Let’s be actual — there’s no disgrace in being a one hit surprise. With 99.9 p.c of bands by no means getting TV or radio play in any respect, making a single track that captivates your entire world, if only for a number of moments, is a respectable 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 in the grunge period, however because of the attractive (*15*) the Los Angeles band offered 4 million copies of their self-titled debut album. Blind Melon’s second album, Soup, obtained first rate critiques, however the 1995 demise of singer Shannon Hoon ended the band’s hopes of reclaiming their early fame. Still, the child in the bee swimsuit stays an iconic picture in music video historical past.
“I’m not sick, but I’m not weeeeeeeeelllll.” You already know the track. Anti-rock stars Harvey Danger scored an enormous hit with “Flagpole Sitta” in 1998. Even although it was their solely minimize to grace the Top 40 chart, the track remains 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 need to discuss an ideal ’90s alt-rock track, you have to embrace Marcy Playground’s “Sex and Candy” in the dialog. Singer John Wozniak had the proper apathetic supply for a decade when followers could not get sufficient bleak, borderline suicidal music. “Sex and Candy” nonetheless stands the take a look at of time, having reached as excessive as No. 8 on the Billboard Top 40 chart.
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