Definitive 'primarily known for one song' band?

[Gori the Grey]

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also:

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from that second site:

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(underlining mine)

 

[Arakhor]

Now, when I think of Vangelis, I always think of Blade Runner. The Chariots of Fire music is of course really distinctive and well-known, but again that would require me to remember that it was he who composed the soundtrack.

 

[Ordnael]

The end titles of Blade Runner is such a rush!
Ofc I own that CD album as well. Just another one on my vast collection of Vangelis!
Anyway I think this is the one that truly propelled Vangelis even further into our collective minds

 

[Arakhor]

That is definitely a banger too, though I still couldn't have said that that was Vangelis' work. A very impressive composer, he is.

 

[amadeus]

Other entertainers: Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy.

Emmanuel Lewis (yes, Webster!) had a #2 hit here in Japan.

 

[Ordnael]

That is definitely a banger too, though I still couldn't have said that that was Vangelis' work. A very impressive composer, he is.

Folks from my parents age might remember Vangelis more for this one, although they might associate it more with the singer, YES's Jon Anderson.
Sadly no official videoclip!

 

[Kyriakos]

Vangelis has many popular compositions, but I would be really surprised if (given a big enough sample of people asked) Chariots of Fire isn't the most famous. People may not know its name, but they would know the tune.

Similar imo for Jarre and Oxygene 4 (not my favorite of his, but I think it's the most famous).

 

[thetrooper]

Don’t dick around with Jarre

Most def. not a one hit wonder.

Guy doing stuff for more than a decade.

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Kyriakos]

Don’t dick around with Jarre

Most def. not a one hit wonder.

Guy doing stuff for more than a decade.

This isn't about one-hit wonders, and I like Jarre very much ^^

 

[Birdjaguar]

Music recognition is heavily generational. Chariots of fire (movie) won 4 Oscars and a golden globe in 1982 (best picture and music were two). Boomers and Gen X know the music well and that would have carried forward into the Millennials born in the 80s whose parents watched the movie and played the soundtrack. It is the only Vangelis song I can attribute to him without doubt.

 

[Kyriakos]

@Arakhor is exactly the same age as me, boomer (or maybe silenter).
Not that a clear counter-example was needed to show such a theory is false; tv played music videos for ages.

 

[Arakhor]

My music knowledge is off anyway, as I had virtually no exposure to modern music (i.e. by living musicians) until the late 90s.

 

[Ordnael]

My music knowledge is off anyway, as I had virtually no exposure to modern music (i.e. by living musicians) until the late 90s.

Early 2000s for me.
Got my, still working to this day, portable CD cassette radio aged 11, March 1995. Vangelis's Conquest of Paraside was still playing everywhere, and although I was very much exposed to my father's mixedtapes of 80's pop and 90's radio, I craved for instrumental music. So my very first CD was Vangelis Direct and I am pretty sure the other 10 that followed were probably also Vangelis.
Highschool (2000) brought some form of diversity, mostly focused on PinkFloyd, Queen, Dire Straits and RadioHead, also a best of Doors CD that probably ruined itself by playing so much on a diskman on a loop! Fortunately I found out the other day, teen me, copied that CD to cassette
Yeah I was the weird the kid!

 

[Darsnan]

My first experience with Vangelis was via Carl Sagan's Cosmos - very haunting, very awe inspiring:

Here is the song The Mission (UK) is primarily known for:

 

[Kyriakos]

Hey now, you're a Keemstar

Because that's where I first heard the tune - as a parody.

 

[amadeus]

Jigsaw!

 

[Kyriakos]

Therapy is a strange band, in that they stopped being prominent in the late 90s (although they are still active). So I am not sure what the song they are mostly known for would be.

But it should come from Troublegum. So the following is as good a guess as any:

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Some of the videos in here won’t show, so I apologize if already mentioned, but Eve 6 is an easy choice. You know the song.

 

[tjs282]

But it should come from Troublegum. So the following is as good a guess as any:

I would have picked Screamager (also on Troublegum, though -- Wiki just told me -- it was originally released as a single from an earlier EP)