Simple Minds Sparkle in The Rain album had a hoard of hits and is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. Not to mention their "best of" Glittering Prize.
Their hits include:
Waterfront
Don't you (forget about me)
Alive and Kicking
Sanctify Yourself
Love Song
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
All The Things She Said
Promised You A Miracle
Glittering Prize
Up On The Catwalk
Speed Your Love To Me
Belfast Child
Book Of Brilliant Things
Actually Jim Kerr and the boys are to me as important as U2. They have done some amazing things in music.
being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.
being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.
Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss.
Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them.
being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.
I agree
then I vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony although THE VERVE are one the most underrated alternative/rock bands EVER!!!
Thank God they returned this year!!!
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Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss.
Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them.
I agree.
Simple Minds was really big here in Europe but I am sure there are still many fans nowadays. SAME WITH A-HA!!! (They have never been one hit wonders!)
But in the U.S. bands like Travis, Texas or The Cardigans were one hit wonders as well however they were/have been pretty big on the old continent with many many hits!
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I agree
then I vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony although THE VERVE are one the most underrated alternative/rock bands EVER!!!
Thank God they returned this year!!!
Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work and Sonnet were all big songs for The Verve.
Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work and Sonnet were all big songs for The Verve.
i heard drug's don't work on the radio once. other than that, nobody i know can name a verve song outside bittersweet symphony. i think he's got a good point there!
that's like saying becos life wasted and gone got played on radio for 2 weeks and hit the charts, they were big hits. let's face it, nobody knows those songs. playing the newest single of a band with a recent hit doesn't make the new one a hit.
I heard that song in the movie The Girl Next Door...it's a great track.
Speaking of Verve.
How about Verve Pipe-The Freshman
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"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
that song by sponge. "in a world of human wreckage" forgot the name.
Molly? or Plowed?
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"We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"
i heard drug's don't work on the radio once. other than that, nobody i know can name a verve song outside bittersweet symphony. i think he's got a good point there!
that's like saying becos life wasted and gone got played on radio for 2 weeks and hit the charts, they were big hits. let's face it, nobody knows those songs. playing the newest single of a band with a recent hit doesn't make the new one a hit.
Ok maybe they weren't so big outside of the UK/Europe, over here they were MASSIVE hits. That album sold a shit load and made them huge over here - big enough that they have just sold out an arena tour after reuniting after a few years. I understand what you are saying, but in the UK they would never be considered a one hit wonder.
pearl jam alive- anything they put out after that was crap.
You'd find a lot of people over here that would support your theory (we don't have any rock radio stations)
I'm also one of those who could rattle off lots of Simple Minds hits, seems like a European thing.
Regarding The Verve: I think that's the very rare case of 'One Album Wonder'. All the hits/songs that they are remembered for are on Urban Hymns, no one ever talks about songs from their other albums.
My vote goes to 'Pass the Dutchie' from Musical Youth
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They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
At the risk of being hated I noticed that most people only know one Soundgarden song. I let you guess wich one... Sorry
Maybe, but it wasn't their only "hit". Even if they didn't have many top 40 hits here in the states, they were big on MTV, if anything else, for several of their videos.
I'll give my nomination to "Come on Eileen" also. I still love that song! I can think of several one hit wonder songs I like, but this one stands out. Or maybe "Stars" by Hum, but that's probably a stretch to even call that a hit.
Edie Briekel and the ???? with the song "What I Am" was she married to Paul Simon?
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being a one-hit wonder doesn't mean the rest of your catalog is no good. just means if you ask anyone who the band is, they're not gonna know more than one song. let's face it... to 99% of the world, that's the only song simple minds ever had. blind melon suffered the same fate even though their albums top almost anything else done in the 90s.
Yeah, I think you're suffering from American music industry disease ss.
Coz I'm quite sure you ask anyone here in Oz or in Europe who Simple Minds is and they'll tell you all about them.
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lord knows i could. i used to love simple minds back in the day.
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Best one hit wonder, Stevie Wright. Evie.
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Me too! Well I still love em now and I'm more than happy to listen to them or go to see them if the opportunity arose!
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I agree
then I vote for Bitter Sweet Symphony although THE VERVE are one the most underrated alternative/rock bands EVER!!!
Thank God they returned this year!!!
Eddie: Dublin & London
I agree.
Simple Minds was really big here in Europe but I am sure there are still many fans nowadays. SAME WITH A-HA!!! (They have never been one hit wonders!)
But in the U.S. bands like Travis, Texas or The Cardigans were one hit wonders as well however they were/have been pretty big on the old continent with many many hits!
Eddie: Dublin & London
Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" was a great pick, whoever picked that one. I think that song would get my vote.
In Belgium K's Choice is obviously not a "One Hit" band.
At the risk of being hated I noticed that most people only know one Soundgarden song. I let you guess wich one... Sorry
Lucky Man, The Drugs Don't Work and Sonnet were all big songs for The Verve.
cmon now, you know to the rest of the world aussies don't matter
no one around here knows who silverchair is either. they're a one-hit wonder to most americans as well.
i heard drug's don't work on the radio once. other than that, nobody i know can name a verve song outside bittersweet symphony. i think he's got a good point there!
that's like saying becos life wasted and gone got played on radio for 2 weeks and hit the charts, they were big hits. let's face it, nobody knows those songs. playing the newest single of a band with a recent hit doesn't make the new one a hit.
I heard that song in the movie The Girl Next Door...it's a great track.
Speaking of Verve.
How about Verve Pipe-The Freshman
PBM
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that song by sponge. "in a world of human wreckage" forgot the name.
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and they had a bunch of hits
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Ok maybe they weren't so big outside of the UK/Europe, over here they were MASSIVE hits. That album sold a shit load and made them huge over here - big enough that they have just sold out an arena tour after reuniting after a few years. I understand what you are saying, but in the UK they would never be considered a one hit wonder.
That's the one I thought of immediately!
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
You'd find a lot of people over here that would support your theory
I'm also one of those who could rattle off lots of Simple Minds hits, seems like a European thing.
Regarding The Verve: I think that's the very rare case of 'One Album Wonder'. All the hits/songs that they are remembered for are on Urban Hymns, no one ever talks about songs from their other albums.
My vote goes to 'Pass the Dutchie' from Musical Youth
They love you so badly for sharing their sorrow, so pick up that guitar and go break a heart - Kris Kristofferson
NICE
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havent thought of that in years
Maybe, but it wasn't their only "hit". Even if they didn't have many top 40 hits here in the states, they were big on MTV, if anything else, for several of their videos.
I'll give my nomination to "Come on Eileen" also. I still love that song! I can think of several one hit wonder songs I like, but this one stands out. Or maybe "Stars" by Hum, but that's probably a stretch to even call that a hit.
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