These Go to Eleven

So in the computer lab today, we were looking at upcoming shows in the Twin Cities area and it turns out Southern Culture on the Skids is playing here next week. I didn't know they still existed, but I was reminded of their wonderful contribution to the canon of rock and roll, the ever-impressive "Camel Walk". You know, the song that begins with the classic line: "Baby will you eat that there snack cracker in your special outfit for me, please?" The amazing thing is that I actually own one of their albums, although it's a pretty safe bet you won't be seeing me at their show. However, the sheer wizardry of "Camel Walk" begs the question...what are the most underappreciated songs of all time? Believe me, I could write for days on this subject. In fact the question is so open-ended that it may require more clarification. Perhaps the best way would be to define different catergories of "underappreciatedness":

Category 1: One-hit wonder
This is not your ordinary one hit wonder; its a song so good, you wonder why they never had another hit.

Examples: Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Take on Me - A-ha
New Age Girl - Deadeye Dick
The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe

Category 2: Overshadowed
This is the type of song that perhaps was overshadowed by a bigger hit from the same band, or perhaps is on an album so good that it gets lost in the shuffle

Examples: Lump - Presidents of the United States of America
Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind
Pretty When I'm Drunk - Bloodhound Gang
Muzzle - Smashing Pumpkins

Category 3: Songs most people have never heard
This is my favorite, given that my poor taste in music has led me to some awfully obscure songs/bands in my 22 years on this planet. These are songs that I would strongly bet you have never heard unless I have played them for you

Examples: the afforementioned Camel Walk - Southern Culture on the Skids
The Neden Game - Insane Clown Posse
Meat Sandwich - GWAR
I Walked - Wanderlust
Anger - Downset
I could go on and on....

So I've decided I'm going undertake a huge project: Determining the top twenty underappreciated songs of all time...in my opinion. At the rate I'm posting, I'll probably have it done sometime by Christmas

And to honor the great Tiffany Funari, I leave you with another Simpsons reference:
Superintendent Chalmers:"I thought we were having steamed clams."
Principal Skinner: "Oh, no I said steamed hams. That's what I call hamburgers."
Chalmers: " You call hambugers steamed hams..."
Skinner: "Yes, it's a regional dialect."
Chalmers: "Uh huh...what region?"
Skinner: "Uh...upstate New York?"
Chalmers: "Really...Well i'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'"
Skinner: "Oh no not in Utica. It's an Albany expression"


Who's up for some steamed hams tomorrow?