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POLL: The Band's most underrated song???


I'm talking about a song that hardly anybody thinks about yet it's among the best that they've ever written.

My vote is for "Sleeping" off of Stage Fright.

It's brilliantly composed, passionately performed (especially by Richard Manuel) and I get goosebumps everytime I listen to it. Plus, I never hear anybody mention it when they discuss the Band's discography.

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"Sleeping" is great, good call

i think Cahoots as a whole is an underrated album
specifically "Last of the Blacksmiths" and "River Hymn"

i'd also have to suggest "Caledonia Mission," "Rag and Bones," (although that has become well known for being underrated) and "Just Another Whistle Stop"

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man.

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I love "Sleeping"...one of their best songs, and the last great Richard Manuel classic.

Similarly, "In a Station" is a wonderful song. It sounds so un Bandlike, really more of a Richard solo song, but it is as good as anything they ever recorded.

How about "Whispering Pines" and "Rocking Chair"? Are those underrated?

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When You Asleep and Jemima Surrender - they are more so the songs that aren't hits on the 'brown' album right?

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"When You Awake," yeah, i love that song, too.
its hard for me to know which songs are under/over/correctly rated b/c i wasnt born when they were coming out, and i dont have any friends who have heard as much of their catalogue as i have, so i have no frame of reference, i'm like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...

but i reckon that if you ask people who know the average amount about classic rock all they'll be able to say about The Band will be about "The Weight" and "Dixie" and maybe "Stagefright," so if you look at it that way, all the rest of their songs are underrated, which is cool.

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man.

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Look Out Cleveland!

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!

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Jawbone.

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." - Ray Liotta (Goodfellas)

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4% Pantomine and Where Do We Go From Here

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"ferdinand the imposter" is one the hardly anyone has heard of. "unfaithful servant" is another favorite

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Last of the Blacksmiths, All La Glory, and We Can Talk

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"HOBO JUNGLE"
from northern lights southern cross.
very underrated in my opinion.

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Ok so I have a few

YES I AGREE "LAST OF THE BLACKSMITHS" IS AMAZING
"Volcano"
"To Kingdom Come"
"Home Cookin"
"Ruben Remus"
"Hobo Jungle"'

"Haints and Saints don't bother me."

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all of em', of course.

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No one mentioned "Let the Night Fall" off Islands. Hobo Jungle, Rags and Bones and Jupiter Hollow. The River Hymn. Am I the only person in the world who digs Shootout in Chinatown?

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I dig it too, but it certainly ain't my favorite of theirs. Shootout in Chinatown that is.

"I don't like noisy stuff too much, `cause it's just noise."
Robbie Robertson

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That sounds like something Robbie would say.. He always had a way with words. ;)

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I've always applauded Robbie's overtly arrogant, yet strikingly articulate way with words. He is the one of the few people who is 100% allowed to be arrogant.

"I don't like noisy stuff too much, `cause it's just noise."
Robbie Robertson

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"Smoke Signal" from Cahoots is a catchy song. The Academy of Music Outtakes version is even better.

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"Twilight" from the Best of....

"Get up Jake"

"Bessie Smith"

"When I Paint my Masterpiece"

but how about IMHO the greatest modern Christmas song ever written, "Christmas must be tonight?"

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I think I prefer the early versions of "Christmas" and "Twilight" that wound up as bonus tracks on the "Northern Lights" cd to their finished incarnations on "Islands" and the "Twilight" single. All of Rick's five hundred or so solo versions of "Twilight" are great, too, especially the one on "Breeze Hill."

There's only three real monsters, kid- Dracula, Blacula, and Son of Kong

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i love 'Christmas must be tonight' both early versions and Robertson's own heavily 80's produced retake

No Justice Just Us

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Acadian Driftwood

"Sir! I have a plan!" [standing up from his wheelchair] Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!"

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W S Walcott Medicine Show

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I agree ...Acadian Driftwood

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Add me for Acadian Driftwood as underrated.

Best in the whole catalog?

Whispering Pines.

I can't help but close my eyes everytime I listen to it.

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Ruben Remus and To Kingdom Come definitely. Or I could be a douchebag and say the Weight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SraSQ59N40

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The Saga of Pepote Rouge off Islands is a good one.

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Mrs. Tarantino: Are you the police?
Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians.

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All La Glory is so calming it sends me into a hypnotic trance.

http://youtu.be/NLXgPThb-WQ

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The Band's most underrated song??? - DannyDavey

I'd say "Lonesome Suzie," but it's hard to imagine anything from Big Pink being truly underrated. So, on that note (heh heh), I'll go with "Katie's Been Gone," which is probably my favorite track from The Basement Tapes, which of course has a boatload of great material. (And any resemblance to persons living or dead etc. etc.)

Honorable mention goes to "Endless Highway." It gets tagged as a throwaway, but it's got high energy and some witty lyrics. I'm biased toward anything that appears on Before the Flood, anyway.

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