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I know the whole album back to front but average non 6 music listening punter probably only knows Mrs Robinson?
I dunno. It's actually my least favourite track anyway.
Artists whose only song is a cover
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I know the whole album back to front but average non 6 music listening punter probably only knows Mrs Robinson?
I dunno. It's actually my least favourite track anyway.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hah, see I only know ray&robinson. Heavy mtv2 rotation? indie disco? who can say, it was so long ago...
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I used to have a friend who was just not into my sort of music, which tended to be back then more sort of generic Indie and grunge type stuff. She was more into pop. I saw the Lemonheads as being on the very commercial edge of what I liked. She surprised me one day by singing "It's a shame about Ray" which i barely knew. I think judging by that it might be more well known than one would think.
skyscraper101
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Fair enough. I stand corrected.
SpookyFrank
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Kirsty MaColl - A New England....? Though she wrote a new bit for it....
She also wrote songs for other artists IIRC, and her own originals are great too:
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
yeah i know - i might be her biggest fan. same with Johnny Cash, really. Just stirring.
SpookyFrank
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Big Time Sensuality, Venus To A Boy, Hyperballad, Human Behaviour...?
Army of Me, All is Full of Love
SpookyFrank
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Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
yeah i have a version by Kirsty somewhereShe wrote this in fact:
This thread is getting meta as fuck
SpookyFrank
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I'm gonna get in trouble for this one but fuck it.
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Nah. Lost in Music.
SpookyFrank
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I doubt Mark E Smith knows even half his own back catalogue tbh.
A friend of mine - an obsessive fall fan - named his gig promo company after a fall song. When he told Mark E Smith about this, he just looked at him blankly. Had no idea what he was talking about and had never heard of the song.
SpookyFrank
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I'm bingeing on Kirsty MacColl tunes now. Pure class 
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Johnny Vodka
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Plus Come on Feel the Lemonheads was a big (and good) album at the time. Any 'indie kid' of a certain age will likely know a few Lemonheads tracks.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I went to see Ian Hunter the other week. He's awesome!
Steel Icarus
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People with only what I can only conclude is the most vague knowledge of music are spoiling the thread 
SpookyFrank
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People with only what I can only conclude is the most vague knowledge of music are spoiling the thread
That's kind of the point of the thread. We're talking about the songs people with only a vague knowledge of music will know well. People who listen to radio 2 in the car on the way to work, those people.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
couldn't find a UK chart position but wiki has it at No 3 in the billboard US singles charts. So it must have had some airtime over here if not on the radio much, the cable music channels and venues etcI used to have a friend who was just not into my sort of music, which tended to be back then more sort of generic Indie and grunge type stuff. She was more into pop. I saw the Lemonheads as being on the very commercial edge of what I liked. She surprised me one day by singing "It's a shame about Ray" which i barely knew. I think judging by that it might be more well known than one would think.
1927
Funnier than he thinks he is.
Hardly her best known tho. Most average Joe's will only know there's a guy works down the chip shop!Kirsty MaColl - A New England....? Though she wrote a new bit for it....
chilango
Ha! Ha! Armageddon
First tune I knew by them iirc.
Although it might have been this
but then I listened to their first album and this stood out...
...and then I kinda stopped listening to the Lemonheads tbh.
But then...recently they did this, which I love!
So it turns out that they were a great covers band from start to finish, regardless of Mrs Robinson!
Steel Icarus
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I just fail to believe anyone knows a single Fall song. It's a few, all of them, or none
SpookyFrank
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Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
I must be out of touch
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