Ever like only one song from a band?

[Daimbert]

Name a song from The Eurythmics that is not "Sweet Dreams" let alone like more.

No Googling.

"Here Comes the Rain Again." Also "Who's that Girl?" (I think that's the title). And if I took some more time I could come up with some more (which doesn't even include what I could name if I want and looked at the CD listing since their Greatest Hits is loaded into my playlist).

Now, I won't say I like those songs better than "Sweet Dreams" ...

[Winter_Wolf]

Most bands produce at most one song I like or even tolerate long enough to not immediately start fiddling with the radio station. And I never remember the name of the song and rarely remember the name of the band or artist. Several singers have similar enough voices that I'll mistake the songs as from the same group, but experience has proven otherwise.

And earworm warfare only works if you're familiar with the song lyrics. Mostly my favorite tune is silence. Not perfect immunity, but definitely a solid defense. I'm at that weird place juxtaposing very sensitive hearing and hearing loss: most noise above a relatively low decibel level is somewhat painful, but I often can't reliably make out what people are actually saying.

[Avilan the Grey]

Bringing out the big guns are you!

Well....

Come on Eileen!

I'll hum this tune forever!.

Ha!

Shock and Awe, huh? Well then.

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more

Name a song from The Eurythmics that is not "Sweet Dreams" let alone like more.

No Googling.

Thorn In My Side
There Must Be an Angel
Sexcrime
When Tomorrow Comes
Miracle Of Love
Missionary Man
It's Alright
Right By Your Side

Etc.

[ChrisAsmadi]

I'm like this with Lower Than Atlantis - probably because the only song I actually like, "If The World Was To End", is totally different to most of their songs.

[Scarlet Knight]

Shock and Awe, huh? Well then.

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more

Argh! Earworm burrowing deep! Must resist!

"She drives me crazy, ooo ooo! Like no one else, ooo ooo!
She drives me crazy, and I can't help myself..."

[Avilan the Grey]

Argh! Earworm burrowing deep! Must resist!

"She drives me crazy, ooo ooo! Like no one else, ooo ooo!
She drives me crazy, and I can't help myself..."

Our House, in the middle of the street...

[thompur]

Our House, in the middle of the street...

"Hey, I just met you
And this is crazy,
So here's my number,
So call me, maybe!"

[MissT109]

It really seems like you are talking about my playlist

[Avilan the Grey]

It really seems like you are talking about my playlist

You have good taste.

Also:

"A little bit of Monica in my life / A little bit of Erica by my side / A little bit of Rita is all I need / A little bit of Tina is what I see..."

[JBPuffin]

A lot of this phenomenon for me is a lack of exposure - according to Spotify, I have several of these, but about half of those are a lack of diving for more. Charlie Puth's "We Don't Talk Anymore" counts, and I'm one of the "Creep" people who can't get into the rest of Radiohead. Y'all know the Transistor soundtrack at all? Only song I want to listen to is "She Shines" outside of the game (while playing, the rest is fantastic). gnash's "I hate you I love you."

Outside of that, I have at least a couple of songs from the groups I listen to, although I have a few artists where that's all from them I like. My music tastes/needs run the gamut, with a lot of cover artists thrown in there.

[2D8HP]

Your earworm-fu while mighty is no match!

You were workin' as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around
Turned you into someone new

Ha!

[Winter_Wolf]

Your earworm-fu while mighty is no match!

You were workin' as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around
Turned you into someone new

Ha!

I don't think you're that much older than me and yet I'm apparently completely immune to your repertoire. I don't even recognize what song this is supposed to be from at all.

Is it that song from Roadhouse?

Or go nuclear and throw out some choruses or something.

[Dienekes]

I don't think you're that much older than me and yet I'm apparently completely immune to your repertoire. I don't even recognize what song this is supposed to be from at all.

Is it that song from Roadhouse?

Or go nuclear and throw out some choruses or something.

Don't? Don't you want me?
You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me.
Don't? Don't you want me?
You know I can't believe it when you say that you won't see me.


It's much too late to find. You think you changed your mind? You better change it back or we will both be sorry.

DONT YOU WANT ME, BABY?
DONT YOU WANT ME, OHHHH?

[2D8HP]

I'm apparently completely immune to your repertoire....

*gasp*

My earworm-fu cannot overcome your (relative) youth!

Even use of the Human League is defeated!

You've got me turning up and turning down
And turning in and turning 'round

I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I REALLY THINK SO!

[Velaryon]

Most 80's New Wave bands are this way for me. Heck, the only ones I can even name more than one song from are New Order and Depeche Mode. Okay, and Men at Work, for some reason.

But among bands whose work I'm more familiar with, there are still plenty where I only like one song. Here are a few I can think of while away from my playlist:

Slayer - "Bloodline"

Tupac - "California Love"

Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"


As for my contribution to the Earworm Warfare going on in this thread...

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[Anthony222]

Well, I like "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse. This is the only one song I really liked at once

[Admiral Squish]

I think most of my music is about one song/artist. I can name, like five or maybe ten bands I like a couple things from, but generally speaking, the vast majority of my playlists are assembled from many, many different artist, like a frankenstein's monster of music. That said, I have a very broad and ever-changing range of tastes. I generally try not to get too much into any particular musician or artist, because, honestly, I feel like a work should be judged only on its own inherent value rather than the name attached to it. Like, it shouldn't matter if a song was written by [insert hateable/lovable artist here], if the song is good, it's good, and if it's not, it's not.

[Velaryon]

Alright, now that I'm home I've got a few more. I'm not listing one-hit wonders, because that's just too easy.

3 Doors Down - "Superman". The only other song I know from them is "Loser," and that one is just kinda boring to me.

The Beastie Boys - "Sabotage". Can't stand their voices normally, and I have no idea why this song is an exception.

The Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It). It's the only one of their songs that doesn't make me want to fall asleep.

Fleetwood Mac - "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Pronged Crown)". I still prefer the Judas Priest cover version, but this one is good too. I'm not a fan of either of their singers, but I especially don't like Stevie Nicks, so the lack of her vocals on this one is a big plus.

Tenacious D - cover of "The Last in Line" by Dio. Normally I really hate Tenacious D. Even in this song, I like it less because it's good (it pales in comparison to the original) than because their love for Dio really comes through in their performance.

[Zevox]

I am perhaps not the best example of what the OP was thinking of, but this is often true for me. The reason for that, though, is that I simply almost never go out of my way to look up and try listening to music I haven't heard before, so songs that I like are a random hodge-podge of ones I heard somewhere (often on the internet due to being attached to something else, like a youtube video) and happened to like. Rarely has that resulted in more than one song from any given artist being among those that I liked, in most cases simply because it hasn't often resulted in me hearing more than one song from any given artist - or at least, not more than one that I liked enough to find out who the actual artist behind it was.

Of course, on the couple of occasions I tried looking up other songs by bands that had made one I liked I didn't find others that I liked, but I did only bother trying a few, so that could just have been me giving up quickly.

[tiornys]

I think this happens a lot when artists hate their hit song. I don't like Radiohead, at all. Their song "Creep" is the only song I know by them that I will listen to, and they hate it. I know a number of people who say they like Radiohead, but can really only name that song and "Karma Police".

Radiohead is one of my bands for this topic, but my song isn't Creep or Karma Police. It's Paranoid Android.
Sometime Around Midnight by the Airborne Toxic Event.
Duvet by Bôa (the band, not the Korean singer), although that one probably only dodges one-hit-wonder territory on pure obscurity.

I have a lot more near misses on this than true single song bands though. When I like a song I tend to pursue other music by the artist and I usually find at least one other song I like even when the original song is very different from most of their work. I have a lot of artists where one particular song stands above the rest, just not many where I dislike all but one song.

On the earworms....

di di do duh di didoo duh di di do duh di didoo duh
I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner....

[Velaryon]

Radiohead is one of my bands for this topic, but my song isn't Creep or Karma Police. It's Paranoid Android.
Sometime Around Midnight by the Airborne Toxic Event.
Duvet by Bôa (the band, not the Korean singer), although that one probably only dodges one-hit-wonder territory on pure obscurity.

I have a lot more near misses on this than true single song bands though. When I like a song I tend to pursue other music by the artist and I usually find at least one other song I like even when the original song is very different from most of their work. I have a lot of artists where one particular song stands above the rest, just not many where I dislike all but one song.

On the earworms....

di di do duh di didoo duh di di do duh di didoo duh
I am sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner....

I can also think of a few bands who only have two songs I like. Cage the Elephant springs to mind immediately, as does Jefferson Airplane, ABBA, Whitesnake, Alien Ant Farm (and I'm being generous by counting their cover of Smooth Criminal, even though it doesn't come close to the original)... the list goes on.

[Avilan the Grey]

For me the most common phenomenon is the One good song per album rule. If it's only one good song period it tends to be the one hit wonder everyone agrees on anyway.

[Scarlet Knight]

I had a 3 song per album rule, but 2 would pass if they were on the same side.

"Louie Louie! Oh no!
I say away I go!
Yi-yi-yi-yi! I said,
Louie Louie! Ooooh baby!
I say away I go!"

And yes, I had to look up the words 'cause I felt silly writing "Oh no, I slursomethinago !"

[Aedilred]

I Was Made For Lovin' You is a great song, a diamond in the sea of ordure and mediocrity that comprises the rest of Kiss's catalogue.

I'm inclined to say the same about Dr. Feelgood and Motley Crue, although there's a bit of their stuff I haven't delved into. Not that any of the stuff I have heard has given me cause.

Still more tenuously, I think possibly Puss'n Boots from Adam Ant (and/or associated acts). Again I'm not sure if there are more gems buried in the rest of his oeuvre, but after sitting through a couple of albums it'll be a while before I can bring myself to listen to the rest to find out. And I don't even like Puss'n Boots that much.

Radiohead is one of my bands for this topic, but my song isn't Creep or Karma Police. It's Paranoid Android.

For my money Karma Police is one of the best songs of the last twenty years, but Paranoid Android is also pretty good - though it took me a while to get into it. Creep is highly overrated. That said, while OK Computer is a breathtakingly qualitative album, I think in terms of enjoyment I derive from listening to it, The Bends bears comparison. Fake Plastic Trees and Street Spirit (Fade Out) both still give me the fuzzies all this time later. But Pablo Honey was relatively unremarkable and after OK Computer I couldn't really get into any of their later stuff, though: for me they had a two-album peak and the rest I could live without.

[Velaryon]

I Was Made For Lovin' You is a great song, a diamond in the sea of ordure and mediocrity that comprises the rest of Kiss's catalogue.

I enjoy Kiss's version of "God Gave Rock and Roll to You," (which I just learned was a cover when I looked it up to make sure I had the title right), but that's probably mostly because it reminds me of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, which I loved as a kid.

I've also enjoyed a few covers of Kiss songs by other bands, such as Iced Earth's version of "Creatures of the Night." Not a big fan of Kiss themselves, though.

I'm inclined to say the same about Dr. Feelgood and Motley Crue, although there's a bit of their stuff I haven't delved into. Not that any of the stuff I have heard has given me cause.

I used to be this way with the Crue, but a few more of their songs grew on me over time. While I don't necessarily like or agree with the attitude behind the song, "Same Ol' Situation" is just a whole lot of fun to listen to.

[Celestia]

Well, Jonathan Coulton isn't a "band," and I like two of his songs, but that's close enough, right?

[Avilan the Grey]

I Was Made For Lovin' You is a great song, a diamond in the sea of ordure and mediocrity that comprises the rest of Kiss's catalogue.

Kiss has been all over the map, because Gene is the biggest pimp in history. Kiss burial urns and caskets prove that.
Anyway... For a while they were basically Disco, then metal, then...

I was made for lovin' you is great, but if you like that one you should also like, I feel, "Crazy nights" for example.

[Cikomyr]

Somebody that i used to know

[Velaryon]

Somebody that i used to know

Does Gotye even have any other songs?

[Cikomyr]

Does Gotye even have any other songs?

I tried 30 seconds of 10 others on YouTube.

So ill say "no" ;)