My vote would be Suzanne Vega. Okay, it’s the 90’s DNA version not the original acapella, but hey.

You’re not wrong there. Saw her a couple of weeks ago, doing her first two albums right through, one after the other, including Tom’s Diner, of course, then she did the DNA version as one of the encores.
Great evening and she’s delightful live.

chakaping – Member
Count Zero, you seem to have mistaken this for the “cover versions where the original was better” thread.

And the Mondays’ Step On was better anyway.
No, I haven’t, and no, it isn’t, it’s trite and horribly dated. And was never good in the first place.

Is it too late to point out that I didn’t post that Hale & Pace song as a serious entry into the underrated songs thread and that I’ve never actually heard it ?

[video]https://youtu.be/x7QPBzAJ_io[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/axXGAxbJGxM[/video]

And this is a proper brilliant pop tune, should have been huge.
[video]https://youtu.be/cV6Eau7NnFI[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/xCorJG9mubk[/video]

Always liked this at the time and can’t remember the last time I heard it in the radio.

Also this was a favourite on the school bus mix tape… This is the only copy I can find in YouTube that plays …

[video]https://youtu.be/FPkvPR-TyO8[/video]

The best punk/NW song you may have (never) heard:

[video]https://youtu.be/UBaUWDrtlSc[/video]

And this. The outro makes the hairs stand up on my neck. Stone Roses and Happy Mondays got all the fame but for me about that time for some reason it was Campag Velocet hit me in the yarbles. Also To Lose La Trek and Harsh Sharks. And We Are The Trumping Men. Too many great songs hardly if ever heard nowadays.

[video]https://youtu.be/h0Bo6nZaoSQ[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2_v6FyoJE[/video]
I often forget the Comsat angels

Couple from BSP

First one has the the most fitting title for this (ace, btw) thread

[video]https://youtu.be/ua4BiBV6i6o[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/ZqbfnTW1qKM[/video]

[video]https://youtu.be/NHGKFbJbhIg[/video]

I like threads like this , however why can’t posters just type the song title alongside the youtube link? For someone like me on a limited data connection on a slow old device it is pretty frustrating. To click on each and every link just to see what it is would take ages! Also much harder to contribute as I can’t see what has gone before.

Fwiw –
Elvis Costello, ‘What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?’
The Corgis ‘ Everybody’s got to learn sometime’

This is a very good point, I’m guilty myself on occasion but its damn annoying on a phone.

Indeed; apologies, eviljoe. One of mine was the Nick Lowe version of “What’s so funny”. Apparently he received a huge & unexpected royalty checque due to the song’s inclusion (albeit sung by another) on high-selling “The Bodyguard” soundtrack.

Not sure Paul Hardcastle’s 19 is under rated as it’s definitely gimmicky and has dated but I’ve not heard it played on the radio for years so I think it fits into the forgotten aspect of the thread. At the time of its release it was massive. It was UK number one for a month, topped the singles charts in a dozen other countries and won an Ivor Novello award for best single of 1985.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JcFFEjq5Ap8[/video]

@drlex – great minds think alike 🙂 Truely a song for our times

CountZero – Member
My vote would be Suzanne Vega. Okay, it’s the 90’s DNA version not the original acapella, but hey.

You’re not wrong there. Saw her a couple of weeks ago, doing her first two albums right through, one after the other, including Tom’s Diner, of course, then she did the DNA version as one of the encores.
Great evening and she’s delightful live.

Sure it wasn’t her 2nd (Solitude Standing) and 4th (99.9F°) albums you heard live? That’s what I saw her perform a couple of weeks ago, anyway. 🙂

Quite a lot of the suggestions here would hardly count as underrated, I reckon. Pearl Jam’s Ten (an album rather than a song) was a massive hit and they’re still a massive and generally we regarded stadium filling band. Midlife Crisis is one of Faith No More’s best songs from their best album and they’re pretty successful and a very influential band. Suzanne Vega’s Luka and Tom’s Diner are big hits from another critically acclaimed artist.

I’m sure a lot of the other stuff also fails the underrated test. Whether a particular person has forgotten a song or not is obviously a far more objective judgement though.

Hocus Pocus is a barmy masterpiece!

Yeah, sorry, Solitude Standing and 99.9F°, got a lot going on at the moment and couldn’t remember all the exact details.
Bloody good gig, as was her set at IoW a couple of years or so ago, basically a greatest hits set.

Just read an article on bbc about Belinda Carlisle and remembered this single,
can’t recall the last time I heard it on the radio. Apparently she is about to release her first album in over a decade, now free of the big coke habit she had.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszXx_uSDWY[/video]

Just had a thread about True Faith by New Order. I hated this sound back in 1992 due to neighbour, but not any more.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZHVmSuBJM[/video]

“Your Woman” by White Town

“Olympian” by Gene

Take me right back to being 15.