Most underrated DS/MK songs

[privinvest]

It never rains, isn't it? Especially the second half is as good s anything he did and "nobody" knows it. He doesn't play it in concerts (?) Any idea why is that?

Special mentions: Planet of the New Orleans

[stratmad]

It never rains, isn't it? Especially the second half is as good s anything he did and "nobody" knows it. He doesn't play it in concerts (?) Any idea why is that?

Special mentions: Planet of the New Orleans

Oh yes, definitely both! I think there is actually one obscure live version of "INR", or was it "Industrial disease"?
Another one that is totally underrated imho is "Hand in hand", on of my all-time favourites. Did he ever play that live at all?

[ds1984]

It never rains was performed during the '82 leg of the LOG tour and then dropped .

[Matchstickman]

It never rains, isn't it? Especially the second half is as good s anything he did and "nobody" knows it. He doesn't play it in concerts (?) Any idea why is that?

Special mentions: Planet of the New Orleans

Oh yes, definitely both! I think there is actually one obscure live version of "INR", or was it "Industrial disease"?
Another one that is totally underrated imho is "Hand in hand", on of my all-time favourites. Did he ever play that live at all?

Hand in Hand was never performed live, if I'm not mistaken.

It Never Rains is "good", but a two-faced song if there ever was one, starting off with rainbows and sunshine, and then taking you to hell. That may have been the idea, but it is somewhat jarring, and it lacks a hook.

[stratmad]

It Never Rains is "good", but a two-faced song if there ever was one, starting off with rainbows and sunshine, and then taking you to hell. That may have been the idea, but it is somewhat jarring, and it lacks a hook.

Both songs are maybe linked to Holly Vincent, or some other relationship that didn't work out.
INR imho is a lot about being used and exploited, some sort of reckoning, and lyric-wise it's pretty negative right from the beginning, despite the "happy" keyboard melody and the fairground imagery.

[Matchstickman]

It Never Rains is "good", but a two-faced song if there ever was one, starting off with rainbows and sunshine, and then taking you to hell. That may have been the idea, but it is somewhat jarring, and it lacks a hook.

Both songs are maybe linked to Holly Vincent, or some other relationship that didn't work out.
INR imho is a lot about being used and exploited, some sort of reckoning, and lyric-wise it's pretty negative right from the beginning, despite the "happy" keyboard melody and the fairground imagery.

You may be right about the lyrics.

They are some of his best vitriolic lyrics - accusing someone of screwing people on the way up because "you" thought you were never coming down. It's passionate enough for a failed relationship, but seems to about someone making it in (the music?) business.

[stratmad]

Yes, Holly was trying to make it with her band, trying to use MK's fame. So he would have been the one that was "screwed over".
And her career didn't work out the way it was planned either.
Intersting biography, if only half of it is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Beth_Vincent.

[Matchstickman]

Yes, Holly was trying to make it with her band, trying to use MK's fame. So he would have been the one that was "screwed over".
And her career didn't work out the way it was planned either.
Intersting biography, if only half of it is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Beth_Vincent.

Interesting! The music/girl connection makes sense. It had always seemed odd to me that the lyrics seemed sexual. ("Hands up smothering your screams", etc.) Pretty dark, this one.

[dmg]

Les Boys.  Great melody and lyrics.  So many either misinterpret it or don't take it seriously because of the subject matter, but it's a really good song IMHO.