I really like this song!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14976953

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I hate it when I find a song I really like but it’s a collab between 2 artists and neither of them have anything else that sounds similar

I’m even more mad when it’s a single song from 1 artist that is just different from their usual. Nothing else they do is similar and you’ll never get more hahah. It makes the song special but still.

Dora Jar - Did I Get It Wrong, comes to mind.

Back in the 1900s, I bought the Smash Mouth CD simply because I liked Walking On The Sun.

That was a mistake.

I made a closely related comment just a few days ago. Odd that it came up again so soon.

you might as well be walking on the sun

what!?!? fush yu mang is a banger of an album. i love the fonz and padrino

There is danger the other way as well. You hear a song, and you like it, but it turns out everything the artist does is so samey that there was no reason at all to listen to any of the rest of the album or discography. 90s me can think of Live’s Throwing Copper and the collected works of Hootie & the Blowfish, and 2010s me remembers Mumford & Sons.

So true. All 3 of those are great examples too. I can barely pick out a song from any of them, but you won’t need to lol.

I loved every song featuring Remi Wolf but just could not get into her music…then like a year later it clicked and now I fuckin love Remi Wolf. I think I was too focused on the specific things I liked about her in the features and and missed out on what else she had to offer

If you haven’t listened to her live at Electric Lady album i highly recommend. The band she has is absolutely killer.

Please forgive me for listing these but right now we’ve got:

Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
Electric Landlady by Butthole Surfers
Electric Lady by Remi Wolf

I await more references.

Dude that’s the EXACT set that did it for me lol

I had listened to her studio stuff and it just wasn’t hitting…but after hearing the live set, I went back and loved it all. I’m kicking myself for not seeing her live

Saaaaaame. When she played in my city I only liked Photo ID so I skipped her show, but now I have that, Sugar, Cinderella, Anthony Kedis, and Hello Hello Hello on HEAVY rotation.

Whenever I hear a song I like for the first time, I go to the album to listen to it in context. Artists (foe the most part) put their songs together in a specific order and I want to view it through that lens. Sometimes it’s trash and you move on, but sometimes you find “perfect albums”. They take you on an adventure through the course of the album

Some of mine are:

Random Access Memories - Daft Punk

The Mistress - Yellow Ostrich

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Daylight - Aesop Rock

And many more

My first listen to Plastic Beach, I hated it. As I had bought it on a whim and money was tight at the time, I gave it a few more shots over the next couple of months and now it’s one of my favorites. It’s probably the album that convinced me to give music I don’t immediately like a second chance.

Almost all albums I love most took several listens to get into. Music that sounds great on first listen often becomes boring quickly. More challenging stuff takes its time but in the end delivers much more pleasure.

Which is the point of Gorillaz, so they’ve succeeded once more.

Since I Left You - Avalanches

Alopecia - Why?

Keep it goin

The West is Dead - HMLTD

Thank you, I don’t see many people talk about Aesop Rock. Been my favorite artist for a while now, so many hits and great collabs.

aesop rock is like hip hops version of elvis costello for me. obviously very talented, i like quite a few songs, but i always feel like i just dont quite get it

How can people not listen to all of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea when they hear one song from it? It’s works so well as a collected piece

Also, people need to check out You Can’t Stop the Bum Rush by Len. Cryptic Souls Crew and Beautiful Day are better than Steal My Sunshine IMO.

Random Access Memory could also fit the comic (with some adaptations) because it is an album different from most of Daft Punk discography

This is how I feel about all bands/artists…they may have a one or two songs that I like and the rest of their discography is not something I want to listen to at all.

I feel that way about some, but certainly not all. I can’t imagine only listening to a single track from say Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

That’s because Dark Side of the Moon is a single track 🙃

Concept albums are meant to be listened in their entirety so it makes sense. Pink Floyd is a band notorious for concept albums, but they’re not the only ones. If you’re an Arctic Monkeys fan, you’ll probably not listen to just one song from Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. In spotify which shows the number of listens per song, it shows that all songs on Tranquility Base have the same number of listens (some more than others, but not by an order of magnitude).

I guess OP was mostly talking about regular albums which are mostly just collections of disjoint songs. It’s probably happening less now that people consume music one song at a time, but there are numerous examples of artists releasing one good song and then a bunch of filling around it and pass it as an album. If you were playing a CD (or a cassette if you’re old enough), chances are you’d listen to the rest of the album anyway and eventually like it through repetition. For example, with spotify again, if I’m looking at Cowboy Carter by Beyonce, “Texas Hold’em” has 340 million listens and all the rest are below 20 thousands.

I guess OP was mostly talking about regular albums which are mostly just collections of disjoint songs

No I’m talking music in general. I don’t really care that they have some artistic intention with their album as a whole, if I don’t like a track I’m moving on. I don’t get why anyone would listen to music they don’t enjoy.

Meanwhile me with only Money and Another Brick in the Wall as the only Pink Floyd tracks in the whole digital library

I just can’t be bothered listening to tracks I don’t like, especially in this day and age where I don’t have to swap CDs/tapes to listen to a track from a different artist.

I have this thing as well. In general I’m really picky with music, I’d say I don’t like most songs. But once in a while I find one song by some artist I like and the rest of their songs I don’t like. It’s weird.

The moment when you realize the only good song was a cover…

Ngl the rest of the album is often trash

That’s rarely true for me. I hear a great song and the rest of the album is generally great.

Yeah though I feel like if you only listen to pop music that you hear on TikTok then you’re not going to have so much of a good time, but if you listen to artists that aren’t put forward as pop stars you’ll get better depth.

That’s the difference between a good musician/ band and a bad one.

It’s not. Most of Pink Floyd’s Animals album is trash, except for Sheep which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great song from a great band.

Steven King’s The Dark Tower series is trash, except for The Gunslinger (and, okay, the final chapter of the final book The Dark Tower), which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great book from a great author.

The Lamiids’s Solanum species of plants is poisonous trash, except for Tomatoes which I think we can all agree on being a fucking great fruit from a fucking great subclade.

I’ve heard pretty mid songs that turned out to be incredible albums and I’ve heard amazing songs where it’s the only good track. But I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases. There’s so much good music out there, just under the surface.

And the most popular songs of any band, which are generally the ones you’ll hear randomly, might not turn out to be the ones you like the most from that album or artist. I’ve had songs I liked and listened to a lot but just never got around to exploring the band until years later, and then found some of my all-time favourites after doing so.

A perfect example for me is my favourite song from one of my favourite bands, which I just never heard before actually sitting down and going through their whole discography:

Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers

Totally. If I hear a really good song sometimes I’ll do a hyper study over a period of time listening to every album, all collabs, the collaborator’s albums, and so on. Definitely did this more when I was younger. But when I hear that sound, it’s mission time.

I can’t think of a situation where I don’t like every song on the album.

I always try to listen to an entire album in most cases

I just look for the Best Of album if its an older song.

I’ve done that with artists on spotify but end up not really finding anything then I try on YouTube and find a bunch, it’s hit or miss what their popular* songs are on different platforms and if I’ll like them or not

That does suck. Sometimes you just need to go to the artist’s website and see if you can download the album or buy the vinyl.

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