New Birth:
Dream Merchant (from
Blind Baby)
This soulful ballad topped the R&B charts and is VERY '70s. The strings, the reverb, the chorus that sounds like it dropped in from Hair, it's all so groovy.
Rush:
Anthem (from
Fly By Night)
Neil Peart's first foray into individualism, libertarianism or whatever you want to call it is named after one of Ayn Rand's books. The intro has some spectacular bass and drum work and the riffage is huge throughout. Warning: This has ammunition for the "Geddy Lee's voice sounds like a dentist's drill" camp.
Lakeside Park (from
Caress of Steel)
A restrained, tuneful song by early Rush standards, this has a nice melody and is based on Peart's memories of working at a carnival in the titular park. No ammunition for the dentist-drill or "their lyrics are for nerds" camps. After Peart's death, a pavilion in Lakeside Park was named after him.