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Linda
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ...  Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:11 pm |
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(The song has to have been officially released as a single to qualify for this game, can't be just an album track.)
September Gurls ~ Big Star
10538 Overture ~ The Electric Light Orchestra
Juke Box Music ~ The Kinks
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:18 pm |
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Bigger and Better!
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Linda wrote:
10538 Overture ~ The Electric Light Orchestra
I likes your style.
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Hank
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:40 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Our Town - Marshall Crenshaw
Earn Enough For Us - XTC
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:54 pm |
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Gotta See Jane by R. Dean Taylor
Do Ya by The Move
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Hank
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:28 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Nice - Duran Duran
This Summer - Squeeze
We're The Same - Matthew Sweet
Your Favorite Thing - Sugar
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:07 am |
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"2-4-6-8 Motorway"--Tom Robinson Band (didn't chart)
"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"--Ramones (#81)
"Sound and Vision"--David Bowie (#69)
"Surrender"--Cheap Trick (#62)
"Farmer's Daughter"--Fleetwood Mac (didn't chart)
"Starry Eyes"--Records (#56)
"A Good Heart"--Feargal Sharkey (#74)
(numbers in parens indicate peak position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart)
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Hank
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:29 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Jimbo wrote: "Sound and Vision"--David Bowie (#69)
I just don't get this song. Low is probably my favorite Bowie album, but I think this is the weakest song on it.
No accounting for taste, I guess.
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Fraxon!
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:25 pm |
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"From Me To You" -- The Beatles (#41)
"All My Loving" -- The Beatles (#45)
"I Should Have Known Better" -- The Beatles (#53)
"If I Fell" -- The Beatles (#53)
"I Am The Walrus" -- The Beatles (#56)
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JohnG
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:11 pm |
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Jimbo wrote:
"Surrender"--Cheap Trick (#62)
(numbers in parens indicate peak position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart)
I was always surprised why Cheap Trick never really took off with the public. Even among my friends in college at that time, I was the only real Cheap Trick fan.
"Surrender" is a great pop song.
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:04 am |
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There are about a half dozen songs from Poi Dog Pondering that come to mind...never understood how their profile never rose at a national level....they owned Chicago throughout much of the 90s.
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Simon
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:21 am |
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I agree about Cheap Trick, they had really catchy stuff, it was intelligent, funny...
I never could understand why they weren't much bigger than they became, either.
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Biffa Bacon
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:26 am |
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Jimbo wrote: "A Good Heart"--Feargal Sharkey (#74)
(numbers in parens indicate peak position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart)
 That was number 1 in the UK! Cultural differences!
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Simon
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:29 am |
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I'm sure that Feargal was at least top ten here, if not number one.
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Biffa Bacon
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:29 am |
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Hank wrote: Jimbo wrote: "Sound and Vision"--David Bowie (#69)
I just don't get this song. Low is probably my favorite Bowie album, but I think this is the weakest song on it. No accounting for taste, I guess. Hank, are you telling us that you don't wonder sometiiii-ee-iiii-ee-iiimes, 'bout sound und vizhurrn? 
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Biffa Bacon
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:33 am |
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Simon wrote: I'm sure that Feargal was at least top ten here, if not number one.
Aye, bet Angry Anderson's 'Suddenly (Theme to Scott and Charlene's wedding)' didn't get into the US Top 10 either. 
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:13 am |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Biffa Bacon wrote: Jimbo wrote: "A Good Heart"--Feargal Sharkey (#74)
(numbers in parens indicate peak position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart) That was number 1 in the UK! Cultural differences! I became fascinated with the differences between the UK and US pop charts when a friend brought me the book of "British Hit Singles" as a souvenir of his trip to London. Many big UK hits of the 80s were well-known to US new wave fans, even if they never graced our charts. The 70s were a different story, many acts didn't translate across the pond, but I had a lot of fun, after the fact, discovering the joys of Showaddywaddy and the Darts--not to mention "Mouldy Old Dough" by Lieutenant Pigeon!
On the other hand, thank heavens for those cultural differences when it comes to stuff like "Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!" (#1 UK hit in '97). 
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Hank
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Post subject: Should have been #1 but never even made the Top 40 ... Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:01 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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