unsurprisingly, serious LN action in the request thread.
If AL decided to play only deep album cuts and none of the hits, what kind of reaction do you think she'd get?
swoons from us; lots of "I never heard that song before" posts on FB.
And I'm not looking for obscurities; just a few pop hits that you rarely hear. Today I requested Wilson Pickett's cover of "Sugar Sugar"; Mark Lindsay "Arizona" and Brotherhood of Man "United We Stand". All Top 40 singles and hardly songs that would cause massive tune-outs.
I don't know what kind of reaction she would get, but I would hope it would be wonder, surprise,
and delight... for some of us, it would be "I haven't heard
that in a while," and for others,
it might be "I never heard that song before...
and I'm glad I did, because I like it.And while there are some rarities I'd like to hear -- I'm not sure I'd label them "obscure" -- I too
would be satified with something a bit different from well-known artists. But I have trouble
thinking of them as "deep album cuts." Many of the songs I have in mind were played on the
radio back in the day, and not infrequently. In fact, we usually heard them on the radio before
we bought the album.
Consider the following:
Jethro Tull - With You There to Help Me
Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues
Traffic - Stranger To Himself
Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Country Girl
Are they "deep album cuts?" Are they obscure? I don't think so -- and they all would be
bust-outs on 10@10. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...
