ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Missing" by Everything But the Girl
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- A long look at the career of Everything But the Girl, the band that missed you like the deserts missed the rain and then vanished into the shifting sands. Or did they??
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If you wanna know how powerful the line "I miss you like the deserts miss the rain" is, the video clip for this song is titled something like "Missing by Everything but the Girl" and it has 6 million views. Meanwhile a video of only a desert with this song playing in the background titled "I miss you like the deserts miss the rain" has 22 million views.
😂😂😂
Yet the comments seem to be taken over by Andrew Tate's ilk. Sad
Between this song and I Took A Pill In Ibiza, I think we’ve proven that the correct use of a dance beat can make a song infinitely sadder than an acoustic guitar ever could.
Yep there’s something instantly enjoyable about a song when the instruments and lyrics are contrasting. It’s one of my favorite things in music honestly.
You could say that, but the only people who know I Took A Pill In Ibiza exists are subscribed to this channel.
Jack Casey Yes, I agree, it is quite sad. Quite sad indeed.
I’d add I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man by Prince to that list - after Todd mentioned it in the OHW on Jordan Knight I couldn’t stop thinking about it
@@SaltpeterTaffy I've lived in Spain throughout Posner's career and that song was on the radio all the time to the point of overplay.
Fun fact: The band's "failed follow up" album, Walking Wounded, is one of the entries in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" (along with their 1988 album Idlewild).
Walking Wounded is so good.
After watching this episode, I learned that my mom loves Everything But the Girl and I've had like six of their cds in my house for pretty much my entire life. Who woulda thunk it?
Thats a happy house :)
My 23 yo daughter probably knows the words to every single #EBTG song - because I had all their CDs growing up. I'm a real Anglophile when it comes to music.
Fun fact: Everything but the Girl's album "Baby, The Stars Shine Bright" became the name of a Japanese fashion brand because the founders loved them so much.
everything but the girl IS a fashion store
"Baby come home" was my break-up song from that album. Haunting and beautiful song. I found them because of the store.
I cannot believe my two interests of niche music and Japanese fashion just overlapped like that
@@BreadisHere and I didn't expect to be making one, but here we are
is that, or is it not, worthy of an application of the "Big in Japan" button? 🤔
Heads-up: this band just announced that they're reuniting and will be releasing their first album in 24 years this spring! This video is a fun refresher once I saw that bit of news!
Hopefully Ben's rare illness doesnt stop him from doing it
The newest album, “Fuse” will be released April 21, and I will buy a physical copy just to vindicate this band. ❤
Theyre new singles are fire 🔥
@@MinnakRajala Hell yeah they are!
They sure do sound a little different than usual now: ruclips.net/video/lo9b4buZCNo/видео.html
I miss you like the shadows missed the Todd
Did Lindsay Ellis say this?
every time todd uses "techno" as a catch-all for electronic music i cry
He could say disco
Thank you Mr Cash.
🤦♂️🤦♂️ fr
In that same vein how often have you used , say metal, to cover all hard rock ? Do you know the diff between jump blues and jazz ? Not everyone is up on every genre of musics many variations and names. And techno honestly for 90s kids is exactly what we called electronic music so give him a break
@@jry3270 Oh yeah we shouldn't expect a fucking music critic to know a thing or two about music lol.
"A biome of sheer misery" would be a great name for an album.
I've been an EBTG fan since the beginning. And yes, they deserve more credit and success. They are both excellent musicians. Tracy is a wonderful writer - she's published 3 books and writes a bi-weekly column in the UK. Ben is still making music and touring as a solo artist. They actually have 3 kids and are still married. Thanks for this! And thanks for seeing their greatness.
they will be making a new album soon! so excited
Question for the fan...did you like the House remix of Miss You or did you think it was kind of selling out
Everytime someone calls Teardrop by Massive Attack "the House theme" my heart breaks a little.
Microtransaction Jones Teardrop's not even the best song off Mezzanine either.
Agreed, it was the song that got me to get the album though. Best album of theirs, I reckon. Consistently good. Favourite song off it's probably Group Four, it's just got this filthy sound to it that I love as the pretty vocals weave in and out, although the title track grew on me a lot too.
Actually going off the beaten path a bit, my favourite's probably one of the b-sides off it, Euro Zero Zero. Has such a flow to it, and that bassline. Just, such a track.
I knew that song before I ever saw the show.
Michelle Sloney I didn't even know it was a theme song to a TV show when I first got into Massive Attack, as I didn't watch House in it's original run.
I didn't actually know it was the theme tune to House until I went to this comment section. Went right over my head during my watch of the video.
As a resident of Bristol, I feel naturally defensive of Massive Attack.
Remixes that become bigger hits than the original song always fascinate me. It shows that a producer/dj that actually puts thought into flipping a song can do good things with it.
Todd used “Show Me Love” as one of his examples for uninteresting 90s dance music in the “What Is Love” video, but I’d still love for him to do an episode on it so he can see what a miracle Stonebridge worked on the original Robin S. song.
Sometimes it confuses me, though. For example, the original version of the sound of silence is a much more evocative piece than the version that actually became a hit. The other version of the song certainly isn't bad -- it has a nice driving feel to it --, but it just doesn't feel quite as reflective of the song's intent to me.
It ~is~ kind of funny that the label hired the entirety of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” rhythm section to record it behind Simon & Garfunkel’s back though.
Even today, it's so strange to see that happen. Especially with what Seeb (still sounds like an ethnic slur) did with "I Took A Pill In Ibiza". He took a boring Mike Posner with an acoustic guitar song, and brought out all of the darkness, sorrow, and emptiness in it.
I was talking about this topic with a friend recently. You'd be surprised the comebacks some bands had due to a little refix. For example, James had a minor hit with 'Sit Down' back in 92, but it rocketed into the top 5 in 98' when it was remixed by Apollo 440. Fatboy Slim was a genius as well, giving acts like Cornershop, Groove Armada and even Jim Noir hits just by tweeking the style a little. :)
"Everything But the Girl" is up there with "Living in a Box" for best band name you've covered
Everything But The Box
Personally, I'm still really fond of The Spice Girls as a band name (not as a band, but as a name).
There are quite a few bands with great (read: weird) names. To name just a few of my personal favourite examples -
Blancmange
Mental as anything
The Smiths (Actually a terrific band, too)
The Nosebleeds
Joy division (again, they made good music as well)
He also has now covered "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" which is a forever awesome band name imho.
This is one of my mum's favourite songs. I've heard it probably somewhere in the region of 47,000 times, and only *NOW* do I learn that the line is "Like the deserts miss the rain" and not "Like a desert's mystery."
Same
I thought the line goes "Like the deserts miss terrain", and now I'm slightly disappointed, since they also miss stable surface characteristics but that's the less obvious one.
@@Matrim42 Same same
Same!!!
I sometimes think about the story in this song since you really don't get any answers. "Low key, and haunting and fucking heartbreaking." 100% agreed.
You know, after so many underappreciated bands on this show as of late, can we finally get one that's totally, completely and entirely deserving of having be relegated to one-hit wonderland?
So, do Dog Police.
+1 but I can't afford a Patreon request. Someone, PLEASE request this. You won't be dissatisfied. The glorious story involves jazz, early adam sandler, and crazy early MTV videos.
That was new to me, thanks. Or not.
The entire Dog Police album is available for streaming and it absolutely - perhaps improbably - lives up to the expectations set by that video.
mipmipmipmip he did mention it for the "Mexican Radio" review he did, and Todd stressed he would never review it.
Comon' guys, prove him a liar. We can do it!
Was Dog Police a hit tho
Everything But The Girl will still remain one of the worlds most underrated bands
"A biome of sheer misery" is the title of Todd's greatest hits album
Tracey has such a magnificent voice. She reminds me a lot of the R&B singer Sade.
I legitimately thought this was a Sade song.
The thing I love is that she's got a range of like, 3 notes, but christ that doesn't get in the way of its effect
There is no mention in this video of Tracey's wildly creative re-make of Pet Shop Boys' "King's Cross". Smoke a joint before you listen; she enlisted one very creative keyboard player and damned if it didn't work great!
Same producer
It's taken me years to realise just how good she is.
...And today, January 10, 2023 they've released their first new song in 24 years with an album also on the way. Go check it out NOW
Honestly, I feel like exploring this band's pre-hit records right now. What Todd put in this video sounds damn good.
I've been a fan since "Driving" and I can assure you their catalog is a garden of sonic delights. Thorn's solo work as well as guest spots with Massive Attack are also fabulous.
They indeed sound very nice. Already listened to some.
'On My Mind' and 'Night and Day' have become new favorite songs of mine since this episode.
I think of all the bands/artists listed on OHW this has to be the longest anyone had to wait for their one hit. Somehow that just makes me feel like they earned it more. They weren't a bad that peaked with their first album then couldn't follow it up; it took them 14 years! That's just amazing to me and of any band on here, when Todd asks "Did they deserve more?" I'm the most enthusiastic about saying "yes" because of that.
'Each and Every One' is great, too.
Tracey has barely aged.
Missing is such an identifiable song from the 90s. Their other music has really been slept on. It's really quite good. I didn't realise the extent of their music catalogue.
Arizona resident here. "Biome of sheer misery" is accurate AF
I had never heard of these two before but I respect the hell out of them now. They definitely deserved better, and I think it's pretty cool that they decided to take a step back to focus more on raising their kids.
I just noticed after watching Todd for years that he's reading the script for the video on that piece of paper.
There was one other big trip-hop crossover in the United States that actually reminds me a lot of Tracey Thorne. That being Dido.
You all remember Dido, right? Most people probably only know her for singing the song that Eminem sampled for "Stan", recontextualizing what was originally a mellow, tribal, folk-y love song into... well, "Stan". But she actually had a couple of hits in the early 2000s after that. While she's not a trip-hop artist, she was heavily involved in that scene, doing vocals for the act Faithless (a group her brother is part of), and her own music is heavily influenced by trip-hop and electronica.
She's a great artist if you're into more mellow, female singer-songwriter-y music with a more electronic flare to it. Even though she's not a one-hit wonder (she had two charting hits, "Thank You" and "White Flag"), I would love for Todd to cover Dido on this show at some point. I brought her up simply because Tracey Thorne's voice and overall vibe reminds me so much of Dido.
I love Dido. It kinda makes me sad that she's an artist deserving of the question, "You all remember Dido, right?" because guaranteed there's a bunch of folks who read that and thought, "Nope."
Jennifer Nichole - She's one of my favorites. Sadly, she doesn't put out music nearly enough. Her last release was in 2013, which was her first album since 2008, which came right after another five-year hiatus.
I think we're due for another Dido album pretty soon. At least I hope so.
It's strange that no one remembers her, because her first two albums were hugely successful and she's highly respected in the U.K.
I still listen to White Flag. I think it's an amazing song one of my favorites from the 2000's.
I never heard of her thanks for mentioning it! I've gotten into trip hop and other similar sounding genres lately for the past year and I'm trying to find as many artist as I can to build a collection of.
SinPunisher oh goody! If you enjoy trip hop, you might enjoy Massive Attack for more cult fanbase aesthetically darker stuff, and on the lighter mood mainstream romance stuff, give Sade a go.
She even looks like a female mix of Robert Smith and Morrissey.
Her in the 80s: Girl George.
She is the definition of butterface
Funny, I thought Tracey was more "Awkwardly Cute" to me.....
@@B3Band How? She's too thin to be a butterface.
Todd and uploading at ungodly hours name a more dynamic duo
mattk101600 depends on where you live but his name is in the shadows after all
It's called different time zones
He lives on the east coast of the US. That means he uploaded this at around 1am or 2am.
Sid and Nancy
*inhales...* - You know what? Too easy
and here we are, there’s a new single
Todd, ever thought about doing a One Hit Genreland? Indepth video on a particular niche genre ?
is there one song that made a genre chart, and it only being that song?
I mean, OHW goes the entire spectrum so find some anomaly song that broke through like mummers dance.
Check out Deep Cuts.
At some point, back when the OHW commissions were cheaper, I seriously considered paying to request an episode about that song, so, whoever asked for this, THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES
Yes, Shadow Father
Darkness Daddy
I'm surprised how many people here say they don't remember this song from back then. Todd might be under-selling it, this song was absolutely huge. I lived through the '90s, I was there, this song played regularly on the radio for what seemed like years. Hell, it was on the charts so long I swore somebody else like Mariah Carey must've recorded a cover version and that somehow might've charted. Obviously looking that up now, apparently that didn't happen, but it sure seemed like it had. I wasn't complaining, it's a great song, but this was huge.
David Baruffi: 1. Too many young kids on here who don't remember the music scene around 1995. 2. Things might have been different in the US than in the rest of the world.
Possibly.
+Denise Nova Way to make me feel old lol but pop music reviews have a way of doing that these days. I used to feel old for remembering a time before the internet, now I feel old for remembering a time before Pokemon.
To be fair, I literally do not think I ever heard One Sweet Day, which was apparently the biggest #1 hit ever until Old Town Road, so I can definitely believe someone did not hear this.
@@troodon1096 Remembering the Pokémon rollout in the US is so surreal in retrospect.
Their upbeat singles still sound heartbreakingly sad to me. I think it’s just the girl’s sultry voice
Tracey Thorn's voice is the sound of a heart breaking.
Kind of sad Todd glossed over the two collaborations she had that were hits - Protection by Massive Attack and The Future of the Future (Stay Gold) by Deep Dish. Both great songs that are well worth checking out.
Stormo Plays Games: He mentioned the "Protection" collab with Massive Attack.
As a Brit, I can safely say I have never heard of "One sweet day," and that Missing is a jam x
Hard same.
Driving. Driving will always be my quintessential EBTG song.
The deserts miss the rain, but I'm only happy when it rains.
Naveek Darkroom Everything But The Garbage
Sounds like the name of a cover band.
I'm only happy when it's complicated.
And though I know you can't appreciate it
But she only sleeps when it’s raining.
I think Todd has missed an example of trip-hop in the US charts, ironically involving an artist he references in the video. That's the 1990 DNA remix of Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner. It was an unauthorised re-mix, but Suzanne being the lovely person she is, agreed to it being released and it turned out to be a hugely successful one too and got, I believe, to #5 in the US charts and hit the top of a number of national charts.
So taken was Suzanne with it, that when I saw her performing at the Cornbury Festival in Oxfordshire about 15 years ago, she made a particular point of playing that version. By a complete coincidence, I retired to the area and now live only about a mile from where that festival was held.
DNA (not to be confused with the US band) were from Bath, just down the road from Bristol from whence Massive Attack originates.
Nb. On the subject of Massive Attack, the music video clip of Tracey walking down the street can't help but remind me of the epic 5 minute 21 second single take tracking shot video of vocalist Shara Nelson in the music video for the song.
Got here while it still had the “OHW Missing” temp title
Champiness mood
Ikr I thought he had lost the files or something
I always thought the series was abbreviated as "OHWL". My life is a lie!
Her vocals on massive attacks protection are as beautiful as her vocals in missing.
Come on now Todd, if they are happily married with two kids, they're still living well on their music careers, and they still enjoy making music, I'd say they succeeded very well. Becoming more famous would have started interfering with their family life, and if that's more important to them, I'd say that's a great decision.
This is a pop music review channel and thus asks about the question about success in that venue. Though I'm kind of reminded of the OHW on Butthole Surfers in that, they didn't get more because they didn't want more. They did what they wanted to do and presumably are still doing it, and that's a good measure of success beyond how their songs chart.
there are 2 kinds of one-hit wonders, those who disappear from music altogether and those who use their success to continue making music indefinitely... EBTG is one of the best examples of the latter. Their material is consistently brilliant, even if it lacks a wide audience.
There's two autobiographies from Tracy Thorn now, one focusing on singing and one on her whole life, and she writes regular columns for newspapers, and the way she tells it is a beautiful story of someone who's done music on her own terms for her whole life. Having read them (and I really recommend them), there's a really fun extra thing I can add: before Everything But The Girl, while still at school, she and another schoolgirl formed The Marine Girls and recorded in their shed. Their album Beach Party "was named as one of Kurt Cobain's 50 favourite albums in his diaries."
When she met Ben Watt and started Everything But The Girl, they had their first success while she was still at university.
I do love the dark joke of "could you be dead? you always were two steps ahead"
but I never liked EBTG as much as Tracey Thorn's solo stuff (or even the Marine Girls, now I've actually heard them, they really were pretty great.)
@@storageheater Wow, that's so interesting! It seems like she's lived an incredibly fascinating life, and had done everything that's she's wanted in her career on her own terms. I'll need to check out her autobiography books. I'm a sucker for a good rock bio/doc. 🙂
@@willritter4076 Well, there's a _third_ kind of OHW... *looks nervously at the Laffy Taffy/D4L episode*
"Trip hop's one quasi-hit over here in America"
(Stares in Sour Times)
Assuming you refer to Portishead's song from Dummy: I checked, and apparently it reached #53 on the Billboard 100. Surprisingly, Glory Box, their biggest hit in Europe, didn't chart.
>if they were known to be an item, indie scene would have eaten that up because it's so starved for gossip.
I think that right there is the reason. Any other scene, they may have been comfortable being forthcoming about it because by the sounds of it, their relationship is exceedingly stable and that wouldn't get much hype in a scene where there's plenty of juicy gossip. But a scene that's full of people just ITCHING to have SOMETHING to gossip about? That would have been awful for them.
Based on how mindlessly obsessed people are for celebrity gossip I actually respect those that decide to keep their private lives private. It's probably exactly why their relationship lasted (and still is lasting as far as I know) so long.
I'm kind of late for that, but I remember reading interviews with a bunch of different British musicians about the indie scene. It seems to be quite toxic in a lot of ways.
So, it would make sense for Tracey and Ben to keep their private life... well, private. Especially when they had kids.
I feel like I’ve fallen into an alternate universe. First of all I thought I’d seen every one hit wonderland but I haven’t seen this one, but also I’ve never heard or heard of this song, or any song he mentions in the entire video, including One Sweet Day which is apparently the biggest billboard hit of all time.
"Biggest Billboard hit" is used in this video to mean "longest run at #1 in Billboard history". Which was true at the time (the song has since been dethroned by Old Town Road). In fact, One Sweet Day wasn't even the biggest hit of its chart year, 1996. It made it to #2 on the year-end, behind another One Hit Wonderland alumnus, Macarena.
Is it weird that The Cranberries almost seem like what this band would've been if they'd have actually gotten successful a lot sooner than they had? Like the '80's era of this band, for some reason, kinda reminds me of what The Cranberries turned out to be or something.
trc2rockon yah these guys seem like a more soft-spoken, low-key Cranberries. In fact that's probably the reason for their lack of success, they just aren't celebirty-type people. They seem reserved, soft-spoken, and thoughtful; good qualities for making good music, but just a bit too low energy to become big hitters in the industry. They got their one hit and they were happy enough with it to limit their future taking off by having kids, so I say good for them
No...the Cranberries actually had talent ....
And Dolores was a stunner
I'm 33 years old, and today I found out that the lyrics are not "like a desert's mystery."
same
@@arrowfitzgibbon7775 Oh good. I'm not the only one.
Mayonnaise Jane ha! I just wrote something similar before I decided to check what other people said!
I thought it was something like “the dessert’s mr. rain”
I used to think that when I was young too! I used to HATE this song when I was young and I think it's cos of the lyric I heard but wasn't there.
Funny thing, I have literally never heard of "One sweet day". And I was in high school at the time. Wild. "Missing" I've heard about a million times, and I certainly remember when it hit.
In 2015, my girlfriend was telling a story about buying a CD as a teenager, and discovering the single she wanted on that album sounded nothing like it sounded on the radio. She hadn't said what song or what band. I just said, "Missing". She was surprised that I nailed it. I worked for a radio station that played the album version for no apparent reason. I think the program director didn't know the difference.
The other options would have been Jewel or (unlikely) The Verve Pipe
I always heard that the name was because they played jazz and bossa nova but they didn't like to play the girl from Ipanema,so they played everything but the girl.
Paholala that actually makes a lot of sense
By the Nine Hells...
I forgot all about this song until now. I missed it. Like the dessert misses the rain.
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
Ok, this remix is NOT techno and NOT trip-hop. This is a straight up deep house remix
Your mom is a deep house remix.
Your Mom? I don't remember that one. How does that go?
You would think at some point while he was furiously copying down bullet points from the Wikipedia article he would glance over to the right side of the screen and jot down the genre name.
pointPi it’s just House not deep house.
Like Metal. Techno subgenres are just points to bicker over for those who are in one group that care way too much about whether their subgenre is or isn't another variation of subgenre. Techno, house, trance, euro dance, trip-hop, electronica, sophisti-pop. Just arguments in minutiae. Designed for Internet music nerds to argue over.
This was a formative track in my life at a time when I was trying to figure out my relationship with music. Thank you EBTG.
Ugh, typical mainstream songs telling deserts that they need rain to lead a fulfilling life.
I am a strong, independent desert who don't need no rain! Also rattlesnakes suck.
Lol, I did not expect to find so many people white-knighting for deserts in this comment section.
Ohh we got a hipster desert 🌵 here with us today folks... you probably missing the rain before it was cool 😎😜
I don't know. I'd rather white castle for dessert than white knight. You can go farther.
Though maybe if I went white queen, I'd find out more about the dessert's insides and ingredients and details you couldn't see just by looking at it. Or maybe just look a little harder, when you really think about it.
Is it possible to link a Deadpool reference here?
For those wondering: Tracey Thorn does have a Twitter now, and she occasionally tweets about doing things with Ben. So I'm about... 90%? sure they're still together.
They're still together. ❤
Their album "Walking wounded" is one of my favorite albums of all time
Todd, long time fan. Thanks so much for covering Everything but the Girl. If you like Tracey Thorn, you should check out her appearance on Style Council's first album. The song is called "The Paris Match" and is a definite highlight on probably one of the most underrated albums Paul Weller ever made!
Yes!! "The Paris Match" was also my introduction to Tracey Thorn's gorgeous voice.
It's even sadder when you realize that a desert used to be an ocean, full of life.
They're a one-hit wonder in the mainstream but not at all in the house/dance/electronica scene. HIGHLY recommend you check out their entire discography. They are criminally underrated.
“OHW Missing” Hah! You may have fixed the title by the time I saw this but my notifications show the truth
Lol are you tue guy from the shy videos, you are everywhere.
I just found this one hit wonderland, which genuinely surprised me. They are my dad's favourite band and I grew up listening to Tracy Thorn's singing. For some reason I always assumed they were a really big band of the 80's and 90's, not just a "one hit wonder".Thanks for covering this one, I can't wait to show my dad. I know he'll love this.
"The British are terrible at hip hop"
I have a call from Stormzy on line three, Todd.
I'd love to see Todd's reaction to Dave's "Black"
Is it rude to make a 21 Savage comparison too?
None of those named mentioned are even hip hop 🤦🏼
@@elgee nor are they good either
Streets is pretty good, too, though not sure if he would be seen as traditionally skilled enough. But yeah Stormzy is great
This is probably my favorite episode of OHW. I only knew them for that one song but now they're one of my favorite bands. It's something about their sounds that cools out my anxiety riddled mind. Thanks Todd.
Always ready for you Todd. Even though its 12:37am
Barren, is how I'd describe this song, really evokes longing, loneliness and the passing of time without an ounce of schmaltz! ...That long extended remix is amazing!
When Todd said that "Missing" was trip-hop's only entry into America I was about to rush to type "Not Teardrop???!" But then he said "The House theme". OK. I kinda thought Teardrop had made more of an impression but I guess I was wrong.
I keep thinking of Sneaker Pimps and "Six Underground" which is very much trip hop and enough of a hit that alt radio still plays it on the regular.
He mentioned Sneaker Pimps and Massive Attack early on. Massive Attack was big in the US.
There were a dozen trip-hop one-hit wonders in the mid 90s, I'm not sure what Todd is smoking.
just off the top of my head, "Your Woman" by White Town, "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" by Primitive Radio Gods, "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega, and of course "Six Underground" by Sneaker Pimps....
The Chemical Brothers also did a couple of trip-hop styled songs that remained in the low undercurrent of their popularity in the 90s. They weren't big hits though like their more in-your-face house stuff.
Denise Nova Read that first comment again.
theoriginalsache: Yes. But he mentioned Massive Attack quite early in the video and then mentioned the Massive Attack/Tracey Thorne collab and THEN much later he mentioned Teardrops again by referring to it as "House Theme Song"...
HOLY SHIT. Their rendition of Night and Day is one of my favorites now, maybe my favorite full one. Thanks Todd, if for nothing else but this song.
Only 2018 teens-adults remember OHW: Missing
how
Teens? Teens today weren’t born when this song came out
Very quick name change lol
Because actual adults don't bother checking their phone in the middle of the night to see which random youtuber has uploaded. They wait until the next day to watch it... when the title has been fixed.
Wow, now I feel old... Thanks XD
“Still the biggest Billboard hit of all time”
*Lil Nas X has entered the chat*
This song was in the Billboard Hot 100 for 55 consecutive weeks. Old Town Road did do #1 for 19 weeks in all its different versions in an era of streaming, but it was only in the Hot 100 for 45 weeks.
@@asusmctablet9180 this clarifies things. thanks!
*The Twist and Blinding Lights:* Am i a joke to you?
Wooh! Todd finally mentions trip hop and Massive Attack!
Oh god this song plays where I work every single day. There’s rarely a retail establishment I go now that doesn’t play it. So I have built up an immunity to this song but I appreciate the story behind it and the band behind it more.
Never thought I'd see Björk in an episode of Todd in the Shadows, even if only for a second.
By Todd's standards I could easily see him doing bjork. The cardigans where proably more successful in the billboard than she so why not.
@@richardturpin3665 For a One Hit Wonderland? Did Björk even have a hit in the US?
@@Stjurgeon it's o so quite possibly
@@richardturpin3665 It's Oh So Quiet never charted. Apparently her biggest success in the US was Big Time Sensuality which peaked at number 88 in the Hot 100.
@@richardturpin3665 I would definitely look forward to him also reviewing non "one hit wonder" stuff although we might lose some of the humour which is one of the main things I enjoy from this channel
"Missing" was massive all over Europe. And quite interesting recording. Unlike "the biggest billboard hit" or whatever, which had one purpose in combining sellouts and that was Money. I had forgotten all about it until just now, man. You reminded me it exists. On the other hand I still enjoy listening "Missing" from time to time.
Early pedantry: deserts actually do quite fine without rain, and would, in fact, have their ecosystems badly hurt by a sudden influx of it.
Great song though.
that's the whole reason i never really liked this song. the metaphor didn't make any sense to me. my brain always responded with, "but that's not how deserts work."
Yeah but they sad tho
I always took it to be more fundamental: a desert is DEFINED by the absence of precipitation. It's the core of what makes a desert a desert.
Thus, "I miss you like the deserts miss the rain" is "the loss of you, and the resulting changes I have had to endure, now define who I am as a person."
To be fair, the desert is only a desert because it's not getting enough rain.
The Sahara was a lush grassland once.
Jhon said it better.
A good contrast would be, from another "I miss you" song from the 90s, the line "I'm the desert without the sand" from *Missing You* by Case.
I like Jon's answer, though.
Very wholesome and enjoyable ep Todd.
Also I love that you used the Paradise Lost cover, seems like you have a solid knack of finding good rock/metal covers of the OHW hits you review.
"One Sweet Day" was so huge back in the 90s, it felt like it would never leave the charts
I heard Tracey Thorne tell a great story re School Run Snobbery. She wouldn’t dress up when she collected her kid from outside the London School and was ignored & unknown by the Cliques of flashy bitchy other mums swanking in their new or credit laden 4WD vehicles ..until the rainy day when a massive black new Range Rover c/w black windows pulled up . She said of how a window slowly wound down to reveal George Micheal.. calling out “ hey - Tracey ..want a lift ? “ He’d met her at TOTP years before & hadn’t forgotten her. What a slap in the chops for the Snobs 😆👍
I'd like to see a crossover with Todd in the Shadows and Rocked! It can be a One Hit Wonderland to Regret from the Past.
These always unlock memories of falling asleep with a little yellow walkman radio hearing so many weird songs and having a massive catalog of my brain recognizing like a million chorus's
Also, this song sounds like a preamble for a lot of what The XX did a decade later
EpicBeard815 oh wow, yeah! Never made this association, but The XX's Romy sounds a lot like Tracy, though her voice does not seem to have the same haunting quality to it.
Yeah, pretty much (wow, never thought about that)... but with the difference that the XX IS successful.
EpicBeard815 Who are The XX?
ADP1998 A really great minimalistic alt-pop band kinda like this, they’re really catchy in a subtle way. Check out their debut album of the same name.
but so, so much better
The house theme? You mean teardrop by massive attack? One of the best songs ever made? Call it by its name sir.
Walking wounded was a great album, I remember buying it in Melbourne, remember in the early '90's when local independent record shops were being bought up by Blockbuster et al... Well I got this at a trendy little record shop in Fitzroy who had made a niche for themselves specialising in hiphoo and alternative rock, they had vinyl at a time when no-one was stocking vinyl. I have fond memories of the early '90's, Portishead, Massive Attack, seeing Kylie Minogue at Mardi Gras, Seeing Bjork on the same stage but not at Mardi Gras. My boyfriend (who I called my husband) and I broke up and this was long before we thought we would ever have any hope of having a 100% legal and state recognised marriage. The glamourised drug use, heroin in particular and dubbed it "Heroin Chic"and we believed it, I'm from Queensland largely considered one of Australia's "backward" states and in an effort to be hip, relevant, up with the times, people my age not only started taking heroin, we started dying from it. My schools graduating year in 1992 had, maybe 120 kids (at a stretch) and about 15 of my school mates died, it was a crazy time, my state had never had a problem like heroin before, vogue was calling in "Chic", Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love we on it.... I'm not condoning it, it was just a crazy time to be a young person.
Thank you for reminding me this song exists - I'm now looking into Tracy's solo stuff and freaking LOVING it!! How is she so talented?!? Holy shit!
Very nice choice. I'd love to see you do a vid on The Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Hell". Remember that song?
I bought Everything but the Girl's Adapt or Die: 10 Years of Remixes on a whim, and it ended up being one of my favorite albums. I am so ready for this episode.
ETBTG has SO many AMAZING songs actually.
I don't know if they could be called one-hit wonder, they were huge in Europe all through the 90s, but I appreciate the look into their career. Oh, and Temperamental is a brilliant album
I thought that, but I was surprised by how low their chart positions were when I actually looked. I think they were big in the indie world but in terms of mainstream commercial success, they didn't have as much as I thought. My mum was a huge fan and played their stuff all through my childhood.
I guess you could say they were “missing” another hit.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
You could say success and fame deserted them.
powerdog242 😂👌
They had Everything But The Second Single.
In 1996 I was in middle school; my best friend at the time loved this song. Two summers later, her whole family moved away without telling me and I never heard from her again; I've looked for her online several times over the years but I've never found anything.This video is kinda fucking me up right now.
I saw the notification and thought it was about a lost episode of OHW. I'm an idiot
Todd should try hitting up Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. That's a gold mine of material for this segment.
EBTG was the original SadGirl/SadBoi Aesthetic
I'd never heard of this song, all I knew EBTG from was that electrically charged scene from the finale of How I Met Your Mother where Ted meets the Mother, their haunting cover of Downtown Train was playing in the background and that scene was just perfect. But now I realize I'm missing out on so much more haunting stuff I need to check out.
"Biome of sheer misery..."
Thanks for that, Todd.
Kudos for using the Paradise Lost version in the outro. Wasn't expecting to hear Nick Holmes' voice at the end of one of your videos ever.
1:09
I GOT THE HORSES IN THE BACK
BTW, Ben Watt also became a house music DJ himself in the 2000s. He and another deep house DJ ran a club in London called "Lazy Dog" which was pretty popular among clubgoers. He also did remiixes for other artists.
Tsk... Todd be dragging Portishead.... try not to tear him completely apart, okay Internet?
And they came back. And they released an amazing album.
Feels like they never left in the first place.
Mango....Mango....Mango.....
"What?! You can't-a have-a Mango!"
(Out of a daze)
Woah...um, what one hit wonder song are you talking about again?
I can't believe it took me this long to find a comment referencing Mango
Lime I'm shocked too. I thought he would be referenced in this review.
Mango... Mango... I need to have my Mango
@@antibishonenit would've been the second chris katan reference
@@inhumainely Still couldn't believe Todd didn't reference Mango
*clears throat* NOT ALL ELECTRONIC MUSIC IS TECHNO AND TRIP HOP IS A SUBGENRE OF DOWNTEMPO
Thank you for your time
Yes it is for as far as anyone really cares other than people obsessed with techno, whose opinions can't be trusted on the subject.
@@troodon1096 This! The only fan-base more obsessed with labeling and categorizing even the smallest variation than metal-heads are techno-peeps.
@@MrSmokinDragon You say that, but downtempo and techno are really far removed from each other on the charts. Even Dubstep is closer to Techno than downtempo. But yeah, no, System of a Down is my favorite country band and I really love that jazz artist, Taylor Swift.