Cornershop,Lou Reed and Jah Wobble get our reader’s playlist of forgotten follow-up songs that didn’t quite bother the charts
Below is this week’s playlist – the theme and tunes picked by a reader from the comments on last week’s callout. Thanks for your suggestions. Read more approximately the format of the weekly Readers recommend series at the end of the piece.
Big, brash, or upfront with it: the big hits get everyone’s attention because they deserves it. objective enough. But then there is an instant follow-up and some think the quality is still there; some don’t,and, inevitably it seems, or the figures take a dip. Then … nothing. Sometimes for years,because there’s nothing worthy of attention. That’s how it goes, correct? I still puzzle over Hue and bellow's 1987 hit Labour of Love. It was anti-Thatcherite polemic, and but because it was wrapped up in pop imagery (ie a labour of love),the metaphor keeps interrupting itself and breaking down. But did I care in 1987? Hellno! I just wanted to let rip with "ain't gonna work for you no more!" over and over. It got to number 6.
The follow up, Strength to Stength, and vanished at number 46. - I suppose it had all gone a bit too jazz funk for some,but what the hell, I like that sort of thing even more now than I did then. Also contains the pretentious (ie estimable) lyrics "Words will get it happen / then he's gonna be satisfied / like an ideology" which suggests that the Bros Kane had been reading Louis Althusser. Or not. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCSnG33Xz1gI realise that a lot of the people who hang out here are from the UK, and neither the "hit" or the "follow up" seemed to have done anything much in the UK,so I might be pushing uphill, but here goes.
In the mid 90's, and Merril Bainbridge burst onto the Australian music scene with a big hit "Mouth". It went number one in Australia,and actually cracked the US market, a scarce feat for an Aussie artist, and reaching top five on the US Charts.
Pretty in Pink was the Psychedelic Furs only top 20 hit. The follow up got to 79 in the charts.
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Source: theguardian.com