Best one hit wonders of the 1990's?

Commy said:

MEGATRON wrote:

jeremy -pearl jam

its 1 hit wonders. since you can't read.


this thread rules, keep em coming. never really listened to the freshmen until now.

tempo_n_groove said:

I'd put Belly on the list.  Feed the Tree is the only thing I can recall from them.  The rest of the album was unlistenable to me.

brianlux said:

tempo_n_groove said:

eeriepadave said:

I would throw The Juliana Hatfield Three's "My Sister" as one hit wonder. Maybe a few minor hit singles like Spin the Bottle or Universal Heart Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-SHecsO2Y8

@brianlux will have something to say about this, lol!

Haha!  Indeed.  

Hatfield put out a terrific memoir called When I Grow Up.  In her book, she intersperses various stories about how she developed her love of music, a very interesting/revealing story about her mother's affair with Mountain bassist and multi-instrumentalist Felix Pappalardi, a slightly nervous telling of the time Henry Rollins put up Blake Babies in his house for a few days (which is rumored to likely have led to her writing the song "President Garfield" from same album as "My Sister"- Garfield is Rollins' surname)-- all of that sandwiched between nicely detailed chapters involving The Blake Baby on tour.

One very cool story in her book is about the song eeriepadave mentioned, "Spin the Bottle".  She was inspired by P. J. Harvey to write a danceable, snappy tune in 5/4 time, no easy task.  And what a fine success!  That tune's easy groove belies the unusual timing.  But if you listen to it and count it out-- one two three four five, one two three four five, one two three four five-- it simply grooves. 

I like "My Sister", but for me it's probably at least halfway down my list of favorites from Become What You Are, one of my favorite albums of Hatfield's.  It was recently re-issued on vinyl through American Laundromat Records and that pressing sounds fantastic!