Sadchild's "high fives" (every artist I like at least five songs from)
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Sting
Genre: pop rock, jazz rock, AC
Discovered: knew him from The Police
Other: I like his upbeat stuff more than his jazzier and more mellow tracks. And I like The Police more than Sting solo.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Fortress Around Your Heart
2. Fields Of Gold
3. Englishman in New York
4. Desert Rose
5. All This Time
Sting
Genre: pop rock, jazz rock, AC
Discovered: knew him from The Police
Other: I like his upbeat stuff more than his jazzier and more mellow tracks. And I like The Police more than Sting solo.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Fortress Around Your Heart
2. Fields Of Gold
3. Englishman in New York
4. Desert Rose
5. All This Time
I have like 3 of his solo albums. He makes good music, but there's only so much of him I can take. He's another artist where I dislike some of his fan base.
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Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Stone Temple Pilots
Genre: hard rock, grunge
Discovered: MTV, "Sex Type Thing"
Other: I was sleeping over someone's house and randomly woke in the middle of the night to the video for "Sex Type Thing". I made a mental note to look into them the next day. A few months later, they were huge. Aside from a few songs, I dislike everything they did after their debut album Core. I hated "Vaseline" and hated "Big Bang Baby" even more.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Sex Type Thing
2. Crackerman
3. Wicked Garden
4. Dead And Bloated
5. Unglued
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Stuck Mojo
Genre: rap metal
Discovered: sampler, "2 Minutes Of Death"
Other: These guys formed in 1989, three years before Rage. They were originally inspired by Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Follow For Now (a fellow Atlanta funk-rock band similar to Living Color). So they were groundbreakers, just not as well known or acknowledged.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Crooked Figurehead
2. Assassination Of A Pop Star
3. Throw The Switch
4. Mental Meltdown
5. Hate Breed
There are bunch of bands I only know because of the cheap Century Media (label) compilations I bought in the 90s. Most of them remained obscure, known only in the underground metal world. The band featured on them that got the biggest I would say is probably Lacuna Coil.
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Long running series of compilation albums released by Century Media starting in 1994.
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Sugar Ray
Genre: rap metal/party rock (first album), rap rock/party rock (second album), pop rock (third album onward)
Discovered: sampler (same one I discovered CIV and Smile from), "Rhyme Stealer"
Other: "Now it-*wick*-now-*wick*-Now it's time for gui-gui-gui-guitar center stage..." Their first album was a lot of fun. Rap-metal similar to Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill. Their second album was weaker, I didn't get into it very much.... but it had the huge hit "Fly" (which I liked, but it felt like when Red Hot Chili Peppers went from "Fight Like A Brave" to "Under The Bridge" -- both good, but quite a big shift). After that second album, they were a different band entirely.
HIGH FIVE:
1. 10 Seconds Down
2. Rhyme Stealer
3. Streaker
4. Fly
5. Mean Machine
Suicidal Tendencies
Genre: metal, heavy rock, punk metal
Discovered: MTV Headbangers Ball, "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow"
Other: Their most popular era was 1989 - 1993 (#1 and #5 and "I'll Hate You Better" got decent radio play on rock radio (usually at night). But they will forever be known best for their first single "Institutionalized". "All I wanted was a Pepsi! And she wouldn't give it to me! Just one Pepsi!" I prefer the re-recorded version of that song from 1993 though because it's more metal, less garage/punk.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Send Me Your Money
2. Institutionalized (1993 Version)
3. How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
4. Go N Breakdown
5. Nobody Hears
Survivor
Genre: rock, pop rock
Discovered: FM I assume, "Eye Of The Tiger"
Other: "Tiger" is a rock classic, but I don't get into anything else from the Bickler years. The Jamison years are a bit cheesy, but eh good enough to give the band a high five.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Eye Of The Tiger
2. High On You
3. Burning Heart
4. The Moment Of Truth
5. I Can't Hold Back
Survivor
Genre: rock, pop rock
Discovered: FM I assume, "Eye Of The Tiger"
Other: "Tiger" is a rock classic, but I don't get into anything else from the Bickler years. The Jamison years are a bit cheesy, but eh good enough to give the band a high five.
HIGH FIVE:
1. Eye Of The Tiger
2. High On You
3. Burning Heart
4. The Moment Of Truth
5. I Can't Hold Back
Agreed. I think both singers had good singing voices though.
Soon after "Tiger", Bickler had to have throat surgery. From what I gather, when it didn't heal fast enough they pushed him out of the band. That sucks. From #1 to number-none
Main member Jim Peterik has written a few hits for others like "Caught Up In You" and "Hold On Loosely" for 38 Special and "Vehicle" for Ides Of March.
Main member Jim Peterik has written a few hits for others like "Caught Up In You" and "Hold On Loosely" for 38 Special and "Vehicle" for Ides Of March.
They had 5 songs?
Vehicle always seemed much much older. I love that song.
I can kinda hear it now.
Get the truck outta Dodge!
Vehicle always seemed much much older. I love that song.