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Reply with an UNDER-RATED 90s SONG
Posted by JeffLeopard on 27 August 2009 - 8:55pm.
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World Party - Put The Message in the Box
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Any song from the great Whereabouts (1999) would have done. Support your local Canadian!
Ben Vaughn - Big Drum Sound
Just one from me for the time being:
Seeing as
Moderator removed 4 tracks from my original post, I'm going to re-add them here (before I forget)
Stairs - Weed Bus
St Etienne - Kiss & Make Up
Blur - Universal
Costello - I Want to Vanish
I Want To Vanish, good pick!
All This Useless Beauty was the first Costello album I heard and it´s still one of my favourites. This song is great.
I´m certain as a lost dog, pondering a sign post.
T-Shirt!
That should be one of the new Word t-shirt designs surely to goodness in heaven Ola? I'd buy one!
The original version
on the LP is ten times better (sadly not on YouTube).
The Brodsky Quartet arrangement is sublime.
This could well be my all-time favourite Costello track.
It's certainly one of the best tracks that he's ever recorded
and lastly (for tonight)
Tom Waits - I Don't Want To Grow Up
Page & Plant - 'When I Was A Child'
Sadly Missed
"Walking Down Madison" - Kirsty MacColl
Winter in July - Bomb the Bass
Great choice above (Kirsty McC) - btw
Tell Her This by Del Amitri
Couldn't find the original video on Youtube, but the song is great. Under rated song from an under rated band
99 is still the 90's
Putting the Soul in Your Rock 'n' Roll
Nice
Good call Erich.
Solomon Bites The Worm
Tinseltown to the Boogiedown
It seems wrong that The Greatest Hip-hop Song Ever should have been made by a white Welsh bloke, but what can you do? Bring on the Scritti:
a corker
RIP Tony, RIP Nick
Belfast/Wasted
There are lots of things I don't like about the Verve
but I love this.
Deep Dish - My Only Sin
I've mentioned this lot before
BUT why oh why wasn't this a hit
Grant Mclennan Easy Come Easy Go
Another band about whom
I seem to be the only person alive who ever cared:
The Lemon Trees - Child Of Love
I remember that
A friend had it.
The Lemon Trees
was Guy Chambers band. I think!
You're not alone
I remember them well. Hopelessly unfashionable at the time, bearing in mind this was 92 / 93. Got their album, saw them live and interviewed them for the music pages of the Birmingham Poly student mag.
Perfect pop
The Best Song Led Zep Never Wrote....
and
Incendiary wordplay...
A few suggestions...
Underworld - Cowgirl (must have seen Underworld about ten times in the nineties. They were ace and had more tunes than just Born Slippy.)
Soundgarden - Flower (Riff- tastic!)
Len - If You Steal My Sunshine (good cheesy pop tune no one seems to remember)
Danny Baker
Famously said that "Steal My Sunshine" sounded like it was sung by Marge Simpson's sister, Selma.
Tupac - How Do U Want it?
A glamourisation of the gangsta lifestyle perhaps - but done with some wit and inventiveness
Needless to say far more explicit versions of the song - audio and video are available
A Fanfare....
Just how good was this one?
Get right on one matey
Top one, nice & get sorted.
And relax...
One Dove
Good call! Seriously under-rated and frankly years ahead of their time.
Seconded!
Saw them live when I was a student. They were great.
Thirded
Morning Dove White is a great album.
Cult hero here...
Just about any track
from the Wolfgang Press will do. A hugely underrated band.
That'll be Rebel MC, Tenor Fly & The Man Barrington Levy then...
Barry Adamson
Hairy Diamond
The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
Loved this band
Forever J - Terry Hall
great
choice - had forgotten it totally
Not just the songs...
...but also the band, particularly the first two albums and associated b-sides.
Wide Open Space
Britpop's single finest moment imho
Everything But The Girl - Mirrorball
Lots of good more dance orientated mixes - but at heart a great song
so under-rated
Marillion's best
Was this the 90s?
Bez makes a rubbish video sort of okay..
Betty Boo - Let Me Take You There
Bless his heart
Prefab Sprout - We Let The Stars Go
A Dance Classic or should have been....
I thought so too
I thought this track was going to be huge. Produced by Youth and it has members of Primal Scream playing on it. Still sounds good to me.
'Dragon Lady' by The Geraldine Fibbers
i absolutely love this...
one of the best synthpop songs of the 90's...
OMD - Pandoras Box
The Big Dish 'Miss America'
First mention
that I've seen of The Big Dish on this site. The 'Creeping Up on Jesus' album is a minor classic in my opinion. Great voice. Steven Lindsay's solo stuff is also worthy of investigation.
Eg & Alice 'Indian'
Still genius
I love this song - sums up most of the late 80s/early 90s for me. When Kirsty gets around to inviting me onto the Island, this'll be there with me.
Gospel, country, acid-house.
Bernard Butler - Not Alone
I'll raise you...
...Butler & McAlmont - Yes
still in '95
Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape (not on YouTube)
Big Day
in the North
Shaun speaks in tongues...
http://open.spotify.com/track/03oQWfhzGKx5XstRV0hfjq
Jah Wobble - The sun does rise
Talk Talk - New Grass
Fabulous stuff.
Jellyfish - Ghost at Number One
Teenage Fanclub - I Don't Know
...which aint on YouTube, heres Star Sign instead:
Billy Bragg - most anything he did
Such as God's Footballer
or From Red to Blue
or Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key:
Beat Goes On - All Seeing I
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck
Dodgy - Staying Out for the Summer
As usual the answer is David Bowie
"You've Been Around" from Black Tie White Noise
underated shoegazer track
nice.
Blue Jeans
Bit of a gem, I think
Dinosaur Jr
TAKE A RUN AT THE SUN