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Old 25-02-2016, 18:40
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Bobby Broom - Beat Freak
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Old 25-02-2016, 21:41
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This one by Stevie Nicks was never released as a single in the UK but was good enough for Destinys Child to sample the 'Eye Of the Tiger-esque' bass guitar riff for their 2004 hit 'Bootylicious'.

'Edge Of Seveteen'

https://youtu.be/Dn8-4tjPxD8
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Old 07-03-2016, 18:03
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Bruce & Bongo - Geil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03FnBFscMVM

Bruce & Bongo - Hi Ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLrWE4-lrag

Scotch - Disco Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W6i5uDlOlI

MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myvo7ef_UkI

Andrew Ridgeley - Shake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbXsNAJCUg
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Old 16-11-2016, 20:24
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Not sure if these have been mentioned

Fuzzbox - Love is the slug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWqfxj-mlU

Mood Six - Hanging' Around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TplqP_PiZOk

Here's a rare one from Duran. This is great. Makes a change to hear something from them that wasn't a single.
Friends Of Mine (1981)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a3DGP65m2o
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Old 16-11-2016, 23:31
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The following from my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal were top ten songs during the 1980's decade.

"Burned Like A Rocket"
"I'll Pin A Note On Your Pillow"
"Out Of Sight And On My Mind"
"Tell It Like It Is"
"Love Has No Right"
"Till I Can't Take It Anymore"

God bless you and his family always!!!

Holly

P.S. Go here for what I think is an awesome live performance of "Out Of Sight And On My Mind". His eyes, his smile, and his voice..........to me the late beautiful precious was and still is the complete and total package.
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Old 17-11-2016, 07:21
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The following from my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal were top ten songs during the 1980's decade.
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... so not 'rare' then...

youre trolling is getting tiresome, there are other acts you know..
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Old 18-11-2016, 01:02
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^^^ I am well aware. The following are my other most favorite singers, most of them being acts that didn't start releasing albums until the 90's decade or later so there isn't anything from them for me to list in a chat like this one and one of the two who was active in the 80's was never played much then if any and to this day they still aren't played much in the grand scheme unless they are singing with an act who is played more.

James Otto
Alison Krauss (the most Grammy awarded female and yet almost no radio time in the grand scheme unless she duets with a singer who is played more)
LeAnn Rimes
Tanya Tucker
Trace Adkins
Darryl Worley
Brad Paisley
Toby Keith
Kenny Chesney
Hal Ketchum

Duo/Trio/Band-Brooks & Dunn, SheDaisy, and Diamond Rio

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

P.S. What I am about to quote here is part of the message that got this chat started.

"There's countless 80s songs that very rarely get heard on the radio nowadays."

What I listed in my previous message is stuff that has sadly not been touched in years where radio is concerned..........but if they are still labeled not rare enough, I can always list the remaining nine songs that went to radio from my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal during that decade. Also if I was truly a troll, there would be one chat from me after another about things that don't even have anything to do with why anyone is to be here in the first place. Also, I wouldn't have any interest in the other chats that are here either whatsoever.
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Old 18-11-2016, 01:33
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Change - The glow Of Love, Lets Go Together, Mutual Attraction - many more by the same group.

Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You

Felt - Primitive Painters (cult indie hit with Liz Fraser on backing vocals)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Melt!

Colourbox - Arena

Evelyn Champagne King - Get Loose

Ashford & Simpson - Street Corner Symphony, High Rise

Olivia Newton John - Landslide
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Old 18-11-2016, 06:06
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Do you guys remember The Creatures "Maybe One Day"? I heard it for like a year back in the day, but never heard the song played again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eDK_ipYbg
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Old 18-11-2016, 09:21
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... so not 'rare' then...

youre trolling is getting tiresome, there are other acts you know..
You mean like your silly "classics" thread where you just mention songs no one has ever heard of? How are they classics? If she is trolling then by definition you are as well.
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Old 18-11-2016, 11:38
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You mean like your silly "classics" thread where you just mention songs no one has ever heard of? How are they classics? If she is trolling then by definition you are as well.
are you really that bored you feel the need to snipe and bicker?

theres no comparison, because shh uses every excuse she can to promote her 'love' on any thread she can... whilst i started a thread, and clearly defined what i meant by 'classic' (after all who would tune in to a '60's thread for songs no ones ever heard of') .
and these official definitions agree
"of enduring interest, quality, or style: "
". Having historical associations"

you call it 'silly', but its still notching up hundreds of hits a week.... now instead of criticising a popular thread, why not stop bickering and start your own?

nah, you wont do that, you prefer to be an ar$e.
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Old 18-11-2016, 13:28
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^^^ I am well aware. The following are my other most favorite singers, most of them being acts that didn't start releasing albums until the 90's decade or later so there isn't anything from them for me to list in a chat like this one and one of the two who was active in the 80's was never played much then if any and to this day they still aren't played much in the grand scheme unless they are singing with an act who is played more.

James Otto
Alison Krauss (the most Grammy awarded female and yet almost no radio time in the grand scheme unless she duets with a singer who is played more)
LeAnn Rimes
Tanya Tucker
Trace Adkins
Darryl Worley
Brad Paisley
Toby Keith
Kenny Chesney
Hal Ketchum

Duo/Trio/Band-Brooks & Dunn, SheDaisy, and Diamond Rio

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

P.S. What I am about to quote here is part of the message that got this chat started.

"There's countless 80s songs that very rarely get heard on the radio nowadays."

What I listed in my previous message is stuff that has sadly not been touched in years where radio is concerned..........but if they are still labeled not rare enough, I can always list the remaining nine songs that went to radio from my late beautiful precious Billy Joe Royal during that decade. Also if I was truly a troll, there would be one chat from me after another about things that don't even have anything to do with why anyone is to be here in the first place. Also, I wouldn't have any interest in the other chats that are here either whatsoever.
Holly name some songs or bands from the EIGHTIES not by BJR that you like
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Old 18-11-2016, 19:11
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^^^ Now that my top priority has been taken care of, I will do just that.

Tanya Tucker-"Pecos Promenade", "Dream Lover", "Can I See You Tonight", "Love Knows We Tried", "Should I Do It", and "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love"

Dwight Yoakam-"Honky Tonk Man", "Little Ways", "Please Please Baby", "I Got You", and "Long White Cadillac"

Alabama-"The Closer You Get", "Can't Keep A Good Man Down", and "She And I"

Baillie And The Boys-"Oh Heart", "Safe In The Arms Of Love", "Turn The Tide", "Heart Of Stone", and "Long Shot"

Sweet Hearts Of The Rodeo-"Anything To Satisfy You", "Midnight Girl In A Sunset Town", and "Since I Found You"

K.T. Oslin-"80's Ladies" and "Hold Me"

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

P.S. Holly Dunn-"Love Someone Like Me", "Only When I Love", and "Are You Ever Going To Love Me" (May she rest in peace.)
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Old 18-11-2016, 22:27
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What is 'rare' anyway? This thread and the sixties one are both full of music that is extremely well-known.

Now I wasn't a music buyer in the sixties but I was in the eighties and it's clear that to many 'rare' is anything that wasn't high up the charts / on repeat play by Radio One / currently on the playlist on oldies stations: that sort of thing.

A poster above, mr muggles, listed quite a few tracks I own. Change's downright wonderful "The Glow Of Love" probably gets played by any mainstream sources somewhere around never but, for example, I listen to selection of shows on a Soul radio station and I'd hear it possibly 2 or 3 times a month.

For a sixties track or eighties (or any other decade's) track to be genuinely rare, most people (and I mean most people not most on here) wouldn't have heard it at the time and would only be aware of it because it's been unearthed recently and reissued for a specialist / collectors market. (I do buy quite a few releases from labels that specialise in reissues and compilations and there is no way most of us would have heard some of this older stuff at the time. A lot of music is only released regionally for a start).

What I'm saying is work away, post whatever you feel is oft overlooked but there's no point in berating people because something isn't rare because really, practically none of it is.
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Old 19-11-2016, 03:14
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What is 'rare' anyway? This thread and the sixties one are both full of music that is extremely well-known.

Now I wasn't a music buyer in the sixties but I was in the eighties and it's clear that to many 'rare' is anything that wasn't high up the charts / on repeat play by Radio One / currently on the playlist on oldies stations: that sort of thing.

A poster above, mr muggles, listed quite a few tracks I own. Change's downright wonderful "The Glow Of Love" probably gets played by any mainstream sources somewhere around never but, for example, I listen to selection of shows on a Soul radio station and I'd hear it possibly 2 or 3 times a month.

For a sixties track or eighties (or any other decade's) track to be genuinely rare, most people (and I mean most people not most on here) wouldn't have heard it at the time and would only be aware of it because it's been unearthed recently and reissued for a specialist / collectors market. (I do buy quite a few releases from labels that specialise in reissues and compilations and there is no way most of us would have heard some of this older stuff at the time. A lot of music is only released regionally for a start).

What I'm saying is work away, post whatever you feel is oft overlooked but there's no point in berating people because something isn't rare because really, practically none of it is.
I'm similar to you Scrilla, in that I buy loads of re-issues (funky town grooves, BBE, etc) of material, that would've been well known probably/possibly in young urban black communities of the time and those with access to record shops with good import sections back in the 80's. So 'rare' is subjective. In all honesty, 'rare' in most instances here is: I personally haven't heard this stuff on mainstream radio/media. Change were an oddball group - part Italian/part American that had a patchy demographic & took up the slack where Chic lost their footing. They were 'known', but yet not so 'known' at the same time. More cult, with an occasional hit in certain 'territories' around the globe. Initially very successful in the US, but still not really a name on most peoples lips unless you are a connoisseur of funk/r&b/disco.
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Old 19-11-2016, 07:44
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What is 'rare' anyway? This thread and the sixties one are both full of music that is extremely well-known.

Now I wasn't a music buyer in the sixties but I was in the eighties and it's clear that to many 'rare' is anything that wasn't high up the charts / on repeat play by Radio One / currently on the playlist on oldies stations: that sort of thing.

A poster above, mr muggles, listed quite a few tracks I own. Change's downright wonderful "The Glow Of Love" probably gets played by any mainstream sources somewhere around never but, for example, I listen to selection of shows on a Soul radio station and I'd hear it possibly 2 or 3 times a month.

For a sixties track or eighties (or any other decade's) track to be genuinely rare, most people (and I mean most people not most on here) wouldn't have heard it at the time and would only be aware of it because it's been unearthed recently and reissued for a specialist / collectors market. (I do buy quite a few releases from labels that specialise in reissues and compilations and there is no way most of us would have heard some of this older stuff at the time. A lot of music is only released regionally for a start).

What I'm saying is work away, post whatever you feel is oft overlooked but there's no point in berating people because something isn't rare because really, practically none of it is.
if you are referring to the rare 60's classics thread.... then the tracks submitted are certainly 'rare', as 90% of them didnt chart, and of those that did 99% didnt make the top 20 (as per guideline). ive not heard 99% of submitted tracks... surely thats 'rare'?

i dont think theres anybody viewing that thread that is familiar with 90% of these tracks... thats rare..


adjective, rarer, rarest.
1.
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:


uncommon.... the tracks submitted are certainly 'uncommon', ie they ARE 'rare'.
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Old 19-11-2016, 09:41
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Change - The glow Of Love, Lets Go Together, Mutual Attraction - many more by the same group.

Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You

Felt - Primitive Painters (cult indie hit with Liz Fraser on backing vocals)

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Melt!

Colourbox - Arena

Evelyn Champagne King - Get Loose

Ashford & Simpson - Street Corner Symphony, High Rise

Olivia Newton John - Landslide
I know Change for their song Change of Heart but a few years ago I found out The Glow of Love went onto be sampled in Janet Jackson's track All For You.

As for Evelyn "Champagne" King I stumbled across 'I'm In Love' courtesy of SongPop.

Was a UK chart entry coming in at 27 but only ever knew 'Love Come Down' and 'Shame' by her.
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Old 19-11-2016, 12:02
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if you are referring to the rare 60's classics thread.... then the tracks submitted are certainly 'rare', as 90% of them didnt chart, and of those that did 99% didnt make the top 20 (as per guideline). ive not heard 99% of submitted tracks... surely thats 'rare'?

i dont think theres anybody viewing that thread that is familiar with 90% of these tracks... thats rare..


adjective, rarer, rarest.
1.
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:


uncommon.... the tracks submitted are certainly 'uncommon', ie they ARE 'rare'.
That is the point that you arent getting, they are not classics, they are unknown. They are rare as in no one has ever heard of most of them but not classics.
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Old 19-11-2016, 15:40
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if you are referring to the rare 60's classics thread.... then the tracks submitted are certainly 'rare', as 90% of them didnt chart, and of those that did 99% didnt make the top 20 (as per guideline). ive not heard 99% of submitted tracks... surely thats 'rare'?
In the context of the sixties, music was released on vinyl. If a record had a very small quantity pressed, that's what makes it rare. Few copies = few people hearing it. Probably slight airplay. If any airplay through promo copies would cause a demand for a track that had say only a few hundred pressed, then it's likely that there would be a repress and the tune would no longer be rare. (Of course a first pressing would remain rare). Bands and artists do 'private pressings' even of LPs, to sell at concerts etc. Sometimes people would only press a couple of hundred of an album which seems bizarre considering the work put into writing and recording it. This is the stuff of 'rare'. If a record is rare, generally it will be expensive to buy now.

A record won't be rare because it didn't chart. Loads could have been pressed up and remained unsold at the time.


i dont think theres anybody viewing that thread that is familiar with 90% of these tracks... thats rare..


adjective, rarer, rarest.
1.
coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon:


uncommon.... the tracks submitted are certainly 'uncommon', ie they ARE 'rare'.
What we're dealing with here is not widely heard - and probably nowadays. Like I said there's no point in nit-picking too much over people's selections. The most recent page of the 'rare sixties' thread has a heap of Marvin Gaye tracks that are well known.

I doubt there'd be many people who've lived a few decades who won't have heard "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" for example. That is anything but uncommon.

Regarding the ''sweet beautiful precious''... throw that in a search engine. You might be surprised.
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Old 19-11-2016, 19:49
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What is 'rare' anyway?
To me 'rare' just means a record that either rarely gets heard these days whether it got in the top 10 or only just managed to scrape the Top 40. It could be an album track, a B side. Something that has gone out of a MAJORITY of the general public's consciousness.
I'd class these as rare. What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hh2JVjshg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZOsenP89A
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Old 19-11-2016, 20:06
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Another definition of rare is that you cant get the song on legal streaming or download sites. YouTube is your only option unless you bought them physically.

Two of my favourite very rare 80s songs one which almost made the top 40 and were big hits in their native countries.

One 2 Many - Downtown reached #43 on re-issue in 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbMt2-U7TU

and this solo US hit for Ric Ocasek which just missed the top 75 here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVXy7AsjvL4

Oh one more that did go Top 40. You just cant get this anywhere!!

Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - The Rattler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDe3fngwIXk
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Old 19-11-2016, 20:42
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Donald Fagen, "I.G.Y." A minor hit in the 80s USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogYgHlNnqo
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Old 19-11-2016, 20:45
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Junie Morrison - TechnoFreqs

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Old 19-11-2016, 21:48
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To me 'rare' just means a record that either rarely gets heard these days whether it got in the top 10 or only just managed to scrape the Top 40. It could be an album track, a B side. Something that has gone out of a MAJORITY of the general public's consciousness.
I'd class these as rare. What do you think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hh2JVjshg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZOsenP89A
Most music is never in the majority of the general public's consciousness at the time, without even having to fall out of it. The majority of the general public tend to know singles that got a lot of airplay / charted fairly well and that's about it. So outside of that, most music seems rare. The top forty is a tiny fraction of the music that is out there and it's always been that way. The majority of the general public won't know an album track through mainstream airplay, they'll know it because they been exposed to the album through owning it or someone they know playing it.

I don't remember much about Icehouse but the Dead or Alive track did well on the indie charts as far as I recall and Peel used to play it. I wouldn't rush to call it rare but it's probably not that easy to pick up an original 7" now. I see the price seems to have gone through the roof (possibly due to the recent death of Pete Burns?). I can't see it being significantly rarer than contemporary releases by Pylon, Fad Gadget, Young Marble Giants, Girls At Our Best, The Cravats etc. etc. but like I've suggested - you'll not hear these things on daytime radio, or when out shopping etc. - you need to actively seek out a good deal of music if you want to hear it.

So - rare in the sense of copies being actually very scarce if you want one - to an extent. Rare in the sense of airplay: like many, many other tracks; quite likely.

All sorts of specialist charts are compiled and have been compiled over the years: indie, reggae, club, metal, country: they are all full of records that are big on those scenes but most won't crossover into the national top forty. To most ears, many of these records will be unknown unless they follow that scene. Despite this they can be big records amongst those who do.
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Old 19-11-2016, 22:01
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I bought this at the time and heard it on the radio recently (specialist station). Seldom heard I suppose:
Cheryl Glasgow - Glued To The Spot (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwI2sZPEP80

Big track at the time... Another I bought but not Don't Turn Around 'big'
Aswad - Bubbling (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LLqx5G1bhw

Another big track but not Hotstepper 'big'
Ini Kamoze - Trouble You Trouble Me (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYqiDJ_O3g
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