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So I've been going down this youtube rabbit hole of old music that was popular but not the very highest rated. Like the songs that got tons of play for a while but haven't stuck around on typical playlists from the time. Observe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d02rbEx60U If your parents listened to Oldies back in the day you might even remember the ones from the 50s. My mother watched a few of these videos with me and some she could still sing along with that i had never heard before. It was a blast seeing her get all nostalgic and the 90s and early 2000s stuff triggers my nostalgia super hard too. A lot of these songs are pretty under rated too, there's some that are shocking to me they weren't number 1. It's also fascinating how well the brain seems to store music. What songs do you remember from the past that didn't quite make the cut for long term popular memory?
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Jul 17, 2023 01:22
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Fun fact, the video for She Blinded Me With Science pretty much ruined that professor dude's (Magnus Pyke, a sort of British Bill Nye at the time) life, since people wouldn't stop sneaking up on him and yelling "SCIENCE!" I'm surprised that Feel So Good by Ma$e wasn't higher rated, considering how much I heard it at the time. I still listen to Name by Goo Goo Dolls on occasion. It slaps. As does Coolio's 1, 2, 3, 4. And Let it Go from Frozen wasn't #1? Are you loving kidding me? That song got so much play that it's become sentient. Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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Jul 17, 2023 01:34
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It took a good three decades for me to hear I'm Not going to Let it Bother Me Tonight on the radio again after it's heyday. The song is still my go to reference when someone talks about how bad it is now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ptItUeEpr4
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Jul 17, 2023 02:58
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Don't you just know it: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3P3yqQ4vgHA&feature=share9
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Jul 17, 2023 03:29
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double post who cares? How was this never an absolute hit? https://youtube.com/watch?v=NRVA2YBhrrQ&feature=share9
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Jul 17, 2023 03:37
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Maine banned billboards in the 1970's, and obviously the entire state has benefited.
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Jul 17, 2023 03:40
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  the only way Garth Brooks could show up is with a Chris Gaines b-sideits actually sorta interesting, none of the  big acts show up at all in their heyday - Michael Jackson doesn't show up until that lovely song with his sister.EDIT Train - Drops of Jupiter spent 53 weeks on the Billboard chart, only to peak at #5 Vampire Panties fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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Jul 17, 2023 04:13
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Crank That apparently peaked at number 6 and as far as I knew it was only some goofy internet song that kids liked on youtube.
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Jul 17, 2023 05:13
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There are a few mixed in that are the signature songs of huge artists and I'm wonder what kept them off the top of the chart. For instance Cream: Sunshine of your Love, Diana Ross: I'm Coming Out or Bieber: Baby. Also Colio gets the first rap hit with a song I've never heard. Also Young Turks is by far the best Rod Stewart song, not his signature though. Bip Roberts fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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Jul 17, 2023 05:42
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https://youtu.be/SNchTKdRs2A This song by Tracey Ullman who wasn’t even a pop singer but god drat this is a great song and great video. I saw it on MTV back in the 80s but it was only on a couple of times then went away. It made a big impression on me. It’s a cover of an even more obscure song from the 70s. I have heard it in the grocery store as recently as the 2010s so it must still be in corporate playlist rotation.
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Jul 17, 2023 06:01
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The counterpoint is songs that clearly mean an artist was too big like Hall and Oates: method of modern love (just garbage). No one else would chart that.
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Jul 17, 2023 06:18
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I bet many of these hit #1 on specific charts, like RnB or Hip-hop. Just not on the general Billboard chart.
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Jul 17, 2023 06:18
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I used to hear this all the time on the classic rock station from Chicago. I never realized this song had no real reach 100 miles outside of Chicago. I have actually driven on Lake Shore Drive while tripping. https://youtu.be/0saZiLV7-7E
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Jul 17, 2023 06:29
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Other note: Genesis, Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel had no number 5s despite having a ton of hits in the 80s. Peter had two 4s Phil had three 4s and a 6 Genesis had a 4, 6 and three 7s
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Jul 17, 2023 06:33
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A lot of songs kind of hit #1 on either non-Billboard, in Billboard sub-genres, or in non-US charts. I was going to say "LIfe is a Highway" and "Runaway Train", but they actually did hit #1 outside the US. Something like "Hazard" by Richard Marx hit #1, but only on the 'Adult Contemporary' chart, but not the main one. In the vein of "Hazard": "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Warrant. That song was everywhere for a few months. Huge MTV rotation airplay, lots of radio airplay, but it did far worse on the charts than the band's previous "I Saw Red" and "Cherry Pie" which despite their popularity never hit #1, either. Michael Penn's "No Myth" never went higher than 13, despite winning MTV's 'best new artist' the year the song came out and still gets a lot of store radio airplay. "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan seems like it has been so popular and constant AM and top 40 adult contemporary over the years that it should have had a #1, somewhere, but never did.
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Jul 17, 2023 06:34
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JediTalentAgent posted:A lot of songs kind of hit #1 on either non-Billboard, in Billboard sub-genres, or in non-US charts. I was going to say "LIfe is a Highway" and "Runaway Train", but they actually did hit #1 outside the US. Something like "Hazard" by Richard Marx hit #1, but only on the 'Adult Contemporary' chart, but not the main one. This guy Billboards.
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Jul 17, 2023 06:40
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Bip Roberts posted:The counterpoint is songs that clearly mean an artist was too big like Hall and Oates: method of modern love (just garbage). No one else would chart that. Hall & Oates' cover of Family Man went to #6. Yeah. Watching a bit of the #5s video: - Del Shannon was a cut above in his era, but only a couple of songs of his even made oldies stations, back when they still included early 1960s. All the classic stations I listen to now are pretty much 80s-present, with exceptions for Queen's huge hits and the notable Led Zeppelin stuff. - Donovan might have made it to #1 if he could have come up with any better name or title than Hurdy Gurdy Man. - If you're not familiar with the story of Edision Lighthouse and Tony Burrows, it's a helluva story. Todd in the Shadows did a pretty good recap. - For as huge as they were for a few years, Three Dog Night made absolutely no lasting impact.. - Rock & Roll Music was the first indication that the Beach Boys were all aboard cashing in on nostalgia. 95% of their output after was pure dreck. All those people who bought that single are the reason Mike Love is 82 years old and still acting like it's 1962.
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Jul 17, 2023 07:02
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Mmm hurdy gurdy man is soo good Going to listen tomorrow, ty for the link Dixville!
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Jul 17, 2023 07:23
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That's insane that Paradise City only hit number five considering how prevalent it still is
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Jul 17, 2023 07:30
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theres a lot of songs like that it's weird. a lot of the poo poo you'll hear on classic rock stations would only hit like the top 10 it's odd
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