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

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Slipaway by Les Enfants which won't be obscure if you were a teenager in 80's Ireland. Loved it.

Or this Flying Visit by Ferris and Sylvester. Makes me cry. They wrote it based on the time one of them spent working as a nanny for a little boy. Its based on notes she made of things the little boy said. Its about the little boy seeking out connection. I'm crying now listening to it again!

My ma was more of an Abba lady, obviously she missed a vital part of my education!

Little Shoes big voice - nightfall

Younghearts, a little togetherness, the tempos, countdown here I come. Both true Northern soul classics. 😁

Boy or a Girl by Imperial Drag - total banger. Just googled it and it only got to no. 54

@Skade

Diamond SMILES!!

I remember Diamond Smiles. It was out in about November 1979, followed by Someone's Looking At You.

@CheshireChat hello! Love me some Shinedown, and good choice with Emilie Autumn!

‘Secret Smile by Semisonic’

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Thank you for reminding me of this one.

Glenn Medeiros isn't obscure, it was number one for about a year and a half!

Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura. It is such a happy catchy tune.

Perfect for Me - Ron Pope

Christy Moore- "The Voyage"

In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles. I heard it in an episode of Snow Piercer and thought it was so haunting.

Also Song To The Siren, the This Mortal Coil version. It's my absolute favourite song but possibly isn't as obscure as I like to think it is!

Stay with me till Dawn.
I had a dance version of it by Lucid which I loved.A random single CD I picked up in a bargain bin!
An older friend informed me it was a cover and the original was by Judie Tzuke which I also really like.

Also Just Another Day, Jon Secada.

Love that song

The Police- The Bed's Too Big Without You.

Not sure if it can be described as obscure, they're a well known band and it was in the charts, but nobody has ever heard of it when I sing it.

This is beautiful

Hania Rani - Glass

[quote HeartshapedFox]@hugoagogo I had no idea Up the Junction
charted at number 2!!
Most people I know haven’t heard of it, or Squeeze, so it’s an obscure one for me.[/quote]
The other mystery of life is songs that were quite big hits but have been forgotten about - usually because of unimaginative Radio playlists that continue to play the same couple of hundred songs while ignoring the many thousands of great tunes to choose from.

Spank.. Jimmy 80 Horne

Homosapian by Pete shelly

Jesse by Carly Simon.
I heard it once and thought it was gorgeous.

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

Gosh haven't thought about Gordon Lightfoot in decades! If You Could Read My Mind takes me back to sitting in my youth club mooning over some boy waiting for him to look at me and when he did just going bright red and sliding under the table. Youngg love, you can't beat it...

Also this - it may have been more popular in the continent, but people in the UK only know Loic Nottet, if at all, from being in Eurovision a few years back.

Heidi Talbot, "Grace Darling"