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My favourite song by Beautiful South is "Hooligans Don't Fall in Love" from the album Miaow. This song is not typical of their work at all, with its almost dancey backing and its Norman Cook production.

What songs do you like which are not typical of the artist that sang and played them?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 31 October 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

On Overhead Walkways by the Soup Dragons - kind of jangly guitar version of Swing Out Sister...& not unlike about 1/2 the songs I've written since I heard it ;-)

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 31 October 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorhead 1916

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i think my favorite belle and sebastian song is "electronic renaissance"... def. atypical.

― gygax!, Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Photek's 'Mine To Give' - unexpected switch from intricate tech-jazz-breakbeat to smooth sensuous house...for the time the equivalent of a garage punk act going all Coldplay

and Everything But The Girl's 'Walking Wounded' which was their first trip into drum n' bass and a far cry from both the 80s mor/pop style and the ibeefa house tracks

― blueski, Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

the swirlies house of pancakes, i think it's called ... was wonderful chopped up funky drummer beats and girlie vocals and shoegazer guitars all mixed together in wonderfulness with lyrics about going to classes and not wearing any glasses. then i got the album and it was all dull indierock. sigh.

― kate, Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Lou Reed's "The Bells"

― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth - "Goo"

cos it's almost disco.

― Jacob, Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Used to think this of You Showed Me by The Lightning Seeds, if only cos it was the first song they did that I could remember not sounding exactly like all their other songs...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 31 October 2002 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dead Kennedys' "Moon Over Marin", which ratchets down their constant hyped-up high-speed weirdo hardcore vitriol and leaves them sounding like Britpunk '78 - it's weird, but it works.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 31 October 2002 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Dinosaur Jr - Take a Run at the Sun! (no guitar solo, wtf?)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 31 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

when i first got "vauxhall and i" i thought that "lifeguard sleeping, girl drowning" was very un-morrissey like. i think it was because of his singing. or something.

― cecilia, Thursday, 31 October 2002 20:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The Gun Club's "The Breaking Hands" off of the Robin Guthrie-produced Mother Juno. It's the one song on the album that really goes for the Cocteau Twins sound and it's fantastic.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

jel is OTM

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 31 October 2002 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oasis - "Diggsy's Dinner" and, to a lesser extent, "She's Electric" - fab jaunty silly pop stuff, the only time they've flaunted any sense of humour - if they'd stuck with it I might still like 'em...

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 31 October 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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