artist/band with large catalog and you only really need to hear one song by them.

Eagles - Hotel California
Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years

Elvis Costello almost works for me but I like Radio Radio as well.

James Taylor - Fire and Rain

lol@ steely dan. one for the headz there.

i dunno, beck and elvis costello and talking heads have lots of songs that i need to hear... i knew i'd disagree with everything in this thread before i opened it.

Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
The Toadies - Possum Kingdom

oh man soundgarden forgot about them. "black hole sun" all the way for me. and then i am so done. but i love that song.

The entire Beach Boys discography can be boiled down to a 7" with "Don't Worry Baby" on one side and "Good Vibrations" on the other, and honestly I can take or leave "Good Vibrations."

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!

i'm not a big E6 fan but this is really their worst song

The entire Beach Boys discography can be boiled down

no

lol@ steely dan. one for the headz there

no idea what you are talking about. that one dan song is more than enough for me.

Hi Iago! Happy Christmas as well, I feel a bit bad about jumping on you on this thread even if you are unjustly depriving yourself of the Blondie back catalogue.

The entire Beach Boys discography can be boiled down to a 7" with "Don't Worry Baby" on one side and "Good Vibrations" on the other, and honestly I can take or leave "Good Vibrations."

― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, December 24, 2012 2:26 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol now do the beatles

It's OK, Matt DC. I must say, I know Blondie the least of the three so I am going to give them another shot. Merry Xmas to you too!

oh yeah, happy holidays everyone! Could 2012 have sucked any worse? I guess if Mittens won, but otherwise, a bummer of a year

"Union City Blue" is my pick for best Blondie song which sounds nothing like "Heart of Glass" (which I love, and generally my favourite Blondie songs somewhat resemble it). But I guess that's a question for a Blondie thread.

that bob marley one

lol now do the beatles

I hate the Beatles more than anyone you know hates anything.

you sound cool

these are all subjective but I guess that's the point. feel free to debate any of them cos i prolly don't know what i'm talking about.

The Eagles "I Can't Tell You Why"
Heart "These Dreams"
The Alan Parsons Project "Eye In The Sky"
Fall Out Boy "Dance Dance"
Sugar Ray "Someday"
Chris Isaak "Wicked Game"
Del Amitri "Roll To Me"
Powerman 5000 "When Worlds Collide"
Boyz II Men "Motownphilly"
The Flamin' Groovies "Shake Some Action"
Rod Stewart "Maggie May"

Eagles, Alan Parsons, Flamin Groovies, and Rod all OTM for me

Rod Stewart - Young Turks

Is surely what you meant.

Man, Heart is essential listening

smashing pumpkins - cherub rock

hope I don't piss anyone off too bad with this one, but: Shriekback - My Spine (Is the Bassline)

Have tried, but nothing else I've heard by them grabs me at all. If any huge fans think I am missing out on the rest of their catalog, I would love some suggestions.

cat power - metal heart

not really large catalogues i guess, but still
beach house - zebra
xx - vcr
bon iver - skinny love

I think if you only picked Strawberry Fields Forever and associated boots flying around that would be enough for The Beatles.

There are people who have made better blues and girl scream pop, better concrete or used sitars in their tracks more interrestingly, had better riffs or did the studio as an instrument thing...so for all the goodies in their immense catalogue you could actually get away w/SFF. Besides, so many tendencies are there in one single song that its a good sum.

That's what I do anyway.

America - A Horse With No Name

cat power - metal heart

Jukebox or Moon Pix version?

Ventura Highway by America is hundred times better than Horse With No Name.

i mean seeeeriously rules so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5J54RVZjYs

And to play to type:

Bardo Pond - "Tommy Gun Angel"
Cocteau Twins - "Donimo"
Dead Can Dance - "Summoning of the Muse"
Stereolab - you know, the one that sounds like Neu! or Faust.

cat power - metal heart
Jukebox or Moon Pix version?

metal heart is the song i was going to post -- but i need both versions
i want her to keep recording this every 10 years until she's 90 years old
it's the only cat power song i need by a wide margin

Electric Six, but 'Gay Bar' instead of 'D!HV'.
A bit unfair on Rod Stewart, as he had loads more great songs besides 'Maggie May' - although everything since about 1992 can be skipped.

Lazy and obvious, but...Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick. Honestly assumed this would be mentioned in first 5 replies

They're great and all, but really.

radiohead, maybe 'there there'. nb i love radiohead

should be good for another hundred posts or so *crosses fingers*

oh i know who is the ultimate example of this for me is bjork

America - A Horse With No Name
i love about 9 songs by this band

Fela "Lady"
Neu! + La Dusseldorf "Hallogallo"

I don't think saying "this band can be reduced" is a bad thing. I think it shows a clarity of intent.

Until recently, the only Grateful Dead song I ever needed (or wanted) to hear was "Box of Rain."

Rod Stewart - Young Turks

Is surely what you meant.

No I think he said "Hot Legs"

"cat power - metal heart
Jukebox or Moon Pix version?"

moon pix

otm, but i like them both. fortunately, the rules do not limit different recordings of the one song

Blue Cheer's version of "Summertime Blues." I like that one OTT cover tune, have no need for any more by them.

coldplay - yellow
eminem - my name is
kanye west - through the wire
the strokes - last night
bright eyes - waste of paint
the smiths - how soon is now
gorillaz - clint eastwood
delibes - lakme (the flower duet)

how soon is now is a good smiths pick. kinda get all your smithiness right there. could definitely understand someone picking ace of spades by motorhead for the same reason.

I was about to say that "How Soon Is Now" is a distinctly bad Smiths pick, since it doesn't sound much like anything else they did! It's a total one-off in their catalog. And is 2-3 minutes too long. If I had to pick one song to get all your Smithiness from, it'd be "Still Ill".

Thinking the same myself, a very un-Smiths song to me.

Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses

"in the fade" by queens of the stone age is def this for me. i don't dislike them normally, but i'm not especially interested either. that song though... i know it forwards+backwards. hasn't gotten old yet.

(also maybe a good indicator that it's a very unrepresentative song for them!)

“You Shook Me All Night Long.” There’s a couple other AC/DC songs I don’t mind hearing from time to time, but despite not being much of a fan this one always hits the spot.

^yeah, that's a good call... that song is on another level

"in the fade" by queens of the stone age is def this for me.

Austin, thanks for this... I had never heard that song. What a guitar sound!

Not sure they've reached "large catalog" status yet, but they're getting there, and I'm pretty sure "Highway Tune" is the only track I will ever need to hear from them.

I feel like "X-French Tee Shirt" by Shudder To Think is one of these.

“You Shook Me All Night Long.” There’s a couple other AC/DC songs I don’t mind hearing from time to time, but despite not being much of a fan this one always hits the spot.

― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Friday, May 10, 2024 4:45 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

by far one of the worst opinions i have ever read on this board

my own xp - I was referring to Greta Van Fleet!

I've listened to that QOTSA track like six times now... what an absolute jam

Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Of course, there's a ringer in that song, so maybe my answer is really NO Pet Shop Boys.

adam ant's "stand and deliver"

so glad you dig it, morris!