Colm

Utter rubbish. Wish Utah Saints would leave their old records alone.

Agreed!

Active Child 'I'm in Your Church at Night'

Anathema 'Dreaming Light'

Anika Moa 'Standing in the Fire'

Apparat ‘Arcadia’

Chromatics 'Baby'Ghost Society 'Under the Sun'

Gobble Gobble 'Boring Horror'

The Good Natured 'Prisoner'

Hurt 'House Carpenter'

Karl X Johan ‘Flames’

Magenta Skycode 'Open Air'

Midlake 'Roscoe'

Miriam Stockley 'Perfect Day'

Other Lives ‘Tamer Animals’

Pallers 'The Kiss'

Peter Murphy 'All Night Long'

Philter ‘Revolver’

Saint Saviour ‘Red Sun’

Slagsmålsklubben 'Sponsored By Destiny'

Veto 'We are Not Your Friends'

VNV Nation 'Nova'

The Weeknd ‘Initiation’

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Calvin Harris? Nowhere near.

You're probably right. Some of his stuff is much better.

Cleverest responses on FB I've seen were someone posting this

and someone posting "I'm a bereaver".

For Recovery to stay in the top 2 for so long from release and still not have sold even 900k yet isn't great.

Album sales must have been terrible for the period it was Top 2 (the album equivalent of Umbrella?)

I was thinking probably the biggest example I know of is Till I Collapse by Eminem.

 

It wasn't released as a single, but it's one of his most iconic songs, a top 1000 staple now, and only peaked at #73 in 2009. It's sold over 1,000,000 downloads worldwide, even though it's from 2002.

 

That is an absolute classic I think, and has had an appalling chart run (and none at all when it was released obviously since album tracks couldn't chart then).

If it wasn't released as a single does it even apply in this thread? I'm not disputing that it's a classic.

In the year-end charts, it charted:

 

2007: #127

2008: #123

2009: #180

 

It's very rare for a song to chart in the year-end top 200 3 times I expect anyway, so for a song that only peaked at #10 and had such a short initial chart run to go on to have that longevity is very remarkable imo!!

That is an example of the public being way behind the release of a single - through no fault of their own. It just didn't catch on when it was released.

This topic has the potential to be endless as many many songs that become classics didn't do that well when they were released.

The ones that always spring to mind for me are

Massive Attack - Teardrop {10}-24-35-37-59-74->6

REM - Loosing My Religion 26-{19}-19-19-24-28-35-53-70->9

It's a brilliant album. Best one on the list by a country mile..

I strongly disagree. It is a good album that contains some very popular songs. Only Morning Glory and Some Might say did anything for me and even then I'd relegate them to songs I liked a lot in the late 90s but hardly ever listen to any more.

Oh dear I don't know anything more bland than The Script.

At a stretch - pre-2005 Stereophonics - but yeah, terrible band.

I'm having a real Suede love in of late. Only the early stuff though, obviously.

 

My current album of choice is a mix of the first two albums(ish) as follows:

 

01 So Young

02 Animal Nitrate

03 She's Not Dead

04 Metal Mickey

05 My Insatiable One

06 The Drowners

07 Sleeping Pills

08 Stay Together (Full Version)

09 My Dark Star

10 We Are The Pigs

11 The Wild Ones (Full Version)

12 Daddy's Speeding

13 New Generation

14 Killing Of A Flash Boy

15 Heroine

16 The 2 Of Us

17 The Next Life

18 Still Life (Orchestral Version)

 

It really is utter perfection for me. Although I imagine Suedehead will chastise me for not having The Asphalt World on or something!

The bold ones are those that I would include. The Asphalt World is essential. I would also include Moving and The Living Dead.

Studio albums-wise "Morning Glory"? Of ten proper tracks you have four top 2 singles plus "Cast No Shadow", "She's Electric", "Morning Glory" itself and "Champagne Supernova" and the other two ("Hello" and "Hey Now!") probably got a few radio spins at the time as well.

I've never owned the album and Hey Now is the only one I couldn't hum. I would say the album is familiar to millions.

I thought of that old 3d effect too when I saw it. I'm assuming it's intentionally poor artwork - the font couldn't be cheaper if it tried.

Radioactive was ok in a "if this was anyone else I'd be bored by now, but it's Marina so she gets some good will" kind of way.

Abba released very few of their tracks to other compilations, with the exception of "Chiquitita". "Waterloo" may well be on some Eurovision compilations, but i don't think "SOS" or "Fernando" will have added very much. I'd expect the total for "Bohemian Rhapsody" to be up there, single sales and compilation sales included.

Indeed. It was on Now 21 which would add another million or so , Greatest Hits of 1992 and probably many many rock compilations.