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Old 03-29-2010, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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What singers suddenly appeared completely out of character with totally different kinds of songs? Here are a couple that illustrate the example:

Nat King Cole trying (and failing badly) to be a rock-n-roller
YouTube - NAT KING COLE THOSE LAZY HAZY CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER
Hank Williams Jr. abandoning all his rowdy drinking buddies. with this nice old standard
YouTube - Ain't Misbehavin'
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Old 03-29-2010, 11:41 AM
 
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What singers suddenly appeared completely out of character with totally different kinds of songs? Here are a couple that illustrate the example:

Nat King Cole trying (and failing badly) to be a rock-n-roller

YouTube - NAT KING COLE THOSE LAZY HAZY CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER
Hank Williams Jr. abandoning all his rowdy drinking buddies. with this nice old standard

YouTube - Ain't Misbehavin'
IMO, Aerosmith! WTH guys, did you lose your nads when you got older or something? That is just my opinion though.
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Old 03-29-2010, 11:54 AM
 
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Their sound and style took a turn more towards Top 40 modern Pop after the 70's, 80's and 90's stuff was completed. It is still them but it is clearly not the testosterone driven Rock of yesteryear! I like this style much better fellas!

YouTube - Back In The Saddle by Aerosmith
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Old 03-29-2010, 11:57 AM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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Wilie Nelson "To All the Girls I've Loved Before."
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Old 03-29-2010, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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As 2rugged menitoned, Aerosmith did several out of character. One is when they did that stupid wrap song with that hammer head idiot whatever his stupid name is.

Back during the better music days, quite a few rock bands gave disco a chance. Rolling Stones come to mind as they made a disco song or 2.

One success story was Debbie Harry of Blondie who achieved great success when she crossed over to disco and had a couple big disco hits.
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Old 03-29-2010, 01:45 PM
 
Location: South Jersey
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Paul McCartney's attempt at a Christmas song is the only Yuletide song that brings me to rage. I forget what it's called but it's horrible.

Mike Ness from Social Distortion also put out a C&W that came up a litttle small. Tough to listen to the voice that brought us Mommy's Little Monster attempt a folksy Country "Alone and Foresaken".
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Old 03-29-2010, 03:00 PM
 
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As 2rugged menitoned, Aerosmith did several out of character. One is when they did that stupid wrap song with that hammer head idiot whatever his stupid name is.

Back during the better music days, quite a few rock bands gave disco a chance. Rolling Stones come to mind as they made a disco song or 2.

One success story was Debbie Harry of Blondie who achieved great success when she crossed over to disco and had a couple big disco hits.
Actually it was a remake of their own song "Walk this Way" with pioneer rappers RunDMC.

I like it way better than the original version myself.

I can't think of any "out of character" songs but that's probably because I either blocked them out of my brain when I first heard them, or I've come to view the songs as just a minor facet of a particular artist or band's musical prism.

I prefer to hear things that are different than what your are expecting, I like to see that artists are growing. It's the static folks that don't evolve that perturb me.

As a musician I prefer not to be pigeonholed into a particular "scene" or "genre" and I prefer not to do that to other artists/musicians either.

It's the poisoning of the art of music itself by the dumb arse A&R suits that like to force the labels onto everyone, I refuse to by their clueless ideas." The suits" are retarded.
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Old 03-29-2010, 03:16 PM
 
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YouTube - Gene Simmons- When You Wish Upon A Star
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Old 03-29-2010, 04:33 PM
 
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Pat Benatar did an album of nothing but the blues called "True Love"


YouTube - Pat Benetar - True Love (1991)


YouTube - Pat Benatar / Evening
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Old 03-29-2010, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Asheville
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1st one that came to mind


YouTube - Beth-Kiss
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