What are some songs that make you feel so good that you're downright /scared/ to listen to a band's other music, for fear of being let down?

Here's a couple of mine:

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdo-ZiHqbls

Mansfield.TYA - Bleu lagon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyjeIOmCvo

The Monkees - You Bring the Summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbf6HbKZSMk


TBH, the last one's a weird example, because I'd already known so many of their classic hits, but the VIDEO on this particular song? Oh gosh...

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miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 1y
VeryVito@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y

It's like the anthem of the sixties; what a masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2msh0jut2Y

BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

show up, make a masterpiece, go back to chicken farming. what a guy

lady_maria@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)
llamapocalypse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

CRANE WIVES SPOTTED IN THE WILD but thankfully most of their work is at least as good

ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y

Tommy James and the Shondells - I think we're alone now https://song.link/s/4gxaW9GptUInJt5RYljbmn

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y

That's a great way of putting it, and I think usually the case in situations like this.

Which therefore kinda suggests that the bigger and more amazing the song can actually be detrimental for the prospects of fanhood.

serpineslair@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Exodus is too damn consistent. Most other thrash bands have one or two great albums and spend the rest of their career trying to live up to their hit album(s) - usually unsuccessfully. There are obviously a fair few exceptions, but the majority of bands I discover suffer from this in one way or another.

thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y

its ok to just like one or two songs

I think of many one-hit-wonders but the Spacehog song "In the Meantime" is what I will refer to here. I really liked it on the radio when it first dropped. Got the album and was not at all excited about the rest of the songs. Come time, they dropped a new album and of course I had to try again but it didn't even have one song that I really cared for. I sat on the CD for a while and gave them a listen every so often, because that one song is sooo good! maybe I was just not giving the rest of the songs a chance. Yeah no. I listed to their 3rd album before buying it and was content to just listen to one of their songs. Its always in my mix and I love to hear it. But thats the only song of theirs that I like.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Kris Delmhorst — "Short Work"

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I wish I could see it!

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

did the link not work?

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y

Ah, there we go. I just had to signup via Google.

Thanks for the share.

Balaquina@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Disturbed, The Sound of Silence

arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Disturbed's got some good music, it's just very different lol

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Ha, I have 3 songs off that Monkees album!

alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

From Indian Lakes album Head Void Tapes is so fricken good, I didn't even realize it was a reimagining of their album Head Void and that not a single other one of their albums would sound even remotely like it.

JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y

Bonus pts, if you really need it:

Tessa Violet - I Like (the idea of) You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQyFFTh_YGc