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
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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.
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Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
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.
"My My" on the same album had a lot of energy to it.
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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.
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.
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B.O.B., come on!
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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.
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Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
Pretty much any individual Ween song
Ween is a truly mixed bag
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn't sound like it.
Not so much song but album.
First, listen to Ministry - With Sympathy
Next, listen to any other ministry album
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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
MGMT, although it’s more like 3 songs with a more electronic vibe and then everything else they’ve done since is pretty different. I remember them even saying they liked a different sound than what made them famous.
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.
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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.
Peter Schilling, "Major Tom" (German and English versions).
Dunno, "Terra Titanic" and "Die Wüste lebt" basically sound the same. Just not as good.
The decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
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
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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
Gotye. Loved "Somebody That I Used to Know." The rest of his music wasn't for me.
Lo Fidelity Allstars
"Battle Flag" is awesome, the rest is not for me
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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
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
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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.
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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’.)
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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!
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don't like any of their other music.
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