Most underated song

Tammy! · 26-10-2019 2:12am

Whatever about Stevie Nick's!!! Christine had her own thing...

BOSTIK · 05-11-2019 4:46pm

I really like this track from REM's least popular album, the band even dissed this collection but this is a fine song.

horseofstone · 05-11-2019 7:02pm

Set adrift on memory bliss, by p.m dawn is a beautiful song and well worth a listen.I'd highly recommend it.

Sorry about that · 05-11-2019 8:20pm

https://youtu.be/W6k2j4lJ59g

The Princess Bride · 06-11-2019 4:11am

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Tammy! wrote: »

Whatever about Stevie Nick's!!! Christine
had her own thing...

I had a wee girl crush on CMcV as a teen.
I discovered Fleetwood Mac after I found her, oddly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2HbBh526Sw

BOSTIK · 06-11-2019 10:42am

That PM Dawn track is a sample of Spandau Ballet's "True", isn't it?

Flash & the Pan are more well known for "Waiting on a Train", but this lost classic from 1985 is better. I first encountered it on MT USA, but didn't get a copy of the song until the digital era. I couldn't find the old video, but it's still a belter

BOSTIK · 08-11-2019 11:09am

Someone mentioned this earlier in the thread, I thought I'd link the video.

An absolutely awesome song, had the pleasure of seeing Martin Gore do a an acoustic version of it a few years ago.

smacl · 08-11-2019 5:58pm

Always thought this was a very underrated tune, particularly apt with all the nonsense that is brexit going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpUXrTDV9IM

Sorry about that · 10-11-2019 12:18pm

Nneka, Heartbeat

https://youtu.be/6ivg3J3h5Ps

IAMAMORON · 10-11-2019 12:51pm

ampleforth · 10-11-2019 12:58pm

BOSTIK · 11-11-2019 5:24pm

Great track from a fantastic album from the early 90s indie Manchester scene.

steam iron · 11-11-2019 5:38pm

Overkill-Colin Hay.

Declan A Walsh · 11-11-2019 6:50pm

steam iron wrote: »

Overkill-Colin Hay.

That was Men At Work actually! Colin Hay was the singer alright.

MoashoaM · 11-11-2019 7:03pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18L9Zpos7g

Ooa ooa

BOSTIK · 12-11-2019 1:56pm

One from this decade for a change.

I love this, from the excellent 2013 Delta Machine album. Never been played live, yet.

BOSTIK · 15-11-2019 1:54pm

Underappreciated gem from the Pretenders. They don't make 'em like they used to.

NewbridgeIR · 16-11-2019 12:41am

BOSTIK wrote: »

Great track from a fantastic album from the early 90s indie Manchester scene.

The first HOL LP gets all the credits and has been reissued three times with extra tracks.
That Butterfly / Fontana record is amazing though - seriously great B-sides as they really embraced the multi-formatting craze, 7", 2 12"s, CDs, cassettes etc. Some were collected on A Spy In The House Of Love but needs a proper reappraisal.

Tammy! · 16-11-2019 11:39pm

Very underrated ballad. I always ask ballad bands to sing this when I'm out and they're always surprised by the request but usually happy to play it

BOSTIK · 20-11-2019 2:14pm

Just great, from an excellent album too

BOSTIK · 21-11-2019 11:15am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

The first HOL LP gets all the credits and has been reissued three times with extra tracks.
That Butterfly / Fontana record is amazing though - seriously great B-sides as they really embraced the multi-formatting craze, 7", 2 12"s, CDs, cassettes etc. Some were collected on A Spy In The House Of Love but needs a proper reappraisal.

Had the pleasure of introducing a much younger colleague to this album, my coolness quotient rocketed:D

The Nal · 21-11-2019 11:21am

Everyone bangs on about Step On but...

BOSTIK · 21-11-2019 11:22am

This rocked up on the ipod on the way to work this morning. Majestic song from a criminally underrated album

Infernum · 21-11-2019 11:24am

dvdman1 · 21-11-2019 11:30am

Robbie Dupree - Steal Away

https://youtu.be/qvvhCzDobRE

Morgans · 23-11-2019 5:49pm

The best Housemartins's single, but Im in a minority with this opinion. Jaysus, it's great.

IAMAMORON · 26-11-2019 2:32pm

Declan A Walsh · 26-11-2019 7:21pm

Here's a song that's largely overlooked, but I think it's great:
Secret Smile by Semisonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj41-2SpjM4

Emmersonn · 26-11-2019 7:37pm

Unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywmpMQYojs

BOSTIK · 28-11-2019 4:14pm

Prefer this to the more well known Bohemian Like You. The rest of the album is very good too.

Declan A Walsh · 28-11-2019 10:10pm

BOSTIK wrote: »

Prefer this to the more well known Bohemian Like You. The rest of the album is very good too.

My favourite song by The Dandy Warhols is "Not if You were the Last Junkie on Earth" and I believe it is vastly underated.

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

BOSTIK · 29-11-2019 11:22am

^^^
That has a real Beach Boys twang off it.

I love this gem from Talking Heads, never hear it anywhere now

NewbridgeIR · 29-11-2019 11:35am

Willy Finlayson - On The Air Tonight
Peaked at #85 for four successive weeks in 1985. A classic Forgotten '80s tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-magu7zxr8

BOSTIK · 29-11-2019 2:25pm

^^^
I thought I knew a bit about obscure 80s tunes, but I never heard that one before. not too bad at all.

So I'll see you that, and raise you this. Don't think it ever dented a chart anywhere.

NewbridgeIR · 29-11-2019 5:05pm

Good tune, I have it on Hardest Hits Volume 4, a brilliant new wave series from Canada, mid 90s. All 5 volumes worth getting.
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hardest-Hits-Volume-4/release/190211?utm_source=mobile&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=iOS%20App

BOSTIK · 30-11-2019 2:44pm

Was sure I had you there with Hitlist.

Second service then, this was a minor hit in the US but they've no chart history in their native England. A real 80s bang off this one:

NewbridgeIR · 30-11-2019 2:50pm

BOSTIK wrote: »

Was sure I had you there with Hitlist.

Second service then, this was a minor hit in the US but they've no chart history in their native England. A real 80s bang off this one:

Class tune; played it in Grand Social last year, mixed reaction.
Know it via collecting all things 4AD in the 1980s and through a VHS copy of Valley Girl, obtained from Tommy Whitty's video library c.1987

NewbridgeIR · 30-11-2019 2:55pm

Seona Dancing - More To Lose (1983)
I know he is ashamed of it now, but this really was a decent tune. Failed to crack the top 75 but was a radio hit in the Philippines of all places.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkpdZ7B81J8

BOSTIK · 03-12-2019 3:58pm

I think I saw a clip of that Ricky Gervais thing before, with all the dry ice that was a staple of early '80s videos.

Anyway, here's Big Audio Dynamite's first UK chart entry, peaking at no. 97 in January 1986. Decent, and shows that sampling was going to feature regualrly in their repertoire.

BOSTIK · 05-12-2019 1:42pm

Always liked this, was a regular feature on the Phantom playlists back in the day, around 2008. Think one of the band members got very ill subsequently, a real shame.

BOSTIK · 16-12-2019 6:15pm

Combine Bryan Ferry's voice and a Smiths instrumental b-side and you get this mighty track which went largely unnoticed when released as a single. It spent one week in the UK Top 40, peaking at no. 37 when the Bee Gees were winning again in October 1987.

PressRun · 18-12-2019 2:29am

Nowhere Fast is a Smiths song that doesn't get mentioned enough in discussions about their best tunes. One of Morrissey's wittiest lyrical turns and Marr doing some wizardry on the guitar. Mad to think how young Marr was when he wrote these songs. The band got together, blew up and broke up all by the time he was 23 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCdf3Myazw

NewbridgeIR · 18-12-2019 7:48am

PressRun wrote: »

Nowhere Fast is a Smiths song that doesn't get mentioned enough in discussions about their best tunes. One of Morrissey's wittiest lyrical turns and Marr doing some wizardry on the guitar. Mad to think how young Marr was when he wrote these songs. The band got together, blew up and broke up all by the time he was 23 years

Great call. They were playing it at the November 84 live shows. Rusholme Ruffians is another gem

BOSTIK · 20-12-2019 2:14pm

Great old tune featuring the vocals of Dolores O'Riordan. Reached no. 41 in June 1994, just as the Cranberries were going global.

BOSTIK · 23-12-2019 11:13am

These lads were fairly political back in the day. Their most well known song is "Radio Africa", but this is a great song about McCarthyism. Shame it only reached no. 85 in the charts, bit of a coincidence though.

IAMAMORON · 24-12-2019 3:31am

horseofstone · 24-12-2019 6:25pm

East 17 had a hit called Deep in 1993, great beat and lyrics . Check it out.

BOSTIK · 31-12-2019 9:35pm

That John Waite song is an '80s classic.

This is a bit more obscure, from around 2007. Fine song

robotno3 · 01-01-2020 10:11am

BOSTIK wrote: »

An absolutely awesome song, had the pleasure of seeing Martin Gore do a an acoustic version of it a few years ago.

Must be from this gig. Love it!
https://youtu.be/4CtlfgHKL2A

BOSTIK · 02-01-2020 11:57am

robotno3 wrote: »

Must be from this gig. Love it!
https://youtu.be/4CtlfgHKL2A

Yeah, that's the one. He sang "But Not Tonight" at that gig as well.

The opening track from their most recent album is an absolute gem. Had it been properly promoted it could've reintroduced them to the singles charts, though I guess such matters don't concern them too much these days.

I love it anyway

Most underated song

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