Share an obscure song you love

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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

m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BFJJPF1Xk

Sum 41 - Pieces
Gene - Olympian
Lykke Li- Gunshot
Rae Morris - Under The Shadows
Then Jericho - Big Area/ The Motive

Then Jericho - Big Area/ The Motive

LOVE this.

So good isn't it? @BudhaForMary. Even all these years later! I always wanted to be the blonde woman in the video of Big Area.

Solid Air John Martyn

[quote Buzzinwithbez]Fade into you - Mazzy Star

It's a fire - Portishead

I melt with you - Modern English

[/quote] Unbelievable that Modern English only made number 76!

African Battle by Brownout. A recent discovery but apparently well known amongst those who know and like the genre

@LefttoherownDevizes

Hammond Song by The Roches. My desert island song

Also Calling You from the Baghdad Cafe soundtrack

Temple head by Transglobal Underground (from Whirl-y-gig before Hoxton was trendy)

Oh my the whirl-y-gig 😍 Did you go when it was at the dilapidated old Shoreditch town hall? I'd bloody love to go back there for a night!

I work in early years, I actually play that track when we have the parachute out and the children in my class lay underneath and relax! They absolutely love it!

Saturday Night by Natalia Kills

And slightly more well known Independent Love Song by Scarlet

@JennyWreny

Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez

from the OP of a similar thread a few months ago. I just love it!

Me too

Up the Junction by Squeeze.
Some of the rhyming is interesting but it’s perfect storytelling. I remember the first time I heard it while very hungover, and it’s stayed a favourite ever since.

What a tune @HeartshapedFox!

@HappyTalk2222

So good isn't it? *@BudhaForMary*. Even all these years later! I always wanted to be the blonde woman in the video of Big Area.

So good. Then Jericho did a gig in our town when it came out and my parents wouldn't let me go!

Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann.

Kiss the rain by Billie Miers is on my Spotify playlist I play about once a week

Pretty much anything by Lone Lady but definitely (There is) No Logic.

That was the worst Christmas ever by Sufjan Stevens.

The Birds by Telefon Tel Aviv

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Wannabe by the Spice Girls

Let it Be by the Beatles

(This is a sarcastic post BTW, aimed at all those who are not following the thread in the spirit which was intended!)

Take The Skinheads Bowling by Camper Van Beethoven..

The REM version of Syd Barrett's Dark Globe.

Hugo Largo's Harpers.

@HeartshapedFox

Up the Junction by Squeeze. Some of the rhyming is interesting but it’s perfect storytelling. I remember the first time I heard it while very hungover, and it’s stayed a favourite ever since.

I bow to noone in my appreciation of 'Up the Junction' but it went to number 2 according to Wikipedia so not exactly obscure.

@musicalfrog

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Wannabe by the Spice Girls

Let it Be by the Beatles

(This is a sarcastic post BTW, aimed at all those who are not following the thread in the spirit which was intended!)

'Hello' Adele‽

@hugoagogo

River of Diamonds by The Family Cat Love em

Oh god yes! I absolutely adored them and this tune with it's PJ harvey backing vox was one I always played very loud in my little mini metro!

Eye on Fire - Blue Foundation
My delirium - Ladyhawke
Same thing in reverse - Boy George
Wildest Moments - Jessie Ware
Better Than Ezra - Good
Staind - it's been awhile

I'm on fire Bat For Lashes version

Don't even know if this charted in the Uk but probably my favourite Crowded House tune

One of my very favourite songs is Blue Period by The Smithereens. It’s so lovely, but no ones ever heard of it.

Everybody’s going to war by Nerina pallot