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Originally Posted by Stephen
Although it's their most well known / popular song, Born to Be Wild is overplayed -- the equivalent of Truckin' for the Grateful Dead -- so many better songs from these bands but so few fans get to hear them
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No question, it's definitely all that you say. I only mentioned it because, well, all that changes when you see them play it live for the first time in front of tens of thousands of people, playing it just like they did in the old days, smacking the audience all over the place with it.
Magic Carpet Ride is another one. Very often played, possible overplayed as well, but still quite exhilerating seeing them perform it live.
Fans that don't get to hear a band's other songs really ought to start buying more albums, and quit listening to 'the hits', RE; MTV, the radio, etc. You're rarely going to hear side B stuff there.