Throwback Thursday Category: 90s Alternative One Hit Wonders (1 Viewer)

[General Malaise]

Peter Murphy - Cuts you Out

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

Silverchair - Tomorrow

Green Jelly - 3 Little Pigs

lol at 3 Little Pigs. That was awful. Right up there with Jackyl's terrible Chainsaw song.

Love that Peter Murphy song, though technically, it's an '89 release.

ETA: anybody mentioning Ugly Kid Joe needs a swift boot out of here.

 

[General Malaise]

Rubberneck was a pretty good album overall, but IMO the "star"(creepy subject matter notwithstanding) from that LP was Tyler.

Yup. Love that song, creepy nature and all. Best tune on that album.

 

[General Malaise]

I forgot about Soul Asylum yesterday and am now uncertain if they were mentioned. I always liked

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

The Folk Implosion - Natural One

This is great. Sadly not on Spotify.

Great song, never knew the name.

Love this one too. It's another side project of Sebadoh's Lou Barlow.

 

[FattyVM]

Here's a better quality link. Good Song. Sponge - Plowed

 

[FattyVM]

Submitted for the approval of the midnight society. One Headlight - The Wallflowers

 

[FattyVM]

... and Closing Time by Semisonic

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

It did.

Matt Sweet's a talented cat. Loved that song a lot when it came out, and still do I guess, but that album was full of good tracks that didn't get anywhere near the attention they probably deserved. Thought I Knew You, Divine Intervention, Holy War, etc

I need to dig up the tracks from Blue Sky on Mars too. I recall being surprised at how many quality tracks that didn't get as much love as I figured they would on that one too.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

It did.

Matt Sweet's a talented cat. Loved that song a lot when it came out, and still do I guess, but that album was full of good tracks that didn't get anywhere near the attention they probably deserved. Thought I Knew You, Divine Intervention, Holy War, etc

I need to dig up the tracks from Blue Sky on Mars too. I recall being surprised at how many quality tracks that didn't get as much love as I figured they would on that one too.

"Sick of Myself" is his best track, IMO

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Well...I respectfully disagree wholeheartedly. It certainly received a ton of airplay, I'll give you that.

 

[cstu]

Apollo 440 - Can't Stop the Rock

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Well...I respectfully disagree wholeheartedly. It certainly received a ton of airplay, I'll give you that.

Yeah, he doesn't really fit the category as a one-hit wonder---Girlfriend was played a lot as well.

 

[saintfool]

Submitted for the approval of the midnight society. One Headlight - The Wallflowers

not alterna or indie, sorry, but it's still a good track.

 

[saintfool]

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

It did.

Matt Sweet's a talented cat. Loved that song a lot when it came out, and still do I guess, but that album was full of good tracks that didn't get anywhere near the attention they probably deserved. Thought I Knew You, Divine Intervention, Holy War, etc

I need to dig up the tracks from Blue Sky on Mars too. I recall being surprised at how many quality tracks that didn't get as much love as I figured they would on that one too.

"Sick of Myself" is his best track, IMO

i was a big fan of his back in the day. while i liked "girlfriend", i was more impressed with the follow up called "altered beast". i especially dug "time capsule", "ugly truth" and "dinosaur act".

 

[FattyVM]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

 

[Fantasy_Freak]

Not sure if these were mentioned:

Whale - Hobo Humping Slobo Babe

Wax - California

 

[Mister CIA]

Not all hits, not all one-hit wonders, not necessarily the first time posted in this thread, and there's even a song from 2004 mixed in.

The Connells Stone Cold Yesterday
Love Battery Between the Eyes
Soul Asylum Somebody to Shove

Mazzy Star Halah ... Would still commit crimes to just to please Hope Sandoval
Screaming Trees Dollar Bill ... Wore out Sweet Oblivion way back when

Screaming Trees Winter Song

Social Distortion Winners and Losers
The Cramps Bikini Girls with Machine Guns

Dinosaur Jr Start Choppin'
Grant Lee Buffalo Mockingbirds
Cracker Been Around the World ... Probably the Cracker song I've played most
Cracker Teen Angst ... I still remember where I was the first time I heard this song. Sitting on a couch drinking beer.
Izzy Stradlin and the JuJu Hounds Shuffle it All

 

[El Floppo]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

lol

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

 

[MAC_32]

Peter Murphy - Cuts you Out

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

Silverchair - Tomorrow

Ok I added Gin Blossoms. You guys needs to promise not to post the Spin Doctors. Please, don't do it.

it was a run.

 

[FattyVM]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

 

[General Malaise]

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

It did.

Matt Sweet's a talented cat. Loved that song a lot when it came out, and still do I guess, but that album was full of good tracks that didn't get anywhere near the attention they probably deserved. Thought I Knew You, Divine Intervention, Holy War, etc

I need to dig up the tracks from Blue Sky on Mars too. I recall being surprised at how many quality tracks that didn't get as much love as I figured they would on that one too.

He's one of those guys I made a mental note to delve more into but never did. Course, mental notes in my head is like sticking a magnet to a tree.

Will give Blue Sky on Mars a listen today.

 

[General Malaise]

Did Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" get a mention yet? Great tune.

It did.

Matt Sweet's a talented cat. Loved that song a lot when it came out, and still do I guess, but that album was full of good tracks that didn't get anywhere near the attention they probably deserved. Thought I Knew You, Divine Intervention, Holy War, etc

I need to dig up the tracks from Blue Sky on Mars too. I recall being surprised at how many quality tracks that didn't get as much love as I figured they would on that one too.

"Sick of Myself" is his best track, IMO

I actually remember this song.

 

[General Malaise]

Not all hits, not all one-hit wonders, not necessarily the first time posted in this thread, and there's even a song from 2004 mixed in.

The Connells Stone Cold Yesterday

Love Battery Between the Eyes

Soul Asylum Somebody to Shove

Mazzy Star Halah ... Would still commit crimes to just to please Hope Sandoval

Screaming Trees Dollar Bill ... Wore out Sweet Oblivion way back when

Screaming Trees Winter Song

Social Distortion Winners and Losers

The Cramps Bikini Girls with Machine Guns

Dinosaur Jr Start Choppin'

Grant Lee Buffalo Mockingbirds

Cracker Been Around the World ... Probably the Cracker song I've played most

Cracker Teen Angst ... I still remember where I was the first time I heard this song. Sitting on a couch drinking beer.

Izzy Stradlin and the JuJu Hounds Shuffle it All

HA! The Connells! I haven't heard that name in a long long time. I have a CD of theirs I stole from this DB who lived on our floor freshman year.

With you on Sweet Oblivion. I had that tape and warped it.

 

[General Malaise]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

 

[MAC_32]

Questioning whether to post or not but...

Fa Fa - Guster

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

i was a big fan of his back in the day. while i liked "girlfriend", i was more impressed with the follow up called "altered beast". i especially dug "time capsule", "ugly truth" and "dinosaur act".

/SweetChat enabled

Yeah, I wasn't ever really what you'd call a fan of power pop, but Sweet was(is) an exception. I enjoyed his stuff pretty much from jump. Altered Beast was a really good LP too, particularly "Ugly Truth" and "Time Capsule." It was sort of all over the place the first time I heard it, but after listening to it a few times you could start to see the thread between the tracks. Where, with Girflfriend, it was pretty clear from the first listen how the whole album sort of meshed together.

I can take or leave most of 100% Fun, and while I never liked "Sick of Myself" much, that could have more to do with it being rammed into the ground by just about every kind of even remotely "rock" station on the planet/MTV/etc. at the time.

I haven't kept up on his more recent stuff. I should probably put catching up with it on my list.

Will give Blue Sky on Mars a listen today.

I think you'll probably dig it. "Where You Get Love", "Into Your Drug", "Behind the Smile"....pretty good stuff.

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

We're two. Princes here before you...

 

[FattyVM]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

 

[FattyVM]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

I want to reiterate that your argument is crap. Rucker, Hootie and the goo goo dolls have multiple top 10 hits, and have done them over the span of two decades. Tell me where I screwed the pooch.

 

[Aerial Assault]

Here are the two I posted many pages back without links . . .

Eve 6, Inside Out (not nearly as good as I remembered)

The Railway Children, Collide (better than I remembered)

The Connells' best song IMO was Over There (late 80s though).

The good Spin Doctors song, while recognizing that they're pretty much not the droids this thread was looking for, was Jimmy Olsen's Blues (which many people think is called Pocket Full of Kryptonite). Much better than Two Princes, which I never much liked and makes me stabby now, and Little Miss Can't Be Wrong. On JOB, the bass player does a nearly nonstop slap and pop line that's unusual to hear, to say the least, in rock/pop.

 

[Aerial Assault]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong charted about the same as Two Princes did. And the follow-up album a few years later went platinum and charted nearly as high in the UK as the debut album. Like them or die-in-a-fire them, they weren't one-hit wonders.

 

[El Floppo]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is ALTERNATIVE one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

Fyp

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

i was a big fan of his back in the day. while i liked "girlfriend", i was more impressed with the follow up called "altered beast". i especially dug "time capsule", "ugly truth" and "dinosaur act".

/SweetChat enabled

Yeah, I wasn't ever really what you'd call a fan of power pop, but Sweet was(is) an exception. I enjoyed his stuff pretty much from jump. Altered Beast was a really good LP too, particularly "Ugly Truth" and "Time Capsule." It was sort of all over the place the first time I heard it, but after listening to it a few times you could start to see the thread between the tracks. Where, with Girflfriend, it was pretty clear from the first listen how the whole album sort of meshed together.

I can take or leave most of 100% Fun, and while I never liked "Sick of Myself" much, that could have more to do with it being rammed into the ground by just about every kind of even remotely "rock" station on the planet/MTV/etc. at the time.

I haven't kept up on his more recent stuff. I should probably put catching up with it on my list

In Reverse and Kimi Ga Suki are both solid albums too .

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

I want to reiterate that your argument is crap. Rucker, Hootie and the goo goo dolls have multiple top 10 hits, and have done them over the span of two decades. Tell me where I screwed the pooch.

The terribleness of the Spin Doctors is so transcendent that it should be self-evident to you where you "screwed the pooch". Mentioning them introduces nostalgia for homicidal urges, mostly.

And if you want to be a pedantic dip#### in terms of the "one hit wonder" thing, the Spin Doctors aren't even that, as they also charted with Little Miss Can't be Wrong, another abortion of a song.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Since the mention of Spin Doctors took the seal off of the truly terrible category, I present this gem for your "enjoyment":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

 

[FattyVM]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

I want to reiterate that your argument is crap. Rucker, Hootie and the goo goo dolls have multiple top 10 hits, and have done them over the span of two decades. Tell me where I screwed the pooch.

Their terribleness of the Spin Doctors is so transcendent that it should be self-evident to you where you "screwed the pooch". Mentioning them introduces nostalgia for homicidal urges, mostly.

And if you want to be a pedantic dip#### in terms of the "one hit wonder" thing, the Spin Doctors aren't even that, as they also charted with Little Miss Can't be Wrong, another abortion of a song.

Jesus. Compare that to either of the two other bands (You didn't mention the other bands Longhorn I take this back) mentioned, or a fourth of the bands in this thread. 17'th on the US charts is the song you point out as a hit, which was the LEAD to the number one charting song of the band? Yea. I deserved the enmity. #blowme

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Alright Sf, Spin Doctor's - Two Princes?

DIAF

####### really? I call bull####.

I think the direction this thread is going is to mention songs that hold up well, perhaps were forgotten gems or don't evoke nausea upon mention. Two Princes was played to death, sounds like cats screwing today and just thinking about their lead singer makes me want to barf.

Might as well mention Hootie and The #######s or The Goo Goo Dolls if you're going to go down this road.

Both of which are infinitely better than Spin Doctors.

I agree, but the thread title is one hit wonders of the 90's. Two princes fits. Hootie and the Goo Goo Dolls are neither.

I want to reiterate that your argument is crap. Rucker, Hootie and the goo goo dolls have multiple top 10 hits, and have done them over the span of two decades. Tell me where I screwed the pooch.

Their terribleness of the Spin Doctors is so transcendent that it should be self-evident to you where you "screwed the pooch". Mentioning them introduces nostalgia for homicidal urges, mostly.

And if you want to be a pedantic dip#### in terms of the "one hit wonder" thing, the Spin Doctors aren't even that, as they also charted with Little Miss Can't be Wrong, another abortion of a song.

Jesus. Compare that to either of the two other bands you mentioned, or a fourth of the bands in this thread. 17'th on the US charts? As the LEAD to the number one charting song of the band? Yea. I deserved the enmity. #blowme

You certainly are sensitive.

 

[Aerial Assault]

#blowme

We're all having fun in a thread, and then . . . .

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

We're two. Princes here before you...

That's what I said now

 

[TheAristocrat]

RL is correct here. The Spin Doctors are not worth remembering, at all. No redeeming characteristics and they do not stand the test of time. Same boat as Crash Test Dummies. Please, let's don't.

 

[headcrack]

Since the mention of Spin Doctors took the seal off of the truly terrible category, I present this gem for your "enjoyment":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

Well, as long as we're posting total crap ...

 

[Aerial Assault]

RL is correct here. The Spin Doctors are not worth remembering, at all. No redeeming characteristics and they do not stand the test of time. Same boat as Crash Test Dummies. Please, let's don't.

Oof. Band with the dude who sang verrrrrrrrry looooow?

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

Since the mention of Spin Doctors took the seal off of the truly terrible category, I present this gem for your "enjoyment":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

Well, as long as we're posting total crap ...

Still WAY better than the Spin Doctors

 

[FattyVM]

I actually liked this thread until I unintentionally de-railed it, I promise I'll refrain from contributing if we can get back to the stuff I enjoyed.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

I actually liked this thread until I unintentionally de-railed it, I promise I'll refrain from contributing if we can get back to the stuff I enjoyed.

No worries.

 

[comfortably numb]

Can we all agree that Sucked Out was an awesome song, regardless of decade? I bought the entire album twice based upon it.

Awesome song. I think it sounds like it could be made this year.

i was a big fan of Superdrag and bought their releases. the lead singer found God, unfortunately, and the band was 86'ed.

Oh wow.Never knew that

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

"High" - Jimmie's Chicken Shack

I like Do Right better https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8WR3gF9J0hQ

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

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Material Issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRtlj8KXT4

YOU GET THAT RIGHT