The decemberists - here i dreamt i was a soldier
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"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.
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
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
Yes!
Changes is a masterpiece. Don't like any of their other music.
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
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.
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.
Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
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.
Yeah, Nuno is a beast. Greatly underrated guitarist.
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.
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