Entertainment For Lively Minds
If it ain't broke - don't fix it
Posted by Austin on 4 February 2011 - 8:08pm.
I am thinking about the artists that have hit paydirt with a hit single and then followed it up with something very similar*. For example:
You Really Got Me
and then
All Day and All of the Night
Get Ready for this
and then
No Limit
Are these the most blatant examples?
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. "I am the Beat" hitmakers The Look had a very distinctive sound to their 1980 single and I do remember a carbon-copy follow-up which didn't pester the charts.
*cue "entire career" jokes on behalf of Oasis.
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Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade of...
followed by
Homburg
Robert Palmer
Addicted To Love, followed by I Didn't Mean To Turn You On. Similar-ish singles and even more similar videos.
Rod Stewart - Maggie May and You Wear It Well, maybe?
*cue "entire career" jokes on behalf of Oasis.
as if we would,but Status Quo on the other hand
Any band from the late 80s NWOBHMWSLTF
(New Wave of British Heavy Metal Bands Who Sound Like The Faces)
examples:
Quireboys
Dogs D'Amour
Thunder
Little Angels
Sweet Addiction
and others
I loved that little set of bands
Never heard of Sweet Addiction though. Definitely one to look up.
AC/DC rules, dude!
They are the least progressive band ever, and if not they are certainly the best least progressive band ever. Malcolm Young´s right hand should be knighted.
Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!
saw AC/DC on my (I think) 33rd birthday at HamAplo
Glorious, stupid, brilliant fun with three capital letters.
Joe Jackson
Is She Really Going Out With Him and Different For Girls
Technotronic
Pump up the jam
Get up (before the night is over)
This beat is technotronic
In fact the whole Pump up the jam album sounded like one of those singles with 6 remixesof the same song on it.
There was another one...
...called "Rockin' Over the Beat" which was very much in the same vein. Yet I really, really like that one.
Ace of Base,
they of "All That She Wants" fame, followed up that early-90s Euro-reggae monster by rereleasing it several times with different names ("Wheel of Fortune", "The Sign", etc.), even cunningly disguising it as a cover version of "Don't Turn Around" on one particularly amusing occasion. As I seem to recall, it hit big in the charts at least three or four times before the great British singles-buying public finally worked out what was going on.
(That said, if Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" is anything to go by, that same song still seems to have some fuel in the tank...)
Dear Graceunderpressure
We recently had a party rooted in neo-fascistic movements (although cleverly disquised as humans) entering parliament, according to the tabloids a couple consisting of a famous comedian/director/actor and a former athlete are separating and the Eurovision Song Contest is about to begin (for unknown reasons it lasts for six weeks over here).
Do you really think we need to have Ace Of Base used against us right now?
Kind regards,
Sven Skarsgård
PS. Do this again and I´ll go Viking on your sorry arse. DS
Dear Mr Skarsgård
Thank you very much for your delightful response.
You and your Viking chums are more than welcome to drop by at any time. Unfortunately, what with the parlous state of our economy these days, you may find pillaging opportunities difficult to come by, for which I apologise (although I understand chain mail and helmets are having a fashion "moment" now, so all is not lost).
the Chinnichap formula
Tiger Feet
The Cat Crept In
Can The Can
Devil Gate Drive
And as for Stock, Aitken and Waterman...
I refer you to Exhibit A: The oeuvre of Mr R. Astley post-"Never Gonna Give You Up"
You have not, as modern interweb parlance has it, been Rickrolled, but you might as well have been...
I always thought
these two from Aussie dance band Madison Avenue were taking the piss, they are so close. Exact same drum loop, same bass line, same vocal style.
Bless
And she had another go as a solo act.
Don't Call me Baby is rather the business though all things considered.
Modjo
Absolute stone cold classic filter disco Chic-sampling superbness and global no. 1 with Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
Followed by "Oh shit, that was a big commercial hit? What now? DO IT AGAIN! AGAIN!!!"
Gary Puckett and the union gap
Two hits, one sound. Athough the second one is far less creepy than the first.
Dion
Big hit:
One after the next big hit (The Wanderer), which sounds like one and namechecks the other. How could he go wrong?
Modern Romance
and
OK. You Win.
That is just shameless.