[Music] Songs seemingly at odds with the rest of the artists output.

[Stat Brother]

It's not often I dip in toe into the turgid cesspit of banality that is music on NSC.

But the other day I got earwormed by 6 Music, not only with the track, but the follow up comment along of the lines of the thread title.

So let's have some more 'blimey charlie I wasn't expecting that, from them'. gramophone records.

 

[METALMICKY]

Metallica surprised a lot of people not just with their short hair cuts but with almost country rock track Mama Said from the seriously underated Load album back in 1986.

A far less welcome surprise years later was the WHOLE of the St Anger album which had no guitar solos, a tin can for a snare drum and was an unholy mess.

 

[Weststander]

 

[Kosh]

Most radical departures from established artists are best avoided... like Wishbone Ash delving into hard house, looking and sounding like washed up teachers trying to be ‘right on’ on the last day of the summer term back in the heady daze of ‘99. File under embarrassing and just plain shite.

It’s all a bit Andone on the wing, sure it’s interesting, but in reality uncomfortable and often massively disappointing. Indeed if you were really honest, pretty rubbish.

The better radical ‘departure’ is a musical genius who just decides to leave it all behind... become a plasterer, or a combine driver, or a grave digger or something.

Now that is pushing the envelope.

I’d probably pay to sit in a field and watch Thom Yorke bringing in the harvest.

Lord of the ages indeed.

 

[Icy Gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjGjxvYLXU

 

[Flagship]

The Laughing Gnome by David Bowie. Very odd.

 

[Juan Albion]

And

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

FFS Berry

 

[Icy Gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsfzu_B464

 

[Icy Gull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs_FYcF5o3s

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ironically this was the first track I heard by AATT, and assumed they were an experimental electronic band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v565N1bgpfY

 

[Icy Gull]

I might be alone here but I haven’t even heard of the majority of bands you post clips of

Ironically this was the first track I heard by AATT, and assumed they were an experimental electronic band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v565N1bgpfY

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

These lovelies always sounded very luch like label-mates, Killing Joke. And then they released this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzdLe6A6DvI

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I might be alone here but I haven’t even heard of the majority of bands you post clips of

AATT have been going for 40 years, released a dozen albums, and still play (occasionally) in the UK. I have seen them live in the UK 7 or 8 times in the last 15 years. OK they are not widely known . . . .check 'em out - they are utterly mesmerizing. Here is a manstream track of theirs from the early years. These days they are more brooding (if that's possible). Metropolis records (where I once got most of my CDs) bills them as 'gloomy English band'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0dCFc1LS4M

 

[Baldseagull]

 

[Wozza]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDj7DuHVV9E

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Stato]

It's not often I dip in toe into the turgid cesspit of banality that is music on NSC.

But the other day I got earwormed by 6 Music, not only with the track, but the follow up comment along of the lines of the thread title.

So let's have some more 'blimey charlie I wasn't expecting that, from them'. gramophone records.

I think that 6Music have it wrong. Lou Reed has always written good pop songs among the arty stuff. Take off the production that was obviously intended to try and make the charts and its not much different from the Velvet Underground's 'Rock'n'Roll' or 'Temptation (inside of your heart)' or from 'Hangin' Round' from Transformer, or from the second half of 'Dirty Boulevard' from New York, or from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqEoTN4BGPQ

 

[McTavish]