Day off and one hit wonders...
Home today because of working on the weekend. Womenfolk are asleep, and I was going to watch Master and Commander which we got a week and a half early at the video store, but I got distracted by MTV2.
They're running an old episode(two or three years old, I'd guess, based on the "current" references) of Ultrasound about the One-Hit Wonder trend of the 90s. Some of it is pretty funny, as when they discuss Right Said Fred and Vanilla Ice. Some of it's pretty sad because some of the one-hit wonders should have had better careers. Right now they're talking about the post-grunge one hit wonder rock bands, like Ugly Kid Joe and Marcy Playground. Other topics they've covered include the brief 90's white rapper trend(interesting side note on that below), and the inexplicable rise of dance pop psuedo-disco. (Disco never really died, it just went from disco to garage to club to dance pop).
Ooooohhh. Screaming Trees.
Okay, quick list: Top 10 favorite one hit wonder songs of the 90s(in no particular order)
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome - Post-grunge rock with a great hook.
Porno For Pyros - Pets - Hard to consider Perry Farrell a one hit wonder, but P4P never really went anywhere.
Snow - Informer - Come on, admit it. In 1993, you were trying to sing this one too.
Len - Steal My Sunshine - Built on a hook stolen from Andrea True's "More More More", inescapable in the summer of 1999, probably the most catchy Canadian brother/sister duo song ever.
Spacehog - In The Meantime - great rock song, and the lead singer's married to Liv Tyler now.
Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back - I don't think I need to defend this one.
Green Jello - Three Little Pigs - Great claymation video by a band that thought it was Gwar, got sued by Nabisco, and vanished as quicky as they appeared.
Onyx - Slam - great hook, great chorus, great remix with Biohazard.
Toadies - Possum Kingdom - hooky, creepy, and unmistakably 90s.
Deelite - Groove Is In The Heart - Like Vogue, the accidental crossover of NYC club culture to the pop charts, but catchy fun. Bonus points for involving Bootsy.
Man, I'd forgotten about some of this stuff, like Young Black Teenagers and Skee-Lo and Concrete Blonde. It's amazing that any of the bands that started in the 90's made it out of the decade in one piece.
Okay, now the white rap thing. Recently in the Times, there was a story about Green-Wood cemetary in Brooklyn(I think), a cemetary where many of the original creators of baseball are interred. One of the people interviewed in the article was 37-year-old Peter Nash, who is spearheading a preservation drive for Green-Wood. Peter Nash is a businessman and curator of a traveling baseball memorabilia exhibit who lives in Cooperstown. Ordinary? Well, he would be, except that once upon a time, he used to be called Pete Nice, and was one of the members of 3rd Bass, the 90's white rap act chiefly known for their ironic one hit wonder hit Pop Goes The Weasel. The song was an attack on Vanilla Ice(lampooned in the video by Hank Rollins) and MC Hammer, 90's one hit wonders, but it turned out to be a one-hit wonder for third bass also.
Back after Raw, maybe.
*EDIT* - I'm back. Subsequently, I found that the date on the show was 1999, so the "current" stuff was reeeeeeallly not current. Funny bit at the end, as they discuss how bands sometimes get labelled as one hit wonders too soon, and after discussing Semisonic(who expressed hope they wouldn't become a one-hit band), they showed some of 1999's one-hitters who they wondered would still be around afterwards. One of them was Christina Agiulera, then running on "Genie In A Bottle." No sign of Britney, though. And I forgot Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" on that favorites list.
They're running an old episode(two or three years old, I'd guess, based on the "current" references) of Ultrasound about the One-Hit Wonder trend of the 90s. Some of it is pretty funny, as when they discuss Right Said Fred and Vanilla Ice. Some of it's pretty sad because some of the one-hit wonders should have had better careers. Right now they're talking about the post-grunge one hit wonder rock bands, like Ugly Kid Joe and Marcy Playground. Other topics they've covered include the brief 90's white rapper trend(interesting side note on that below), and the inexplicable rise of dance pop psuedo-disco. (Disco never really died, it just went from disco to garage to club to dance pop).
Ooooohhh. Screaming Trees.
Okay, quick list: Top 10 favorite one hit wonder songs of the 90s(in no particular order)
Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome - Post-grunge rock with a great hook.
Porno For Pyros - Pets - Hard to consider Perry Farrell a one hit wonder, but P4P never really went anywhere.
Snow - Informer - Come on, admit it. In 1993, you were trying to sing this one too.
Len - Steal My Sunshine - Built on a hook stolen from Andrea True's "More More More", inescapable in the summer of 1999, probably the most catchy Canadian brother/sister duo song ever.
Spacehog - In The Meantime - great rock song, and the lead singer's married to Liv Tyler now.
Sir Mix A Lot - Baby Got Back - I don't think I need to defend this one.
Green Jello - Three Little Pigs - Great claymation video by a band that thought it was Gwar, got sued by Nabisco, and vanished as quicky as they appeared.
Onyx - Slam - great hook, great chorus, great remix with Biohazard.
Toadies - Possum Kingdom - hooky, creepy, and unmistakably 90s.
Deelite - Groove Is In The Heart - Like Vogue, the accidental crossover of NYC club culture to the pop charts, but catchy fun. Bonus points for involving Bootsy.
Man, I'd forgotten about some of this stuff, like Young Black Teenagers and Skee-Lo and Concrete Blonde. It's amazing that any of the bands that started in the 90's made it out of the decade in one piece.
Okay, now the white rap thing. Recently in the Times, there was a story about Green-Wood cemetary in Brooklyn(I think), a cemetary where many of the original creators of baseball are interred. One of the people interviewed in the article was 37-year-old Peter Nash, who is spearheading a preservation drive for Green-Wood. Peter Nash is a businessman and curator of a traveling baseball memorabilia exhibit who lives in Cooperstown. Ordinary? Well, he would be, except that once upon a time, he used to be called Pete Nice, and was one of the members of 3rd Bass, the 90's white rap act chiefly known for their ironic one hit wonder hit Pop Goes The Weasel. The song was an attack on Vanilla Ice(lampooned in the video by Hank Rollins) and MC Hammer, 90's one hit wonders, but it turned out to be a one-hit wonder for third bass also.
Back after Raw, maybe.
*EDIT* - I'm back. Subsequently, I found that the date on the show was 1999, so the "current" stuff was reeeeeeallly not current. Funny bit at the end, as they discuss how bands sometimes get labelled as one hit wonders too soon, and after discussing Semisonic(who expressed hope they wouldn't become a one-hit band), they showed some of 1999's one-hitters who they wondered would still be around afterwards. One of them was Christina Agiulera, then running on "Genie In A Bottle." No sign of Britney, though. And I forgot Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" on that favorites list.
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