Paying tribute to some songs that have had trouble making it across the pond. Not all of them, but too many of them, if you ask me.
Shed Seven – Speak Easy from Change Giver (1994)
Delays – Valentine from You See Colours (2006)
Attic Lights – Bring You Down from Friday Night Lights (2008)
The Bluebells – Cath from Sisters (1984)
The Divine Comedy – Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World from Victory for the Comic Muse (2006)
Cast – Magic Hour from Magic Hour (1999)
The Feeling – Sewn from Twelve Stops and Home (2007)
The Lightning Seeds – Like You Do from Dizzy Heights (1997)
Nik Kershaw – Radio Musicola (Extended Version) from Radio Musicola (1986)
Tenpole Tudor – Swords of a Thousand Men from Eddie, Old Bob, Dick & Gary (1981)
Julian Cope – Planet Ride from Saint Julian (1987)
The Wonder Stuff – Full of Life (Happy Now) from Construction for the Modern Idiot (1993)
Boomtown Rats – Another Sad Story from In the Long Grass (1985)
China Crisis – Blue Sea from Flaunt the Imperfection (1985)
Rialto – London Crawling from Night on Earth (2001)
The Hours – See the Light from See the Light (2009)
