Unjustly Forgotten Lost Classics of Alt Pop

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Lost Classics of Alt Pop...

Good God, What kind of sick, sick world are we living in!? These tracks never got to #1 on the US Billboard Charts!?

Til Tuesday - "(Believed You Were) Lucky"

Hoodoo Gurus - "Come Anytime" or "Miss Free Love '69"

Del tha Funkee Homosapien - "Mista Dobalina"

Fretblanket - "Into the Ocean"

That Petrol Emotion - "Hey, Venus!" or "Sensitize"

The Farm - "Groovy Train"

Squeeze - "Up the Junction"

Dar Williams - "Hallelujah"

Darkest of Hillside Thickets - "Power Up"

Richard Thompson - "Tear Stained Letter"

Falling Joys - "Lock It" or "Your Names"

Thomas Dolby - "Airhead"

Semisonic - "(All About) Chemistry"

and though It'll never happen, I'd be greatly gratified if these three were to become fluke hits...

Atom and His Package - "Pumping Iron for Enya"

Nickalicious - "A Brief Dissertation"

Taco the Wonder Dog - "Doin the Squirrel
"

Okay....

so which ones did I miss on my list?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 3 October 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Fretblanket? Like, for reals?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 3 October 2004 06:15 (twenty years ago)

That song has dumb, vague lyrics...
but it is so damned catchy!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 3 October 2004 06:21 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, people! I know you have some tracks that need some publicity.
Here's your chance to shout it from the rooftops!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 3 October 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Connells entire career output to thread!

― Guayaquil, Sunday, 3 October 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Hanson - Lost Without Each Other

From this year! (or last?)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Sunday, 3 October 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Matt Bianco - Whose Side Are You On?

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Is that Nickalicious as in, like, ILx Nickalicious? Where can that track be found? (Or was there a band with this name?)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

I always thought "Sucked Out" by Superdrag should have been massive.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 3 October 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Holly and the Italians - "Miles Away"
Nick Lowe - "(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass"
60 Ft Dolls - "Talk to Me"
Voice of the Beehive - "I Say Nothing"
Redd Kross - "Play My Song"
Swervedriver - "Sci-Flyer"
Rachel Sweet - "Who Does Lisa Like"
Ramones - "I Want You Around"
The Undertones - "Get Over You"
Waxing Poetics - "Sugardaddy"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago)

The Wonderstuff: Size Of a Cow
Dodgy: Staying Out For The Summer
The Cure: Friday I'm In Love
The Cure: Let's Go To Bed

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 3 October 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Are the Cure things forgotten?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Well, their happy pop oriented moments (with the possible exception of "Just Like Heaven") are clearly not what they are mainly remembered for.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago)

For a split second whenever the Cure crosses my mind, it's always "Close to Me." Which is kind of poppy, no?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "Friday I'm In Love" far and away the most famous Cure song? It's the only one that I hear in grocery stores.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago)

You wouldn't expect them to play "A Forest", or even "Lullaby", in a grocery store, would you? :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

That was my point.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Are the Gandharvas forgotten in Canada?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago)

(Cue Keith on how they're vile Cancon scum.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 4 October 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Material Issue 'Valerie Loves Me'

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 4 October 2004 08:06 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Sweet - "Who Does Lisa Like"

swoon

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Sweet - Truckstop Queen. Ohhh yeah.

Miracle Legion - Say Hello

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 4 October 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

sundar: Is that Nickalicious as in, like, ILx Nickalicious? Where can that track be found? (Or was there a band with this name?)
Yes. The same. It can be found floating around the internet and the mp3 collections of various Ilxors who swap mp3 cdrs. (Mostly because I kept putting it on every cdr I sent out.)

Geir: The Cure: Friday I'm In Love
But that one deserves to be forgotten. The Cure has thousands of songs and it is the second worst song out their entire canon. (Only "Throw Your Foot Away" is worse.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

alt.pop .. surely Woodentops qualify. Well Well Well, Move Me etc.

totallyt agree with that Petrol Emotion entries though. a sin.
Steve Macks follow on Project 'Anodyne' was far too good for the masses as well. naturally it went nowhere.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

That Petrol Emotion's 'Big Decision' was the big alt-hit that comes to my mind first...

The early volumes of the 'Hardest Hits' collection were full of these forgotten lost classics of alt pop. Tracklists are here. I don't think they were released outside Canada.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

alt.pop .. surely Woodentops qualify. Well Well Well, Move Me etc.

I was going on about how great 'Well Well Well' was the other day. That's a hell of a vicious drum sound on that track.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

The Triffids - Save What You Can

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 October 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Shit! I *MUST* find those Comps!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

also...the fact that Marshall Crenshaw isn't listed anywhere in this thread just shows that Satan has won and we live in an unjust universe.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Oscar by Shack
And as mentioned by someone, somewhere on here
Rent Act by The Wolfhounds

― wtin, Monday, 4 October 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Some of those Hardest Hits comps are around on amazon, ebay...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 4 October 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 October 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets????
From Canada?

― Huk-L, Monday, 4 October 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I guess. I don't know much about the band except that they did a very catchy nu-Punk song about how to become a superhero.
Hmmm. I wonder if that song is a response to Rancid's "Sidekick"?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd hardly call them "unjustly forgotten" nor "classic," but who remembers Senator Flux from Washington DC?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Material Issue OTM. I forgot all about that jam, it graced many a mix tape back in the day.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

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