Idolator

Time to clean out our first-generation iPods and crank up another installment of the Coulda-Shoulda-Woulda Files, Idolator's every-so-often look at songs and albums that didn't get their due:

Artist: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Song: "Coma Girl," 2003
What happened: When Strummer died in December 2002 (yeesh, have we really lived in a Strummer-deprived world for neatly four years?), he was working on the follow-up to Global-A-Go-Go; less than year later, many of those songs wound up on Streetcore. "Coma Girl" was actually released as a single, but not surprisingly, it was hard for it get traction on radio.
Why it should have been a hit: Posthumous plaudits should always be taken with a grain of salt, but the anthemic garage ditty "Coma Girl" is our favorite song of Strummer's solo career (followed only by "Johnny Appleseed," which we've also included).

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros -Coma Girl [MP3, link expired]
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed [MP3, link expired]