Room for just 3 more, pending review for duplicates.
mmm
Confession: never heard it til I played it just now (and I like it). Uh - I was kinda busy during the late 90’s.
j
The Magic Number - De La Soul, because these threads need more hip hop.
Living On A Thin Line - The Kinks
One more!
Well, I was still studying in the first half of the 90s, so lots of time and lots of parties 
. Seriously, if you missed the whole band you should check out Teenage Fanclub, maybe the greatest students of 64-66 Beatles and 65-68 Byrds and one of the defining power pop bands.
OK, they’re on the list
j
Pure And Easy - Pete Townshend
What are your favorite also-ran songs? POLL 1 of 2. Select up to 10 from this list.
- Aguas de Marco – Elis Regina
- All I Really Want To Do – Bob Dylan
- Andy Griffith Show Them, The – Earle Hagen
- Around And Around - Chuck Berry
- Ask the Angels – Patti Smith
- At the Zoo – Simon & Garfunkel
- Blackbird – The Beatles
- Blind Willie McTell – Bob Dylan
- Blue Skies – Ella Fitzgerald
- Busload of Faith – Lou Reed
- Can You Hear Me? – Renaissance
- Can’t You See – The Marshall Tucker Band
- Caribbean Wind – Bob Dylan
- Caruso – Lucio Dalla
- Chain, The – Fleetwood Mac
- Chestnut Mare – The Byrds
- Chicken, The – Jaco Pastorius Big Band
- Constant in Opal – The Church
- Cornwall My Home – The Fisherman’s Friends ft. Imelda May
- Cortez the Killer – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
- Courtyard Lullaby – Loreena McKennitt
- Days Are Numbered (The Traveller) – Alan Parsons
- Death of a Clown – The Kinks
- Door Into Summer, The – The Monkees
- Downtown – Petula Clark
- Du Hast – RammsteinEmmène-Moi Avec Toi – Perle Lama
- Find the River – R.E.M.
- Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop
- Girl Like You, A – The Smithereens
- Golden Rocket – Alice Stuart & Snake
- Guitars, Cadillacs – Dwight Yoakam
- Hard Candy Christmas – Dolly Parton
- Harmony Hell – Vampire Weekend
- Harvester of Eyes – Blue Oyster Cult
- Heart and Soul – T’Pau
- I Dreamed I saw Saint Augustine – Bob Dylan
- I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Dusty Springfield
- I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
- I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams
- In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
- Insensatez – Tom Jobim
- It’s Only Natural - Crowded House
- Johnny Too Bad – The Slickers
- King Will Come, The – Wishbone Ash
- La Chanson des Vieux Amants – Jacques Brel
- La Vida es un Carnaval – Celia Cruz
- Lake Shore Drive – Aliota Haynes & Jeremiah
- Lampshades on Fire – Modest Mouse
- Levelland – James McMurtry
- Like Dreamers Do – The Radiators
0
voters
What are your favorite also-ran songs? POLL 2 of 2. Select up to 10
- Lips Like Sugar – Echo & the Bunnymen
- Little Soul, A – Pulp
- Living on a Thin Line – The Kinks
- Lodger, The – Peter Frampton
- Lost in Music – Sister Sledge
- Love in Vain – Robert Johnson
- Magic Number, The – De La Soul
- Mais Je T’Aime – Grand Corps Malade & Camille Lellouche
- Man I Love, The – Erroll Garner
- My Old School – Steely Dan
- Night on the Town, A (With Snow White) – Crack the Sky
- Noah – The Jubilaires
- Old Man – Neil Young
- People Got a Lotta Nerve – Neko Case
- Pure and Easy – Pete Townshend
- Racing In The Streets - Bruce Springsteen
- Rent – The Pet Shop Boys
- Rock the Casbah – The Clash
- Sausalito Summernight – Diesel
- Seaside Rendezvous – Queen
- Sedona – Houndmouth
- She Don’t Know Me – Bon Jovi
- Ship to Wreck – Florence + the Machine
- Shura No Hana (Flower of Carnage) – Meiko Kaji
- Silent Running – Mike & the Mechanics
- Snowman – Sia
- Song for Europe, A – Roxy Music
- Song of Scheherazade – Renaissance
- Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand – Primitive Radio Gods
- Straight to Hell – The Clash
- Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
- Super Trouper – ABBA
- Sweet Mother – Prince Nico Mbarga
- Tainted Love – Soft Cell
- Taxman – The Beatles
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen
- Tequila – The Champs
- To Sir with Love – Lulu
- Train in Vain (Stand By Me) – The Clash
- Train Kept a Rollin’ – Imelda May
- Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones
- Voodoo Child – Stevie Ray Vaughn
- Waitin’ for the Bus – ZZ Top
- Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful, The – Jimmy Buffet
- Well, You Needn’t – Thelonious Monk
- West End Blues – Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
- Wildfire – Michael Martin Murphy
- Words of Love – The Beatles
- Workin’ At the Car Wash Blues – Jim Croce
- You’re Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond – Taj Mahal
0
voters
Hi BlankSlate. I’ve enjoyed this uptempo cover of Aguas, featuring Martina DaSilva (fluent in Portuguese) and a US guitarist trying to duet in a foreign language while playing some challenging riffs. (And muddling thru by the skin of his fingertips.)
JFTR, it’s “Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend.
I didn’t see one of mine (Emmene-Moi by Perle Lama) in the poll, but that’s okay. It wasn’t going to win anyway.
I can’t post a link, but it’s on youtube.
Must have fallen through the cracks, sorry about that!
mmm
I Feel Love - Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder
Ah shit, too late again. That would definitely be one of my votes for most important songs of all time. Surprised nobody mentioned it originally.
It was merged with the entry immediately prior to it: Du Hast / Rammstein. (I recall cause I voted for Du Hast and figured I wasn’t actually voting for a two-fer/medley)
No worries
Thanks for creating the polls. It’s fun to see what people come up with and vote for
It would be difficult to imagine two more dissimilar songs.
That was fun. If there’s a list somewhere of the most covered songs of all time, Aguas de Marco is probably on it. My favorite version is the one with Elis Regina and Tom Jobim:
Thanks, that motivated me to look at the Wikipedia entry — I hadn’t previous known what the lyrics were about. (Still don’t, really…)