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Album Tracks That SHOULD Have Been Singles Prince:
1. Adore 2. Around The World In A Day 3. Play In The Sunshine 4. The Max 5. Lovesexy
Janet Jackson
1. New Agenda 2. The Knowledge 3. Rope Burn 4. China Love 5. My Baby
Stevie Wonder
1. Love's In Need Of Love Today 2. Pastime Paradise 3. Outside My Window 4. All I Do 5. Saturn
Michael Jackson
1. Whatever Happens 2. Heaven Can Wait 3. Keep The Faith 4. I Can't Help It 5. Burn This Disco Out
Britney Spears
1. Unusual You 2. Toy Solider 3. Hot As Ice 4. Freakshow 5. Ooh Ooh Baby
Christina Aguilera
1. Get Mine, Get Yours 2. Blessed 3. Understand 4. Lift Me Up 5. Somebody's Somebody
Aretha Franklin
1. Dr. Feelgood 2. Ain't Nobody 3. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream 4. All The King's Horses 5. Just Right Tonight
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Blur's "Tracy Jacks" from Parklife. I think this would have been a better single than "End of a Century." I really dig the Who-like chords at the beginning. [Edited 1/12/11 16:20pm] | |
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God damn do you have ESP?? I was thinking of doing this thread the other night lol!
And those Britney picks 100% on point!! How the hell was "Unusual You" not a single?? And Toy Soldier! God Damn, that would have been a monster and lets not even discuss what that video would be!
let me think of mine now...lol
"We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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LOL I was gonna make it yesterday but I fell asleep. | |
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I'm not a big fan of Britney but this would have been a great single: It probably doesn't need to be said but half of the Beatles' album tracks would have been a-sides for most groups. | |
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I could pick a ton of Jam songs but this may be my favourite album track: | |
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Hard to believe that something this poppy was never a single: I always really enjoyed this version: | |
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Gap Band Are You Living Nothing Comes To Sleepers Someday I Can't Get Over You (It got some radio play as an album track, but was never a single)
Howard Jones Automaton Is There A Difference
Wham! Blue Ray Of Sunshine
The Beatles Honey Pie It's All Too Much
Al Green Always I Just Can't Make It By Myself
Jerry Butler So In Love With You You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Radiohead - "Where I End and You Begin"
Pet Shop Boys with Kylie ...In Denial"
just a few off the top of my head
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The Beatles - Yesterday
U2 - No Line on the Horizon, Kite, God Part 2
Prince - Strange Relationship, Electric Chair, Walk Don't Walk
Depeche Mode - Rush
Stevie Wonder - Loves in need of love tofay, Maybe Baby
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Jessie Johnson - I'm just wanting you
Muse - Thoughts of a dying athiest
Michael Jackson - If you don't love me (future number 1!), whatever happens
Bruce Springsteen - Because the night
Radiohead - Exit for a film
Pet Shop Boys - two divided by zero
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1. Love's In Need Of Love Today 2. Pastime Paradise 3. Outside My Window 4. All I Do 5. Saturn
Actually,"Outside My Window" was a single,but surprisingly it bombed on the charts:
#52 US pop #56 R&B charts #52 UK charts #43 US adult contemporary
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My list.....
Prince Private Joy Lovesexy Automatic Housequake And God Created Woman
Madonna She's Not Me White Heat Words Forbidden Love (1994 song with Babyface) Sky Fits Heaven
Jamiroquai Planet Home Starchild
Stevie Wonder Rocket Love As If You Read My Mind Knocks Me Off My Feet Golden Lady All Is Fair In Love
Donna Summer (If It) Hurts Just A Little Love Shock Fascination Take Me
Earth Wind & Fire Could It Be Right Wouldn't Change A Thing About You Love Across The Wire You And I (last song on the 'I Am' album) Love's Holiday Sailaway Let Your Feelings Show
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It always surprises me when I think of popular songs that weren't singles:
"Reason" by Earth Wind and Fire "Fire And Desire" by Rick James and Teena Marie "Love's Train" by Con Funk Shun "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder---Motown wanted to release this as a single,but it had to be edited down and Stevie didn't want them to mess with this song in any way,so it never became a single. | |
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WOWWWWWW
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The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
Stevie Wonder I Believe (When I Fall In Love)
David Bowie I've Not Been to Oxford Town | |
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Those songs are played on the radio so much that many people probably think these songs were singles,lol. | |
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Yea I thought they were. | |
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Housequake was the B-side of U Got The Look, so it was on a single. It also got radio play. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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"Lady Cab Driver" by Prince. The "1999" single was getting major airplay before the album was released and once it was released, the radio started playing the album version of "1999" as well as many other songs from the album but they were really playing the hell out of "Lady Cab Driver".
I had always loved the way the "Controversy" single was cut and edited in two places and I remember making my own version of "Lady Cab Driver" cut and edited in about two or three places in the same way that "Controversy" was. We just knew that "Lady Cab Driver" was going to be the next single and I wanted to see if my edited version was going to match the way Prince edited his. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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The same goes for "Adore" by Prince. In 2011, this is the only Prince song that still gets regular airplay in the US.
It's my favorite song of all time. I'm sick and tired of the Prince fans being sick and tired of the Prince fans that are sick and tired! | |
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It's possibly my favorite Prince song ever. If it isn't it's up there. | |
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It's obvious that Warner Bros. were trying to make Prince crossover onto the pop charts with this album.Look at the singles they chose: "1999","Little Red Corvette","Delirious" and "Let's Pretend We're Married".These are great tunes,but there's not alot of funk in these songs.Those are pop songs.Jams like "DMSR" and "Lady Cab Driver" are funky R&B songs which is why I think they weren't released as singles (despite the massive radio airplay). | |
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"Joy and Pain" Maze f/ Frankie Beverly When all else fails, blame Obama...and McNabb! | |
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Private Joy was on the B Side of the "Do Me, Baby" 45. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Oh, it's obvious what they were trying to do. I still think "Lady Cab Driver" would have been a better choice though because a jam that funky would never have gotten him a crossover audience. I guarantee you, he wouldn't have dared trying that style change in 1985 if he only still had that previous R&B audience that he had for years. He could have done it if he wanted to but he would have starved to death. . . .
[Edited 1/14/11 13:54pm] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Actually,"Outside My Window" was a single,but surprisingly it bombed on the charts:
#52 US pop #56 R&B charts #52 UK charts #43 US adult contemporary
Ohhhh damn.
Dumbass public. | |
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^^ yep
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black by Pearljam "Time is a train, makes the future the past" | |
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I agree with the single choices for the most part,except I think "Automatic" should have been the fourth single instead of "Let's Pretend We're Married". | |
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