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ROCK AND ROLL! => All Them Other Guys => Topic started by: Charger on June 03, 2024, 07:29:19 AM
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So time for another Top Ten list then!
This time it's non album tracks.
Including single B-sides, Live only tracks, Japan Edition Bonus tracks and Single only tracks.
I'll kick things off with this one:
This was the B-side for the single Strange Kind Of Woman from Fireball.
Technically I could have chosen Strange Kind Of Woman as well since that did NOT appear on the European release of Fireball, but since it was included on the US release I think it still counts as an album track.
I'm Alone is a great little rocker with a great riff and a whole bunch of groove. First I heard this one was on the 25th Anniversary Edition of Fireball which I bought back in the late 90s. Loved it ever since!
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Good thing you said the name, since WMG threw a red flag on that video. :redcard:
But, yes, that's a great rocker from the Fireball sessions. Those extended tracks are some of my favorites. So I'll add in Deep Purple's Freedom and make this almost a Fireball 25th Anniversary thread! :smug:
I think it could be faster overall, but the screamfest at the end seals the deal for me quite nicely.
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Oh another good one! I too have always hoped that Freedom could have been bit faster...it kind of plods along now with that mid tempo style.
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I'll start with the song which made me suggest this topic in the first place...
Hawkwind - Moonglum
Moonglum was only ever performed live during the tour in support of the Chronicles of the Black Sword / Live Chronicles, the story of Michael Moorcock's Elric character (I really must read those books!). Nice, catchy rocking tune, teh video runs into the next track so cuts off abruptly.
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I'll go with a live only track for my second pick as well then!
This one should be no surprise to anyone here...
This was a jam song Sabbath played part of Wicked World and later part of Sabbra Cadabra jams. No official title for it obviously but Sometimes I'm Happy seems to fit it alright.
It's a bluesy little jam with very little deeper substance but it flows nicely and it was a fun little "surprise" song back in the day I would imagine.
I'm assuming the lyrics were just adlibbed by Ozzy as they did evolve a bit over the years and they aren't really "Geezer like" if you know what I mean! :)
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More Deep Purple from me!
"Dance to the Rock and Roll" - a staple of the Mk3 and Mk4 live performance jams, this one's in the studio with Tommy Bolin and it's just bonkers how great Bolin's guitar work is on this! The whole band's smokin' on it, one of my favorite jams.
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My second pick is...
Marillion - Three Boats Down From The Candy
This was the B-Side to their first single Market Square Hero which was itself a non-album track. The 12" version had the 17-minute Grendel which I considered posting here instead but felt I would lose you all before the mid-point!! All three songs did make it to a "catch-up" album (B-Sides Themselves)
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It's like Peter Gabriel doing post-punk rock. Nice. :)
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The comparison with Genesis is not new, and Grendel was compared with Supper's Ready which gendered some shit for them.
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Time for another B-side!
This one from the 1986 You Hurt my Soul single...that also was a non album single but the single itself isn't the top dog here, no sir, it's the suberb little rocker called EVIL!
The riffing and most importantly Doro's vocals here are just amazing. This one has so much drive and power it's crazy. Doro has played this live a few times in the past few years and it's been great as well.
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That totally rocked!
Wanting to find a suitable follow-up, I went on a search for whatever happened to Honeymoon Disease... they broke up but their guitarist, Anna Acid, started a new band, Acid's Trip. FUN FACT: she's a welder for her day job!
Anyway, I found this and it totally works:
I give you "Trippin' Balls" by Acid's Trip. You're welcome! :)
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Selection No. 3 for me and I'm not quite sure what name they went under for these songs...
Lemmy and The Damned - Over The Top / Ballroom Blitz
Recorded in sessions around 1978 when Lemmy was the bass player for the The Damned for a brief period. These songs have variously been credited to MotorDamned or the The Doomed. I believe Over The Top appeared on the B-Side of the Bomber single and made an appearance on the 40th anniversary edition of No Sleep Til Hammersmith
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Great stuff!
Kilo - you for sure need to read the Elric books. I haven't picked one up in decades, but I recall being enthralled by them back in the day.
Unleashed on the world in 1991, uncle Henry teamed up with Australian punks The Hard-Ons:
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These are great... I'm wondering if 10 will be enough...
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Kilo - you for sure need to read the Elric books. I haven't picked one up in decades, but I recall being enthralled by them back in the day.
I have the books... just never read them!
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Motörhead played Over The Top few times live, I have it on Live albums but I have never heard the actual studio version! Very cool!
Not a fan of Rollins but that wasn't half bad!
Gotta check out Trippin Balls just for the title!
Well my 4th pick is going to be another Deep Purple track!!
This is a live only track that I believe first appeared on the Concerto For Group And Orchestra tour back in 2000. Brilliant little guitar rocker instrumental!
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That's a great track, that one. :)
Here's one that's from back in the day...
The Brats "Be a Man"
LA glam metal started on the east coast in the mid-70s. :smug:
To be fair, it also started in LA around that time, it just wasn't called glam metal or hair metal or anything metal at all. It was punk rock or glam-punk.
I'll add another one, tied with this, by The Berlin Brats, that made it to a Cheech & Chong soundtrack before the band initiated a self-destruct sequence.
The best punk rock was NEVER on an album from the time, or if it was, the album went into a black hole of uncommercial musical goldmines.
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Punk was such a regional thing back then - if you were lucky enough to reside near a happening place (NYC) in the mid 70's, what a lucky break for you! If you didn't, well, them's the breaks.
I used to go to the clubs all-the-time to hear local/regional bands, and in the KC area during the time punk was catching fire nationally/internationally, punk was not the thing. The area always seemed to be a few years behind the coasts when it came to such things so I would be seeing someone like Shooting Star before they got a record deal, but not anyone like the Ramones. The clubs just didn't book those kind of acts (in general). By the time they did, the rest of the world was moving on to something else.
AND, if you happened to be in a band that played punk music, you packed yer shit and moved out of the midwest lol.
Which brings me to New Order's "Blue Monday". This tune is like an aural time machine, and the single that defines the concept of a single for all singles!
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I was never a big fan of New Order, but I did like Blue Monday. I'm surprised it was a non-album track, but I see that many of their early songs weren't on any albums.
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So pick number 4 for me...
The Stranglers - 5 Minutes
This was one of the early singles that catapulted The Stranglers to the forefront of punk. Actually this is one of the few songs they did that actually is quite punky!
NOTE: I changed my pick for today because I found out that a song I was convinced was a non-album song... is in fact on an album... and it's one that I own! :wall:
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This is a bit of a boderline case...as it's a soundtrack song. So techincally it was on an album but on the otherhand it was never on an offcial album by the band...I'm gonna say screw it and throw it in just because it's so damn good song!
Originally made for the movie House Of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie. The Firefly family had a liquor store that was named Pussy Liquor. But the song pretty much tells the story of the family.
Absolutely killer tune. One of my all time favourite Rob Zombie songs. The riff, the vocal melody and the tongue firmly in cheek lyrics...pure gold here...
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Really enjoyed that Stranglers track, but it was 3:21, not 5:00! :D (and as I typed this up, Charger ninja'd me, so I don't yet have a reaction for his post! :D )
For today, I thought of doing the Heavy Metal version of The Mob Rules, but it's so close to the original, I chose not to. Then I thought of doing another DP track from the Pirate Studio sessions... but I should do something more original. :)
Slade - Cum on Feel the Noize
Nope. Wasn't on an album at the time of release. "Best of" compilations don't count.
And for a bonus, this song was missing from the UK pressing of Sweet's Desolation Boulevard, even though it made it to the US pressing:
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
In an age where album sales had been driving music for over a decade, with singles no longer being a thing that knocked out in a weekend but were now part of a packaging and promotion campaign, these two snuck out and became massive hits without an album to go with them. Ballroom Blitz got captured for the US release from Sweet, but never got to the English version, even on reissues. Both are party rock tracks, fun to play and sing along with, and in their being singles-only, they hearken back to the early and mid 50s when albums were put together of a stack of previously-released singles and decent b-sides. Once upon a time, a singer or a band would do a single and, if it was a hit, would do a follow-up and release it a few weeks later, rinse and repeat until the kids moved on to a new sound. Once hi-fi gear became affordable for the home, longer playing records emerged as a dominating format inside a very short time, around 1958-1960.
And then, in the mid-70s, we get these guys doing it like back in the golden age. :)
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Selection No. 5
Black Sabbath - Apache
A cover of The Shadows 1959 (or maybe 1960) No. 1 single here in the UK, and likely a great inspiration to Tony's guitar playing education.
I think (but I could be wrong) that they used to play this to give the tech teams time to swap out tapes.
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Apache was recorded and released in 1960. As a single, it was another non-album track! :)
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Albums were still uncommon back then, so I'm not surprised.
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That Rob Zombie tune is gold, love it!
Had never heard Iommi's version of Apache before - didn't even know there was such a thing. Some fan I am, huh?!
1965, The Stones make the leap from popular blues-based band to megastars:
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"The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man", the b-side for "Satisfaction" is one of my fave Stones tunes. Great humor and acid wit on that track.
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Over the years, I've heard that B-side on the radio a few times. Rare, but it was so notable that I remember it. That 45 was one of the few my parents bought back in the day when it came out, so growing up I would play both sides and I always liked both songs. It took a few years before I understood what the point of The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man was...single-digit-aged me just thought it was a catchy tune about some dork.
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I think Apache was only done during the Headless Cross tour and even then just few shows...those Russian shows for sure but I think it was done on few other occations as well...always part of Tony's solo jam section.
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Next one is again a bit of a should it be included or not scenario but because the track is so awesome it kind of needs to be included I think and it did only appear on a best of collection so I think I'm okay with this...
KILLED BY DEATH was originally released for the No Remorse best of collection that kind of noted the fans that the band was back after another lineup change. This was also the first song to feature (and written by) mr. Phil Campbell!
Not a lot of bands could pull of a song entitled Killed By Death for it being somewhat silly, but somewhat silly is what Motörhead does extremely well and this song is no exeption!
I went with this live version featuring Doro Pesch because...well...it's just awesome!
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Choice number 6
I'm going the video game route today...
Tomb Raider II - Venice Section
A little out of keeping with our usual musical tastes although I do like Vivaldi's Four Seasons which this is quite similar to. I don't remember much about the game except that in this section of the game Crofty is traversing the canals of Venice. It's a good 25 years since I played it but this music stuck in my head.
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Psychedelic Rock is usually something associated with bands around 1965 and later, most of them emerging from the UK or USA's hippie culture.
It's easy to overlook The Isley Brother's 1964 single "Testify Pts 1&2", but to me it absolutely stands as an early psychedelic/hard rock outing. Coming out as it did in the first half of 1964, when The Beatles were still doing "Love Me Do" and stuff like that, The Isleys laid down this track with a young Mr. Jimi Hendrix unleashed on guitar:
Effects, feedback, fuzz, studio trickery, it's all there, along with a very relaxed and painterly vocal delivery that is 100% an inspiration for Hendrix' later vocal work.
And I know The Beatles hung on The Isley Brothers' output, having had success with doing covers of their tunes. This thing drops in early '64 and within a few months, The Beatles were doing "I Feel Fine", which used effects and all that. Imitation and the sincerest form of flattery, what what!
It's a great track, as heavy as it got in 1964, and it points the way towards heavier, more experimental, more progressive adventures in the years to shortly come after. This kind of jamming out on the guitar was launching the boats for many an aspiring guitarist that wanted to do more than just a brief solo in between choruses.
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Awesome jam - around the 1:45 mark begins a section of vocalizations that are full-on tripped-out.
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Awesome jam - around the 1:45 mark begins a section of vocalizations that are full-on tripped-out.
Indeed.
And that is *1964*~! I can't think of anyone else bending around like that in that time period.
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Choice 7
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
When I got the album The Scream in about 1980, I was disappointed that this song wasn't included. It was their first hit and went Top 10 in 1978. Not quite punk but with some punk elements, some goth and art rock elements. They emerged from the London Punk Clubs scene frequented by the Sex Pistols among others and Siouxsie Sioux was in the background when Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols on live early evening TV when they first started out... it didn't go well and Grundy was removed from the show soon after!
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Not my fave Siouxsie track, but one I do like a lot! :)
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In 1980 the Damned decided to cover The Official Song of San Francisco. I do believe at one point this found its way onto an album, but not until -years- later, and then as an add-on. Or something. Anyway, here's White Rabbit:
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Now that's an interesting version of White Rabbit!
For my 7th pick I'll go with one that might stretch the rules a bit but THIS version has never appeared on an album!
When Jon announced that they'd be doing a full on concept album from the Something Wicked Trilogy it came along with an EP called Overture Of The Wicked with one new track from the upcoming album and re-recordings of the original trilogy.
I was totally blown away with the new versions. Firstly ofcourse Tim's vocals are SUBERB but the music side was totally rearranged as well with a bunch of added instrumentalisation and orchestral parts.
A fantastic job.
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I seem to be a choice ahead, as my 8th selection is:
The Jam - Funeral Pyre
Looking though their catalogue The Jam has loads of non-album songs as singles. This is a particular favourite of mine.
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Resurrecting the Fireball 25th Anniversary theme, my pick is Slow Train, a kind of unusual sounding track that I've always admired.
Ted
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Slow Train is another good song from the Fireball sessions!
My #8 is
Surprise surprise some BLAZE
This one was the limited edition bonus track for Tenth Dimension
What an amazingly quirky riff! Always loved that. Very different sounding track from anything that made it to the album so I can understand why it was left out...but it is still a stellar stellar track!
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Yeah, you might be predictable... but so am I! That's a good song though.
Pick number 9
Headgirl - Please Don't Touch
Another collaboration by Motorhead this time with fellow rockers Girlschool. Released on The St Valentine's Day Massacre EP in 1981, this did make it onto the compilation album No Remorse. It is simplistic, but it's fun, it's a cover of the song by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. It had Girlscool's Denise Dufort on drums because Philty had injured his neck and is only credited as providing "Insults and Inspiration"!
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Hmmm...looks like Vyn and ZzZ are falling behind so let's wait for them to catch up before doing the last one...
But I'll throw in my number 9 now.
This song originally only appeared on the Walking In The Air single but has since seen releases on best of collections and deluxe edition of Oceanborn album.
This is very high on my all time favourite Nightwish songs...most certainly one of my favourites with Tarja on vocals! The melody here is super catchy and the riff has a very nice crunch to it.
I bought the Walking In The Air single from a sale at a record store back in the day (1999 maybe) just for the heck of it...am I glad that I did!
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Back from vacation, so I'll post three in a row! :smug:
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Pick number 9
Headgirl - Please Don't Touch
Another collaboration by Motorhead this time with fellow rockers Girlschool. Released on The St Valentine's Day Massacre EP in 1981, this did make it onto the compilation album No Remorse. It is simplistic, but it's fun, it's a cover of the song by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. It had Girlscool's Denise Dufort on drums because Philty had injured his neck and is only credited as providing "Insults and Inspiration"!
And let us not forget Girlschool's great cover of Bomber, not on any album of the day...
Yeah, they do ALL RIGHT with this one!
And 100% hats off to Motorhead for being so cool with their buddy bands on all these singles, one-offs, and lending of hands. Playing hard on stage is one thing, but being strong allies behind the scenes is more than gold.
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This one is one of my faves from Bandcamp. The band is The Sick Bags and the song is "Halfway to Hell". It's a great punk-metal track that captures the spirit where those two genres meet.
It's from an EP and, last I checked, that ain't no album. :smug:
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Mos Generator does some excellent stuff on their albums, full of consistency and detail. Then Tony Reed gets a wild hair and does something that won't fit on an album but, thanks to digital releases, sees an audience all the same.
That's the case for the band's cover of Van Halen's "Lighting Up the Sky", which I snapped up as a single some years ago.
These boys can play and sing some great rock and roll, I tell you what!
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My 10th and final choice is another rather obvious one but what the heck!
When it was announced that Tony Iommi and Ian Gillan are gonna get together and do a song I jumped up in firm rejoicement (not sure that's a word but WHO CARES!?)
I have to say I had hopes that they'd end up doing an album together but that was not to be...but this song is INCREDIBLE and I'm rather sure that they would have had more than this one and Holy Water in their back pockets had they done the album!
But what a great tune! Had to the final choice here!
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I forgot to post yesterday!
My 10th selection is another one by The Damned but this time on their own
The Damned - Disco Man
From the Friday 13th EP (1981), I could have chosen any of the songs because they all rather good. Disco Man is the lead track, followed by "Billy Bad Breaks", "Limit Club" and a cover of the Rolling Stones "Citadel".
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OUT OF MY MIND:
That guy on keyboards sounds a lot like Jon Lord, know who it was? And, wow, Jason Newsted sounds pretty decent WHEN HE'S INCLUDED IN THE MIX! And isn't that the same Nicko McBrain that used to drum for Pat Travers? :smug:
Seriously, yes, that's a great track. The *compliation* album that includes it also has a ripping version of "Trashed" with a mix I find superior to the one off of Born Again.
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DISCO MAN:
Have never heard that one before, that's a great find/share, KDC!
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I'd like to submit from Jethro Tull, "The Witch's Promise", a non-album single from 1970:
A lovely, haunting song that I've always enjoyed from the first listening. It's magical to me.
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Always enjoyed that tune from Jethro.
Alas, I have nothing to offer by way of another single - my time allotment was misspent these past few days, it seems lol. If I think of anything I know where to go to post it!
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Seriously, yes, that's a great track. The *compliation* album that includes it also has a ripping version of "Trashed" with a mix I find superior to the one off of Born Again.
That was the version from Ian Gillan's solo album of remakes called Gillan's Inn. A great album! Although that too (in my mind) suffered a bit from a muddy overly compressed production.