"National Anthem" by Radiohead over "Creep" or "Karma Police."

"The Wizard" by Black Sabbath

By that same band?

"You're Missing," Bruce Springsteen

Damn near everything by Jimi Hendrix.

peace frog by the doors

"Song for the Dead" by QotSA

"Hold Me In Your Arms" by The Black Keys

"Untitled" or "Not Even Jail" by Interpol

CtrlAltDelete: "National Anthem" by Radiohead over "Creep" or "Karma Police."

I'd go with "Reckoner" off their new album. Or "I Might Be Wrong", "You And Whose Army?" off Amnesiac or "Lucky" off OK Computer.

Soul Coughing - Sleepless
King Crimson - Coincidently, also Sleepless
System Of A Down - Bounce
Dead Kennedys - Ill in the Head
Queens Of The Stone Age - In The Fade

/lax rules on the definition of "popular" bands

mailroomjack: peace frog by the doors

This and "Cars Hiss By My Window".

Beatles, "The Night Before".

Or a dozen or two others.

Queen - Rock it (Prime Jive)

Let me try that with popular bands this time

Beatles - Everybody's got something to hide
Eagles - On the Border

That's the way
Hey Hey what can I do
Traveling Riverside Blues
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp

The list could go on

John Mayer doing Radiohead's Kid A

It's actually quite good. All the more impressive when you consider that every other thing he's done has sucked brontosaurus balls.

"Ten Years Gone" for me, but also:

"Dragon Attack" Queen
"Monkey To Man" Elvis Costello
"Wallflower" Peter Gabriel
"The Punk And The Godfather" The Who

peachpicker: John Mayer doing Radiohead's Kid A

It's actually quite good. All the more impressive when you consider that every other thing he's done has sucked brontosaurus balls.

Well, he did a song called "Comfortable" that no one knows and is actually pretty good.

/so yeah, put that on this list

robsul82: Well, he did a song called "Comfortable" that no one knows and is actually pretty good.

I will check it out... cautiously.

Iggy Pop - "1969" No one I know has even heard of this song. I love it to bits.
Buzzcocks - "Sneaky"
Green Day - "Hitchin' a Ride" Yeah, I went with Green Day. I like the double entendre lyrics and the violin intro.
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Israel"

mailroomjack: peace frog by the doors

Hell's yeah! I've been saying that for years.

How about "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel over "In Your Eyes".

Pink Floyd: "Pillow of Winds", "Fearless", basically all of the Animals album, "The Gunner's Dream", "The Final Cut", "Two Suns in the Sunset".

Jethro Tull: "Mother Goose", "My God", "Wind Up", basically all of the Passion Play album.

Mike Oldfield: "Ommadawn Part 1".

Sufjan Stevens: "Concerning the U.F.O. Sighting...", "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.", "Jacksonville", "Casimir Pulaski Day", "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is out to get us!"

King Crimson: "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Circus", "Lizard: Part 1: Prince Rupert Awakes", "Exiles", "Easy Money", "Night Watch", "One More Red Nightmare", "Starless", "Frame by Frame", "Thela Hun Ginjeet".

The White Stripes: "Girl, You Have No Taste in Medicine", "You've Got her in your Pocket".

Dust N' Bones- Guns -n- F'n Roses (wazzup Izzy)
Parting of the Sensory- Modest Mouse

"Country Feedback" or "Texarkana" by R.E.M. off of Out of Time, which featured "Losing My Religion"

Third_Uncle_Eno: Pink Floyd: "Pillow of Winds"

Any band who wrote a song called "Pillow of Winds" is either really pretentious or is writing about a whoopee cushion.

I'm thinking the former.

Dire Straits: "Single Handed Sailor", "Skateaway", "It Never Rains", "Ride Across the River", "Why Worry", "Your Latest Trick".

I didn't realize there were so many Crimson fans out there. Are they being "rediscovered" or something?

/keep seeing them pop up in these threads

Modest Mouse - Teeth Like God's Shoeshine (and really, a bunch of others that are all better than Float On)

Pontius Gandalf: "Dragon Attack" Queen

Come to think of it, the whole album was awesome

Third_Uncle_Eno: Sufjan Stevens: "John Wayne Gacy, Jr."

That.

/d'oh

Pink Floyd: "Pillow of Winds", "Fearless", basically all of the Animals album, "The Gunner's Dream", "The Final Cut", "Two Suns in the Sunset".

Jethro Tull: "Mother Goose", "My God", "Wind Up", basically all of the Passion Play album.

Mike Oldfield: "Ommadawn Part 1".

Sufjan Stevens: "Concerning the U.F.O. Sighting...", "John Wayne Gacy, Jr.", "Jacksonville", "Casimir Pulaski Day", "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is out to get us!"

King Crimson: "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Circus", "Lizard: Part 1: Prince Rupert Awakes", "Exiles", "Easy Money", "Night Watch", "One More Red Nightmare", "Starless", "Frame by Frame", "Thela Hun Ginjeet".

The White Stripes: "Girl, You Have No Taste in Medicine", "You've Got her in your Pocket".

/ voting enabled.

Third_Uncle_Eno: Dire Straits: "Single Handed Sailor", "Skateaway", "It Never Rains", "Ride Across the River", "Why Worry", "Your Latest Trick".

oh yeah- I'd also include Brothers in Arms. Title track of the album, but largely ignored as far as I remember. Telegraph Road is up there too IMO.

yarnothuntin
I didn't realize there were so many Crimson fans out there. Are they being "rediscovered" or something?

/keep seeing them pop up in these threads

I have noticed that too, a bit...

Me, I've been a KC fan since circa. 1999.

/ "In the Court..." and "Larks Tongues in Aspic" were the first two KC albums i listened to...

Third_Uncle_Eno: Girl, You Have No Taste Faith in Medicine"

Great song.

Thin Lizzy - The Cowboy Song
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Def Leppard - Rock Brigade
Scorpions - Bad Boys Running Wild
Pat Benatar - Le Bel Age
Judas Priest - Freewheel Burnin', Diamonds And Rust
Black Sabbath - Wheels Of Confusion, Die Young, Snowblind
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
Deep Purple - Burn

Pontius Gandalf: "Ten Years Gone" for me, but also:

"Dragon Attack" Queen
"Monkey To Man" Elvis Costello
"Wallflower" Peter Gabriel
"The Punk And The Godfather" The Who

I like the cut of your jib.

Queen - It's Late, All Dead,All Dead, Tear It Up, Need Your Loving Tonight...I could go on and on.

/Also, It's All Too Much is one of the best songs George Harrison wrote with the Beatles.

What really burns my ass is that I used to listen to a classic rock station that once a year played "all" of their music in alphabetical order by song for 14 hours a day for almost three weeks. That's nearly 300 hours of music without a repeat. After that, they went back to playing the same handful of thirty year old songs.

Just to twist the topic a bit, I'll takw JJ Cale's version of any song he wrote over the hit version by another band.

/Clapton
/Skynyrd

Ten Years Gone (new window) by Zep...

Dire Straits - Tunnel Of Love
Mountain - Theme For An Imaginary Western
Tom Petty - Rebels
Joe Walsh - Turn To Stone

Yarnothuntin
oh yeah- I'd also include Brothers in Arms. Title track of the album, but largely ignored as far as I remember. Telegraph Road is up there too IMO.

THESE.
Yeah, I haven't heard "B.I.A" on the radio ever... or at least for a long time... great song, great guitar tone/solos. Oh yeah and good poignant lyrics too. Oh and great video... animation/rotoscope?

Regarding "Telegraph Road" i remember reading an interview with MK, and him saying that he was in this bar in the 80's, and he heard that song [all 14 mins] come on the radio or jukebox [or whatever], then it was followed by "Rave On" by Buddy Holly. He said that hearing them back to back made "Telegraph Road" sound/feel like a big, lifeless thing. He also generally doesn't like hearing his own songs [on the radio... or albums... i remember reading that he never listens to his Dire Straits albums... he's 'done' with them after he finishes them... on to the next thing]. He LOVES to play them, though :-)

Riviera Paradise (new window) by SRV

JerseyTim
Third_Uncle_Eno: Girl, You Have No Taste Faith in Medicine"

Great song.

Ah! Thanks for fixing that for me! [i wrote the title from memory... i failed... i was too lazy to look it up on the internet, or go to my room to look at the record....yah...record... i have it on vinyl. Disc one is white, disc two is red in colour.]
I love the guitar solo/breaks on that song... sometimes i think Jack White is an underrated guitarist....

Pontius Gandalf: "Ten Years Gone" for me

I'd probably go with that also. I might have said "Thank You" at one time, but that seems to have gotten some love after the Plant/Page project (though it couldn't come close to the version on Zep II).

I always thought "Find The River" was the prettiest damn song R.E.M. ever did.

Up until a few years ago, Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Spring" would have applied, but it resurfaced on their live reunion album and became a soft-rock hit. The original studio version was supposed to be on "Rumours" but apparently Mick nixed it for something significantly lesser ("Second Hand News" IIRC). I picked it up way back then as a Japanese import 45, a B-side to "Go Your Own Way".

I'll quickly pick some popular bands, also...
Beatles - Hey Bulldog
Stones - Back Street Girl (pure evil; makes Under My Thumb seem sappy)
Elton John - All The Girls Love Alice
Alice In Chains - Don't Follow
Tom Petty - Change of Heart
Queen - It's Late

AntiProEveryThing: Eagles - On the Border

Good choice... I'd probably pick "Good Day In Hell" from the same album. Or "Wasted Time", a song that is completely overlorded by the first three monstermegatracks on HC Side 1.

Muse - Take a Bow (and plenty of older songs)

Man, I use to know a ton of those...
So many generations of music, so little mind.
Anything by Ozzy.

What about songs that only sound good on acid?
Or the song you crank up loud and thus everyone knows your wasted?

Third_Uncle_Eno Heh, yeah MK is one dude I'd love to have a few beerses with. I have "In the Court..." on vinyl LOL.

Good call on the "Ten Years Gone" Wombatzu!

I just thought of the Mountain Song by Janes Addiction, Someday also by Steve Earl.

tatum: I'll takw JJ Cale's version of any song he wrote over the hit version by another band.

Amen. Especially "After Midnight".

Also votes for aforementioned Doors' "Peace Frog" and Queen's "Dragon Attack" (I can vote for Queen twice).

Donovan's "Season of the Witch" (never released as a single).

AC/DC's "Ride On".

Joe Walsh - Country Fair

Led Zeppelin: Carouselambra
Rush: Natural Science
Iron Maiden: Sanctuary
Genesis: Return of the Giant Hogweed

Iron Maiden - Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)

Best. Instrumental. Song. Ever.

Most of Beck's work is overshadowed by Loser and Where it's At