Back before social media, we used to have to actually go into buildings - clubs, bars, warehouses, someone's basement - to see new bands and hear something other than the generic music they played on the radio. We'd hear about a show and walk in blind with our friends and just experience whatever happened on stage. Sometimes it was great; usually it wasn't.

But we all know local bands from back in our youth that we saw that were fantastic, fun, weird, whatever, that never made it into the mainstream but maybe should have.

Post a link to ONE SONG from a band you want people to know about. Doesn't matter if they are still around or if that was the only song they ever put out. Share it with us and tell us a little about why you like the band or song!

I'll start us off with one song from each of three bands I loved growing up:

Sky Cries Mary - "2000 Light Years from Home". A Seattle-based space-rock band with dual male/female vocalists and one of the best bass players to ever come from the state, they dominated the West Coast music scene but never got the appreciation they deserved from the larger world. Think Mazzy Star, or Portishead, or if Pearl Jam took a big old pile of mushrooms before recording. This is a cover of the Rolling Stones song and shows just how good a cover tune can be.

Rail - "Hello". A truly 80's big-hair pointy-guitar rock anthem that was their banger opening song for every show. Bask in the glory of the 1980's with spandex jumpsuits and AquaNet hair! Rail is still around today, with the four original members, but never broke through beyond a regional audience.

Rawhead - "Staring At The Sun". The 1980s were a time of change for the Seattle metal scene. Rail at the front of the 80s and Rawhead closing out the decade with one of the finest hardcore metal tracks ever recorded. I'm still friends with these guys. This, in short, is the answer to "what happened to make GenX like ... well ... like they are?!?" We came into the 80s with happy high hopes and left nothing but rubble behind.