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?
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
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.
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.
B.O.B., come on!
outkast is an insane take
they have nothing but banger albums (including idlewild)
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.
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.
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
“My My” on the same album had a lot of energy to it.
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.
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
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
Peter Schilling, “Major Tom” (German and English versions).
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.
Pretty much any individual Ween song
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
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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 decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don’t like any of their other music.
