a new idea.... what rather unknown track do you think might be of interest to other 'retroheads'?..

 

find it on 'youtube' and post it on this thread!

 

ONE AT A TIME please, many of us havnt the time to listen to loads at once.. :) . post it, comment on it...

my first nomination for you to listen too...

 

echobelly - 'dark therapy', a minor hit from '96, superb vocals, great guitar work..

 

The Blessing - Highway 5

Got to No.42 in 1991, and finally peaked on its re-release in 1992

when it peaked at No.30. Big support from R1 at the time.

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x7IryEZm5uM

There you go:

 

 

I have been trying to think of a track but my first choice wasn't on youtube. It would have been McAlmont/Thieves - Unworthy, an absolutely beautiful track. So instead we have got this:

 

Terence Trent D'arby - This Side of Love

 

 

Non charter from 1989 - absolutely loved this, more than the stuff off his first album.

Edited March 11, 200817 yr by grebo69

Just discovered this while listening to the Hits Album 2.

Excellent song which peaked at No.21 (Jan 85).

Deserved to do so much better than it did.

 

Big Sound Authority - This House (Is Where Your Love Stands)

I don't know if this is song is well known or not but it's a song that sadly failed to make the top 40 a few years ago... reached #66 in July 1999.

 

Auteurs - The Rubettes

 

Edited March 11, 200817 yr by Robbie

Dark Therapy is an excellent track that desrved to be so much higher.

Not keen at all on The Blessing.

Big Sound Authority is not bad and The Auteurs are fab generally.

I bought The Blessing single when it came out... liked it at the time, too.

 

 

The only one of those songs above that I do not like is The Blessing track.

 

Anyway, my first contribution to this thread is:

 

Elvis Costello - Man Out Of Time (1982 UK#58)

 

How did this epic track from the 3rd greatest songwriter to come out of Liverpool (sorry GH!) fail to make the Top40 is a complete mystery to me.

I always adored the Cocteau Twins... and Elizabeth Fraser teamed up with Massive Attack collaborator Craig Armstrong to record this track, This Love, in the late 90s. It sank without trace, but was resurrected after featuring heavily in the movie Cruel intentions. It's achingly beautiful....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzWxEmPWqDU...feature=related

 

Check some of the other Cocteau Twins videos on YouTube, too - incredible.

I wrote about this song in the past... I bought the 7" single back in October 1979 and then the 12" in December 1981. A brilliant song, though the video is from more recent times...

 

Touch - Lori and the Chameleons

 

I was just looking in the 1984 chart thread and noticed this lost gem which made the Top 20 in 1984 I think

 

Swansway - Soul Train

cheers grebo69! I nearly posted that last night and went for Lori and the Chameleons instead!

 

I love that Swansway song, used to have that single too. The version here is a live version and slower than the 7" version I used to have.

cheers grebo69! I nearly posted that last night and went for Lori and the Chameleons instead!

 

I love that Swansway song, used to have that single too. The version here is a live version and slower than the 7" version I used to have.

 

I got the 7" version as well. I swear I saw them on TOTP at the time but no-one has put that up so the live version is the only one!

The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (1991)

From ambient techno masters... B)

 

 

 

 

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (1989)

Fabulous song: everything is perfect!

No Stone Roses: no Oasis, no Blur

 

 

 

 

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Part 5 (1979)

Another fantastic song; the proof that you can do amazing songs if you have great ideas

 

How is I Wanna be Adored unknown?It's the lead song off an album that is regularly in the top 10 best album ever lists! And I will keep my opinions on Jarre to myself for fear of offending someone.

Edited March 13, 200817 yr by grebo69

Right, here is a glorious little ditty that made #56 in 1997.

Don't know much about the band but this should have done so much better.

 

Subcircus - 86'd

 

How is I Wanna be Adored unknown?It's the lead song off an album that is regularly in the top 10 best album ever lists!

I thought it's pretty unknown... ;)

 

And I will keep my opinions on Jarre to myself for fear of offending someone.

I think you're the only one... ^_^

 

I have to thank you though Alin for making me dig out Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld again. :D

 

Perpetual Dawn is such a tune.

harvey danger 'flagpole sitta'.... used by mitchel and webb for 'the peep show'