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The "Odd Song Out."
« on: 04 Sep 2006, 00:51 »
I'm just curious, what are some of the best songs that are completely out of character for a band? Most bands have a very distinct sound, so (at least for me) it always really catches my attention when one song sounds really different. Hell, some bands get noticed because that one song catches someone's attention (Green Day's "Good Riddance?" Sublime's "What I got?").

The ones that come to mind for me are Greg Graffin (lead singer of Bad Religion) starting a solo project in folk music (and it's actually quite enjoyable, to me at least). Another is Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Road Trippin."


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EDIT : Nice catch. Anything real to contribute?
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« Reply #1 on: 04 Sep 2006, 00:54 »
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Green Day's "Time of your Life?"


Greenday do not have a song called "Time Of Your Life"
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« Reply #2 on: 04 Sep 2006, 01:36 »
The cover of "Easy" by Faith No More. Man, I love that song.

(Edit: Thanks Misereatur, I forgot to mention it was a cover)
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« Reply #3 on: 04 Sep 2006, 03:07 »
"Shipyards" by Leatherface.  a punk band with a gravel-throated lead singer doing a piano ballad.  doesn't get much more out of character than that.
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« Reply #4 on: 04 Sep 2006, 04:45 »
"Darkness" by Disturbed.

It's a ballad. On a cello.
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« Reply #5 on: 04 Sep 2006, 08:00 »
"In Her Shadow" by Converge - it's played on this acoustic guitar that sounds like it was found in a dumpster somewhere, real ugly and broken sounding, and then Jake just kind of chants the lyrics over top of it...I love the song, but it's definately "out of character" for Converge
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« Reply #6 on: 04 Sep 2006, 08:47 »
Arctic Exhibition by Mínus on the album Jesus Christ Bobby. Basically, this album is just one big chunk of noise. Usually, screaming and guitar can't be told apart and it's generally very aggressive.
And then, right in the middle of the album, you have a song that only consists of singing and an acoustic guitar.

Also, I think that Copper by Shellac is somewhat out of character because it's short, straight and almost poppy. Of course, they had to end it with feedback, so it's not completely out of character. But it does stick out.

And does Anal Cunt's Picnic of Love count? ;)
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« Reply #7 on: 04 Sep 2006, 08:47 »
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

But then, all of Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea is completely atypical of her...and it is by far my favorite of her albums.
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« Reply #8 on: 04 Sep 2006, 09:08 »
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"Easy" by Faith No More. Man, I love that song.


It's a cover, original version by The Commodores.
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« Reply #9 on: 04 Sep 2006, 10:21 »
The Stooges' We Will Fall. That's the main one that comes to mind.
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« Reply #10 on: 04 Sep 2006, 10:52 »
The first song on the White Rose Movement 'kick' CD is pretty weird and synth-y compared to the rest, and puts a lot of people off. I love the tune but it's not representative of the rest of the album at all.
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« Reply #11 on: 04 Sep 2006, 10:57 »
Tubthumping by chumbawumba, maybe?

I feel free by Cream comes to mind. atleast compared to their other hits.

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« Reply #12 on: 04 Sep 2006, 12:05 »
It was probably more from the context of the album than the band's entire body of work, but YLT's 'Stockholm Syndrome' threw me for a loop the first time I heard it.
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« Reply #13 on: 04 Sep 2006, 13:58 »
Flipper - Sex Bomb

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« Reply #14 on: 04 Sep 2006, 14:00 »
Neil Hannon - The IT Crowd (Theme)

Sounds NOTHING like anything the Divine Comedy have ever done.
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« Reply #15 on: 04 Sep 2006, 15:28 »
Nada Surf - Mother's Day
Mos Def - Brown Sugar (a really bad song actually)
Of Montreal - Tim Wish You Were Born a Girl (acoustic guitar, wha?)
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« Reply #16 on: 04 Sep 2006, 16:32 »
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People hate that song?  Man, people are idiots.
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« Reply #17 on: 04 Sep 2006, 17:01 »
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And does Anal Cunt's Picnic of Love count? ;)


definitely.
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« Reply #18 on: 04 Sep 2006, 19:05 »
"Float On" by Modest Mouse.  Actually that whole album is very different from the rest of their stuff.
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« Reply #19 on: 04 Sep 2006, 20:04 »
No it isn't. If anything GNFPWLBN was closer to their older stuff than The Moon and Antarctica. Float On is poppier than most MM tunes but its hardly out of place in the catalogue.
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« Reply #20 on: 04 Sep 2006, 20:17 »
As said before, Swing Life Away - Rise Against, then in the same genre of music, I know that Avenged Sevenfold has one song on an album that I like, and it is just a piano with singing, something about Warmness of the Heart.

I'm not too versed on my Avenged Sevenfold, thankfully.

Then there is also Cabron - Red Hot Chili Peppers
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« Reply #21 on: 05 Sep 2006, 03:29 »
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"Float On" by Modest Mouse.  Actually that whole album is very different from the rest of their stuff.


Several songs on that album have the same feel as Float On. The World At Large, Ocean Breathes Salty, The View, etc.
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« Reply #22 on: 05 Sep 2006, 07:44 »
May or may not be but, Anthems for a Seventeen year-old girl. Felt like it for me when I first heard Broken Social Scene
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« Reply #23 on: 05 Sep 2006, 08:29 »
It always seemed to me that Eleanor Rigby was an unusual Beatles song. The string arrangement and the fact that it isn't about love but mortality.

I've Been Thinking is also very out of character for Cat Power.
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« Reply #24 on: 05 Sep 2006, 10:32 »
I don't think there is such a thing as an unusual Beatles song. Unless they have some noise experimentation I haven't heard yet.
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« Reply #25 on: 05 Sep 2006, 10:53 »
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I don't think there is such a thing as an unusual Beatles song


Helter Skelter?
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« Reply #26 on: 05 Sep 2006, 11:57 »
Blackbird? Wild Honey Pie? A Day In The Life?

I think he is basically implying that the Beatles just did odd songs. If a band is particularly experimental than one doesn't expect things that necessarily sound like their other songs.

A lot of off-kilter songs are actually absolutely brilliant. Take December Song by Sol Invictus, which is a foray into Jazz with fully female vocals, totally at odds with everything else in their catalogue. Or Current 93's 'christmas single', Crowleymass, which is probably pretty much one of the wierdest songs ever recorded anyway. It's like a novelty seasonal rap song from some sort of post-punk hell. It's also extremely at odds with the rest of Current 93's catalogue, which is strange, eerie, solemn, mystical and harrowing. And it has some of the best lines of all time

"And his name is Crowley it rhymes with holy
It isn't Crowley that rhymes with fouly! Ew!"

Incidentally, Helter Skelter is one of my top five favourite Beatles songs.
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« Reply #27 on: 05 Sep 2006, 12:37 »
Yeah, thats what I'm saying. Half the Beatles' catalogue are odd songs...which means there ARE no odd songs. Though Helter Skelter is probably the outer limit of odd Beatle's songs.
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« Reply #28 on: 05 Sep 2006, 12:43 »
True, but even for all their experimentalism Helter Skelter has a dark edge to it (Charlie Manson aside) which makes it stick out. There's a rawness  and chaos to it (improvised trumptet outros etc.) that's rare in the Beatles cannon. Like Happiness is a Warm Gun, but even more of a 'odd song' feel because McCartney wrote. Paul 'Obla-Di Obla-dah' McCartney fer chrissake!
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« Reply #29 on: 05 Sep 2006, 14:03 »
Or they did hear the tape that the Velvet Underground sent them.
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