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Post by johnny on Dec 27, 2023 15:49:07 GMT
I love that Sweet song. It is my favourite song of theirs.
Also, that year, 1978, Suzi Quatro, a fellow Glam Rocker of 73/74 had If You Can't Give Me Love.
Not a big hit but Pretty Amazing Grace by Neil Diamond was from the #1 in the album chart with Home Before Dark in 2008
After their career imploded in 1982 Blondie had a terrific comeback with the song Maria which got to #1 in 1999.
The biggest comeback of them all? What's Love Gotta Do With It by Tina Turner in 1984. After more than a decade in the wilderness Tina returned with her biggedt hit ever
EDIT: Actually, Tina Turner's Comeback single was Let's Stay Together - which was a pretty good comeback single.
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Post by evilincarnate on Dec 28, 2023 7:23:37 GMT
Great choices - love all these tracks, particularly "Love Is Like Oxygen" and "Maria".
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Post by johnny on Dec 28, 2023 16:40:01 GMT
^ and Chain Reaction!
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Post by HOMETIME on Dec 28, 2023 18:13:07 GMT
Roxy Music's "Dance Away" deserves a lot of love.
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Post by johnny on Dec 28, 2023 19:21:13 GMT
You Win Again - Bee Gees. The 80s not good for the Bee Gees as performers until this 1987 song
Heartbreaker - Dionne Warwick. She hated this song but it was her biggest ever hit in Europe.
After his US and UK top 10 hit Devil Woman
Cliff Richard struggled in the charts for 4 years until We Don't Talk Anymore.
These three may not be "great" but certainly quite good.
Five years after reaching #3 in the US and #4 in the UK with It's a Heartache Bonnie Tyler had a Transatlantic #1 with A Total Eclipse of the Heart.
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Post by Alan on Dec 28, 2023 20:39:25 GMT
It might be a forgotten fact now, but Running Up That Hill was a big comeback for Kate Bush. She hadn’t had a top 10 hit single in five years, or even been in the top 40 in four, and various rumours circulated about her. EMI apparently sat her down and were quite unkind to her, telling her she couldn’t produce herself. Kate effectively said, “f**k you!”, built her own recording studio (to remove reliance on the company paying commercial studio bills) and recorded Hounds of Love. A compromise of sorts, the first side had all the commercial hits while the second side was much more the real Kate.
This mimed performance from Wogan was on the day the single was released, 5 August 1985:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 9:36:19 GMT
In terms of impact/influence etc, one of the all-time ultimate comeback singles would have to be this one. Not just in musical terms, of course (three years after the sub-hippy 'one-hit-wonder'-ness and general brilliance of Space Oddity) but also in terms of a radically new image - and helping to build the whole Glam template.
In terms of Kate Bush, I guess the dictionary definition of comeback single would have to be this one - after a decade of demonstrating 'how to be invisible' - even though the track itself had been sitting around in her locker for a fair few years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 14:21:25 GMT
In my book, this jaw-dropper qualifies as one of the great comeback singles, with the band barely having made a dent in the UK charts for a good five years. An all-time Top 10 video for me, too: |
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Post by Alan on Dec 29, 2023 15:36:52 GMT
With Kate Bush, @thisboycries, I was going on a comeback after a less successful album (The Dreaming) and two 1982 flop singles (alongside critical derision). That she came back from that was a real achievement. Prior to that I saw her as a late 1970s act.
King of the Mountain was a comeback of sorts but as she hadn’t released a single in 11 years (and an album in 12), there was no failure in between to come back from. Her 2005 releases were eagerly awaited. A top 10 hit after 20 years might have been unexpected but anything lower than no. 12 would have been seen as a failure.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2023 16:33:12 GMT
With Kate Bush, @thisboycries , I was going on a comeback after a less successful album (The Dreaming) and two 1982 flop singles (alongside critical derision). That she came back from that was a real achievement. Prior to that I saw her as a late 1970s act. King of the Mountain was a comeback of sorts but as she hadn’t released a single in 11 years (and an album in 12), there was no failure in between to come back from. Her 2005 releases were eagerly awaited. A top 10 hit after 20 years might have been unexpected but anything lower than no. 12 would have been seen as a failure. KotM/Aerial was one type of comeback (triumphant return after long period of silence; as ABBA did with ISHFIY/DSMD/Voyage, as per lycka's original post), whereas RUTH/Hounds of Love was the other type of comeback (triumphant return after run of 'disappointing' releases, in terms of chart placings if not necessarily the quality of the material; as ABBA did with the release of SOS, of course). Some comebacks are a curious blend of the two (period of silence, 'unsuccessful' comeback, more silence, triumphant return), but this isn't the place to discuss them. |
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Post by iiwftn on Jan 6, 2024 10:32:40 GMT
It’s quite cheesy ‘Dad-Rock’, but I’ve always loved Slade’s ‘My Oh My’, their comeback single released in time for Christmas, 1983.
It would’ve been fitting had they scored the UK Christmas number one slot exactly ten years after ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’ but they just got pipped to the top spot by The Flying Pickets.
Fantastic song though.
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