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What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that? (lemmy.world)

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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?

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[-] 3holly3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 3 months ago

Chumbawamba - Tub thumping. I had no idea they’ve always been an anarchist sea shanty band and that song was the outlier and a total piss take. I am here for it.

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

LOL!
Came to this comment section to say exactly that, just to discover it to be already the first comment!
But it's kinda the reverse thing OP had in mind, I think...

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Sea shanties‽ I absolutely love Uneasy Listening and will blast English Rebel Songs, but they're not sea shanties.

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

yeah, it's called english folk or something

[-] moopet@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

They did a few songs that have a catchy repetitive chorus to be fair. Mouthful of Shit for example. Just not quite to the extent of Tubthumping.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

That whole album has the same vibe as Tubthumping

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

in fact the album is called Tubthumper

the follow-up album, WYSIWYG, also has the same vibe

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they went through a few different sounds and that was their party era.

[-] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

have you tried "The Big Issue"? it's from the same album and is kinda the same thing, except the vocals are far more female-dominated and the song extends the melancholy a bit

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

I preferred Mary Mary and it had the same problem. No others like that that I heard.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 3 months ago

same band that did the song Torturing James Hetfield.

Also, Tubthumper (the album) is entirely amazing. The popular song included

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