The first time I heard that I thought it was a forgotten Todd Rundgren song. :smack:
Oh, yeah - sports figures.
**Timmy Smith**rushed for over 200 yards and 2 touchdowns in Super Bowl XXII.
In his entire NFL career, he rushed for 602 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.
Any other movie I’ve seen him in he’s somewhat himself. Either a nice version of himself or a nasty version.
But as Carl he’s not even the same guy. I still can’t get it through my head when I watch it that it’s Billy Bob Thornton I’m watching.
You’ve got to be kidding me. Otis Redding released a ton of amazing songs. This performance alone puts him among the greats. The fact that the white suburban audience didn’t catch on until his posthumous crossover hit doesn’t mean he didn’t have the material before that.
It’s a bit of a horse of a different color, but jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon turned in two astonishing bits of acting in Round Midnight and Awakenings.
I think it was the subjects of his books. Most of his works had Anglocentric subjects. But Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four had more universal subjects so they connected to a wider audience.
Daryl Hannah playing Elle Driver in Kill Bill.
Herman Melville.
Cuba Gooding, Jr in Jerry Maguire
Disagree with the OP, Empire is every bit the equal of Mindcrime.
I guess both of my OP choices were controversial!
Maybe Lewis Carroll, if you count Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as a single work.
Also Johann David Wyss (The Swiss Family Robinson) and Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe).
I may as well pile on Green Day. Longview is IMO their standout song (the rest of Dookie, not so much.) I wasn’t going to mention it because the first big song from a group is so often their best.
When bands put out a really great album that stands out from their usual work, I always figure it’s more due to the producer than the band. Can’t back that up with anything, though.
My example of a great album my a moderate band is My Chemical Romance’s “The Black Parade”.
Oh, disagree. While Empire was a solid album and had some great metal on it, Queensryche were definitaly heading towards their later pop-y sound. It stuck me as an albm with a few great tracks (See “Jet City Woman” and “Anybody Listening”) and several rather mediocre ones.
Mindcrime was solid, beginning to end.
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, anyone?
mmm
ETA: Agree with Exile in Guyville and Pet Sounds
I’ve always considered Whip-Smart! to be about as good, though it’s been a while since I heard either one. You’re right, though, that ESPN deal coincided with a shitty album, and she’s in oblivion AFAIK.
Farther back, “In the year 2525” by Zager & Evans. Quite a mega hit and they never did anything else of worth.
I don’t think these qualify under the “decent amount of output” rule the OP mentioned. The Alice books were Carroll’s only two novels.
On that note, have you listened to Hang Cool Teddy Bear by Meat Loaf? It is by the same producer as The Black Parade and has a similar theme. So if you like Meat Loaf and The Black Parade you might like it. (Note: I have not listened to that album: if you have, let me know how it is!)
He hasn’t won a title since, no, but Steve Fisher has single-handedly built San Diego State basketball into a national power, ranked 15th in the AP right now at 14-2. If you knew just how bad - no, how totally irrelevant SDSU hoops was before him, you’d remove him from your list, me thinks.