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Thread: Interesting One Hit Wonders
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11-01-2005, 10:22 AM #1yelgatgab
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Interesting One Hit Wonders
I was watching the top 100 one hit wonders on VH1 and they pointed out the fact that quite a few popular and influential artists are technically one hit wonders:
Jimmy Hendrix
The Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
What are some others?Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-01-2005, 10:34 AM #2Originally Posted by bagtagley
VH1 is some kind of authority on popular music?? Time to switch stations tagbag"if it's called tourist season, why can't we just shoot them?"
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11-01-2005, 10:46 AM #3yelgatgab
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Originally Posted by nesta
They are one hit wonders, each only had one top 40 hit. Note the word "technically". Please try to keep up.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-01-2005, 10:55 AM #4
Sorry I didn't realize you wanted to get so technical. You don't really care for music do you?
I would think there's literally thousands of one hit wonders given your "definition""if it's called tourist season, why can't we just shoot them?"
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11-01-2005, 11:18 AM #5yelgatgab
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Originally Posted by nesta
Thousands? Great, that was the point of the thread. Let's hear them.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-01-2005, 11:31 AM #6snacking while boozing
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Hear what? I got lost in all the dumb semantics.
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11-01-2005, 11:34 AM #7
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11-01-2005, 11:37 AM #8
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11-01-2005, 01:12 PM #9Originally Posted by nesta
I think the point is that these were extremely popular artists, yet they didn't have a ton of top forty hits.
Well, here a few that I don't think have had too many songs in the top 40:
Depeche Mode, the Cure, Jane's Addiction.
Bruce Springsteen didn't have a top ten single until "Hungry Heart", off of his fifth album, and five years after Born to Run.
Pearl Jam hasn't had a hit single in over a decade, but continue to sell out every venue they play."There is a hell of a huge difference between skiing as a sport- or even as a lifestyle- and skiing as an industry"
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11-01-2005, 01:23 PM #10Originally Posted by nesta"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow, what a Ride!"
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11-02-2005, 08:07 AM #11
c'mon, does "top 40" even really exist anymore in the world of IPods and satellite? Listen to "classic" rock radio, and you'll hear a friggin led zep song for the 10,000th time, but I'll bet it never was a top 40 hit.
Jimi put out a great album called "Smash Hits" in, like, 1970. nuff said.
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11-02-2005, 08:19 AM #12yelgatgab
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Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Originally Posted by Benny ProfaneRemind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-02-2005, 09:50 AM #13
I also like pistachio ice cream. And long walks on the beach.
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11-02-2005, 11:04 AM #14Funky But Chic
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That's a tough one, Bag. I can think of a lot of "real" one-hit wonders (Starland Vocal Band, Golden Earring, I'm looking at you), and a lot of influential and important musicians that never got near the charts, but influential musicians with a single top 40 hit? Maybe Stevie Ray and "Must Have Been The Weather"? I can't seem to find if it made the charts though.
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11-02-2005, 11:39 AM #15Sub-par GTA Player
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How about Neil Young? How many "hits" did he have? I know Heart of Gold was up there (number one I believe), but don't know of any others.
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11-02-2005, 11:49 AM #16yelgatgab
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Originally Posted by Benny Profane
So ironic in the context of the thread I suppose, but you understand my bewilderment.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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11-02-2005, 11:59 AM #17
I'm assuming you mean Top 40 in the US. Waaaay different story in the UK: Hendrix had 5 top 40 hits there.
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11-02-2005, 07:05 PM #18Funky But Chic
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No, he was talking about West Virginia, it's all very different there.
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11-05-2005, 03:46 PM #19
And, in a week or two, if you make the charts, the girls will tear you apart.
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11-05-2005, 08:37 PM #20Originally Posted by iceman
That's all I got though. Oh, and nesta, don't be an idiot.
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11-06-2005, 10:20 AM #21
I wasn't trying to be, soory bout that Steve.
I was just trying to say more or less what Benny Pro said. Except he did a better job than me."if it's called tourist season, why can't we just shoot them?"
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11-06-2005, 01:29 PM #22Funky But Chic
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Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
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09-02-2021, 10:14 AM #23
Procol Harum, "A Whiter Shade of Pale".
Now that I've infected your brain with a stuck song, I always marvel at this tune. So many rock concerts in the 60s and 70s ended, the lights went up and they'd play this song while the dazed and confused crowd dispersed.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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09-02-2021, 10:40 AM #24
Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen
That album was cool IIRC, should give’r a listen
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09-02-2021, 11:04 AM #25
^^^ great Halloween costume.
Also, I'm not sure I've ever heard anything from faux Bob Dylan / Steeler's Wheel aside from this song:
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