Great Songs (underrated and long-forgotten category)

To touch upon Benny Mardones for a moment (who is performing at a Holiday Inn near you tonight):

she's just sixteen years old
leave her alone, they say,
separated by fools
who don't know what love is yet
but i want you to know

if i could fly
i'd pick you up
i'd take you into the night
and show you a love
like you've never seen - ever seen


Great song, but ... wow. The PC police would have locked him up and thrown away the key today.

 

Seen it ... and he looks creepy, too.

 

"Re-emerged a star in Syracuse, New York."

I got lost in Syracuse one night, and to keep from going batshit insane I listened to the Grateful Dead's Eyes of the World with Branford Marsalis. Two hours I drove around looking for the Knights Inn, and I was only a mile away the whole time.

 

"Mary's Prayer" -- Danny Wilson
"Don't Tell Me" -- Blancmange
"I Want You Back" -- Hoodoo Gurus (virtually their entire catalog fits)
"Recurring Dream" -- Crowded House
"Hey Bulldog" -- Beatles
"Riot Act" -- Elvis Costello
"A Celebration" -- U2
"The Bitterest Pill" -- The Jam
"Hayfever" -- Trashcan Sinatras
"Forever" -- Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul
"Honey Don't Think" -- Grant Lee Buffalo
"Throw Your Arms Around Me" -- Hunters & Collectors
"Greetings to the New Brunette" -- Billy Bragg
"The Only One I Know" -- Charlatans
"She Loves the Jerk" -- John Hiatt
"Tattoo" -- The Who

 

I HAD to buy the soundtrack album just because of that song. But then there also was a ton of other great songs on that soundtrack, which I have since bought again on CD.

 

Speaking of Crowded House, how about some love for its predecessor ... Split Enz?

"I Got You."

 

The Bitterest Pill

Mary's Prayer

A Celebration

Honey Don't Think

 

Actually, the Songbird soundtrack had some really good stuff on it. If I could find it on CD I'd buy it in a second.

 

A song they don't play nearly enough on the radio ...

Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry

 

What, my post on Page 2 doesn't count?

 

This is what I love about music...
I'm a huge Bad Company fan, but "Fade Away" just never stood out to me. Yet it's one of your faves.

And it always surprised me how many great songs they had...and their greatest hits effort was freakin' '10 from 6.' They kept out a ton of great stuff, "Wildfire Woman" and "Good Lovin' Gone Bad" among the best.