Songs everyone remembers even thought they didn't make the Top 40

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In terms of UK charts....

Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping (45)
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 (42)
Paul Hardcastle - You're the one for me (41)

Others?

― JTS, Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

"Brown Eyed Girl"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Dolly Parton's "9 to 5"

― wisdom, Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

At least in the U.S.

Modern English I'll melt with you

― AMD (AMD), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

From recent years, "Witness (One Hope)"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

How Soon Is Now? didn't chart in the US.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Stairway to Heaven - never released as a single in the UK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Yes it was. By The Firm. Sometime in the 80s.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, not The Firm. Was it Far Corporation? Also, Rolf Harris.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Number 8 in 1985. I bet 16 year-old me was outraged. 36 year-old me thinks it's hilarious.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

"Light My Fire" didn't reach UK Top 40 until it was reissued in 1991.

"Anarchy In The UK" did make Top 40, but only in UK, and it never made UK Top 30.

Possibly some Joy Division. "Transmission" is sorta rather well-known today, isn't it?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 23 April 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

I meant to specify that I meant the Led Zeppelin version of Stairway to Heaven. God, the Far Corporation, I had blanked that from my memory.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

There are probably members of the Far Corporation who've blanked it from their memory.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

In the US:

Squeeze-"Tempted"
Romantics-"What I Like About You"
Cheap Trick-"Surrender"

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 23 April 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

"September Gurls" never made any kind of Top 40, did it?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

It made mine, Geir.

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

The thing with "September Gurls" is that the version "everyone"* remembers is the Bangles' cover( Which--icidentally--didn't hit top 40 pop IIRC).

*The world at large

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

When my wife first told me that the Bangles had done a cover of "September Gurls" I was shocked. (And appalled).

― Failin Huxley (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

More U.S.:

David Bowie, "Changes"
Grateful Dead, "Uncle John's Band"
Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Haze"
Christina Aguilera, "Dirrty"
Elton John, "Tiny Dancer"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

God Only Knows was #39 US

How well did some of Radiohead's singles off of OK Computer do? Those will be up there in 15 years.

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 24 April 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

In the UK:

3 Radiohead Paranoid Android Jun 1997
8 Radiohead Karma Police Sep 1997
4 Radiohead No Surprises Jan 1998

Dunno about Stateside.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 April 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

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