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Lost Singles
No this isn't for any dating forums! What 10 songs do you think would have been a great single but were cruelly ignored? Mine in no particular order:
1. 1985 2. 4Ever Delayed 3. Golden Platitudes 4. Send Away The Tigers 5. Prologue To History 6. Enola/Alone 7. This Is Yesterday 8. Intravenous Agnostic 9. Solitude Sometimes Is 10. Marlon JD P.S. I realise that this would have been a better thread around the release of National Treasures |
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Great idea for a thread (and later a playlist)
I haven't read all of your list so I am not influenced...!!! But I'm sure it might turn out to be similar. 1985 4ever Delayed Intravenous Agnostic Prologue to History Second Great Depression Ready for Drowning Mr. Carbohydrate Emigre Still a Long Way to Go Cardiff Afterlife |
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Album by album?
Another Invented Disease Nostalgic Pushed This Is Yesterday Further Away Nobody Loved You Intravenous Agnostic A Song For Departure Imperial Bodybags Journal For Plague Lovers Golden Platitudes 3 Ways To See Despair Let's Go To War A Song For The Sadness Edit: shit! Shit! Shit! "Montana/Autumn/78" as well |
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This Is Yesterday
Enola/Alone No Surface All Feeling Ready For Drowning Black Dog On My Shoulder 1985 A Song For Departure The Second Great Depression Prologue to History 4 Ever Delayed |
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I won't repeat those already said, but always thought Sorrow 16 had potential as a single
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Glasnost
Black Square Misguided Missile
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1985 is always mentioned as the single that should have been, but I'm not completely convinced. It ain't got a catchy chorus (then again, neither does Empty Souls). Maybe it could have worked but I can see why they passed on it.
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By album / Era
GT - Methadone Pretty GATS - Donkeys THB - Yes, Mausoleum EMG - Enola/Alone, Further away TIMTTMY - Ready for drowning, Black Dog, Nobody Loved You, Prologue to history KYE - Miss Europa, Baby Elien Lifeblood - 1985, A song for departure SATT - Rendition, Imperal Bodybags JFPL - Peeled Apples, Journal for plague lovers PFAYM - I think I found it, Golden Platitudes, All we make is entertainment RTF - 30 Year War F - Next Jet To Leave Moscow, Black Square RIF - In Eternity |
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I agree, I don’t see 1985 as being a particular single. I always felt everything will be would have made a good one though.
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I think in some cases the singles they did release are the best songs of that album / period. The ones that I would maybe substitute would be:
GT - Born to End for Love's Sweet Exile GATS - No changes THB - This is Yesterday for Revol EMG - No Surface All Feeling for Kevin Carter or Australia TIMTTMY - No Changes KYE - Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children for So Why So Sad Lifeblood - 1985 for The Love of Richard Nixon SATT - Send Away the Tigers for Autumnsong JFPL - Peeled Apples, Jackie Collins PFAYM - Golden Platitudes for Postcards From a Young Man RTF - 30 Year War for Anthem For a Lost Cause F - Europa Geht Durch Mich for Futurology (was Europa released as a single?) RIF - In Eternity For Liverpool Revisited Other songs I think would have been good singles: Sepia Prologue to History Door to the River Judge Yr'self Forever Delayed Red Rubber Empty Motorcade |
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Nice thread.
I think I’ve got 10 singles that I reckon could have worked as additional releases, along with with some swaps for songs I think might have done a job as a single. GT: Methadone Pretty for Love’s Sweet Exile. GATS: Sleepflower could have been the 4th single THB: This is Yesterday could have been the 4th single EMG: The Girl Who Wanted to be God could have been a 5th single such was their rise to success TIMT: Prologue to History Montana/Autumn/78 could have been a double A-side, and either included on the album or released around the same time as a stand alone single. KYE: Baby Elian instead of Ocean Spray. FD: Foreverdelayed could have been a stand alone single. LB: 1985 could have been the 4th single, A Song for Departure replaces Empty Souls and To Repel Ghosts replaces The Love of Richard Nixon. SATT: Send Away the Tigers could have been the 4th single JFPL: Peeled Apples and Marlon JD released as proper singles. Futurology: Let’s Go To War as a 3rd single RIF: Sequels of Forgotten Wars instead of Dylan & Caitlin, In Eternity instead of Liverpool Revisited.
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Too many to choose from, lots of fine choices already I agree with.
I’ll just add Mirror Gaze because Mirror Gaze.
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Of the songs mentioned I think Second Great Depression would have actually done well. And Another Invented Disease, musically -- if it didn't have that weird name referencing AIDS in a 'puzzling' manner.
Nothing would've saved Lifeblood commercially, at that time, but 1985, yes -- would've done way better than TLORN. If anything TLORN shoulda been a famous "lost single". 30 Year War would have been a much, much better choice for 3rd single off RTF. Some albums where the singles have been very very well selected, almost perfectly: Resistance is Futile, This Is My Truth, Know Your Enemy (yes, though people here don't believe it), and GATS where they really did all they could with that material. |
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always thought Dead Martyrs would've made a decent final single from KYE, paired with a Slash n Burn / Judge Yr'self style concert footage montage vid.
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