The only song you like*

Anyone else really love just one song by a band?

A song that you know will be a lifelong favourite, so you excitedly scurry off to the back catalogue and find out the rest of the output isn’t for you?

For me, Dakota by the Stereophonics is one of those tunes.

And just recently, I heard ‘Right back to it’ by Waxahatchee. **** me, what a tune. Surely I’ll love the rest of their stuff.

Nope.

But, as a favour to your ears here is my new one song obsession.

* You’re reading that to the tune of the Charlatans aren’t you?

“What time is now” by the Smiths and even then I’d much rather listen to it without Morrisey

and Rill Rill by Sleighbells

For me, Dakota by the Stereophonics is one of those tunes.

That sprung immediately to mind when I saw the thread title, but the fact that they briefly elevated themselves beyond their usual dreadful pub-rock dirges actually makes me hate them even more 😂

The Beloved – The Sun Rising

Under the Bridge

To quote Nick Cave “I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the **** is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.”

A Flock of Seagulls: Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You). Still listen to it regularly, rest of their stuff is a bit ‘mid’ (as my 11yo would say).

The Beloved – The Sun Rising

Love that track, but also love Sweet Harmony.

too much mleh organ in everything else 😕

Surely Steve Harley and cockney rebel will be over represented in this thread

Coldplay yellow, great song – everything else is just bland

God Put A Smile Upon Your Face – Coldplay

Ripped off this:

I actually don’t think there’s a single band that haven’t done one  song I like, no matter how much I hate the rest of their stuff.

I’d rather rip my ears off the side of my head, then use them to plug the holes, than listen to anything else by this lot

Coldplay yellow, great song – everything else is just bland

This song used to be one of my most hated song! Just used to wind me up just the totally useless meaningless of stating ‘it’s all yellow’. Now after all these years…. having just looked at the wikipedia page about the song…. I feel confirmed.

11:59 Blondie

This is great but Bohemian Like You gets all the airplay.

And this, but Dancing in the Moonlight is all I ever hear.

GLORIA by Them/Van Morrison

Big Sky by Kate Bush

Play Dead by Bjork

Plenty of others. I’d say it’s more rare for me to find a band where I like two of their songs.

Ready To Go by Republica. Absolute barnstormer of a single, I made the mistake of getting the album expecting crunchy girl rock rather than sub-par 90s electronica bilge. If memory serves I don’t the single version of the single was on the album even.

Lullaby, The Cure.

The Wombles released four albums and apart from Remember You’re A Womble they don’t really do much for me.

For me, Dakota by the Stereophonics is one of those tunes.

There’s a theme here….

Big Sky by Kate Bush

We must be exact opposites, I love all of Kate’s output apart from that one tune.

grimep

We’re like jack Spratt and his wife.

I should add that I also like Something Good by Utah Saints, which is kind of a Kate Bush song

The Wombles released four albums and apart from Remember You’re A Womble they don’t really do much for me.

Here, have an earworm.

You’re welcome.

Oh yeah, there’s Hall of the Mountain Womble from the same album. (I have the LP somewhere.)

I’d be keeping my head down on cyclists forums if I were you @Cougar

https://www.kktv.com/2024/02/18/cougar-attacks-group-cyclists-trail-officials-say/

This song is absolutely storming!

The rest of the Osmonds stuff can go piss up a rope.

The british band Kinesis have one brilliant song, Everything Destroys Itself, and everything else they ever did was shit. I literally went to see them live once just for that one song and then ****ed off

The british band Yourcodenameis:Milo also have one brilliant song, Team Radar, and everything else they ever did was shit. I literally went to see them live once just for that one song and then ****ed off

And the british band Young Guns have one brilliant song, I Was Born I have Lived I Will Surely Die, and everything else they ever did was shit. I literally went to see them live once just for that one song and then ****ed off

Danny Nedelko by the Idles.

This I think I first heard on an MTB vid.

Not really a fair question as times change, and what once was a favourite can be surpassed by something else.

Always liked socialist folk songs though.

We’re like jack Spratt and his wife.

I should add that I also like Something Good by Utah Saints, which is kind of a Kate Bush song

I prefer the Utah Saints tune, also their New Gold Dream which got me into that Simple Minds album

So wait, am I the fat one?

Not really a fair question as times change, and what once was a favourite can be surpassed by something else.

Always liked socialist folk songs though.

Good to see Dick Gaughan is still going..

Lullaby, The Cure.

Go shake your head. The Cure have always been astonishingly amazing.

@Jamesoz, there’s about 4 songs on that album that sound exactly like Fish Out Of Water, how can you only like that one? Holy Man’s the exact same song with the serial numbers filed off!

Oh yeah, there’s Hall of the Mountain Womble from the same album.

The Manic Miner Wombles crossover you didn’t know you needed.

[ truth is, no one did need it ]

I’d rather rip my ears off the side of my head, then use them to plug the holes, than listen to anything else by this lot

They must be full of wax.

Anyway, Crazy Horses is a great shout.