'One Hit Wonders' who had more to offer

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2522 Age : 56

Sinead O`Connor.
Good call on Wall Of Voodoo/Stan Ridgeway

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3361 Age : 51

Though they had alternative hits (and I'd assume some overseas hits), Squeeze had so much more than "Tempted".

King Of Kaiju Number of posts : 30892 Age : 64

jstate wrote:: Though they had alternative hits (and I'd assume some overseas hits), Squeeze had so much more than "Tempted".

Good call. I have a comp of their stuff and still the only song I think of right off the bat is Tempted. A great song it is though.

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Scurvy Skalliwag Number of posts : 12875 Age : 60

I'll add Looking Glass, Five Man Electrical Band, and Mungo Jerry

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Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2793 Age : 66

This is my favorite subject because looking "behind the hits" has been so rewarding for me. Here are my top ten classic rockers that you might think you know, but maybe look again!

1. Golden Earring- Yeah I know they had two hits "Radar Love" & "Twilight Zone" in the USA, but they never had a chance otherwise because most of their awesome early 70's albums are otherwise completely opaque and creepy, with no attempt at commerciality. A great, very dark, hard rock band.
2. Brownsville Station "Smokin' In The Boys Room". They had about five albums worth of entertaining hard rock that was like Alice Cooper crossed with The Sweet, with a little southern rock flavor added.
3. Ram Jam "Black Betty". Their first album was all like that, and their second album was even heavier. Not really southern rock, per se.
4. Manfred Mann's Earth Band- I know they had at least a couple of other similarly dumb hits in addition to "Blinded By The Light", but I'm listing them because these are totally misrepresentative of their Earth Band period. Really they were about half american sounding hard rock (that's right), and half high quality kraut-like prog rock, believe it or not.
5. Stories- I always hated that cover of "Brother Louie" (how come it's always the goofy stuff that gets on the radio?). But in reality they were a very talented and diverse band, kind of like a proggy Humble Pie that wasn't as heavy. They did rock a little sometimes though.
6. Head East "Never Been Any Reason". They had a lot of songs like that.
7. Henry Gross as in "Shannon Is Gone", which I think was about a dead dog. Even sadder was the fact that that song made everyone forget that he'd once made a couple of albums that were about half energetic and high quality hard rock. Think a grittier version of Eddie Money. Really not as bad as it sounds, honest!
8. New England "Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya'". They had three albums of fine power pop mixed with somewhat proggy pomp. Excellent stuff.
9. Pilot "Magic". Some other nice proggy pop songs as well, and a couple of their members went on to form some of the bedrock of the Alan Parsons Project.
10. Bob Welch- I'm not sure if "Sentimental Lady" or "Ebony Eyes" are still remembered as hits or not; but the point is that in between his Fleetwood Mac period and his French Kiss period he had a project called Paris. The second album was no good, but the s/t was very heavy for 1973, Zeppelin inspired, and kind of drug addled and sick in my opinion. It's the loudest thing I've listed here, except for Ram Jam..

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I used to have Manfred Mann's Earth Band on Vinyl. Can't even remember the name of the albums but one had a song called, The Runner, or something. Anyway, good stuff, very different from the early stuff.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 3361 Age : 51

How about Living Colour. Never understood how they couldn't get a second single to catch on from that first album.

Ate his vegetables Number of posts : 4958 Age : 34

jstate wrote:: How about Living Colour. Never understood how they couldn't get a second single to catch on from that first album.

Oh, man, that totally slipped my mind! That first LC record is pure gold. "Glamour Boys" should have been huge. It's so darn funky...

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Shiney wrote:: WALL OF VOODOO.....more than "Mexican Radio" both the band and Stan RIdgeway have alot of cool tunes to offer.

THE CHURCH..."Under The Milky Way" is their main well known ditty...great band.."Starfish" is a killer album.

Yes, the Church definitely.

Exo-Kill! Number of posts : 6497 Age : 47

The Church rules!

Metal graduate Number of posts : 306 Age : 54

SpectreFate wrote:

manny wrote:: TZ I think Men at Work had a few hit singles, 'Who Can it Be Now' 'Down Under' and 'Its a Mistake', I am sure I have the song titles all wrong.

Don't forget my favorite...."Overkill"....one of the most beautiful songs ever...

"...ghosts appear and fade away..."

Boy, I love that song too. I remember really liking the video. It was one of my favorites in the earlier (much cooler) days of MTV.

Metal is Forever Number of posts : 9428 Age : 50

tohostudios wrote:: How about April Wine?

A lot of people only know about "Just Between You And Me" but they have a ton of great songs.

I love them. "Roller" and "I Like To Rock" are awesome. They will be inducted into the Canadian HoF on April 19th 2010. Peace.

Metal graduate Number of posts : 428 Age : 58

Ratt's probally considered to be a one hit wonder by most. Round and Round is the only one of their songs I have ever heard on the radio.

The're one of my favorite bands ever, go figure.

Ate his vegetables Number of posts : 4958 Age : 34

Getizzyback wrote:: Ratt's probally considered to be a one hit wonder by most. Round and Round is the only one of their songs I have ever heard on the radio.

For real? They had a ton of hits in the 80's, right? Back For More and Dance get pretty regular airplay out here.

Heart of Metal Number of posts : 1510 Age : 41

I think that A Flock of Seagulls are a highly underrated band. Most people only know "I Ran", but they had so many other great songs that everyone forgets about.

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Metal, Movies, Beer Number of posts : 37971 Age : 54

FGTH's "Two Tribes" was kickass!! That video was quite controversial in its day too. I believe it may have been banned from MTV for a brief period.

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Metal is Forever Number of posts : 6403 Age : 44

Most my favourites don't even have that one hit.

Helloween? I Want Out was somewhat of a hit.

Ate his vegetables Number of posts : 4958 Age : 34

Fat Freddy wrote:: FGTH's "Two Tribes" was kickass!! That video was quite controversial in its day too. I believe it may have been banned from MTV for a brief period.

Ever see the banned version of the "Relax" video? It's so g4y and wonderful.

Exo-Kill! Number of posts : 6497 Age : 47

Are you gey Schobop?

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 2690 Age : 33

Molly Hatchet could be seen as a one hit wonder. Love the hell out of them though.

Ate his vegetables Number of posts : 4958 Age : 34

Metallic Blaze wrote:: Are you gey Schobop?

Only on Tuesdays.

Metal graduate Number of posts : 428 Age : 58

Schbopo wrote:

Getizzyback wrote:: Ratt's probally considered to be a one hit wonder by most. Round and Round is the only one of their songs I have ever heard on the radio.

For real? They had a ton of hits in the 80's, right? Back For More and Dance get pretty regular airplay out here.

Wow, really? I couldn't imagine ever hearing "Dance" on the radio from anywhere I've lived. I spent most of my life down in the Miami, FL area and never heard any Round and Roundless Ratt there, then in Atlanta, GA a few years and now East TN area, and Round and Round is all that's around! They don't play Ratt on "2 for Tues" here at all.

Let me add another....Britny Fox had "Girlschool", and it's probally one of the least favorites for me by them. That's all I remember hearing from them on the radio. Now with the Friday Night 80s kinda stuff, all you will get from them is the notorious "Girlschool".

Exo-Kill! Number of posts : 6497 Age : 47

Britny Fox also had the hit "Long Way to Love".

I love Britny Fox.

Metal is in my blood Number of posts : 4214 Age : 50

Schbopo wrote:

Metallic Blaze wrote:: Are you gey Schobop?

Only on Tuesdays.

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