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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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
Chris Isaac, Wicked Game
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.
(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’.)
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
Terry Kath was essentially the leader, and also their main songwriter, and a truly spectacular guitarist. He died in a gun accident, and the artistic direction of the band changed.
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.
There's like ten plus great Outkast songs, you need help
I Can't Decide
... by The Scissor Sisters
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.
Modern English - I Melt With You is a catchy new wave pop tune. The rest of their work is much, much darker
@TheDoozer Last Resort - Papa Roach
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.
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.
That's fucking hilarious. I didn't know that they covered a muppets song, now I like them even more than I did before.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
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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.
I listened to one song and thought it was quite fun. Then I listened to another couple and discovered they were the same song in a different box.
Hoobastank, The Reason
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.
Love and Rockets - So Alive
Ratatat - Cream on Chrome.
The rest of the album is fine I guess. Cream on Chrome is another level.
Peter Schilling, "Major Tom" (German and English versions).
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.
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.
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.
Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
Not so much song but album.
First, listen to Ministry - With Sympathy
Next, listen to any other ministry album
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
Sugar Ray... a long time ago lol
Lo Fidelity Allstars
"Battle Flag" is awesome, the rest is not for me
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