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?
The decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
“People” - The 1975
I learned about them from a cover of the song by one of my favourite bands, FIDLAR, and was saddened to find out that the rest of their music isn’t in the same style. Or at least, the albums it’s on is, to say it lightly, is far away in style from “People”. Imagine a single punk song on an album filled with slow electronic music. That’s that album.
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.
Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built”
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don’t like any of their other music.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn’t sound like it.
