Songs that should have been hits; More found in MVC (continued)

Please feel free to email me or post in comments if you have any suggestions. I’ve received about 5 or 10 suggestions which I will check out and post some here. They can come from your record collection or anywhere you might have them, even if it’s in memory. Keep checking back here as I may add even more.

I’m starting out with a few I overlooked on the blog and AL.com posting .

The blog version is slightly different with a couple of different song selections. But the artists are the same. Here I’m posting a whole new round with different artists (except for one case). Though not designed for this — could make a good song playlist for the BIG GAME tonight. Add the 12 from the first list, the 8 from the second post and you have a 20-song cool list. Put it on Random Play.

Here’s a few:

“Don’t Wait Up” — the Beat, a power-pop group that never got too far though they had Peter Case, members of the PlimSouls and the Nerves.

Dover Beach by the Bangles.

The Bangles had plenty of hits, Eternal Flame, Hero Takes a Fall, Manic Monday, Walk Like an Egyptian and more.

But Dover Beach was not one of them.

It for me ranked up and above many of their hits. That’s saying something because they had some good ones with their slightly retro-60s sound.

Doctor Doctor by UFO — Schenker brother on guitar. We had brother Rudolph with Scorpions on other list. Great head bobbing tune. Cool album cover. (This has taken on kind of new meaning for me).

29 Palms by Robert Plant — I kind of grew away from Led Zeppelin as we all aged but Robert Plant’s fourth solo album, Now and Zen, I bought after hearing ‘Ship of Fools.’ If anybody can name the other three songs I’m thinking of also named “Ship of Fools,” they win a prize TBD. — All by pretty well- known artists. Ok back to 29 Palms which came after Now and Zen, I believe in the 1990s. But I was more attuned to BOLA for Plant songs.But it was his next album that had 29 Palms, which I thought would be a surefire hit. DIsclaimer: On Billboard this peaked on the charts at 111. However, in a newer narrowed-down tracking chart called Mainstream, it went to No. 4. (I’m leaving it up.) Almost insulting to be called Mainstream, right Plant? I just like the way the song kicks into this nice lilting melody in its second parts. Have no idea what it’s about other than that the title is the name of a town in SoCal, wealthy.

This This song by The The is fantastic, sad but true and in a good way. This This really could be the day, your life will surely change.

Borderline – Thin Lizzy

He’s dead, Phil Lynott bi-racial lead singer of Irish band. He once joked that he escaped being picked on for being the “only black person” in Ireland by playing in a band. Lot of great music The Boys are Back in Town, Jailbreak, Cowboy song to name a few of their biggest. This sad drinking song often gets overlooked.

Borderline:

Life in the Foodchain/Funky Western Civilization — Tonio K.

A reader emailed me several suggestions for Tonio K. I had Cinderella’s Baby on the original blog posting. But David, the emailer made me think. Tonio K. had at least five other hit songs from his work, hell in my opinion his entire works are great.  It’s kind of like carving the  turkey; it’s kind of like mowing the lawn; everything gets to  this certain dimension winds up on the customer’s plate and is gone.

So here’s a couple, turn this up:

Owen up to it boys and girls.