For example, I first heard Suburban Legends - Polyester, so I went to check Suburban Legends and they were just a regular ska band.
What’s your “that song was great, I wish the band did more of that” song and band?
Somebody out there heard nickleback’s “san quentin” and got thoroughly disappointed after looking for more bangers
Hadn’t heard that one. It’s okay i guess. But there’s plenty more like it in Silver Side Up and The Long Road. Their transition really is peak sellout.
I’ve never once heard a song and said “I need to listen to all the songs by this artist”
but I think I would be concidered an EDM normie, so I just listen to what is concidered popular in the feeds.
Being said, I have heard some songs that were dual offs at times, like there’s a bunch of dubstep composers who I think fall under that where they had a real good ones and the rest are meh
When I first started getting into EDM, I’d hear a tune and be like, damn, I need more tunes by this artist, but found they would never click really. But then I would go to a show and hear tunes, or listen to mixes, and it would all really come alive then. I was big in that scene from probably 2009 to 2015, and I’ve reverted to more general love for music, though I haven’t stopped listening.
Recently, I found a list of the 25 best EDM albums of 2025, obviously just one site’s collective opinions, but I ran through it, it was more than just dubstep (which was always what I leaned toward), and I ended up really digging so much of it, just from going through album by album.
And that being said, there were some acts who would put out legit albums. Early Ganja White Night, with Addiction especially, and Hybrid Distillery, were such great albums, really told a story when you listened cover to cover. But they’re definitely not the norm. Zeds Dead’s most recent album was also top notch.
The La’s - There She Goes
Pretty much everyone knows this song and they’re considered a one-hit wonder, but that album thoroughly impressed me and I’d say There She Goes is one of my least favorite songs of theirs. The rest are still catchy as hell but the lyrics aren’t quite as accessible, hence the “singular success”.
the songwriter also had terrible bouts of perfectionism, it took forever just to get him to okay that albums release
He actually never okay-ed it and wasn’t a fan of it (source).
The Killers - All These Things I’ve Done
Still not a fan of the band but love the song after many years.
The Movement - Remember
This song hit at the right time in my life and I had it practically on repeat for over a year. Rest of their stuff just didn’t grab me like say practically every Stick Figure song did.
Hmmm… Not discovered in that order, but Satyricon’s Phoenix . I love their stuff, really… but phoenix is unlike anything they’ve done and it’s actually unlike most other stuff that I could find… those blast beats comboed with Sivert’s vocals are just… There’s things that come close but nothing quite gets there… it’s so powerful and chill at the same time… Like being inside during a blizzard or something, I dunno.
A bit more on topic, however, I’ve recently discovered Måneskin’s The loneliest and I’ve really enjoyed it. Went to listen to some of their other stuff and I was quite disappointed. Have only listened to like a dozen songs so maybe there’s more stuff to my liking in there… I’ll say that my wife really enjoyed Coraline … and while I didn’t like it that much (especially the chorus seems kinda silly and ruins the vibe for me)… when I looked up the lyrics… damn. Powerful stuff. Props to the guy.
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
God dammit, now I have it in my head.
Hands Down is so similar though, but maybe I just lump them together because they were such big hits way back when.
Dethroned by Bad Omens
That song drew me into their other music, which I liked, but just wasn’t on the same level. Artificial Suicide comes closest but still doesn’t go as hard as Dethroned.
The Beat - Mirror in a bathroom
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“Weatherman” by Sub7even.
But while I totally loved that song, turned out I loved the rest of their stuff, which is totally different just as much.
So inside me there are two wolves:
One wishing they had done more stuff like “Weatherman”.
The other one wishing they had made more stuff as on the rest of the album it was on.
Came across Avalon Emerson recently with the song Written Into Changes but nothing hits that same vibe. I like some of the other tracks but this one really does it for me
I would get roasted for this in some places, but BTS. I love Not Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwzBICPhdM …but most of their songs don’t sound like that. In fact, I haven’t found any that have. Dynamite is okay, but it’s not their song. It was written for them, and it’s 100% in English. It was made for the western market. Not Today is their song (one of them, I mean) and it’s amazing. I’ve tried to listen to others, and none of them hit quite the same, that I’ve heard yet.
That said, if you don’t like or don’t get BTS, but you liked the K-Pop in Kpop Demon Hunters, you might like Not Today… and also K/DA, the cartoon band Riot Games created for League of Legends (with songs like Pop/Stars and The Baddest) — in fact, I think K/DA might be the direct inspiration for HUNTR/X, along with TWICE (who appear on the soundtrack and are referenced in an Easter egg — the song that plays when they go up to their penthouse (“Strategy”) is the one their song Golden knocks off the top of the charts).
Pretty much any individual Ween song
Ween is a truly mixed bag
Picked up the 2 newest albums by Tinsley Ellis, turns out, these acoustic records are COMPLETELY different from everything he did before, notably playing electric but also with a full band.
Hoodoo Woman:
Too Broke:
Sweet Ice Tea:
