only one track per artist PLEASE but go for as many artists as you feel like
no bonus points for obscure compilation tracks, the big lead single which totally flopped is just as good an option
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The Dismemberment Plan - The First Anniversary of Your Last Phone Call
Tucked away on the Ice Of Boston EP, yet one of their best tracks in my opinion. Probably the most “conventional” song from that period for them, which is I guess is why they didn’t want to include it on Emergency & I, but it deserves so much more than that in my opinion.
Gets Rich was more of a fan favourite hidden gem, but that one is mostly cringe and right to have been left off an album.
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thread was inspired by Summer off The Fruit That Ate Itself, but tbh I like this one more and it was actually on a main album too. Think early EP tracks are always destined to be underrated!
think it’s a bit short and scrappy compared to a lot of their more philosophical and jammy stuff, but I’ve always loved it
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Help She Can’t Swim - Apples
Fashionista Super Dance Troupe was a relentless assault right from the opening of the first track, with one exception which was the final track on the album. I used to think it was just the contrast in pace which made it so appealing, but listening to it again now in isolation just reminds me that it’s such a glorious track in its own right. The Death of Nightlife leaned into this sound a bit too much, in my opinion, losing the urgency that made the debut so good, but Apples was the peak transition between the two.
Truly impossible for the Pumpkins, thinking about it for 30 seconds has already left me mentally ill.
Never played live, according to setlist, except for being covered by Phoebe Bridgers once.
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Don’t think there’s a selection of B-Sides that has more of an artist’s absolute best songs on it than Noise Floor. The bad stuff is shite but the highs are so high
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for 20 odd years I thought this was called Cries and Whispers, thanks to Substance labelling it as such,
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This whole album’s a bit underrated, this one especially though. Reckon if it had come out after Remote Part it would have done a lot better and kept them on a similar level, but because it came out after Warnings/Promises and Roddy’s solo stuff when they seemed a bit confused about what they were trying to do it kinda sank a little bit, and I don’t think they like it all that much.
Absolutely slaps live too, they generally seem to ignore it though. Played it on the 25 years tour though, and unsurprisingly it was great.
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Slowdive - Trellisaze - with a hectic job (in terms ofworkload), additional needs kids, an introspective nature and a love for the Sussex coast - I often nip down to Hove when the weather and circumstances suit to recharge. The first aural accompaniment I often reach for as I enjoy the first sup of ale is always Slowdive - and frequently this Pygmalion track which is definitely on the more abstract, ambient end of their ouevre…a metronomic pulse underpins this otherwise drifting and disorientated track - I enjoy the wind turbines in the distance or the seagulls swooping and soaring playfully…and I exhale.
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Underrated by the band, probably their best song of the 90s and only released as a bonus track at the end of a messy live double album
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Dropped the ball by having it as a digital only single (and the last single from the album). Whole album is class tbf
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Best track they’ve ever made - lost on the indie disco crowds that never bought the albums, a brooding, beautiful, soaring epic in less than four minutes. Best string arrangement in their catalogue too, with Julien (another hugely underrated album track) a close second.
Soundgarden - An Unkind
I was tempted to go for Fresh Tendrils (their best song), but An Unkind feels 100% overlooked by everyone and is somehow the one with the fewest plays on Spotify from Down on the Upside (their most underrated album). A great burst of energy out of the slower, experimental section of the album that precedes it, fueled by Matt Cameron’s incredible off-kilter drumming. I love how instead of exploding into the anger you’d expect, the chorus goes in a more haunting direction while ratcheting up the sense that things are coming to an end.
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This song makes me cry
I’m sure loads of people enjoy it too, but I read so many meanings into it that may not even be there
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this is the best strokes song
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