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Dave Q asks for detailed analyses of Girl Thing and Scooch - well dammit he should get them.

OK, not them neccessarily, but what is your favourite 'pop' record that didn't become popular - and why?

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fallin' by Boom! because it combined popbands melody with garage sassyness (but only a little amount, just enough to skitter the track). jittery, memorable, good lyrics. i was very surprised this didn't happen for them, perhaps the idea of an entryist point into garage for boy/girl band headz didn't work because garage is already 'youth' music, and doesn't need an entry point like this, because if people are inclined towards garage, i guess they would go for 'the real deal' rather than a pop facsimile. still, a great song in a 'flowers' stylee

― gareth, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually, i think the song charted quite high, but i didn't hear it much, and its only a year ago and who knows who Boom! are now eh?

― gareth, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Funniest pop flop - Northern Line. One of them was asked how they picked such a stupid name, they replied, "It makes you think of high- speed travel, glamorous urban environment etc." When informed, "Actually it doesn't, it makes people think of waiting for 20 minutes to be jammed in with 10,000 tourists all eating smelly food and being trapped in tunnels", the poor pop puppet was visibly deflated. So much for the keen marketing intelligence of the pop industry monolith!

― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, funniest pop-flop = e-MALE. "We are e-male, we just can't fail" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vanilla! No Way No Way!

― Tom, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Duece? Pre-cursors for Steps only, like, nowhere near as good? In towering moment of prog-rock folly, released a *double* *album*. And no, I've never heard it, though one shop nearby has an entire stack of them for a dollar each.

― Tim, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

where are Cleopatra? why aren't they "comin atcha" anymore?

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(okay this is from memory, not heard it in years)

"Back On The Road" by Earth Wind & Fire - seemed to achieve a perfect balance between disco and raaawwwk! at the time. I think it peaked at about #54 in UK singles chart despite a fair bit of R1 airplay. It's always annoyed me that it's never made it onto any EWF compilation LP. If anyone's got a copy of the 7" they don't want...

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, Northern Line has inspired me. Watch out for my pop spin- off, 'Camp X-Ray'

― dave q, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big Supreme "Don't Walk" from 1986. Much plugged on No Limits, video on the Chart Show too probably, then...nothing. Around that time the heavily promoted Brilliant flopped....wasn't Jimmy Cauty (KLF) in that band?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy Ray, because of his extraordinary quiff. He's probably bald now due to all the gunk that was used to hold this construction up, and for what?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nothin gonna stop us now starship. yeh it went to number one but everyone hated it so it wasnt popular. does that count?

― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sensitive by the Field Mice. Psychedelic addictive rhythmic pop.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy Ray was ace! I was very surprised that he didn't really take off. 'Goin' to Vegas' should have been huge.

'True to Us', Vanilla's follow up to 'No Way No Way' was actually pretty groovy. Perhaps they were just too rough to make it big?

― Zanny Gognet, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cyan. Failed so badly that they didn't even get to release a record, or even get a record deal (as far as i know). They played at my sister's school fete in spring of 1998 - they had no songs of their own, just mimed and danced to boyband tracks. Had a manager in the shape of a funny looking blonde woman in her mid forties.

― Chris Lyons, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WOW. If there was a band called CYAN, and if P!NK stands for magenta, then with YELLO and Mr Vearncombe's BLACK, we have the full 4-colour process. YAYAYAY!

I'm very sorry.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've only just finished the Rainbow of Rubbish - don't make me start on the Print Shop of Perfidy too.

― Tanya, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

then there's the MF song Reno Dakota that name checks a PANTONE(tm) colour. this one could run and run.

Or not

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the Print Shop Boys! look , i will stop eventually.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

back to the original question...

a friend bought me two singles for Christmas in 2000 - Independent Woman by DChild and some record by Mikey Graham, formerly of Boyzone.

And the Mikey Graham record is quite good. Only quite good, mind, but good enough for it to feel like a travesty that it tanked and it's that talentlesh fuck Ronan Keating who has gone on to be the successful one from Boyzone.

So I wish the Mikey Graham track had become popular.

― DV, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Three Small Words by Josie and the Pussycats. Should have been huge! What's with the record buying public, then?

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wolfgang Press, Alan!

― nickn, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They weren't favourites of mine, but anyone remember Point Break, the fellas from Byker Grove? One of them was a judge in a Romford battle of the bands thing last year. Which was funny as most of the bands were METAL GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

― DG, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If only they had realeased "pretend to be nice" as the Josie single instead.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Agreed. That's an ace song.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Shopping" by Supersister.

― EdwardO, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

I was bored enough to think that googling random three-word rhyming phrases would make life better.

First one I try is "shock jock cock". Two results, one of which is on ilx, Milton Keynes Wimbledon .

The next one was "top pop flop". Two results again, one of them this.

I cannae believe it.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

OK, carry on!

McKay - Take me over

You know, the one that was basically the backing for "Double Barrel". How did that one miss out?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

sadly, the phrase "splotch crotch blotch" gets no results on google. not even on ilx.

yet.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

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