So, I'm sitting here listening to The Damned (early 80's punk group). I recently acquired their album Phantasmagoria (I collect rare, hard-to-find music) and had this in my player, listening to "Shadow of Love" and thought: I wonder if anyone else has an old or obscure favorite song that was never really a big hit or anything.
So, here I am...what are some of your favorite songs that 1) Were a b-side and not an a-side (you younger folks might not understand that lingo, but the older ones will); 2) Never released as a single; 3) Little known or unknown?
I'll start with just a few of mine:
John Taylor's "I Do What I Do" (from the movie 9 1/2 Weeks -- and yes, John Taylor was/is the bass player for Duran Duran)
"Spies" by Coldplay (if you're a Peta Wilson "La Femme Nikita" fan, you heard this song on the USA series)
"Kuan Yin" by Troika (this is an extremely beautiful new age song)
"Lumia Nights" by Jonn Serrie (Jonn Serrie is one of my favorite musical artists. He's classified as a Space Musician)
"When Your Heart is Weak" by Cock Robin (another song from the 80's. It got some air time, but never made it as a hit)
"Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez
"Could This be Love" by Jennifer Lopez
"Athair Ar Neamh" by Enya
"I Will Find You" by Clannad (this was the theme song for the movie "Last of the Mohicans")
"Adagio" by Lara Fabian
"You're Not From Here" by Lara Fabian
"Come to Me" by Bjork
That's enough for now, but I could go on. You can listen to samples of some of these at Amazon.com, but a couple of them are so obscure that Amazon doesn't have them.
What are your favorite obscure tunes?
So, here I am...what are some of your favorite songs that 1) Were a b-side and not an a-side (you younger folks might not understand that lingo, but the older ones will); 2) Never released as a single; 3) Little known or unknown?
I'll start with just a few of mine:
John Taylor's "I Do What I Do" (from the movie 9 1/2 Weeks -- and yes, John Taylor was/is the bass player for Duran Duran)
"Spies" by Coldplay (if you're a Peta Wilson "La Femme Nikita" fan, you heard this song on the USA series)
"Kuan Yin" by Troika (this is an extremely beautiful new age song)
"Lumia Nights" by Jonn Serrie (Jonn Serrie is one of my favorite musical artists. He's classified as a Space Musician)
"When Your Heart is Weak" by Cock Robin (another song from the 80's. It got some air time, but never made it as a hit)
"Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez
"Could This be Love" by Jennifer Lopez
"Athair Ar Neamh" by Enya
"I Will Find You" by Clannad (this was the theme song for the movie "Last of the Mohicans")
"Adagio" by Lara Fabian
"You're Not From Here" by Lara Fabian
"Come to Me" by Bjork
That's enough for now, but I could go on. You can listen to samples of some of these at Amazon.com, but a couple of them are so obscure that Amazon doesn't have them.
What are your favorite obscure tunes?
