Greatest Misses

[Raf]

You know how you buy an album (?) or CD for one or two songs, and then you hear the rest of the songs on the CD and some of them are bad but others are really, really good - yet they never got any airplay (or hardly any)?

These are songs that didn't quite become "hits," but are really good songs. I call them "Greatest Misses."

What are yours?

Running on Ice, Billy Joel

James, Billy Joel

Temptation, Billy Joel

Baby Grand, Billy Joel and Ray Charles

How Can I Not Love You, Joy Enriquez

Only Love, Linda Eder

The Edge of Forever, The Dream Academy

Lonely is the Night, Air Supply

[Tom Strange]

anybody ever hear of a band called "Marillion"?

had an album in the eighties (I think) called "Misplaced Childhood"... the only song that got radio play was "Kayleigh" but every single song is good if not great... listen to the whole album from beginning to end, it's a concept album and fits together rather nicely, great from beginning to end...

...at least that's what I think...

... I've been here and I've been there and I've been in between...

[WordWolf]

I agree with you about "Running on Ice." :)-->

Is the "Lonely Is the Night" by Air Supply the same song Billy Squier

did by the same name, or another?

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Let's see, little or hardly any "airplay"....

Rush: "Hand Over Fist", "the Pass", "the Trees"

Styx: "Half-Penny, Two-Penny", "Nothing Ever Goes As Planned"

John Mellencamp: "Let It All Hang Out"

Robert Plant: "Billy's Revenge"

Spin Doctors: "You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast" "What Time is It?"

Living Colour: "Funny Vibe"

The Beatles: "Hey Bulldog"

The Smithereens: "Beauty and Sadness"

The Call: "For Love" "When"

Steve Earle: "the Devil's Right Hand"

Cake: "Sheep Go To Heaven"

[Zixar]

Definite agreement with you, WordWolf, on "The Pass" by Rush and "Beauty and Sadness" by The Smithereens.

I'd add:

Rush: "Marathon", "The Enemy Within"

Barenaked Ladies: "Brian Wilson", "Jane", "The Old Apartment", "Life In A Nutshell(live)"

Smithereens: "Miles From Nowhere"

R.E.M.: "Wendell Gee", "Driver 8"

Big Country: "Thirteen Valleys"

Jason and the Scorchers: "Victory Road"

[Raf]

The Air Supply song and the Billy Squier song are very, very different.

Savage Garden: To the Moon and Back.

[Kit Sober]

(kit sober pipes up from the peanut gallery)

I just love the music of Brian Bliss, Stevie Kay, Ted Farrell, Skip Mesquite and so many others (including Hope Richeson) . . . Wish they made it to mainstream Christian bandstand.

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