Here's a place to post songs that others may have forgotten. The song that got me thinking about this topic is Donnie Iris' "Injured in the Game of Love". Below you can find a link to a website that mentions this song (don't be scared by the name of the site). You don't need to click on the site, as the text has been copied and pasted below. The writer compares him to Bruce Springsteen - I kinda thought he was more of a poor man's Huey Lewis. Under the article, there is a link to the full song for anyone who's interested. Feel free to post your own "forgotten song". Maybe we can jog each other's memories about some forgotten great or near-decent music. And maybe you'll find that you forgot these songs for a reason.
http://www.hesawhore.com/2010/02/song-of-day-donnie-iris-injured-in-game.htmlFor some, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band were a band that spoke to the blue collar, working class set with tales of life in some romanticized, yet down-on-its-luck, one-horse town.
While I respect Springsteen for presenting that message in such a way as to connect so fervently with a mid-to-upper-class demographic, he never did much for me.
My Bruce Springsteen has always been Ohio's Donnie Iris, and, by the same token, my E Street Band has always been The Cruisers, Iris's longtime backing band. While they may not have such colorful characters as Clarence Clemons or Little Steven, they are as solid a band as any singer could ever hope to have behind him.
After a four-album run with MCA that netted two sizable radio hits in "Ah Leah" and "Love Is Like A Rock", Donnie Iris soon found himself on his own. Rather than wait for another label to pick him up, he and the Cruisers simply recorded and released No Muss, No Fuss on their own label in 1985 and still managed to do pretty well. The album actually achieved a peak chart position of #115 - not bad for an indie release in those days.
The album's sole single, For some, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band were a band that spoke to the blue collar, working class set with tales of life in some romanticized, yet down-on-its-luck, one-horse town.
While I respect Springsteen for presenting that message in such a way as to connect so fervently with a mid-to-upper-class demographic, he never did much for me.
My Bruce Springsteen has always been Ohio's Donnie Iris, and, by the same token, my E Street Band has always been The Cruisers, Iris's longtime backing band. While they may not have such colorful characters as Clarence Clemons or Little Steven, they are as solid a band as any singer could ever hope to have behind him.
After a four-album run with MCA that netted two sizable radio hits in "Ah Leah" and "Love Is Like A Rock", Donnie Iris soon found himself on his own. Rather than wait for another label to pick him up, he and the Cruisers simply recorded and released No Muss, No Fuss on their own label in 1985 and still managed to do pretty well. The album actually achieved a peak chart position of #115 - not bad for an indie release in those days.
The album's sole single, "Injured In The Game of Love" also cracked the Top 100 and ranks as one of Iris's most infectious tracks.
http://hesawhore.com/Donnie_Iris-Injured_In_The_Game_of_Love.mp3