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Posted by: Ne Plus Ultra 2nd July 2015, 03:15 PM

Case in point, Tori Amos, known as a singer-songwriter goddess who has produced many wonderful, emotional piano-filled tunes gets her biggest hit from a dub of "Professional Widow" remixed by Armand Van Helden which was huge in Ibiza:



Case in point: earned her a shock #1 in 1997.

Can you think of any others?

Posted by: AntoineTTe 2nd July 2015, 03:17 PM

Everything But the Girl, similarly.

Posted by: Spinning Dev ಠ_ಠ 2nd July 2015, 03:20 PM

Nice idea for a thread!
I'm sure there's a lot that I know of but nothing's coming to mind at the moment, although I imagine a lot would be vocalists with different production such as a dance-y production which isn't usually their style, or a vocalist who's usually in dance production and switches to another genre or vice versa

Posted by: ThePensmith 2nd July 2015, 03:22 PM

I suppose the most obvious one here is Plan B. Everything pre and post 'She Said' and 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks' album are so far removed from his usual 'grime' repertoire.

Posted by: AntoineTTe 2nd July 2015, 03:51 PM

Cornershop also.

Posted by: Gambo 2nd July 2015, 04:09 PM

On the same tack as those tracks re-mixed and issued in their danced-up guise for single release, Freddie Mercury's 1993 No 1 'Living On My Own'. Okay, Mercury had more-than-flirted with electronic production and dance music affectation during his earlier solo years, and lest we forget was no stranger to No 1s as a member of Queen. But the posthumous re-mix of this track in a very studio-based Europop early '90s style stood out as being wildly distinct from any of his previous releases (even those issued after his death) and was by-far his biggest solo single in the UK.

Another one off the top of the head is Maroon 5's 2011 monster-hit 'Moves Like Jagger' - a massive departure from their soft-rock guitar-based sound that originally broke them and yielded several radio and sales-friendly hit singles in 2004, subsituting it with swathes of over-produced studio effects with barely no acoustic instruments in evidence at all. Result = not quite a No 1 but still a million-seller. And needless to say they've never looked back. Why would they now they know where the real money's at....

Posted by: mrbrightside 2nd July 2015, 04:10 PM

Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais 'Summertime Sadness'. Yet all her other songs are better than this dreadful remix. Well maybe not 'Guns and Roses' but all the other ones.

Posted by: fchd 2nd July 2015, 06:37 PM

Somebody mentioned Freddie Mercury, how about Queen. Nothing else in their repertoire (or anyone else's really) sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody.

Posted by: Jonjo 2nd July 2015, 07:13 PM

Ellie Goulding really fits this thread for me. 'Burn' and 'Love Me Like You Do' sound nothing like anything on 'Lights' or 'Halycon Days'. They're a lot more radio friendly/public accessible than the likes of 'Starry Eyed'/'Guns & Horses'/'Anything Could Happen'/'Figure 8' etc...

Posted by: AntoineTTe 2nd July 2015, 07:14 PM

Innuendo

Posted by: zenon 2nd July 2015, 07:29 PM

Same Jeans by The View and Tequila by Terrorvision sound totally different to the rest of their respective back catalogues.

Posted by: AntoineTTe 2nd July 2015, 07:37 PM

The Bad Touch from the Bloodhound Gang.

Posted by: Soy Adrián 2nd July 2015, 07:55 PM

Is the remix of 'Spectrum' cheating?

Posted by: GTH 2nd July 2015, 08:08 PM

That was the immediate song that came to mind for me as well. It was that remix that got to number one, so definitely counts.

Agreed with Jonjo on Burn and LMLYD for Ellie Goulding. Really not a representative of what her albums sound like at all (I love both albums so that is not meant in a bad way).

Posted by: Lee_J11 2nd July 2015, 09:22 PM

I know she's had a fair few big hits but Do It Like A Dude surely stands out in Jessie Js back catalogue?

Posted by: vidcapper 3rd July 2015, 05:22 AM

I agree.

Posted by: Cody Slayberry 3rd July 2015, 05:29 AM

Isn't her biggest hit "Price Tag"?

"Do It Like A Dude" has the same energy "Bang Bang" has imo

Posted by: BillyH 3rd July 2015, 10:24 AM

Extreme and Mr. Big both did this within a few months of each other in 1991-92, two metal groups releasing a gentle acoustic ballad (More Than Words/To Be With You) and getting their biggest hit by miles.

Posted by: Nick F1 3rd July 2015, 07:32 PM

Chandelier comes to my mind..

Posted by: Spinning Dev ಠ_ಠ 3rd July 2015, 08:01 PM

Nah.

Posted by: Sean. 3rd July 2015, 08:17 PM

Definitely agree with this but I probably dislike the change in direction, Bright Lights was perfection.

Currently Little Mix with Black Magic springs to mind, such a change from the sounds of "Salute"!

Posted by: Chez Wombat 3rd July 2015, 08:21 PM

Plain White T's as well in 2007 with Hey There Delilah, I admittedly haven't heard the vast majority of their material but from what I have, it's certainly not all mushy acoustic songs.

Posted by: Defaze 3rd July 2015, 08:49 PM

It's not as if 'Black Magic' is a huge departure from 'Wings' or the DNA-era in general though.

Posted by: Griff 3rd July 2015, 08:59 PM

Also is Black Magic going to be their biggest hit?

Posted by: Defaze 3rd July 2015, 09:13 PM

I reckon so yeah. 'Wings' is their biggest seller on ~500k, and I could see 'Black Magic' surpassing that, especially with streaming included.

Posted by: paulgilb 3rd July 2015, 10:42 PM

Bon Jovi - Always is another example of this, as is Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide (although the latter had already had a #2 with Let's Get Rocked).

Other examples from several decades ago:

East Of Eden
Fiddler's Dram
Styx