Posted January 11, 20241 yr A friend of mine is doing a radio show and they have a spot playing tracks from albums from the 80s and 90s that were never released as single. Yesterday I was asked what is the best album track never released as a single? My instant reply almost on autopilot was Madonna-Til Death Do Us Apart from Like a Prayer but later I thought... maybe not, maybe there are better then I thought of U2, Running to Stand Still from The Joshua Tree or Love is Blindness from Achtung Baby or Sinead O'Connor-Troy from her debut... any others?
January 11, 20241 yr Here's a few of my favourites, I'm not including any album tracks that were too long to be singles. ELO - 21st Century Man Thomas Dolby - I Live In A Suitcase Tears For Fears - Swords And Knives Depeche Mode - Judas Queen - Machines Howard Jones - Hunger For The Flesh Pet Shop Boys - It Couldn't Happen Here
January 11, 20241 yr Where does one start? I'll do the 80s first Kate Bush - Get Out of My House The Cure - Plainsong The Smiths - Cemetery Gates Pet Shop Boys - Why Can't I Wake Up New Order - Dream Attack Depeche Mode - The Things You Said 1990s Suede - Still Life, The Asphalt World Manics - Die in the Summertime Tori Amos - Precious Things Massive Attack - Mezzanine Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
January 11, 20241 yr A few of mine: Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender Green Day - Burnout Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones Pixies - Wave Of Mutiliation Portishead - Roads R.E.M. - You Are The Everything Radiohead - The Bends The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain plus several Oasis B-sides
January 12, 20241 yr Author oh agree on Portishead-Roads, one of the very best, also Tori Amos-Precious Things Pixies also had lots including Gouge Away, Wave of Mutilation, was it Where is My Mind ever a single? cos that would be a candidate for best non-single ever in the history of music same for The Smiths-There is a light that never goes out, cannot recall from memory if it were a single
January 12, 20241 yr Portishead - Roads :wub: I think that's my favourite track on Dummy, just beautiful
January 12, 20241 yr Ooh I could easily do a top 100 of album tracks, but popping into my head: Daydreaming - Dusty Springfield Footsteps - Pet Shop Boys When All Is Said & Done - ABBA The Visitors - ABBA Beautiful Boy - John Lennon The Way Old Friends Do - ABBA Soldiers - ABBA When It's Cold I'd Like To Die - Moby Ce Matin-La - Air Tell Me The Answer - Texas Keep It Together - Madonna One More Chance - Pet Shop Boys (some were singles outside the UK, though)
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