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Most overlooked song in pop history

LennyLowrent
LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
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Mine is Wood Beez by Scritti Politti
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  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,715
    Is that Love - Squeeze
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    LennyLowrent said:
    Mine is Wood Beez by Scritti Politti
    Well it got to #10, so not exactly overlooked at the time. 

    But just listened to it again and it sounds horrifically outdated now, so probably "overlooked" with good reason now.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,364
    Queen - Friends Will Be Friends

    Manic Street Preachers - Hold Me Like A Heaven

    Sam Smith - Like I Can

    Noel Gallagher - We’re On Our Way Now

    Mike & The Mechanics - Over My Shoulder

    All successful acts, but these songs could have gone on to be major radio hits if the timing had worked differently. 


  • Ross
    Ross Posts: 4,409
    Mike and the Mechanics - Another Cup of Coffee

    Somehow it only got to number 51 in the charts.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,364
    You could have an entire thread of underrated songs dedicated to Mike & The Mechanics and Paul Carrack. What a voice.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Kevin Ayers: Lady Rachel - album version. Brilliant but it was never released. Instead Harvest later released an orchestral version that bombed.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    I could list about fifty. The most overlook genre in pop history - rockabilly.  
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited October 2022
    Algarveaddick said:
    I could list about fifty. The most deserved overlook genre in pop history - rockabilly.  
    corrected😉
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,142
    edited October 2022
    Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree.

    Moonlight feels right by starbuck.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,148
    Hal1x said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    I could list about fifty. The most deserved overlook genre in pop history - rockabilly.  
    corrected😉
    As a great man once said, fuck you and the horse you rode in on...  :D
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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    Three by the Pogues - Pair of Brown Eye, Sally Maclannane, and Summer in Siam

    Listen - Christy Moore

    Fortress Europe - Asian Dub Foundation

    Sally Cinnamon and I am the Resurrection - Stone Roses
  • CharltonMadrid
    CharltonMadrid Posts: 5,091
    Driver's Seat by Sniff n the Tears.
  • bertpalmer
    bertpalmer Posts: 1,774
    Whole of the moon - Waterboys
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    That's Love That It Is - Blancmange
    One Man's Meat - Fad Gadget (and practically everything else by FG)
    Revolt Into Style - Bill Nelson's Red Noise
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    Chevy Thunder - Spector
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    John Wayne and Hawaii Five-O both by The Dark, a very underrated band 
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,733
    edited October 2022
    I love you so much i can't shit - Richard Head 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIHoCMl7syY
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,040
    Another girl another planet by the Only Ones
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,997
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said:
    Another girl another planet by the Only Ones
    Great choice 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Sky high by Jigsaw
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  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,899
    Todd Rungrens " when I saw the light " ..only got to 36 in 1972 ...gets a lot of play on the hearts,magics and booms..think people just assume it was a hit but never was 
  • MillwallFan
    MillwallFan Posts: 3,347
    Local Boy in the Photograph- Stereophonics
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    Chippycafc said:
    Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree.

    Moonlight feels right by starbuck.
    Joke?

    "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" is a song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell, with Motown/Stax backing vocalist Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilson and her sister Pamela Vincent on backing vocals.[1] It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973.

    The single reached the top 10 in ten countries, in eight of which it topped the charts. It reached number one on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973, number one on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973 and number one on the New Zealand charts for ten weeks from June to August 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK.

    In 2008, Billboard ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100.

  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    edited October 2022
    Icicle Works - Love is a Wonderful Colour 
    Arcade Fire - Reflektor
    Stereophonics - In A  Moment
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,031
    edited October 2022
    Addicks to Victory - Sandgaard.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Match Of The Day, by Genesis. 

    One of the greatest descriptions of Saturday afternoons spent watching football matches 

    https://youtu.be/ggQnVVz2wdI 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love And Understanding - Brinsley Schwartz (original) including Nick Lowe who wrote it or Elvis Costello's version.  
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Love my Way - psychedelic furs 
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    Happy Mondsys. Loose Fit
    Squeeze Hourglass
    David Sylvian Orpheus
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,623
    Hide & Seek  - Howard Jones
    I Scare Myself  - Thomas Dolby

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