Final answer to what? Fly like an Eagle. Jet Airliner. Jungle Love. The Joker. Even unfortunately Abracadabra.
I’ve been driving hundreds of miles this past week checking out colleges with my daughter. On the classic rock stations, all we’ve freakin heard is Def Leppard, Steve Miller and the Doobies.
Bad Girls
She Works Hard For Her Money
Last Dance
MacArthur Park
On the Radio
She pretty much dominated the disco era.
The answer is every band from the grunge era, if they were lucky, except for 5 or 6 of them.
And my knowledge would be “Love to Love You,” and “I Feel Love” (one of the great songs of all time.)
Oh, yeah that Steve Miller dude turned me on to Alan Parsons
“Who is alan parsons” Alex?
?? Thudlow’s post was spot-on.
(And I’m a lifelong Zappa fan, in case that matters.)
Louis Armstrong? The Wiki entry lists 28 EPs and LPs and he’s mostly remembered for “What a Wonderful World.”
I don’t know if their discography would best be described as “extensive”, given how they’ve had two huge fallow periods where the band was all splitsville, but I did see the Verve in a Cracked article the other day described as a “One Hit Wonder” for “Bittersweet Symphony”, which really doesn’t seem right (and yes irked me more than a little). To me a OHW puts out no more than c. 2 albums in a very short period, and almost everybody who buys their stuff does so for the sake of that one huge hit.
I would say Santana is in a special category. Largely “known” for for a song that isn’t even theirs. They did a version of Low Rider of course, but for many people it is the first thing people think of when you say Santana.
Except for a few outliers, the posts here mention rock and pop.
I’ll be an exception, too.
Enya.
11 albums (not including her time with Clannad). Outside of Celtic and New Age fans, does anyone know any song besides “Orinoco Flow”?
I first think of “Oye Coma Va” and "Black Magic Woman” which also aren’t theirs. I didn’t even know Santana did a cover of “Low Rider.” The original War version I would think is the most popular.
Wait, people think “Low Rider” is by Santana? Who? Your examples would be the ones I assume most people think of, plus maybe “Smooth.”
Louis Armstrong is one of the creators of Jazz. His legacy is fine within that smaller-but-loved genre.
wolfman - Santana did Low Rider? I think you mean War.
*May it be *was the closing song of the first Lord of the Rings movie. Surely lots of people remember that one?
That was the whole point of my post.
You mean Day Bow Bow?
Yeah, he’s saying that if you ask someone to name a Santana song, “Low Rider” (incorrectly) comes to their minds. I have never heard of anyone mistaking “Low Rider” for a Santana song (does it even have a guitar part?) Maybe it’s because I and the people I know are more musically inclined and have an idea of what Santana sounds like, but I’ve seriously never heard of anyone making that mistake.
I was following the spirit of the OP in terms of people who would have trouble naming more than one Rush song, not the musically inclined.
OK, so I guess naming “Trees” as a possible distant second to “Tom Sawyer” was kind of a dumbass pick. :smack: “The Spirit of Radio”, “Limelight”, “New World Man”, “Subdivisions”, all probably got more airplay and are more well known than “Trees”. Oh well…
There are some really good picks in this thread though, including some bands where I don’t think I could name any songs of theirs.
Composers aren’t bands, and classical (or Baroque) pieces aren’t exactly songs. But if you want to go that direction: I had to look up Johann Pachelbel to see if he’d written very much. Apparently “he composed a large body of sacred and secular music”; but I, and I’m sure lots of other people, only know him for “Pachelbel’s Canon.”