That Can't Be The Osmonds Can It ?

[Warhavernet]

Thinking of examples of classic hits by artists that are not usually known for being, how you say, heavy, rocky,

Like Crazy Horses by The Osmonds, Drop The Pilot by Joan Armatrading, All Around My Hat by Steeleye Span.
Goodbye to Love by The Carpenters. Raised on Robbery by Joni Mitchell.

[Gassmi]

You nailed it. Another one: “Baba O’Riley” by The Who is obvious, but try “Run Like Hell” by Pink Floyd not their usual spacey vibe. Or “Pump It Up” by Elvis Costello way harder than his new wave hits.

[toasty]

Blur - Song 2

[vixen1700]

The whole of The Wild Ones album by The Cockney Rejects.

When a load of scruffy Canning Town oiks went metal and got produced by UFO's Pete Way.

Personally, I love it, but most people hate it.

[shirt]

Kenny Rogers - just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath

[Lotobear]

Don't Take Me Alive - Streely Dan

[Bluevanman]

Rick Astley, Highway to hell

[Super Sonic]

Pink Floyd "The Nile Song"

[Chubbyross]

vixen1700 said:

The whole of The Wild Ones album by The Cockney Rejects.

When a load of scruffy Canning Town oiks went metal and got produced by UFO's Pete Way.

Personally, I love it, but most people hate it.

That's really interesting. It reminds me of the embryonic Iron Maiden right at the start of the NWOBHM.

[catso]

Bluevanman said:

Rick Astley, Highway to hell

Just been Rickrock'nrolled.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Kind of the opposite, when faith no more taken a break from their usual heavy material and done an excellent chilled cover of easy.

[marcosgt]

OK, I can see 'Crazy Horses' and, maybe, 'Drop The Pilot' seem out of sorts for the artists (I recall having an album as a kid by the Osmonds with 'Crazy Horses' on and, while it was the rockiest track, more than a few were far from soft-rock ballards), but 'All Around My Hat' and "Goodbye To Love" are hardly 'hard rocking'...

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