Top Ten Non Album tracks!

[Charger]

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!

[Zzzptm]

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. 

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.

[Vyn]

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!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
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!

[Charger]

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...

[Zzzptm]

Really enjoyed that Stranglers track, but it was 3:21, not 5:00! (and as I typed this up, Charger ninja'd me, so I don't yet have a reaction for his post! )

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.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

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.

[Zzzptm]

Apache was recorded and released in 1960. As a single, it was another non-album track!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Albums were still uncommon back then, so I'm not surprised.

[Vyn]

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:

[Zzzptm]

"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.

[Vyn]

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.

[Charger]

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.

[Charger]

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!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

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.