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Reply with a Song That Everyone Else Has Forgotten is So Good
Posted by Gatz on 12 October 2009 - 8:21pm.
Actually, the number of views and comments for this Youtube clip suggest I might be wrong about that, or perhaps it's the vid (which does get a bit saucy for work around the middle*) that's so popular.
*3:28 to spare you searching.
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i am probably gonna be shot down for this
But it is surely a great pop song:
I'd say so too, Jim.
Pick up a guitar and try to play it by ear. Phenomenally complex but a thing of great joy.
No bullets
from my direction.
here also
Great tune, the album is not up the same standard unfortunately.
XTC at their best
Forgotten,Not on Here
XTC are becoming the New RT/Fairport Convention.
Judee Sill
Mr Partridge is a very big fan.
Robin Pecknold
does a great version of this in a London taxi
Talking of which
I don't see Fleet Foxes mentioned much on here at all.
Do we really lose interest that quickly?
To me, this, and rest of the album is still a remarkable piece of work.
Fanfare
This is still awesome, after 15 years, but it rarely gets airplay.
Good, that.
Never heard it before. The new Foo Fighters single nods to it a bit.
When I read the thread title
this was the song I thought of immediately. Heard it a while back on 6music and have fallen in love with it all over again. Top tune!
Fanfare
Wow - I was given this album in 1995 - never saw a vid for it. This whole records is amazing - fits the bill at the top of the page 100%!
Was Not Was
Puressence - This Feeling
Wonderful.
Mmmmm
I am preparing myself for some abuse here...
... but anytime I have played this in public someone always comments to me that they have forgotten how much they loved this tune...
Not from me
Love it. Have always loved it.
Squirrels
No abuse from this quarter. I recall this video being shown on Top of the Pops and, I think Simon Mayo, commenting afterwards about the escaped squirrels frolicking under the jumper of Mel, or was it Kim?
Osmonds - One Bad Apple
This is a stupendously exuberant slice of 70's pop. Everyone knows The Osmonds, but I think people forget how good One Bad Apple is!
And +1 for Madame Butterfly - it's a fine piece of music with a great groove, (which I think qualifies as a song without a drum fill, see this thread here: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-beat-goes-and-and )
The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends
This song (buried on a compilation) has connected with the children recently and it makes a nice change for them to dance around to something half decent.
Big Bad John
A staple of Radio 1 when I was growing up. Gimmick hit from the early ’60s still being played in the late ’70s. Daft, but great.
From my favourite year for music ever. Ahead of their time...
A proper one-hit wonder.
Sadly, she died a few years ago.
This getting a bit "Guilty Pleasures" here, but..
...I adore the bassline on this...sorry.
Be My Downfall
Del Amitri (well it's been over a week since I mentioned them) but I think this meets the threads criteria.
Indeed.
"Be my undoing,
Be my slow road to ruin, tonight..."
Brilliant.
Little Italy - Stephen Bishop
or anything from that album. The visuals are out of sync with the audio on this clip, but you can still enjoy it
Right. I had forgotten.
It is good. A real singalonga song too.
Flyte Tyme
"Wishing I Was Lucky" - Wet Wet Wet
don't care - love it
No shame in that.
Great pop song. Before megastardom, the Wets were quite hip - recording in Memphis with Willie Mitchell and all...
BTW - to continue the occasional series 'great misheard lyrics', I always thought it went 'I was living in a world of make-believe, when my best friend Roland told me...'
Nick Heyward
I could have picked any number of Haircut 100 or solo tracks, but this is as good as any. Timeless songcraft.
Video filmed in the shadow of Buachaille Etive Mòr in Glencoe, if I'm not mistaken.
Neglected top quality
TOTP
I will always that butt-clenching moment when Heyward completely missed his cue to mime this on TOTP.
"Sadeness" - Enigma
"So you coming in for coffee?".
A great song by Beck
A great cover version from a film I had forgotten about, even though I have the DVD somewhere or other...
Brilliant movie
great song, but I still love the Korgis' original best, the strings at the end are heartbreaking
Well if you like the original
...go see Stackridge perform live. They do this track, performed by original, living, breatheing Korgi members & chums. Warning: will do things to the hairs on the back of your neck.
White& Torch - Parade
From 1982.I bought it for 25p from a Woolies singles bin. Great song, epic production & a genius Scott Walker-style vocal. I don't think it ever troubled the chart.
I had this on 12"
Didn't they win some kind of X-Factor style talent show on the BBC on a Saturday night?
"Feels Like Heaven" - Fiction Factory
Heaven is closer now today...
yep, bought this
in, what was it, 84?
This was on Wogan this morning
and as soon as I saw this thread this is the song I was going to add - completely forgotten, by me at least, and completely wonderful.
Poptastic...
... Boys Of Summer - Don Henley:
ah yes a fine choice
this reminds me of that particular summer back in the 1980s when it came out. The transition of schoolboy to young man, as I was preparing for university. Music takes you to a place and time, especially pop songs. Thank you.
Come on, Rocker..
What was her name?
TRB
Up Against The Wall
Paul Young - Wherever I lay my hat
Super, super bassline.
Great choice
I don't understand why Paul Young became so unfashionable, but this is a gem. As you say, the bass is terrfiic & his singing is beautiful. Wonderful track.
Utter cheese...
and video is lamentable even for 1982 but love this one:
David Essex - Hold me close
Every cloud's gotta silver lining
Bass player enjoying first time on telly a bit too much...
...but what a great song
yes it is
thanks for the reminder..Itunes here I come
JoBoxers - Boxerbeat
Dexys "lite" but what a song
definately
forgot how good this is...
thanks for posting!
Twice as Much - Step Out of Line
I edited this - originally posted Nirvana (the other one) - Pentecost Hotel, but then decided it wasn't as brilliant as I had remembered !
Faith Brothers
Whistling In The Dark.
Very much of its time, with that brass reminding me of Teardrop Explodes' Reward a bit. Still a good song though.
Faith Brothers
You'll be pleased to know then that all the Faith Brothers Albums, Singles (B-sides and Extended versions included) and the videos are now available on iTunes.
Stay in Bed by the Jess Roden Band
So forgotten there's no Youtube clip of it. But it was fantastic: great singing & the whole thing expressive of a mood that we have all felt at some time or other.
Double
The Captain Of Her Heart
Love and Rockets - Yin and Yang The Flowerpot Men
Overshadowed by later rubbish
But this was / is great.
Aye. 'Tis that.
What did they call their reel-to-reel again?
Dunno
Wasn't that Echo, pre-De Freitas, for The Bunnymen?
Good but I think this is better:
So many great songs from this period....especially for us late thirties mob.
And I will add this as well:
Curiously..
A song overshadowed by the words "Andy" and "Warhol" in the production credits.
Sadly overshadowed. I had forgotten.. very much of it's time but what a fine tune, Mr Blue Sky.
As an aside, only by the synth sounds, who can date this song?
Good tune, yes
but these guys taught them everything they know:
And while I'm in this mood
China Doll
by Julian Cope. Absolutely beautiful.
Lloyd Cole - No Blue Skies
Won't let me embed!
I always go back to this album - don't know if anyone else does...
Pale Fountains
A great tune...
If I can be allowed another go....
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Friends Again
A couple of deeply fashionable choices from me...
2 songs by a band everyone has forgotten were so good
I absolutey agree
If the vocals were 10% less grating I think they'd have been much bigger (I love them, mind). There's a clear line between much of Dead Media and what the likes of Hot Chip do.
Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern have done a couple of great albums in the last couple of years if you haven't heard them.
Yeah I've heard the albums
and seen them live twice in the last year at the 100 Club in Soho. He is ace live. The first time he did some Hefner songs and the second time he did tracks from new recordings.
Pram Town (a concept album set in the town of Harlow outside of london) is absolutely sublime:
http://www.hefnet.com/pramtown.htm
http://open.spotify.com/album/7lWrLa2xMY4OYj4csVjTTt
He's also done some great concept EP's where he went to different British holiday resorts and wrote and recorded them in situ. Musically they are patchy but that's what happens with hit and run low fi, but from them came some EMMENSE tunes:
http://open.spotify.com/user/goosefat101/playlist/7lZt9qlyPoOXAE05eDgkoL
(They weren't all available on spotify and the version of Caravan Song on the EP done on his uke in a caravan is even better than the version available on Spotify which comes from a more developed album).
I know what you mean that is his voice was different they might have been bigger. Also if he was more of a looker because there are few people as ugly as he is. But I love his voice and think he is an amazing lyricist, singer and he's a stellar musician as well. Really great solos live and a really accomplished rhythm guitarist.
If he looked or sounded different he would be nowhere near as brilliant as he is I think.
Fair shout
If he was a hunk I'm sure he'd have a very different world view and not be anywhere near as good a lyricist.
I've got Pram Town but haven't given it enough time yet - will definitely do so. On the first couple of listens I clocked Compilation Cassette and Big Fish as being immediate winners.
rachel and amy
is my favourite.
But both the ones you mention great tunes too.
Another stand out is Losing My Glue I reckon.
The whole album is a story though and worth listening to as a whole.
I posted this on the Jarvis Cocker thread
but I'm going to put it on here too, mainly because it's beautfiul almost beyond measure.
better than Lemon Incest, ne c'est pas?
Theres always room for Slade
Some premium-grade gloom
Here's an artist I haven't seen mentioned on here at all. Wonderful Life, though great, is maybe over-familiar, so here's his first hit for a change. Great voice and arrangement.
Crisis what crisis?
Dig that Hank!
Faith Brothers
You'll be pleased to know then that all the Faith Brothers Albums, Singles (B-sides and Extended versions included) and the videos are now available on iTunes.
Wooly Bully
the regents
Ooh gosh blimey.. I remember this.
Not just the song.. the TOTP appearance.
Before I watch.. two girls, backing singers, possibly wearing short skirts, doing an odd running on the spot waving straight arms dance to the lalalalalalala bit..
Let's see..
Oooh! Nearly! No straight arms, but otherwise spot-on. Nothing wrong with my memory.
Now where have I put my glasses?
None more 80s
And he'll be forever tarred as the bloke whose chat about deconstructionism with Ian Penman was the single most tedious NME centrespread ever, but the boy Green could turn a tune.
Real Man - Todd Rundgren
But preferably the album version
Animal Nightlife - Native Boy
A Hacienda classic in the days before baggy
Not heard them for years
The lovely Dee C Lee on backing vocals, if I'm not mistaken...
Oh man.....I 'd forgotten. I had "Mr Solitaire" on single.
Carmel - Bad Day
Awesome
Thanks Cornish!
The backing vocals are sublime. Takes me back to when I first heard it, driving up the M5 from SW somewhere - just so different at the time. Still stands up so well.
Lotus Eaters
Yes, loved that song....
Can I add "Digging Your Scene" The Blow Monkeys?
Thankyou.
Tommy James & the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion
'Annie' Ronnie Lane
Mac & Katie Kasoon
Just wonderful 70s pop which never turns up on 70s compilations for some reason.
you must be...
god brilliant mind is great
for some reason hearing that reminded me of this song. I guess because I got into it at around the same time I got into Furniture (a few years ago)