(Finished February 27th, 2022) Part 5 of Great Songs That Didn't Chart In The American Top 40

Hello,

These are mainly 80s songs that are great but never made the Top 40. I was and you'll be shocked by some of these songs. These are some amazing songs. As the foundation for this series of blogs I'm going to start off with a two part huffpost article. From there I'll be finding songs on my own. There are likely dozens, if not more, amazing songs that never made the Top 40. I get the song peak info from wikipedia.org most of those rankings come from Billboard. The didn't chart at all meant the song didn't even make the Top 100. Otherwise the number in parenthesis is the songs peak on the Billboard Hot 100 in America.

69) Erasure "Drama" (Didn't chart at all.):

70) Erasure "Star" (Didn't chart at all.)

71) Talking Heads "Once In A Lifetime" (The original version didn't chart at all and the live version only got to #91.):

72) Talking Heads "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" (#62):

73) Talking Heads "Life During Wartime" (The original version went to #80, the live version didn't chart at all.):

74) Talking Heads "Girlfriend Is Better" (Didn't chart at all):

75) Talking Heads "And She Was" (One of Talking Heads biggest "hits", this song went to 54.):

76) "The Lady Don't Mind" (Didn't chart at all.):

The next four songs are all by The Talking Heads. 77) "Road To Nowhere" (Didn't chart at all.):

78) "Stay Up Late" (Didn't chart at all.):

79) "Psycho Killer" (#92):

80) Dokken "Breaking The Chains" (Didn't chart at all.)

81) Dokken "Alone Again" (#64):

82) Dokken "In My Dreams" (#77):

83) Dokken "Dream Warriors" (Didn't chart at all.):

84) Dokken "Burning Like A Flame" (#72):

85) Dokken "The Hunter" (Didn't chart at all.):

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