Yeah, I missed it. For the record, two would have been Union City Blue by Blondie; and Uncle Arthur by David Bowie.
j
Unmentioned until now:
Under The Ice - The Nazz
Underture - The Who
Uncomplicated - Rick Derringer
Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing
I did a search before my list, saw it come up, but didn’t check the artist.
Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brooks
This is the first thread where none of my nominations have only a single vote (mine)! (True, one has only my vote and one other, but give me my scraps please)
I thought of relatively few great U songs, but I was surprised at how many pretty good ones I came up with. Those that neither I nor anyone else mentioned:
The Ugly Underneath - XTC
Uncle Sam - Madness
Uncle Son - The Kinks
Under the Bed - John Austin
Under Moonshine - The Moody Blues
Under My Feet - The Moody Blues
Underground - Men At Work
Unlucky Lady - Trip Shakespeare
Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - Mono Puff
Up In the Morning - Lost Dogs
Urban Legends - The Swirling Eddies
and the U-est song I know:
U U U U - The 77s
I didn’t post any nominations because the only one I could think of that wasn’t already posted was “Underneath the Mango Tree” from the film Dr. No. …and I don’t think that was actually Ursula Andress who sang it.
Under a Raging Moon - Roger Daltrey (written by John Parr)
Undertow - Ivy
Up there, Cazaly, by Mike Brady, performed by the Two-Man Band, a duo of Brady and Peter Sullivan.
Context: Roy Cazaly was a famous footballer in the Victorian Football League in Australia. He was known for his prodigious leaps or “marks”: see the Wikipedia article. Cazaly played for the St Kilda and South Melbourne football clubs.
I tangentially mentioned it when I said The Beths song was not a cover.
More U songs:
Use ta Be My Girl - The O’Jays
Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday
Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin
Diana Coupland, apparently.
Brains are weird things. So far as I can recollect I have never before seen Up there, Cazaly written down, and knew nothing of it’s origins; but, reading the title, I was instantly taken back to that intermittently weird and wonderful (but mostly not) Aussie Rules movie The Club, which features the song. Haven’t thought about that movie in decades.
j
FINAL POLL – What are your favorite U songs? Select up to 3.
- Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers
- Under My Thumb – The Rolling Stones
- Under Pressure – Queen
- Under the Boardwalk – The Drifters
- Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
- Up Around the Bend – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Up on Cripple Creek – The Band
- Up on the Roof – The Drifters
- Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars
- Us and Them – Pink Floyd
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I am outraged that none of my submissions are in the top ten. What, you don’t like songs about pigeons? Heartless!
I was amazed that one of mine hit the top.
Right, it’s finally happened, there’s absolutely nothing in the poll I can bring myself to hold my nose and vote for.
What if someone were to put a gun to your head and insist you vote for at least one song? Then, surely, it would be under pressure.
Ha! Ha!.
If I absolutely had to, it’s be The Drifters, not that Queen abomination (and why isn’t David Bowie getting his fair share of the blame, there?)