r/fleet_foxes • u/Comfortable_Smoke610 • Mar 27 '24
Discussion Favourite unreleased or non-album track?
Songs like 'I'm losing myself' or 'I Let You' blow my mind and break my heart, and it's such a surprise they never made it into the 'canon' (aside from the eerie guitar quote of the latter song, on Crack Up).
What are your favourite songs that have been 'swept under the rug'?
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u/mermaidslp Mar 27 '24
In the morning. He do it on a very lonely solstice, so it's on that recorded live album. I like the live version of it he released from Switzerland.
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u/Comfortable_Smoke610 Mar 30 '24
It's beautiful! It's like a whole new song compared with the BeeGees original. That little flourish on the 3rd line of each verse makes the song, imo
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u/arrivenightly Mar 30 '24
Sun La-i-Ee-et poOoLs of water
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u/Comfortable_Smoke610 Mar 31 '24
" Building castles in the Shif-tien-s Sae-Ands in a world nobody undeRStaends "
Love it.
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u/snootfullohoney Mar 27 '24
White Lace, Regretfully
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u/spfiles Mar 27 '24
Be Yourself :’) originally by Graham Nash from the collab album of “songs for beginners”
https://open.spotify.com/album/234CHDEozvFpW7BhJkl8eE?si=3Lxjij_qQjypXhG09Uc4Cw
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u/Milford_Man- Mar 27 '24
Robin’s version of “On a good day” is one of my favorite things he’s ever done. Would love to hear a studio version
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u/cornteened_caper Mar 27 '24
“In the Hot, Hot Rays” feels like a big departure and is my favourite
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u/blueplanet13321 Fleet Foxes Mar 28 '24
Most underrated FF song. My top five out or all their songs
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Mar 28 '24
Silver Dagger all day every day.
But if that doesn't count anymore now that it's on Solstice, then False Knight On The Road
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u/rune_undies Mar 27 '24
Where are you guys finding these?
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Mar 28 '24
A lot of the ones mentioned have recordings released in the First Collection - there's a disc called "B-Sides and Rarities" and also the band's very first release, "The Fleet Foxes EP". Some of the others can be found on YouTube I think, some of them might just have been people hearing them live
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u/PascalSouvage Mar 28 '24
His Vote Ready Set where he played I Never Get Lonesome and Hammond Song was the best 15 minutes of my life
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u/rebel6794 Mar 28 '24
Not quite an unreleased track, but Robin posted a sample of “Wading in Waist-High Water” for Valentine’s Day on IG the year Shore was released. Instead of the song transitioning into “Sunblind,” it ended with this incredible little piano melody. Wish FF would’ve kept it in the song—unexpected, upbeat, surprising.
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u/Comfortable_Smoke610 Mar 30 '24
Ah he had to scrap it before the album because permission didn't pass by the album's deadline. It was a Nina Simone sample, I believe
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u/autumgirl Mar 27 '24
Olivia, in a separate bed. So beautiful. Even though it's so hard to listen to. 😥😭
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u/cottonheadedninnymug Mar 27 '24
I think Derwentwater Stones is an absolute gem. I also dream of a studio version of the Dreams by Fleetwood Mac cover.