I Love Deep Cuts

Many thoughts about this topic. Too many to make coherent. Anyway. I love deep cuts. A lot.

I almost exclusively listen to full albums, so yeah, deep cuts for the win.

Keep thinking when I read the thread title "I love deep cuts and I cannot lie."

love this out-of-character let's-try-to-be-accessible Amon Duul II track. Won't you come to my heartbeat party?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzqIyKfLjQ

is the deep cut now a phenomenon of the past?

Surely it's more prevalent than ever, since supposedly most current listeners don't care about albums or even artists anymore, just playlists presumably consisting of hits?

Wes Anderson etc movies killed “deep cuts”

it's not really a deep cut anymore if it becomes a massive hit imo, like if it goes viral because of a system glitch

corrs that's what i was thinking about...
deep cuts might be fan favorites, but when folks who don't normally listen to the artist know the song —whether it was a promoted single or not— it's no longer a deep cut. and again: if streaming numbers are accurate, it really has leveled the playing field. was "cranes in the sky" a promoted single or didn't it just take off as a fan favorite? anyway, i think the next step for deep cuts has actually already been around for a while and that's: catalogue music where the catalogue is in licensing purgatory — obvious example here is the sst catalogue. and just the other day, ya'll reminded me that the best throwing muses album (limbo) isn't on streaming. so, i mean... who knows, maybe "ruthie's knocking" will become a deep cut in time.