Which band/artist's biggest hit was nothing like the rest of their songs?

[fishfinger]

Paul Hardcastle -19

 

[existentialist]

This instantly springs to mind; Hawkwinds Silver Machine

It was definitely at the more mainstream end of their Space Rock schtick!

 

[hash tag]

With Quo mentioned earlier, this was certainly not their greatest hit but their earliest and sorry very different to everything that followed

 

[hash tag]

ELP's Fanfare. Very commercial by comparison to everything else they did

 

[planetgeli]

Whatever Richard Ashcroft did vs Verve's (not The Verve) first three singles.

 

[killer b]

With Quo mentioned earlier, this was certainly not their greatest hit but their earliest and sorry very different to everything that followed

it's quite a lot like the rest of the album it was on tbf, and the album after it.

 

[hash tag]

I believe this is very different from everything they have ever done

Spoiler: crazy

 

[existentialist]

I believe this is very different from everything they have ever done

Spoiler: crazy

A mate of mine was saying exactly the same thing just about a week ago. Serendipity.

 

[DaveCinzano]

“What’s Up?” Four Non Blondes.

Top tune but every single other song they made was shite.

I spent the summer that came out stuck in a van with a recently divorced electrician undergoing a midlife crisis for whom that represented the height of cutting edge cool, played the album non stop for weeks

 

[editor]

Racing Cars:



They were essentially a pub rock band.

 

[hash tag]

I know it's not singles, it's bigger than that!
I've copies of both David Bowie and Alice Cooper narrating Peter & The Wolf.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I Want More - Can

 

[Steel Icarus]

Most of Cardiacs' Is this the life is different from their "gestalt" sound

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen.

That doesn't sound out of place at on the album.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

Even though it wasn't written buy them it sounds very similar the music they were making at the time.

 

[stavros]

Do remixes count? If so:

 

[Jennastan]

Urban Spaceman by the Bonzos doesn't really sound like anything else they did.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Do remixes count? If so:

Not really, plus it doesn't sound completely different from what they were doing when they first released it.

 

[Limejuice]

Jeff Beck - Hi Ho Silver Lining.

 

[stavros]

Anal Cunt did a whole album called Picnic of Love, which was deliberately the polar opposite of what you would expect from them. Songs titles such as "I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human", as opposed to "I Went Back in Time and Voted for Hitler".

 

[seeformiles]

 

[D'wards]

Textbook

 

[hash tag]

I am not that familiar with Chris De Burgh, honest. I suspect this is very unlike the rest of his stuff

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The swans covering love will tear is

I Want More - Can

Yeah that was shite.

 

[Spod]

I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder

 

[Kaka Tim]

I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder

hes done loads of sentimental gloop. e.g "isn't she lovely?"

 

[billy_bob]

You're right - that one was shite and very irritating, while the rest of their output was merely shite and very boring.

 

[billy_bob]

Bending the rules slightly, but Blue Pearl's 'Naked in the Rain' might be the most successful thing Youth has done and it doesn't sound much like Killing Joke's first two albums...

 

[billy_bob]

I am not that familiar with Chris De Burgh, honest. I suspect this is very unlike the rest of his stuff

I didn't think there was anything that could make his music seem more like a soundtrack to sexual harrassment than it already does, but it turns out I was wrong.

 

[Steel Icarus]