What is the greatest single never to make the top 40?

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OK, I'll open the biddings with "The Electrician" by The Walker Brothers. I defy you to do better than that.

― Sebastian Flyte, Monday, 21 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Julian Cope - Sunspots
Delgados - Everybody Come Down

Both massive should-be hits. I'm assuming the latter didn't sneak in to number 37 while I wasn't looking.

― Kim Tortoise, Monday, 21 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Didn't The Electrician have something dud from one of the other brothers on the b-side? If you take b-sides into account, I propose White Light/White Heat / Here She Comes Now

― jz, Monday, 21 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Euphoria (Nino's Dream)

only available on 12" mind you. I'll have to think longer about one with a CD release.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

fuckit, Braxe & Falke's 'Rubicon' it is.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Did Shot By Both Sides by Magazine make the top 40 on release?

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Nawwwwwwowwwwwowwwwwwowwwww...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure Franks Black's "Headache" never made it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

"That's the Joint" Funky 4 + 1

― CB, Monday, 21 November 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

"Emma's House" and "The Last Dance," IMHO. And "Summer's Last Sound."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

"Lazy Line Painter Jane" - Belle and Sebastian (straight in at #41)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

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