tracks that potentially could have been huge, if they were promoted better

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Three songs come to mind that I know would have been massively huge, if Josh Homme's PR dudes had not been out of their minds.

"Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" - Despite how stupid anyone may think the lyrics are, this song is catchy as hell, and it's exactly what modern rock radio needed in 2000. But instead, the labels must have figured the kids wouldn't enjoy it, considering the climate of radio at the time. Or maybe they were concerned that the FCC may have a field day over it, except The Marshall Mathers LP was released only a month before Rated R, so they were obviously pre-occupied. Could have been HUGE, I say.

"First It Giveth" - I still love "Go With The Flow," but I was slightly shocked that it was chosen over "First It Giveth" as the 2nd single, and even more shocked that it was hardly played on the radio at all after it was released as the third single from Songs For The Deaf. What's the deal?

"I Only Want You" - This song easily could have dominated Top 40 radio last summer, and I know this because I worked in family entertainment during that time. I had a mixtape that I would blast from a little stereo, and whenever this song would come on, the kids loved it. One kid who couldn't have been older than 9 even asked me who the band was, and I had to tell him "Eagles Of Death Metal" 2 or 3 times before he could figure out what I was saying.

And I know all three of these could have been huge because they're all better songs than "Little Sister," which if I'm not mistaken was a "Modern Rock" #1.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"If Only"

"The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stairway to Heaven" would've become well-known if it'd been released as a single...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 30 June 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, there's a QOTSA "Stairway"???

Someone pleeeeeeease YSI this stat!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 30 June 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Funky Stuff"
almost every Kitchens of Distinction single, particularly "Come on Now"
Breathless - "I Never Know Where You Are"
Disco Inferno - "Technicolour" (maybe)

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It doesn't have to be just QOTSA, those are just the examples that I thought of.

Oh yeah, "Ocean Man" by Ween could have been HUGE.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 30 June 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Black Keys - "Have Love, Will Travel"
OutKast - "Church"
Super Furry Animals - "Northern Lites"
Denim - "Summer Smash"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 1 July 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Saint Etienne, 'Action'

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Icky Boyfriends "Ecophobia"

― jack cole's skeletal remains found at the bottom of a ravine (jackcole), Friday, 1 July 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Millionaire by Kelis w/ Andre

no one I know who listens to radio has ever heard of it, I don't know if it was a "single" but it should have RULED last year

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Icky Boyfriends "Ecophobia"

"MISS NEVADA!"

(though jack has a point.)

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Gunther & The Sunshine Girls - Teeny Weeny String Bikini

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, is this "Songs that should've been singles" or "songs that would've been huge if the record label had been smart" or "overlooked bands, overlooked songs'?

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 1 July 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i was always surprised that Sylvian/Sakamoto's "heartbeat" wasn't some kind of hit

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

E6 - "Danger! High Voltage"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

COBRASTYLE - TEDDYBEARS HTML
16 TONNES OF HARDWARE - BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ms. Dynamite-tee-ee

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

section 25: looking from a hilltop

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Lilys - "Ginger"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Unsolved Child Murder, whilst not really a possible huge track, was cursed by the fact that Jamie Bulger killing happened around the time of it's release, prompting it to be renamed the Back With The Killer EP. Not much of an improvement really.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ark 'It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane'

Radio 2 Massive would enjoy it.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Porn Theatre Ushers - "Me & Him"

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Autofire - Succotash Wish

(plugplugplgu!!!)!)

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wheat - "Don't I hold you" - (the original effort, not the lame second attempt on the last album).

― bg (creamolafoam), Friday, 1 July 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

This post makes me realize that I have no idea what actually was a hit, given how much I've been reliant on filesharing to the exclusion of any other means of being exposing to music. Blah.

Pop charts make for interesting trivia.

As for my contribution to thread... half the songs off of Moby Grape's first album.

― Rob Uptight (Rob Uptight), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The self-titled second album by "The Glands" from 2000 could have been a breakthrough indie hit a la The Shins. But they were on a tiny label and it didn't get the exposure it deserved. It remains one of the most overlooked indie albums ever.

Hits from it could have been: Swim, Straight Down, Lovetown and When I Laugh.

And Outfit by the Drive-By Truckers could have been a massive massive hit had it been properly released.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

E6 - "Danger! High Voltage"
It went Top Five in Britain.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Scritti Politti - "Confidence" possibly.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Millionaire by Kelis w/ Andre
totally

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It went Top Five in Britain.

went nowhere over here.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I never understood why they never released "Rooster" or "Bowtie" from Speakerboxx, both of which I think blow "Roses" out of the water. In fact, I'll say it straight out, I think Speakerboxx was actually the more consistent and rewarding of the two albums.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Stars - "Elevator Love Letter"

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Club 8: "Missing You"

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 2 July 2005 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Unsolved Child Murder

Or absolutely every other Auteurs single.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 2 July 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, is this "Songs that should've been singles" or "songs that would've been huge if the record label had been smart" or "overlooked bands, overlooked songs'?

All of the above.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 2 July 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

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