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

Good call. I have their cassette (!) in a box someplace.

The only version of the song on ITunes, last time I checked, was an inferior cover.

 

Rush does have top-40-worthy songs, they've just not gotten any airplay.
Ghost of a Chance
Middletown Dreams
Analog Kid
Resist
Bravado
The Larger Bowl, Bravest Face and maybe one or two others on the latest CD

 

Good call on Bravado, one of my all-time favorite Rush songs.

 

Absolutely.

 

Good question.

Meredith Brooks should not have been a one-hit wonder: "What Would Happen If We Kissed"

"Reds In My Bed" - 10cc
"Call It Love" and "Nothing To Hide" - Poco
"When You're Gone" - Richard Marx
"Not The Doctor" - Alanis Morrisette
"Good Enough" and "Possession" - Sarah McLachlan (although "Possession" is a cult classic)
"Some Things (Are Better Left Unsaid)" - Hall and Oates
"Comfortable" - John Mayer

and...

"She Fucking Hates Me" (unedited) - Puddle of Mudd

 

"Another Park, Another Sunday" (The Doobie Brothers): A gorgeous ballad that got buried by the subsequent release of the overplayed blight that is "Black Water."
And, my all-timer:

One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) -- Bob Dylan
Released as a single off Blonde On Blonde, to me, it's no worse than the third-best song he ever recorded (Behind "Blind Willie McTell" and "Tangled Up In Blue") It's him and the entire Band, except for Levon, and it really rocks. It stiffed, completely, on the radio.

And, of course, "I Can See For Miles" topped out at No. 16, prompting Pete to say, "I spat on the British record-buying public."

 

Thanks for the reminder about that old gem, Fenian. The Bringing It All Back Home-Highway 61-Blonde On Blonde trilogy is seething with genius.

I've always been extra-partial to "Queen Jane Approximately."

 

Known around F_B World HQ as The Great Trilogy. Bloomfield was never greater than on QJA.
All recorded within 18 months of each other, by the way.
No wonder he needed a rest.

 

This old stuff reminded me of Ike and Tina's "River Deep, Mountain High," the relative failure of which drove Phil Spector even a tad more batshit.

 

Well, that's a damn lie.

 

Joining You by Alanis Morrissette

 

Thanks for reminding me of Pearl Jam and my pick, Release. I guess it never really was a single, but a hell of a tune. It was the last one on the mix tape I listened to before football games...