Most famous songs / biggest hits which are unrepresentative of the artist.
Examples:
Hi Ho Silver Lining, the only song by the innovative guitar genius that everyone can sing the chorus of.
My Ding a Ling was (i think) Chuck’s biggest hit in the UK
Hong Kong Garden, ok but not much like anything else the Banshees did
Rock the Casbah (possibly unrepresentative because Topper wrote it)
Any others?
dai says
I think Siouxsie’s biggest hit was Dear Prudence, but I guess that’s pretty unrepresentative too.
Malc says
(Don’t Fear) the Reaper is a very obvious one.
Harold Holt says
Silver machine?
And second time in a couple of months, Extreme with ‘more than words’. The bad salad from a metally rock band
Hawkfall says
To be honest I think Silver Machine is all that’s good about Hawkwind compressed into three minutes.
JustB says
Extreme have quite a lot of form for sugary “oh snap the fuck out of it” ballads. Hole Hearted was also a really big hit. The only one of their full-tilt poodle songs to chart respectably was Get The Funk Out, wasn’t it?
I listened to Pornograffiti recently, for the first time since I was about 14. It’s hilariously shit.
Moose the Mooche says
“Full tilt poodle.” Brilliant. Ought to be the name of an effects pedal.
Sniffity says
Hawkwind’s or James Last’s?
Hawkfall says
I know they weren’t written by the main songwriters, but I think “Drive” by the Cars and “Making Plans for Nigel” by XTC qualify here.
Gatz says
Really? I’m not a huge fan of XTC, but spurred on by the adoration of many in here I have a greatest hits picked up from a Charity shop and Making Plans fits right in. It seems pretty typical of their poppier, more chart friendly songs.
metal mickey says
… “[XTC’s] poppier, more chart friendly songs” AKA usually the songs written by Colin Moulding, rather than Andy Partridge… their A&R man at Virgin famously preferred Colin’s songs and pushed them as singles (much to Andy’s frustration.)
Life Begins at the Hop, Making Plans for Nigel and Generals & Majors were all Colin’s songs, Andy’s first proper chart hit was “Senses Working Overtime” IIRC…
Sewer Robot says
Posted just yesterday elsewhere by Markg but Wake Up Boo! fits in here: punchy urgent almost Reward-like drum ‘n’ brass opening, efficiently into the bridge, a chorus that pops and round we go again. No meandering bits, tempo changes, two songs bolted together, wig out guitars…. I need to check again, but I’m pretty sure neither Rodney King nor Huey Newton feature anywhere..
Hardly typical Boos fare, and while it did help subsequent singles get into the top 30, the band seemed to retreat doublequick from any possibility of producing further material the milkman might want to whistle…
JustB says
Although they’ve had many many massive hits, I think Song 2 might be Blur’s most sports-crowd song, and yeah. Not that representative of their oeuvre as a whole.
Harold Holt says
ver Dead and Touch Of Grey. Which I quite like. Unlike country jazz noodling…
duco01 says
I’m not an expert on Kiss – quite the contrary, in fact – but didn’t they have a US No.1 single, “Beth”, which was pretty unrepresentative of the band?
Freddy Steady says
Re: Kiss.
“I was made for loving you” was from their short lived disco period.
Neela says
It was a one song disco period. That’s quite short, but possibly still too long.
Beth was, at least partially, written by drummer Pete Criss, who also sang that particular one.
Hawkfall says
Two song disco period! There was also Sure Know Something, below. I like Disco Kiss, it really shouldn’t work but somehow does. That’s the power of Disco for you. Remember this was 1979, there was a lot of Disco going around at that time, and lots of people tried it out for a bit, just to see what the fuss was about. Different times. We shouldn’t condemn.
Neela says
The Kinks tried too. This I rather like.
Moose the Mooche says
It’s a great shame Lennon wasn’t making music in the late 70s. He’d have made crackin’ disco records.
Macca had a good go with Comin Up, a storming record notwithstanding the creepy video.
Neela says
Try Walking On Thin Ice for disco Lennon. As close as we can get.
KDH says
See also Macca’s “Goodnight Tonight” and. to some extent, the dance version of “No More Lonely Nights”.
Neela says
Say what you will about Kiss, but Paul Stanley knew how to write a catchy tune.
retropath2 says
“lots of people tried it out”
Indeed
Hawkfall says
Jeepers!
Locust says
Never heard that one before and, perhaps not surprisingly if you know that I’m a fan of disco but not of the GD, I really liked it (even though I really wouldn’t call it disco…) 🙂
chiz says
The mighty Quo went all limp with Living on an Island in 1979 and some might say never got fully hard again.
metal mickey says
Oh well, if we’re going down the “the hit that changed the artist’s career path” route, I’d nominate:
1) Everything But The Girl – once the quiet bedsit strummers had a megahit with the Todd Terry remix of “Missing”, they basically never left the dancefloor again, and
2) UB40 – socially-conscious left-wing reggae outsiders have a hit with “Red Red Wine” and a covers album, and suddenly it’s pretty much wall-to-wall easy listening (the “Labour Of Love” series is up to volume 4 now, for anyone keeping score…)
Twilight Alehouse says
It was their bemoaning of a lack of decision making regarding rodent infestation in their food preparation area that put me off.
Moose the Mooche says
Agreed. The song “Fuck Knows How I Can Get This Squirrel Off me Laminate Worktop” was complete rubbish.
Sewer Robot says
As with the ’40, Aswad hit the top spot with “Don’t Turn Around” – what it would sound like if Beano’s Walter The Softie made a reggae record.* Thanks to the received wisdom of the music press, I knew Aswad were a a f*ckserious act, but a casual listener might think “there’s Brindsley off the Double Deckers all growed up having a tv star’s skank-lite hit a la Peter Andre” or summat…
*I luuve it, since you arsked..
Hawkfall says
This is a fair shout. Received wisdom has Marguerita Time as being the catalyst for all the horrors that were to come. But the internet tells me that was 1983, and that feels too late. I’m a fan of What You’re Proposing from 1980 (which scores highly on heads-down-boogie), but perhaps that should be seen as a last hurrah, a final rage against the dying of the light, like an eldery cat jumping up onto the window sill, just to prove to you that it can.
retropath2 says
Part of the Union by the Strawbs was an odd follow-up to Lay Dow, more a early warning for Nice Legs, Shame about the Face by the Monks, who were, essentially the breakaway rhythm section who wrote Union. Utter wankery of course, both songs.
I lost interest after Just the One, but it wasn’t so typical of their earlier anarcho-angry-crusty fumes. (The Levellers.)
Carl says
I’m not sure if anyone really remembers Si Tu Dois Partir, but it was Fairport Conventions only hit and did result in a ToTP appearance.
retropath2 says
Really remembers? I bought it, my 2nd ever single purchase. (Living in the Past was my first, as they didn’t have Man of the World that day.)
Moose the Mooche says
LL Cool J’s I Need Love.
The album it came from was sprinkled with motherfuckers.
Moose the Mooche says
I Want More doesn’t exactly prepare you for Peking O does it 😉
Neela says
But then, what could?
Moose the Mooche says
At the time – Fool’s Gold. Anyone buying the album in late 1989 expecting a funk-fest would have been mostly confuse.
Markg says
Yes that’s so true…I did subsequently get into them but agree that Fools Gold was so different ,more like Happy Mondays…
Moose the Mooche says
Actually anybody who heard Step On and then went out and bought Bummed would have had the same experience.
Moose the Mooche says
Alexis Korner’s only hit record as a vocalist was Tap Turns On The Water by CCS. Not very bluesy… good record though but.
duco01 says
Traffic’s “Hole in my Shoe”, possibly?
Markg says
As a huge Traffic fan that it so true,what a great band who don’t get the kudos their back catalogue deserves…when I was in the USA for a while back in the 1980s I got the impression they were better known there….?
Stephen G says
I’m not really a Neil Young aficionado but did he not have whole albums worth of unrepresentative material (rockabilly and electro ?), to the great dismay of his record company?
Moose the Mooche says
Geffen sued him for making albums that didn’t sound like Neil Young. Those albums tanked commercially, which is the real reason they got pissed with him.
Still, they put out the records in the first place…!
Hawkfall says
I like the idea of a thread called “Albums they’d prefer you didn’t mention”, where we can talk about the records that acts conveniently exclude from interviews and/or reissue campaigns.
That disco/grunge/electronica album
That one with that singer
Those ones from 1983-1988
That contractually obligated one
From Genesis to Revelation
duco01 says
It’s interesting that you cite Genesis’s very first record, From Genesis to Revelation, as an “album they’d prefer you didn’t mention”. Because the same could be said of their very last record, “Calling All Stations”, with Ray Wilson on vocals, which was certainly airbrushed out of the DVD history of the band, “Together and Apart”.
Hawkfall says
You’re right, that’s a much better choice. I bet if it had sold a few copies they wouldn’t be so keen to gloss over it. I think they were genuinely surprised that it was a flop.
Twilight Alehouse says
It did ok-ish in Europe and here but tanked in America. I don’t think they could be bothered to spend time building it all up again.
They tend to dismiss FGTR and call Trespass their first proper album. Of course they don’t own the rights to it and the rights holder has reissued it regularly since, under a variety of titles.
A sub set of your subset then: artists with early albums which they don’t own the rights to and which get reissued adinfinitum
Apart from Genesis, there was Quo, Bowie, Floyd (thevTonight let’s make love in London tracks…)
moseleymoles says
Van Morrison too
Moose the Mooche says
I think he does have the rights now. (See recent Nights In on the Bang Masters reissue )
What about the Fagen/Becker demos ? Roaring of the Lamb and all that.
Moose the Mooche says
Early Kraftwerk.
Expunged from the record like Winston Smith unpersonning a traitor.
Neela says
Along with the names of Bartos and Flur in the credits on the reissues in the box-set. Don’t mention the ex-robots, eh?
aging hippy says
Here’s a couple. Probably not hits in the truest sense of the word (#56 in 1981 and #42 in 1986) but much loved by me which is the standard I operate from.
First up Hitsville UK by The Clash featuring Elen Foley on vocals.
Haunted by The Pogues (original version from the Sid & Nancy soundtrack) featuring Cait O’Riordan on vocals. I had this as a 12″ single.
dai says
True, but rather missing the point about big bits being unrepresentative, surely lack of chart action would be expected. I remember feeling like a pogo at a student disco and requested The Clash, and the DJ bloody played Hitsville UK !
dai says
Big hits!
Moose the Mooche says
Big bits are unrepresentative. Bits tend to be average.
Carolina says
Some hits from films, which are sappy and woefully unrepresentative of the singers’ other material and true worth, Show Me Heaven, by Maria McKee and Up Where We Belong by Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker. I know this a duet, and Jennifer’s other big hit was also another film duet doozy “We’ve Had The Time of Our Life” with Bill Medley. It is sad that this is all most people will know her by, but hopefully it has given her a lot of money.
Black Type says
I love Maria’s solo stuff, and her Lone Justice stuff. I also love ‘Show Me Heaven’.
Here endeth the Aldi guide to Maria McKee.
johnw says
Nonetheless, she wouldn’t perform it live because she wasn’t keen on it either. I’d like the opportunity to see if tis is still the case!
The Actual North says
Seems she has grown to appreciate it…
Carolina says
That’s a bit better than the totally overblown single, and stunning live singing but I still am not sold on the song. Sorry, Black Type!
fentonsteve says
See also ‘Don’t You Forget About Me’, although Simple Minds are more keen to play their biggest hit than MM.
metal mickey says
No big deal in retrospect, but after Queen had made a semi-tradition of releasing big grandiose anthems in time for Christmas (Bo-Rhap in ’75, Somebody To Love in ’76 and We Are The Champions in ’77), the appearance of retro rock & roll strummalong Crazy Little Thing Called Love in 1979 seemed quite radical…
Harold Holt says
And they were another one that went disco too, Another One Bites the Dust
Jackthebiscuit says
None more unrepresentative.
David Bowie – The laughing Gnome
Sewer Robot says
You couldn’t let it lie, could you?
Moose the Mooche says
Very poor.
Very poor indeed.
attackdog says
Anyone turned on, tuned in and carried far out by The Dames profound initial impact would have been extremely disappointed by his glorious future.
Black Type says
For the defence, I present this:
And this:
Moose the Mooche says
*pedant voice* In point of fact, Bowie’s first hit song was Over The Wall We Go, as performed by Paul Nicholas.
Reggae Like It Used To Be, Falling Wanking to the Floor.
Markg says
Markg says
metal mickey says
The “Shiny Happy People” story is that REM submitted “Out Of Time” (without SHP) to the label, and though everyone agreed that “Losing My Religion” had to be the first single, they couldn’t decide on a second one… so the label asked the band to go away and write a new song, “something upbeat and happy, something they’ll play on the radio”…
The disgusted band went off and wrote the most deliberately crass, happy-clappy song they could, in the sure knowledge the label would change their mind… but nope, they loved it, and the rest is history… I’m not a big enough fan to know if they avoided playing it live, though they did pointedly leave it off their first “Best of” album…
Diddley Farquar says
They went to a lot of trouble to craft it well in that case, even enlisting a B52-er (Kate Pierson?) to sing on it plus the video suggests considerable enthusiasm and pleasure in the whole endeavour. Making the best of a bad job or something? It’s a good tune, although the lyrics soon grate.
davebigpicture says
Good sports though to do this, complete with Muppet Kate Pierson.
https://youtu.be/Niy4Q_1d8Zw
Sniffity says
I recall hearing that The Turtles created “Elinore” for similar reasons, after the success of “Happy Together”…could prove that artists aren’t necessarily the best judge of their own work – I think “Shiny Happy People” is great.
Twilight Alehouse says
Kate Pierson sounds great and even better on Me in Honey
Black Type says
I thought someone would post this, but I don’t agree that it meets the premise of the OP – REM have plenty of upbeat, jangly, ‘goofy’ songs in their repertoire, and this has a very typical ‘textbook REM’ riff. I’d suggest the only ‘unrepresentative’ aspect of it is the input from Kate Pierson.
fentonsteve says
I would say Radio Song, with KRS-One’s rap, is less typical of REM.
Moose the Mooche says
KRS 1’s only sniff of a proper chart hit – also hardly representative of his work.
Sewer Robot says
…er…
https://youtu.be/2A7HgL_qcNE
(Granted, from ’97, just as the charts were starting to go bonkers)
Moose the Mooche says
Also the point at which I stopped knowing what was in the charts. As I have just demonstrated….
Markg says
No argument with that but wasn’t much of a hit was it?
fentonsteve says
No. 28 in the UK, so qualifies for ToTP.
No. 5 in Ireland. I didn’t know the residents of the Emerald Isle were such fans of Boogie Down Productions.
fentonsteve says
New Order’s Blue Monday.
Quite possibly the worst ToTP performance ever, it nearly put me off seeing them live. Thankfully it didn’t.
I’ve been listening to a lot of NO bootlegs recently and live they flipped between awful and awsome, sometimes within the same gig. The ones I was at really were as good as I remembered.
Moose the Mooche says
Bernard’s dancing during Fine Time on TotP was a sight to behold.
I assume he was dancing. He looked like he was miming milking a very tall cow.
dai says
Terrible TOTP performance (because they insisted on playing live), I wouldn’t say the single was unrepresentative though.
Diddley Farquar says
Feel by Robbie Williams. Unrepresentative in that it’s actually quite agreeable. I’d go so far as to say I like it.
Rigid Digit says
Ditto “Come Undone”
fishface says
JUMP…Van Halen.
stunt guitar…check
huge drums…check
vocals slightly out of dave’s range…check.
workmanlike bass guitar…check.
slightly “goofy” performance video…check
keyboards to front of mix…ch???………………………………..FRIKKING KEYBOARDS??????
Markg says
Yes and I can’t recall any other track of there’s as I sit here…off to Spotify!
fishface says
Love Comes Walking In and How Do I Know When Its Love spring to mind……both from the lesser Sammy Hagar era.
I believe the first few bars of And The Cradle Will Rock are electric piano played through eddies pedal board into cranked marshall plexi………
Markg says
I would nominate two famous tracks as not being exactly representative of their normal work….King of Rock and Roll by Prefab Sprout and Dancing in the Dark ,Bruce’s mega hit which doesn’t fit in with stuff before or after…thanks for info on REM,I assume I got the thumbs up there! Anyone agree or otherwise with my other nominations?
Black Type says
I refer the honourable gentleman to the reply I posted a few moments ago. 😉
Neela says
Agree on Bruce. He said later it was an attempt to see how far he could take it (ie the contemporary sound) and get away with it. He was 35 at the time, which was older then than it is now. Steven Van Zandt felt it was one step too far.
And let’s not mention the dancing in the video. Should have been shot in the dark…
jockblue says
Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2 doesn’t sit comfortably with much of the Floyd’s previous stuff.
Hawkfall says
That’s a great shout, sometimes the answer is hiding in plain sight.
Yet another unlikely Disco song from 1979! In 1979 all bowed down in front of the mighty Disco.
moseleymoles says
This. I think there was an unlikely disco thread at some point in the past when I posted this.
Moose the Mooche says
Disco thread? I suspect that was @minibreakfast in the sparkly hotpants.
At least, that’s the mental image I have.
minibreakfast says
Why am I getting notification emails about pants?
Ah, YOU again!!
Moose the Mooche says
*leaps into the centre of dancefloor in a white suit, striking Travolta pose *
*splits trousers*
policybloke says
Marrakesh Express , by Crosby Stills and Nash. I bought the eponymous album on the strength of that track. I wasn’t disappointed by the album, but ME certainly wasn’t representative.
Markg says
Toms Diner by Suzanne Vega ,with beats by DNA,surely can get unanimous agreement! I will agree with Floyd…what about Wonderful Tonight by Clapton,surely more of a Chris de Burgh vibe than a Rock God..?
dai says
Wonderful Tonight = very typical of the bland MOR fare Clapton has produced since the early 70s.
Vincent says
Which is why I think he’s massively over-rated.
Markg says
Moose the Mooche says
A strange record, a piss take that was so well done that it became the real thing. (See also The Chicken Song)
Vincent says
Massive “cocaine decision” album. Couldn’t be thinner, what with TPOL, the shit covers, etc. Recall some of the “Two Tribes” mixes being OK, but not so great as to be bothered even YouTubing them. And Holloy Johnson – he er, “tired too hard”.
Now Haircut 100: “Favourite Shirts” a cracking single. Dunno if this is characteristic or not, as this is not the thing i generally approach:
fentonsteve says
I bought the deluxe edition the album when I saw it cheap. It’s rather good. I’d missed out on it for 30-odd years.
metal mickey says
I have a sneaking admiration for the Frankie album – very few bands have the momentum to make their debut album a double, and in its way it’s very boldly structured:
Side 1: big title track
Side 2: hits
Side 3: cover versions
Side 4: “proper” album (finishing with TPOL)
As for H100, Favourite Shirts is probably their most overtly funky track, but I’m not convinced it’s quite the sore thumb this thread would demand… however, the contemporaneous Tears Are Not Enough by ABC was the least smooth they’d ever sound…
Moose the Mooche says
Some days I’ll take the first side of Pleasuredome over the rest of 80s pop music put together.
Yes, even the Goombay Dance Band and Baltimora.
duco01 says
Re: “very few bands have the momentum to make their debut album a double”
See “Chicago Transit Authority”. Monster!
Moose the Mooche says
Amen! The whole world’s watching!
metal mickey says
PS The “Two Tribes” version you’re after, Vincent, is the “Keep The Peace” mix, basically a “best of” all the other mixes, and still (officially) unavailable on anything other than the original cassette single…
KDH says
@metal_mickey – you can get it here of you want it on CD, though odd it never made it on to one of the myriad number of FGTH comps…
Markg says
Can I say Stephen G how much I have enjoyed this topic…I am going for Albatross by Fleetwood Mac as my next banker,presume I was safe with Tom’s Diner as nobody jumped on it…..yet!
Dave Ross says
My standard answer to this question is “Club Country” by The Associates. However I will add “Once In A lifetime” by Talking Heads and “Private Investigations” by Dire Straits
dai says
What’s atypical about Once in a Lifetime?
Sitheref2409 says
Didn’t PI presage like half of Brothers in Arms and a great deal of the Knopfler oeuvre?
Rigid Digit says
Scorpions – Wind Of Change
Not wholly representative, but the only Scorpions likely to make the playlist on commercial radio
Markg says
Rigid Digit says
Captain Sensible – Happy Talk
Some first time listeners may be “confused” if they were to investigate further
Moose the Mooche says
They’ll say “Captain?”
He’ll say “Come again?”
Harold Holt says
I thought of that too. But he is a nutter (hence the nickname bestowed by Rat Scabies IIRC) and it’s only atypical of the Damned, not him.
Rigid Digit says
Maybe it’s just become too familiar, but Dexys Midnight Runners “Come On Eileen” is their biggest and best known song, but is not really truly representative of them (what is? Kev never stops changing).
Having said that, COE is strangely bearable in the context of the Too Rye Ay album, but not when played independently.
Sewer Robot says
I’ve said it many times and I’ll keep saying it: Come On Eileen at the end of TRA is that scene at the end of Cinema Paradiso where all of those snipped kisses are pasted together. When you arrive at that point it’s perfect, but taken on its own there’s a chance of inducing a diabetic coma..
Rigid Digit says
Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You
It’s like the 1970s quintology never happened!
Rigid Digit says
Ex-Punks do waltz (and thinly veiled heroin reference)
Stranglers – Golden Brown
In truth, not totally unrepresentative of the time (see also Strange Little Girl and/or Skin Deep, etc), but certainly a different mood from Rattus Norvegicus or No More Heroes
Markg says
That’s one I was thinking of,stopped myself when I remembered the ones you mentioned…that track is on so many compilations I would love to know the list of most used tracks on them….probably a thread there somewhere!
Rigid Digit says
Greg Lake believe in Father Christmas.
There is some distance between this and Karn Evil 9
(although maybe not that much, with all the passing reference to Prokofiev)
Twang says
Over in prog world, It Bites’ “Calling all the heroes” was hooktastic pop as opposed to their actual thing which was super tricky jazz prog. Also pretty much all of Genesis’s hits were nothing like their core oeuvre.
Moose the Mooche says
Core ouevre…. quintology… this is a hard-core Afterword thread right here.
Milkybarnick says
Bit risky this one, but compared to some of the (good quality, good-natured) pop fluff they’d put out previously, this was properly grown up (and remains an absolute banger).
SixDog says
It’s banging because it’s Billie Jean!
Another recent Springsteen one – We Take Care of our Own – complete sugar pop with recycled Born in the USA lyrics couldn’t get it off the radio on release
Markg says
Anyone on board with Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band and Sarah by Thin Lizzy…? Was also thinking of Uptown Girl by Billy Joel,then realised his hit Tell her about it is pretty similar,so can’t fall into that trap!BTW according to two recent live albums up on Spotify BJ doesn’t play Uptown Girl at gigs…wonder if it’s his Shiny Happy People..?
Hawkfall says
Sarah’a a great song but not that unrepresentative, Phil always had a soulful side. Whisky in the Jar on the other hand…
Moose the Mooche says
If we’re talking Lynott, that Top of the Pops theme would have been somewhat out of place on Jailbreak. And yet to folks of my generation it’s his most familiar piece of music.
Hawkfall says
And the folks of the generation before you are way more familiar with CCS’s version of “Whole Lotta Love” than Led Zeppelin’s. It’s the only Zeppelin song your Dad knows. And he only listened to it because he was waiting for Pan’s People.
Moose the Mooche says
Two mentions of CCS in one thread! Did you ever? Did you ever?
Markg says
Yes I was going to put up Yellow Pearl except that it’s a Phil Lynott and Midge Ure track and not Thin Lizzy,no?
Moose the Mooche says
Not sure that’s a distinction I would have recognised at that age (about ten). Not least because, for a brief surreal period, Midge was actually in Thin Lizzy.
Some administrative error, perhaps.
Sewer Robot says
Used to happen all the time before they brought in the transfer window. The only reason there’s so many members of The Polyphonic Spree is that Chelsea needed somewhere to farm out their reserve players…
slotbadger says
The jolly ‘I Want More’ by Can saw an unlikely TOTP appearance. Those checking out parent album ‘Flow Motion’ wanting more would have been somewhat disappointed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9-rloBia4
Moose the Mooche says
Oh I know. You’d think somebody would have mentioned this already.
Black Type says
‘Home And Dry’ is not your usual Pet Shop Boys offering. It has guitars! It has drums! There are synths, but they are very low-key…no sign of the signature sturm und drang that we associate with most PSB hits.
Actually, ‘I Get Along’ is even more of a departure, but not many remember that one.
Carolina says
“Sailing” by Rod Stewart. I am not familiar with all of Rod’s work but what I have heard doesn’t sound much like this dirge, which stayed at no 1 for months as I recall.
Also “Pilot of the Airwaves” by Charlie Dore, a nice enough catchy song, but it does not hint at the lyrical and musical depths of most of her later albums.
minibreakfast says
Urgh, you’re right about Sailing. Luckily it’s right at the end of side 2 on Atlantic Crossing, so it’s easy to avoid.
Vincent says
That fine soulster Captain Beefheart’s “Too Much Time” (a lovely song and arrangement) is perhaps atypical to his usual style?
Moose the Mooche says
It’s no Hobo Chang Ba.
Vincent says
Quite. 50 years old, and still a solid challenge to anyone who fancies themselves as interested in artier outsider rock. It’s the “Ulysses” of popular music, i think. Took me decades to finally appreciate. Still wonder if it as good as Ella Fitzgerald when not in the mood for weirdness.
Black Type says
This is possibly Slade’s best song, certainly their most sophisticated, but not representative of their chart-stomping pomp at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U00rOHgKwc
Pessoa says
Throwing Muses biggest hit was with the uncharacteristically chirpy ‘Dizzy’, despite the fact that ( rather like REM’s Shiny Happy People) the band hated it and soon refused to play it.