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?

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    Wild In The Streets by Garland Jeffreys. That song is such a banger, and is a piece of music history, the rest of his stuff is just standard music from the time.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
    3·
    40 minutes 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
      2·
      6 minutes 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.

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 hours ago

    The song Jogger by Nephicide is the absolute penultimate example of this. The song is a weird black metal electronic mashup up happy beats and growling vocals. Nothing they ever made sounded at all like it. The song was a complete one-off.

  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Possibly the last album i bought before streaming. Girl with a violin, guy with a guitar doing English folk songs, some traditional, some original. The ad for the album featured a song which featured those instruments as well as beatboxing and blues harmonica. There were quotes from music journalists gushing over how original and innovative the album was

    Instant buy

    Then i listen to the album and literally every other track sounds exactly how you’d think a song would sound if you were told it was s girl with s violin and a guy with a guitar singing English folk songs

    I’m still annoyed, although i do still listen to that one song

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    72·
    5 hours 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.

    • hactar42@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 hours ago

      IIRC Song 2 was supposed to be a parody of how simple radio friendly rock music had become, then became their biggest hit.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 hours ago

        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.

        • hactar42@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 hours ago

          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.