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Post by theundecider on Jan 29, 2011 8:11:36 GMT 1
What favorite lost track do you recall. Tell us a little about it.
I use songfacts.com or wikipedia.org to jar my memory.
here's one-
'91 "Naked Rain" This Picture
A UK band that sounded very much like U2.
...unfortunately "Achtung Baby" came out at about the same time.
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Post by ROBERTLEE on Jan 30, 2011 20:56:42 GMT 1
'91 Diana Ross
Battlefield from The Force Behind The Power album.
Should have been a single and would have been a massive hit on the back of When You Tell Me....
Bit of a throwback to the Suprmes days but a real driving track.
NME who always rubbished her said that this was the one highlight on the album.
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Post by Gezza on Jan 31, 2011 11:33:07 GMT 1
99' Lulu Hurt Me So Bad was a dance classic of it's time but bombed in the charts!!
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Post by theundecider on Feb 8, 2011 8:05:08 GMT 1
'96 "C'mon N Ride It" Quad City DJ's
Loved this track. Never heard from them again.
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Post by theundecider on Feb 13, 2011 16:36:32 GMT 1
Diana Ross "Battlefield"
Had to check it out.
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Post by theundecider on Feb 13, 2011 16:38:18 GMT 1
Lulu "Hurt Me So Bad"
You gotta love YouTube!
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Post by Gezza on Feb 14, 2011 17:39:30 GMT 1
^ The Almighty remix was the bomb (as americans would say) back in 99 the height of my clubbing days!
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Post by PurpleCareBear on Feb 16, 2011 17:25:15 GMT 1
Back in the day,I bought her (next ?) single 'Where The Poor Boys Dance',and it had 'Hurt Me So Bad' as one of the bonus tracks - I'd never heard the song before,and loved it even more than the 'A' side ! It really should have done for Lulu what 'Believe' did for Cher !!
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Post by Gezza on Feb 16, 2011 17:38:23 GMT 1
There was a phase in 98/99 where the old stars did try to do a "cher" lol- I mean specifically Tina Turner "When the Heartache is over" and Diana Ross "Not Over You Yet" to name but two
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Post by Earl Purple on Mar 27, 2011 20:52:14 GMT 1
Not totally lost, this song seems to be reasonably well known among indie fans but after announcing today in my chart thread that this was the unluckiest song ever not to top my chart, being the closest on its week than any other (effectively my chart equivalent of Groove Is In The Heart) I will put the video of it here:
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Post by TheThorne on Mar 27, 2011 21:03:55 GMT 1
I agree but I would go further Shack are a lost band of the 90s,yes they had a cult following but they should have been as big has Pulp and many other brit pop bands but somehow it didnt happen.
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Post by vastar iner on Mar 31, 2011 20:57:56 GMT 1
^ to come up in a future thread...
This seemed to be played wall to wall on MTV, yet wasn't that big a hit even in their native Sweden (got to no. 10). Although the parent album "Blue Tomato" was a number one there. Sort of bizarre that it missed out, it has a Stax feel mingled with a summer of love vibe.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Mar 31, 2011 23:16:11 GMT 1
^ I bought that, and the album too  |
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Post by Jan on Apr 1, 2011 6:46:45 GMT 1
There was a phase in 98/99 where the old stars did try to do a "cher" lol- I mean specifically Tina Turner "When the Heartache is over" and Diana Ross "Not Over You Yet" to name but two Not over yet (METRO CLUB mix) - Diana Ross is one of my favourate songs of alltime! MILES better then Believe (which i liked for a couple of weeks). Not over yet was at least a Top 10 hit in the UK which doesn't really make it a "lost track" in my opinion. Should've been no.1 for AGES though! The original album version was terrible though. |
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Post by vastar iner on Apr 7, 2011 22:39:32 GMT 1
Humpty Hump, the alter ego of Shock G, leading D.U, a sort of Funkadelic hip hop thing. They kept recording until 2008. Whatever happened to this sort of rap? There used to be much more wit and innovation, now it seems to have been taken over by bullshine merchants.
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Post by vastar iner on May 8, 2011 21:30:41 GMT 1
There was a brief vogue for acidified children's tv themes in the early 1990s, the public information film "Charly" gave the Prodigy their breakthrough and there were hits based on Sesame Street and Roobarb inter alia. However, the most successful Magic Roundabout spinoff had come in 1975 as Jasper Carrott's double A side. For some reason these two little gems were comparatively overlooked; Mark Summers did at least nudge the top thirty with his, The Badman (real name Julian Brettle, which doesn't exactly sound like a bad man) only scraped the sixties. Bit of a shame for Summers; his was the first kids' tv theme remix to hit the charts, but like John the Baptist he was overshadowed by the Jesus that is Liam Howlett. The Badman now seems to be a computer game engineer/designer, Summers is a leading sample replayer - i.e., if you want to sample a song but cannot get clearance from the owners of the rights of the original recording, Summers will produce a soundalike version that you can use. Big business - he re-played "Need You Tonight" for Professor Green inter alia. |
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Post by thehitparade on Jun 9, 2011 23:59:51 GMT 1
This one's been a little bit quiet lately, so I'll chip in with a record that reached its highest chart position 17 years ago this week, but still failed to make the Top 40. It's by a band who are most famous for one big hit that some people affect to dislike. I do like that too, but not as much as this.
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Post by JessieLou on Jun 10, 2011 1:38:11 GMT 1
LOOOVE The Humpty Dance!
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Post by raliverpool on Jun 10, 2011 21:01:52 GMT 1
... Keeping up the Todd Rundgren theme.... one of his productions
Jill Sobule - Living Color (1990)
Taken from her debut album Things Here Are Different was released in 1990 was this delightful Cyndi Lauper meets the Bangles going psychedelic folky track.
Sobule's best-known composition 1995s "I Kissed a Girl", a story-song about a lesbian flirtation between two suburban girlfriends which became an unlikely radio success thanks in part to a comedic music video featuring beefcake male model Fabio, lay in the future. Better than the fake Katy Perry, that's for certain.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 14, 2011 22:28:14 GMT 1
This band needs no introduction or explanation. But this song is very different from their other stuff - and absolutely, transcendentally, dreamily sublime...I could imagine it being a Shangri-Las out-take.
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