I imagine being a one hit wonder is worse than never getting recognized, because you have to deal with living in your own shadow and knowing that you peaked only once, that you lucked out and couldn’t capitalize on it
I bet everyone involved with Scandal has it especially horrible because they performed one of the most iconic 80s songs (The Warrior) yet the rest of their only album and the band itself is so obscure the song is more commonly misattributed to Pat Benatar than them So they don't even get credit for their one hit wonder
@@timf9491 They are? O.o Well, I haven't heard about them for over 15 years. And looking back 10 months I'm actually surprised, that they even came to my mind to make this initial comment. xD
Blind melon is not a one hit wonder, change is also a top song of theirs but their album soup is amazing. One of the most interesting albums I’ve ever heard.
Definition of One Hit Wonders from Wikipedia: "A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success." This doesn't mean they didn't have other hits or weren't great bands. This only means that if you go up to 50 random people, most of them will only know one song from these bands.
There's also the fact that when people think about one-hit wonders they think of the impact in one country only. For instance, A-ha only had a couple big hits in the United States, but had continued success in many other countries.
Blind Melon has the most recognized version of "3 is a Magic Number", and in fact more people know them for that, than No Rain. Yet they are #3 on this list with No Rain.
@@camerondodge2070 Ye.. if you look at The Hoff.. he may have had one or two big hits in the US, and would very much be a one-hit wonder.. but go to Germany or Austria and he was huge for a time.
This. Drowning Pool, Iron Butterfly, Marcy Playground and Alien Ant Farm were the only band names in this list I recognized. And only the first two for respectable reasons...
I think Slayer was a one hit wonder with the song master of puppets, honestly only true fans have even heard madhouse from the album symphony of destruction
@@alexbraaten420 What about Reign In Aggression? Seasons In The Lightning? Show No Anger? God Hates Justice For All? World Painted Destruction? You missed quite a bit jackass.
Every god damn post grunge band has a singer that wants to be a Layne/Eddie copy and I hate it. The only exception is Dave Grohl and that guy from Bush (in the beginning at least). Seriously, Scott from Creed, Chad from Nickelback, the guy from Live, almost every post grunge singer sounds the same.
Step Up was pretty big too in no small part thanks to The Punisher and Wrestlemania 20. I recall the video being played on Headbangers Ball a lot too and I also remember hating it at the time thinking it was shot like rap video lol.
Honestly they're really a one album wonder. The band's still around yes, but they've never had the same sort of success after their first album (Sinner) and Dave Williams' unexpected death in 2002.
Seeing Marcys Playground on here hurt being a huge fan of them. It’s hard for me to fathom them being a one hit wonder when they genuinely have some fantastic tracks
There is a fundamental fatal flaw in this list. The description states "A one hit wonder breaks the Top 40(ish) of the mainstream chart only once, with their career generally overshadowed by that one track" First, that is NOT the generally accepted definition of a "one-hit wonder" in the US. It is a Top 40 hit on the HOT100 chart, not the Mainstream chart. These are different charts that Billboard puts out. In fact there are at least two different "Mainstream" charts Billboard does, one for Pop and one for Rock. Second, If you are going to use only the Mainstream Rock chart, Semisonic had THREE top 40s, Lit had FOUR, Spacehog had FOUR, The Vapors did only have one but it WAS NOT Turning Japanese (Jimmie Jones), Kix had TWO, Toadies had FOUR, CTD had none on this chart, Marcy Playground had TWO, Drowning Pool had SIXTEEN on this chart, AAF had THREE and Blind Melon had THREE. If Loudwire meant a Top40 on the Hot100, then Hum, Lit and Drowning Pool should not be on the list at all since they had a total of ZERO Top40s on the Hot 100 chart. If they meant the Mainstream Pop chart, then only Fountains of Wayne would be eligible. If they really meant the Hot 100, you can add Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin (as a solo) to the list. Both only ever had one song in the Top 40 on the Hot 100; All Along the Watchtower and Me and Bobby McGee (Janis did have a Top 40 with Big Brother with Piece of My Heart and just missed two other solo cuts making the Top 40, Kozmic Blues and Cry Baby)
That's generally my concern with "ONE HIT WONDER!!!" stuff. Like sure, Harden My Heart is the only song people really remember by Quarterflash, but they also had Find Another Fool in the top 20 (#16 on the US Billboard Hot 100), but it didn't have any staying power (which is a shame...not many songs have dueling sax and violin solos). You kinda have to be a bit pedantic with it, especially with the "classic rock" era (like Hendrix) because they sold a fuckton of albums with a single Top 40 song ever (and Black Sabbath and Judas Priest not even having that).
Hum was fantastic. You’d Prefer An Astronaut is a masterpiece of an album. What’s funny is that Stars isn’t their best song, but a song that isn’t their best is still a really freaking good song. Says a lot about Hum.
It’s like half of these bands came straight outta a college dorm basement, dudes who could play a little, accidentally came up with a catchy hook one night while “riffing “, laid it down on a cheap 4 track bought at a garage sale somewhere in Yuma, got the college radio station to start spinning it, and got lucky a producer was on campus to see their daughters swim meet, heard it, bought it, milked the shit out of it for a couple years in commercials and back end movie soundtracks, and than you can buy it in the dollar bin at Walmart, a vicious cycle to be sure.
Not everyone gets to reap the benefits of a full music career. If you as the musician understand your place in the industry, you can milk it too, and leave with some grace. A single perfect radio song can be enough to retire alone. Be in a band for a few years to fuel funding for some side projects, or just a straight up college career in something else. Way too many garage bands don't even get that opportunity, and fail before they made their money, and have to start over.
Will Thrill most of theses artists are from the “garage band” scene of the mid to late 90’s... the popularity of grunge, etc.. at that time had many labels scouting for songs to fill what they thought was becoming popular... I remember all of these but one... the one by hum... personally I liked these songs
@@dragntocrazy102 what are their other hits? as far as i know, they didnt have the same commercial success with any of their stuff, een if all their stuff is great.
Blind Melon is far from a 1 hit wonder. Yes 1 song got them lots of play but they made some kick ass music. So it's not like they only wrote a one hit wonder.
YES! Youd prefer an astronaut and Downward is heavenward are two of the best rock albums. The strike the line of post-hardcore altrock and shoegaze perfectly.
Apparently the definition of “One Hit Wonder” is changing. Most of these were songs that never made “Hit” status.......but they did make the American Pie Soundtrack 😂
Me was like: I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. I don´t know. Oh, Drowning Pool.. cool LOL Alien Ant Farm I don´t know. I don´t know. - The End -
@@starlugibros1703 no rain is a pretty big song on streaming services and throughout rock radio. but eh i didnt even know no rain until someone mentioned it to me so ig you're right
Wait. What? Drowning Pool a One Hit Wonder??? With Sinner, Bodies, Tear away, Step up and Killin´ me I count at least 5 Hits. Sorry Guys but you are wrong. Btw : Alien Ant farm is totally underrated.
to be fair, the 90's were really the end of the non-manufactured era. now hits are all computer assisted and pressed through a formula to ensure a hook that will catch on to the masses.
@Agent J Really? The 90s were the decade where talent was everything. Notice how bands from the 90s focused more on music rather than their outfits and dance moves. The music was the #1 priority for most bands. Stage performance was secondary.
Then why can nobody name more than one song from any of them? Sure, they all had fans that can name a bunch of songs. But that isn't the same as a hit.
@@johnterpack3940 Blind melon still had the hit Galaxy, ranked 25th on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks andt 8th on the Billboard Alternative Songs, dont know if this counts as breaking the 40ish mark on mainstream.
@@mottyreinsch4754 As much as I love Blind Melon, I think they do qualify as a one-hit-wonder unfortunately. The vast majority of people only know No Rain.
Kix is actually a really great band. They only had one "hit" in Don't Close Your Eyes but they have like 10 songs I can think of right off hand that are really good.
Kix definitely weren't One Hit Wonders. Sure "Don't Close Your Eyes" was there most successful song but they had a lot of other hits and had tons of videos on MTV. They even had "Cold Chills" on the soundtrack to a popular movie, Wayne's World.
Neither was Blind Melon, most people just don’t explore after “no rain” but their singer died from a cocaine overdose on tour so they also had their careers cut incredibly short! Now most people just know that single, but it wasn’t their only single or hit even! Listen to Galaxie! It’s even better!
True. I got that particular album (blow my fuse) because I found them on google suggestions for probably AC/DC or something. I read a couple words on them and thought yeah sounds like your kinda music but didn’t expect much cuz I hadn’t really heard about them at the time. In all honesty that album is now one of my favorite albums, at least of 80s hard rock / heavy metal / glam metal type music. Don’t consider them a 1 hit wonder either to be honest. I don’t think Don‘t close your eyes is a huge deal and then again other songs like Blow my Fuse and Cold blood (which is one of my absolute favorite songs) aren’t too far behind in my opinion. I would totally agree with you, they’re really underrated.
Like, I'm On My Fifth Elbow, Trapt has had more than just "Headstrong". Let's not forget about "Echo", and, as Paul Carson mentioned, they've also had the song "Still Frame" that were also big hits
It's fucking stupid to call them one hit wonders, too. Like Jesus, Shannon's discography is so huge and new songs surface all the time. No Rain wasn't the only one they had commercial success with, either. I've yet to find a bad one.
Also, Lit wasn't a one-hit wonder. They had 3 hits (My Own Worst Enemy, Zip-Lock and Miserable). And Miserable was actually the most popular of the three songs. It had the video with Pamela Anderson and was one of the top-10 most played songs of the year 2000. And the album went platinum. Annnnnnd Alien Ant Farm's biggest hit was "Movies." Not Smooth Criminal. And again, not a one-hit wonder if they had two hits.
actually, as played as it was, in terms of the hot 100, miserable went to the 'bubbling under' portion of the charts, #117. zip-lock failed to chart, my own worst enemy went to #51, so there is some legitimacy to that one. alien ant farm only made the hot 100/top 40 once in the mainstream, which is where this list is going, only making the hot 100 once or top 40 pop charts once. movies, albeit a played song on mainstream and modern rock charts and stations everywhere, didn't even cross over to the pop charts, hence why smooth criminal is on there.
Hum, along with Local H (I was waiting to see Bound For The Floor pop up at any point on the list) are the most CRIMINALLY underrated bands to come out the 90s alt wave.
I found the Blind Melon album at Goodwill like 2 years ago, thinking, "I remember that song and I loved it." Then, to my surprise the whole album is amazing and was the only CD in my car for quite a while. Great road trip album. RIP Shannon Hoon
Matt Barker no, Alien Ant Farm never had a top ten hit, at least not on the hot 100 chart. Smooth Criminal was a Billboard Modern Rock #1, but was only #23 on the Hot 100. Movies was # 18 on Modern Rock and These Days was #29, but they didn’t chart on the Hot 100.
Toadies are EXTREMELY underrated ESPECIALLY rubberneck that album is amazing, and there follow up album Heaven Above Stars Below was even better in my Opinion!!!
The Salty Seaman quite right! Afternoons and coffee spoons..... mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm....... ballad of peter pumpkin head...... all brilliant songs (and hits - at least in the uk!)
Wedge Of Lettuce focus has had much other hits, but the song had only become popular recently because of the release of “baby driver” which featured the song
austin mull “1 hit wonders” usually have 3 big ish songs. The song that they’re a 1 hit for, then the other song when they’re riding the other song, and then usually a single from the next album they do where they try and rekindle their popularity from the 1 hit that usually flops and the band drops off the map
This video was actually the first time I heard about them. I guess they were no big in Finland. One hit wonder doesn't mean bad. It is one more than Slayer or Anthrax.
I think we're all forgetting the greatest of one-hit wonders, "Fire" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. That song nearly beat "Hey Jude" to #1, but you don't hear anything else from Brown or his band.
I actually feel kind of bad for Blind Melon. Someone made me sit down and listen to their album back in the day and I realized that the song they're famous for is probably their worst one.
I'm realizing now I've heard these songs, never knew what any of them looked like. Also cool that you showed the live versions, they all are amazing live too!
it is.. Crash Test Dummies weren't the only fallacy in the list.. Drowning Pool would be another one, Iron Butterfly and Alien Ant Farm are others. This is What happens when someone puts up a video and does no homework beforehand.
This is like the playlist of every "alternative" FM radio station ever.
Yeah half of this plays on my favorite station around here lol
Absolute radio and Radio X in a nutshell and it's so annoying
Cult of personality by living colour?
RIP WBRU
@@kulak166 the worst radio stations known to man
I imagine being a one hit wonder is worse than never getting recognized, because you have to deal with living in your own shadow and knowing that you peaked only once, that you lucked out and couldn’t capitalize on it
Fr. You try so hard to stay mainstream and stay successful and everyone just stops caring
Especially playing a show and ppl only wanting to hear your one hit song
I bet everyone involved with Scandal has it especially horrible because they performed one of the most iconic 80s songs (The Warrior) yet the rest of their only album and the band itself is so obscure the song is more commonly misattributed to Pat Benatar than them
So they don't even get credit for their one hit wonder
I think your motivations dont line up with the motivations of artists. Seems like youre looking at art through a business lens.
Rick Astley: nah, it's fine
So you're telling me Ram Jam's "Black Betty" is not considered a one-hit wonder?
@@humanehumanbeeing3418 Not really. Black Betty is still they're most popular song.
Or Cotton Eyed Joe
@@buddhaclausstudios6762 cotton eye joe isn’t really rock / metak
@@iSkully99 There's missing context for that comment.
@@buddhaclausstudios6762 all the context is there and my comment still stands in said context
Alien ant farm: kind of sad that their only big hit was a cover
They got some good songs tho, underrated band in my opinion
Movies was kinda big
@@jeb1691 I was gunna mention Movies and These Days
@@ipodguy9 yup, me too
@Bread Cheese :)
is this the American pie soundtrack?
All they need is 'James - Laid' and the list is complete.
It’s from every highschool/college movie from the early 2000s
tyrel every BRUH
I found it weird how American Pie never had American Pie the song as a song in the movie
I'd like to add:
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Little Respect.
2 hit wonder.
Listen to Iron Maiden, baby...
I've heard Punk Ass Bitch while out and about too
Well in Germany they are still famous for some reason.
@@timf9491 They are? O.o
Well, I haven't heard about them for over 15 years. And looking back 10 months I'm actually surprised, that they even came to my mind to make this initial comment. xD
Blind melon is not a one hit wonder, change is also a top song of theirs but their album soup is amazing. One of the most interesting albums I’ve ever heard.
Tones of home too
I was pissed when I bought blind melon with my allowance and it had one good song. Soul asylum too. On hit wonders should of only put out singles
@@carsonwood2095 I don’t usually tell people to shut up, but like... shut the fuck up.
Galaxy, tones of home, change, no rain, etc..
yup, they were one of the biggest bands in the 90’s. tones of home, changes
Definition of One Hit Wonders from Wikipedia: "A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success." This doesn't mean they didn't have other hits or weren't great bands. This only means that if you go up to 50 random people, most of them will only know one song from these bands.
Definition of an anally retentive tool: Richard Dore Jr
There's also the fact that when people think about one-hit wonders they think of the impact in one country only. For instance, A-ha only had a couple big hits in the United States, but had continued success in many other countries.
Blind Melon has the most recognized version of "3 is a Magic Number", and in fact more people know them for that, than No Rain.
Yet they are #3 on this list with No Rain.
@@camerondodge2070 Ye.. if you look at The Hoff.. he may have had one or two big hits in the US, and would very much be a one-hit wonder.. but go to Germany or Austria and he was huge for a time.
@@MarkOfTzeentch To be fair, he deserves it. He is a pretty good singer and all.
I'm almost certain that Weird Al covered most of this list
he did a lot of these in Alternative Polka on the Bad Hair Day Album.
When did he cover Spacehog?
And when he did bedrock anthem he had a reference to the Bee Girl from Blind melon in the video
When your one hit wonder is a cover...
fr though, a cover should NEVER be a band's most popular song
Anthrax doesn't have hits but their most popular songs seem to be "Got the Time" and "Antisocial" which are covers.
Reijo P. Madhouse, caught in a mosh, Indians, I am the law are all originals
Met Fan But they are not their most popular songs. And they have no hits. Anthrax is like Whitney Houston - the best-known song is a cover.
@@Rekko82 their most popular songs are by far Indians and Madhouse. They are great, despite that I hate them
The songs everyone knows from bands nobodys heard of
This. Drowning Pool, Iron Butterfly, Marcy Playground and Alien Ant Farm were the only band names in this list I recognized.
And only the first two for respectable reasons...
I heard of Kix they were somewhat huge back in the late 80s. Because they were considered hair metal they were screwed over by record labels
Blind Melon and Marcy ‘s Playground were much more than one song.Those bands are treasures.
You never heard of kix?
@@adspur yeah, this list is wrong. Especially with drowning pool's "sinner" and "tear away" were hits too
No way drowning pool is "one hit wonder", sinner is a great album and was certified platinun.
my thoughts exactly
Same with iron butterfly, in a gadda vida is one of the best selling albums of all time.
I agree. If anything they are more a one album wonder. That's not their fault though since Dave Williams died very young.
That’s exactly why I came to the comment section
@@iSkully99 I only know it because of the Simpsons, lol
I think Slayer was a one hit wonder with the song master of puppets, honestly only true fans have even heard madhouse from the album symphony of destruction
Plsdont. Exe You complete imbecile. I bet you haven’t even heard Diabolus in Anger or Ride the Hanger 🤔🤷♂️
@@alexbraaten420 What about Reign In Aggression? Seasons In The Lightning? Show No Anger? God Hates Justice For All? World Painted Destruction? You missed quite a bit jackass.
You. I like you
This comment confuses me on so many levels
@@alexbraaten420 an obvious joke
Ok, but Iron Butterfly has the most epic 1 hit wonder. 18 minutes is awesome
with a two and a half minute drum solo =D
It's great 'cause it's proto-metal.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, bay bay
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you?
This sounds like the playlist that most radio stations use
I'd like to find a Radio Station who even know about Iron Butterfly
Nice and cheap songs, radio stations love those.
Jesus fucking Christ SMDH
S/XM Lithium channel plays each of those at least once a day,,, except for Iron Butterfly anyway..
Most of those sound alike, this sort of "pop-punk-hard rock-early 2000s" sound or the "I really like Eddie Vedder and I want to sing like him" sound
It should be illegal to impersonate Eddie Vedder
Yarel
Every god damn post grunge band has a singer that wants to be a Layne/Eddie copy and I hate it. The only exception is Dave Grohl and that guy from Bush (in the beginning at least). Seriously, Scott from Creed, Chad from Nickelback, the guy from Live, almost every post grunge singer sounds the same.
@@joristolhuijs3703 Creed is like Pearl Jam’s failed abortion.
Then there's Hum, who sound like Failure if they went more into a shoegaze sound
Drowning Pool had “Tear Away” as well as “Bodies” so I wouldn’t call them a one hit wonder
And "sinner"
only counting songs that were top 40s
The sinner album was excellent
Step Up was pretty big too in no small part thanks to The Punisher and Wrestlemania 20.
I recall the video being played on Headbangers Ball a lot too and I also remember hating it at the time thinking it was shot like rap video lol.
@@flatliner556 Yeah I think Sinner was more popular than Tear Away.
Almost all 90's Alt
Which is odd, since Hendrix had only one Top 40.
your Alt should be in quotation marks
For real
Because MTV was riding Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins dick and anything that remotely sounded like it, got airtime and PR.
That's what I noticed, there were so many one hit wonders in the 90's Tripping Daisy "I got a girl"
I don't think Drowning Pool should count as a one hit wonder.
Finally. Someone who gets it. They have better songs than Bodies btw
@@funeralroseburial2369 sinner sermon tear away
FALpwn first album was beast
Honestly they're really a one album wonder.
The band's still around yes, but they've never had the same sort of success after their first album (Sinner) and Dave Williams' unexpected death in 2002.
Yeah when they have an awesome album and the lead singer dies it shouldn't count
Blind Melon wasn’t a one hit wonder. Soup, galaxy, Change.
Not a bad song on that album...except No Rain.
Yup! totally agree with ya bro!
Was looking for a comment on this. Totally not a one hit wonder. To be honest neither were Lit.
No other song hit the Top 40. And then the dude died, so...
No
We all need to accept that Stacey’s mom is a national treasure
As is Closing Time.
Yes
I fully agree.
that song sucks, big time
@@IAmValefree F u c k y o u c o c k b l o c k
Not gonna lie I’ve never heard most of these songs
With some of these songs, consider yourself lucky.
@@neugey lmfao!
Were you born past 9\11?
Jorge Salinas yes I was I expected that they were in the hits long before my time and not good enough to still be played today
What cave do you live in
Blind Melon Soup was a truly great rock record
Yeah they're underrated
I agree. I think they could have lasted if he didn't die.
Blind melon was a great band.
I love Soup~ Galaxie is my favourite Blind Melon Song... it broke my heart when Shannon died 😢💔
They’re my favorite band
Seeing Marcys Playground on here hurt being a huge fan of them. It’s hard for me to fathom them being a one hit wonder when they genuinely have some fantastic tracks
Agree. I love their album they put out after the one Sex and Candy was on.
@@skylarjohnson569 yeah Shapeshifter was awesome.
I agree
It means they had only had one hit song, not that their stuff is bad… just not hits
There is a fundamental fatal flaw in this list. The description states "A one hit wonder breaks the Top 40(ish) of the mainstream chart only once, with their career generally overshadowed by that one track"
First, that is NOT the generally accepted definition of a "one-hit wonder" in the US. It is a Top 40 hit on the HOT100 chart, not the Mainstream chart. These are different charts that Billboard puts out. In fact there are at least two different "Mainstream" charts Billboard does, one for Pop and one for Rock.
Second, If you are going to use only the Mainstream Rock chart, Semisonic had THREE top 40s, Lit had FOUR, Spacehog had FOUR, The Vapors did only have one but it WAS NOT Turning Japanese (Jimmie Jones), Kix had TWO, Toadies had FOUR, CTD had none on this chart, Marcy Playground had TWO, Drowning Pool had SIXTEEN on this chart, AAF had THREE and Blind Melon had THREE.
If Loudwire meant a Top40 on the Hot100, then Hum, Lit and Drowning Pool should not be on the list at all since they had a total of ZERO Top40s on the Hot 100 chart.
If they meant the Mainstream Pop chart, then only Fountains of Wayne would be eligible.
If they really meant the Hot 100, you can add Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin (as a solo) to the list. Both only ever had one song in the Top 40 on the Hot 100; All Along the Watchtower and Me and Bobby McGee (Janis did have a Top 40 with Big Brother with Piece of My Heart and just missed two other solo cuts making the Top 40, Kozmic Blues and Cry Baby)
composerdave68
calm down killer!
jfa. I agree tho. hahaha
This is the best rant that i've read
Yeah. It's like . . . . . I want to poke fun at the pedantry, but at the same time I totally agree, and so am forced to do the slow clap.
I bet you fucking love reading the terms and conditions pages before signing...
That's generally my concern with "ONE HIT WONDER!!!" stuff. Like sure, Harden My Heart is the only song people really remember by Quarterflash, but they also had Find Another Fool in the top 20 (#16 on the US Billboard Hot 100), but it didn't have any staying power (which is a shame...not many songs have dueling sax and violin solos). You kinda have to be a bit pedantic with it, especially with the "classic rock" era (like Hendrix) because they sold a fuckton of albums with a single Top 40 song ever (and Black Sabbath and Judas Priest not even having that).
Please take the word "metal" out of the title and add "alternative" in front of rock. The way you have it titled qualifies a click bait.
Yes these are too tame for metal.
@@colinp2238yeah true, except for drowning pool and iron butterfly. And maybe alien ant farm.
This - take out "metal"
It plainly says ROCK + METAL. Grow up. There are metal bands in the list.
Take out "hit" for most of them, also.
Blind Melon is actually a great band though
Truth! Soup is one of my favorite albums!
Soup is such a perfect masterpiece.
Change and Tones of Home are amazing
Soup is the shit
Toes across the floor is a pretty good song too
just discovered hum today and listen to their albums, sucks that they're known as a one hit wonder band
Yeah, they don’t deserve to be on this list.
Hum was fantastic. You’d Prefer An Astronaut is a masterpiece of an album. What’s funny is that Stars isn’t their best song, but a song that isn’t their best is still a really freaking good song. Says a lot about Hum.
@@tomney4460 imo Little Dipper is one of their best songs
@@nailedbombLittle Dipper is a banger. My personal favorite is Comin’ Home.
It’s like half of these bands came straight outta a college dorm basement, dudes who could play a little, accidentally came up with a catchy hook one night while “riffing “, laid it down on a cheap 4 track bought at a garage sale somewhere in Yuma, got the college radio station to start spinning it, and got lucky a producer was on campus to see their daughters swim meet, heard it, bought it, milked the shit out of it for a couple years in commercials and back end movie soundtracks, and than you can buy it in the dollar bin at Walmart, a vicious cycle to be sure.
Spectacular analysis... sincerely. I'd be willing to bet that *EXACT* scenario has happened.
Not everyone gets to reap the benefits of a full music career. If you as the musician understand your place in the industry, you can milk it too, and leave with some grace. A single perfect radio song can be enough to retire alone. Be in a band for a few years to fuel funding for some side projects, or just a straight up college career in something else. Way too many garage bands don't even get that opportunity, and fail before they made their money, and have to start over.
Tbh I've gotten some good shit out of yuma yard sales. Don't knock it till you try it lol.
Will Thrill most of theses artists are from the “garage band” scene of the mid to late 90’s... the popularity of grunge, etc.. at that time had many labels scouting for songs to fill what they thought was becoming popular... I remember all of these but one... the one by hum... personally I liked these songs
Will Thrill just play and thats all.
no one can convince me that the guy from Spacehog is actually saying words
I love the way he pronounces his words lol
This is true😂
Btw blind melon was a great band so don’t say they were one hit wonders!
Or they chose they’re fav somg
@@dragntocrazy102 what are their other hits? as far as i know, they didnt have the same commercial success with any of their stuff, een if all their stuff is great.
@@FOFballer Tones of Home got a lot of play on MTV.
@@FOFballer Part of their problem was the bald singer...Billy whats-his-name could not carry a tune with 2 handles
kendall Evans billy Corgan is from bowling for soup - Shannon is the lead singer of blind melon
The list of songs:
15 - 0:07 The Vapors - Turning Japanese
14 - 0:27 Spacehog - In the meantime
13 - 0:51 KIX - Don't close your eyes
12 - 1:17 Hum - Stars
11 - 1:36 Toadies - Possum Kingdom
10 - 1:57 Harvey Danger - Flagpole sitta
09 - 2:22 Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
08 - 2:43 Semisonic - Closing time
07 - 3:14 LIT - My own worst enemy
06 - 3:38 Crash Test Dummies - Mmm mmm mmm mmm
05 - 4:10 Marcy Playground - Sex and candy
04 - 4:30 Drowning Pool - Bodies
03 - 4:48 - Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
02 - 5:09 - Blind Melon - No rain
01 - 5:35 - Iron Butterfly - In a gadda da vida
what about trapt?
DUDE!!!! Thank you, man! 🤘🤘
Blind Melon is far from a 1 hit wonder. Yes 1 song got them lots of play but they made some kick ass music. So it's not like they only wrote a one hit wonder.
Led Zepp of the 90s imo
John P M I can only name no rain
@@franklindelanoroosevelt9177 Soak the Skin is an awesome tune.
You can think their songs are awesome. Read the description. Where were the chart numbers
Technically they are, and they're the best band on this list.
In the Garden of Eden by I. Ron Butterfly.
Wait a minute. This sounds like rock and/or roll. -reverend Lovejoy
Heikki Remes lol. Hilarious 😆
One of my top 5 all-time favorite Simpsons moments.
“Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn?”
Ya gatta itta wrongga mata. It'sa "in a gadda da vida". (I'm outta here…)
@@pateris do you watch the simposons?
@@KieranDurand Well not that episode. Now that you mention it, I might have missed something, sorry !
Hum is criminally underrated and if you listen past the hit you will find that they deserve way more fame and money
They look like metal weezer
@@Turnaround72 They might have that look, but not the sound. They kind of remind me of Failure in that department.
@@yaboi2500yeah, think heavy shoegaze, Smashing-Pumpkins type sound but with more chorus effects.
Hum deserves way more praise they are actually such good musicians
YES! Youd prefer an astronaut and Downward is heavenward are two of the best rock albums. The strike the line of post-hardcore altrock and shoegaze perfectly.
How is Stacy's Mom in there but 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" is not
Lala Stacy’s Mom is a fun song. What’s Up is annoying af and is total ass.
Yes!
What's up never received close to the amount of publicity/ air time to make it popular. It wasn't a very popular song.
That must just be a you thing.
@@atomicpunk2360 Stacy's mom is a tacky shitty excuse of a song. What's Up is actually remembered more and still has replay value
Where's Wheatus and their Teenage Dirtbag?
exactly:)
Wheatus aren't one hit wonders. They also had that Erasure' "A Little Respect" cover
@@iaincowell9747 That was like, the best cover I ever heard from a band though.
@Jimbo McWindy Aah, that's a better way to put it though XD
What a fucking good call dude!
Ram Jam - Black Betty is one of the fewer good rock one hit wonders
The Knack - My Sherona ? I'd say, there are so many!!!
Since you’ve been gone - rainbow
(Individually they all had spectacular songs, but as a band that was the only legendary one)
@@xVx_Krt_xVx_KillMe Are you seriously calling Rainbow a one hit wonder band?
my music teacher from elementary school was one of the guitarists!
presidents of the united states of america, peaches
Bloody Hell, there are o LOT of dead people in this clip!!!!
Seriosly?
@@biosystem6925 Shannon Hoon, Adam Schlesinger...
@@silviomaric8758 Drowing pool lead singer David
Graveyard
Only the lead singer/keyboardist of Iron Butterfly is still alive tho.
Apparently the definition of “One Hit Wonder” is changing. Most of these were songs that never made “Hit” status.......but they did make the American Pie Soundtrack 😂
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When you let the teenage intern who just watched American Pie pick the songs...
Lmao. I was thinking the exact same thing!!
Remember when every movie had rock bands doing the soundtrack? That was an interesting era to say the least
In a Gadda Da Vida was a really heavy song for its time
I mean anything's heavy when the song is 15 minutes long most stations play the cut down version
Even Slayer did a cover of that song.
It's a fucking sick track even now. I absolutely love it.
It has stood the test of time. That's for sure.
@@JoshuaMuse Most indeedy !
As a fan of Hum, I’m amused that the video of them playing is practically inaudible over all the feedback
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Oh, Drowning Pool.. cool
LOL Alien Ant Farm
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Wait...you didn't know stacy's mom?
Stacey's mom and no rain?
@@jackbeans0007 I would understand no rain
@@starlugibros1703 no rain is a pretty big song on streaming services and throughout rock radio. but eh i didnt even know no rain until someone mentioned it to me so ig you're right
Moral of the story: If you want to be a one hit wonder with a song that people remember fondly, make sure your bassist plays a Rickenbacker.
Wait. What? Drowning Pool a One Hit Wonder??? With Sinner, Bodies, Tear away, Step up and Killin´ me I count at least 5 Hits. Sorry Guys but you are wrong. Btw : Alien Ant farm is totally underrated.
Well everyone has heard only bodies :D no one knows their songs
Yeah I got no clue of any song that you said
One album wonder. Shame that Bodies gets all the attention it's far from the best song on the album.
You are the only one believing these other songs are hits.....bodies is all they are known for.
Drowning Pool fucking sucks. Even from a nu-metal perspective
Shannon and Blind Melon deserved so much better :( that band was really something special
Like when Shannon pissed on the crowd during a concert in Vancouver BC? Yup. Real special.
Geoff G well an ordinary person certainly wouldn’t do it!
i desperately urge everyone here to listen to Blind Melon and Hum, all of their albums are amazing.
Some Hum songs are fine but the singer's voice just doesn't work, Blind melon on the other hand its pretty good
@@DemRise1999 true hum is more for like consistent sound, he doesnt get intense often
@@DemRise1999 the way his voice sits under the wall of sound created by the guitars is very shoe gaze esque and is really what makes it for me
@@tupu_683I can only think of two intense Hum vocal performances. All of Green To Me and the end of The Pod are great.
Someone tell Todd in the Shadows!
He's already done 4 of the songs featured here (Turning Japanese, Closing Time, Smooth Criminal, and the one that sounds like rock and/or roll)
That just means there are 11 songs here that are in a similar lane to his previous work. Maybe only 9, Stars and Bodies might be too heavy
Dang... might as well have called this "Awesome Songs from the 1990s"
Or Triple M's weekly songs on regular rotation.
to be fair, the 90's were really the end of the non-manufactured era. now hits are all computer assisted and pressed through a formula to ensure a hook that will catch on to the masses.
Yeah a few representations. But man, especially the early 90's was a great time for great music.
@Agent J Really? The 90s were the decade where talent was everything. Notice how bands from the 90s focused more on music rather than their outfits and dance moves. The music was the #1 priority for most bands. Stage performance was secondary.
Play that Funky Music by Wild Cherry. Best one hit wonder in the history of rock.
I think you mean 'play that funky music Rammstein' your'e welcome ; )
Rammstein definitely not a one hit wonder band lol
Zack Zallie before you get all salty in here ... just search for “play that funky music rammstein”
Thats disco
@@jeffotto4572 But there was a dope guitar solo in there
1:17 The sound quality on this clip is fantastic i love it so much
Drowning pool were more of a "one album wonder"
Kind of had to do with their singer dying shortly after the release of 'Sinner'.
I got to see them open for Sevendust before Dave died. Epic show.
Exactly! If their first singer hadn't died i bet they could have done more
Lit, blind melon, and alien ant farm were not "one hit wonders"
neither are semisonic..I mean theyre not huge, but they definitly had 3 or 4 radio hits
alien ant farm kinda were imo
Then why can nobody name more than one song from any of them? Sure, they all had fans that can name a bunch of songs. But that isn't the same as a hit.
@@johnterpack3940 Blind melon still had the hit Galaxy, ranked 25th on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks andt 8th on the Billboard Alternative Songs, dont know if this counts as breaking the 40ish mark on mainstream.
@@mottyreinsch4754 As much as I love Blind Melon, I think they do qualify as a one-hit-wonder unfortunately. The vast majority of people only know No Rain.
Kix is actually a really great band. They only had one "hit" in Don't Close Your Eyes but they have like 10 songs I can think of right off hand that are really good.
If you are from Baltimore or any where you could pick up 98 Rock on your radio Kix were not one hit wonders.
Kix definitely weren't One Hit Wonders.
Sure "Don't Close Your Eyes" was there most successful song but they had a lot of other hits and had tons of videos on MTV.
They even had "Cold Chills" on the soundtrack to a popular movie, Wayne's World.
I guess it's all in the nomenclature of what a hit is actually considered. It was the only track that made it into the overall charts I guess
Kix kix ass still
Exactly. I can think of at least 10 great hit songs
I'm missing Headstrong by Trapt.
That would have been here if they made the list a year later
Well they also have Still Frame, sooo.....
@@anthonysasade6081 yeah but most people are still just gonna know them as the guys that made headstrong, and sadly that's that.
God.Ihate that song!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 still a relevant comment
Ram jam
Absolutely!
Woah Black Betty woah whoaahdjlcnhlfl bqlgbqbgl
black betty is garbage but okay
Quite possibly wrote one of the most memorable songs ever
Continual Doggo They Didn't Write It
_4 Non Blondes - What's up_ ??
I would concider them as alternative music honestly
horrible song
They were One He-Man Wonder.
MIZORAM - Mafaka Hnamte just ask he man
It is a good song and way better than 13 of these 15 songs.
Drowning pool wasn't a one it wonder nor was alien ant farm
Yeah AAF was around for a while. I wasnt a huge fan but I can at least remember Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo aka F.U.C.K.
IDiggPattyMayonnaise Can't tell if you're joking but that was Bloodhound Gang.
Yeah those two don't belong on this list
Neither was Blind Melon, most people just don’t explore after “no rain” but their singer died from a cocaine overdose on tour so they also had their careers cut incredibly short!
Now most people just know that single, but it wasn’t their only single or hit even! Listen to Galaxie! It’s even better!
Was about to say the same thing !!
KIX was a great band in the 80s that never got quite the attention they deserved
Exactly
Exactly
They had many great songs.
I'm going to puke.
True. I got that particular album (blow my fuse) because I found them on google suggestions for probably AC/DC or something. I read a couple words on them and thought yeah sounds like your kinda music but didn’t expect much cuz I hadn’t really heard about them at the time. In all honesty that album is now one of my favorite albums, at least of 80s hard rock / heavy metal / glam metal type music.
Don’t consider them a 1 hit wonder either to be honest. I don’t think Don‘t close your eyes is a huge deal and then again other songs like Blow my Fuse and Cold blood (which is one of my absolute favorite songs) aren’t too far behind in my opinion. I would totally agree with you, they’re really underrated.
Where's Headstrong by Trapt
It says "Greatest" one hit wonders
they also had the song "Still frame" that was pretty popular
Whole first album is fire.
Yeah. And "contagious" too
Like, I'm On My Fifth Elbow, Trapt has had more than just "Headstrong". Let's not forget about "Echo", and, as Paul Carson mentioned, they've also had the song "Still Frame" that were also big hits
Blind Melon - A one hit wonder with an MTV unplugged special!!!!! I think Toes across is the floor is their best video and such a good song
i love all their stuff that i hear. its really too bad they didnt continue their success.
@@FOFballer Of course they didn't continue their success, the singer and lead songwriter died.
My favourite is Galaxie
RIP Shannon 😢❤️
So disrespectful to put them on this list I was in shock, RIP Shannon blind was was unbelievable
It's fucking stupid to call them one hit wonders, too. Like Jesus, Shannon's discography is so huge and new songs surface all the time. No Rain wasn't the only one they had commercial success with, either. I've yet to find a bad one.
I'm a *no* hit wonder 😰😰😭😭
We all know. You have to have a hit first.
You and me both, brother.
I'm a no hope wonder.
Theres a reason for that
Hahaha!! Loser
3:59 how ur mom looks at you when you come home at 4 am and tell her you were just out with friends
Also, Lit wasn't a one-hit wonder. They had 3 hits (My Own Worst Enemy, Zip-Lock and Miserable).
And Miserable was actually the most popular of the three songs. It had the video with Pamela Anderson and was one of the top-10 most played songs of the year 2000. And the album went platinum.
Annnnnnd Alien Ant Farm's biggest hit was "Movies." Not Smooth Criminal. And again, not a one-hit wonder if they had two hits.
AAT also had Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo (or FUCK)
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise that was bloodhound gang
actually, as played as it was, in terms of the hot 100, miserable went to the 'bubbling under' portion of the charts, #117. zip-lock failed to chart, my own worst enemy went to #51, so there is some legitimacy to that one.
alien ant farm only made the hot 100/top 40 once in the mainstream, which is where this list is going, only making the hot 100 once or top 40 pop charts once. movies, albeit a played song on mainstream and modern rock charts and stations everywhere, didn't even cross over to the pop charts, hence why smooth criminal is on there.
Movies was not bigger than smooth criminal lol
I have to disagree there - Movies was a much smaller hit.
If you’ve never listened to the entire Blind Melon album, I feels bad for you bro!
Erm, they had 3 records but sure.
Chris Welburn how many do you have?
@@kurtisbased183 all of them of course!
Chris Welburn I was referencing the album shown in this list.
Chris Welburn they’re first album was called blind melon man
Hum, along with Local H (I was waiting to see Bound For The Floor pop up at any point on the list) are the most CRIMINALLY underrated bands to come out the 90s alt wave.
Hum is one of the best bands of the 90s, personally my favroite
So is Marcy Playground, Blind Melon , the Toadies and The Vapours imo, jorge (even tho the Vapours are from the 80s
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Hum fucking rip
Toadies released an amazing album. The whole thing is a masterpiece
Marcy Playground is actually amazing....I mean sure they only had one true hit but they were definitely legit as musicians
Two hits from what I remember. I don't recall the name of the song, something about the lion on the prowl
Two ton boa.
I hated Marcy Playground- two bit Nirvana imitators
@@danmseattle975 They came from the same scene in Olympia WA. He was with Two ton boa first, good stuff.
@@danmseattle975 they were nothing like nirvana. And didn't try to be. Idiot
Kix was not a one hit wonder in my opinion , they’re still really good to this day , they deserved more fame for most of their songs
I L L Y W I L L Y whether they deserve more coverage or not does not make them not a one hit wonder
the out of tune drum set They are definitely not a one hit wonder
They had at least 2 songs that did well. Cold Blood was another track that was popular on MTV's rotation
@@chriswheatley3146 Cold Blood and Girl Money both got a lot of time on MTV.
man, blind melon may have never had such big numbers but they're one of the greatest bands from the 90s
absolutely agree.. not a one hit wonder
Ikr I mean tones of home mouth full of cavities they made some of my favorite songs from that era
@@smokedogg19821 totally man, it was my first song of theirs and it changed a bit of my music taste
No Rain was their only song on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
@@ladydontekno it was but we're talking about musical quality here man, not numbers
1:17 hum is such a massively underrated band and the whole you’d prefer an astronaut album is amazing
Hum is actually good, wouldn't call them a one hit wonder.
They're definitely great but Stars really was their only 'hit' song and even then it wasn't that big
I would say hum didn't really have any hits.
About three singles, sure. But hits, no.
Toadies are criminally underrated.
Agreed
I still listen to them all the time. So good!
I burn is definitely my favorite toadies song.
I found the Blind Melon album at Goodwill like 2 years ago, thinking, "I remember that song and I loved it." Then, to my surprise the whole album is amazing and was the only CD in my car for quite a while. Great road trip album. RIP Shannon Hoon
Bruh that whole Toadies album kicked ass man. They had some good shit.
And didn't alien ant farm have a hit with "movies"? You're giving a cover song hit status and not the original?
Movies, attitude, these days, and smooth criminal were all top ten on billboard, and all from the same album.
Matt Barker no, Alien Ant Farm never had a top ten hit, at least not on the hot 100 chart. Smooth Criminal was a Billboard Modern Rock #1, but was only #23 on the Hot 100. Movies was # 18 on Modern Rock and These Days was #29, but they didn’t chart on the Hot 100.
No one:
Not a single person:
No one on Earth:
Chumbawumba: I GET KNOCKED DOWN
I fucking love that song, but I wouldn't consider it rock.
chumbawamba was a seriously respected punk outfit in the UK in the 1980s. Tubthumbing was released closer to the end of their career.
Well, that was.. boring..
Time to switch to hip hop
Possum Kingdom by the Toadies has to be the greatest one hit wonder in rock history
Toadies are EXTREMELY underrated ESPECIALLY rubberneck that album is amazing, and there follow up album Heaven Above Stars Below was even better in my Opinion!!!
Go listen to the whole album that song is on (Rubberneck), it's a banger. I had the CD as a kid and me and my cousin listened to it all the time.
Tyler and I come from the water got airplay also
HUM became one of my favorite bands because of this list.
Dude the exact same thing happened with me
I was hoping Hum would make the list, too many people don't know who they are.
Classic band. Downward Is Heavenward is an absolute classic
@@floodstreet2961same here!
hum is one of the MOST overlooked bands of all time.
You can thank MTV for that BS. Those guys didn't look the part...sad shit
right music, wrong time. Right after the grunge boom ended
Quicksand and Soulhat
I love HUM
Crash Test Dummies?? They were a hit machine up here in Canada. Also, "Peter Pumpkinhead" was a big song on the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack.
yeah CTD were all over british rock magazines too.
Fuckin love Crash Test Dummies! Bought a few of their albums - really great songs. They were pretty big in Britain
They always get in these lists cause everyone forgets that they had a hit prior to the humming song, Superman’s Song. Stateside.
The Salty Seaman quite right! Afternoons and coffee spoons..... mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm....... ballad of peter pumpkin head...... all brilliant songs (and hits - at least in the uk!)
@@TheSaltySeamanlove your channel, Bro!
Fountains of Wayne. RIP. :(
Drowing Pool one song band? i dont think
Not one song, but One-hit wonder, that's a different thing
That song was released around the time of 9/11. Kinda killed that band in my opinion.
@@thomass.6232 I'm pretty sure their lead singer dying killed that band.
Hilltop Slim 614 Tear Away
@Hilltop Slim 614 Just watch The One with Jet Li, there was like 4 of their songs in there
What? Blind Melon is a good band with loads of solid songs.
Also lit. Lit and blind melon deserves more.
calling a band a one hit wonder just means they had one song that was a huge success, doesnt mean that the rest of their songs suck
Y’all really didn’t include hocus pocus by focus
Wedge Of Lettuce focus has had much other hits, but the song had only become popular recently because of the release of “baby driver” which featured the song
Yodel rock!
Sylvia was also a hit by focus
The fact that the Darkness with I Believe In A Thing Called Love isn't on here, is a crime.
The fact that the reason it's not on here is that they had other hits is the greater crime.
A few of these bands have more than one song thats big
austin mull “1 hit wonders” usually have 3 big ish songs. The song that they’re a 1 hit for, then the other song when they’re riding the other song, and then usually a single from the next album they do where they try and rekindle their popularity from the 1 hit that usually flops and the band drops off the map
@@TheBigfootsfeet kix had big songs all huge ones off the blow my fuse album. Dont close your eyes. Blow my fuse. And cold blood all went top 10.
Cult of personality, Living Colour
Living colour also had love rears it's ugly head.
@@davemarriott985 That song was big in Australia back in the day.
Cm punk
Auslander did alright as well.
living colour is a terribly underrated band which had even better songs in their following album, time's up.
Saying blind melon is a one hit wonder is just plain wrong
What song other than no rain did they have a hit with? They're a great band yes but still only have 1 song most people have heard of!
This video was actually the first time I heard about them. I guess they were no big in Finland. One hit wonder doesn't mean bad. It is one more than Slayer or Anthrax.
Did they do one about ed gein?
@Carl Skinned.
Are any of their other many hits any better than "No Rain"?
I think we're all forgetting the greatest of one-hit wonders, "Fire" by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. That song nearly beat "Hey Jude" to #1, but you don't hear anything else from Brown or his band.
Alien Ant Farm have way better songs than Smooth Criminal
Plus it's not even their song...they got famous off of Michael Jackson's sloppy seconds. Macaulay Culkin? O_o
Wish or these days for exemple
If the main song people know you for is a cover...YOU HAVE FUCKED UP
Wish is probably their best song
But those songs weren't hits
Spacehog had mungo city??
AAF had Movies???
Blind melon is such an underrated band.
"Movies" is an awesome song, but it wasn't necessarily a hit.
I actually feel kind of bad for Blind Melon. Someone made me sit down and listen to their album back in the day and I realized that the song they're famous for is probably their worst one.
I thought "I want to live" did better, or at least got more attention, than "Mungo City".
I'm realizing now I've heard these songs, never knew what any of them looked like. Also cool that you showed the live versions, they all are amazing live too!
So happy to see Hum getting some attention
This entire list is pretty much Al Yankovic's "Angry White Boy Polka"
Crash test dummies a one hit wonder? I didn’t know that, their semi popular in Canada but I thought Superman’s song was a hit in the states
it is.. Crash Test Dummies weren't the only fallacy in the list.. Drowning Pool would be another one, Iron Butterfly and Alien Ant Farm are others. This is What happens when someone puts up a video and does no homework beforehand.
They're
Superman’s Song was the b-side to Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm in the US, it wasn’t its own single.
Yes I owned the single, that’s how I remember 😂
Most of them are Alternative!
Still rock
Alternative......rock
When I saw that blind melon was a one hit wonder, I lost a lot of respect for loudwire