Non hit studio songs you like more than the hit songs? :)
 

I actually like Out Ta Get Me and Nighttrain from Guns N'Roses Appetite For Destruction than the hit song Paradise City. :) I thought Paradise City was the best Guns N'Roses song until I heard better songs from them. Paradise City is good but it's definitely not the best Guns N'Roses song.

I enjoy Perfect Crime from Use Your Illusion Part 1 more than the hit song November Rain. :) How Perfect Crime didn't become a huge hit is beyond me.

I'd take Coma or Estranged over November Rain

Some artists make a habit of not releasing their best songs as singles.

Billy Joel has to be the grand champion of this.

The Beatles didn't like to release singles off an album. They notably didn't release singles in England off With the Beatles, Beatles For Sale, Rubber Soul, Sgt Pepper, and the White Album (though the US would in their infinite wisdom). As far as Revolver goes, I prefer Here There and Everywhere and For No One over the Yellow Submarine/ Eleanor Rigby single (with all due respect to the latter)

I thought that was a typical British/English thing of the time, not a Beatles thing? e.g. The Stones packing in the singles (Ruby Tuesday/Lets Spend the Night Together) for the US release of 'Between the Buttons'

It's possible. I think it depended on the band and how much clout they had. And the Beatles, through George Martin, had a lot of clout with Parlophone, even after their debut album. I do think the Stones had some albums independent of singles as well but I'm more familiar with the Beatles history, obviously.

You're right it was common practice in the British music industry not to include previously released singles on albums, the labels were afraid that if someone had already bought the single they may not want to pay for that song again even if it's on an album with a bunch of new songs. This is why Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left off Sgt. Pepper.

In Muricah however you're damn right we want the hit singles to be on the album, this is why most early Beatles and Stones albums were altered so much when they were first released in the US, this practice mostly died out by the end of the 60s with some exceptions here and there.

Yeah, the American labels destroyed the intent of a lot of British albums in the sixties and it wasn't just the Beatles and Stones. They screwed up bands like the Kinks too. All in the name of making more money.

How Do You Feel from Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow album is IMO the best song on the album (which says a lot) but it wasn't remotely a hit.

Threads like this would be more like a category of, "Albums where the best song wasn't a hit."

Reminds me of a Sirius channel I listen to:

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A Guns N'Roses Fan said they enjoy My World more than November Rain. I was like,"This Fan enjoys My World more than November Rain? ???????????? Lies! Blatant Lies!" But the Fan was serious. My World, I hated it when I first heard it. I found it shocking and appalling. But Fabs helped put My World into perspective. They were like,"My World is Axl's playful way of showing he doesn't give a Feck. Use Your Illusion Part 2 is a pretty depressing and tense album for the most part. My World actually brings a lot of playful humor and alleviates a lot of the depressing tension that is most of Use Your Illusion Part 2. It's like Axl is trying to convey,"Use Your Illusion Part 2 is a Debbie Downer. Let's have some fun at the very end! And My World grew on me when The Fans pointed out these things. ?????? But no way is My World BETTER than November Rain.

Some Bands have said stuff like,"Our biggest hit on this Album is actually our least favorite song on the album." I remember a Flock Of Seagulls saying something like,"I Ran (So Far Away) is the song we're sick of. Fans love this song so much, and we don't want it. The fans can have this song. We don't want it anymore."

It seems to be a right of passage for artists to get sick of their most popular songs.

I Ran slaps but Space Age Love Song slaps even harder.

Oh god yes, Space Age Love Song should've been the big hit. One of my all time favorite '80s songs

Doesn't the scope of this thread seem overly broad?

I mean, it just feels like I could basically write up a rather sizeable portion of the music I listen to.

It's a "choose your own scope" thread i guess