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"One hit wonders" that actually have other very good songs/other hits.



believe it or not, they were actually a really influential anarcho-punk band (contemporaries of the band crass) thoughout the 80's and 90's. their first album, "pictures of starving children sell records" is a classic.
 
elmcityboy said:


believe it or not, they were actually a really influential anarcho-punk band (contemporaries of the band crass) thoughout the 80's and 90's. their first album, "pictures of starving children sell records" is a classic.
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inspirational and timely. 'ur never gonna keep us down!'
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Church and Smithereens not one hit wonders. I debated Big Head Todd and the Monsters, but I didn’t the quality.

How about Crash Test Dummies? That first record had many good songs.
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The church was in terms of top 40 hits. Starfish is the only album I've ever heard by them and Milky Way is the only song that got real airplay. Smithereens had 4 songs get airplay: blood & Roses, Behind the Wall of Sleep, Only a Memory and Girl Like You. The first 2 are my favorites, but the latter 2 charted in the top 40. Crash Test Dummies may have had a good disk, but only the one song that charted (in the US) was Mmm.
Are you suggesting they had other "hits" or just stating that they had other good songs in their catalog.
 
Fairfield_1st said:
The church was in terms of top 40 hits. Starfish is the only album I've ever heard by them and Milky Way is the only song that got real airplay. Smithereens had 4 songs get airplay: blood & Roses, Behind the Wall of Sleep, Only a Memory and Girl Like You. The first 2 are my favorites, but the latter 2 charted in the top 40. Crash Test Dummies may have had a good disk, but only the one song that charted (in the US) was Mmm.
Are you suggesting they had other "hits" or just stating that they had other good songs in their catalog.
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For CTD saying they fit the one hit wonder with many other good songs. That whole first album is good.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
For CTD saying they fit the one hit wonder with many other good songs. That whole first album is good.
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He might have the deepest voice I can recall hearing, at least in the pop/rock genre. There may be a couple blues guys that could give him a run for his money. Mmm is the only song I know. I've never had the chance to listen to the disc (was it "And God Shuffled His Feet" or something like that?).
 
Fairfield_1st said:
The church was in terms of top 40 hits. Starfish is the only album I've ever heard by them and Milky Way is the only song that got real airplay. Smithereens had 4 songs get airplay: blood & Roses, Behind the Wall of Sleep, Only a Memory and Girl Like You. The first 2 are my favorites, but the latter 2 charted in the top 40. Crash Test Dummies may have had a good disk, but only the one song that charted (in the US) was Mmm.
Are you suggesting they had other "hits" or just stating that they had other good songs in their catalog.
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"Airplay" is a broad term. With the Smithereens, only "a girl like you" made the pop top 40 and just barely at #38. If you're going to list those other 3 songs which made the modern rock and mainstream rock charts, then you also should include: house we used to live in, blues before and after, yesterday girl and top of the pops.
 
UCMB88 said:
"I Ran" was the big hit, but "Space Age Love Song" was the better song.

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Love that song. BTW - they re-recorded it a few years ago with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra:

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alexd. said:
"Airplay" is a broad term. With the Smithereens, only "a girl like you" made the pop top 40 and just barely at #38. If you're going to list those other 3 songs which made the modern rock and mainstream rock charts, then you also should include: house we used to live in, blues before and after, yesterday girl and top of the pops.
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"Too Much Passion", a song I've never heard of, hit #37 on the US Hot 100. I double checked the billboard site.
You're right, I missed a few songs that were pretty good.
 
superjohn said:
Big Head Todd has always been criminally underrated. I'll never understand how Todd Park Mohr was never more famous, he has everything you should want in a frontman. Sister Sweetly is still one of my favorite albums.
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Oh man.... I remember the first time i heard "Bittersweet" on the radio (1993?)...I had to sit in my car until the song ended just to find out who sang that amazing song....
 
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Wendy o Willimas update:

"On 6 April 1998, Williams committed suicide near her home in Storrs, Connecticut by gunshot. She had attempted to kill herself twice in the years leading up to her death; allegedly she had also been struggling with deep depression."

Who knew?
 
alexd. said:
Oh man.... I remember the first time i heard "Bittersweet" on the radio (1993?)...I had to sit in my car until the song ended just to find out who sang that amazing song....
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When my son was a little tot and needed to be entertained in his car seat, Big Head Todd's cover of Boom, Boom, Boom was the go to song to calm him down.
 
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