Entertainment For Lively Minds
Hits in a Parallel World
Posted by ThePint on 27 May 2011 - 4:20pm.
Are there any songs that just sound like superb hit singles but were never released as singles by the band?
My example is You Wear The Sun by The Delays, which gets me by the throat and sounds like the soundtrack to some mystical summer of immense fun and love that I never actually had.
I can imagine it blasting out of car stereos, out of flats at parties, people listening to it on the beach as the sun goes down.
Yet it was never even released as a single - it was just tucked away as track 6 on of one of their albums. Why?
Have a listen:
Any other examples?
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The Pearlfishers
In the same mode. We're gonna save the summer:
the perfect summer hit that never was
Virtually all
of The Pearlfisher songs remind me of summer. What a superb band.
me too
Surely, in a parallel world they had sixteen top 3 hits in a row and are rich beyond the dreams of Croesus.
I agree
And it's basically one guy - David Scott. I have most of his fabulous ouevre, and it's thanks to a Word CD a couple of years ago that I ever got to hear of him at all..
btw, David Scott has /had a series on BBC Radio devoted to classic Scottish albums. Worth ferreting out. If you can find a ferret.
think this WAS a hit in my parallel universed early 70s youth...
Farrah 'If You Were Mine'
Lightning Seeds
"My Best Day" on the Jollification album, with Alison Moyet guesting magnificently. I was flabbergasted it wasn't released as a single. Only just starting to get over it.
Seriously, it's a good song and great vocal performance.