The only song you like*

Sunna. Power Struggle. Video directed by Paul Verhoven. They only recorded one album, and I saw them play The Fleece in Bristol. They were… average, and that’s the only decent track on the album.
There are, of course, a great many bands with only one track that I like, because they’re a genre I’m just not interested in or else the band are just not that interesting enough to me to bother with them otherwise. There’s a shit-ton of music out there, I’ve got over 70,000 tracks in my Music library, and several million more I’ll never listen to.

Only thing I’ve heard of them, but a great cover of a great song. The guitarist really nails the Marc Ribot feel

@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!

Dunno, I’ll put some coal in the Mini Disc player and have another listen. No idea where the CD is.
It’s been many, many years. I had hair then.

Mansum – wide open space
Franz Ferdinand – take me out

I’ve got over 70,000 tracks in my Music library

that would play for around a year of waking hours without repeat. I think if I had that much music on tap it would be hard to say if I liked any of it because there must be swathes of it that I’d never hear. A 70,000 track library is to a large extent a library of music you effectively never listen to.

I now regularly delete stuff – this threads a good example really – some bands only have one or two good tracks – if theres a band you only really like one or two tracks by – why have the rest of their album. The tracks have had a chance to grow on me, the haven’t – Delete. The more stuff I’ve removed from my iTunes library the more I enjoy listening to it.

and Rill Rill by Sleighbells

That’s odd, cos most of their stuff is very similar!

I’ve only ever listened to one song by System of A Down – Sugar. I should hate it cos of all those cliched guitar sounds and sreeching, but it’s awesome. No desire to hear anything else by them.

and Rill Rill by Sleighbells

That’s odd, cos most of their stuff is very similar!

Just doesn’t work for me though – that one track is in a weird sweet spot where I really like it but even their most similar tracks I find quite annoying.

I really like fresh squeezed orange juice but don’l like eating oranges even though they are almost exactly the same thing.

I think if I had that much music on tap it would be hard to say if I liked any of it because there must be swathes of it that I’d never hear. A 70,000 track library is to a large extent a library of music you effectively never listen to.

Er, nope. No offence like, but you’re talking rubbish.

New Radicals – You Get What you Give
Tina Arena – Sorrento Moon

Others had already taken Mansun, Beloved, Flock of Seagulls etc

I really like fresh squeezed orange juice but don’l like eating oranges even though they are almost exactly the same thing.

Fair enough! Be interesting if there’s anyone who feels the same about The Fall! 😀

Er, nope. No offence like, but you’re talking rubbish.

I’m only talking from my own experience. Culling my collection really improved the experience of listening to music – I think the point of music is to hear it. Owning so much of it that you can’t physically listen to it all once, let olone listen to anything often, doesnt make sense to me. Might as well just put the radio on.

It occurred to me recently that since its release in 1989 I’ve always had a copy of Pauls Boutique in my car – on tape, on CD, on mix tapes and CD, theres always tracks from it on any playlist on iPod or phone. I’ve heard some or all of that album once a week, pretty much every week for nearly 35 years. I don’t have a specific playlist of those tracks – but they’re in the library and will pop up when I’m listening and I’m always happy to hear them. So – safe to say I like them. So whats the point of creating a condition where I almost never hear them?

Go with the Flow – Queens of the Stone Age. It’s astonishing. The stars aligned, everyone bought their A game…whatever, just an amazing piece of music…The entire rest of their catalogue I could leave in a skip.

Crime Wave – Crystal Castes – And not least because of the things that Alice Glass accused Ethan Kath of…Anyway this? Brilliant, the rest; not so much.

My Sterophonics song is Vegas Two Times, and I have the same feeling that others do about the rest of their output.

.. doesnt make sense to me.

This is it. What works for someone else, doesn’t work for you. We’re all different.
I’m sticking to the topic now, anyway. 🙂

I used to love the Charlatans, now Weirdo is the only song of theirs that doesn’t just sound old and dull.

Loved this recently, but all their other stuff is a dirge.

New Radicals – You Get What you Give

Came here to say this. That’s definitely an album I shouldn’t have bought

Dancing Queen by Abba

John Miles – Music

Perhaps because it evokes my early naive teens. Listening to other stuff on Spotify it’s just dross

Stereophonics -Boy in the photograph

(Aand don’t think anything by The Fall gets on my play list)

I don’t know why as they had a lot of good stuff but this is the only one I really like

Brim full of Asha – Cornershop

The single was a Norman Cook remix and was not on the album.  The remix ended up nothing like the rest of the bands output.  I bet a lot of folk did like I did and bought the album and were disappointed in it

Ace of Spades, Motorhead. Everything else they did is dreadful. I’ve heard some truly terrible student bands who produced better music. Motorhead are a one-trick pony, except they only got the trick right once. They just played stuff so loud at concerts, the entire audience went deaf and couldn’t actually hear the dross they produced. Which was probably a mercy tbh.

Lol @ brownperson. But hey, what about… you must have a soft spot for…

80s novelty at it’s finest 😀

Everything else they did is dreadful.

I always thought that was the whole point of Motorhead, more punk/rock ‘n’ roll than the punks, sort of thing?

Resurrected to thank @sc-xc for introducing me to Waxahatchee but think they should take a listen the new Tigers Blood album, for which it appears Right Back to it was the lead single. It’s the best song on there, but definitely surrounded by quality.

It’s been…

Thought I was about to find a rich vein after randomly hearing this, but haven’t found anything else by them which hits the spot in the same way.

@martinhutch Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying is far and away B&S’s best effort, and this is a hill on which I am prepared to die.

Will check it out. All I was finding was slightly more insipid folky stuff.

EDIT: Not bad. Will stick it on a playlist and see if it sticks.

How can anyone not like Dragon Attack by Queen or Electro cardiogram by Kraftwerk?

You listen to Belle and Sebastian, but you don’t HEAR Belle and Sebastian, man.

A few from my youth which I tried searching out more of their stuff (but didnt find anything that I liked).

Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta

Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag

Mazzy Star – Fade into you

Well, I suppose this is one example of the genre.

The Quads – There must be Thousands. Too thick to do linky thing.

I bought many copies to give to friends as presents

This was good, nothing else they did was.  Also the lyrics seem very apt now perhaps it was just 30 years too early

I’m struggling with this. Each time I think of a song I search their back catalogue and find other tunes I like. I think it would probably be a guilty pleasure song.

I liked Moloko’s first 2 albums until sing it back went all disco.

The dandy Warhol’s did some good stuff on their earlier albums.