u/tragic_girl13

Ex: (As told in the OHW vid for Harvey Danger) Harvey Danger had a huge sleeper hit in Flagpole Sitta. When deciding the follow-up single, the band wanted to go for Carlotta Valdez. But their label, Slash Records, had other plans and forced them to instead put out Private Helicopter, which then became their next single. It didn't chart at all. They'd achieve minor hits afterwards with Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo off their follow-up album King James Version and a cover of The Beat's Save It For Later for the 200 Cigarettes soundtrack, but Flagpole Sitta's their only crossover hit, and the one song most know by them.

It'd also be cool if someone uploaded like a long loop of it because it's so ethereal and mesmerizing.

My example is American Hi-Fi, compare Flavor of the Weak off their debut to The Art of Losing off their 2nd album of the same name, and to me it's night and day. The vocals on their debut felt so much more defined and decently unique while the vocals off The Art of Losing got nasally and generically pop-punk-esque. I quite like some songs off the 2nd album, the title track, The Break-up Song, and Teenage Alien Nation to name my personal highlights but Stacey Jones' more nasally higher pitched vocal change just put me off.

Jimmy Eat World are one of the most well-known failure to success stories in music history with how they went from being dropped by their label following a commercial failure (of course later deservedly regarded as a landmark title of emo) to having one of the most enduring alternative crossover hits of the 2000s that is still heavily played 20 years later with The Middle (as well as the also instantly recognizable follow-up single Sweetness). But as someone who was born a decent while after their heyday, I've been wondering about the scope and extent of their popularity and heights at their biggest peak era which I'd say was from 2002 to around 2004/05.