This is what Creep felt like when I listened to Pablo Honey entirely.
This is what Creep felt like when I listened to Pablo Honey entirely.
Or even Smells Like Teen Spirit from Nevermind, which was the very first album I listened to in its entirety.
It's funny how I realized recently that like all the popular Nirvana songs are the in first five tracks of Nevermind.
Heart-Shaped Box, About a Girl, Aneurysm, and some other ones go beyond that I guess. Even some other ones on Nevermind like Something in the Way are still hella popular, but it is a very well-known album by a very well-known band.
Heart-Shaped Box was one I definitely was thinking of for a non-Nevermind song, but if anything's going to be played on the radio it's those around five or six songs.
It's not like they had a chance to make that much material either, although some unreleased have been released on compilations, I think? In retrospect at least the rest of the band didn't continue as Nirvana without Kurt, they could've easily milked that recognition for years.
Def Leppard's Hysteria was always the other way around for me -- almost every track on that thing was also released as a single and saw heavy radio airplay. Incidentally, it was also one of the handful of albums that I could listen to from start to finish without wanting to skip around back during my dad rock phase.