To ask what your fave widely unknown songs are

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After recently discovering the song ‘Kiss you all over’ by the band Exile a few weeks ago it’s got me wondering how many other non mainstream gems there are out there that I’ve missed, is it unreasonable to ask what your unknown gem is?
Mine are…

Tina Turner- Don’t Turn around / I’ll be thunder / Ask me how I feel / Love thing / Paradise is here

Rolling Stones- Moonlight Mile

Bruce Springsteen- Racing in the streets

Bette Midler- Stay with me

Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire.

Can't think of one but this will make a great rainy Sunday afternoon activity looking up all these songs! Love discovering 'new' old songs and wondering how they slipped me by.

My username is a song by the Magnetic Fields, that not many people seem to have heard of apart from me.

I don’t think UK band Smoove & Turrell are well known (they aren’t in ireland anyway) but I can’t understand why - they are amazing; northern soul I think is the category.
beggerman; slow down ; hard work are incredible songs. I think I was their top listener on Spotify 😬😂

Two straight lines - walking on cars
Fireworks - van Susans

Just another day by Jon Secada released in 1992

For those that don't know/aware he has written songs for Gloria Estefan and was part of Miami Sound Machine

I love Radish! Apparition of Purity off that same album is one of my favourite songs ever

Life Isn't Shit - The Sweetchunks Band
spotify link
Always cheers me up.

Breathe (a little deeper) - Blameless

Farewell to Twilight - Symposium

Orchard Road by Leo Sayer
Play me Out by Helen Reddy

I love this song. I had the album with the Spanish version on too.

I've been listening to Robert Palmer's earlier stuff lately (70's and 80's) and he was just brilliant.

One of my ultimate faves. It was such a hit at the time and has stayed with me for 30 years (how am I this old).

There's the girl by Heart

What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend - The Specials

Old TV Shows - Smith & Burrows and Sunshine in the Rain - BWO both spring to mind

If my eyes were blind, by David Olney

Party in my mind- the sound
Bright lights-tanya donelly
Frank black-calistan
Cosmo sheldrake- come along

Yes! They were so good.

Last year I re-discovered Olivia Newton John. I remember the early 70s when she was always a guest on Saturday night TV programmes before she moved to the states, then of course Grease, Xanadu and Physical, but everything else passed me by and after Physical (one of the most popular songs of the 80's) she was completely off my radar.

About this time last year, I was randomly looking on Spotify and Xanadu popped up after I'd been playing a few ELO songs. That led me to explore Olivia's other songs and I was blown away by how many songs she'd recorded and basically, I've been listening to her ever since. She was a very prolific recording artist and very popular in Australia, US, Japan, etc., but largely forgotten/ignored in Europe and the UK. Lots of songs were never even released in the UK and also plenty of TV/concert songs that weren't released at all - only preserved by people putting videos on Youtube.

There's a new duet album being released around now, with previously unreleased duets that she'd been working on during the past few years before her death. Jolene has already been released (Duet with Dolly Parton) which is awesome and only recorded a couple of years ago.

I always thought this was well known but I played Hazard by Richard Marx the other day and DH had never heard it. It may well just be my DH though!

Picture postcards from l.a by Joshua kadison
He was about in the mid/late 90's but never took off-it was the wrong time
Luffs that song

Oh I don't know this one but I'll find it; I loved Jessie.

Cosmo sheldrake- come along
that made me smile this morning, thank you. Under the comments Goblincore Halloween Sea Shanty does sum it up quite well

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i love LP. I had a micro phase obsessing over them last year.

LP’s cover of Halo is exceptional

A lot of my favourite songs are modern country music songs. Most don’t seem well known outside of the US but the genre is gaining popularity in the UK and elsewhere now.