There's definitely country variation going on here; I suspect that's the explanation for The Who discrepancy as well. Different countries tend to lean towards different songs by the same artist.
Yep, definitely agree. Some songs might not even chart elsewhere. Although I'm not sure if you were rererencing to my choice, but The Who and The Guess Who aren't the same band Just a coincidence?
Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville Van Halen (Roth era) - Jump - I love VH. Hate that song. Sammy Hagar (solo) - I Can't Drive 55 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
It's not played on radio anywhere near as much as many of their other songs over here though, A Kind of Magic or Radio Gaga get a lot more play. I think the band has just had too much hugely popular material to say that any one song can overshadow it. I'd say Plush for Stone Temple Pilots, definitely. And I think when one hears "My Heart Will Go On", it can be easy to forget that everything else Celine Dion did was meritless bullshit as well, not just that.
Ooh, good one. A song called Plush was one of the ones I was originally going to say but it slipped my mind when I posted. I'm not sure the term for songs like that.
I was just about to then saw you did. Layla for Eric Clapton. Or Cocaine too. It's either one of those every time clapton comes on a rock station.
I think certain artists manage to put out so many amazing things they literally can't be pinned down like this. Elton John The Beatles Neil Diamond Fleetwood Mac all come to mind. Rod Stewart. Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell. The Grateful Dead. Jefferson whatever they were calling themselves. John Mellencamp. Willy Nelson(who could be put in any of these categories if we wanted). Jackson Browne. On the other hand, certain entertainers get saddled with a single song whether they like it or not. Billy Joel-Piano Man John Denver-Country Road Madonna-Like A Virgin Kenny Rogers-The Gambler Charlie Daniels Band-Devil Went Down To Georgia for that matter, Ray Charles-Georgia On My Mind Not sure why Bryan Adams became such a hot part of the topic-he's really just a B list performer and never broke musical ground, IMO. On topic: CCR- Bad Moon Rising Pink Floyd- Another Brick In the Wall pt2 Pat Benatar-Hit Me With Your Best Shot Iron Maiden-Run To the Hills J Geils- Centerfold Coldplay-Clocks U2-In the Name of Love Bruce Springsteen-Born In the USA Bowie-Space Oddity The Beach Boys-Good Vibrations Chicago-25 or 6 to 4 Prince-Purple Rain James Brown-I Got You(I Feel Good) Joe Cocker-With a Little Help From My Friends
Again, as mentioned before, there's a regional thing going on here. Maybe you haven't heard many of his songs, but in Canada at least, he's on the radio every day. He's part of the generation that broke much ground musically speaking in Canadian music history, and he's one of the few Canadian artists that can actually claim multiple songs on the airwaves all over the place. It depends highly on how famous one becomes outside their own country. Some end up making it, some don't. And in Canada, I can only count about a handful of artists that have done that, Bryan Adams being among them, so to say he didn't break any ground is ludicrous. Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLaughlan, Barenaked Ladies, Celine Dion, Nickelback. Sure, some of them like Anne Murray and Celine Dion, we wish wouldn't have been as successful as they have and we're sorry they got so popular outside Canada, and even the Olympics didn't dig deep enough beyond those listed here which is typical of anything we're broadcasting outside Canada, but we've got to give them their due.
I heard his music and he had some success-I just wouldn't call him "ground-breaking". RUSH had a lot more success, Loverboy was just as popular in the States at the same time, more or less, and Gordon Lightfoot put out ballads equal to James Taylor or Elton John. But if he ruled the roost in Canada, well, as you said, a regional thing.
I'll give you Bryan Adams and Nickelback, but I like Sarah McLaughlan. She's fairly talented and doesn't try to be someone she isn't like a lot of female singers. But Nickelback, Oy. It just annoys me that they're the example many people point to when thinking of Canadian music. It's kind of what I referring to when talking about the Olympics and not digging deeper for better stuff to represent Canada. It's like the olympic organizing committee just looked at a list of what's popular on iTunes and picked from that, because honestly, we have a lot more to offer than Nickelback all the time.
My roommate in college was from Toronto. He announced one day that, as a non-Canadian, I wasn't allowed to listen to Barenaked Ladies. He didn't mind that I liked Alanis Morrisete or Sarah McLachlan and had CDs by both in my collection. But he drew the line at BNL. To bring this back on topic, I think "Ironic" is Alanis' "Stairway." Oh, she's done better work since Jagged Little Pill, but the hits from that album overwhelm the rest in the public's consciousness.
Oh for... I can't believe I did that. I'm going to blame this on being a child of the Napster era, and it's horrible, horrible mistagging. You did not just lump Anne Murray in with Celine Dion... Though that does make me realize that "Snowbird" is definitely her Stairway.
That was me, not Mistral. But yeah, I did. I know she's not very popular, but I was listing them in terms of the ones who've had the most success and are considered part of Canada's musical identity. But she can be despised as much as Celine Dion depending on who you talk to.
I didn't really get into music until the early 2000s, so I really can't think of many examples of this since a lot of the bands I like are relatively new. Still, I have one example that fits pretty well and it's Party Hard by Andrew WK.