Most underated song

Sonny678

A great band. And kevin Rowland another British popstar with Irish parents. Parents are from Mayo just like Gallaghers mother. So many of the greats of British music are first or second generation Irish eg Oasis , The Beatles ( Lennon , McCartney, Harrison) The Smiths , Elvis Costello ( Real name Declan McManus) , Dusty Springfield ( Real name Mary O Brien ) , The kinks ( Davies brothers ) , Kevin Rowland and Dexys , Boy George (real name George O Dowd ) , David Essex ( parents were Irish Travellers ) , Ryder and many many more. Even Bowie had an Irish mother. Take Johnny Marr his parents came from Athy in kildare . Manj from Stone Roses parents came from up the street from Marr ( real name Maher ) in Athy also. Marr best British guitarist of last 35 years and Mani possibly the best baas player in British music in the same time , both their parents came from Athy. Comedians as well nearly all British top comedians are first generation or second generation Irish like Steve Coogan whose family come from Mayo and Peter Kays family come from Roscommon . Spike Milligan who had an Irish passport father and mother were from Sligo. Jimmy Carr also has an Irish passport he was born in limerick. Others with Irish backgrounds are Sean locke , Billy Connelly , Michael Mcityrne , Lee Mack ( family Mayo ) , Lee Evans, Shane Ritchie, Dermot O Leary , Frankie Boyle ( parents from Gweedore in Donegal) , Mickey Flanagan, Caroline Aherne , Kathy Burke and kevin Bridges.

Rowland has written brilliantly about being first generation Irish in Britian . Rowland has always written about his Irishness. Check out the song Burn it Down which is having a go at British people who make Irish Paddy man jokes.

Rowland has a touch of genius. And is underated. He would be a greater musical talent then say Damien Albarn or Thom Yorke or Ian Brown and never really gets real due credit. But he wouldnt be as cool. He took real risks and was real pop rebel innovator.
Dexys created different sound for nearly every album. The albums
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels hasnt dated well but it is a brillant brillant album. To ry Aeay with kind of Celtic sound is also a brillant album. Dont stand Down is his third masterpiece.
People know Come on Eileen but here are other Dexy pop gems

Dexys Burn it Down
Dexys Tell me when my light turns Green
Dexys Geno
Dexys Jackie Wilson Said
Dexys Until I believe in my Soul
Dexys Lets make this precision
Dexys This is what she likes

BOSTIK

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Great choice. I love the Big Thing album; the other two singles get more attention but ...Shame is great. The song used to promote Decade - Burning The Ground - is even more obscure.



I remember that was the "new song" on the 1992 Greatest Hits. Although a version of it appeared on the Sowings The Seeds Of Love B-Side and was also added to the Japanese CD of the album. Nice tune too.

"Burning the Ground" is a funny yoke, someone had a good time at the mixing desk.
Duran Duran had some marvelous singles which are still easy on the ear.

You're right about "Laid So Low" on the Greatest Hits, never knew it had a prior existence.

BOSTIK

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

There are so many underrated songs by Depeche Mode. Here are some more: Behind The Wheel, Shake the Disease and Precious.

Those are great tunes, they're hardly underrated though.

BOSTIK

Sonny678 wrote: »

REM have some great tunes underated, they went on run of albums in late 80s to early 90s that was unreal.

I'd also include all of New Adventures in HiFi, which Michael Stipe has stated is his favourite REM album

BOSTIK

Sonny678 wrote: »

And U2 have some great underated b sides that are underrated


U2 Spanish Eyes
U2 Salome

U2 The Lady with Spinning Head
And the excellent U2 Love comes Tumbling

Underated Songs on U2 albums

U2 Lemon

The highlighted ones are my favourites.

The Perfecto mix of Lemon is fantastic, goes on forever.

NIMAN

Back to Duran Duran, always liked this from their later stuff

edwardG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccW-mLdNe0

BOSTIK

Absolute gem from Gerry Rafferty, the piped intro is about a minute long.

Never even dented the lower regions of the charts when released as a single, a pure travesty

Rothko

Sonny678 wrote: »

Underated Beatles Songs

1 Hey Bulldog
2 Two of Us
3 Sun king
4 No Reply
5 Im so Tired
6 For no One
7 Rain
8 Mother Natures Son
9 Im a Loser
10 The Word
11 And your bird can Sing
12 Girl
13 Baby your a Rich Man
14 I got a Feeling
15 Your going to lose that Girl

I'd add You Never Give Me Your Money to that list.

dixiefly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scsJZ67ssDY

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkqPNvMj6w

Superb song from 1995.

BOSTIK

Some good old forgotten punk, this is a cracking tune:

NewbridgeIR

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Superb song from 1995.

Now 30.

NewbridgeIR

BOSTIK wrote: »

Some good old forgotten punk, this is a cracking tune:

Their goth phase. Loved Grimly Fiendish as well.

PressRun

I always thought Give Into Me was an underrated tune from Michael Jackson's catalogue. Slash played guitar on it and this era was when Michael Jackson's voice was at its absolute peak imo. Was a hit at the time, but rarely mentioned in conversations about his best songs now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjDwi0LCQE

Kylie's best song is Confide in Me and is one of the best songs of the 90s actually. It was critically acclaimed at the time, but again it's probably not the first song people would associate with Kylie. A darker, more trip-hop sound that's kind of different to her more flamboyant pop hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFDCmmsqEI

Prince was such a prolific songwriter that it's really hard to narrow down the amount of underrated songs in his back catalogue.

Lesalare

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbWJO8RMg1A

One the greatest artists of all time yet so many of his songs so many don't know!

That song utterly breaks my heart.

I adore that song: A for the track it is, and B: for the fact he was SUCH an amazing performer/entertainer.
Like Freddie.

I used to have copious amounts of WHAM posters on my bedroom wall as a 8-10 year old.

I still listen to solo George regularly at the age of 44.

Such a loss.

BDI

The amount of music people have never even heard. Like anything the Beatles didn’t put on their greatest hits is now unknown by generations. Helter Skelter, Hey Bulldog, I am the walrus, glass onion, rocky raccoon, why don’t we do it in the road, happiness is a warm gun, that’s just off the top of my head.

Shame really. I’m currently listening to Lee scratch Perry’s catalogue slugging a few Guinness.

Lesalare

BDI wrote: »

I am the walrus, glass onion, rocky raccoon, why don’t we do it in the road, happiness is a warm gun, that’s just off the top of my head.

All these Beatles songs are very well known now and well rated.

BDI

Lesalare wrote: »

All these Beatles songs are very well known now and well rated.

You honesty saying that if I walked over to tesco tomorrow and asked a sample of 100 people to sing any of these songs I would get 75per cent good answers?

50per cent


Ten or five I reckon

Lesalare

BDI wrote: »

You honesty saying that if I walked over to tesco tomorrow and asked a sample of 100 people to sing any of these songs I would get 75per cent good answers?

50per cent


Ten or five I reckon

Yes I do.
Those tracks are on most of the Beatles albums/remasters over the past 10 years or so.

The original Q was: most underrated songs, not most unknown.

BDI

Lesalare wrote: »

Yes I do.
Those tracks are on most of the Beatles albums/remasters over the past 10 years or so.

Oh rite, didn’t realise the kids were buying up Beatles reissues. Thought they’d be more into Bieber or Rita Ora.

raclle

Muse are such an underrated band and even better live.

Lesalare

BDI wrote: »

Oh rite, didn’t realise the kids were buying up Beatles reissues. Thought they’d be more into Bieber or Rita Ora.

You are still totally missing the point of the original Q.

Rothko

PressRun wrote: »

Kylie's best song is Confide in Me and is one of the best songs of the 90s actually. It was critically acclaimed at the time, but again it's probably not the first song people would associate with Kylie. A darker, more trip-hop sound that's kind of different to her more flamboyant pop hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFDCmmsqEI

That Kylie song is my favourite of hers. Very underrated.

smacl

Always rated Stuart Murdoch as an underrated lyricist. Outside of making the soundtrack for Juno, IMHO this is a fantastic song that never made it. One of many buried in the enormous B&S back catalogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvK0XEOUOo

and one more while i'm here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvB1fscOtJU

NewbridgeIR

smacl wrote: »

Always rated Stuart Murdoch as an underrated lyricist. Outside of making the soundtrack for Juno, IMHO this is a fantastic song that never made it. One of many buried in the enormous B&S back catalogue.

Expectations is brilliant. IMHO a band who peaked on their debut with each successive album seeing a fall off in quality.

smacl

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

Expectations is brilliant. IMHO a band who peaked on their debut with each successive album seeing a fall off in quality.

Wouldn't agree, personally I reckon "The boy with the Arab strap", "If you're feeling sinister", "Dear catastrophe waitress" and "God help the girl" are all excellent albums. Cracking live band too, caught two of the three recent gigs and and they were sublime. To be fair, not sure I enjoyed any of their albums on the first listen but find they really grow on me and are ones I come back to a lot. Not mad on much of their more recent stuff, but reckon "Nobody's Empire" is another excellent single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb8am3NQU0

UrbanSprawl

..don't be a mountain man

NewbridgeIR

smacl wrote: »

Wouldn't agree, personally I reckon "The boy with the Arab strap", "If you're feeling sinister", "Dear catastrophe waitress" and "God help the girl" are all excellent albums. Cracking live band too, caught two of the three recent gigs and and they were sublime. To be fair, not sure I enjoyed any of their albums on the first listen but find they really grow on me and are ones I come back to a lot. Not mad on much of their more recent stuff, but reckon "Nobody's Empire" is another excellent single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgb8am3NQU0

That's a good tune .

Had negative live experiences (1999 Whelans + Electric Picnic 2006) but nothing since. If You're Feeling Sinister is brilliant too, almost as good as Tiger Milk. They had a very strong run of EPs up to 2001 or so.

Cushtie

https://youtu.be/Cee4ftcKEgw

Lightening Seeds - Joy.