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What are your Best Overlooked Songs?

Songs that didn't get the airplay or notoriety of the big hits but were just as good, if not better...

A few faves:

All Mixed Up- The Cars
Just Too Easy- Romeo Void
My Time- Psychedelic Furs
Pleasure Victim- Berlin
Halo- The Cure

Nostalgia- The Chameleons
Beneath The Blue Sky- Go Gos
Domino Dancing- Pet Shop Boys
Torch- Soft Cell
Noticeable One- Missing Persons

Monkey Man- The Specials
One More Time- Joe Jackson
Now- The Plimsouls
Stories for Boys- U2
News At Ten- The Vapors

Pretty Baby- Blondie
Baby, Oh No- Bow Wow Wow
Ghosts- The Jam
Heaven Sent- INXS
Fishnet Stockings- Stray Cats








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<p align="justify">INXS has a coupla songs that were kinda popular for a brief moment and then radio stations never played them again. The first one I thought was "The Stairs" off their 1990 album, [i]X[/i]. The other one is also an INXS song: "Beautiful Girl" off their album [i]Welcome To Wherever You Are[/i]. Those two songs are not only INXS's best, but also some of the best songs of the 90s[:0]

Following that train of thought, Madonna's "Angel" from the single off her second album. It's one of my favourite Madonna songs and hardly ever got airplay even when [i]Like A Virgin[/i] was big (at least in my neck of the woods). I also like "This Used To Be My Playground," but I recently heard that over the radio[:I]

DeMode's albums [i]Some Great Reward[/i] and [i]Black Celebration[/i] are rife with album tracks and b-sides which are just as good, if not, then better than the singles spawned therein. Here are some which did not get airplay and are seldom listed as people's favourites from the band:

"Something To Do"
"Lie To Me"
"Stories Of Old"
"If You Want"
"Fools"
"World Full Of Nothing"
"Here Is The House"
"A Question Of Lust" - the "minimal" version is THE best song ever made by DeMode[}:)]

I could make a similar list for The Smiths and Morrissey of songs which are often ignored, disliked, or forgotten... starting with "Oscillate Wildly"!

Man, I could respond to this thread every couple of weeks...a favorite topic for sure.

The Jam - Liza Radley (damned melodious)
The Cars - Got a Lot On My Head (what a starting riff!)
Adam & the Ants - Friends (favorite call-out song of all time)
Joy Division - Wilderness (spookiest drums ever)
New Order - Turn My Way (classic dreamer NO, Billy Corgan guest to boot)
The Clash - Straight to Hell (yeah we've heard of it, but others...)
Simple Minds - The American (again, not by us but by most...)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (weird Oingo Boingo kinda thing going on, eh XXX?)
The Cure - Subway Song (a cool, almost bluesie beatnickie song)
The Pretenders - Cuban Slide (the gem of the EP imho)
The Plimsouls - Hobo (they were legendary to me..and even I forgot)
Devo - Gates of Steel (thanks for the reminder Spaz)
Human Sexual Response - Pound (per Geoffe's thread)
OMD - Georgia (never really understood it...but always loved it)
The Human League - Seconds (head & shoulders my favorite)

And one that instantly takes me back, Split Enz' Poor Boy..."My love is alien..." Man, I've criminally neglected this song over the years.

[quote][i]Originally posted by XXX[/i]
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DeMode's albums [i]Some Great Reward[/i] and [i]Black Celebration[/i] are rife with album tracks and b-sides which are just as good, if not, then better than the singles spawned therein. Here are some which did not get airplay and are seldom listed as people's favourites from the band:

"Something To Do"
"Lie To Me"
"Stories Of Old"
"If You Want"
"Fools"
"World Full Of Nothing"
"Here Is The House"
"A Question Of Lust" - the "minimal" version is THE best song ever made by DeMode[}:)]

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A Question of Lust get's played here in Los angeles KROQ.. heard on another noon time 80's radio station too..


Another Song in Mind is Compulsion by Martin Gore.. it was release during DM's biggest years..

It simplicity best
Or simply the easiest

[quote][i]Originally posted by Anonymous[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by XXX[/i]
<br><p align="justify">

DeMode's albums [i]Some Great Reward[/i] and [i]Black Celebration[/i] are rife with album tracks and b-sides which are just as good, if not, then better than the singles spawned therein. Here are some which did not get airplay and are seldom listed as people's favourites from the band:

"Something To Do"
"Lie To Me"
"Stories Of Old"
"If You Want"
"Fools"
"World Full Of Nothing"
"Here Is The House"
"A Question Of Lust" - the "minimal" version is THE best song ever made by DeMode[}:)]

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A Question of Lust get's played here in Los angeles KROQ.. heard on another noon time 80's radio station too..


Another Song in Mind is Compulsion by Martin Gore.. it was release during DM's biggest years..

It simplicity best
Or simply the easiest
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<p align="justify">No. Not the album/single version of "A Question Of Lust," but the [b]minimal[/b] version. No radio station will play those even if the original song does. Joe Crow's "Compulsion" is a cover song from Martin L. Gore's "Counterfeit" e.p. It's a good song... probablty the 2nd best song off that 5 song collection. The best cover in there is "In A Manner Of Speaking."

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]

The Human League - Seconds (head & shoulders my favorite)

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<p align="justify">I could never understand why The Human League's [i]Dare![/i] and [i]Love And Dancing[/i] (is that what that album was called? I ferget...) years get dissed so much. Those albums are bleedingly awersome! Coincidentally, I was watching this cheapie HK kung fu/ninja movie from the 80s and one of the featured songs was by The Human League[:0] Of course, it was used without permission, but it kicked so much ARRRRGHSE![}:)] "These are the things these are the things that dreams are made of..." Favourite hands-down, without a doubt - and definitely neglected - is "Darkness" from [i]Dare![/i][8D]

The Smiths- Barbarism begins at home (it's better than How soon is now? if you ask me)
New Order- Brutal (love it! love it! the version in the Finsbury Park show DVD... oh god!!) [:D]
Short-term effect- The Cure
Boy racer- Morrissey (yet again... not all popular compared to other Morrissey/The Smiths songs)
Lillian- Depeche Mode (it's the best song in the Playing The Angel album by far)
Exercise One- Joy Division (they played it a lot live but it's not one of their "popular" tunes)


A Question Of Lust doesn't get played that much on the radio but it's a popular song still. [;)]

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Seven - James
Magical Spring - Ride
Highest High - China Crisis
Until She Comes - Psychedelic Furs
Nightboat - Duran Duran

"What's My Name?" by the Clash. So overlooked that it didn't make the best Clash song poll a few months ago! Probably my favorite Clash song.

Shanghai Sky - Joe Jackson
Tango Atlantico - Joe Jackson
The Working Hour - Tears For Fears
Ideas as Opiates - Tears For Fears
Suffer The Children - Tears For Fears
Start Of The Breakdown - Tears For Fears
Adventures - New Musik
Areas - New Musik
Blow Away - Spoons
Symmetry - Spoons
Take Me Walking - Spoons (sort of)
Sundown - Spoons (sort of)
All Your Time - Blue Peter
Take Me To War - Blue Peter
Love Street - World Party
It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes) - World Party
It's So Cruel - Billy Idol
Blue Sea - China Crisis
Here Comes A Raincloud - China Crisis
...And Then - Depeche Mode
Now This Is Fun - Depeche Mode
Lonely In Your Nightmare - Duran Duran
Don't You Know I Want You - Human League
Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works
In The Cauldron Of Love - Icicle Works
Cooling The Medium - M+M
Utter Space - Men Without Hats
Lose My Way - Men Without Hats
Walk On Water - Men Without Hats
I Sing Last/Not For Tears - Men Without Hats
Sons And Fascination - Simple Minds
Seeing Out The Angel - Simple Minds
I Travel - Simple Minds
East At Easter - Simple Minds
"C" Moon Cry Like A Baby - Simple Minds
Big Sleep - Simple Minds
I Love You Goodbye - Thomas Dolby
The Flat Earth - Thomas Dolby
Screen Kiss - Thomas Dolby
Storm On The Sea - Thompson Twins
No Peace For The Wicked - Thompson Twins
Message On The Radio - Trans X
Lurgee - Radiohead


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I'll chime in a few off the top of my head:

The Cars - Gimme Some Slack (love the Stonesy guitar riff)
Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
U2 - Out of Control
Depeche Mode - It's Called a Heart
The Clash - Brand New Cadillac (rip-roaring blues rocker)
Talking Heads - Pulled Up (catchy and upbeat - ironically so?)
The B-52's - 52 Girls
The Police - So Lonely
Duran - Hold Back the Rain (lost behind the other great songs on Rio)
The Smiths - Death at One's Elbow (catchy and macabre)

i'll have to add.....
close to you "nine ways to win"
we go to sleep believing "nomo"
just so lonely "get wet"
hold on to something "great buildings"
see the day "dee c lee"
hold my hand "the innocents"
stop shooting up stars "the innocents"
let her dance "phil seymour"
take a hand "rick springfield"
take me away "whiteface"
you could take my heart away tonight "silver condor"
forever "rex smith"
new romance "spider"
when the night comes down "the elekrics"
bates motel "the hitmen"
shouldnt have done that "kaja"
eldorado "drum theatre"
jesus are you there? "the babys"
precious to me "phil seymour"

percussionlover

[quote][i]Originally posted by georgie rockwood[/i]
<br>i'll have to add.....
close to you "nine ways to win"
we go to sleep believing "nomo"
just so lonely "get wet"
hold on to something "great buildings"
see the day "dee c lee"
hold my hand "the innocents"
stop shooting up stars "the innocents"
let her dance "phil seymour"
take a hand "rick springfield"
take me away "whiteface"
you could take my heart away tonight "silver condor"
forever "rex smith"
new romance "spider"
when the night comes down "the elekrics"
bates motel "the hitmen"
shouldnt have done that "kaja"
eldorado "drum theatre"
jesus are you there? "the babys"
precious to me "phil seymour"

percussionlover
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Ah yes, how could we have missed all of these in a "legendary bands" thread? Especially Rex Smith.

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wats wrong.....i like lectric motors......you dont like my list....lol
remember music is opinion & tastes,what you like i may not like & vice versa and maybe somebody else dosent like yours either....lol
music is supposed to make you feel great!!!!!

percussionlover

[quote][i]Originally posted by georgie rockwood[/i]
<br>wats wrong.....i like lectric motors......you dont like my list....lol
remember music is opinion & tastes,what you like i may not like & vice versa and maybe somebody else dosent like yours either....lol
music is supposed to make you feel great!!!!!

percussionlover
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lol...georgie...lol...very...lol...happy...lol...today...

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