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Share an obscure song you love

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WomanStanleyWoman · 25/02/2022 17:57

Bring your favourite flops/shoulda been hits to a new audience Smile 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 Grin

m.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BFJJPF1Xk

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GlumShoe · 25/02/2022 23:46

Pretty much anything by Elliott Smith but especially Miss Misery or Waltz #2

Imsittinginthekitchensink · 25/02/2022 23:53

10.15 Saturday Night - The Cure

Em308 · 25/02/2022 23:54

Beautiful beautiful song 💗

HappyTalk2222 · 25/02/2022 23:58

Just listened to Everybody's going to war - forgot about that.

I was wrong by Sleeperstar is beautiful.

MovinOnUp · 26/02/2022 00:01

Treat me like fire by Lion Babe.

StopStartStop · 26/02/2022 00:07

@NannyGythaOgg

Back Street Luv by Curved Air.

It was a hit in 1971, but they were a great group who had this one hit that I have never heard on the radio since, so it meets most of your criteria and is amazingly good.

'Summer's comin' time to dream the day away And she's so sunny is the girl you met today'. Or something similar. Great song.

Mine is 'Only You' by Silverhead.

TitsInAbsentia · 26/02/2022 00:11
NEE1302 · 26/02/2022 00:12

Choose by Longfellow - love it

NEE1302 · 26/02/2022 00:16

Also this... Pastis - Wider Scale

IckyPop · 26/02/2022 00:18

@AllYouCanEatBrestaurant

Start Wearing Purple by Gogol Bordello
Awesome song Grin
SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 00:20

Buffy Sainte Marie - Goodnight

Beautiful

Menna123 · 26/02/2022 00:33

@WomanStanleyWoman when I opened this thread I was also thinking of careless love! Found myself humming some voice of the beehive earlier “I say nothing” but not sure how popular they were? Or “oh your eyes” lost soul band

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 00:36

Joan As Policewoman - Christobel

icyAF

NationMcKinley · 26/02/2022 00:37

@SheldonesqueTheBstard - that is a fabulous song but it’ll always be Star Walker for me:-

Love love Buffy. She’s ace.

NEE1302 · 26/02/2022 00:38

Just one more - Amber Run - I Found

Not quite in the spirit of the thread as very successful on YouTube, but just beautiful

PerkingFaintly · 26/02/2022 00:38

Two Margarines - John Shuttleworth.

PerkingFaintly · 26/02/2022 00:41

Slightly less tongue in cheek, The Last Trip Home by Battlefield Band.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 00:49

@NationMcKinley

Awesome choice.

She is bloody marvellous. (But Goodnight kills me every listen!)

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 00:50

perking 🤩

Menna123 · 26/02/2022 00:55

Like a child again - the mission
Waiting - Shakespeares sister
Crystal - new order
Paris Paris - Malcolm mcclaren / Catherine deneuvre

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 00:57

Saw the Howling Bells and loved this. Perhaps not terribly obscure but I had a happy night.

setting sun

NuffSaidSam · 26/02/2022 00:58

Patio Song by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

It got to no. 41 so just slips in.

Menna123 · 26/02/2022 01:03

Song for Zulu - one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard oh and Gorecki & Gabriel by Lamb

RichardsGear · 26/02/2022 01:08

Shine by Monaco. Had No1 all over it (and Hooky on bass) but didn't even chart.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 26/02/2022 01:08

I’d best stop here.

I would like you to leave you with Status Quo.

yes you heard right

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