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?

  • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    161·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • hateisreality@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      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

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    10·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        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.

  • AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • lad@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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

  • MrPnut@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    Not so much song but album.

    First, listen to Ministry - With Sympathy

    Next, listen to any other ministry album

    • hateisreality@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 days ago

    “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.