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Your favourite songs that never hit the big time
What are the songs that you loved and thought would be instant chart smashes that failed to make much of an impact and faded away? Mine is Clare Maguire The Last Dance.
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Any song by TLC apart from No Scrubs. Underrated.
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Stone Cold Sober by Paloma Faith, one of my favourite recent songs and it's sort of known but nowhere near as much as it should be.
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I am not a Robot by Marina and the Diamonds
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'Stay' by Hurts. For me, it was almost the perfect pop record. The public (UK, at least) didn't agree with me. I'll get over it.
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I am not a Robot by Marina and the Diamonds
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Alesha Dixon - Drummer Boy. The song itself wasn't awful but as a lead single, it was.
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The Saturdays Work & Girls Alouds Untouchable deserved to both be #1 records imo
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This great release that was played throughout summer 1985.
Mainframe-Five Minutes And this one, from 1981. Voggue-Dancing The Night Away |
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That's actually pretty well known, or at least I thought it was. Never went probably big though, I suppose.
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Mini Viva - One Touch
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While these weren't necessarily expected to be 'chart smashes' I would have really loved for these songs to have got the recognition they deserved:
Foals - Spanish Saraha should have been a much bigger hit last year. Anything by Friendly Fires. They still seem very underated. I'd love Live Those Days Tonight to chart The Naked and Famous - Young Blood. Brilliant song. Seen it live, and it was especially good. |
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The Saturdays Work & Girls Alouds Untouchable deserved to both be #1 records imo
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'Stay' by Hurts. For me, it was almost the perfect pop record. The public (UK, at least) didn't agree with me. I'll get over it.
I actually agree with most the songs that have been mentioned in this thread. |
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'Stay' by Hurts. For me, it was almost the perfect pop record. The public (UK, at least) didn't agree with me. I'll get over it.
I'd have to go with - Sound of Guns - Architects - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nsf9kKjfwg I genuinely thought this could have bought back a little bit of Indie/Rock into the charts but it didn't even chart! |
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I think the saturdays left it too late to release Work. It should have been their debut instead of If This Is Love, I always thought it was a weak single choice.
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These are some album tracks that never got released but ai believe they would have been huge if they had been!
Britney Spears; Unusual You Kill The Lights Get Naked Rihanna; Breakin' Dishes Firebomb |
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The Saturdays Work & Girls Alouds Untouchable deserved to both be #1 records imo
And wasn't there a campaign to get Untouchable in the top 10 but it failed? |
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'Rocket' by Goldfrapp had number 1 written all over it...
'Believer' by Goldfrapp had top 10 written all over it.... 'Familiar Feeling' by Moloko had top 5 written all over it... What am I rewarded with instead? Rihanna/Katy Perry & Taylor Swift. BARF, double BARF & Triple BARF.
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I think the saturdays left it too late to release Work. It should have been their debut instead of If This Is Love, I always thought it was a weak single choice.
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I'm amazed Heartbeat by Annie didn't chart. Or any other Annie songs, for that matter. She has the potential to be a huge artist, and her songs are genius.
Likewise with Dominos by The Big Pink, although now it's been sampled on that horrific Nicki Minaj record I guess it might go somewhere. |
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Agree with "Stay" by Hurts.
In fact their entire album deserved to be massive. |
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Agree with "Stay" by Hurts.
In fact their entire album deserved to be massive. It really is a complete mystery why this band aren't bloody huge in the UK! It seems like our European brethren have recognised their potential pop greatness before us. I'm hoping for an Adele-like take-off for the follow up but I probably wouldn't put any money on it. The album is just choc full of pure pop nuggets IMO. I really am baffled by it all. ![]() PS If they had written 'Stay' for Take That i reckon that would have been the lead single from Progress and probably stayed at number 1 for weeks and weeks. Add in the fact that Hutchcraft is a far better singer than any member of Take That and in my wife's opinion a 'hottie' it just makes me shake my head why they are ignored in their home nation. |
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