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
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 5:46 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Agree with you on the Sigur Ros choice.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 8:37 pm
by epilogue
Do other bands/artists!
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 8:43 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 11:25 pm
by Ello Sailor
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 11:39 pm
by Ello Sailor
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 11:43 pm
by Ello Sailor
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 11:57 pm
by Chris_H_2
Ello Sailor wrote:
Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Fri December 18, 2020 11:59 pm
by Norah
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 12:00 am
by Ello Sailor
Chris_H_2 wrote:Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?
Suck my ass, Christopher.
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 12:44 am
by Chris_H_2
Ello Sailor wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:Love. Love. LOVE Morphine. But no Honey White?
Suck my ass, Christopher.
I deserved that
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 12:45 am
by Chris_H_2
Norris wrote:
Would you have posted this if she didn’t release folklore or evermore?
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 1:07 am
by Norah
that's a good question
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 1:08 am
by Norah
yes, probably
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 1:31 am
by The Argonaut
Bad Company by Bad Company
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 2:18 am
by swan
Fake Empire is the answer for The National
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 2:37 am
by chewm
this maybe bc of the punkier verses and the more power pop chorus
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 3:00 am
by Ello Sailor
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 3:01 am
by The Argonaut
Personally, I would've gone with The Winds of Kyuss
Re: The Song that Best Represents a Band/Artist
Posted: Sat December 19, 2020 3:25 am
by E.H. Ruddock
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