Greatest One Hit Wonder of the 90s - Rock Edition

YellowSnow

rodmansrage

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

chumbawamba tubthumping

RaceBannon

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

YellowSnow

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

RaceBannon said:

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

I debated a bit on The Verve. I feel like they had more than just 1 popular song- e.g., they've got 3 cuts over 90 million listens on Roganify.

YellowSnow

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

I love the Spin Doctors in Southpark when @DoogCourics kicks the crap out of the pussy @dflea vapors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPSbPucYF0

dflea

YellowSnow said:

I love the Spin Doctors in Southpark when @DoogCourics kicks the crap out of the pussy @dflea vapors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPSbPucYF0

I need my weed at all times.

The world isn't safe otherwise.

RaceBannon

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

I debated a bit on The Verve. I feel like they had more than just 1 popular song- e.g., they've got 3 cuts over 90 million listens on Roganify.

Spotify don't count for 90's music

Spotify allows people to explore other music by one hit wonders

As far as AM radio goes Neil was basically a 2 hit wonder - Old Man and Heart of Gold

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

YellowSnow said:

I love the Spin Doctors in Southpark when @DoogCourics kicks the crap out of the pussy @dflea vapors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIPSbPucYF0

Verve was much more of a one hit wonder than Spin Doctors, at least as far as the US is concerned.

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong was almost as big as Two Princes. The Verve didn't have anything here close to as big as Bittersweet Symphony.

Swaye

Closing Time - Semisonic

Would have voted Spin Doctors but they are not one hit wonders to me. Closing Time is impossibly hooky and has been used to close down about 16 billion bar nights since it was released. I have closed down bars in Australia, Tasmania, Japan, Dubai, Belgium and all over the US with this song playing. It's global. Still.

edit: Breakfast at Tiffany's was close but I never hear it much anymore. Just doesn't have the reach Closing Time has/had.

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

Closing Tim is up there with the GOAT one hit wonders

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

rodmansrage said:

chumbawamba tubthumping

This was my first thought when I saw the thread title but Closing Tim is still >

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

Obligatory local write in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb450Alpps

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

This is another of my favorites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Oe5YKhzCE

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clxtg2pFTQM

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfg6-4mBs6Y

YellowSnow

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

I debated a bit on The Verve. I feel like they had more than just 1 popular song- e.g., they've got 3 cuts over 90 million listens on Roganify.

Spotify don't count for 90's music

Spotify allows people to explore other music by one hit wonders

As far as AM radio goes Neil was basically a 2 hit wonder - Old Man and Heart of Gold

I'm always amazed the Heart of Gold hit #1 on the singles chart. No wonder he went into the ditch.

Swaye

Closing Time - Semisonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g

Harvey Danger. I can't think of any hit they had other than this, which was mega.

"I’ve been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding”

RaceBannon

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

I debated a bit on The Verve. I feel like they had more than just 1 popular song- e.g., they've got 3 cuts over 90 million listens on Roganify.

Spotify don't count for 90's music

Spotify allows people to explore other music by one hit wonders

As far as AM radio goes Neil was basically a 2 hit wonder - Old Man and Heart of Gold

I'm always amazed the Heart of Gold hit #1 on the singles chart. No wonder he went into the ditch.

Record company: Neil we want another Harvest!

Neil: Fuck off

Swaye

Closing Time - Semisonic

Motherfuck! Smash Mouth Allstar was actually released in 99. I thought it was 2000. This for sure should have been on the list. Yella you dummy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E

edit: Never mind they had another hit. These fucks.

RaceBannon

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Also Heart of Gold hit the teen girl mark hard. I was there

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

Probably not a true one hit wonder but close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q

Swaye

Closing Time - Semisonic

dnc said:

Probably not a true one hit wonder but close

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q

Bands that have one legit mega hit and then one or two stupid minor turds piss me off in these contests.

Swaye

Closing Time - Semisonic

RaceBannon said:

Also Heart of Gold hit the teen girl mark hard. I was there

@RaceBannon

Neil played with Metallica. Most people don't know that. I think Neil has legit played with everyone of note ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvs20B33Kk

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

inb4 @GrundleStiltzkin



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

RaceBannon

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Swaye said:

RaceBannon said:

Also Heart of Gold hit the teen girl mark hard. I was there

@RaceBannon

Neil played with Metallica. Most people don't know that. I think Neil has legit played with everyone of note ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvvs20B33Kk

Yep

Grunge made him a hero to a whole new generation

I wonder if Kurt Cobain would be a giant pussy today

YellowSnow

Two Princes - Spin Doctors

RaceBannon said:

Also Heart of Gold hit the teen girl mark hard. I was there

Yella playing Heart of Gold on the harmonica would get them wet for sure.

Sadly my wife isn't into to Neil Young music.

Fishpo31

Cannonball - The Breeders

RaceBannon said:

Bittersweet Symphony

Got sued by Mick

Cruel Intentions

Got sued by former Rolling Stones management, who had the publishing, IIRC… Mick and Keef got it back, and gave the writer the royalties back a couple years ago…yep, I need a hobby…

huskyhooligan

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

I just remember in the late 90's this was on TRL for like months.

Remember reading interview with the guy and he said he had a prior album that he felt was better but was squashed in a contract dispute.

Saw the Verve at Coachella.

90's was such an interesting music decade, with so much variety, and one hits so a lot to choose from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCLt0kTd5E

dnc

Closing Time - Semisonic

huskyhooligan said:

I just remember in the late 90's this was on TRL for like months.

Remember reading interview with the guy and he said he had a prior album that he felt was better but was squashed in a contract dispute.

Saw the Verve at Coachella.

90's was such an interesting music decade, with so much variety, and one hits so a lot to choose from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfCLt0kTd5E

Had to be the early 90s unless it had a resurgence in the late 90s that I don't remember.

Bad_MotherDucker

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

You can get with this

https://youtu.be/FFOzayDpWoI

or you can get with that

https://youtu.be/3qVPNONdF58

huskyhooligan

You Get What You Give - New Radicals

Literally watched a video last night of top songs of each month of the 90's. Some surprises but some not so much.

Some other contendas off the top of my head:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLETNBTGx8