Share an obscure song you love

[WomanStanleyWoman]

Bring your favourite flops/shoulda been hits to a new audience The only rule is, they cannot have made the UK Top 40.

My first choice - Humpe and Humpe, ‘Careless Love’. The duo changed their name to Swimming With Sharks (the name of their album) in the UK, for fairly obvious reasons

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@BuddhaForMary

Then Jericho - Big Area/ The Motive

LOVE this.

Love both of these songs 😊

These were from Hertfordshire too!

I was a huge Then Jerico fan, but Big Area charted at No 13 and The Motive at 18 so hardly obscure.

Got to number 16 but you barely hear it

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@Innatenvi

This one. My parents were big Gordon fans but barely anyone else I speak to has ever heard it.

I know that! It was on the radio all the time!

somanylies, Flying Visit by Ferris and Sylvester is great. Thanks for sharing that.

Fredo Viola - The Sad Song

Ariel by Dean Friedman is also gorgeous Brilliant recommendation.

She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

I wish I could sing like this!

I keep returning to this thread to work my way through the songs I had never heard of. So many gems 😊

Another one from me - The Art Teacher by Rufus Wainwright

Chapel Song by We Are Augustines in fact most of their songs really.

Roscoe by Midlake.

Anything by Midlake, tbh.

Cake, short skirt long jacket

They play Short Skirt Long Jacket at least three times a week on a local rock/indie station in Chicago.

I wish they'd play Wheels, by Cake, on the days they don't play SSLJ...

I heard this on the same station -

Also, R.L Burnside and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, 'It's Bad You Know'.

I love stuff to do with AI and robots.

I remember them both ..

Crazy by Icehouse.
Broken land by the Adventures. Not very obscure, got some airplay but didn’t get high in the charts.

This is definitely a more obscure song from Harry Nilsson. It must have got some radio play for me to have heard it, but I don't think it got very high in the charts at all. I loved the melancholy and the choral sound at the end.

I remember that Harry Nilsson song @DahliaMacNamara

I love, love, love his "Without You"

These aren't cool but they are good in my opinion.

Hit My Heart by X Factor winner Matt Cardle

Hold On Me by Phixx

These are cool

Melody X by Bonaparte

Downtown by Majical Clouds

The Mood - almost famous new romantic band from Leeds. They reached the nether reasons of the charts a few times:
Paris is one day away
Passion in dark rooms
Don't Stop