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    Quote Originally Posted by simon moon View Post
    I always thought that "Love is Like Oxygen" by The Sweet is unlike the rest of their catalog. It sounds almost like it could have been a 10CC song.
    I thought that was a 10cc song until I learned otherwise!

    I disagree with this choice.

    Almost every KC release has at least one quiet, melodic song that contrasts with their usual intensity.

    The Night Watch, Book of Saturday, Matte Kudasai, Cadence and Cascade...
    “Cadence and Cascade” is practically the same song as “I Talk to the Wind.”

    And then there’s Islands, where most of the songs are quiet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post



    “Cadence and Cascade” is practically the same song as “I Talk to the Wind.”

    And then there’s Islands, where most of the songs are quiet.
    Good point but the Judy Dyble version of I Talk to the Wind on a Young Person's Guide is unique.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    What other Focus song has yodeling on it?
    Their hits?

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    Camel - Remote Romance, trying (too hard) for a hit......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morphy65 View Post
    Camel - Remote Romance, trying (too hard) for a hit......
    With “Your Love Is Stranger Than Mine”—an actual song with verses, choruses and hit potential—on the same record, it seems insane to me that Decca yanked “Remote Romance” as the single instead!
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    The Beatles - "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)." I would have said "Revolution 9," but I don't think it fits the OP's criteria.

    Yes - "Owner of a Lonely Heart." Obviously bears no resemblance to classic Yes, but it doesn't even really sound much like the rest of the Yes West catalog.

    Black Sabbath - "Changes." I don't know their catalog inside and out, but it stands out among all I've heard from them.

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    I forgot about these (That’s Herbie Hancock on piano/synths on the Lesley Gore tune):



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    While the Monkees covered a lot of different styles including psychedelia, this may be their most "out there" song, one that the casual Monkees fan would never be able to guess was one of their songs, especially with Mike's processed vocals and the avant garde instrumental break.
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    The Who - "Cobwebs and Strange"
    Gentle Giant - "I Bet You Thought We Couldn't Do It"
    King Crimson - "Peace: A Beginning/A Theme/An End"
    Chicago - "Italian from New York"
    Beatles - "Revolution No. 9"
    Utopia - "Magic Dragon Theater"
    Gabriel-era Genesis - "More Fool Me"
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThomasKDye View Post
    The Police - "Mother"
    The first time I heard the album I heard this and thought my friend dubbed it into the cassette as a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian View Post

    Yes - "Owner of a Lonely Heart." Obviously bears no resemblance to classic Yes, but it doesn't even really sound much like the rest of the Yes West catalog.
    Great example. I've thought the same thing since 1984.

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    Peter Gabriel - Excuse Me
    Alice Cooper - Mary Ann
    Jethro Tull - Radio Free Moscow
    Mothers - Tears Began to Fall
    Simon & Garfunkel - A Simple Desultory Philippic
    "And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."

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    Jethro Tull - ...Hare Who Lost his Spectacles

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    The Beatles - Her Majesty

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    Utopia - "Magic Dragon Theater"
    I love that song and had totally forgotten about it. It IS an odd one.

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    Back on the subject of “female R&B singers do hard rock”:

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    I'm not a Dylan fan, and I don't know his whole catalog, but whenever I hear Lay Lady Lay, I can't believe it's Dylan. He actually sings in this one - pretty well.

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    Beatles - Good Night
    Dylan - Rainy Day Women
    Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
    Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
    Jethro Tull - Pan Dance
    Pink Floyd - San Tropez
    Yes - Man in the Moon

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    Queen - Body Language

    Yes, they had funk songs like "Another One Bites the Dust," "Staying Power," or "My Baby Does Me." But those felt like Queen songs with real arrangements. (The live version of "Staying Power" shows the strength of the song as a driving rock epic.) "Body Language," on the other hand, was some half-assed bass line with Freddie Mercury either breathing or screaming the inane "lyrics." Brian May appears only quietly at the end, as if to say, "Yes, I'm in this band and on this song, but I don't want to admit it."
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    Some more...

    Opeth's "Damnation".
    Uriah Heep's "Conquest"
    The whole albums.

    and as far as songs are concerned:
    Black Sabbath "Changes"
    Kiss "Beth"
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