I’ll admit I have a habit of liking songs that no one else I know seems to care for…but I also remember songs that no one else seems to. Some of them I’ve found online, some I can’t. Not even a reference to some of the bands that sang them.
[ul]10-9-8 by Face-to-Face- I remember seeing the video on MTV waaaaay back in the 80’s. I even had the cassette album. But once that was lost I never heard that song again. I’ve never found it or a reference online to it ever. Yeah, theres a band called Face-to-Face, but I’m not even sure if its the same band. I would love it if anyone else actually remembers this song.
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[ul]Tragedy by Archangel- My college roommate told me he thought the song sucked. I kinda liked it. either way, other than some radio play in the 80’s I never heard it after that.
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[ul]**So you ran ** by Orion the Hunter- I’ve lost the link, but a friend once clued me to a site where you can see music videos from the 80’s and the band, Orion the Hunter, had another song called When the heart rules the mind that I saw there. I’m fairly sure **So you ran ** can be found on rhapsody or itunes, but my ol’ college roomie says he just doesn’t remember this song…even though my memory tells me we heard it all of the time.
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[ul]**Boys can cry ** by The Catholic Girls- Why I remember this song after what must be about 25 years I don’t know. I liked it, but I think I’ve only seen the video twice on MTV back in 1983 when I used to actually watch MTV. Maybe it was becasue it was an all girl band with Catholic schoolgirl uniforms on. I’m willing to believe I’m the only person in the universe that remembers it.
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[ul]**Icehouse/ Crazy ** by Icehouse- People remember Icehouse. But I’ll be darned if I can even find the song Crazy anywhere but places like “Limewire”. Either my Rhapsody and iTunes accounts are messed up or this band dropped off of the face of the earth. Strange since Crazy was a really good song. At least I thought so. At least my neice remembers the song Icehouse. She thought it was amusing that the song was called Icehouse, by Icehouse on an album called Icehouse. (hey, she was like 8, back when we saw the video on MTV.)
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Anyone else got any songs/bands that they remember that have seemingly vanished?
I just bought a bunch of Icehouse songs recently, cool My wife said “Who?”
I’ve been delving into the late 80s/early 90s bands that I missed when I was going through my snobby alternative/grunge phase (Fugazi, Mudhoney, et al)
Some guitar-pop gems that no one seems to remember:
The Primitives Hoodoo Gurus The Darling Buds
I’m loving the “new” music experience in isolation though, not many people understand pop obscura.
I don’t recall any specific songs, but I had a buddy back in the klate 80’s that used to listen to the Hoodoo Gurus. Its a beer hazed memory of hearing them at his house.
Mason Proffit turned out a few good tunes in the late 60s-early 70s. It seems they’ve reformulated as a Christian band these days, but they had some decent, thoughtful folk/country/rock songs (and some crap, too) back when. I think even the Boomer Rock stations have forgotten them.
Pete Droge - If You Don’t Love Me I’ll Kill Myself
School of Fish - 3 Strange Days
Lloyd Cole - She’s A Girl and I’m A Man
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation
Andreas Johnson - Glorious
Lush - Ladykillers
Kirsty MacColl - Walking Down Madison
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Utah Saints - Something Good
I love that song! My favorite lines: “When she said she’d be a movie queen / you know nobody laughed.” Great, concise way of showing that everybody expected her to really be a movie queen. They go a bit overboard at the end, but I just love that song.
My aunt (age 39) is not a muso - she liked Top 40 when she was younger, and now listens mostly to country. When she wanted me to make her a CD from stuff in my music collection a few months ago, in between asking for '60s-'80s pop/rock, she asked if I had any Hoodoo Gurus. Considering that her next-most-obscure request was for R.E.M., I was greatly surprised. (I actually had two Hoodoo Gurus songs in my iTunes from the Children Of Nuggets boxed set, but neither was the specific song she was looking for.)
I’ve been trying to track down a copy of the Heads Up! Album my friend had in about 88… I saw them in concert in the UK once, but you its hard to find even mention on the net, its all washed out by people giving heads up on all sorts of stuff…
They were a funk metal band about the same time Chili Peppers released Mothers Milk, and Faith No More - The Real Thing was about…
I’ve heard of Orion the Hunter at least. An old boyfriend was always going on about how he was searching for songs by Orion the Hunter, Saga, and Donny Iris. This was pre-Internet. Later on, I moved to a bigger town and one day I walked into a store and found the Donny Iris right on the shelves, so I sort of assumed the rest of the stuff wasn’t that hard to find either. I don’t know if I ever heard it though…
The song was a college radio hit, at least locally, and I always thought it was a really cool number. So much so, that it has stuck with me for years. I just assumed that everyone elese had forgotten it, but then on a trip to Ireland, some guy with a guitar in a pub broke out with a cover of this obscure but loveable little song.
Since the advent of the internet, I have noticed that the song and the artist seem to have a bit of a cult following.
“Blue Windows” by Glass Moon. I seem to recall that they might have been based out of Raleigh, NC. They got a lot of airplay in the area circa 1979.
“Just So Lonely” by Get Wet. A duo composed of Sherri Beachfront and Zecca Esquibel.
“Comin’ After Ginny” by Tex Ritter. A little ditty penned by none other than that famous cowboy Shel Silverstein. Cute little ditty with a surprise ending. Never known anyone else that ever heard of it.
“You’re a Part of Me” duet by Gene Cotton and Kim Carnes.
Never say Never is a song I won’t forget…only because of the video. the lead singer was FAT…I mean really fat. Not to insult fat people, but imagining her with the lyrics about making love and all that always made me laugh. I would see the video and think “Well, I’d have to be pretty drunk to never say never to that.”
My wife said “Who?”