So many well-known bands and artists have had a string of succesful greatest hits, but also - often more - 'not so great hits'. Reason behind this is often this was the third or fourth single from an album, which by then was pretty saturated. Or there wasn't budget to make a videoclip, plus lots of other reason why some songs charted high, and some charted low.
But these low-charted songs are often the most interesting, I think. For one, they haven't been overplayed on Classic Rock Radio.
A few examples:
Mike Oldfield. Pretty much everyone knows Moonlight Shadow, but follow-up Shadow On The Wall was a small hit as well, but it seems to have been forgotten about.
Fleetwood Mac. I'm personally pretty fond of 'Hold Me' from "Mirage". But that one gets virtually no airplay at all nowadays, because so many other FM-songs were bigger hits.
Paul Simon. 'Allergies' was a small hit in the Netherlands. No-one seems to know that one nowadays.
For the record, I'm NOT talking about songs that EVERYONE knows as a classic nowadays, but weren't big hits at all. That's another subject, and for another thread, interesting as it may be also. I'm looking for your favorite hitsingles that haven't reach the top 20, which means it has sold quite a bit, yet you seldom hear it these days.
Here's a fun example:
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