THANK YOU! For years, I've known somebody ripped off "The Sun Always Shines on TV" for a song that became wildly successful, but couldn't place which.
THANK YOU! For years, I've known somebody ripped off "The Sun Always Shines on TV" for a song that became wildly successful, but couldn't place which.
I recently read an article about how the guy who wrote Signs can still maintain a comfortable middle-class lifestyle just from the royalties on Signs. This was hilariously specific and I am happy for him.
In his new book, Chuck Klosterman takes a completely random and therefore hilarious shot at Spacehog, and while it's funny, it left me thinking that "In the Meantime" is a good song and that Spacehog deserved more of a career.
Hey, if Beck and Hanson come around, YOU'LL KICK THEIR ASSES.
I believe Montypark was referring to Pras's previous success with the Fugees as possibly disqualifying him. I'd say he's a one-hit wonder on his own.
This may be objectively correct in terms of technicalities like "chart performance in important countries", but just for me, I feel like "Warwick Avenue" was a bigger hit than "Mercy".
I remember that song, but don't remember it being Montell Jordan. Wow.
I've recently been obsessed with a live version of "Hey Leonardo" in which, instead of "such A hottie", the guy sings that his girlfriend likes him for his personality and not because he's "such THE hottie". It's so…proper.
One of my favourite stories ever, which I heard a member of Hanson tell in an interview: years later, the New Radicals guy met Hanson, and they asked him about that line about wanting to kick "Beck and Hanson"'s asses, and he convinced them that he was only referring to Beck, whose last name is also coincidentally…
All of the people who made this list beat Dexy's Midnight Runners!
When you're dealing with earworms, the love/hate line can be a very fine one. Like, "Just A Friend" is objectively terrible on every level. As the writeup notes, he's not even singing in tune. But I'll be damned if I don't, on some level, love it.
Is the interpolation of "Outta My Head" into Camila Carbello's "Bad Things" the most insane thing to happen in pop music this century? I still can't wrap my head around that one - how a semi-obscure Fastball cut got turned into…that.
I posted elsewhere that there's no such thing as an obscure one-hit wonder. You've proven me wrong—-never heard of any of these. Were they actually "hits"?
Yeah, that's exactly the thing with one-hit wonders - the overplay.
I'm friends with a pop culture writer from a small market who recently thought it would be fun to find out what Andrew WK is up to nowadays. He's a fun, gracious guy who really wants to spread his message about partying hard.
In Canada, The White Stripes, The Strokes, and Andrew WK all came to prominence at exactly the same time. (In my memory, I heard of them all on the same day, but that can't be right.) I remember thinking, "This is what music sounds like now. I'll never party softly again."
I love the cover of "I Melt With You" for the kids' movie where they change the line from "making love to you" to "being friends with you". If that movie had coincidentally been "Cars", your comment would've been perfect.
It's obvious that when it comes to who was a one-hit wonder, Castleton Snob has never been tested, and I'd like to think if he were, he wouldn't pass.
Upvoted for Mashmakhan.
Then you'd have a nickel!