - Waiting For Darkness
--- Total fuckin' epic, and probably my favorite Ozzy tune under No More Tears. Lost not only at the end of Bark At The Moon, but the fact it's a Jake E. Lee album, it's terribly ignored. Amazing slow burn, real 80's-licious, but yet total Oz and totally legit. Criminally underrated guitar work by Jake E. Lee.
There's so many more....
Re: Favorite deep cuts
Not to bog anything down, but I throw in another post with non-hard rock stuff...
Phil Collins - Long Long Way To Go
--- Although cut three on Collins' masterpiece album "No Jacket Required", this track could make U2 drool. Such a brooding, underrated, forgotton masterpiece on an album with Sussudio, One More Night & Take Me Home. So haunting, and tragic sounding. Not shocked at all it was used on Miami Vice when Tubbs' lover & child were killed.
Elton John & Eric Clapton - Runaway Train
--- Recently rediscovered this one. Consider it a 'deep cut' because it's virtually forgotton from Elton's 1992 album "The One", and is primarily known for it's appearence in the 1992 film Lethal Weapon 3. Elton did release it as a single, but I don't believe it appeared on ANY of his anthology sets and has been largely ignored since 1992.
Freddie Mercury - In My Defence
--- Recorded in 1985 and released in 1986 for the LP for the musical Time, this rarity didn't get officially released under Freddie's name until 1992 with The Freddie Mercury Album. Just an amazing song, and the video rearrangement for it was a touching tribute to Freddie's life. Really kinda shocked that it didn't evolve into a Queen track. The guitars are very Brian May, but recorded by Paul Vincent.
John Carpenter & Alan Howarth - Hey Boom
--- An instrumental, electronic track here, but a personal favorite from the soundtrack to the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Was unreleased and suddenly appeared on a 25th anniversary soundtrack release in 2007. If you've seen the film, the music is from the kill scene where the robot kills toy seller Harry Grimbridge, and the ensuing chase as Dr. Challis (Tom Atkins) chases the robot to his car, and the robot kills himself by setting himself on fire and his car explodes. Just a very haunting, slow burn type of track. Very moody.
Buckethead - Oh Jeez...
--- Track 27 on Bucket's debut album - Bucketheadland (a personal favorite). Tad short, but the track samples Harry Manfredini's main theme from the 1982 film "Friday The 13th Part 3D", as Bucket shreds manically over it. What's cool about it is the melody for the track backs the main shredding by Bucket which is different. One of my favorite cuts off of Bucketheadland, and at #27, definitely gets lost in the shuffle for many.
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Okay, i'll stop. GREAT thread Faldor, there's so many great tunes I think all of us could pick that are off the beaten path.
