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These tracks should be ones that were not released as singles. Also, they should not be well-known songs despite not being singles (exs: Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, The Doors' L.A. Woman, etc.), such as those and other songs that weren't singles but have an ongoing presence in classic rock radio or in films or otherwise in popular culture.
I'll lead with three:
Lost in the Flood, Bruce Springsteen
Consisting of three vignettes about doomed people - a burned out vet, a drag-racer who wrecks, a Bronx gang that comes out on the short end of a showdown with the police - this haunting song off the Boss' debut album is classic early Springsteen.
'39, Queen
This Brian May written and sung song is at first glance about a departing ocean-going ship, the lyrics then revealing that it actually concerns a starship. The craft departs in some year that ends on -39, returning exactly a century later. Perhaps the first rock and roll song to address the implications of the relativistic effect of time-dilation, the ship's compliment has aged only a year while 100 years have passed on Earth, and everyone they loved is long dead and gone.
Heartland, U2
A Joshua Tree leftover that the band resurrected for Rattle and Hum, it's a forgotten track that they've never played live even once. But it's a beautiful, shimmering ode to American flyover country that thematically fits better on the album from which it was bumped.
Nice to see ‘39 by Queen get mentioned. For those of you who may not know, Brian May is also astrophysicist and has penned a few books regarding the subject matter.
When it comes to Queen, my favorite song of theirs is March of the Black Queen from the Queen II album. That song has all the hallmarks that would later define their classic hit Bohemian Rhapsody.
This one is really deep, my favorite track from the Connells' 2001 album, Old School Dropouts. The band had demos to present to their record company for a new album, but the record company dropped them instead. They put the songs out on their own label, and I'm guessing not too many copies were issued. The digital album is still available on Bandcamp, I think. Anyway, "Put Down" is a pretty cool song:
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