Sugar Ray... a long time ago lol
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Pretty much any individual Ween song
Ween is a truly mixed bag
Weezer’s Hash Pipe came to mind for me. The rest of the green album and much of their stuff is distinctly different.
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.
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".
True - Spandau Ballet
The Killers - All These Things I've Done
Still not a fan of the band but love the song after many years.
Ghost Boy by Jacob Tillberg.
The rest of his music is unfortunately flat and disappointing to me.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Absolutely killer song.
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:
Too Broke:
Sweet Ice Tea:
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 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
Ratatat - Cream on Chrome.
The rest of the album is fine I guess. Cream on Chrome is another level.
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.
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink
That whole album has the same vibe as Tubthumping
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.
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...
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He is a jazz legend, yeah...
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
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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
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.
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