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?
Honestly radiohead - Paranoid Android
Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5 got me to buy the album only to find that rest of the album was completely different.
Talking Heads (Once in a Lifetime) and Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
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.
Water’s Edge was also on the radio at the same time and had a pretty similar sound I thought.
“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
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.
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.
Lana Del Rey - A&W
Lana makes great music, but none of it really matches the vibe of A&W, which is unfortunate as that song is phenomenal
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
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
The Beatles - Revolution 9
And good thing the rest doesn’t sound like it.
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.
No one is going to know this but way, way back there was a song on the radio that I loved called “On the Prowl” by a group named Cats. I bought the album and the rest of it is like a motel bar band. I still listen to “On the Prowl” to this day:
Man this is like every 1 minute interlude jams or 20 second outtro of every metal band ever.
The outtro to Floods by Pantera, for instance.
Teardrop. Although it did lead me down the rabbit hole to Cocteau Twins so kinda worth it.
Massive attack? Yeah I get that
