{"id":669745,"date":"2026-05-28T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:23:17","slug":"3-incredible-classic-rock-songs-that-fans-totally-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669745\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Incredible Classic Rock Songs That Fans Totally Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, genuinely talented and famous classic rock musicians will drop songs that very clearly should have gotten fan attention, but somehow slipped past everybody\u2019s radar. I think the following tunes fit that description, and they deserve way more love today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Can See For Miles\u201d by The Who from \u2018The Who Sell Out\u2019 (1967)<\/p>\n<p>Everything on The Who Sell Out seems surprisingly underrated to me. The Who\u2019s third album was a bit of a bump in the road of their discography, peaking at No. 13 in the UK, while the albums that sandwiched it (A Quick One from 1966 and Tommy from 1969) peaked at No. 4 and No. 2, respectively. It\u2019s not fair, because songs like \u201cI Can See For Miles\u201d are honestly great. I just can\u2019t explain the lack of fan love. Even the band was surprised when this song only made it to No. 10 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Truth\u201d by Prince from \u2018The Truth\u2019 (1997)<\/p>\n<p>This acoustic rock song with an unusually folky vibe for the often synth-soaked songs of <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/prince\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince<\/a> seemed to slip through the cracks when it came to the Purple One\u2019s fans. It\u2019s a rare, almost unplugged version of the kind of music that made Prince such an incredible star, and I\u2019m surprised that more fans don\u2019t talk about how intimate and stripped down of an experience \u201cThe Truth\u201d (and the whole of the album of the same name) was in the later years of Prince\u2019s career. Not only was this song not particularly successful, but Prince only performed it live once single time in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesperado\u201d by Eagles from \u2018Desperado\u2019 (1973)<\/p>\n<p>Alright, I wouldn\u2019t say this song is ignored by fans today. In fact, despite never being released as a proper single, this song became one of the band\u2019s most well-known songs. But back in the day, it was just another cut on an album that produced no hit songs. Desperado remains their lowest-charting album. That\u2019s a huge bummer, because \u201cDesperado\u201d is a remarkable country rock gem on par with Eagles\u2019 bigger works. This entry on our list of classic rock songs may not have charted, but it definitely should have.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, genuinely talented and famous classic rock musicians will drop songs that very clearly should have gotten fan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2617,88,216],"class_list":["post-669745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}