# Great songs you hadn't heard in ages! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 10, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679 "2000-02-10T14:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/21 "2000-02-10T17:06:00Z")
## Check this out, it’s the **Early 80’s Hits Page !** [http://www.postalnauts.com/newwave/songs.html](http://www.postalnauts.com/newwave/songs.html) **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/22 "2000-02-10T17:09:00Z")
Unless there is another song by the same name, “Angel of the Morning” was sung by Juice Newton. (What the hell kind of name is “Juice”?) I’d kind of like to hear “Coming up Close” by 'Til Tuesday or “Heartbeat City” by The Cars. * * * “It’s only common sense, There are no accidents 'round here.” ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/23 "2000-02-10T17:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > \*\*Check this out, it’s the **Early 80’s Hits Page !** Great! Just what this Napster maniac needed! * * * Eat right, exercise daily, live clean, die anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/24 "2000-02-10T17:20:00Z")
**"One Night In Bangkok"** by Murry Head. I heard it on the radio the other day. I had forgotten how good it was. * * * Free beer is ALWAYS a good thing. - Falcon ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/25 "2000-02-10T17:26:00Z")
The instrumental theme to _Beverly Hills Cop_. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/26 "2000-02-10T17:28:00Z")
That would be “Axel F.” by Harold Faltermeyer. Keep’em coming, I’ll solve all your mysteries 😉 * * * **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/27 "2000-02-10T17:40:00Z")
Oddly enough, our oldies station just played “Angel of the Morning” for the first time in I don’t know how long. The original version was recoded by Merilee Rush (she was a one-hit wonder, so most people never heard of her)in the 1960s. Juice Newton covered it in the 80s, and according to one of my kids, someone else (couldn’t remember who)has covered it recently. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/28 "2000-02-10T17:44:00Z")
“Melancholy Baby” By Ozzie Nelson! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/29 "2000-02-10T17:44:00Z")
Oooh, thanks Guy and kunilou! I’ll get it tonight. Only, I’m not sure which version I like. It’s probably the original, because I remember the sound quality not being that great. “One Night in Bankok” is _killer_ DD! * * * “Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around!” -TMBG ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/30 "2000-02-10T17:54:00Z")
An obscure song from the early eighties, “Clean Cut Kid”, by the Textones. Bob dylan wrote it, but even he admitted that the Textones version kicks ass. Now where did I put my turn table. Keith * * * You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!! ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/31 "2000-02-10T17:55:00Z")
Yo, RealityChuck and Uke Ike: The Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band! Great songs, great musicians and great comedy that went on to influence Monty Python. (Eric Idle esp.) And it’s been years since I heard “My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe” and “Mr. Apollo.” Any truth to the rumour that “Mr. Apollo” was produced by Paul McCartney? It’s the obscure stuff I miss. You can hear the Top 40 from the 60’s. 70’s, 80 & 90’s any day of the week. (Where’s Dr. Demento when you need him?!) * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/32 "2000-02-11T06:08:00Z")
_88 Lines about 44 Women_ Haven’t heard that one in forever. They used to play it on the alternative station in Dallas (94.5, the Edge) when I was in college, about once a month. Don’t know who sang it. _Killing me softly with his song_ My parents had that one on 8-track when I was growing up, so it’s part of my childhood soundtrack. There was a group that covered it a few years ago that did a really good job. Boy, this is starting up a whole chain of thought. Hmmm . . . ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/33 "2000-02-11T06:16:00Z")
Phouka- 88 Lines About 44 Women was by the Nails from the EP _Hotel for Women_ Killing me Softly was originally by Roberta Flack. It was recently rerecorded by the Fugees. Sorry for beating you there Coldy! 😛 * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/34 "2000-02-11T06:41:00Z")
Drollman: It’s not a rumor. McCartney did produce “I’m the Urban Spaceman” for the Bonzos (as Apollo C. Vermouth) and played banjo on the cut. The Bonzos also appeared in Magical Mystery Tour, singing “Death Cab for Cutie.” You can hear their album “The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse” (US title: “Urban Spaceman,” though that cut’s not on the British version) at [http://www.rnsd.com](http://www.rnsd.com) . Click on “music” to find it in streaming audio. * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/35 "2000-02-10T19:02:00Z")
All the songs i love i hear all the time thanks to CD’s andf MP3’s however, since i moved to Seattle I have not heard one single XTC song on the radio. * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/36 "2000-02-10T19:10:00Z")
Billie Holliday’s “Strange Fruit.” Now **there** ’s a song that’s guaranteed to send the chills up your spine! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/37 "2000-02-10T19:11:00Z")
I just had to go find the lyrics and post them. Strange Fruit Billie Holliday Southern trees bear a strange fruit blood on the leaves, blood at the root. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallent South the bulging eyes, and the twisted mouth. Scent of magnolia, cool and fresh, and the smell, of the burning flesh. Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for a tree to drop; here is a strange and bitter crop. So strange (repeat twice) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/38 "2000-02-10T19:21:00Z")
Quoting Democritus’s sig : > [@](#): > > “Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around!” -TMBG That’s “wind” a piece of string around, not “tie.” Sorry 'bout being anal. I get that way about TMBG 🙂 * * * In the manned space program’s early days, NASA spent $1 million to develop a pen that wrote upside down. The Russians used a pencil. ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/39 "2000-02-10T19:33:00Z")
“Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights,” recorded live by the Pat Travers Band. Just heard it on the radio coming home from the studio last night. * * * The odds that the bread will fall butter side down are directly proportional to the cost of the carpet. ---
**Author:** ![Kepi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kepi/32/7251_2.png) [@Kepi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kepi)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679/40 "2000-02-10T19:56:00Z")
“Birmingham” by Amanda Marshall. Hadn’t heard that song since it was originally out back in the mid-90s. So I went out and bought the CD a couple of weeks ago. Turns out to be pretty darn good! > [@](#): > > “Christmas Rapping” – The Waitresses I love this song! Thankfully, I can usually count on hearing this at least once each Christmas season on my local “Mix” station. * * * Brady Bunch Quote Of The Week: “Judging from the reaction around here, I’d say Davy Jones is the hottest thing since pepperoni pizza.” - Carol [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-songs-you-hadnt-heard-in-ages/13679.md?page=3)