What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that?
For example, I first heard Suburban Legends - Polyester, so I went to check Suburban Legends and they were just a regular ska band.
What's your "that song was great, I wish the band did more of that" song and band?
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Chumbawamba - Tub thumping. I had no idea they’ve always been an anarchist sea shanty band and that song was the outlier and a total piss take. I am here for it.
LOL!
Came to this comment section to say exactly that, just to discover it to be already the first comment!
But it's kinda the reverse thing OP had in mind, I think...
Sea shanties‽ I absolutely love Uneasy Listening and will blast English Rebel Songs, but they're not sea shanties.
yeah, it's called english folk or something
That whole album has the same vibe as Tubthumping
in fact the album is called Tubthumper
the follow-up album, WYSIWYG, also has the same vibe
Yeah, they went through a few different sounds and that was their party era.
They did a few songs that have a catchy repetitive chorus to be fair. Mouthful of Shit for example. Just not quite to the extent of Tubthumping.
have you tried "The Big Issue"? it's from the same album and is kinda the same thing, except the vocals are far more female-dominated and the song extends the melancholy a bit
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink
I preferred Mary Mary and it had the same problem. No others like that that I heard.
same band that did the song Torturing James Hetfield.
Also, Tubthumper (the album) is entirely amazing. The popular song included
I never understood this bands popularity until I listened to this song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7n7WRidwYo
Their other songs are okay but this ones possibly one of my favorite songs of all time
This should become the new rickroll.
Hmmm
Something something username or whatever
As a teen I loved Family Reunion by them. Basically a pop-punk cover of George Carlin's 7 words you can't say on television
Chris Isaac, Wicked Game
Fun fact: that song only became a hit after having been included in David Lynch's 'Wild at Heart' and then being played on radio by Lee Chesnut, fan of the director.
Rockit by Herbie Hancock. It's a great hip-hop/electronica track, but the rest of his work is mostly jazz.
It's because ‘Rockit’ was made by Bill Laswell, Michael Beinhorn, GrandMixer DXT and three other guys on turntables. Hancock basically turned up at the end to play some synth lines.
Laswell and Beinhorn were in the band Material, and turned it into a production outfit, plus Laswell was a producer at the label Celluloid at the time, which label was a pioneer of hiphop. He also participated in the New York no-wave jazz scene as musician and composer.
Hancock was in his early forties, and his career was getting stale. His manager, twenty-five years old, pitched the idea of making a track to both him and Laswell. Hancock was taken by Laswell to hear some popular djs, but still required more coercing by the manager.
Material's early stuff might be closer to ‘Rockit’, although it's more disco-funk. Dunno about Celluloid's output, as I'm not really into old hiphop. Laswell used scratching in some of his genre-clashing projects well into the 2000s, e.g. in the ‘Axiom Sound System’ concert with Tabla Beat Science and a bunch of other folks (including Grandmaster DXT). Laswell also co-produced and played bass on the rest of Hancock's ‘Future Shock’ album and the next two albums ‘Sound-System’ and ‘Village Life’, and did other collaborations with him.
(Yall might be familiar with Time Zone's ‘World Destruction’ with Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon; and Material's ‘Seven Souls’ with the voice of William S. Burroughs. Both of these were featured in ‘The Sopranos’, and both were produced by Laswell, just like PIL's album ‘Album’.)
My favorite from a him was always Chameleon from exactly 10 years earlier. That’s the song I hear when Herbie is mentioned.
I had a jazz teacher say that Herbie Hancock would play straight up jazz until he ran out of money, and then release a funky track like chameleon to rake in the big bucks, and then go back to jazz
Seems like a good gig if you can get it.
I'm more partial toward 'Watermelon Man' reinterpretation from the same album.
Whoa, that's some good insight. As a fan of that New York mutant disco/funk stuff I've always liked Material. Never knew they were involved with that song. Cool.
I've been a fan of Laswell for about twenty years, and it's fascinating to dig through his catalog and see how easy production comes to him, how he always had his fingers in a lot of projects and how he gathered a whole bunch of other musicians in his orbit. ‘Future Shock’ also has Nicky Skopelitis, who did guitar on some of Material's albums and was in The Golden Palominos with Laswell, and whom Laswell pretty much dragged from one project to another for decades.
Eraldo Bernocchi is another illustrative example. He had an ambient project with some dudes, released something like four records, and then did a collaboration with Laswell, inevitably falling into his gravitational sphere. After that all of Bernocchi's later releases in the project and under his own name were clearly marked by Laswell's methods and the library of sounds and effects, even without latter's involvement.
He is a jazz legend, yeah...
....wow. This might be the most "stand on his lawn" comment I've ever seen.
25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago
Everything else is more of a soft jazz rock. But this song is such a high energy banger
I could be wrong, but I believe there were at least two distinct phases of that band.
I think they started out as "Chicago Transit Authority". A few years after changing their name to "Chicago," one of their founding members died, so that might account for the change.
I'm weirdly more familiar with the history of this band, than their actual music, so I'm not sure where 25 or 6 to 4 fits in the timeline but it could be related
Terry Kath was essentially the leader, and also their main songwriter, and a truly spectacular guitarist. He died in a gun accident, and the artistic direction of the band changed.
No worries. Their music is just blah, basically. Background noise while waiting in line.
The guitar solo in that song has no right to be that amazing
Absolutely killer song.
Outkast - Hey Ya!
Mrs Robinson is the only other Outkast song I can stand.
Also Blur - Song 2, but in a good way. Song 2 is great, but their other music is very different but also great.
IIRC Song 2 was supposed to be a parody of how simple radio friendly rock music had become, then became their biggest hit.
Wasn't Smells Like Teen Spirit also kinda like that? They have similar places in my head and I think I remember something about Cobain hating how popular that song got.
But Nirvana's other songs were similar enough that that one didn't come to my mind for the main question. Blur is like a different band from the one that did Song 2.
I think with Smells Like Teen Spirit is Kurt always felt that like he didn't deserve as much praise because he considered the song to be a Pixies rip-off. It wasn't done to poke fun at the Pixies but out of his love for them.
B.O.B., come on!
There's like ten plus great Outkast songs, you need help
I might have given up too soon but the vibe is way different from Hey Ya! for the ones I did try.
Completely agree with the first part (Hey Ya is the only song of its kind, Andre3000 is a genius) but not the second part (you can't stand their other songs?? What is wrong with you??)
outkast is an insane take
they have nothing but banger albums (including idlewild)
I Can't Decide
... by The Scissor Sisters
Their other music is badass though.
A nice classic tune to dominate humanity by.
give Mary a listen. It's pretty enjoyable from most angles
But that song isn't an outlier.
what songs sound like it?
Most of them? They're an upbeat dancy modern disco band. Basically a modern ABBA. They make boppers.
which is very different from “I Can’t Decide”, a music hall track that’s somewhat baroque, even though disco also happens to be upbeat and the vocals are very similar
Pretty much any individual Ween song
Ween is a truly mixed bag
The whole Gran Turismo album by The Cardigans. I was a angsty teenager, listened to that album and found it excellent for my angst sessions. Then I got all the other albums and they were not at all good for my angst sessions.
Luckily I got over myself and realized that the other albums are excellent as well, just different. Pikebubbles<3
90s glam hair rock bands all had a hit ballad, despite rock tempo wall of main sound. Then there's Extreme. "More than words" is one of the best ballads of the time. They had the glam hair look. The rest of their music is jazz fusion funk. Decent, but no real hits/bangers.
I think Extreme is one of the best examples of this where their most popular song is absolutely nothing like the rest of their music.
Also the power balland bands all had similar singing styles Motley Crue/Axel Rose screaming out tone that you knew were part of the generic rock genre. In addition to the ballads having big rock climaxes. More than words is like a Simon and Garfunkle song, even if rest of catalogue pretty loud.
@TheDoozer Last Resort - Papa Roach
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
The Dead never set out to record bangers; they were all about the vibe. Touch of Grey came out in the late 1980s, way past the band's prime. A lot of old bands were putting out bangers around that time. But Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, and the Moody Blues had a ton of bangers before, too.
So I love Pink Floyd, but (at least to me) the sound is very different from Touch of Grey.
Good call on Fleetwood Mac and Moody Blues though - also some greats!
Not sure what you're saying here — that you think no Pink Floyd song sounds like the Grateful Dead song Touch of Grey? Or... are you saying the difference between Pink Floyd in the 1960s/1970s is not so different to Pink Floyd in the 1980s as Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, and Moody Blues were from their latter work?
Because I can see it either way, but I don't like Pink Floyd that much. I like some of their songs. I like the stuff on A Momentary Lapse of Reason — I feel like it's a more mature sound. I also like that song off Ummagumma (I think) with the really long title. Something like "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict." Pretty sure that's mostly it, without Googling it. Dark Side of the Moon is okay, but I feel it's a bit overrated. Some clever word play. Annoying alarm clocks in Time. Maybe it's better if you're high? I don't get high. And The Wall, also overrated, but I did like some of those songs as well. So, I like some of their songs, and I like some quite a bit. I listened to a more recent album from them, which was all/mostly instrumental, and that was cool, but I didn't listen to it again. I guess I like them more than a lot of people but wouldn't call myself a fan.
So the tone/mood/beat of most Pink Floyd songs is more chill, but Touch of Grey just sounds “peppier” (if that makes sense). I like both but for different reasons, and in different moods. Totally get why others don’t though - I’m far from a deadhead but I can see the appeal to folks. Contrary to a lot of my post history I am (or at least used to be) a live and let live guy - do what you like, I’ll do what I like, and where those intersect well have some fun!
Gotcha. It just threw me off that you were comparing a single Grateful Dead song to the entire catalogue of Pink Floyd. I assumed I misunderstood.
So I suppose the only other question I have for you is: do you consider A Momentary Lapse of Reason to be an exception to Pink Floyd's catalogue (for better or worse) or more of the same? Or just part of the evolution of their sound over the decades? I think a lot of fans are fine with it, but I've also heard some fans of 60s/70s bands less accepting of the band's latter catalogue.
It does have a different feel, but I still like it. And actually, thanks for reminding me about it - been a while since I have it a listen but I’m glad that I am!
Obligatory Achewood link
Thanks for the new comic!
Oof that hits me right in the middle age
Modern English - I Melt With You is a catchy new wave pop tune. The rest of their work is much, much darker
Mesh and Lace
The subject matter is still pretty dark even if the tune isn't.
My introduction to Cake was Arco Arena.
Now I enjoy Cake, but Arco Arena is not a great representation of their music, even though that song rules in its own right.
Mnamana!
https://youtu.be/0kUib8lh168
That's fucking hilarious. I didn't know that they covered a muppets song, now I like them even more than I did before.
oh, it's not originally a Muppets song.
https://youtu.be/KoheVioD3Bg
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler /s :::
TIL that song is by Queen. I had no idea. So definitely an appropriate song for this discussion!
Yeah, I had to list it because even though I actually like Queen in general, I couldn't believe that was their first song. It is so very different from everything else they made.
Edit: Fun Fact. Freddie Mercury wrote that song in 10 minutes, while taking a bath.
Basically how I feel about Poppy.
She's done a few collabs that I really enjoy, like End of You with Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox and Amy Lee of Evanescence or Suffocate with Knocked Loose.
I don't think she's bad or anything, but I just don't really jibe with her work.
I listened to one song and thought it was quite fun. Then I listened to another couple and discovered they were the same song in a different box.
As a poopy fan, I get that.
I feel that way about Poppy and honestly about Knocked Loose. I think the first song I heard from them was Forget Your Name with Keith Buckley on it. And I was a huge ETID guy, so the song got me super excited, but I just never really got into them beyond that. And I wanted to, just never clicked.
Hoobastank, The Reason
100%, can't even name another song by them
they had other songs??
Lol. Actually I was thinking about it last night and crawling in the dark wasn't that bad. But it didn't sound like them.
Yes they had some other decent hard rock songs. Born to lead is the only one I can remember getting a bit of radio play on the local rock station though
Morcheeba - Rome wasn't built in a day ?
I think they chose the most pop song for the single and rest of their songs are very varied and less catchy.
It was "enjoy the ride" for me. One of my favourite songs of all time and the only Morcheeba song I listen to.
Peter Schilling, "Major Tom" (German and English versions).
Dunno, "Terra Titanic" and "Die Wüste lebt" basically sound the same. Just not as good.
Ratatat - Cream on Chrome.
The rest of the album is fine I guess. Cream on Chrome is another level.
Magnifique is their worst album though. I am an LP3 fanatic, but the first four are all just so good. Magnifique was ... different. And perhaps it was an unfortunate sign of things (not) to come.
I miss Ratatat more than any other band, and I think that's that.
I thought classics was their only album
Classics is definitely when they blew up a bit. It's LP2, in the scheme of things. They had five total, all great. LP3 and LP4 seem to be similar.
Love and Rockets - So Alive
I remember that song what else did they make?
No New Tale to Tell is a good one.
That whole album is so good though
Elbow.
I first heard their song 'grounds for divorce' which is a very cool, gospel rock kind of song and sound. Then I gotta into their you other work, which is very beautiful and ethereal.
But I kind of wish for Guy to run into new marital problems to have another song of them that goes into that darker, grittier rocking feel.
That's the one song I was so happy to finally remember and add to my playlist. It was always thumping in the back of my head but I could never bring it up when downloading songs.
But my god, Fugitive Motel is a work of art.
Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
Slash - Beautiful Dangerous (feat. Fergie)
I was shocked when I found it was Fergie singing. Apparently Slash thought she would make a good rock signer and wrote the specifically with her in mind. And he wasn't wrong.
That whole album by Slash is great!
Maybe Tomorrow by Stereophonics. That song causes a lot of frission when I hear it. Now I admit I haven’t heard their entire discography yet, but any other song of theirs I’ve listened to hasn’t given me the same effect.
Dakota by the Stereophonics is completely different from everything else they made, but gives me a similar reaction. They struck gold with a few for sure, but I think most of their catalogue is actually pretty mediocre.
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Sugar Ray... a long time ago lol
Before or after their switch?
Before
Not so much song but album.
First, listen to Ministry - With Sympathy
Next, listen to any other ministry album
Don't act like With Sympathy doesn't have some great songs, nothing like Thieves, but with Sympathy isn't a hack album.
That being said my God he created an entire genre music.
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
If I recall, they hated a certain kind of pop music, and those three songs were basically parodies of the music they hated. So they got famous for making exactly what they were against.
I went to a concert of theirs and they refused to play any of the songs they're known for
Lo Fidelity Allstars
"Battle Flag" is awesome, the rest is not for me
First thing that came to mind.
Haven't heard them mentioned in years. How to operate with a blown mind was great.
The La's - There She Goes
Pretty much everyone knows this song and they're considered a one-hit wonder, but that album thoroughly impressed me and I'd say There She Goes is one of my least favorite songs of theirs. The rest are still catchy as hell but the lyrics aren't quite as accessible, hence the "singular success".
the songwriter also had terrible bouts of perfectionism, it took forever just to get him to okay that albums release
He actually never okay-ed it and wasn't a fan of it (source).
Fantasy by Aldo Nova
7 Mary 3.
They had a hit that sounded dark and grungy. "Cumbersome". The rest of the album was much less angsty/original/grungy. Disappointing.
Water's Edge was also on the radio at the same time and had a pretty similar sound I thought.
"My My" on the same album had a lot of energy to it.
The best part was the demo version of cumbersome was so much better than the album version...WJRR in Orlando was instrumental in breaking them and it they played the original cumbersome all the time.
In my experience a lot of bands were one hit wonders with alternative music. Cracker low
Weezer’s Hash Pipe came to mind for me. The rest of the green album and much of their stuff is distinctly different.
Yeah but their other stuff is amazing. The Blue Album is audio gold.
Their newer stuff tries too hard though. They still have a few good ones now and then
Hmmm.. Not discovered in that order, but Satyricon's Phoenix . I love their stuff, really.. but phoenix is unlike anything they've done and it's actually unlike most other stuff that I could find.. those blast beats comboed with Sivert's vocals are just... There's things that come close but nothing quite gets there.. it's so powerful and chill at the same time... Like being inside during a blizzard or something, I dunno.
A bit more on topic, however, I've recently discovered Måneskin's The loneliest and I've really enjoyed it. Went to listen to some of their other stuff and I was quite disappointed. Have only listened to like a dozen songs so maybe there's more stuff to my liking in there.. I'll say that my wife really enjoyed Coraline .. and while I didn't like it that much (especially the chorus seems kinda silly and ruins the vibe for me).. when I looked up the lyrics.. damn. Powerful stuff. Props to the guy.
Dethroned by Bad Omens
That song drew me into their other music, which I liked, but just wasn’t on the same level. Artificial Suicide comes closest but still doesn’t go as hard as Dethroned.
The opposite happened with Extreme. Their hits (More than words and Hole Hearted) were OK but nothing to go crazy about. One day I was in the mood for that type of music so I looked into them. Blew my mind, their catalog is nothing like their hits, it's awesome!
Nice to see a little hairband love in here.
For those curious, Extreme was featured in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Great hair metal band with exquisite technical lead guitar skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Nwih9dCQs
Yeah, Nuno is a beast. Greatly underrated guitarist.
Possibly the last album i bought before streaming. Girl with a violin, guy with a guitar doing English folk songs, some traditional, some original. The ad for the album featured a song which featured those instruments as well as beatboxing and blues harmonica. There were quotes from music journalists gushing over how original and innovative the album was
Instant buy
Then i listen to the album and literally every other track sounds exactly how you’d think a song would sound if you were told it was s girl with s violin and a guy with a guitar singing English folk songs
I’m still annoyed, although i do still listen to that one song
For me it was an album, "Nothing is True & Everything is Possible" by Enter Shikari.
There are multiple songs I absolutely love from this album, but when I went to look at more of their songs, they had a completely different vibe.
Huh. I love A Flash Flood of Colour, but I dislike Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible. I thought the album was gonna be a reference to the Chaos Magic mantra "nothing is true, everything is permitted", which was famously used as part of the Assassin's Creed in the video game. I thought it was gonna be anarcho-antirealist.
But they're actually complaining about the antirealism of modern culture! They're being big authoritarian realists and having a whinge about how the zeitgeist is going antirealist! Boooo! Reactionary!
The song Jogger by Nephicide is the absolute penultimate example of this. The song is a weird black metal electronic mashup up happy beats and growling vocals. Nothing they ever made sounded at all like it. The song was a complete one-off.
The Killers - All These Things I've Done
Still not a fan of the band but love the song after many years.
Alt-J Left hand free. It was a forced song the label pushed for.
My Morning Jacket - In it's Infancy (The Waterfall)
I found this song and got stoked I might have a new band to dig into. Dammit if the rest of their music isn't boring as shit. I found them so dull, I actually had to come back to this song and make sure I didn't mistake it for another band.
Same thing happened with Jesus & the Brides of Dracula - Turning Teeth
The song has a killer vibe, and then when I found out it was The Silversun Pickups I was actually bummed to know they could make such interesting music, but don't.
To be fair, Disasterpiece wrote the song, but Silversun did something with it much cooler than anything else they've written.
"Under your scars" by Godsmack
Godsmack had some good hits.
Whatever
I stand alone
Voodoo
Sick of life
Maybe more, listened to them in high school
The one about the snek bites I remember being rather neat.
Then they signed a deal with the U.S. Navy and they never recovered for me.
Puscifier - Conditions of My Parole fucking slaps. But the rest of their stuff is nothing like that.
I have one by them too but it's Personal Prometheus
I love Bullet Train to Iowa, great song. Apocalyptica is another great one. But yeah Conditions of My Parole really doesn't sound like their other stuff. Maynard kinda pulled the same thing with A Perfect Circle and the track The Doomed which sounds insanely epic.
I'm one of those guys who in my teens I just didn't get Tool or A Perfect Circle. I didn't understand why everyone loved them. But now in my 40s I get it. I love all of Maynards stuff now. Tool, Pusicifer, A Perfect Circle.
I've never once heard a song and said "I need to listen to all the songs by this artist"
but I think I would be concidered an EDM normie, so I just listen to what is concidered popular in the feeds.
Being said, I have heard some songs that were dual offs at times, like there's a bunch of dubstep composers who I think fall under that where they had a real good ones and the rest are meh
When I first started getting into EDM, I'd hear a tune and be like, damn, I need more tunes by this artist, but found they would never click really. But then I would go to a show and hear tunes, or listen to mixes, and it would all really come alive then. I was big in that scene from probably 2009 to 2015, and I've reverted to more general love for music, though I haven't stopped listening.
Recently, I found a list of the 25 best EDM albums of 2025, obviously just one site's collective opinions, but I ran through it, it was more than just dubstep (which was always what I leaned toward), and I ended up really digging so much of it, just from going through album by album.
And that being said, there were some acts who would put out legit albums. Early Ganja White Night, with Addiction especially, and Hybrid Distillery, were such great albums, really told a story when you listened cover to cover. But they're definitely not the norm. Zeds Dead's most recent album was also top notch.
Somebody out there heard nickleback's "san quentin" and got thoroughly disappointed after looking for more bangers
Hadn't heard that one. It's okay i guess. But there's plenty more like it in Silver Side Up and The Long Road. Their transition really is peak sellout.
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn't sound like it.
It wasn't one single song, but rather an EP: Atom Bomb by The Strike.
It's some fun, fast-paced rock, that the band played for five songs, and everything since then has been synth-pop 80s-esque throwbacks. Nothing wrong with it, I love everything they put out, but I'm still chasing that high from Atom Bomb.
I have a lot hahaha. Here are some
Bon voyage - Arbi E-girl - WASTEDJU Movezz en silencio - Cruz Cafune Deep blue (hallow remix) - jadu jadu Overthinker - INZO Paris (Zack Nicita remix) - Magic Man
One of my favourites is Punchdrunk - Vaines
Maruja - the thinker
This a post rock band that made the track that pulled me into jazz, yet they don't have more
I had a similar experience after hearing their song Saoirse.
Check out the Irish band Bricknasty
Cool rec!
I picked that one in particular because it has some of the same jazz elements that I liked about Maruja but their EP and two albums are a bit all over the place (in a good way imo)
That album reminds me of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, and perhaps The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, so you can try those if you want vaguely similar sound.
Thanks! Will listen to them! If you have some other nice recommendations you wished you knew earlier in life, please share :)
I've been posting jazz-fusion and jazz-metal some time ago in the music communities, see in my profile: the posts are marked with the genre. You'll probably want to start at ‘Jonny Greenwood — Bodysong’ and go in the chronological order of the posts, which is also approximately by increasing craziness. Fugu Quartet/Quintet in particular did jazz with doom-metal, so in kinda related spirit.
I also posted some regular jazz and other stuff, see if anything catches your eye or ear. It's all from the personal selection.
Thanks! Much appreciated. Curious to hear what you listen to your music with
Huh? With my ears, normally.
Fair
Tamaki Miura, Ryukichi Sawada - O-edo Nihon-bashi (before 1925)
A recording by Japan's first international opera singer and a professional pianist.
The original piece is a folk song, but the arrangement by pianist Ryukichi Sawada is ingenious, allowing listeners to hear rhythmic expressions comparable to modern rock and roll.
Due to Sawada's early death, the number of his known works is limited, and there are virtually no other works of this kind of vocal music.
Recently, Sawada's music has been reissued under the revival label Sakuraphone.
Dax - Dear God.
It's an amazing rap song about question beliefs. The rest of his music is mostly country.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dear-god/1480917084?i=1480917085
Teardrop. Although it did lead me down the rabbit hole to Cocteau Twins so kinda worth it.
Massive attack? Yeah I get that
No one is going to know this but way, way back there was a song on the radio that I loved called "On the Prowl" by a group named Cats. I bought the album and the rest of it is like a motel bar band. I still listen to "On the Prowl" to this day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZydYfjw7e9k
Modest Mouse
What song?
I would guess "Float On" because I checked them out after hearing the song and was really disapointed
weird. I love all their songs but also I've been listening since before Good News came out. I like how odd they are.
That would also be my guess
The Beat - Mirror in a bathroom
Not in the same way, but Slipknot — Vermilion, pt 2
It used to be my goto recommendation when asked for some new music, in expectation that the one asking will be surprised when checking out the rest of their music.
But as for me, I liked the rest of the songs, too, but didn't listen to the new albums for about 10 years now
Kris Delmhorst — "Short Work"
Man this is like every 1 minute interlude jams or 20 second outtro of every metal band ever.
The outtro to Floods by Pantera, for instance.
Scissor Sisters - I Can't Decide
I understand they were popular for other songs in the UK, but I was so disappointed.
Ha weird. I've never even heard of that song, but their first album.. i love the whole thing. They are fairly eclectic though so I could see how a any one song could give the wrong idea.
So sad to open this and see Suburban Legends inspired it!! They were my favorite band for a good while. I love most ska anyway, but I always felt their musicianship and performances set them apart. I found them early when they were more like Reel Big Fish and watched the transformation up to this album. I'd still say they have more of a disco lean on the album before, "Infectious", than a run of the mill ska band, but I get being disappointed if you liked the feel of this song alone.
True - Spandau Ballet
Ghost Boy by Jacob Tillberg.
The rest of his music is unfortunately flat and disappointing to me.
Love "Everybody Wants To Be An Astronaut" by Royal Republic. The rest of their music isn't like that.
Charmer by Kings of Leon. Great song, everything else is boring radio rock.
What is it about that song that sounds so different to their other stuff? I've been listening to them a lot and am just curious, no shade
Yeah I had the same question, I don't really understand this take.
So sorry. I replied to the earlier comment just now. Didn't realize I forgot to reply long ago....
And it is much appreciated!
We will have to wait and see.
I do think charmer has some unique elements and is definately one that stood out to me and is a memorable song. I'm just curious about their explanation of how it hits their ear differently than mine
Oh shit. Sorry. I was convinced I replied to this a while ago. Guess I should check my messages more often.
I'd consider the major genre I like to be punk, or punk adjacent stuff. I listen to everything though. People have also said I'm a fan of "weirder" sounding music or the strange part of some songs.
I think it's a combination of the sort of vocal fry/almost screaming coupled with that main driving riff/prominent bassline. It just seems a bit more interesting than the more generic stuff (in my opinion) they have done.
Other than that, just a memory of good times. A friend and I used to jam and we burnt a cd with a bunch of random songs we may want to play. Charmer was on it, and was also the first song I heard by them.
Edit: Also nothing against the band, I just haven't heard a song of theirs that hit the same way as Charmer.
Hey thanks for taking the time to respond. Really appreciate it.
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Its not all gonna be to your liking but the guy who runs it got sick of there being tons of good music that he was never allowed to play on the radio station he worked at as a dj for 10 years so he quit and started his own thing.
He's had some setbacks but the guys whole thing is new music, 36 months or newer. Been introduced to some really good stuff I never would have heard of if I hadn't been a fan of his when he was still the afternoon guy on 91.3 theZone out of Victoria bc
Here's a Spotify playlist to give you an idea
The Datsuns, Cancer Bats, Spiritbox, Wolf Alice, Slomosa, Rival Sons, Tiger cub. All bands I discovered because of this project
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k6MYfWC1efEocit5BRnQP?pi=M2UjRYPiRkSnl
Sugar Ray.
They have their few pop songs... But every other song and their previous stuff is totally different. I remember as a kid, listening to "Big Black Woman" after listening to one of their hits and being shocked.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImOaKJ3PdiQ
I would get roasted for this in some places, but BTS. I love Not Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwzBICPhdM ...but most of their songs don't sound like that. In fact, I haven't found any that have. Dynamite is okay, but it's not their song. It was written for them, and it's 100% in English. It was made for the western market. Not Today is their song (one of them, I mean) and it's amazing. I've tried to listen to others, and none of them hit quite the same, that I've heard yet.
That said, if you don't like or don't get BTS, but you liked the K-Pop in Kpop Demon Hunters, you might like Not Today... and also K/DA, the cartoon band Riot Games created for League of Legends (with songs like Pop/Stars and The Baddest) — in fact, I think K/DA might be the direct inspiration for HUNTR/X, along with TWICE (who appear on the soundtrack and are referenced in an Easter egg — the song that plays when they go up to their penthouse ("Strategy") is the one their song Golden knocks off the top of the charts).
The only psychedelic song they recorded
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Edit to add: There are two faces you should recognize. The first is very easy, and the second is harder to place. A hint, the second face had a successful second career as a reoccurring bit actor in a several TV shows and movies.
The Movement - Remember
This song hit at the right time in my life and I had it practically on repeat for over a year. Rest of their stuff just didn't grab me like say practically every Stick Figure song did.
Oh Lord - In This Moment
The rest of their music sounds like the bdsm of music, and I'm just not into it.
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
God dammit, now I have it in my head.
Hands Down is so similar though, but maybe I just lump them together because they were such big hits way back when.
Omg, that was 2006? Feels like just a few years ago.
This that just came out 2 days ago
https://youtu.be/ost1OGXW0k0
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don't like any of their other music.
"Weatherman" by Sub7even.
But while I totally loved that song, turned out I loved the rest of their stuff, which is totally different just as much.
So inside me there are two wolves:
One wishing they had done more stuff like "Weatherman".
The other one wishing they had made more stuff as on the rest of the album it was on.
Yeah, Fear Factory, Linchpin is a headbanging classic but the rest of their stuff just doesn't do it for me. Maybe their Cars cover, but that's it.
Gotye. Loved "Somebody That I Used to Know." The rest of his music wasn't for me.
That Savage Garden album with Truly Madly Deeply comes to mind
Elbow.
The only song that's any good is "grounds for divorce"
Came across Avalon Emerson recently with the song Written Into Changes but nothing hits that same vibe. I like some of the other tracks but this one really does it for me
Carpeduke - Americana
Vertical Horizon: "Instamatic".
Did a little research and... Holy crap... Turns out that Neil Peart was a guest drummer on the song. It's amazing how a truly talented drummer can make such a massive impact on a band.
"BROKEN ENGLISH" by SCHAFT. The rest of their work is great, but still.
Wild In The Streets by Garland Jeffreys. That song is such a banger, and is a piece of music history, the rest of his stuff is just standard music from the time.
Picked up the 2 newest albums by Tinsley Ellis, turns out, these acoustic records are COMPLETELY different from everything he did before, notably playing electric but also with a full band.
Hoodoo Woman:
https://youtu.be/0uMYeNU2MaQ
Too Broke:
https://youtu.be/ubWXTMdR24w
Sweet Ice Tea:
https://youtu.be/RHc9nMDKlQ8
Måneskin - I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE is a total banger, but I never quite liked the rest of the album (It's all in Italian??)
Japandroids "The House That Heaven Built"
https://youtu.be/TRVCtbfuDqw
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gz5bQ78arfIVshBW6oIP4
Tempest -- MachiChunky
Very heady instrumental trap track, the rest of their music is remixes of what appears to be visual novel soundtracks
Lana Del Rey - A&W
Lana makes great music, but none of it really matches the vibe of A&W, which is unfortunate as that song is phenomenal
"People" - The 1975
I learned about them from a cover of the song by one of my favourite bands, FIDLAR, and was saddened to find out that the rest of their music isn't in the same style. Or at least, the albums it's on is, to say it lightly, is far away in style from "People". Imagine a single punk song on an album filled with slow electronic music. That's that album.
Honestly radiohead - Paranoid Android
The decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
Soulfly, Soulfly II, Soulfly III, etc. I think all of their albums have one instrumental, melodic, tribal inspired song that is worlds apart from their otherwise aggressive metal.
And with a trigger warning for sexual abuse: Motōrhead - Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me. I have never been more caught off-guard by a song than when I stumbled across this, which was only released as a single.
I love "John Coltrane Stereo Blues" but nothing else The Dream Syndicate has done seems anything like it.
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Passafire - Carouser
Not only is their stuff not like it, I've not found anything I'd really call that genre.
Terrorvision - Tequila.
Mostly because the version that got played on Radio 1 non-stop for about a year wasn't anything like the original version they made. It was a remix. Nobody really seemed to notice this until they turned up for live shows in their party frocks and got met with a room full of rock fans.
Thundercat - Them Changes
Nothing else really hits the same, but I suppose that's because the song (and video especially) set the bar way too high lol
Andrew W K. If you've heard one of his songs, you heard them all.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tz0H5rtIV4