Singer/Band whose "biggest" hit isn't their best song

[caj]

I know this is opening a can of worms, but lots of singers or bands are known for their biggest hit (whether looking at chart position or sales) but it's not their best or most popular song (concert performances or album cuts).

[Spike-X]

All of them.

[FFJamie94]

The one which always sticks out for me is Faith No More's Epic. Now don't get me wrong, it's a great song, one of the best on that respective album, but it feels very much like an 80's version of a 90's song.

You could take anything from their follow up album, angel dust and it's miles better than Epic. Midlife Crises is a fantastic track. And even King for Day has better songs than Epic.
And that's not counting the countless other Mike Patton projects...

Yeah, most bands/artists, their best known song isn't usually their best, but it's a stepping stone for the deeper cuts.

[Kirby101]

Pink Floyd. Money is the weakest song from Dark Side of the Moon.

[babyblob]

I would say Nirvana did their best songs at their MTV Unplugged performance even though some of those songs were not their biggest hits

And for me Billy Joels best song has always been The Downeaster Alexa despite that not being at all his most popular song. In fact a lot of people I talk to have never heard of it.

[caj]

I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner

It's their only #1 song yet I can think of at least a half dozen songs I would put over that one.

Heck, it's not even their best ballad - that would be Waiting For A Girl Like You.

[Zelena]

I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner

It's their only #1 song yet I can think of at least a half dozen songs I would put over that one.

Heck, it's not even their best ballad - that would be Waiting For A Girl Like You.

…I like very much “I Want To Know What Love Is”

[Scott Taylor]

REM.

Losing my Religion is far from their best song but it is their biggest hit. There are so many "best" songs in their catalogue, though, that its tough to choose just one. But because of hits like LMR, their best stuff gets overshadowed. Same could be said of Rush.

[Zelena]

Not a singer or a band but a composer: Maurice Ravel. His “Boléro” overshadowed all his other works.

[caj]

…I like very much “I Want To Know What Love Is”

I do too but it's not their best song by far.

[Gray Lensman]

REM.

Losing my Religion is far from their best song but it is their biggest hit. There are so many "best" songs in their catalogue, though, that its tough to choose just one. But because of hits like LMR, their best stuff gets overshadowed. Same could be said of Rush.

I think REM's best stuff came earlier, and Losing My Religion (A song I love with some heavy personal meaning to me, just not quite what Stipe intended) marks the transition to things I enjoy a lot less.

Rush? Give me Freewill over Tom Sawyer any day.

[Scott Taylor]

I think REM's best stuff came earlier, and Losing My Religion (A song I love with some heavy personal meaning to me, just not quite what Stipe intended) marks the transition to things I enjoy a lot less.

Rush? Give me Freewill over Tom Sawyer any day.

See, now here is a man of taste.

For Rush, I really liked Power Windows, the whole album. But Farewell to Kings was also so brilliant.

[BeastieRunner]

Beastie Boys "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" is nowhere NEAR their best song.

You can pretty much pick any album after License to Ill and find better work.

[PaulBullion]

When I was 11, Dionne Warwick was being produced by the Bee Gees and the song Heartbreaker was EVERYWHERE. Globally, it was her biggest hit (at least as a solo artist, That's What Friends are For may have come close).

And I hated it, and it took me a long time to even dive into her catalog and realize how great her earler, and some of her later stuff was.

Funnily, Dionne agrees with me.

Warwick admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits by Wesley Hyatt that she was not fond of "Heartbreaker" (regarding the song's international popularity, she quipped, "I cried all the way to the bank"),

[4saken1]

I can never get over how many good songs that Joy Division had that are much better than Love Will Tear Us Apart!