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?
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
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Vertical Horizon: “Instamatic”.
Did a little research and… Holy crap… Turns out that Neil Peart was a guest drummer on the song. It’s amazing how a truly talented drummer can make such a massive impact on a band.
Sugar Ray… a long time ago lol
Pretty much any individual Ween song
Ween is a truly mixed bag
The La’s - There She Goes
Pretty much everyone knows this song and they’re considered a one-hit wonder, but that album thoroughly impressed me and I’d say There She Goes is one of my least favorite songs of theirs. The rest are still catchy as hell but the lyrics aren’t quite as accessible, hence the “singular success”.
Weezer’s Hash Pipe came to mind for me. The rest of the green album and much of their stuff is distinctly different.
Terrorvision - Tequila.
Mostly because the version that got played on Radio 1 non-stop for about a year wasn’t anything like the original version they made. It was a remix. Nobody really seemed to notice this until they turned up for live shows in their party frocks and got met with a room full of rock fans.
The Killers - All These Things I’ve Done
Still not a fan of the band but love the song after many years.
True - Spandau Ballet
Ghost Boy by Jacob Tillberg.
The rest of his music is unfortunately flat and disappointing to me.
Came across Avalon Emerson recently with the song Written Into Changes but nothing hits that same vibe. I like some of the other tracks but this one really does it for me
Dethroned by Bad Omens
That song drew me into their other music, which I liked, but just wasn’t on the same level. Artificial Suicide comes closest but still doesn’t go as hard as Dethroned.
Tamaki Miura, Ryukichi Sawada - O-edo Nihon-bashi (before 1925)
A recording by Japan’s first international opera singer and a professional pianist.
The original piece is a folk song, but the arrangement by pianist Ryukichi Sawada is ingenious, allowing listeners to hear rhythmic expressions comparable to modern rock and roll.
Due to Sawada’s early death, the number of his known works is limited, and there are virtually no other works of this kind of vocal music.
Recently, Sawada’s music has been reissued under the revival label Sakuraphone.
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
Absolutely killer song.
