Johnny Gills "Just Another Lonely Night"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1k4fDAb3hE
All I can say is Damn... This song is so smooth it burns a nuclear hole in my soul. Not a widely released or heard song. This was going up against the Juggernaut of "My My My" and "Wrap Your Body Tight"
The Whispers "Is it good to you"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwfaAnbUEQ0
Another smooth hit that should have charted on the R&B/Adult charts. This was going up against "My My My" Bel Biv Devoe's "Poison" and Mariah Carey but this one is worth listening too.
In subsequent years however these have become quiet storm hits after years of listening especially by those who didn't remember them when they first came out but now has gotten a listen to them.
― The Startrekman, Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:19 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQFuNHCMF2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWSiCudWh0
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 23 September 2010 08:45 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wote2XlvYeU
― meisenfek, Thursday, 23 September 2010 09:56 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkfDytpLjbQ
― meisenfek, Thursday, 23 September 2010 09:59 (fifteen years ago)
On the 1989-ish R&B tip ... Not sure exactly where this landed on the charts, but it never felt as big a hit as it should've been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Np8oTn0D8
― Eric H., Thursday, 23 September 2010 10:15 (fifteen years ago)
squeeze could have made their song a bigger hit if the video had been more about girls dancing and less about history teachers singing.
― kkvgz, Thursday, 23 September 2010 10:19 (fifteen years ago)
The original video has them dancing with brooms. They shouldn't have scrapped it.
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 23 September 2010 11:36 (fifteen years ago)
I think it was because it sounded so unlike Squeeze, for the most part, that no-one know who it was.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 11:40 (fifteen years ago)
Most recently, I was convinced that Zero would be a Top 10 UK hit and make the Yeah Yeah Yeahs massive in the UK but it stiffed at 49, which I found inexplicable.
― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:38 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gkoKnaDc0
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
Great track, also a total hottie.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
i think maybe 80% of my favourite music over the past half decade or so fits into this category
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:44 (fifteen years ago)
That Chungking track is tasty, I've not heard of them before.
Was Heroes a flop at the time or something? It's canon through and through now.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
"Heroes" got to number 24. "Fame" made 17.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 September 2010 15:55 (fifteen years ago)
Babyface My Kinda Girl was a radio hit. Not necessarily a chart hit but well liked by everyone. I liked it roo, haven't heard it since the age of 11
― The Startrekman, Friday, 24 September 2010 06:28 (fifteen years ago)
Grapes of Wrath - You May Be Right
this one went to number 7 in Canada early 90s, but i'm fairly sure it didn't make much of an impact elsewhere.
probably could have though since it was produced by John Leckie and is a far better Beatles pastiche than most (looking at you "Sowing The Seeds of Love")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYCjWkJUIY&feature=related
― Kim, Friday, 24 September 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)
could have listed several songs by those guys really.
― Kim, Friday, 24 September 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)