Good songs that we've never heard

Electric Boobs

There didn't seem to be a similar thread to this already. Quite a simple task, isn't it! Post a song that you think is good, but yet not well known. It doesn't mean it can't be by an artist that IS well known.

As a music buff I'm constantly looking for new music, and am of course I'm sick of the predictable songs on the radio. It seems the only place I have for discovering good song(that I haven't hea before), is on the John Creedon show.

Here's a few examples I think fit the category:

Sartorial Eloquence - Elton John
Ghost in my guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7CacBiOB7Q
What it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2ddQRlgcE
Girl from Ipanema - Frank Sinatra
Poor Shirely - Christopher Cross
Dance with Life - Bryan Ferry

Examples that wouldn't fit the category:

U2 - Beautiful Day
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Pogues - Fairytail of New York

Birneybau

Having not heard songs I haven't heard...I'm a bit lost.

Girl from Ipanema, really?

Electric Boobs

Birneybau wrote: »

Having not heard songs I haven't heard...I'm a bit lost.

Girl from Ipanema, really?

Don't be so obtuse! I'd expect that kind of attitude in the after hours forum. Yes, I've never heard 'Girl from Ipanema' on the radio, and I doubt I ever will.

Obviously you haven't heard the other songs I mentioned. Hope you enjoyed them (if you listened), as that's the whole point.

Now, back to where we were.

NIMAN

One of my all time favourite songs is 'one headlight' by The Wallflowers.

A band with a handful of albums out but I'd hazard a guess few people know of them. Bob Dylans son Jakob is the lead singer.

Starscream25

Up the junction by squeeze,heard it in breaking bad too, so it's probably more popular than I thought at the time. I think it's a good one

Declan A Walsh

Starscream25 wrote: »

Up the junction by squeeze,heard it in breaking bad too, so it's probably more popular than I thought at the time. I think it's a good one

That is in fact a pretty well-known song and was a big hit for Squeeze and it does turn up on radio.


I would say good songs that we've never heard on radio (or rarely if ever) would be many album tracks.

Here are a few random examples of such songs (some may have been singles as well) :

Turn of the Century, Parallels and Awaken - all from the album Going for The One by Yes

Everyone Everywhere (from Republic) by New Order

Reality, Try All You Want, Some Distant Memory - all from the album Electronic by Electronic

Territorial P***ings (from Nevermind) by Nirvana

No. 13 Baby (from Doolittle) by The Pixies

Small Blue Thing (from Suzanne Vega) by Suzanne Vega

Tinseltown in the Rain (from A Walk Across the Rooftops) by The Blue Nile

Mercy Street (from So) by Peter Gabriel

Many too Many (from And Then There Were Three) by Genesis

One Clear Moment (from One Clear Moment) by Linda Thompson

Swamp Thing (from Strange Times) by The Chameleons

Put Down That Weapon (from Diesel and Dust) by Midnight Oil

We Let The Stars Go (from: 1. Jordan: The Comeback, 2. A Life of Surprises: The Best of Prefab Sprout) by Prefab Sprout

Listen (from Songs from the Big Chair) by Tears for Fears


There are many many more - they are just examples I could think of at the spur of the moment!

Electric Boobs

NIMAN wrote: »

One of my all time favourite songs is 'one headlight' by The Wallflowers.

A band with a handful of albums out but I'd hazard a guess few people know of them. Bob Dylans son Jakob is the lead singer.

I never knew that that was Dylan's son.

I first came across that band when I heard their cover of 'Heroes' on Godzilla

NIMAN

I think their version of Heroes is one of the best covers I've ever heard.

philstar

the very underrated matt johnson (the the)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32AAp418V4

GLaDOS

How obscure are we going here? And how do we define good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVJrY13CzY

NIMAN

Anything by The The !!

Declan A Walsh

It is, indeed, true that the output of The The is brilliant and very little of them (him!) would be heard on the radio. Apart from a couple of songs from Infected (Infected and Heartland particularly), and The Beaten Generation from Mindbomb, when said songs were in the charts, they have not got a lot of airplay, bar the odd nighttime program. Even TxFM rarely plays The The. The first album Soul Mining, from which This is the Day is taken, only got an airing at nighttime. One track in particular from Soul Mining that I would attribute greatness to would be Uncertain Smile, which features Jools Holland on piano.

Electric Boobs

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It is, indeed, true that the output of The The is brilliant and very little of them (him!) would be heard on the radio. Apart from a couple of songs from Infected (Infected and Heartland particularly), and The Beaten Generation from Mindbomb, when said songs were in the charts, they have not got a lot of airplay, bar the odd nighttime program. Even TxFM rarely plays The The. The first album Soul Mining, from which This is the Day is taken, only got an airing at nighttime. One track in particular from Soul Mining that I would attribute greatness to would be Uncertain Smile, which features Jools Holland on piano.

If I was to take a wild guess, I'd say you also play music?

endacl

Never heard this on d'wireless...

blastman

Discovered this band thanks to the original version of Napster and bought the CD this track is taken from. Great party band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0

blastman

And then there's this guy, who NEVER gets played on the radio here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L5zJ2afLs

gingernut79

Could listen to this all day - random Blur B side

and this from Modern Life is Rubbish

fryup

brilliant song from a brilliant album...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIswV5Ipo3Q

NIMAN

On the subject of Lennon ,, I always thought Watching The Wheels was one of his best ever songs.

It's rarely heard. In fact I have never heard it played on the radio ..

Declan A Walsh

Electric Boobs wrote: »

If I was to take a wild guess, I'd say you also play music?

No! I am neither a deejay or a seasoned musician!

NIMAN wrote: »

On the subject of Lennon ,, I always thought Watching The Wheels was one of his best ever songs.

It's rarely heard. In fact I have never heard it played on the radio ..

Yes, it has been played on the radio. That is I where I heard the song mostly! I would not agree that it was one of his best ever songs - it's middling - but each to their own!

Irish Guitarist

I'm guessing pretty much everyone has heard Rod Stewarts version of I Don't Want To Talk About It but not the vastly superior original by Crazy Horse.

Squall Leonhart

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I'm guessing pretty much everyone has heard Rod Stewarts version of I Don't Want To Talk About It but not the vastly superior original by Crazy Horse.

I love it! Must admit I only found out pretty recently, last year or two, that it was Crazy Horse's song, but I love it. Love pretty much everything I've heard from Neil Young/Crazy Horse, keep meaning to listen to more of Crazy Horse 'solo' (for a band, but you know what I mean ha ha) stuff.

This is a song I feel is relatively unknown, by a great great band;

fiachr_a

This is unique and I listen to it most days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Vlt1WRW1g

Ipso

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I'm guessing pretty much everyone has heard Rod Stewarts version of I Don't Want To Talk About It but not the vastly superior original by Crazy Horse.

Everything but the Girl done a great version.

RayCon

Swedish band (now defunct) Silverbullit : Joy (the album is called Citizen Bird but because there was already an artist in the US called Silver Bullet - they called themselves Citizen Bird and the album Silverbullit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcSWqlWoD8