Sadchild's "high fives" (every artist I like at least five songs from)

[sadchild]

Happy new year. Time to add any artists that I now like five songs from, starting with...

Limp Bizkit

Genre: rap metal

Discovered: Their cover of "Faith", which I hate.

Other: Honestly, not a fan of this group. I think most of their music sucks and they're a big part of why rap metal went from cool & cutting edge to being a joke. But they finally came out with a fifth song I like (#4 below), so I guess they qualify.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Take A Look Around
2. Break Stuff
3. Nookie
4. Out Of Style
5. Gimme The Mic

 

[scotchandcigar]

Happy new year. Time to add any artists that I now like five songs from, starting with...

Limp Bizkit

Genre: rap metal

Discovered: Their cover of "Faith", which I hate.

Other: Honestly, not a fan of this group. I think most of their music sucks and they're a big part of why rap metal went from cool & cutting edge to being a joke. But they finally came out with a fifth song I like (#4 below), so I guess they qualify.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Take A Look Around
2. Break Stuff
3. Nookie
4. Out Of Style
5. Gimme The Mic

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[sadchild]

Yeah not exactly a raving review lol

 

[HecticArt]

Fred BizKit!!!!

 

[sadchild]

Mount Westmore

Genre: rap

Discovered: Probably YouTube homepage?

Other: Snoop & Cube together? Epic. E-40 is pretty cool too. Was never a Too Short fan but I like him in the group.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Ghetto Gutter
2. Big Subwoofer
3. Bad MFs
4. I Got Pull
5. Motto

 

[sadchild]

Redlight King

Genre: rock

Discovered: I originally discovered this guy when he was a young white rapper from Canada ... no, not Snow! He called himself Kazzer.

Other: He went from a being backup Olympian for the Canadian Judo Team to a rap-rocker to a rocker. He made news back in 2013 when Neil Young allowed this band to sample the song "Old Man" in their song, which was originally going to be called "Handworking Hands" but ended up also being called "Old Man". Their 2023 album added #2 and #5 below.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Eye Of A Hurricane
3. Times Are Hard
4. Born To Rise
5. In Our Blood

 

[sadchild]

Why Don't We

Genre: boy band... yes you read that right

Discovered: I forget.

Other: Not my usual fare, and they have plenty of songs I don't like. But five good songs is five good songs. And hey, they are pretty hunky right?!111

HIGH FIVE:

1. Cold In LA
2. Trust Fund Baby
3. Why Don't We Just
4. How Do You Love Somebody
5. Just Friends

 

[sadchild]

2025's new additions to my "like five of their songs" list starts with:

Czarface

Genre: hip hop

Discovered: I forget.

Other: They're big into making comic book references. Most of them probably go over my head, cuz I'm not a comic book guy.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Nightcrawler
2. Bomb Thrown
3. Vagabond
4. Helicopter
5. Bizarro

 

[HecticArt]

I like it.

 

[sadchild]

Dead Poet Society

Genre: hard rock (but I'd like to be more specific)

Discovered: Someone at my work mentioned them.

Other: This is my favorite type of rock, but I don't know what subgenre to call it. Other bands in this genre: Helmet, Quicksand, A Perfect Circle, Royal Blood.

HIGH FIVE:

1. How Could I Love You
2. I Hope You Hate Me
3. Running In Circles
4. Hurt
5. 5:29:45

 

[HecticArt]

Not too bad.

 

[sadchild]

Helmet

Genre: hard rock (but I'd like to be more specific, same as above)

Discovered: Someone at my work mentioned them.

Other: Been a fan since "Unsung" in 1992, but it wasn't until recently they released a fifth song I like.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Unsung
2. Holiday
3. Wilma's Rainbow
4. Milquetoast
5. You Borrowed

 

[HecticArt]

Love me some Helmet!

 

[sadchild]

Kittie

Genre: heavy rock/metal

Discovered: CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 77 (January 2000)

Other: When their first album dropped, they were four teenaged girls. And they kicked ass HARD. They ended up touring with Slipknot. Billboard called them "the most successful female band in modern metal" in December 2001. After a 10+ year hiatus, they're back. Honestly, their first and newest albums are the only ones worth owning though.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Spit (first album)
2. Brackish (first album)
3. We Are Shadows (latest album)
4. One Foot In The Grave (latest album)
5. Do You Think I'm A Whore (first album)

 

[sadchild]

Louis Cole

Genre: alt jazz

Discovered: my son

Other: Saw him live last year with my son, his dorm mate and the guy I'm making new music with. His most recent release is with a full orchestra.

HIGH FIVE:

1. These Dreams Are Killing Me
2. Park Your Car On My Face
3. Things Will Fall Apart
4. Dead Inside Shuffle
5. Weird Moments

 

[sadchild]

I just realized I never finished doing this

Nothing More

Genre: heavy rock

Discovered: Octane?

Other: When the frontman of this band was young, a teacher told him he shouldn't bother singing. So he took up drums. After forming a band, he kept working with various singers but none of them were good enough. One day a friend said "Why don't you just be the singer? You're a great singer." And the friend was right.

HIGH FIVE:

1. This Is The Time
2. Christ Copyright
3. Jenny
4. Do You Really Want It
5. Stuck

 

[sadchild]

Serj Tankian

Genre: hard rock, alt rock

Discovered: Knew him already as the frontman of System Of A Down

Other: This is an oversight, I've like 5+ songs from him for years now.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Empty Walls
2. How Many Times
3. Sky Is Over
4. The Unthinking Majority
5. Justice Will Shine On

 

[sadchild]

Warning

Genre: hard rock

Discovered: Cover of "Enter Sandman" with Alessia Cara for the Metallica Black Album tribute Blacklisted.

Other: Three sisters from Mexico. They originally posted a video covering "Enter Sandman" when they were aged 9-14 and Kirk Hammett of Metallica complimented it. Then they were on the Ellen Degeneres show raising money to take a five week class at Berklee. 9 years after posting that video they were opening for Foo Fighters in front of 65,000 people.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Hell You Call A Dream
2. Disciple
3. Error
4. Money
5. Choke

 

[Jon]

Happy new year. Time to add any artists that I now like five songs from, starting with...

Limp Bizkit

Genre: rap metal

Discovered: Their cover of "Faith", which I hate.

Other: Honestly, not a fan of this group. I think most of their music sucks and they're a big part of why rap metal went from cool & cutting edge to being a joke. But they finally came out with a fifth song I like (#4 below), so I guess they qualify.

HIGH FIVE:

1. Take A Look Around
2. Break Stuff
3. Nookie
4. Out Of Style
5. Gimme The Mic

'Break Stuff' is perfect shitty mood music, add 'Golden Cobra' to that list and you got mine. Not really a band I'm that into, but SiriusXM Turbo plays a lot of their stuff and it's not bad.

 

[sadchild]

Ringing in 2026 with more artists graduating into my high-five club...

Bob Mould

Genre: rock

Discovered: CMJ New Music Monthly

Other: Some of you probably know he was in Husker Du and Sugar. His new album has two 'bangers' (as the kids say) on it - the #1 and #2 below.

HIGH FIVE:
1. Here We Go Crazy
2. When Your Heart Is Broken
3. American Crisis
4. Who Was Around
5. Siberian Butterfly