Another music thread: Songs that should have been huge but weren't

"All About Chemistry," Semisonic. I love(d) this band. Very smart pop, catchy but not overly so. They deserve a better fate than relegation to the ranks of one-hit wonders.

 

agree with the Bruce picks so far, but will add a few more Bruce tunes:
- Born to Run (the song peaked at No. 20 or No. 16 on the charts, never made the Top 10)
- Racing in the Street
- I Wish I Were Blind
- No Surrender
- All That Heaven Will Allow

 

Easy Street I think is their best song. It never made it as well, and it isn't even on Napster or their greatest hits CD. I'm guessing lawyers got in the way somehow.

 

Voices, another CT song, barely cracked the Top 40. Should've been a No. 1 hit.

 

Cheap Trick talk is cool.

I actually SAW them in concert earlier this year and they were a fun band to see after having seen them about 10 years before that on some show at the Forum in Los Angeles.

I agree, "Tonight, It's You" shoulda, woulda, coulda, been a bigger hit.

 

I'm glad Rush's songs are, for the most part, never on the radio. Reason being is that they've been able to stay strong as a band and have a loyal following without the need to write the "hit" single to get them over. It's almost like the millions of fans they have feel the band belongs to them.

 

Awesome. That is a perfectly written song. It blows me away how perfectly the lyrics match up with the cadence of the song (if that makes any sense). That last verse just builds and builds and builds yet it's so powerful b/c Seger is simmering and not over the top. Blows me away whenever I hear it. Man, does that song resonate now more in adulthood than it did when I was 18 and hearing it for the first time.

Then you walk to the window and stare at the moon
Riding high and lonesome through a starlit sky
And it comes to you how it all slips away
Youth and beauty are gone one day
No matter what you dream or feel or say
It ends in dust and disarray

Like wind on the plains, sand through the glass
Waves rolling in with the tide
Dreams die hard and we watch them erode
But we cannot be denied
The fire inside

 

Danny Wilson - "Mary's Prayer"

 

WDVE in Pittsburgh has Rush as a staple of their playlist if you ever in Western PA.

 

"Welcome to the Occupation," by R.E.M.
"Immortality," by Pearl Jam
Virtually anything by the Reverend Horton Heat

 

I know Rush does get airplay, but it's usually the same stuff -- Tom Sawyer, Freewill, Spirit of Radio, Limelight and SubDivisions -- but aside from classic rock stations (a local station here in SoCal played their stuff for an hour after the concert) I don't hear their new stuff getting played anywhere.

 

Some that I think should have topped the charts for weeks on end:

"Raised On The Radio" - Ravyns

"Take It Easy" - Andy Taylor

"The Right Thing" - Simply Red

"I Wish I Had A Girl" - Henry Lee Summer

"Radio Free Europe" and "Fall On Me" - REM

"Sailing" - Rod Stewart

"Spin The Black Circle" - Pearl Jam