[Closed] Artists that seemingly have only one song...

Is this a confession about listening to local radio, the sort of station that advertise 'no-repeat Fridays' as some sort of benefit..??

As much as I love him/them I think Jarvis Cocker/Pulp just have the one song which they've released many times with different words each time.

Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer

For real?

Solsbury Hill
Games Without Frontiers
Dont Give Up
Biko

Being a fellow mad sexual rapist, I'd much rather they played Thin Lizzy's "Killer on the Loose"

BoardinBob
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer

For real?

Funny how your eyes can just skip over the first line in a thread 😆

@BoardinBob - I think you've missed the OPs point. It's not that these artists don't have a decent number of songs, it's just that it's always the same ones played on radio.

Thin Lizzy’s “Killer on the Loose”

Dancin' in the Moonlight for me.

It's less of a problem on 6 Music OP, but yeah, when I get subjected to Heart or similar in the car, I appreciate what you mean.

Can we have another thread of artists with an entire catalogue that all sounds the blumming same?

e.g. Ed Sheeran, The XX

Is this a confession about listening to local radio, the sort of station that advertise ‘no-repeat Fridays’ as some sort of benefit..??

Sometimes we all have to listen to Steve Wright! 🙂

The Wannadies

Only song ever played, The You And Me Song, which is a cracking song but they had so much more. 🙁

@BoardinBob – I think you’ve missed the OPs point. It’s not that these artists don’t have a decent number of songs, it’s just that it’s always the same ones played on radio.

I hear Solsbury Hill on the radio more than Sledgehammer

Dancin’ in the Moonlight for me.

I like a drop of whiskey before I start throwing shapes.

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac

Of all of their output, I swear this is the only song of theirs R2 ever play.

RadMac always try to break the convention. But they always like to let us know: "here's a song by Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention that isn't Who Knows Where The Time Goes" "Here's Nico but it's not "These days"" oh, hang on, it is always These Days...

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

Van Morrison is reduced to Brown Eyed Girl - which would wind him up something rotten because he was swindled out of the rights at the start of his career so he's made no money in all these years from his biggest hit

Not that he's bitter or anything!

I can’t think of specific examples, but there are certain songs that even 6Music will add to the playlist then it’ll keep popping up. As I really only listen in the car, it’s not something I’m aware of now, but at work there are radios scattered around the workshops, and they’re either on Polish or some other Eastern European station, or else ****ing Heart or other Godawful commercial channel, where EVERYTHING sounds the same!

Of course, there are some artists whose entire recorded catalogue all sounds the same - Red Hot Chili Peppers, Status Quo, The XX…

ElShalimo Full Member
Can we have another thread of artists with an entire catalogue that all sounds the blumming same?

What if I told you that it is eminently within your power to make this a reality?

I listen to a lot of Radio 1 (for an old geezer anyway), and I don't think I've ever heard of The XX, and they've been mentioned twice in 19 posts 🤔🤔

Thin Lizzy-Whisky in the jar. I don’t think that Phil Lynott was overly enthusiastic about this track, but rock stations play it, ad infinitum, to the exclusion of far better material…’cold sweat’, ‘the sun goes down’, ‘thunder & lightning’.

Joni Mitchell. It’s either ‘big yellow taxi’ or ‘all I want’.

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden

REM shiny happy people. Anything by the RHCP really just sounds like the same song.

thread of artists with an entire catalogue that all sounds the blumming same?

Ooh, it's not like my day when they wrote proper songs you could sing along to

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of The XX

They haven't released anything for over 5 years now. They were big in 2009

Van Morrison is reduced to Brown Eyed Girl – which would wind him up something rotten because he was swindled out of the rights at the start of his career so he’s made no money in all these years from his biggest hit

That must be why he's so poor he had to steal our cd player

At least The Wedding Present owned the fact that all their songs sounded the same...

Would be good if this got played on the radio more...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p148

Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight. Saw them years back supporting the Counting Crows at Wembley, and they had a decent set and quite a bit of variety (Achilles Heel was a decent track). Then Daning in the Moonlight came along and got so overplayed it became horrible...

@nbt - this isn't about 1 hit wonders, it's about bands/artists that have a lot of songs yet they often only get airtime for 1 song e.g.  The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

Waiting Room- Fugazi

Fugazi are pretty much never played on the radio. Only on 6 music I've heard, but it's always Waiting Room.

It's one of their best mind.

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out. I saw them live once and it is actually their only song.

Neil diamond.. Sweet Caroline. Yes, ignore the other hits.
Gerry Raffety... Baker Street, every time.
Gary Numan. Cars or very occasionally my friends electric (bill)

The Wannadies

Only song ever played, The You And Me Song, which is a cracking song but they had so much more. 🙁

Whenever they comes on the radio I have to quickly change channel, or I fear I'll drive into the nearest bridge support to be away from it. It's ghastly sugary sweet lovely nonsense, and I hate it on a molecular level.

But, you know, each to their own, your opinion is a good as mine etc 😉

Whigfield. Always 'Saturday Night'. They need to dig deeper.

…according to radio playlist people!

Worse than that, for my Sins I like Radio X, especially Johnny Vaughan, but as great as he is at the chatting bit, he clearly has no interest in music. It's basically the same song at the same time every night (well it seems so anyway) Jamie T Shiela, Libertines Don't look back, one of each of the Gallagher brothers and of course the twice-hourly Radio X contractual playing of Gerry ****ing Cinnamon.

when I get subjected to Heart or similar in the car, I appreciate what you mean.RAAAAGGGEEE

FTFY!

motorhead ace of spades
meatloaf like a bat out of hell

Jimmy eat world - the middle
Weezer - say it ain't so
Strokes - last night

Heard these three today.

Edit - and now Stacey's mom by fountains of wayne

Weezer – say it ain’t so

I thought the Weezer track was/is Teenage Dirtbag?