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?

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[–] 107 points 5 months ago (11 children)

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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    [–] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 23 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Rockit by Herbie Hancock. It's a great hip-hop/electronica track, but the rest of his work is mostly jazz.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    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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    [–] 22 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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

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    [–] 21 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I Can't Decide

    ... by The Scissor Sisters

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    [–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Pretty much any individual Ween song

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey

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    [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Modern English - I Melt With You is a catchy new wave pop tune. The rest of their work is much, much darker

    Mesh and Lace

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    @TheDoozer Last Resort - Papa Roach

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

    Tap for spoiler/s

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Basically how I feel about Poppy.

    She's done a few collabs that I really enjoy, like End of You with Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox and Amy Lee of Evanescence or Suffocate with Knocked Loose.

    I don't think she's bad or anything, but I just don't really jibe with her work.

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    [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Love and Rockets - So Alive

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Ratatat - Cream on Chrome.

    The rest of the album is fine I guess. Cream on Chrome is another level.

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Peter Schilling, "Major Tom" (German and English versions).

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe Tomorrow by Stereophonics. That song causes a lot of frission when I hear it. Now I admit I haven’t heard their entire discography yet, but any other song of theirs I’ve listened to hasn’t given me the same effect.

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not so much song but album.

    First, listen to Ministry - With Sympathy

    Next, listen to any other ministry album

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sugar Ray... a long time ago lol

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Lo Fidelity Allstars

    "Battle Flag" is awesome, the rest is not for me

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