To ask what your fave widely unknown songs are

[Brrrrrrrrrrrr]

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

Yay, someone knows it 😍

i'm sure you lovely people will know Nils Lofgren - The Secrets in the Street, but mostly I get blank looks when I mention that.

Jungle land - Bruce Springsteen
Paris- Friendly Fires
Sweet disposition- The temper trap
Let her down easy - George Michael
Blue for you - Wet, Wet, Wet

Friend of the night - Mogwai
Fascinating rhythm - Bassomatic
Les Fleurs - Minnie Riperton
Unfinished sympathy - Massive Attack
Thoughts of a dying atheist - Muse
Spirits having flown - Bee Gees
We’re not supposed to - Supergrass

I just can't now. And I love the music so much. But it's all tainted for me now. Sounds awfully dramatic I know, but it is what it ya know? I'm v black and white that way. I miss the music so much though, i really loved him. Even went to another country to see him!

And i have the cds too, i just have a complete embargo on him.

E street band goodness!

Zvezda bt Viktor Tsoï/Kino.
Stare miasto - Lao Che
Sitkea sydan - Juha Tapio
Road to Moscow - Al Stewart
Metsakukkia - Tapani Kansa

There are more. To be fair those are not actually that obscure - but they aren't well known outside their respective countries.

Nick drake.
Elliot Smith.
Damien rice.

I promise I'm not depressed/suicidal lol just was a big musical awakening when I first heard them.

On a childhood memory
Hushabye mountain from chitty chitty bang bang.

I could listen to this on loop!! I love Colter.
I also love The Night (and every other song) by Morgan Wade.
There is also a Mongolian folk metal band called The Hu. They have a really catchy song called Wolf Totem that features Mongolian throat singing.... I love it!!
The Jompson Brothers- On the run
Uncle Lucius- Keep the wolves away
Chris Rodrigues and the Spoon Lady- Angels in heaven

Getting lost in You Tube has led to some great singers and bands that I would never have heard of otherwise.

I once sang over DR and Lisa H. Was in Edinburgh, totally pissed and thought they were buskers (they were just in the street tbf). I warbled along over them, the memory of it makes me cringe so badly!

A few by Dylan
Emotionally Yours
Blind Willy McTell
The Girl From the Red River Shore
Abandoned Love
Someone's Gotta Hold of my Heart
Love Sick
Isis
Spirit on the Water
Thunder on the Mountain
Sara
Pretty Saro
I could add loads more, but I have things to do today.

Love Stevie Winwood, we saw him in Liverpool a few years back in a small venue, it was like looking over a sea of grey hair. There was one song that really stood out but I am wracking by brain cells to remember it.

Some epic doors...
Summers almost gone, crystal ship, la woman
Beth Orton almost everything but central reservation, pass in time
Sias eye of the needle got me through the grief of a close death

JBT is Amazing but for me it has to be "seeing Angels"

Also I really love RendCollective "my lighthouse"

"Summer nights of June". By Rory Sturgeon also because I know the background to it (about his friend who died suddenly)

"Everything" by lighthouse

"Still tangled up in you" by Staind

"You have stolen my heart" By Bryan Fallon

"I wont let you go" by switchfoot

"Rewind" Rascals Flatts

"Du er" by Søs Fenger

"Candy" by Paulo Nutiini

Electricity by Guy Garvey

@Fefifobum Let her down easy by GM is AMAZING. GM is 100% my.big music loss

Back in the day of juke boxes in pubs, this would be around 1980 ish, a friend of my then husband's would play this song every time he was in the pub - which was quite often.

He said it was getting his money's worth of music as it was about twice as long as most records at the time. I don't even think he particularly liked the song which was weird. 😆

Lost Myself by the Longpigs- beautiful and angry and I played it a lot after my mum died

Our Lips Are Sealed by the Go Gos - light and poppy and I just like it

Half Man Half Biscuit. In particular - All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit! Dh introduced me to them (not literally) and we actually went to see them a few years back. Very witty songs about the realities of life.

Elbow Great Expectations (from the pre One Day Like This era)

Longpigs On and On
Blur No Distance Left to Run

Not obscure bands but lesser know songs

Some great music suggestions being shared here 👌🏼 hopefully Siri starts playing better music whenever I ask to play something I might like…😁

In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles
Evil by Interpol (freaky video!)
Time by Kidswaste
Glorious by Andreas Johnson
Run Boy Run by WildWood
Ayurvedic by Osric Tentacles

Unfinished sympathy Massive Attack certainly is far from unknown

I loved that!!. That's what I love about Nsoul always records that uve never heard. 😁