The job is to post a song that best encapsulates or reflects a certain band/artist's "sound" over the course of their careers. Music may change and evolve over a band/artist's career. And picking a song from the first album of a band/artist's 10-album catalog may not tell the complete story. In that case, we need the one song that is a perfect amalgam of the band's career and has elements of their early sound and where they are at today. The song needs to represent the entire career, and not any one point of it. And it doesn't have to be the band's best song, or it's most popular.
I'll start, and I'm sure some will have issues with these off the bat:
The National
Runner up: Terrible Love; Don’t Swallow the Cap
The War on Drugs
Sigur Ros
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Agree with you on the Sigur Ros choice.
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Do other bands/artists!
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?Ello Sailor wrote:
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Suck my ass, Christopher.Chris_H_2 wrote:Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?
LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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I deserved thatEllo Sailor wrote:Suck my ass, Christopher.Chris_H_2 wrote:Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?
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Would you have posted this if she didn’t release folklore or evermore?Norris wrote:
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that's a good question
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yes, probably
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Bad Company by Bad Company
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Fake Empire is the answer for The National
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this maybe bc of the punkier verses and the more power pop chorus
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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Personally, I would've gone with The Winds of Kyuss
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Metallica-Master of Puppets
Fatboy Slim-California
John Prine-Fish and Whistle
P.U.S.A.-Dune Buggy
Daft Punk-Around the World
Lenny Kravitz-Always on the Run
Neko Case-This Tornado Loves You
Justin Timberlake-What Comes Around (come @ me bros)
A Tribe Called Quest-Can I Kick It
Cars-Moving in Stereo
Judas Priest-Breakin the Law
Porno for Pyros-Tahitian Moon
Fatboy Slim-California
John Prine-Fish and Whistle
P.U.S.A.-Dune Buggy
Daft Punk-Around the World
Lenny Kravitz-Always on the Run
Neko Case-This Tornado Loves You
Justin Timberlake-What Comes Around (come @ me bros)
A Tribe Called Quest-Can I Kick It
Cars-Moving in Stereo
Judas Priest-Breakin the Law
Porno for Pyros-Tahitian Moon
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