I just remembered how much I listened to "You Know the Rest" by 'Til Tuesday from the Voices Carry album many years ago, but then I somehow forgot it existed over time and just became reacquainted with it today. The song "Voices Carry" kind of obscured everything else on that record in my brain for a long time, but the album has at least one song that's better.
Other people have examples of this, surely (forgotten/remembered or not).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:31 (twelve years ago)
rihanna - lemme get that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EzzJw-aGW4
buns is what i got? BUNS IS WHAT I GOT
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:36 (twelve years ago)
Tyler
― x-gau, uncut gau, The Bomb! (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:37 (twelve years ago)
"Trains" off of The Vapors debut. I think a lot of supposed one-hit-wonder types will have this kind of thing going on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNowJK1vDQA
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Y Control"
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:42 (twelve years ago)
I think a lot of supposed one-hit-wonder types will have this kind of thing going on...
You're probably right, but I look forward to finding out what they are.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:43 (twelve years ago)
'Talkin' About' from Amerie's Touch. I can't claim it's as drop-dead amazing as '1 Thing', but it is very, very good.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:56 (twelve years ago)
"If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It" by Al Stewart off of Year of the Cat.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 22:59 (twelve years ago)
Elstree by Buggles off The Age Of Plastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr3Kje0iuRc
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)
SO many of these.
Pretty sure this is one:
http://youtu.be/-JcTyIm1mP4
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:30 (twelve years ago)
bah
Will it work now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcTyIm1mP4
― mr.raffles, Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:31 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, probably "Elstree."
― timellison, Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:33 (twelve years ago)
― Ismael Klata
Seconded. I was pleasantly surprised to hear an indie dude do an acoustic cover of it a few years ago at an open mike.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:44 (twelve years ago)
That's my jam, but I'll rep for most of Amerie's stuff. Her albums are strong.
― Everybody Knows This Is Mohair (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:58 (twelve years ago)
Alison Moyet's "All Cried Out" from Alf.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:01 (twelve years ago)
<3
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:04 (twelve years ago)
That was the one huge single over here!
― ledge, Thursday, 3 January 2013 11:56 (twelve years ago)
ha -- and not in Amerikay.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 13:04 (twelve years ago)
Lots of awesome songs on 'Age of Plastic' - if you like Video Killed The Radio Star you should considerb the whole album.
''The Kid's American'' by Matthew Wilder (versus ''Break My Stride'')''Woody Boogie'' by Baltimora (versus ''Tarzan Boy'')''Dancing in Berlin'' by Berlin (versus ''No More Words'')
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 January 2013 13:47 (twelve years ago)
I'm cheating a bit here--Urge Overkill had one big hit and one minor one from the same album--but "Back on Me" is much better than either to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYlLa6obEJQ
(Great work on the video, YouTube person.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 January 2013 13:53 (twelve years ago)
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 5:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Or "Broadway Hotel"!
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 14:02 (twelve years ago)
Straight Into Darkness off Tom Petty's "Long After Dark" album. The big single was You Got Lucky.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:08 (twelve years ago)
That's actually the one track on YotC I don't like. It seems to lumber along while everything else skips along. But I could have chosen any of the others on a different day.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)
Yeah I like pretty much every song on that album but "Broadway Hotel" was probably the first Al Stewart song that really clicked with me so it has that sentimental value. The instrumental coda is the key to the song imo.
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)
good call, kornrulez
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:24 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E53K3T7LnhA
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)
or "I Could Give You (A Mirror)" or "Jennifer."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)
Or "This City Never Sleeps"!
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)
Well "Love is a stranger" is the best song ever, but if you eliminate that one too than it'd be "I could give you a mirror" as a distant third
― friday goodness thank it's (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:47 (twelve years ago)
Thinking either "Starting Over" or "I Don't Know What I Want" (their great Who homage) from Raspberries' Starting Over LP. (The hit was "Overnight Sensation.")
― timellison, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:39 (twelve years ago)
New Radicals "I Don't Wanna Die Anymore" was pretty awesome
― NINO CARTER, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)
"One By One" and "The Big Issue" are probably my favorite songs on Tubthumper.
― sleeve, Saturday, 5 January 2013 19:46 (twelve years ago)
Going back and forth between "Celtic Soul Brothers" and "Jackie Wilson Said", from the same album that brought us "Come On Eileen."
― henry s, Saturday, 5 January 2013 22:48 (twelve years ago)
ya "Jackie Wilson" is killer
― fiscal cliff bar (bernard snowy), Saturday, 5 January 2013 22:59 (twelve years ago)
Hall & Oates' "Open All Night" from H2O.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 January 2013 13:53 (twelve years ago)
For that matter, "Las Vegas Turnaround" from Abandoned Luncheonette.
― henry s, Sunday, 6 January 2013 14:55 (twelve years ago)
I don't know how huge the single in question has to be here, but everything on Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? that isn't "I Know What Boys Like".
― Nutzhak Perlman (Old Lunch), Sunday, 6 January 2013 15:49 (twelve years ago)
Yes! WAY too many good songs on Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? to pick one.
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:13 (twelve years ago)
Aw hell, let's do it:
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? POLL
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:24 (twelve years ago)
The Boo Radleys - Stuck On Amber (Wake Up!)Roxy Music - Just Another High (Siren)
― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:39 (twelve years ago)
Dancing in Berlin'' by Berlin (versus ''No More Words'')
Or "Now It's My Turn." All three songs are great!
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Sunday, 6 January 2013 19:50 (twelve years ago)