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Post by pb on Feb 1, 2019 20:10:48 GMT -5
Paul McCartney's last Top 10 hit of the 1970's (Goodnight Tonight) is probably his most 'different' from his other hits that decade. It is also probably his least played Top 10 of the 1970's. I noticed that although I started listening to the radio around the time "Coming Up" was a hit, I never heard "Goodnight Tonight."
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Post by Michael1973 on Feb 7, 2019 10:18:14 GMT -5
How about "Rocket 2 U" by the Jets?
Or Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting?"
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 8, 2019 13:38:12 GMT -5
After She's A Beauty, I don't think anyone expected Tubes to release a discoy flavored followup Tip Of My Tongue.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 6, 2019 17:22:50 GMT -5
Human League's Human was totally different than their hits of three years earlier.
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Post by matt on Aug 7, 2019 14:23:59 GMT -5
Human League's Human was totally different than their hits of three years earlier. "Human" was essentially a Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis song with Human League providing the vocals, and they certainly didn't have anything like that among their previous material. They made another shift with "Heart Like a Wheel" in 1990, which though still all electronic and synthesizers, had a different sound than anything else they'd done.
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Post by woolebull on Aug 7, 2019 17:42:32 GMT -5
Human League's Human was totally different than their hits of three years earlier. "Human" was essentially a Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis song with Human League providing the vocals, and they certainly didn't have anything like that among their previous material. They made another shift with "Heart Like a Wheel" in 1990, which though still all electronic and synthesizers, had a different sound than anything else they'd done. I'd even say their last top 10 hit, the 1995 song, "Tell Me When", was a total departure in style...from most of the other top 10 hits of 1995. It felt like a song from the mid 80's, yet thankfully found a short, but lasting, niche in 1995.
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 16, 2019 9:16:22 GMT -5
How about Todd Rundgren's song "Bang The Drum All Day?" It sounds nothing like his more mainstream hits like "I Saw The Light."
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Post by mga707 on Aug 16, 2019 10:21:16 GMT -5
How about Todd Rundgren's song "Bang The Drum All Day?" It sounds nothing like his more mainstream hits like "I Saw The Light." Tying a chameleon-like artist like Rundgren to one 'style' is difficult. Similar to Nilsson in that regard.
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Post by Michael1973 on Sept 5, 2019 11:19:52 GMT -5
Jim Croce had a very distinct, recognizable singing voice, but you wouldn't know that from listening to "Time In A Bottle."
Also, "Mama Said Knock You Out" was much more hard-core than most of LL Cool J's other hit songs.
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Post by JMW on Sept 5, 2019 22:51:42 GMT -5
Or Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"? I'd say that his song "Victim Of Love" from late 1979 is completely different from any of his other Top 40 hits. (Funny how he was the #1 artist of the 70s, yet his last Top 40 of the decade barely cracked the Top 30.)
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Post by mga707 on Sept 5, 2019 23:13:31 GMT -5
Or Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"? I'd say that his song "Victim Of Love" from late 1979 is completely different from any of his other Top 40 hits. (Funny how he was the #1 artist of the 70s, yet his last Top 40 of the decade barely cracked the Top 30.) Yes, that whole "Victim Of Love" LP was a weird--and NOT well-received--departure for Elton. I'd call it his 'contractual obligation album', except that it wasn't: He still had one more LP to go on his MCA contract, before jumping to Geffen, the much-better "21 at 33" album the following year (1980), which was way more in line with his previous work.
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