Post a deep track you love

[Dream Canteen]

A deep track is a non‑single, often overlooked song that lives outside an artist’s commercial spotlight and often reveals their most distinctive ideas, risks, or emotional undercurrents. These are the cuts tucked between the hits: album-only pieces that reward listeners who move past radio staples and explore the full creative terrain of a record.

Deep tracks frequently showcase experimental production, intimate storytelling, or stylistic detours that define an artist more honestly than their charting songs, making them a favorite subject for fans who enjoy album archaeology and hidden‑gem discovery.

For the purposes of this thread, here’s what constitutes a deep track:

•The track was never released as a single.
•No (official) music video exists for the track.
•The track has received very little-to-no radio airplay.
•The track is not widely known by people who don’t own the album.

That’s it. Anything else goes. It can be any artist, any genre, from any year.

I’ll start:

“Here She Comes” by The Beach Boys, from the album Carl and the Passions: “So Tough” (1972).

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I don’t know if this fits all the given criteria, but the only time I ever hear this is if I pull it up myself

Off the 52nd Street album, 1978


https://youtu.be/KJqVmOSvjGc?is=T5klfwlMLSM7MWLF

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by opus

I don’t know if this fits all the given criteria, but the only time I ever hear this is if I pull it up myself

Off the 52nd Street album, 1978


https://youtu.be/KJqVmOSvjGc?is=T5klfwlMLSM7MWLF

Only released as a single in the UK, didn’t chart very high and more or less came and went, so I think it fits. Maybe I should amend the rules.

[Dream Canteen]

“Atlanta” by Stone Temple Pilots, from the album № 4 (1999). Perhaps the finest vocal Scott Weiland ever laid down in a studio. A hauntingly beautiful track.



Here’s the remaining three original members of the band paying tribute to their fallen comrade and revisiting the multitrack of the song a few weeks after Scott’s death:

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Laura off The Nylon Curtain, 1982.

If it ever got any radio play it would have to be edited at one point, because it’s got a word in it the site would censor out.


https://youtu.be/BzH3ah4OaWM?is=2yalqAYGj0G8AIwL

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Dream Canteen

A deep track is a non‑single, often overlooked song that lives outside an artist’s commercial spotlight and often reveals their most distinctive ideas, risks, or emotional undercurrents.

Thank you buddy,I didnt realise what a DEEP TRACK was but it makes sense...

I guess for me it would be the song by MOUNTAIN called "Blood of the Sun"

Its also on Leslies solo album...

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Styx, Crystal Ball, 1976. First album with some guy named Tommy Shaw.


https://youtu.be/6X8FFR9qf2Y?is=PJP6J1nd1L9LaS23

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by opus

Laura off The Nylon Curtain, 1982.

If it ever got any radio play it would have to be edited at one point, because it’s got a word in it the site would censor out.


https://youtu.be/BzH3ah4OaWM?is=2yalqAYGj0G8AIwL

I’ve loved this song for decades, but I only learned about ten years ago that it’s about Billy’s toxic, co-dependent, manipulative mother (whose name was Rosalind).

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Originally Posted by Dream Canteen

I’ve loved this song for decades, but I only learned about ten years ago that it’s about Billy’s toxic, co-dependent, manipulative mother (whose name was Rosalind).

Take 5 minutes, check this out if you haven’t already seen it.


https://youtu.be/i0SXDkWDeSM?is=0ySmd06wV7RrBlk1

[Bonniegirl]

I'm thinking " Dear Prudence" by the Beatles , from the White album. A beautiful lesser known song.

I'm wondering if someone could post a video of Dear Prudence for me? I really don't know how to on a cell phone.

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by opus

Take 5 minutes, check this out if you haven’t already seen it.

He wasn’t going to specifically say the song was about his mom while she was still alive, but the “umbilical cord” lyric is a huge tell. From Wikipedia:

At the time of its release, Joel stated that "Laura" was not about his ex-wife or a girlfriend, but rather "the guilt you get from someone in your family who knows just how to stick the knife in and wear you down." He went on to generalize the theme by stating that "You'd be surprised how many people have a destructive relationship and don't know it. Nobody has a right to do that to you; it's against the law. In 2006, Joel's drummer Liberty DeVitto disclosed that the song was actually about the singer's mother, Rosalind, suggesting that the title was chosen because like the word "mother", it is disyllabic. According to Klosterman, Joel confirmed the fact that "Laura" was about his mother in an interview with him, and that Joel noted in the interview that the line in the song "How can she hold an umbilical cord for so long" should have been a giveaway. Joel later stated that he "must have been pretty fed up with some of [his] own mother's manipulation by the time [he] wrote the song, as evidenced by the F-word in the lyrics."

I love Billy’s Q&As, though. I don’t know that I’d seen this one, so thanks!

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by Bonniegirl

I'm thinking " Dear Prudence" by the Beatles , from the White album. A beautiful lesser known song.

I'm wondering if someone could post a video of Dear Prudence for me? I really don't know how to on a cell phone.

Sure thing! Here’s a newer stereo mix of the song with a clean intro (on the album, it crossfades in with the jet airplane sound effects heard at the end of its preceding track, “Back in the U.S.S.R.”).



And here’s the O.G. with the crossfade just for the sake of authenticity:



John wrote the song about Prudence Farrow, Mia’s sister, who was in India to see the Maharishi at the same time The Beatles were. She spent a lot of her time there isolating herself in her room.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Love Lies Bleeding / Funeral for a Friend (Elton John)

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Originally Posted by Dream Canteen

I love Billy’s Q&As, though. I don’t know that I’d seen this one, so thanks!

If you have access to HBO/HBO Max/whatever they’re calling it today I hope you’ve seen Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a 2 part 5 hour ish documentary. I enjoyed it.

[Dream Canteen]

Originally Posted by opus

If you have access to HBO/HBO Max/whatever they’re calling it today I hope you’ve seen Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a 2 part 5 hour ish documentary. I enjoyed it.

Watched it when it was released about a year ago, then re-watched it over the holidays this past winter. My parents are huge Billy Joel fans, especially my mom, so he’s always been a huge part of my life. I then became a huge fan in my own right in my teens.

I love how honest and warts-and-all the documentary is.