Let’s be actual — there’s no disgrace in being a one hit marvel. With 99.9 p.c of bands by no means getting TV or radio play in any respect, making a single tune that captivates your complete world, if only for a number of moments, is a official achievement. We fondly keep in mind these 15 bands who infiltrated the mainstream chart solely as soon as, however stay beloved a long time later.
Blind Melon’s huge success was short-lived within the grunge period, however due to the attractive “No Rain,” the Los Angeles band offered 4 million copies of their self-titled debut album. Blind Melon’s second album, Soup, obtained first rate evaluations, however the 1995 demise of singer Shannon Hoon ended the band’s hopes of reclaiming their early fame. Nonetheless, the child within the bee go well with stays an iconic picture in music video historical past.
“I am not sick, however I am not weeeeeeeeelllll.” You already know the tune. Anti-rock stars Harvey Hazard scored an enormous hit with “Flagpole Sitta” in 1998. Although it was their solely lower to grace the High 40 chart, the tune continues to be on pretty heavy rotation on alt-rock and ’90s radio. “Flagpole Sitta” truly wasn’t an in a single day success, taking the higher a part of a 12 months to invade the airwaves and land them on late evening TV.
If you wish to speak about an ideal ’90s alt-rock tune, you have to embody Marcy Playground’s “Intercourse and Sweet” within the dialog. Singer John Wozniak had the right apathetic supply for a decade when followers could not get sufficient bleak, borderline suicidal music. “Intercourse and Sweet” nonetheless stands the check of time, having reached as excessive as No. 8 on the Billboard High 40 chart.
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