NFR: Favourite unacclaimed track

[Barrett487]

Another music topic to kee us warm during the off-season

So everyone can name standards that everyone knows.... but we all have songs that we wish more people could 'discover'

We oldies probably have more to choose from, so here's my choice... (i'll be impressed if you've even heard of them)

Barclay James Harvest - For no-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnIo0R-A2w

[Barrett487]

In fact i'll lay another on you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPlZuUkbwk

[Barrett487]

Sorry to hog my own thread, lol

This one's for Nose.... you appear after about 50 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLYlrE2lPs


Haha... just realised this clip is 28 minutes long... but it's sooooo good!

[Peabody]

 :drums:

You have yet to mention Bert Weedon.


I always try to keep him out of my garden

[Supermitch]

Another music topic to kee us warm during the off-season

So everyone can name standards that everyone knows.... but we all have songs that we wish more people could 'discover'

We oldies probably have more to choose from, so here's my choice... (i'll be impressed if you've even heard of them)

Barclay James Harvest - For no-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnIo0R-A2w

Great choice of band.  Not only have I heard of them but saw them live several times in the late 80's.  Never big in this country but very popular on the continent, especially Germany.

[Twig]

Another music topic to kee us warm during the off-season

So everyone can name standards that everyone knows.... but we all have songs that we wish more people could 'discover'

We oldies probably have more to choose from, so here's my choice... (i'll be impressed if you've even heard of them)

Barclay James Harvest - For no-one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZnIo0R-A2w

Great choice of band.  Not only have I heard of them but saw them live several times in the late 80's.  Never big in this country but very popular on the continent, especially Germany.

Bit too schmaltzy for me.  Saw them at a couple of open air fests, some of the girls seemed to enjoy them.  As I recall Mocking Bird was their big number.

How about Loan Me a Dime on Boz Scaggs second album (before he also became a bit too schmaltzy and MOR)?

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

my 2 all time favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrQFaB50w0
(Dan Fogelberg - Netherlands)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPQa-pEt9c
(Song for Europe - Roxy Music)

+ Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
+ Sultans of Swing (live)  - Dire Straits

[Lighthouse]

https://youtu.be/uRyRymflxtU



https://youtu.be/5anLPw0Efmo

[Twig]

my 2 all time favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrQFaB50w0
(Dan Fogelberg - Netherlands)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPQa-pEt9c
(Song for Europe - Roxy Music)

+ Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
+ Sultans of Swing (live)  - Dire Straits

Fair tracks but some are hardly unacclaimed - Sultans of Swing?

[Woolly Mammoth]

I don't mind any of them, and keep the volume low, very low, very very low..... Ok just turn it off then.....
A flaming racket.

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

my 2 all time favourites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrQFaB50w0
(Dan Fogelberg - Netherlands)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPQa-pEt9c
(Song for Europe - Roxy Music)

+ Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
+ Sultans of Swing (live)  - Dire Straits

Fair tracks but some are hardly unacclaimed - Sultans of Swing?

Fair dinkum, but Netherlands is I suspect

[BestOfBrede]

Bird of Paradise - Snowy White
Lady Fantasy - Camel

[ToodlesMcToot]

Always enjoyed 'Travelin' Light' by JJ Cale. His original versions of 'Call Me The Breeze' and 'After Midnight' are favorites as well.


Definitely not an 'unacclaimed' song but, I've recently rediscovered 'Memo From Turner' and just can't get enough of it. The original Traffic version is great and pretty well unknown - a lot different as well. But, the Jagger/Cooder version is just friggin' stellar.

[Woolly Mammoth]

Just keep the noise down please.

[Twig]

Just keep the noise down please.

Are mammoths particularly sensitive to noise?

[snarks]

What do you class as unacclaimed.

Barclay James Harvest sold millions of Albums worldwide (about 10 million) so hardly unknown.

If we are talking unknown bands, then for me the Rifles (2nd Album is the one to listen to) any track is good but "The general" is the best known

Going Further back, Gin Blossoms and "Alison Road"

(can't put links on through work computer)

[Vinnieffc]

Does the band have to have a stupid/abstract name to be unacclaimed ? In which case I'll go for Half Man Half Biscuit with The Trumpton Riots or Dickie Davies Eyes..

[Barrett487]

What do you class as unacclaimed.

Barclay James Harvest sold millions of Albums worldwide (about 10 million) so hardly unknown.

If we are talking unknown bands, then for me the Rifles (2nd Album is the one to listen to) any track is good but "The general" is the best known

Going Further back, Gin Blossoms and "Alison Road"

(can't put links on through work computer)

Good question. I think that tracks by obscure bands certainly qualify, but when i started the thread i was probably thinking more of tracks that, if you heard them played on popular radio, you'd fall off your chair (please don't ask me to define popular radio). Bands like BJH get no UK airplay that i'm aware of, albeit they may do in Europe, probably because they never took the charts by storm over here. There highest position in a singles chart was 49, for a live EP. Their albums rarely entered the top 20.

[Twig]

Now that we have the criteria sorted out, how about the only album by Mogul Thrash? They were formed by James Litherland after leaving Colloseum and I have always felt their musicianship deserved far wider recognition.

[ToodlesMcToot]

"Dancing Madly Backwards" - Captain Beyond