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?
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gz5bQ78arfIVshBW6oIP4
Tempest – MachiChunky
Very heady instrumental trap track, the rest of their music is remixes of what appears to be visual novel soundtracks
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don’t like any of their other music.
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
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
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.
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
Water’s Edge was also on the radio at the same time and had a pretty similar sound I thought.
The only psychedelic song they recorded
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Edit to add: There are two faces you should recognize. The first is very easy, and the second is harder to place. A hint, the second face had a successful second career as a reoccurring bit actor in a several TV shows and movies.
Andrew W K. If you’ve heard one of his songs, you heard them all.
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn’t sound like it.
That Savage Garden album with Truly Madly Deeply comes to mind
Elbow.
The only song that’s any good is “grounds for divorce”
No one is going to know this but way, way back there was a song on the radio that I loved called “On the Prowl” by a group named Cats. I bought the album and the rest of it is like a motel bar band. I still listen to “On the Prowl” to this day:
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.
I went to a concert of theirs and they refused to play any of the songs they’re known for
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.
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.
Lo Fidelity Allstars
“Battle Flag” is awesome, the rest is not for me
Haven’t heard them mentioned in years. How to operate with a blown mind was great.
First thing that came to mind.
