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?
Sugar Ray.
They have their few pop songs… But every other song and their previous stuff is totally different. I remember as a kid, listening to “Big Black Woman” after listening to one of their hits and being shocked.
Yeah, Fear Factory, Linchpin is a headbanging classic but the rest of their stuff just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe their Cars cover, but that’s it.
Gotye. Loved “Somebody That I Used to Know.” The rest of his music wasn’t for me.
Thundercat - Them Changes
Nothing else really hits the same, but I suppose that’s because the song (and video especially) set the bar way too high lol
Soulfly, Soulfly II, Soulfly III, etc. I think all of their albums have one instrumental, melodic, tribal inspired song that is worlds apart from their otherwise aggressive metal.
And with a trigger warning for sexual abuse: Motōrhead - Don’t Let Daddy Kiss Me. I have never been more caught off-guard by a song than when I stumbled across this, which was only released as a single.
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don’t like any of their other music.
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
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
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
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
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.
“My My” on the same album had a lot of energy to it.
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.
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn’t sound like it.
Andrew W K. If you’ve heard one of his songs, you heard them all.
That Savage Garden album with Truly Madly Deeply comes to mind
