# The hit song that doesn't sound like the rest of the album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863 "2001-10-01T23:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![reveille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@reveille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reveille)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/41 "2001-10-04T13:17:14Z")
follow the leader is absolutely not the same crap as life is peachy…follow the leader is infinitely more crappy… what about “stellar” by incubus? radio friendly crap… ---
**Author:** ![frock75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@frock75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frock75)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/42 "2001-10-04T15:14:36Z")
Dada- “Puzzle” The only radio hit on the album was Diz-Knee Land, and it was by far the worst song on it. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/43 "2001-10-04T20:43:07Z")
I was about to let this thread go but then I remembered one of the most egregious ones. **Norman Greenbaum** _Spirit in the Sky_ was a nice rock number with a nice fuzztone guitar. I’d give it a 10 because it had a nice beat and you could dance to it. 😉 The _rest_ of the album, though, was almost country / folk and just barely rock at all. ---
**Author:** ![robinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/44 "2001-10-05T02:11:42Z")
**Skip** , re: **CrazyTown** ’s “Butterfly”… that one was definitely made for radio. “Revolving Door” is on _Gift of Game_, though. Those two cuts are certainly easier on the ears than the rest. When my 12 year old (whose tastes run a little less harsh than mine) asked us to burn some mixed cds for her, she requested those two songs, plus “Only When I’m Drunk”, which is just pure silliness. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/45 "2001-10-05T06:25:54Z")
“There She Goes” by the La’s. It’s one of my favorite albums, but there’s _nothing_ on it anywhere near as radio-friendly as that one. ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/46 "2001-10-05T08:18:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cliffy \* > \*\*On the other hand, it’s worse when you get the album and every song sounds _exactly_ the same as the hit single. \*\* That’s what I thought of Dave Matthews Band. A new guy at work played a DMB disc one day and I went over to show him how to turn off the track-repeat on the cd player. He pretended not to be insulted. ---
**Author:** ![Fosfero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@Fosfero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fosfero)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863/47 "2001-10-13T14:33:10Z")
Fastball “The Way” The one and ONLY decent song on that whole album. $13.95 down the tubes. Ugh! -Fosfero [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hit-song-that-doesnt-sound-like-the-rest-of-the-album/84863.md?page=2)