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We all like a bit of Dennis every now and then. I was wondering which tracks would be in peoples top tens (songs he wrote or co-wrote), it can and probably will have to include 'tracks not officially available' but they're ones that everyone has known for years!
Here's my 10 in no particular order:

Never learn not to love
Be with me
Slip on Through
Lady
Sound of free
It's a new day
Cuddle up
Carry me home
River song
Rainbows

Different people like different bits of Dennis, from my observation...

(sorry)

No order:

River Song
Pacific Ocean Blues
Rainbows
Steamboat
Little Bird
What's Wrong
Only With You
NLNTL
Slip On Through
Fallin In Love/Lady

I'm not the biggest Dennis fan, really, but it was nice to have a non-retro writer in the mix for a while there.

I forgot Only with you, Baby Blue and San Miguel!

River Song
Celebrate the News
Never Learn Not to Love
Fourth of July
Rainbows
A Time to Live in Dreams
Little Bird
It's About Time
Steam Boat
Sound of Free

1. Thoughts Of You
2. Cuddle Up
3. Lady
4. End Of The Show
5. Holy Evening
6. Moonshine
7. Only With You
8. Forever
9  You And I
10. Slip On Through

Thoughts of You
Forever
Cuddle Up
River Song
Moonshine
Be with Me
Baby Blue
(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again
Only With You
Ecology.

I know it breaks the rules but while I didn't pick everthing Dennis wrote or sang, I picked a huge number of tracks all of which I love.  He added SO much to the group and he also had his own distinct style which I think is brilliant. He didn't have to write the song for me to include it.

Sound Of Free
Lady
Slip On Through
It's About Time
Forever
Celebrate The News
River Song
Baby Blue
Time
Pacific Ocean Blue
Rainbows
Dreamer
Friday Night
What's Wrong
In The Back Of My Mind
Hide Your Love Away
Little Bird
Time To Live In Dreams
Going Your Way
It's A New Day
Barbara
I've Got A Friend
All Alone
It's Not Too Late
Wild Situation
Angel Come Home
Love Surrounds Me
San Miguel
Steamboat
My Diane
Sea Cruise
Be Here In The Morning
Friends
All I Want To Do
Never Learn
Be With Me
Got To Know The Woman
Holy Evening
Carry Me Home

That's naughty AGD!


And.....you're the only one who's heard it!  :-D

You and I
Be With Me
Rainbows
Sound of Free
It's About Time
San Miguel
All I want to Do
River Song
It's Not Too Late
Baby Blue

Can you please describe this? Doesn't it include some parts of All of My Love/River Song/"quad" instrumental piano pieces?

my 10:
1. All of My Love
(1.5. My Diane vocals)
...
2. Time
3. River Song
4. Time to Live in Dreams
5. Thoughts of You
6. Cuddle Up
7. Little Bird
8. Be With Me
9. Barbara
10. San Miguel

Yup.

That's a good description, you can put that in your updated book  ;)

Thoughts Of You
Moonshine
End Of The Show
River Song
Rainbows
Wouldn't it Be Nice(To Live Again)
You And I
Baby Blue
It's Not Too Late
He's A Bum(Polynesian version)
Companion
Only With You
Forever
Slip On Through
Be With Me
Time
Tug Of Love(Feel The Pull)
Never Learn Not To love
Cuddle Up
4th of July
San Miguel
Little Bird

Celebrate the News

Great thread!  In chronological order I would say:

Little Bird
Be with Me
Slip on Through
Cuddle Up
Only with You
River Song
Moonshine
Thoughts of You
Time
You and I
Farewell My Friend
Rainbows
Love Surrounds Me
Baby Blue


His vocals on "I Wanna Pick You Up" and "My Diane" give me chills, too.

Hi Jon, whats this song? It sounds rude!!  :p

Very lush POB outtake. It was replaced by Farewell My Friend at the last minute, and maybe they picked that one to leave out cause Carl's voice is kind of obvious on it. It's great in the Moonshine dreamy type of vein.

This thread has my blood pressure rising again! Whenever we talk about Dennis' music, especially the solo stuff, I start longing for an official release/compilation/box/POB. Come on, Guercio, show some class, give it up! >:(

I look forward to buying it (probably when I start receiving my pension!)

1. Slip On Through
2. River Song
3. Be With Me
4. Be Still
5. All I Want To Do
6. Only WIth You
7. Pacific Ocean Blue
8. Farewell My Friend
9. Thoughts Of You
10. Baby Blue

1. Forever
2. Only With You
3. Cuddle Up
4. All Alone
5. Carry Me Home
6. 4th of July
7. Be With Me
8. Slip On Through
9. Farewell My Friend
10. Vocal: In The Back of My Mind

If i were to compile the top 10 in the form of a CD t'would be as follows:

1. River Song
2. Lady
3. Slip On Through
4. 4th Of July
5. Celebrate The News
6. Moonshine
7. Baby Blue
8. Carry Me Home
9. (I Found Myself In A) Wild Situation
10. Cuddle Up

A nice mixture of different styles methinks. No Forever just coz everyone knows and loves this track already..

I'd prefer a top 20 next time...there are not many Dennis-songs I don't like...

at the moment this should be my top 10:

1. River Song
2. Celebrate The News
3. It’s About Time
4. Thoughts Of You
5. Farewell My Friend
6. Carry Me Home
7. Rainbows
8. Steamboat
9. I’ve Got A Friend
10. Cuddle Up

Wow, I can only pick TEN?

Ok, here goes...

1.  Cuddle Up
2.  Lady
3.  Thoughts of You
4.  I've Got a Friend
5.  Be With Me
6.  Barbara
7.  Baby Blue
8.  Carry Me Home
9.  Got To Know the Woman
10. Wild Situation


Wow...I left so many of my favorite songs off. I think it's impossible for me to make a 'Top Ten Dennis' list. Dennis' music is magical to me. Even 'Make It Good', which most people don't seem to like...

'Make It Good' is fantastic! I know what u mean, had to leave off so many tracks that i goshdarn adore! In fact, going back over my list - where the hell is It's Not Too Late? Or Friday Night? Or Rainbows? Can we make it Top 50 Dennis tracks instead...? Or Top Ten Mike maybe? I'll get things rolling...

1. Big Sur
2. Big Sur (the Landlocked version)
3. Sumarhara (It's cheesy bobbins i admit, but..)
4. Everyones In Love With You (actually i hate this song!)
5. Erm....
6. Kokomo (I realise about 15 other people co-wrote it but it counts no? No? Oh.)
7. Hang on, I'm thinking, I'm thinking...
8. Can i put Good Vibrations? His name does after all come first on the writing credits?
9. One of those sh*t songs of MIU
10. .....

Even though it has Dennis written all over it, It's Not Too Late were written solely bij Carly Munoz, just like "(Under The) Moonlight" or "All Alone" for example, which I otherwise would've put in my top10 immediately.

As for ML-tracks...I'll make it a top 2: (1) Let The Wind Blow, (2) Big Sur...

I'm sure no one would have trouble filling in a top ten Worst Mike Love solo records list!

Thinking about it now though it's quite hard to work out, and would actually require me to put in some concerted listening.... :P

Oh yeh, i forgot Dennis didn't actually write 'It's Not Too Late', and it's really Carl who owns that track isn't it? Bad example on my part.. Still i've just thought of another one-'Holy Evening', what the bollocking christ was i doing leaving that off?

That would be the same as mine. Exactly.

1.  Sound of Free
2.  Forever
3.  Slip on Through
4.  San Miguel
5.  Barbara
6.  Got to know the woman
7.  It's about time
8.  River Song
9.  Baby Blue
10. Carry Me Home

It's a crying shame his solo stuff wasn't better publicized, I LOVE Sound of Free, and it could have done better in the US
Carly

It is a pretty great track, though for my money 'Baby Blue' might just be the best tune he ever wrote! Got me together with my (blue-eyed) finance that one did. She thought the BBs were a joke when i first met her, so i played her the track and, well...



We've split up now. She was a right bitch. But that's not the point....

1. Lady
2. Carry me home
3. A time to live in dreams
4. Sound of free
5. Slip on through
6. Make it good
7. Steamboat
8. Only with you
9. Moonshine
10. River song

Honourable mentions

Morning christmas
He's a bum
Thoughts of you
End of the show

Um, for that to have happened, it wou first have to have been released in the States.  ::)

This is your best post ever. Congrats on that success.

  I know, like I said, it's a crying shame.  I could have sworn I must have heard Sound of Free here in the US at some time.  Was it released at all here in the US?

Nope - never released in the USA. Europe, Australia... but not the States.

Australia? Seriously? I knew about the UK, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands, but this is new to me...I'm curious if there's a complete list of countries in which this 45 was released.