Sex Sells/Crush songs
 

I think there was a topic years ago about this but I cant remember well
I am trying to do a playlist on my phone of the whole catalog of songs that were written during that era,from 1998 to 2000
All I have,so far,is that
I would like some help to add/remove songs from the list!
1- Its my life
2- Say it isnt so
3- Thank you for lovin me
4- Two Story town
5- Next 100 years
6 -Just Older
7-Mistery train
8- Save the world
9- Captain Crash
10- Shes a mistery
11- I got the girl
12- One Wild Night
13 - I could make a living out of lovin you
14- Neurotica
15- Hush
16- Stay
17- Aint no cure for love
18- You Cant Lose at Love
19- Temptation
20- Ordinary People
21- Welcome to the Good Times
22- I dont want to live Forever
23- Rich Man living in a Poor Mans House
24-Garageland
25- Maybe Someday
26- Last Chance Train
27- The One That Got Away
28- These Arms are Open All Night
29- You Can Sleep while I dream
30- Crazy Love
31- Satellite
32- Too Much of a good thing
33- Real Life
34- Kidnap An Angel
35- All I Wanna Do Is You
36- Do It To Ya
37- Gimme Some

Aloha !

Some of these songs were meant for another Greatest Hits planned in 1998 and were then re-recorded by the band. There's Life's Too Short For Days Like These which was recorded by Jon and the Big Dogs in 1998, just like These Arms Are Open All Night wasn't meant for Sex Sells either.

Sex Sells, which still hasn't seen the light of day on any official release, was obviously meant for Sex Sells. Obie's said the song wasn't good enough for the Box Set which I find rather hard to believe considering they were willing to name an album after it.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I Like Life's Too Short For Days Like These. I Would have enjoyed this song and Gimme Some on the 2004 Box Set.

About Sex Sells, who knows, What About Now, Bounce and Lost Highway are just ok songs and ended up naming the album. Sometimes it is just a representative title. I think Crush was meant to be called One Wild Night, until they rearranged the tracks.

I remember there was another list of songs that never came out, and that came from ASCAP?

Some that I remember:

Shadow Dancing
Good Ain't Good Enough
Someday You'll Ride Wild Horses
Even Bad Times Are Good Times (Maybe? Welcome To The Good Times?)
Even In Your Imagination
Forbidden Love


I wish all these songs (including the already known Life Too Short and Gimme Some) were on the next Box Set.


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There's also I get a rush and Someday just might be tonight. And Shut Up and Kiss Me, recorded with the Big Dogs but co-written by Richie if recall.

Some of the box set "info" has some of those songs recorded as early as '97. I'll go to my grave saying Do it to ya is Keep the Fath era. If any of this helps:

19- Temptation - This one is a wild card. I know the box set version was redone with Bobby and I have a hunch Jeff Kazee but the Crush B-side I dont know if it's band or solo

Band Recorded:

1- Its my life
2- Say it isnt so
3- Thank you for lovin me
4- Two Story town
5- Next 100 years
6 -Just Older
7-Mistery train
8- Save the world
9- Captain Crash
10- Shes a mistery
11- I got the girl
12- One Wild Night
13 - I could make a living out of lovin you
14- Neurotica
17- Aint no cure for love
20- Ordinary People
21- Welcome to the Good Times
24-Garageland
25- Maybe Someday
27- The One That Got Away
29- You Can Sleep while I dream
35- All I Wanna Do Is You
36- Do It To Ya
31- Satellite
32- Too Much of a good thing
33- Real Life
Someday just might be tonight

Solo recorded:

6 -Just Older
8- Save the world
11- I got the girl
33- Real Life

Solo recorded and released as band:

15- Hush
16- Stay
18- You Cant Lose at Love
22- I dont want to live Forever
26- Last Chance Train
23- Rich Man living in a Poor Mans House
34- Kidnap An Angel
37- Gimme Some
28- These Arms are Open All Night
30- Crazy Love
I Get a rush
Shut up and kiss me

Thank you all for your replies.
I remember some interview from the era with Richie or Jon,cant remember exactly who of them,saying they had recorded more than 50 songs for the Crush album.
Hope some day we will get some kind of info and of course,as many songs as posible,and if it is with the upcoming box set,much better.

By my count, and I don't know if the ones I include are ones they have on that list, we have 25 songs recorded by the proper band during those sessions-ish.

I remember a lot of interviews around the time them making a big deal that they picked the best 12 out of 60 songs they had. My guess is that out of all the songs that Jon had and they wrote together they maybe had up to 60. But I never imagined them actually recording all 60 songs. But I could be wrong, that's just my uneducated assumption.....