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Underrated 80's/90's songs... (1 Viewer)

Moody Blues - The Voice

Their heyday was obviously way back, but this tune was (and still is) really good.
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Nice call. I heard "Gemini Dream" again the other day and was reminded how much I appreciate them. Kinda like ELO in their broad, epic approach.
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The Other Side Of Life is another good one from their 80's repatoire. :thumbup:
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Is that the one with "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"? As opposed to "The Voice", I don't like that song.
 
She Wants More - Enuff Z'nuff

Actually I would nominate this debut album as an underrated album. Fly High Michelle was the big MTV hit but the whole album is real good - great summertime album.

 
Moody Blues - The Voice

Their heyday was obviously way back, but this tune was (and still is) really good.
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Nice call. I heard "Gemini Dream" again the other day and was reminded how much I appreciate them. Kinda like ELO in their broad, epic approach.
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The Other Side Of Life is another good one from their 80's repatoire. :thumbup:
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Is that the one with "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"? As opposed to "The Voice", I don't like that song.
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No, I Know You're out There Somewhere is the title of a totally seperate song.
 
Moody Blues - The Voice

Their heyday was obviously way back, but this tune was (and still is) really good.
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I won this album from a radio station when I was in 9th grade when the album first came out, and besides the two songs listed here, there was another underrated song that go no airplay, and honestly I didn't have thought much about it until when I saw them do it live in '88--Veteran Cosmic Rocker. Probably didn't appeal to the times when the LP was released, since it has a 60's hippy/psychadelic feel to it, but it's one of their better post-60's songs. Much more listenable than "I Know You're Out There Somewhere".
 
Moody Blues - The Voice

Their heyday was obviously way back, but this tune was (and still is) really good.
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I won this album from a radio station when I was in 9th grade when the album first came out, and besides the two songs listed here, there was another underrated song that go no airplay, and honestly I didn't have thought much about it until when I saw them do it live in '88--Veteran Cosmic Rocker. Probably didn't appeal to the times when the LP was released, since it has a 60's hippy/psychadelic feel to it, but it's one of their better post-60's songs. Much more listenable than "I Know You're Out There Somewhere".
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The stuff they released between 67 & 72 was IMO their best period. They did have a few good songs here and there later on though, The Voice being one of them.
 
A couple from the 90's:

"Mungo City" & "In the Meantime" - Spacehog

"Backwater" - The Meatpuppets

"Time to Relax/Nitro" - The Offspring

 
Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne

Good tune, but I always think of Damone doing Stacey. Especially the high pitched "uuuuh hhhhh" toward the end of the song.

Damone: "I gotta go."

 
Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne

Good tune, but I always think of Damone doing Stacey. Especially the high pitched "uuuuh hhhhh" toward the end of the song.

Damone: "I gotta go."
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I don't recall the tune being played with Stacey and Damone, but it definitely was played when Ron Johnson, stereo salesman/stud, was banging Stacey in the dugout.
 
"The Salt In My Tears" - Martin Briley

Just saw the video the other day on VH1 Classic. Probably been about 20+ years since I last heard the tune.

 
Under A Milky Way - The Church

Right Here, Right Now - Jesus Jones

King of Wishful Thinking - Go West

Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead - XTC

I'm Free - The Soup Dragons

 
Don't Go - Yaz

Galileo - The Indigo Girls

Song For Whoever - The Beautiful South

Think for a Minute - The Housemartins

Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo

Tenderness - General Public

 
Timeless Melody--The La's

Message To My Girl--Split Enz

Oldest Story in the World--The Plimsouls

Coming Up Close--'Til Tuesday

Rain In The Summertime--The Alarm

Whenever You're on My Mind--Marshall Crenshaw

Way Down Now--World Party

 
Burning Down One Side - Robert Plant

Jealous Lover - Rainbow

Who's Behind the Door - Zebra

Always the Last to Know - Del Amitri

Love Vigilantes - New Order

 
Big Log - Robert Plant

Don't Cry - Asia

Play the Game Tonight - Kansas

This Is the Time - Billy Joel

Flight of Icarus- Iron Maiden

 
You can tell my musical influences lol.

Slayer- "South of Heaven"

Suicidal Tendencies- "How will I laugh..."

Saigon Kick- Take your pick of anything from Self titled and the lizard

Albums

Faith no more- "The real thing"

Kyuss- every album except "wretch" which takes some listening to appreciate, but if you have never listened to them give "Blues for the red sun" or "Sky Valley" a shot. Sky valley has 4 tracks on it but is around 60-70 minutes long, it actually has 4 songs per track. One of my favorite bands. Members of Kyuss are in Queens of the Stone Age.

Failure- "Fantastic planet" if you havent heard it, run to get it. Closest band to them now is probably 30 seconds to mars. A perfect circle covered one of their songs on their latest.

Soundgarden- "Badmotorfinger" along with "The real thing" were the first cds I ever owned.

Clutch- "Clutch" Most people know either "Shogun named marcus" or "100011", but this cd is my personal fave. Every song is excellent and this album definetly gets the blood pumping.

 
Oh, so many good songs already listed! (zamboni, I want to listen to tunes with you too!) Some more:

"Your Daddy Don't Know" - Toronto

"Heaven (Must Be There)" - Eurogliders

"Nobody's Diary" - Yaz

"Do Anything" - Natural Selection

"If We Never Meet Again" - Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers

"Jerk" - Kim Stockwood

"Precious To Me" - Phil Seymour

Anything from Roger McGuinn's Back from Rio album.

 
"Athena" - The Who

"Southern Cross" - Crosby, Stills & Nash. My favorite song of theirs by far.

"Bruce" - Rick Springfield

"What Do All The People Know" - The Monroes

"Tired Of Toein' The Line" - Rocky Burnette

"Jump" - Aztec Camera (cover of the Van Halen song)

"Cath" - The Bluebells

 
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Deeper Shade Of Soul - Urban Dance Squad

City Song - Luscious Jackson

Taillights Fade - Buffalo Tom

Cows with Guns - Dana Lyons

Don't Call Me Dude - Scatterbrain

Ace Of Spades - Motorhead

Buy Me A Pony - Spiderbait

 
FairWarning said:
Burning Down One Side - Robert Plant

Jealous Lover - Rainbow

Who's Behind the Door - Zebra

Always the Last to Know - Del Amitri

Love Vigilantes - New Order
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Del Amitri's A&R guy should have been flogged. Some decent tunes musically and lyrically; "To Last A Lifetime", "Start With Me", "Tell Her This", "Driving With The Brakes On", "Make It Always Be Too Late"...but their big release chosen other than the above? "Roll To Me."Yeah, that was a good idea.

 
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I don't get the Sammy Hagar reference but think Joe Jackson was underrated. I loved the Look Sharp disc but that came out in the late 70s so it doesn't qualify for this thread. I only skimmed this thread and found some great posts but below are 2 that I can add that I thought were grossly underrated. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

Mirror in the Bathroom - English Beat

 
- Counting CrowsI think this one was overlooked because it was hard to get. For a while it was only on a DGC records album. (DGC Rarities, Vol. 1) It was originally released in 1993, but did not show up on a CC album until a greatest hits album (Films About Ghosts (The Best of Counting Crows)) in 2003.

 
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