In almost every genre that have one or more songs/albums that 'define' an artist/musician, like for Prince there is Purple Rain(the album and song), Little Red Corvette, Let's Go Crazy, Raspberry Beret and Kiss

There are album periods for people that on some level are like Prince's Purple Rain for that genre or artist

just is what it is...

What artist that you know of has a song or two that 'defines' them.

I'll add two more since this is Music: Non-Prince

1. Acoustic Alchemy: Radio Contact

2. Led Zepplin: Whole Lot of Love the song

3. Aretha Franklin: Respect

Not that easy...

Take Metallica. For metalheads it'll be Master Of Puppets.
For radio-listening public it will be Nothing Else Matters.
For those into 'best of' lists, it will be One.

TheFman said:

Not that easy...

Take Metallica. For metalheads it'll be Master Of Puppets.
For radio-listening public it will be Nothing Else Matters.
For those into 'best of' lists, it will be One.

That's ok, I never said list the 1 song or album

Like my Prince example

Madonna, Like a Virgin

Cyndi Lauper, She's So Unusual

Boston

George Michael, Faith

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Pink Floyd, The Wall

Nirvana, NeverMind

Queen, A Night at the Opera

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That's the only Artist/Band you like?

JoeBala said:

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CherryMoon57 said:

Good One!!

Some jazz submissions

Duke Ellington -- "Take The A Train"

Louis Armstrong -- "What A Wonderful World"

Miles Davis -- "All Blues"/Kind of Blue

John Coltrane -- "Acknowledgement"/A Love Supreme

Billie Holliday -- "Lady Sings The Blues"

Thelonious Monk -- "'Round Midnight"

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OldFriends4Sale said:

RUN-DMC: WALK THIS WAY, KING OF ROCK, ROCK THE BELLS

I would add It's Like That to the list. I am not sure if the track really defined them originally, but the Jason Nevins version certainly got the attention of younger generations.