ITT: One hit wonders>Hey Man, Nice Shot
>dumb zoomie never heard of 'take a picture'>one of the biggest hits of the whole yearwhat an embarrassing lack of basic music knowledge
>>131508872Filtered
true '90s alt rock one hit wonders
>>131508872pic unrelated
>>131511165nah cmon, they are pretty good, they had more than just one good song. Manifest Density part 2 is awesome.
>>131511165I never even heard of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnO40AGRSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vGAqK6VA1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlCV0tMgNOo
hey man, nice bot
>>131513419not a bot, just taking a trip down memory lane. fuck off.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfKKBDFCiIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM_OWaItNJM
>>131513341many one hit wonders had other good songs, but Local H is still a textbook one hit wonder.>>131513381Bound to the Floor was pretty popular back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty22jnKpGTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9HG0nGe-g
people are gonna hate me for this...but i have to say it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPu-WOicwLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36hvSn-c-Fc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdMT_uyGCTs
wham's backup singershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dde6lFA3PUM
>TpauVevoI guess the labels set these up?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w
>>131508872retarded faggot
>inb4uk hits don't counthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfpRm-p7qlY
The chorus of hey man nice shot might be the biggest sounding post grunge single of the 90s
>>131513381Local H isnt close to an actual obscure one off 90s band, listen to more music, go on archive and watch old B&B with the music videos in, you will discover so many solid forgotten 90s bands
>>131508872Filter were bigger than NiN in the late 90s and early 2000s
>>131513654>listen to more musicthey weren't played on the radio where I lived (NYC area) and no one I knew listened to them. according to their wiki their peak was one song that charted at #46 on the radio airplay chart, i'd say it was fairly easy to miss them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621Nk3Ubz4A
landfill post-grungehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjNn4bbbgSw
>>131513708Music fans shouldn't base their standard off of a normies marker. Local H is like just below surface level 90s alternative and real music guys should be way beyond the surface
>>131513761>real music guysyou are gatekeeping in a one hit wonder threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5iTNVEOAg
>>131508872>"Hate that song... i had no intention of writing that song. The record was done! The record was called Uncle Tom's Cabin..."
>>131513398Dude I've been listening to this shit all week. I didn't think anyone else even knew this song existed.
>>131508872I found out these guys were good when a janitor at a place I was at played the whole album through on the sound system.
>>131514049it got a lot of radio play at the time but was quickly forgotten, how did you even find it?
>>131508872
>>131514202Um lol. It involves being trapped in a room with a legit schizo who would watch mtv classics all day. It would play this song and I liked it.
>>131513398holy mother of cringe batman
>>131508872the singer is the T-1000's brother
Remember the German band Liquido? Their first single Narcotic with its catchy synth riff was a massive hit throughout Europe but wasn't as well known in the UK or the US and none of their other songs came close to being as popular https://youtu.be/PJ7E40Ec5ec?is=UAhBryWSecRnU31Z
Filtered.
>>131508872metallica-enter sandman
>>131513740Oh my god I hated this song so much and my local station played the everloving shit out of it
Filter had a second hit with "Take My Picture" TBF
>>131513675False
>>131508872>CAN'T YOU>CAN'T YOU TRIP LIKE I DOOOOOOOOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuzQLpJWt4A
For me it's Tubular BellsOh YeahSomebody's Watching Me
>>131515110I have hated the song since the first time I heard it. I want to murder the band members and mutilate the corpses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-oh-tP6RvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY
>>131513559a true OHW, and this song was actually a big, big hit. you couldn't get away from it that year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjZuykKY1I
>>131517818WHAT A SONG
>>131516911It's back in the alt-rock rotation in my area, can't fucking stand it.
>>131508872Wasnt the song "Take My Picture" a much bigger hit?
>>131513645Weren't The Jam always on the charts 'cross the pond?
>>131508872>>131521493There's also this onehttps://youtu.be/Of1idt51DHc
>>131521526Apparently nothttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam_discography
>>131521493very much so; Hey Man Nice Shot peaked at #70 on the Hot 100, while Take a Picture peaked at #12. That said, Nice Shot is the much better song, and gets much more airplay on rock/alt stations (at least in my area)
>>131519667>you couldn't get away from it that yearGood thing the song is a fucking banger.
>>131519667the 80s were all about soundtrack songs blowing uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7vNdAb5e4
>>131513675Depends on how you measure it. I live in Canada so our music charts back then read like an alternate timeline from what was happening in the US. Up here, "Take My Picture" was a big enough hit to cross over from being a big alternative hit to being big a mainstream pop/rock hit and I don't think Nine Inch Nails ever had a song of theirs achieve that kind of success. But Nine Inch Nails was a more successful band in the long term, and I don't think Filter fans were anywhere near as dedicated as NIN fans.Alao, didn't one of the members of Filter start out as a member of Trent's live band? Not that this is relevant to the conversation, or anything.
>2+2=5>ha ha ha>now they'll all reply to my zero effort one-post to say it's 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5mtclwloEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1uQI2XmZs
Longer version posted for the guitar solohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRLuIm2Bjgk
>>131522816>one hit wondernigga plshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsQtMK4P9Rghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMX8AOZH8kYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwaD-nWnschttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhf__jN5xrQ
>>131513654>Local H isnt close to an actual obscure one off 90s bandyes, they are. nobody remembers them because they never had an actual hit in the first place
Sly Fox - Let's Go All the Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQiGqGMT8i4also used as the sample for Fly Girl by the Boogie Boys, which is also a OHW
The little ex-car saleswoman whose one hit Neil Young found worthy to cover.
the Funkytown guys
I always thought this song was from the late 80s like a teen pop song by a ethnically ambiguous girl only to find out it's a mid 90s hit made by a welsh woman in her 40's.https://youtu.be/SqdWTeXWvOg?is=N029i2mHZ4OPIQqm
>>131522997the 50s also had so many doo-wop OHWs you can't keep track of all of them
Tony Orlando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg
4 Non Blondes
>>131522997man, Steve Allen was a huge motherfucker. he looked at least 6'6".
from the official 4chan soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk
>>131508872Tracy Chapman
reminds me that pop songs occasionally showed up in sitcoms back in the 80s. pretty sure a tiffany song was on growing pains.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7sHdXOEl1I
>>131522997>peaked when she was Sinatra's wartime duet partner on the radioThis woman loved being photographed, I swear. There's even a childhood picture of her from the 30s. She has at least 150% more photos than hit songs, which was exactly one and it's one of the most memetic housewife pop anthems ever.
did not quite measure up to his dadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nntd2fgMUYw
>>131523404Wasn't "Give Me One Reason" a hit when she came back in the mid-90s?
>>131523386Both him and Mitch Miller to the end of their days never got over their beef with rock. They'd be like "it's all bullshit noise well ok there's like 2-3 decent Beatles and Dylan songs but that's it"
Winger and Warrant lol.
>>131523477not him but yeahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To
>>131523512>lolwhat the HECK
The "Turn Up The Radio" guys.
>>131523445>>131522997fuck you, Mitchfaggot
i saw youand_HIM_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao
that "What is Love Baby Don't Hurt Me" guy. also Montell Jordan. also Coolio.
The original country nepo baby only had one hit, but it was a good one.
Captain & Tennille, and it was a fucking Neil Sedaka cover.
Mark Willis - 19 'Something aka the single most terrible country OHW of all.
>>131523572what? they had several other hits, do that to me one more time was a big hit, and i know there were others too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzQKECQgjW8
>>131511165i want to fuck that woman
>>131521344Not a one hit wonder at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kobdb37Cwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzA6yO7BO10
4 Non Blondes sucked so fucking bad.
>>131526966Imagine getting mogged by a joke cover
"I'm Not Lisa." Granted, even if that ho didn't fuck Waylon she would still have an undeserved hit simply because she was hot.
>>131523477GMOR was Dionne Farris, the chick from Arrested Development
>>131523540close your mouth cuz you're cold busted
Imagine making a hit in a language you don’t speak
>Filter threadI can't believe no one posted "Welcome to the Fold."
>>131523444this guy has done music for the tv industry his whole career, putting out a record was just a sideline since he already had all the industry contacts. he later did the (awful) theme for King of Queens.>Billy, this demographic really digs Hootie and Dave Matthews, what can you do for us?>I got you. you'll have it at the end of the week.but in my heart, he'll forever be Blue Blaze Irregular Pinky Carruthers >Sorry, John. everybody "needs see" Buckaroo. later.
>>131527732no it wasn't, it was tracy chapmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hQ9HSKlIEdionne farris did thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqng9NDqKB8
>>131513341Manifest Density is absolutely phenomenal, I love it so much. Makes me wonder why they only went that hard once.
>>131508872Still respect the Patrick brother for managing to write a good enough song to get signed and break off from Trent during his asshole phase
>>131527755Move Your Body was also a moderate hit
>>131508872I have posted about this before, but I think what's also interesting are artists like Radiohead with Creep who are not peceived as true one hit wonders, but have one song that is significantly more popular than the restThe Animals - The House of the Rising SunMamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'Men at Work - Down UnderBeck - LoserBlue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The ReaperThe Verve - Bitter Sweet SymphonyDeep Purple - Smoke on the WaterDream Theater - Pull Me UnderButthole Surfers - PepperSoundgarden - Black Hole SunModest Mouse - Float OnFranz Ferdinand - Take Me OutDexys Midnight Runners - Come On EileenEcho and The Bunnymen - The Killing MoonThe Human League - Don't You Want MeEurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of ThisOMD - Enola GayTalk Talk - It's My LifeRick Astley - Never Gonna Give You UpSimple Minds - Don't You Forget about MeChris Isaak - Wicked GameThe Rasmus - In the ShadowsRobert Miles - ChildrenFaithless - InsomniaKeane - Somewhere Only We KnowThe Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
>>131529860yeah, I think that people ITT talking about e.g. the prodigy is not a OHW because they technically have a couple of songs that charted are missing the point. when if you ask the average person on the street, firestarter is all they're going to say.I mean, "hit" can be defined as a number one, in the top ten, in the top 40, in the Hot 100, etc. or maybe it charted high enough that "everybody" knows it but it may have only charted on the urban or country charts. and in what country? so "hit" is a nebulous term.the "does the man-on-the-street know it" test is therefore reasonably as valid as soundscan data, which makes your list all OHW by that definition anyway.
>>131529997>firestarter is all they're going to sayThat's not even their most streamed song on SpotifyAlso Voodoo People was pretty big thanks to the Pendulum remix
>>131530121gee, it's almost like people who specifically want to listen to Prodigy are going to be familiar with more of their material.meanwhile, John Q. Public only knows the shit that was big when they were hot, which was before the internet as we know it and was dependent on mainstream media outlets in the 90s.they're going to say Firestarter.
>>131529860if you were alive in the 80s you knew human league had another big hit with 'human'. if you were alive in the 90s you knew soundgarden had multiple other hits. idk about the uk but if you were in the US i am pretty sure OMD's biggest and only hit was if you leave. you make a decent point but some of these examples are terrible.
>>131529860Semisonic - Closing Time
>>131530327aka the song the staff plays when they want you to gtfo so they can clean up and go home
>>131508953take a picture is not iconic
>>131508953take a picture is iconicamazing take
>ctrl-F>no Spacehoghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCsGRCf8T9Y
>>131530210>FirestarterCanadian here. The song Breathe was also in solid rotation on Much Music back when it was new. Unfortunately they never showed the video for Smack My Bitch Up.
>>131514223This song has hooks for fucking days
>>131513654Bound to the Floor is the only song of theirs I want to relisten and I heard several of their albums. Sometimes a band is accurately pegged as a one hit wonder.>>131521592Yeah Nice Shot was much better. Take a Picture was just the sappy rock ballad which almost always preforms better on the hot 100.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25oXWFIQJJM
>>131541575SEEEEEEEAAAAAAGRAAAAAMMSGOOOOOOOOOOL-DEN WINE COOLERS
>>131508872>One hit wondersNew Order - Blue Monday
>>131542282no
>>131508872Radiohead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI
>>131530327Their biggest hit in the UK was secret smile
>>131508872Start! by The Jam. it’s not even their most popular but the only one i’ve been hearing, and the only one that’s actually good
>>131544396I know that The Jam and Paul Weller were influential in the UK mod scene but I don't know a single song by them
>>131544417i recommend the one i mentioned but nothing beyond that really
nu shooz - I can't wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1tBVtYOBc
>>131532207it is if you were alive when it came out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYbZbfqf09Y
>>131547051they had another song that did decentlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavaJNXoMe8
>>131513398Do you think this guy is happy with this being his biggest hit?
That's why I say hey man nice cock
>>131508953OP also forgot the song they did with Crystal Method for the Spawn movie.
>>131529997>when if you ask the average person on the street, firestarter is all they're going to say.I think it'd probably be closer to a 50/50 split between Firestarter and Smack My Bitch Up.
>>131508953welcome to the fold played on the radio for awhile too iirc
>>131513341back in the day rips
>>131513708NYC and rock radio after 1990 are like oil and water. You had to be watching MTV if you wanted to be clued in. The radio charts were out of sync with what was being played on MTV. A lot of things were broadcasted to a nationwide audience that I never heard on the radio. But I did hear Bound For The Floor on the radio.
>>131513708>>131555832I was just going off of memory there, being autistic and obsessed with the history of radio formats. But it seems to be pretty much correct. WNEW is the heritage rock station for the NYC market:>By the 1990s, the station was further losing relevance in the face of the popularity of grunge rock and so became more of a classic rock station. It spent its remaining music days flip flopping between a variety of classic, adult album and alternative rock.At the same time WXRK on 92.3 is doing classic rock and is basically the Howard Stern channel.>WXRK's format varied between different iterations of rock, including classic and alternative, until Stern's highly publicized departure for Sirius Satellite Radio forced a relaunch.I'm pretty sure it was solidly in the classic rock side of things during that time in the 90s and Bound For The Floor is not the kind of track that would ever cross over to Z100. So it's something we had in the midwest that you might have seen if you turned on MTV but it had no chance on NYC radio.
not a lot of recent songs in this thread, has streaming finally destroyed any semblance of shared musical experience even of disposable pop tunes?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY
>>131514223>he's come up with a bass loop for our new track that is so good, that when he tried turning it off... he literally couldn't... he actually physically couldn't do it.
>>131508953This. Filter are a 2 hit wonder at least>>131513341Local H are pretty good but yeah the only real song that got national radio play/MTV was Bound for the Floor>>131513381You'd know the "you just dont get you keep it copacetic you learn to accept it even though youre so pathetic"
>>131522975Banger>>131529860OMD's more popular in the US for If You Leave than Enola Gay, since it was in the John Hughes movies. Keane had one other hit Is It Any Wonder here that I remember getting a lot of play
>>131542282True Faith also exists.
>>131544396>>131513645The Jam didn't really have any hits in the US, but Town Called Malice was probably a bigger hit than Start>>131521526No. The only Weller related tune that technically charted hot 100 here were from The Style Council (My Ever Changing Moods and You're the Best Thing). Today the Jam are probably more well known because music nerds know them while Style Council are pretty much forgotten
>>131542282NahTrue Faith, Regret and Bizarre Love Triangle did well in the US Electronic Getting Away with It also did ok
