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?
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
The decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
“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.
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.
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink
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
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.
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
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.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
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Pretty much any individual Ween song
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!
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.
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!
That’s fucking hilarious. I didn’t know that they covered a muppets song, now I like them even more than I did before.
Hoobastank, The Reason
100%, can’t even name another song by them
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.
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.
